Comedy Gold: Media Matters Throws Party to Celebrate Beck Leaving Fox News

I honestly never paid much attention to Glenn Beck's show on Fox News, but the clowns at Media Matters sure were obsessed with it. So he must have been doing something right. Now that he's about to the leave the network, they're taking all the credit as if his leaving has anything at all to do with them.

Now, these goofballs will have more time to focus on all the other "right-wing nuts" out there - if only they could name any of them. Check out the guy at the 0:32 mark. Dude can't even come up with "Rush Limbaugh" or "Sarah Palin" off the top of his head? Pathetic! No doubt he'll be demoted to Geraldo duty by the end of the week.



Via the Blaze.

Chicago Man Cited for Trying to Sabotage Fox News Truck in Madison

Remember, the left just loves free speech. As long as they can regulate it.

A Chicago man was ticketed for allegedly disconnecting extension cords for cameras and lights on a Fox News truck on the Capitol Square Tuesday, Madison police reported.

Dan Edelstein, 23, was cited for disorderly conduct by Madison police after he allegedly yanked the cords from the outlets on the outside of the Fox News truck at about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, police said.

The network wasn't broadcasting at the time, so Fox News Channel viewers weren't left in the dark about the latest goings-on from Madison.

The Chicago Way.

Media Matters Not Handling Crushing Defeat Too Well

To no surprise, Fox News had record-breaking viewership Tuesday night as their fair and balanced lineup is now the most trusted name in news. Contrast that with the running joke that MSNBC has become, where their absurd coverage laced with snide commentary left them at the bottom of the cable heap, trailing even CNN.

Naturally, the children at Media Matters aren't taking defeat well.

During the 2010 election cycle, Fox News, its employees, and its parent company engaged in an unprecedented campaign in support of the Republican Party. The network served as the communications and fundraising wing of the GOP while fervently promoting -- and sometimes creating -- the party's candidates.

I guess the RNC, RSCC, RCCC, state parties and individual candidates did nothing. They simply waited for funding and marching orders from a television network.

Is this what George Soros expects for all his money? These clowns even see something sinister brewing as they look ahead to 2012.

Fox News candidates "speak through Fox News" at least 269 times in 2010. Media Matters for America searched the Nexis database through September 18 for network and cable television appearances in 2010 by five potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates who currently have relationships with Fox News. The five potential candidates -- John Bolton, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, and Rick Santorum -- have appeared 269 times on Fox News and a total of six times on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and CBS combined.

Let's put it this way: Why not go where you reach the largest potential audience? They just don't get it.

Ironically, Media Matters sees no such nefarious collaboration when a lone Democrat appears 62 times on MSNBC.

Methodology: Media Matters uses Lexis transcripts and TV Eyes searches. We don’t have access to these premium services, so we had to make do with the interwebs. We searched the msnbc website for transcripts and, with the help of Google, searched the web for videos of Grayson appearances on MSNBC. Appearances on CNBC were not counted.

So what did we find? MSNBC has treated Alan Grayson very well, with considerably more appearances than Kasich and Paul on Fox combined. More than 30. More than 40. In fact, a total of 62 appearances! To be fair, as a sitting Congressman prone to attention grabbing, it is likely that he would be called on more often than a non-incumbent. But over 60 appearances, even multiple appearances on the same day? (In what must be an oversight, Media Matters has yet to report on this spectacular example of what it calls ‘promotion’.)

Meanwhile, a delusional Media Matters drone tells us America rejected the GOP Tuesday (H/T).

DOJ Arrests State Department Leaker

No not the one who leaked information on anything during the Bush years but rather someone who gave information to James Rosen of Fox News on North Korea's nuclear program. I don't have much yet, just the report that Bret Baier gave on air a few minutes ago.

I found this article on Yahoo news.

The Obama administration on Friday accused an analyst who worked at the State Department of leaking top secret information about North Korea to a reporter. He is pleading innocent. It was the latest move in an aggressive campaign to crack down on leaks, even as the administration has supported proposed legislation that would shield reporters from having to identify their sources.

Steven Kim, who worked at State as an employee of a contractor, was named in a federal indictment unsealed Friday. He was charged with illegally disclosing national defense information, which carries a top penalty of 10 years in prison, and with making false statements to the FBI, which has a maximum five-year sentence.

The Justice Department said in June 2009 Kim knowingly passed information about U.S. intelligence concerning a foreign country to a national news organization and in September of that year falsely denied to the FBI having had recent contacts with a reporter from that news organization. The material was classified top secret/sensitive compartmented information because it concerned the military capability of the foreign country and related to U.S. intelligence sources and methods.

It sounds like the DOJ's case is weak since as Mr Kim's lawyers contend it was nothing more then a conversation between the man and the reporter which contained no information not known to anybody who was more then a casual observer and the judge released him with no bail.

Amazing how this Department of Justice works isn't it. After passing on the New Black Panther's voter intimidation case, screwing up who knows how many trials of Gitmo detainees and today turning a blind eye to the USS Cole bomber they have plucked some guy out of thin air who gave information to Fox News.

Talk about sending a message.

I wonder how the left will treat this news. Will they run to his defense like they did the asshat Army private who worked with Julian Assange of Wikileaks or march with pitchforks demanding his head on a pike because he leaked to Fox News instead of one of their favored liberal news sources like the New York Times or Time magazine?

Hmm: Navy Cuts Off Access to Fox News Site

On the upside, if they want, ahem, some real news, they can still access CNN and MSNBC.

Members of the U.S. Navy were blocked Friday from gaining access to Fox News' Web site, a Navy spokesman confirmed to FoxNews.com.

Lt. Justin Cole, a spokesman for the Navy, said that he wasn't able to access that site along with other news sites, including NewYorkTimes.com. But Navy members could still go to MSNBC.com and CNN.com.

"There's got to be some type of issue with NMCI," Cole said, referring to the Navy Marine Corps Internet. Cole said he was looking into the cause.

When members tried to go to FoxNews.com, the following message appeared: "Access to this site has been denied in accordance with Navy policy to safeguard the security posture and/or to maintain the operational integrity of the NMCI."

I'm surprised they don't just reroute the Fox News links to Obama's Organizing for America website.

Update: It appears to have been a technical issue.

A military official who's an expert on these matters told retired Lt. Col. Oliver North, a Fox News contributor, that two issues with the Fox News site would have triggered the outage.

One is the bandwidth -- most of the other news sites don't consume as much bandwidth as Foxnews.com, which is pretty busy, the source told North.

The second, the source said, is the filtering system was triggered by a photo of celebrity Kim Kardashian that was posted to the site that contained the notation: NSFW, which stands for "not safe for work," combined with a slideshow titled "Sexiest Celeb Stepmothers."

The source said the Navy's system is built automatically to filter out and block any sites that are perceived to possibly contain porn.

"What has happened here, the computer saw the NSFW photo and saw the sexiest celeb stepmothers and automatically said it's a porn site and shut if off to the rest of the Navy in the world," North recalled what he was told.

"When people started to call in, they then manually looked at it and then overrode the computer program," he said.

FoxNews.com posts photos with the NSFW notation about three times a week and features a twice-weekly sex column with the words "sex" in the headline.

Ferret-Faced Freak: Fox News is Seditious

The amusing thing about this unhinged rant is the moron actually takes the White House to task for the quagmire that is The War on Fox News.

Let me be precise here: Fox News peddles a fair amount of hateful crap. Some of it borders on sedition. Much of it is flat out untrue.

But I don't understand why the White House would give such poisonous helium balloons as Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity the opportunity for still greater spasms of self-inflation by declaring war on Fox.

If the problem is that stories bloated far beyond their actual importance--ACORN's corruption, Van Jones's radical past--are in danger of leaching out of the Fox hothouse into the general media, then perhaps the Administration should be a bit more diligent about whom it hires and whom it funds.

If the problem is broader--that Fox News spreads seditious lies to its demographic sliver of an audience--the Administration should probably be stoic: the wingnuts will always be with us. The best antidote to their garbage is elegant, intelligent governance. The next-best antidote is occasional engagement: I thought Obama came away from his O'Reilly and Chris Wallace interviews much the better for it. (Though you don't want to sit down with a thug like Hannity or a weirdo like Beck.)

Yes, he'd rather sit down with a thug like Keith Olbermann.

Klein, naturally, provides zero evidence of "flat out untrue stories from Fox and pathetically tries to downplay the ACORN scandal. He dismissed the "radical past" of Van Jones while conveniently overlooking his radical current. Claiming Fox has a sliver of an audience is preposterous based on their ratings, which continue to increase and promise to skyrocket the longer Obama is bogged down in his un-winnable war against Fox.

As bad as Obama and his thugs have been acting, even they haven't gone so far as to call Fox seditious.

Some thoughts from William Jacobsen.

Linked at Hot Air. Thanks!

Murdoch to Obama: Just Keep Whining

These whiny babies on the left just never learn. They've been pissing and moaning about Rush Limbaugh for 20 years and the guy is more popular than ever, despite the endless smear campaigns waged by the angry left and the media swine who promulgate their lies.

So it come as little surprise that due to the White House jihad against Fox News their ratings are better than ever.

News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch said on Friday that White House criticism of commentators on his Fox News television channel had served to "tremendously" increase their ratings.

"There were some strong remarks coming out of the White House about one or two of the commentators on Fox News," Murdoch told the annual meeting of News Corp. shareholders here.

"And all I can tell you is that it's tremendously increased their ratings," he said.

Murdoch's remarks came after White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told The New York Times earlier this week that Fox News was "undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House."

Dunn, of course, has now been exposed as a Maoist, also no surprise since it seems most everyone around Obama has Communist ties.

Thanks also to Fox News, we also whiny baby Barry also has some rather dim re-election prospects already.

Maybe he he grew a pair and learned how to handle the slightest bit of criticism his administration wouldn't be disintegrating before his eyes.

Fox News Surges to Record Primetime Ratings

The Obama strategy of whining about Fox News has apparently backfired badly. In the second quarter this year their primetime ratings increased a whopping 34%.

Giving your perceived enemies free publicity is never wise.

President Barack Obama may be obsessed with the critical coverage of Fox News, as often reported. But the cable news channel sure must love him.

Latest ratings out for the second quarter of 2009 show the top-rated FNC having one of the best quarters in its entire history with primetime ratings jumping an astounding 34%, not all of them Obama fans. That 8 - 11 p.m. slot is crucial for viewers -- and ad dollars -- which includes Fox's showcase "The O'Reilly Factor."

Throughout the viewing day, Fox News did even better with its 1.2 million viewers on average more than doubling CNN's 598,000 and more than tripling third place trailer MSNBC's average audience of 392,000.

Loyal Ticket readers will recall back in May White House official Kareem Dale revealed in a speech that MSNBC was the Obama administration's favorite TV channel.

And that liberal affection seems to have rubbed off on Obama backers, helping the NBC outlet to barely squeak passed CNN in weekday primetime average audience, 946,000 to 939,000.

Obama's favorite network continues to struggle, just like the President in Training Pants.

Congressional Hack Calls Tax Protests 'Despicable'

The Democrats are getting very nervous.

Especially this hack.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) blasted "tea party" protests yesterday, labeling the activities "despicable" and shameful."

"The ‘tea parties’ being held today by groups of right-wing activists, and fueled by FOX News Channel, are an effort to mislead the public about the Obama economic plan that cuts taxes for 95 percent of Americans and creates 3.5 million jobs," Schakowsky said in a statement.

"It’s despicable that right-wing Republicans would attempt to cheapen a significant, honorable moment of American history with a shameful political stunt," she added. "Not a single American household or business will be taxed at a higher rate this year. Made to look like a grassroots uprising, this is an Obama bashing party promoted by corporate interests, as well as Republican lobbyists and politicians.”

This woman is out of her mind.

Considering her husband was found guilty of tax violations and bank fraud, this really takes some onions.

The husband of an Illinois congresswoman pleaded guilty Wednesday to tax violations and bank fraud for writing rubber checks and failing to collect withholding tax from an employee.

Robert Creamer, a political consultant married to four-term U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, could face four years in prison on the two felony counts when he is sentenced Dec. 21.

"In my heart, I know that these mistakes do not define or diminish this good man, or the good work that he has done over the last 40 years or that he will do in the future," Schakowsky, D-Ill., said after her husband's court hearing.

H/T Instapundit.