Gosnell: The Truth Media Cannot Escape

The Gosnell trial is coming to a close in Philadelphia and the wider media have only begun to cover it, and only barely.

It would be laughable that anyone googling the trial would come up with a CBS file at the top of the stack, were it not that the horror has rendered anything remotely related to this monstrous nightmare far beyond laughable.

Some have suggested the media have evaded the trial because of pro-choice bias or the “gory nature” of the trial, or even because Gosnell is a black man. One or all of these may be at least part of the reason, but the truth is probably more shocking.

Media commentary has been around as long as the printing press. But only in the last 50 years have journalist begun to lace their personal opinions into the news. We are now used to it.

So it will surprise no one that these self-same journalists who have abetted the “If we can just save one life” meme when it comes to depriving citizens’ rights to bear arms, have cheered from the sidelines as a million babies a year have been slaughtered, for 40 years.

There are almost certainly other Kermit Gosnells operating similar death mills across the country, and, if so, how would a complicit media cover and avalanche of mounting abortion scandals?

What happens when the public finds that the “back alley abortionist” (a term almost certainly coined by a journalist) has come to Main Street? Who knows, if the public learns that these Josef Mengele-style monsters are more a rule than an exception, “life” could actually make a comeback.

Full Caf Americano

The Kermit Gosnells are easy. When the sanctity of one life is diminished in the psyche, all life is diminished. Once Ted Bundy persuaded himself that one life was meaningless he killed; the more he killed, the easier the killing became. Before long Ted found killing routine. As do thousands of doctors each year.

This is not a spiritual argument, nor should it be deeply intellectual. If something is growing inside a human womb, short of alien abduction it is probably human. So we wrap ourselves in a monumentally bad law created out of whole cloth by six rogue justices on the Supreme Court? Because Diane Sawyer supports it?

This is not a religious blog but the religious argument is even stronger: if man is a living soul, then this nation has been doing something very wicked for a very long time.

In the coming days the jury in Philadelphia will in some small way express the heart of the whole of American society on the disposition of our most precious right: life. And its decision on Kermit Gosnell will be telling.

Just how deep does this national sociopathy of “choice” run?

White House Correspondent’s Dinner: How Bad Was He?

He was so bad, the thrill on Chris Matthews’s leg ran the other direction. He was so bad, Michelle’s hair tried to book a return flight to Singapore.

Why do Republicans go to these things, anyway? You’d think Newt Gingrich would’ve gotten the hint, when they seated him next to the inbred cracker from Duck Dynasty. Even Tom Brokaw admits that the thing has degenerated into a “narcissistic freak show.”

There hasn’t been a funny headliner in two decades. Invariably, these self-important hacks hire someone to trash the president, if he’s Republican, and all but slip the president the tongue if he’s Democrat.

I was going to beat up on Conan O’Brien, but I think we have to cut the guy some slack for staying away from the ostensible reason comedians are invited to headline. O’Brien couldn’t have copped a laugh from a roomful of drunken Rotarians last night, but who can blame him?

POTUS 44 is not a man who can take a shot to the nose. So where else could O’Brien go to land a shot on someone who can take it, other than the conservative media?

The President’s own remarks last night demonstrated what conservatives already know; he is small. The man cannot take a joke, and therefore cannot make one.

In fairness, on some level it runs in the liberal gene pool. Don Imus is the last speaker who risked taking a real swipe at a sitting Democratic president. That was Imus’s now infamous “Astro Turf” comment, directed at Bill Clinton at the 1996 Radio and Television Correspondents’ dinner; and the sanctimonious media backlash was scathing.

Republican presidents in recent memory — Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush — all made self-depreciating presentations about their missteps in office, only occasionally directing lighthearted remarks at their critics.

Not Barack. Barack has to destroy his detractors. Sure, he can drop a few lines about throwing bricks on the court, but one has the impression that Barack Obama is incapable of genuine self-deprecation, that he truly doesn’t get it. What’s to laugh at? I’m me… and that is a beautiful thing, man.

Gutfeld Eviscerates Harris-Perry, MSNBC For ‘Collectivism’ Spot

Since the mid-1950s, Hollywood and the left wing media have turned ‘communist’ into a sort of N-word for pseudo-intellectuals. No one uses it anymore.

But we think it’s due for a comeback.

MSNBC’s latest ‘Lean Forward’ spot smacks of the plain old fashioned twentieth century communist crap we grew up hating. Where is Herbert A. Philbrick when you need him?

The promotion, fronted by the cable news channel’s Melissa Harris-Perry, had Sarah Palin hot enough to thaw a glacier, and it has revved up other conservatives like we’ve not seen for some time.

Okay, the so-called mainstream media are pimping for a complete government takeover of the family, ala 1990s Hillary Rodham Clinton. Disturbing. But it is also hilarious to see a Greg Gutfeld dismember the arguments of those who Vladimir Lenin called ‘useful idiots,’ like Harris-Perry and Bob Beckel.

Excerpted from Mediaite:

Meanwhile, Greg Gutfeld saw a curious “inconsistency” in what Harris-Perry said, asking if “children belong to the community, does that include the unborn?” He answered his own question, “Of course not.” Later Gutfeld called MSNBC’s decision to run the promo the “dumbest thing” they’ve done “since hiring Keith Olbermann.”

Liberal co-host Bob Beckel tried to defend Harris-Perry to some degree, but that wasn’t so easy with the four other hosts going so hard the other way. While he said he understood what she was trying to say about children being part of a larger community, he thought that “collective is a bad choice of words” because of that word’s association with socialism.

Aside from Beckel’s small attempts to explain a more benign interpretation of what Harris-Perry said in the promo, the other hosts mostly echoed what Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and other critics of the video have been voicing since it first emerged over the weekend, only at a slightly louder volume.

Watching Beckel scramble to tack a new frame on this ancient piece of elitist garbage was side-splitting. It doesn’t ‘take a village to raise a child,’ but it does take a village idiot to explain it.

NBC should just take off the mask; no one with a brain believes the network has an objective producer or journalist in the corporation. If they keep this up — and there is no reason to believe they will not — the once venerated ‘Peacock Network’ will be sucking up National Endowment for the Humanities’ dollars like a runaway Hoover.

Enemies’ List? Obama Hack Disses Drudge for… Well, Posting the News

Matt Drudge’s headline today says it all: ’90 Million Out of Labor Force.’ From there, if you followed the link we attached, the rest is simply aggregate journalism. Sort of what we do, only successful.

Now that particular headline wasn’t posted Wednesday when White House advisor Dan Pfeiffer — who, ironically, has never held a real job — singled out the Drudge Report as Obama’s latest target for delegitimization.

Okay, not to be a troublemaker or anything, but aren’t enemies lists the scourge of Western democracy? Nixsonian (which is the scourgiest of all scourgery)? Did we not see the nail prints in Daniel Schorr‘s hands?

Rush Limbaugh via Big Journalism:

The White House goes after Fox News by name, and the White House goes after me by name, because what the White House wants is to eliminate any opposition — political, media, wherever it is.  That is the modus operandi of the president, rather than debate people and win in a contest of hearts and minds. They don’t want to do that, no, no, just eliminate the opposition.  It’s been the way Obama has approached politics since his first days in it.

Well, now they’re back to calling out Drudge. …

So it’s a profound admission.  [The White House] value control more than they do truths, accuracy, or any of that.  And, as leftists, this does not come as a surprise.  But the Drudge Report is an aggregator.  Very little of what is on Drudge, does Drudge write.  When Drudge gets fired up about something, you’ll see a siren, and he might take a stab at it, but all Drudge does is find what’s in the news and put it up there. The genius or the brilliance of Drudge is that he happens to pick stuff that millions of people around the world are interested in that wouldn’t see if he didn’t post it for them because it’s being excluded by other people. … [More]

Well, to be fair, Obama’s enemies list is different than Nixon’s enemies list. Because NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, New York Times, Al Jazeera and a whole lotta other guys aren’t on the President’s list. It’s just the ones who don’t like same sex marriage, gun control, Michelle Obama’s brownshirt school lunches blitzkrieg,  open borders … well, things the President wants, who get on the list.

No, wait. That was Nixon’s list.

Matt, watch your tax return this year.

‘Big Sis’ Refuses to Answer Congress on DHS Ammo Buy

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, at a time when the administration is attempting to disarm private citizens, is stonewalling Congress regarding the DHS purchase of 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition, according to Kansas Congressman Tim Huelscamp.

InfoWars via Drudge:

Speaking at CPAC with Infowars and We Are Change reporter, Luke Rudkowski, Congressman Timothy Huelscamp revealed this week that the Department of Homeland Security has refused to answer questions from “multiple” members of Congress regarding its recent purchase of huge amounts of weapons and ammunition.

“They have no answer for that question. They refuse to answer to answer that.” Huelscamp said.

“I’ve got a list of various questions of agencies about multiple things. Far from being the most transparent administration in the world, they are the most closed and opaque.” The Congressman added.

“They refuse to let us know what is going on, so I don’t really have an answer for that. Multiple members of Congress are asking those questions.” he added.

“It comes down to during the budget process, during the appropriations process, are we willing to hold DHS’s feet to the fire?”

“We’re going to find out… I say we don’t fund them ’til we get an answer. Those type of things really challenge Americans. They are worried about this administration.” Huelscamp urged. [Video]

Uh, are we sure we want this woman armed with enough ammo to kill every man in a America 20 times? I mean, even without a gun… Never mind.

Seriously, this story isn’t sourced by some third-rate right wing blog; it comes from Forbes Magazine! The story has been floating around on conservative blogs since the first of the year and hasn’t seemed to raise an eyebrow anywhere else in the mainstream media.

You’d think the fact that Obama is raising a civilian army would have been headlined on every MSM outlet in the country. What will it take, the government trying to nationalize the New York Times? Wait. They don’t have to do that.

We thought at least Fox News would run with it, but no one seems to care that DHS, a civilian branch of the U.S. government, is purchasing enough ammunition for a 20-year war, or that much of that ammo is classified under international law as illegal for use in warfare. What? She’s buying it for a really big barroom brawl?

If this doesn’t scare you, you deserve to be locked up and sentence to listen to Mike Huckabee and the Little Rockers for life.

White House Threats: First Woodward, Now Lanny Davis!

This thing with Bob Woodward has gone viral! The legendary WaPo associate editor and journalist who came to fame during the Watergate scandal has now hit the headlines by being the first reporter in the liberal mainstream media to dare openly criticize Barack Obama. And now he has company!

Via Drudge Report:

WASHINGTON — Bob Woodward isn’t the only person who’s received threats for airing the Obama administration’s dirty laundry.  It seems anyone is a potential target of the White House these days – even former senior members of the Clinton administration. 

A day after Woodward’s claim that a senior White House official had told him he would “regret” writing a column criticizing President Obama’s stance on the sequester, Lanny Davis, a longtime close advisor to President Bill Clinton, told WMAL’s Mornings on the Mall Thursday he had received similar threats for newspaper columns he had written about Obama in the Washington Times.

Davis told WMAL that his editor, John Solomon, “received a phone call from a senior Obama White House official who didn’t like some of my columns, even though I’m a supporter of Obama. I couldn’t imagine why this call was made.”  Davis says the Obama aide told Solomon, “that if he continued to run my columns, he would lose, or his reporters would lose their White House credentials.” [More]

How about because they’re thugs, Lanny? See, you don’t just get to be Barry’s friend. You get to march lockstep with him… or else.

This should be a HUGE wake up for the Beltway and New York media who created this monster.

Wait! That’s not the story at all! This whole thing is “No big deal,” says Tucker Carlson.

But Jim Treacher at Carlson’s Daily Caller website says this:

Now they’re frantically trying to convince us this isn’t a story. Now they’re going after Woodward, calling him a diva and a tired old man and whatever else they can think of, even after he tried to distance Obama himself from it. And Davis admits that he didn’t say anything about it until now. But their instinct to protect Obama won’t do them any good. They are now the enemy. [More]

Oops! Looks like someone didn’t get the memo.

By the way, Tucker, the Woodward threat was made by Obama economic advisor Gene Sperling, over the phone — the “apology” was made via email.

Let me see? Who do I believe, Tucker Carlson, or Bob Woodward? Hmmm. That’s Tucker, with a U-C-K-E-R, right?

Hey, How About That Seth MacFarlane… What, Too Soon?

If you are the beer and pretzels type and you like fart humor, you probably guffawed the evening away watching last night’s Oscars. Otherwise probably not so much.

From the moment he took the stage Seth MacFarlane exemplified (this guy is so not Billy Crystal) the diminished culture that has given us Barack Obama and a mindset that accepts a $16 trillion debt as though it were a JC Penny charge card.

Morons respond well when morons tell jokes. Which to Hollywood’s credit lets off about half the room last night.

From MacFarlane’s egregious Lincoln assassination joke to Michelle Obama’s shameless last minute pimping of the politicized “Best Picture” award, the Oscars was by far the biggest flop since… well, 2011, when they propped up James Franco and told him to stand there.

Renee Zellweger and Kristen Stewart doubled down on that roll this year. Hey, what are the Oscars without a couple of crapulous actors, right? At least they didn’t get stuck in the elevator at Chateau Marmont with Benicio Del Toro.

Of course, “Argo” wasn’t the best picture. That was Katherine Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty.”

Okay, we like Ben Affleck, even though he is a liberal. (Really, what do you expect a guy from Berkley whose middle name is Géza to be?) But “Argo” wasn’t anywhere close to as good as his previous effort, “The Town,” and it didn’t come close to Dark Thirty.

“Zero Dark Thirty” was the mystery nomination last night; if you didn’t know it was nominated before you tuned in, you weren’t going to hear about it on the 85th Annual Oscar’s broadcast. The camera did actually find Bigelow in the audience once, though. They fired the grip.

Does it seem ironic to anyone else that a film Republicans lambasted as using taboo Top Secret leaks from the White House ended up being torpedoed by the Hollywood left for being too accurate?

Shame on Bigelow for not understanding that “Based on a True Story,” is code for “Waterboarding Doesn’t Work, Just Ask Nancy Pelosi.”

Well, John Travolta was back (hope somebody warned the male interns backstage), and Catherine Zeta-Jones lip-syncs the “Chicago” lyrics as well as she did in 2003. What was that all about?

So, other than the obnoxious host, the myriad unrelatable-to-anything dance routines, the several drunken presenters, and the show being torturously too long, it went well, don’t you think?

Jane Fonda did do a credible job playing a washed-up movie star, though.

Woodstein’s Conservative Reprise? Bob Woodward Says Obama ‘Fibs’

Okay this is weird. First the formerly reputed Rah-pub-la-cun (that’s how Bob says it; “Rah-Pub-La-Cun”) half of the Woodward-Bernstein Watergate duo writes a blatantly critical book on Obama, then he inks a deal with Fox News, and now he’s outing Barack as a liar? Are we absolutely certain Charles Krauthammer isn’t using a pseudonym? 

WaPo:

Misunderstanding, misstatements and all the classic contortions of partisan message management surround the sequester, the term for the $85 billion in ugly and largely irrational federal spending cuts set by law to begin Friday.

What is the non-budget wonk to make of this? Who is responsible? What really happened?

The finger-pointing began during the third presidential debate last fall, on Oct. 22, when President Obama blamed Congress. “The sequester is not something that I’ve proposed,” Obama said. “It is something that Congress has proposed.”

The White House chief of staff at the time, Jack Lew, who had been budget director during the negotiations that set up the sequester in 2011, backed up the president two days later.

“There was an insistence on the part of Republicans in Congress for there to be some automatic trigger,” Lew said while campaigning in Florida. It “was very much rooted in the Republican congressional insistence that there be an automatic measure.”

The president and Lew had this wrong. My extensive reporting for my book “The Price of Politics” shows that the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors — probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government.

Obama personally approved of the plan for Lew and Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). They did so at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2011, according to interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved. [More]

Bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; our son was lost but now is found!

The Left Zeros in on Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty

UPDATE: ED ASNER, MARTIN SHEEN ‘BLACKLIST’ BIGELOW-ZERO DARK THIRTY

Big Hollywood:

Hollywood celebrities will never stop talking about the horrors of the Blacklist, an era when Communist sympathizers within the industry were hounded for their beliefs, losing work and even their freedom in the worst cases.

Yet when stars like Ed Asner and Martin Sheen insist Academy voters boycott a film because it doesn’t align with their worldview, those same Blacklist bashers fall silent.

We’ve already seen veteran actor David Clennon declare his intentions to punish the film Zero Dark Thirty this awards season for allegedly promoting torture.

Now, a pair of higher profile stars are repeating Clennon’s wish to smite the film for having the wrong ideology.

Asner and Sheen have joined a list of actors protesting the movie because of the torture scenes. “I would like to condemn the movie,” Asner told the New York Times. Asner and Sheen are asking Oscar voters to ”factor in matters of conscience when casting awards votes,” the report says.

We think this calls for another boycott: Let’s all boycott Ed Asner and Martin Sheen movies. Wait. Ed Asner and Martin Sheen aren’t in any movies. Well, ooo-kay then.

Remember all the hubbub about the makers of Zero Dark Thirty receiving inside information from the CIA on the bin Laden operation? Many on the right were livid.

We weren’t much concerned. After all, it was Crazy Joe Biden who outted SEAL Team 6. The filmmakers saw a riveting story and wanted to present it to the public.

Here at Mojo we have been watching director Kathryn Bigelow’s career since, gosh, way back when she made Strange Days in the 1990s. RRG was on the set of that film for an interview. The movie bombed and I nearly bitch-slapped Ralph Fiennes (he’s within my slapabilty range) for the way he kept looking at my wife. Just kidding. However, Days was still fairly early in the director’s career.

But Bigelow, who was formerly married to Titanic director James Cameron, did slap RRG blind with 2010’s spot-on The Hurt Locker.

Finally, a movie about the Iraq war that didn’t bash George W. Bush or — and this was all-important to us — our troops. Yes, we know some disagreed, but we thought Locker was a fair portrayal in light of what Hollywood was doing at the time. Remember Lions For Lambs? Well, a whole lot of other anti-American tripe.

Bigelow has twice now resisted the seeming Industry PC edict against portraying anyone with a headscarf not purchased at Nordstrom’s in a negative light, right down to the killing of unfriendly “friendlies”.

Now it seems she is paying for it with her blockbuster Zero Dark Thirty.

We are not going to go so far as to suggest Bigelow is a conservative, but her unbiased portrayals of U.S. soldiers at war and America in general as the good guy have garnered her huge box office success, and our respect.

Yes, she got waterboarding wrong. Best performed, it’s done with a cotton-latex mask and a squeegee bottle. (Send Nancy Pelosi over; we’ll be tender.) But no one, least of all no one in Hollywood, is perfect.

Bigelow gets other things wrong, as well. Let’s danged well hope she does anyway; most of the bin Laden operation is still classified. Shhh, don’t tell Barack. And regardless of the film being based on true events let’s not forget it is fiction. Unlike Oliver Stone’s JFK.

One of Bigelow’s strengths is her portrayal of men as men, an asset few women directors, or fiction writers for that matter, seem to possess. Bigelow’s men — you can see this in her earlier films, like Point Break and K-19: The Widowmaker — are men who act like men. Not a metrosexual in the bunch.  Bigelow’s men are not likely to be musing over whether or not they need a manicure.

Kathryn Bigelow has now come under attack from the Left. Even Senator Dianne Feinstein (DiFi), whose bread is largely buttered by Hollywood nutcakes is steaming mad. Because Bigelow got waterboarding wrong? No. Because she insinuates that it worked in getting bin Laden.

Jeez, send Feinstein over with Pelosi. Personally we think a pack of Marlboro and a Bic are more effective, but that’s just us.

First, gay hack Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho) launched a diatribe against Bigelow after she won the Oscar for Locker in 2010, and now über-hack Naomi Wolf is going off on her for Zero Dark Thirty, calling Bigelow a fascist. Of course in Hollywood anyone who doesn’t eat off-menu is a fascist.

Bigelow is the only woman in the history of the Academy to win Best Director Oscar, and only one of four to be nominated. In the oh-so tolerant Hollywood bubble how do numbers like that add up? In “blacklisting” Bigelow this year (she was scandalously ignored for the nomination) her detractors have used excuses ranging from It’s not violent enough to How dare her suggest that the CIA did something right!

We like Zero Dark Thirty and hope Kathryn Bigelow keeps them coming. And, Kathryn, if you are not a conservative, come on over; girls who like guns are sexy.

Benghazi is Over. Because Susan Rice is Over… Or Whatever.

Don’t consider me for the nomination as Secretary of State either. I know, I know, but I must remain magnanimous here. If nominated I will not run; if approved I will not serve. I don’t want the job. So even though no one has nominated me. Just in case. I’m out. Okay. That’s settled…

Big Journalism:

Make no mistake about it, it’s not just the Obama White House breathing a sigh of relief over Susan Rice’s “decision” to take her name out of the running to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. The media’s just as relieved, if not more.

Thanks to New Media and Republican Senators Lindsey Graham, John McCain and Kelly Ayotte, Rice had become synonymous with a scandal the media is desperate not to cover, Benghazi-Gate. And now that that the brouhaha surrounding Rice is over, the media thinks it can go back to making sure the questions surrounding the deaths of four Americans in Libya go unanswered.

There are certain thought-drivers in the media, those JournOlisters you can watch and read if you want to know what the overall media’s thinking — and BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith is chief among them. Smith has perfected the art form of BenSmithing; the writing of stories that pretend to cover a subject when those stories are really about killing narratives harmful to Democrats, most especially Barack Obama.

BJ has a point here.

Everyone from WaPo to BuzzFeed has tried to kill this story from the minute it broke. The Obama administration even had the filmmaker of the anti-Muslim video arrested on trumped up charges and locked up for a year. Naw, the U.S. doesn’t incarcerate political prisoners.

And now Benghazi is officially over? Because Susan Rice is over?

Let’s be clear. Republicans shouldn’t be nearly as worried that Rice could be head at State as they should that she could be sleeping with Hanan Ashrawi. The woman did a scandalous job on the Kenya Embassy bombings.

 The Benghazi coverup is beyond insulting. It’s treasonous.

Last night Fox broke a story by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (Utah) that the State Department is now hiding the Benghazi consulate survivors.

Are Americans this dumb? Well, yes, actually we are. At least, 51% of us are.

Ask almost any male voter out there what teams will be playing on Monday night and he’ll tell you, and probably tell you who will start as QB and his stats. Ask any woman about Eva Longoria and they’ll probably be able to give you her shoe size. They tear up at the thought of Oprah and Martha Stewart not being on any more.

Yet most of them have no idea of the significance of Benghazi or how the president successfully covered it up to win reelection.

Yep, we’re that dumb.