It’s spelled out here, in detail, a story of media manipulation and weakness if not malevolence.

The media?

Jennifer Rubin, the conservative Washington Post blogger who became Romney’s most outspoken advocate in the press, accused members of the news media of failing to take the Republican’s arguments seriously, while allowing the incumbent skate through the race untouched.

“As for the media, they are the least self-reflective people I know,” Rubin said. “The left-leaning media has carried the president’s water faithfully, eschewing the least bit of critical analysis. Now they don’t like the result?

Not sure about how much some of them don’t like it, but the lemming instinct remains.

This is what you call jumping in:

CWN (Catholic World News) – September 04, 2013

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The worldwide leader of the Jesuit order has said that US-led military intervention in Syria would be an “abuse of power.”

Father General Adolfo Nicolas said that action by the US and France would “certainly increase the suffering of the citizens of that country, who, by the way, have already suffered beyond measure.”

He added that the proposed military action was based on incomplete information about the use of chemical weapons.

Some irreverent stuff here which might make your day.

From smartertimes.com a look at bias:

The Times has been running a series of questions and answers with the New York mayoral candidates that is unintentionally illuminating about the bias of the Times newsroom (not the editorial board, since this seems to be a newsroom project.)

Today’s three questions “about the economy,” for example, includes “What measures would you support to address income inequality?” but no question about economic growth.

An earlier installment featured three questions about “public health”; it asked about sugary sodas and birth control in schools, but no question about what, if anything, the candidates would do to try to reduce the number of abortions in New York City.

The bias isn’t particularly in how the Times reports on the answers to the questions, but in the framing and choice of the questions themselves. [italics added]

Same for coverage. Facts straight (not all the time), but about what? Choosing what’s news and what isn’t is the best criterion of bias.

The one about the well-married woman:

Two senior ladies met for the first time since graduating from high school. One asked the other, “You were always so organized in school, did you manage to live a well planned life?”

“Oh yes,” said her friend. “My first marriage was to a millionaire; my second marriage was to an actor; ,my third marriage was to a preacher; and now I’m married to an undertaker.”

Her friend asked, “What do those marriages have to do with a well planned life?”

“One for the money, two for the show. three to get ready and four to go.”

Th-th-that’s all for now.

Let us count the ways, including its goofy report of Verizon’s market share.

Pat Hickey says no to that.

. . . to solidify even further her standing with the radical left, which is not so far from gummint run wild on the right too.

Fascism, anyone? As in “socialism with a capitalist veneer”?

. . . that’s easy to refuse (and laugh at).

. . . and sentencing. She doesn’t call the judge a nitwit. Doesn’t have to, noting that she ruled out the Blagojevich connection (whether JJJr. offered big money for the senate seat), but rather credited JJJr. for testifying vs. Blago!

Prosecutors werent allowed to bring up the Blagojevich case at Jacksons sentencing. But Jesse Jackson Jr.s lawyer, Reid Weingarten, asked for less [prison] time for his client, in part, because Jackson was a critical witness at Blagojevichs trial who was very important to Blagojevichs conviction.

She let him do that?

[He] wouldnt have gotten away with that in Chicago.

The truth is that it was Blagojevich who called the ex-congressman to the stand.

As a defense witness. [italics
added]

And then JJJr. chief defenseman Dan Webb called JJJr’s wife Sandi, who lived with him and their kids in DC

an extraordinary alderman. Too many people [wrote Korecki] would have pounced on the fact that, in the annals of corrupt Chicago aldermen, most had a leg up on her: At least they lived here.

Even though JJSr (Reverend Milker of corporate cash cows with threats of guerilla politics by way of boycott) urged her not to live outside the city they love so much!