Unlike the mainstream media (especially Politico), I believe in context. So below this poll, you will find any and all background information needed to answer questions 1 – 3.

Question number four speaks for itself.

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During the rise of the tea party Anderson Cooper called conservatives “tea baggers” on CNN and remarked about “teabagging.” The network featured a multitude of guests and contributors who likened tea partiers to nazis, bigots, pick your poison. No pressure was ever brought about to censor the speech of those babbling on air. CNN never found any of the remarks objectionable. Fast-forward to present time. Dana Loesch mocks the absurdity of the left’s predictable Outrage Chic on her radio show, Erick Erickson mocks occupiers on his radio show, Roland Martin mocks soccer (who doesn’t mock soccer?) and David Beckham’s underwear using his personal Twitter account and all hell breaks loose. Note: not a single one of these individuals said any of this on CNN’s airwaves, as demonstrated above. That doesn’t matter to the Progressive Inquisition.

Progressives have been falling over themselves to get Loesch and Erickson fired from CNN since CNN decided it wasn’t going to actually attempt to make money and offer a variety of opinion. Progressives hate variety, they loathe diversity of thought. The George Soros mouthpiece, Media Matters for America actually pays people to listen to Erickson and Loesch’s radio shows, record them, and try to trump up outrage over nothing. For instance, last week Loesch said that women can use birth control methods such as pills, condoms, and natural family planning as their “choice,” as opposed to the “choice” of murdering a baby. Eric Boehlert, a man who, to our knowledge, is not a licensed OB/GYN and has not, to our knowledge, ever been a woman at any time, mocked the idea that a woman is smart enough on her own to actually prevent pregnancy naturally. Because they don’t teach about menstrual cycles in high school, or the most fertile times of the month for a woman, information Boehlert apparently missed out on in school. They tried to get CNN’s attention with it on Twitter after posting it to their site.

Erickson joked about violent, raping, drug peddling occupiers getting tased — the violent movement MMfA endorsed — and MMfA/Boehlert put the clip on their site and also tried to get CNN’s attention with it. MMfA endorsed Occupy, defended it, and said nothing with this hit a cop in the face with a brick, when women were being raped, drugs being sold, absolutely nothing when the White House was shot up and smoke bombs were thrown by occupy campers. That wasn’t bad enough to earn their condemnation but cracking a joke when one of them is so out of control they have to be tasered for the safety of the police — and the person who cracked the joke is the bad guy. Those are their priorities.

They failed. They did the same thing last month as well, completely proving the point Loesch was making about hysterical reactions to the Marines appearing to urinate on the bodies of dead terrorists who had just tried to kill them in battle.

CNN didn’t fire Loesch, they didn’t fire Erickson, either which enraged Boehlert and MMfA. It showed their impotence, their weakness, that no one truly gives a damn what they do all day over on their little corner of the Internet.

Roland Martin spent Super Bowl Sunday writing #rolandsrules, jokes about watching the Super Bowl. I cannot stand the man’s politics and I damn near hated him during the midterm elections because he was one of the racial demagogues who called tea partiers every name in the book. His Tweets were funny. He joked about appetizers, about soccer — because soccer is stupid — and David Beckham’s underwear. His Tweets angered GLAAD, who believe that they have the patent on soccer and David Beckham’s underwear, thus if you insult and/or mock them, they will take it as gay bashing. Advocacy to GLAAD is trolling Twitter trying to see how many different ways innocuous Tweets can offend them.

GLAAD does more to make a mockery of themselves than Martin or anyone else could ever do.

CNN suspended Martin over the Tweets as they are close with GLAAD.

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- Dueling narratives emerge on Iowa.

- Big Journalism’s Dana Loesch will be bringing coverage of Iowa with CNN beginning this evening. Larry O’Connor will be bringing coverage from Iowa on UStream; watch Breitbart.tv for details.

- The NYT: Why isn’t Obama more social?

Before you get excited that this is a case of MSM turning on Obama, read this graph:

White House officials, however, counter that Mr. Obama’s detachment from Congress could end up benefiting him politically. After all, many Americans regard this Congress as dysfunctional, with abysmal approval ratings.

Its a campaign strategy. This is a president who has hosted countless A-list White House parties; he’s very social, but he needs to give the impression that there exists tension between him and congress because he needs a bogeyman and congress is the perfect foil.

- I dislike David Brooks, but his quip on Romney was funny:

He talks — he sings, or at least recites, some verses from ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’ It’s as if he’s running to be Tom Sawyer.”

- Kathy Griffin is much more interested in taking her shirt off for people than people are interested in seeing her take off her shirt.

- Oprah moves to save her network:

According to the Associated Press, Discovery is taking the long view and sees this as a three to five year investment, but with Winfrey’s increased involvement it is obvious that this is really the make or break year.

If things don’t improve, by this time next year Discovery could decide to dis-OWN the channel.

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- Who cares about a liberal paper’s endorsement of a moderate candidate?

- Joy. Kathy Griffin announced as Anderson Cooper’s co-host for NYE.

- Whoopi Goldberg defends Romney’s “zany” remark.

- AIM says the remark didn’t start with Romney, but rather with the reporter.

- On phony headlines.

- Comedy gold.

- Debunking the latest PPP poll. Only 32% of its sample didn’t caucus with any party in 2008, so how does this make them “likely” to caucus with any party this go around?

- Joy Behar ends her show on HLN.

- AP names bin Laden death as its top story of 2011:

The killing of Osama bin Laden during a raid by Navy SEALs on his hideout in Pakistan was the top news story of 2011, followed by Japan’s earthquake/tsunami/meltdown disaster, according to The Associated Press’ annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors.

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MSM fact-checkers are an absolute cancer on our political process, a cynical and partisan conceit created by the left-wing media that allows them to arbitrarily judge what is and is not the truth, all in an effort to bring down Republicans and boost Democrats. I won’t even mince words here, the Politifacts and Anderson Cooper’s “Keeping Them Honest,” and the like must be exposed and neutralized. Conservative media and anyone else interested in truth and objective reporting must get the word out about this charade.

Good heavens, the “Pulitzer Prize winning” Politifact has gone so far as to protect Obama from “Saturday Night Live.”

No, really.

During the 2008 campaign, I watched in awe as fact-checking became a very effective weapon against the McCain-Palin camp. Get as angry as you want at this insidious practice, but the invention was pure genius. By disguising their left-wing agendas as “facts” and “truth,” these MSM fact-checkers allowed the left-wing media to turn every Republican criticism aimed at Obama into a backfire.

It goes a little something like this:

1. Republicans launch an effective attack.

2. Obama’s Media Palace Guards find a way to call that attack dishonest.

3. Obama’s Media Palace Guards then make the so-called dishonesty the issue.

4. *Poof* the narrative immediately turns from criticism of Obama into the dishonesty of Republicans.

5. That narrative lasts for days, putting our side on defense and off message.

If that particular scenario sounds familiar, that’s because it’s already happening in this campaign.

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“To be honest, I don’t even really know who Ed Schultz is … I know he yells a lot.”

Oh ouch.

“Apparently, Mr. Schultz has a pretty thin skin for someone who goes around calling people sluts.”

Still laughing.

“But when you have less of a sense of humor than the end-of-the-world guy and show less logic and restraint than Tila Tequila, you just leave us no choice but to welcome both you and your ass kicking to “The RidicuList.”

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- Powerful cover from the New York Times Magazine:

Today’s cover is a sneak-peek at this Sunday’s coming edition of The New York Times Magazine, featuring the story “The Human Swap: How a single Israeli came to be worth 1,027 Palestinians.”

Says DD Arem Duplessis, “Tim Enthoven, the illustrator, did each and every one of the 1028 figures by hand!”

- Anderson Cooper’s daytime talk show renewed for a second season.

- Fascists bully Pat Buchanan off of Monosyllabic Nitwits Boring Citizens.

- Ask a stupid question … “Are Front-Page Editorials On The Rise?” I’d say so since all-over editorials are at an all-time high.

- CNBC tried to bait Herman Cain and the other primary contenders with question on harassment story, no one bit.

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Here’s an interesting look at how Media Matters for America (MMfA) works, along with the quick manner with which some in media bow to its George Soros financed influence. Whatever one may think of it, it’s beyond obvious that the 53% versus whatever percent meme is about Federal Income Tax. No one has ever suggested that anyone gets away scott-free without paying taxes of some sort in America – unless perhaps one is on Obama’s short list for a job in the White House. As the saying goes, nothing is certain but death and taxes. Unfortunately, when Anderson Cooper invoked the 53% number during the recent GOP debate, he wasn’t quite nuanced enough for the crew at MMfA and they immediately attacked.

Conservative activists have created a Tumblr called “We are the 53 percent” that’s meant to be a counterpunch to the viral “We are the 99 percent” site that’s become a prominent symbol for the Occupy Wall Street movement. The Tumblr is supposed to represent the 53 percent of Americans who pay federal income taxes, and its assumption is that the Wall Street protesters are part of the 46 percent of the country who don’t.

Erickson’s movement is based on a fraud. While nearly half of American households have paid no income taxes in the past few years, the vast majority of Americans do pay other taxes, including federal payroll taxes, as well as state and local taxes. In an April New York Times article, David Leonhardt explained how figures like the one Erickson was pushing distort the economic debate away from growing income inequality while completely ignoring taxes that all American households pay.

From there, presumably concerned at having displeased the storm troopers over at MMfA, aka the Progressive thought police watching uber alles things media, Cooper was quick to accept his comeuppance and grovel for mercy. That may sound harsh, unfortunately, the story doesn’t end there.

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- NewsBusters looks at a featured segment affiliated with the host of last night’s GOP debate on CNN.

CNN advertises Cooper’s regular segment, “Keeping Them Honest,” with the question: “Who’s Anderson keeping honest tonight?” Apparently, CNN and Cooper find Republicans are much more dishonest. Since July, a review of “Keeping Them Honest” segments found 24 reports tagging the Republicans with dishonesty, compared with just three for Democrats – a ratio of eight to one.

- Meanwhile, our own John Nolte felt he handled himself well as moderator. Weigh in with your thoughts below in comments, should you desire.

Whatever you might think of Anderson Cooper as a CNN anchor (I’m obviously not a fan), his performance as tonight’s moderator of the GOP’s 287th debate was stellar. His questions were all on point and he stayed far away from the divisive social issues no one but “journalists” interested in re-electing Obama care about. And, for the first time, it seemed as though everyone on the stage got close to equal time to speak.

- CBS bangs the drum for the Occupy movement’s incessant drumming as a means of achieving harmony.

On Tuesday’s Early Show, CBS’s Bigad Shaban, seemingly grasping for straws for any reason to report on “Occupy Wall Street,” played up the music performances from protesters down in lower Manhattan. Shaban emphasized how “music has helped spur movements,” and gushed that “some believe if history is any indication, they could provide harmony to a movement.”

- MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan has been hitting harmony like a drum beat, too. But then, the media didn’t just get the memo, in this instance, they helped write it, too, as we’ve shown.

Other exchanges and an email from Dylan Ratigan himself to the activist group were revealed in this Big Journalism post by Editor Dana Loesch. Note the subject header of Ratigan’s October 7th email at previous link: “Harmony.” Here is Ratigan invoking the same theme to a media reporter on October 12th.

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Whatever you might think of Anderson Cooper as a CNN anchor (I’m obviously not a fan), his performance as tonight’s moderator of the GOP’s 287th debate was stellar. His questions were all on point and he stayed far away from the divisive social issues no one but “journalists” interested in re-electing Obama care about. And, for the first time, it seemed as though everyone on the stage got close to equal time to speak.

What was especially nice was the lack of a buzzer (they’re childish) and Cooper’s willingness to let the candidates debate issues back and forth until it almost seemed as though the matter was settled. When Cooper brought up Perry’s pastor friend and the whole Mormonism-is-a-cult thing, I thought “here we go again.” But then Cooper let Perry and Romney go back and forth until it was no longer an issue. This might be the first time a member of the MSM helped kill an anti-Republican narrative.

The bickering between the candidates, especially Perry and Romney, that’s likely to define this debate and give “Saturday Night Live” an embarrassment of riches, can’t be blamed on the moderator. Cooper did the best he could to control the action, but at the end of the day it was up to the candidates to choose how they wanted to behave.

Politics aside, as far as putting on a compelling debate, Cooper succeeded there as well. The night moved quickly, a good spectrum of topics were covered, and Cooper managed to stay out of the way. This was the candidates’ show, and that’s the way it should be.

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Why does the GOP agree to debates hosted by those openly hostile to our side like MSNBC, Politico, and Anderson “teabagging” Cooper? Democrats aren’t stupid. Their refusal to accept Fox News’ debate invitations during the 2008 election wasn’t cowardice; it was smart. To stay away from the tough questions Fox would’ve asked and stay within the safe confines of the corrupt MSM was an effective tactical move. Democrats want to win elections. We, on the other hand, too often want to be liked by all the worst people.

Why oh, why, can’t the GOP be as determined to win elections as Democrats?  Or just half as determined?  There are plenty of brilliant conservatives who would do a terrific job moderating debates and, in the process, allow our candidates to get their message out, land blows on Obama, and differentiate themselves from one another. Best of all, the questions wouldn’t be intentionally loaded with wedge issues that are meant to hurt us, distract from our central message, and keep us from discussing Obama’s growing pile of failures.  Instead, as though they were running for the office of Chief Kamikaze, our side has chosen to go to Las Vegas tonight and to give Cooper the opportunity to use a two-hour debate as an opportunity to create talking points for his Precious One.

Cooper’s hostility towards our side and everything we believe in is obvious on an almost nightly basis, and in keeping with my article yesterday about these left-wing, partisans disguised as fact-checkers that now pop up everywhere in the MSM, nowhere is this more obvious than during Cooper’s regular feature, where he of the steely blue eyes and penetratingly thoughtful thousand-yard stare assumes the role of… Truth-teller!

This is not only a breach of journalistic ethics on his part, but all you have to do is watch “AC360″ on a somewhat regular basis to know how badly he abuses this segment.

How badly?

This badly:

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According to “The Bully Project” that CNN and that beefy hunk of an anchorman Anderson Cooper have aligned themselves with, these are the rules that should govern a civil society:

We’re working to build an alliance of students, parents, school staff, policy makers and engaged citizens to create a positive environment in schools where everyone feels safe and respected. What can you do?

Speak up when you see bullying.

Make friends with people who are different from you. Strive to create a culture of kindness in your school.

Everything starts with one. Be that one.

So why is Lily Tomlin on national television calling bullies names like “cowards”?

If you’re supposed to “make friends” with people who are different than you, aren’t bullies different than you?

If you’re supposed to create a positive environment where everyone’s “respected,” how exactly does all this name-calling do that?

Furthermore, isn’t doing what Tomlin suggests and ganging up against a bully … bullying?

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We need you, our esteemed readers, to help us finally put a stop to media bullying!

If you’ve been watching anything on CNN lately you know Anderson Cooper has found a new cause, a new PSA, and is determined to turn that which doesn’t even approach news into something that does. But if it helps his new daytime talk show, who is anyone to complain about things like “journalistic standards.” Besides, he of the steel blue eyes and sensitive thousand-yard stare has a Get Out Of Journalistic Standards Free card entitled — all together now — For The Children!

As with all absurdly biased media crusades–and this is most certainly one of them– the sport of it is holding the media to their own standards. For example, thanks to the media’s undying love for all things Barack Obama, we conservatives have been introduced to a whole new definition of racism. Disagreeing with Obama is racism. Opposing ObamaCare is racism. Pointing out that our basketball-loving president loves basketball is racism. And now that the GOP’s new front-runner is Herman Cain, guess what we intend to holler every time the MSM goes after him?

Oh, the places we will go.

As far as Anderson Cooper’s anti-bullying crusade goes, this is nothing more than social leftism wrapped in after school specialness. Behold the stupid:

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Did you get all that? Yes, we are all victims. Even bullies are victims of bullying… or something.

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I thought this exchange was funny; Maher tries to compare #Weinergate to a pigeon shoot (doves in this case). Yes, sending photos of your Johnson to all sorts of women while your wife at work is just like hunting birds! (Which are usually not just for sport but are eaten. In fact, young pigeon is a French delicacy.)

By his own logic, Maher is guilty by association for going to the grocery store to purchase any animal products. He doesn’t get a pass just because he didn’t kill the animals himself.

My family hunts and I’ve yet to see a bird shoot where the birds were disabled from flying or shot while in cages; it sort of misses the entire point of the hunt, which is to land as many birds with as few shots as possible once they’re mechanically released from a cage. Perhaps Maher is thinking of a turkey shoot; I’ve known of some that tether the turkeys to hay bales for the archers.

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I have always wondered who made Howard Kurtz the arbiter of Reliable Sources, but in Weinergate, we are reminded that Kurtz’s ability to discern them is very much in question.  For that matter, so is CNN’s.  It has never been a secret that the supposedly even-handed journalism maven is in reality almost too liberal to function, but if he can’t get his head screwed on straight, he might have to fork over the name of his show to someone else altogether.  Hopefully Kurtz will have the decency to straighten out some of his Weinergate missteps soon and reconsider who really are “reliable sources.”

Kurtz’s history of judging Reliable Sources is staggeringly one sided and ideological.  For one thing, I have frequently seen him go out of his way to profess his respect for the reliability of Keith Olbermann, of all people, not to mention the rest of the guttersnipes at MSNBC:

Now, I don’t put Keith Olbermann in the same category as Beck at all. His MSNBC show, agree with it, disagree with it, was a very well-researched program.

Sure it was, Howard.  Also have a look at how incensed he got when Hugh Hewitt insulted Olbermann on Reliable Sources.  Kurtz and his publication The Daily Beast also seem to regard the Daily Kos, where Olbermann once blogged, as a very legitimate publication.  The most recent example comes during Weinergate.  The Daily Beast didn’t respond when I inquired who writes the captions for their “Cheat Sheet,” but have a look at this caption.  This is The Daily Beast’s own writing, not a quote from the linked story:

Not even a hint of suspicion about the reliability of the post by an anonymous blogger “stef” at a radically partisan website with absolutely no editorial oversight.  The Daily Beast simply reported it as fact. Not long after this story was posted, Kurtz gave it his blessing on twitter, boasting how his “wait[ing] for the facts” had just been validated:

The bottom line is that Kurtz actually believes “the facts” come from anonymous, unaccountable bloggers at one of the murkiest breeding grounds for partisan trolls there is.  Once “stef” weighed in, Kurtz could finally comment on Weinergate without even bothering to check.  “The facts” had arrived. (more…)

Well someone obviously didn’t heed the media’s call of a New Tone.

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“Here’s my report on that and guess what it’s not going to take six months and almost 400 pages to say what I have to say.”

“The idea that there were not plenty of legitimate reasons for people in the gulf to be upset about the response to the spill is just ludicrous it’s rewriting history.”

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The link between Autism and the Measles, Mumps, Rubella vaccine (MMR) is the medical version of the “birther” and “truther” stories.  The findings of the original scientific paper haves never been  duplicated, the original paper was withdrawn as false by the medical journal which originally published it and the Doctor who conducted the study lost his licence because of the rules he broke while conducting it. Despite all of that evidence, there are people for whom there is not enough evidence in the world to convince them the original study was bogus. While those believers (such as “actress” Jenny McCarthy) continue to try and convince parents not to vaccinate their kids, unnecessary cases of Measles and Mumps in the world continue to rise as do needless deaths from these childhood diseases.

Yesterday, the case against against the linkage of the MMR vaccine to Autism became even stronger.  The British Medical Journal published an independent investigation claiming  that the British doctor who authored the study, Andrew Wakefield, was guilty of an “elaborate fraud” by faking data in his studies linking vaccines with autism.

According to the editorial in the Medical Journal introducing the investigation,  it was not possible that Wakefield made a mistake and that he must have faked the data. To back up their claim they presented evidence generated by an investigative journalist who generated a series of articles based on examining the same medical records that Wakefield did.

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Last night Anderson Cooper did what few journalists dare to do: he asked the tough questions of NAACP’s Ben Jealous on the topic of the highly-controversial report the NAACP released which unfairly mischaracterized the tea party. Jealous gets flustered and resorts to telling Cooper at one point to “check your facts:”