Liberal Media Viciously Attack Tea Party, Smear Tactics Worsen As 2012 Elections Loom

WatchdogThe t h e m r c ’ s m o n t h l y m e m b e r s ’ r e p o r t CREATING A MEDIA CULTURE IN AMERICA WHERE TRUTH AND LIBERTY FLOURISH Vol. 18 • Issue 9 • September 2011 Liberal Media Viciously Attack Tea Party, Smear Tactics Worsen as 2012 Elections Loom The liberal media will stop at nothing each other in a way that heals, not a MRC Headquarters • Alexandria, Va to cripple the Tea Party. They are attack- way that wounds.” ing this grassroots movement because it Okay, now fast forward to the debt- is 1) an effective force for conservatism ceiling debate. On July 27, New York INSIDE and 2) they need a bogeyman to blame Times columnist Thomas Friedman for the economic disaster caused by the blared, “If sane Republicans do not PAGE 3 socialist policies of Presi- stand up to this Hezbollah MRC Report Documents dent Obama and his allies faction in their midst, the How CNN Pushes Pro-Gay Agenda in Congress. Tea Party will take the GOP It is all geared to help on a suicide mission.” PAGE 4 those left-wingers in the Two days later, MSNBC’s Bits & Pieces: 2012 elections. Here at the Steven Rattner seriously ar- Press Secretary Schieffer, MRC, we’ve documented gued “the problem with this More Krugman Bias, and exposed the media is it’s like a form of eco- Don’t Say Obama, Tax Junk Food! Obama-Smitten attacks against the Tea nomic terrorism. I imagine Party since it was born MSNBC’s Steve Rattner these Tea Party guys are, PAGE 6 during the Obamacare smears the Tea Party as like, strapped with dyna- Brent Bozell’s Nationally battle in early 2010. Since being “strapped with mite, standing in the mid- Syndicated Column: dynamite, standing in then, the vitriol hurled the middle of Times dle of Times Square at rush Brian Williams vs. by left-wing journalists hour and saying, ‘Either you The Tea Party Square at rush hour and against conservatives has saying, ‘Either you do it do it my way, or we’re going PAGE 7 grown coarser, in contra- my way, or we’re going to blow you up, ourselves MRC in the News diction to all their plead- to blow you up, ourselves up, and the whole country up, and the whole ing about “civility.” This country up with us.” up with us.’” PAGE 8 was abundantly obvious in In other words, Tea Party Capitalize on Estate Planning the fight over raising the federal debt Americans are like radical Islamic sui- with the MRC to Fight the Liberal Media ceiling in July and August. cide bombers! Is that civil discourse? Let’s look at some examples from that That same day, July 29, Bloomberg battle — and remember this is the same News’ Margaret Carlson described Tea media that blamed the Jan. 8 Tucson Party lawmakers as the “nihilist caucus, shooting on the rhetoric of conservative which is, ‘Listen, we want to burn talk radio and the Tea Party. Remember the place down.’ … They’ve strapped also that President Obama gave a explosives to the Capitol and they think nationally televised speech in Tucson they’re immune from it. The Tea Party after the shooting calling for “more caucus wants this crisis.” civility in our public discourse.” He also (Note to Carlson: President Obama’s said, “at a time when our discourse communist friend Bill Ayers participated has become so sharply polarized … it’s in actual bombings of the Capitol and www.MRC.org important for us to pause for a moment the Pentagon in 1971-72.) and make sure that we are talking with Continued on page 2 Watchdog-final-September2011.indd 1 8/17/11 4:38 PM The 2 Watchdog SEPTEMBER 2011 Continued from page 1 EVERYWHERE! — The MRC’s research and compilation of videos demonstrating the liberal media’s attempts to smear the Tea Party and GOP were everywhere in July and August While the debt deal was a loser for conservatives via television, talk radio, print, Internet and social media. — no real spending cuts and no balanced budget — the liberal media also know the political fallout is bad for Over at CBS, the marginally more rational Bob Obama, especially the downgrading of America’s credit Schieffer exclaimed, “Some people say that the Repub- rating by Standard & Poor’s. So, they’re trying to shift lican Party has been held hostage by the Tea Party.” At the blame to the Tea Party. least at CBS Tea Partiers have been downgraded from NBC obliged Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) on Aug. 7, terrorists to kidnappers. when this horse’s ass bellowed, “I believe this, without Howard Fineman of The Huffington Post threw question, the Tea Party downgrade.” Howard Dean and another twisted analogy into the mix by telling viewers David Axelrod repeated that talking point on CBS. of MSNBC’s Hardball, “What’s going on here, as I see it, is In an MRC press release, yours truly said, “To blame a kind of slow-motion secession. … The Tea Party people the Tea Party for the S&P downgrade is like blaming the are saying, we want to secede from that society.” Betty Ford Clinic for alcoholism. The entire existence of Hardball host Chris Matthews smeared the Tea Party the Tea Party movement has been based on an attempt for backing real spending cuts and a balanced budget to stop the runaway spending of Washington — by the amendment as part of the debt-ceiling deal. After the likes of John Kerry. … This is a well-coordinated effort vote on the deal, Matthews lamented, “What I saw at by the left-wing to deflect bad news — very bad news least was one guy with a knife and the other trying to — away from their very left-wing President Obama.” avoid being cut. It was a thug attacking a victim. It was The liberal media will do anything to cut the Tea a mugging. … The mugging continues, again and again Party off at the knees and cover for Obama and liberals and again. The people who perpetrated this assault in the 2012 election year. The discourse is only going to on the president will come back to do it again.” Nice get worse. civility, don’t you think? We’re tracking, exposing, and neutralizing that se- Putting the arsenic-icing on the rhetorical cake, rial dishonesty every day through our MRC divisions on- New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd snapped: “Tea line, and in print, on talk radio, television, Facebook, Party budget-slashers … were like cannibals, eating their Twitter, and through our MRC Action Team. The battle is own party and leaders alive. They were like vampires, intensifying and we are advancing, so stay tuned. draining the country’s reputation, credit rating and compassion. They were like zombies, relentlessly and Sincerely, mindlessly coming back again and again to assault their unnerved victims, Boehner and President Obama.” Not surprisingly, the oh-so sensitive left-wing media L. Brent Bozell III said nothing about this vile rhetoric. Founder and President Watchdog-final-September2011.indd 2 8/17/11 4:38 PM The SEPTEMBER 2011 Watchdog 3 MRC Report Documents How CNN Pushes Pro-Gay Agenda CNN is aggressively promoting a pro-homosexual Against Defamation. Imagine the outcry from liber- agenda through its news topics, anchors, and als if a CNN anchor had received an award from a choice of guests, a new study by the MRC’s Culture pro-marriage group! & Media Institute (CMI) documents. There is no The CMI study also documents that on July balance at CNN when it comes to this issue. 15 CNN anchor Ali Velshi argued in favor of the CMI looked at 239 CNN programs that were California gay history bill, stating it was a “move broadcast between June 15 and July 15. On those toward inclusion.” That same day, CNN’s Suzanne shows, CNN quoted or interviewed 98 people who Malveaux cheered Atlanta’s “gay population” backed the gay agenda; 48 who expressed no opin- because the city had been named the “Nation’s ion on the issue; and 28 who criticized homosexual Gayest City” by a homosexual magazine. behavior. That’s a nearly 4-to-1 ratio of pro-gay When New York passed its gay marriage law guests. on June 24, CNN ‘s Kyra Philips and Don Lemon Some of those guests included Margaret Cho, praised the legislation, and Joy Behar later ex- who has publicly said she is obsessed with “f---ing claimed, “It’s very nice. It’s lovely.” Sarah Palin.” Cho was interviewed three times on Later, on July 3, CNN’s Howard Kurtz admitted CNN in the June/July timeframe. the obvious: “The media’s celebration — there re- Radical gay activist Dan Savage was also in- ally is no other word — of the gay marriage debate terviewed by CNN’s Joy Behar. Savage has said on in New York.” Kurtz also spoke with CNN’s Carl television that he wishes Republicans were “all Crawford, asking whether the coverage of the issue f---ing dead” and that he wants to “f--- the s--- out had been balanced. Crawford also admitted the of Rick Santorum.” obvious: “I think the media has been kind of rally- CNN anchor Don Lemon, who is gay, and the ing behind the marriage equality movement. … We network’s Anderson Cooper and Joy Behar all like it. It’s democratic to us, and that’s just one of received awards from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance our soft spots.” Undoubtedly.

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