Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Barker's Newsbites: Tuesday, May 22,2012


I was in such a good mood until my lovely bride called me - waking me up - to tell me that she had destroyed one of the expensive, low-profile, high-performance tires on Sammie (our Sonata turbo).

Yep. She hit a pothole. Got the car to the shop without further damage. (Supposedly...)

I'm calm. (Well... calmer...)

I mean... it could have happened to anyone - right? (But of course it didn't...)

It's only money - right?! (Of course now I'll be worrying about the alignment being off...)

(*GRITTING MY TEETH*)

2 comments:

William R. Barker said...

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/appropriations/228835-senate-moves-forward-with-increased-airline-passenger-fees#.T7vGjswN384.twitter

[Democrats on the] Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday moved forward with legislation [double] airline passenger security fees, beating back a GOP attempt to keep them at current levels.

* UNFRIGGINBELIEVABLE!

William R. Barker said...

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-bozell/2012/05/22/biggest-religious-lawsuit-us-history-launched-liberal-evening-news-sho#ixzz1vcJH9QOM

The evening news broadcasts all but spiked the largest legal action in history to defend our Constitutionally-protected religious freedom.

The May 21 editions of ABC’s World News and NBC’s Nightly News refused to report the fact that 43 Catholic dioceses and organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Obama administration.

CBS Evening News gave this historic news a mere 19 seconds of air time. (And when a network like CBS mentions the suit ever-so-briefly, they deliberately distort the issue by framing it as a contraception lawsuit instead of what they know it to be: a religious freedom issue. It’s bogus, dishonest – a flat out lie.)

This is the worst bias by omission I have seen in the quarter century history of the Media Research Center.

This is not a mistake, nor is it an editorial oversight by the broadcast networks. This is a deliberate and insidious withholding of national news to protect the ‘Chosen One’ who ABC, CBS and NBC have worked so hard to elect and are now abusing their journalistic influence to re-elect.

The fact is that the Catholic Church has unleashed legal Armageddon on the administration, promising ‘we will not comply’ with a health law that strips Catholics of their religious liberty.

If this isn't 'news' then there's no such thing as news.

This should be leading newscasts and the subject of special, in-depth reports. Instead, these networks are sending a clear message to all Americans that the networks will go to any lengths – even censoring from the public an event of this historic magnitude – to prevent the release of any information that will hurt Obama’s chances of re-election.

The so-called 'news' media have sunk to a new low. This is despicable.