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“Brother Roger” And The Racial Agitators
When conservatives complain about Al Sharpton, they usually note his relationship to NBC news or his hosting a show on MSNBC. But a new book says the racial agitator and Democratic Party politician has considerable clout with Fox News, and in fact played a role in getting conservative Glenn Beck fired from the channel.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson says “people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton do not deserve to be called civil rights leaders. They are not. They are hustlers and pimps who make a living off inflaming racial tensions.”
However, The Zev Chafets book, Roger Ailes: Off Camera, has some revealing passages about the clout that Sharpton and Jackson have with the chairman and CEO of Fox News. It says Ailes took a phone call from Sharpton after Beck, then a Fox News host, staged a rally at the Lincoln Memorial 47 years to the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I have a dream” speech at the same location. Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally, designed to pay tribute to America’s military personnel and restore traditional values, was strongly attacked by figures such as Sharpton and George Soros-funded groups like Media Matters, then campaigning to have Beck fired from Fox News.
Chafets says Reverend Alveda King, a national pro-life leader, delivered a conservative “I have a dream” message of her own at the Beck-sponsored rally that was “infuriating to many viewers” and Ailes as well. “Ailes didn’t like it much, either,” he reports. However, the book doesn’t explain why Ailes took issue with the rally or the speech.
The book adds, “When Al Sharpton called him [Ailes] to complain, Sharpton was surprised to hear Ailes say he would ‘take care’ of it.” The passage is included in the context of Ailes making a decision that “he would have to get rid of Glenn Beck” and telling Howard Kurtz, then a media reporter with The Daily Beast, that “he was turning down the partisan heat at the network” and was pursuing “a more moderate tone” in programming.
Kurtz, who was recently hired by Fox News, is described by Michael Clemente, Fox’s executive vice president of news, as “the most accomplished media reporter in the country,” despite a series of embarrassments over erroneous and controversial columns and media appearances that resulted in his firing from The Daily Beast.
While the Chafets book is considered sympathetic to the chief of the Fox News Channel, it notes that Beck’s firing followed his strong criticism of billionaire George Soros and a vigorous campaign by various left-wing groups against him.
Chafets also points out that then-Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), another liberal recently hired as a Fox News commentator, is a member of the “roster of Friends of Roger” and an old “buddy” of Ailes.
Accuracy in Media chairman Don Irvine noted that Kucinich was “one of the most liberal members of Congress until he lost his seat after redistricting in 2012,” and that he was “the latest in a string of liberals at Fox, including former Sen. …read more
CNN Commentator Embarrassed By Zimmerman Verdict
After the not-guilty verdict was handed down, George Zimmerman attorney Mark O’Mara strongly criticized the media’s role in getting his client charged in the case. He compared the media to “mad scientists” who had turned Zimmerman into a “monster.” He said the media “took a story that was fed to you and you ran with it and you ran right over him and that was horrid to him.”
But the false story line—that Zimmerman was a racist who shot a black man for no reason—continued during the trial, especially in the reckless and wild CNN commentaries of Asunción “Sunny” Hostin.
Hostin boosted the prosecutors throughout and wanted viewers to believe a guilty verdict was a slam-dunk. “I think that they [the prosecutors] put the pieces of the puzzle together for this jury extremely well,” she told Anderson Cooper on Thursday night, July 11.
What was astonishing about Hostin’s commentary during the trial was her inability to find much of anything wrong in how the prosecutors presented it. She was sometimes in the courtroom and pretending to pay attention to what was going on, with a focus on jury reactions. She claimed to have somehow divined what some of the jurors were thinking.
She said of the prosecution’s closing argument: “It was passionate. It was convincing. The jury was watching everything he was doing. And what was terrific, I think, about this closing argument is that they brought the focus back to Trayvon Martin, the victim here. They brought the commonsense argument to this jury.”
Fortunately, another CNN commentator, criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos, was usually on hand, taking strong issue with what Hostin was saying. “There’s reality and then there’s Sunny-ville,” he said. Mocking her rosy view of the prosecution’s extremely weak case, he said, “So I’m going to start believing what Sunny tells me and I’m going to start ignoring everything that I watch on TV.”
Earlier, he told her, “Sunny, you have been bringing your own stuff to the table in this case and you know it.”
Whatever she was bringing to the table, it was not an objective analysis of what was taking place in front of her own eyes. Yet, she carried the title of “CNN Legal Analyst.”
An attorney, she calls herself a “multi-platform journalist” who serves as both a CNN legal analyst and anchor for ABC News. “Before joining CNN, Sunny could be seen on the Fox News Channel, where she was seen weekly on The O’Reilly Factor’s ‘Is It Legal?’ segment, sparring with Megan [sic] Kelly and Bill O’Reilly on various provocative issues and high-profile cases,” her bio says.
Regarding prosecutor John Guy’s rebuttal to the closing argument of defense attorney O’Mara, Hostin said on CNN, “John Guy hit it out of the park, he did great.”
She added, “If people were calling him ‘McDreamy’ before…they’re calling him ‘McBrilliant’ now. It was one of the best closing rebuttal arguments I have seen. The jury was riveted, they did not take their eyes off of this man. And what was so important …read more
Video: Beck: Muslims Responsible For Boston Bombing
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Glenn Beck explains why he believes that the bombing at the Boston Marathon wasn’t carried out by an American…
From: http://www.westernjournalism.com/beck-muslims-responsible-for-boston-bombing/
Video: Beck: “I Have A Feeling We’re Headed For A Monarchy”
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Glenn Beck says he thinks America is headed toward monarchy, only this time the King and Queen keep their heads while the subjects lose theirs.
From: http://www.westernjournalism.com/beck-i-have-a-feeling-were-headed-for-a-monarchy/
Iowa newspaper accused of endangering kids with school security map
Iowa’s biggest newspaper is under fire after publishing a map that showed which public school districts have police or security — and which ones don’t.
Critics said the Des Moines Register, which quickly pulled the interactive map off of its website, was making it easy for a deranged killer to know where to launch a Sandy Hook-style attack.
“What they did yesterday was provide a shopping list for every nut job in Iowa,” WHO radio host Simon Conway, who said his phone lines “blew up” as soon as he began discussing the map with his audience, told Fox News Channel.
The paper’s investigation, which Editor Rick Green said was mounted in response to the Dec. 14 attack in Newtown, Conn., which left 20 children dead, found hundreds of schools have no police or private security during portions of the day. Of the state’s 25 largest school districts, only three do not utilize school resource officers, a survey by the by Des Moines Register newspaper found. The online map that originally accompanied the story allowed readers to identify more than 100 public schools, including high schools and community college campuses with varying degrees of security.
Green told Fox News Channel that the map was only on the paper’s website for 20 minutes, after which it was taken down amid an avalanche of angry phone calls.
“My team alerted me to it, and we took it down,” Green said.
Green said the paper wanted to show how security resources were being deployed across the state, but later changed to a map that showed the 54 districts that have full-time security. But some law enforcement and school authorities in the state said that the number of officers in the schools could increase as officials continue to update security plans.
“This was a deliberate decision” at Linn-Mar’s school system, Superintendent Katie Mulholland wrote in response to the Register’s survey. “However, the Marion Police Department makes rounds in our school buildings on a regular but varied schedule, about every five days where they walk the building and their squad cars are visible in the school parking lots.”
Most districts shared the cost of the resource officers with a local law enforcement agency, the newspaper found.
Green acknowledged that he wished the map had been presented differently, but said it was meant to be a “revelatory look” at an issue that concerns parents and taxpayers.
“When taxpayers and residents are calling us to inquire about how safe their children’s schools are, we have to investigate,” Green said.
Video: Beck: ‘It’s All About Hidden Clues”
By Daniel Noe
Glenn Beck and Rabbi Daniel Lapin reveal the hidden clues that Obama’s trip to Israel is being done to send a message to the Arab world that Obama does not recognize the legitimacy of Israel.
Singapore reportedly seeks FBI help in US engineer's death
Police in Singapore have reportedly sought the FBI‘s help in a probe into the death of a U.S. engineer last year.
The death of Shane Todd, 31, has been classified as a suicide by hanging, but relatives of the Montana man — who was worried that his employers in Singapore were using him to help China get its hands on sensitive technologies to harm U.S. national security — believe he was murdered to cover up his discovery of the purported plot.
Singapore police have said they asked Todd’s family to share any evidence in their possession related to his death, BBC reports.
“If [the Todd family] were not comfortable handing evidence in their possession to Singapore Police Force, they could seek the FBI‘s help to review the evidence,” they said in an emailed statement. “As there has so far been no response to this request, Singapore Police Force has sought the FBI‘s assistance to engage the family and for FBI to examine the evidence.”
Eric Watnik, a U.S. Embassy spokesperson in Singapore, said Monday that the FBI would comply with the request, BBC reports.
“The request is focused on issues entirely within the United States,” Watnik added. “The investigation into Shane’s death continues to be led by the Singaporean police.”
Todd’s parents met with Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., on Friday and are seeking a congressional investigation in their son’s death.
“He told us that his life was being threatened,” Todd’s mother, Mary, told Fox News Channel on Friday.
Just two days after his final day of work in June and a going-away party with colleagues, his girlfriend found him dead in June 2012, hanging from his bathroom door. Police and the coroner believe Todd hanged himself in the bathroom, leaving two suicide notes on his computer, CBS News reports.
Mary Todd said she immediately doubted the authenticity of the note.
“My son did not write this note,” she continued. “He did not take his own life.”
A spokesperson for Baucus told FoxNews.com on Friday that the lawmaker has arranged a meeting for the family with the State Department.Baucus will meet face-to-face with the Singaporean ambassador to the U.S. this week and has personally weighed in on the issue with top White House officials.
Todd’s relatives have since been pressing U.S. officials to investigate the death following a perceived lack of cooperation from Singapore authorities.
Todd graduated in 2005 with a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida and later received his doctorate at the University of California-Santa Barbara. In 2010, he chose a job in Singapore because he was looking for adventure, he told his parents.
He took a position at the Institute of Microelectronics, a Singaporean government research institution, to work on cutting-edge technology involving powerful semiconductors. An investigation by the Financial Times magazine revealed that the technology has other applications desired by China, including applications that can be used to disrupt enemy radar and communications.
Todd’s relatives believe his work was linked to China‘s Huawei Technologies, which was cited as a potential national security threat by a U.S. congressional committee last …read more
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Parents of engineer who died in Singapore want murder probe
The family of an American who turned up dead in Singapore after expressing fear he was being duped by Chinese spies is calling for a congressional investigation into his death in Singapore.
Relatives of Shane Todd, 31, believe the Montana man — who was worried that his employers in Singapore were using him to help China get its hands on sensitive technologies to harm U.S. national security — was murdered to cover up his discovery of the purported plot.
“He told us that his life was being threatened,” Todd’s mother, Mary, told Fox News Channel on Friday.
Just two days after his final day of work in June and a going-away party with colleagues, his girlfriend found him dead in June 2012, hanging from his bathroom door. Police and the coroner believe Todd hanged himself in the bathroom, leaving two suicide notes on his computer, CBS News reports.
Mary Todd said she immediately doubted the authenticity of the note.
“My son did not write this note,” she continued. “He did not take his own life.”
Todd’s relatives have since been pressing U.S. officials to investigate the death following a lack of cooperation from Singapore authorities. They met with Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., in Washington on Friday.
A spokesperson for Baucus tells FoxNews.com that he set up a meeting for the family with the State Department. He will meet face-to-face with the Singaporean Ambassador to the U.S. next week and has personally weighed in on the issue with top White House officials.
Baucus had staff from his Finance Committee meet with U.S. embassy and Singaporean officials last week, the spokesperson said.
Shane Todd graduated in 2005 with a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida and later received his doctorate at the University of California-Santa Barbara. In 2010, he chose a job in Singapore because he was looking for adventure, he told his parents.
He took a position at the Institute of Microelectronics, a Singaporean government research institution, to work on cutting-edge technology involving powerful semiconductors. An investigation by the Financial Times magazine revealed that the technology has other applications desired by China, including applications that can be used to disrupt enemy radar and communications.
“What has to happen is we need a congressional investigation,” Mary Todd said.
FoxNews.com’s Joshua Rhett Miller contributed to this report.
Video: Beck: Obama ‘Is Trying To Send Us Into Civil War’
By Daniel Noe
Glenn Beck says President Obama is trying to incite a civil war and that if any state goes into rebellion, he will just open up the federal prisons and let the prisoners free as retribution.
Video: Gohmert On Benghazi: Obama Cared About Reelection
By Daniel Noe
Appearing on Fox and Friends on Monday with Fox News Channel anchor Steve Doocy, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) accused Obama of failing to provide Congress with a full accounting of his activities on the night of the deadly attack on the American consulate in Benghazi.
Video: Senator: I Will Hold Obama Accountable For Benghazi
By Daniel Noe
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) spoke with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity about testimony from the Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and General Dempsey about Benghazi. We’ll just have to see about Graham, however; he does stand with Obama on his unconstitutional drone policy.
Video: Glenn Beck Calls Obama A Girl
By Daniel Noe
Glenn Beck has taken it upon himself to officially “revoke” President Obama’s “man card.” Beck was responding to the president’s comments to CBS News’ Scott Pelley during a pre-Super Bowl interview that he’d “have to think about it” before letting his hypothetical son play football.
Video: NBC Edited Videos Corrode America’s Trust In The Media
By NewsEditor
“NBC is Pravda!” Glenn Beck discusses the ability of news organizations to manipulate the news, and he shows how easy it is to mislead people. Clearly doctored tapes are more a part of the news every day. And this should serve as a warning to all. Don’t believe every video you see. It may be doctored.
Palin's contract with Fox not renewed
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 26 (UPI) — Former Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin is no longer under contract as a contributor at Fox News Channel, the network confirmed.
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Oprah And Lance; Why Should We Care?
Like many folks, I watched Lance Armstrong “confess” to Oprah. For about 20 minutes. It was all the self-serving crapola from both Armstrong and Oprah I could take.
Big deal.
Some months ago, I wrote that Armstrong was being persecuted by the United States Government with $10 million dollars a year of our money.
I was right then, and I’m right now.
Do I care a whit that he used some fancy concoctions to help his endurance?
No.
I also don’t care if Roger Clemons, Mark McGuire, or Sammy Sosa used steroids or if Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb were belligerent drunks. And I still think that Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame.
Frankly, we are way too concerned with what an athlete is willing to do to win. To put it in perspective, remember that the average life span of an NFL linebacker is 57 years, and nobody complains about that.
And, don’t you find it just a little bit upsetting that the arbiters of what is right and wrong are largely people who never played the game? Take the Hall of Fame election for baseball. The election is from members of the Baseball Writer’s Association. These are largely people who drink their lunch, mostly see life from the left lane, and, again, never played the game.
I saw Jim Gray on the Fox News Channel pontificating about a college football player who said that he was duped into thinking he had an internet girlfriend who died. Now why this is a story is beyond my comprehension since nobody suffered any damages, but let’s get back to Jim Gray.
This was the clown who in game two of the 1999 World Series had the following colloquy with Pete Rose after Rose was named to the Major League Baseball All Century team, an honor which most people with more than 3,000 hits get.
Jim Gray: Pete, let me ask you now. It seems as though there is an opening, the American public is very forgiving. Are you willing to show contrition, admit that you bet on baseball and make some sort of apology to that effect?
Pete Rose: Not at all, Jim. I’m not going to admit to something that didn’t happen. I know you’re getting tired of hearing me say that. But I appreciate the ovation. I appreciate the American fans voting me on the All-Century Team. I’m just a small part of a big deal tonight.
Gray: With the overwhelming evidence in that report, why not make that step. . .
There’s an example of the kind of ‘expert’ who is passing judgment on people who actually played the game. (By the way, Gray also thinks that Bob Costas’ anti gun rant was acceptable, to put him in perspective.)
I’m not a big fan of professional cycling. I could care less if someone needs an edge to win a race of more than 2,000 miles. Unless Armstrong had an engine on that bike, my viewpoint is that he won the Tour De France seven times in a row; and nothing, including $10 million a year of our tax dollars going to a private doping police force, is going to change that.
As far as his “defrauding” the Post Office because of their sponsorship, what a load of crap.
His team won; that’s what sponsors pay for in professional sports, end of story. Except that I don’t believe that any government entity should be spending advertising money on professional sports or subsidizing stadiums. That includes the NFL, Major League Baseball, and the National Guard’s sponsorship of Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s number 88 Sprint Cup car.
The same media that is having a slobbering love affair with our President is way too focused on everything but the game.
As big an animal lover as I am (and a Pit Bull owner at that), I didn’t think it was the NFL’s job to ban Michael Vick back when he got caught running a dog fighting ring. I think it is the prosecutor’s job to put him in prison so he couldn’t play football.
I didn’t think the NCAA had any business sanctioning Penn State in the very sick Jerry Sandusky affair. That is the job of the Governor, the courts, and the so-called adult supervision.
I never said Lance Armstrong wasn’t a jerk. Or that Pete Rose is a prince.
But just as I don’t hold Barbara Streisand’s ludicrous political viewpoints against her skills as a singer, I refuse to judge Lance Armstrong’s athletic career (or Roger Clemons’ or Barry Bonds’) by what he may have ingested before he played the game.
And, frankly, as a sports fan (and recovering sportswriter), I think that the only votes for halls of fame should come from the same fans who make and break the careers of the players.
Now, can we get back to talking about real news?
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AP Interview: Ohio's Kasich enthuses over Davos
Embarking on what he called a reluctant trade mission, Ohio Governor John Kasich said Friday that his state’s economic comeback was generating interest — and potential new business opportunities — on the world stage in Switzerland.
Ohio’s blue-collar voters have made it arguably the most important swing state in recent U.S. presidential elections, and President Barack Obama won the state in November by focusing on the controversial auto industry bailout. Kasich, who explored a presidential bid in the run-up to the 2000 election, also confirmed he would seek re-election in 2014.
The Republican governor, a former congressman who rose to House Budget Committee chairman before working as a Lehman Brothers investment banker and commentator on Fox News Channel, told The Associated Press that he was initially “very reluctant” to make the trip to the annual World Economic Forum in Davos.
He decided to go, he said, after he realized that this week’s gathering offered a valuable chance to court business and provide a global perspective. Davos is awash with top business leaders from around the world as well as many other high-profile people from the worlds of politics, academics and commerce.
“It’s like a trade mission in one small little area,” he said. “We focused almost exclusively on CEOs.”
Kasich was involved in a number of panel discussions and held private meetings with about 15 executives from big companies to pitch ideas on investing in Ohio.
“The thing that I have been surprised by is that the people around have heard that things are getting better in Ohio,” he said. “I’ve been shocked.”
When talking with international leaders, Kasich said he emphasizes his willingness to work closely with business — a fact he credits for helping turn Ohio’s $8 billion budget deficit into what he says will be a $1 billion surplus.
Among those he held business discussions were U.S.-based Dow Chemical Co. and Philips Healthcare, which announced thousands of layoffs last year and is a part of Netherlands-based Royal Philips Electronics.
His message: “We’re open for business …. If you’ve got a big idea, come to Ohio.”
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