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INSIDE Country 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 12 • December 2011 Liberal Media Ignore Deaths, Violence, and Anti-Semitism at ‘Occupy’ Protests To Protect Obama and Left-Wing Agenda The liberal media, particularly the to other cities. By Nov. 10 there were big guns ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN are more than 2,700 arrests at Occupy sites MRC Headquarters • Alexandria, Va refusing to report on the widespread nationwide. In addition, there were and deadly violence occurring at many at least 75 incidents of sexual assault, “Occupy Wall Street” protests across the violence, vandalism, drug dealing, INSIDE country. When they do say something public nudity, public masturbation, and about the violence, it is usually brief anti-Semitism. One protestor defecated PAGE 3 and downplayed. on a police car. 20 Reasons to End That’s liberal bias by By Nov. 13 at least Public Broadcasting’s omission: not reporting three people had been $460-Million Gravy Train something to protect killed: One young man PAGE 4 or advance a left-wing was shot to death at Bits & Pieces: agenda. We are con- Occupy Oakland; in City Michael Moore B.S., tinuing to document, Hill Park in Burlington, What’s He Benn Drinking? expose, and neutralize Vt., a veteran shot him- Commie Comment, that bias through our self in the head; and at Democrat? various divisions at the At Occupy Wall Street, MRC TV Occupy Salt Lake City a ABC, CBS, NBC: Shh! Media Research Center. captured this protestor yelling, “The man died from a combi- Jews commit more white collar crime PAGE 6 With the bloody “Oc- than any other ethnic group on the nation of drugs and car- Bozell’s Nationally cupy” protests, the earth! … Whenever there’s a billion- bon monoxide. Syndicated Column: liberal media are pro- dollar fraud, there’s a Jew involved.” While local media Thanking an Old Friend tecting their heroes, such as President have covered these tragic events, the PAGE 7 Barack Obama and House Minority top liberal media — ABC, CBS, NBC, and MRC in the News Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) who, like CNN — have said little. other liberal VIPs, have endorsed the On Nov. 12, a woman was raped in her PAGE 8 demonstrations. The top liberal media, tent at “Occupy Philly” in Pennsylvania What Can Ensure the by omission, are also helping to advance and a man has been charged in the MRC’s Continued Success? the class warfare agenda driven by the Planning Ahead. crime. Another woman reported being “occupiers.” raped at “Occupy Baltimore” in October, The leftist media have cast their lot as did a woman at “Occupy Cleveland.” with the “Occupy” protests, so when In New York, it was reported that three the blood hits the streets — literally — men threatened to kill a 24-year-old they have to look the other way. woman for reporting she was raped. But we won’t. Let’s look at some of On Oct. 18, a male protestor exposed the terrible things that have happened, himself to children and was arrested. some which we’ve covered directly, as There have been numerous incidents well as many new media, local news of sexual assault occurring at “Occupy outlets and conservative talk radio. Baltimore” and “Occupy Wall Street.” In addition, from “Occupy Dallas,” a man www.MRC.org The Occupy protests started on Sept. 17 in New York City and then spread was arrested for sexually assaulting Continued on page 2 The 2 Watchdog DECEMBER 2011 Continued from page 1 Despite the horrors documented at so many Occupy protests, those liberal leaders have so far not denounced the violence or sought to disassociate themselves from the radicals. In Washington, D.C., our own MRC TV crew document- ed protestors using toddlers as human shields at an Oc- cupy demonstra- tion against Ameri- cans for Prosperity on Nov. 4. A female activist put her two children in a wagon and used it as part of a barricade to prevent people from entering a Ronald Reagan tribute at the Convention Center. The children in the wagon were also used to block cars from exiting the Center. This MRC TV video was fea- tured on talk radio, on blogs, and on The O’Reilly Factor, which has a 3-million-plus viewer audience. MRC TV has also documented several instances of vulgar anti-Semitism spewed by “Occupy Wall Street” radicals, and similar videos by other new media have been posted on You Tube. MRC TV filmed one Occupy ac- tivist railing, “The Jews commit more white collar crime A few of the shocking headlines from CNSNews.com, local, than any other ethnic group on the earth! And they go and new media about the violence at the Occupy Wall Street un-prosecuted because they can buy their way out of it! protests — headlines and stories that liberal media ABC, CBS, Whenever there’s a billion dollar fraud, there’s a Jew NBC, and CNN are not reporting. involved!” I sent letters to the presidents of all three networks demanding that they report on the anti-Semitism at the a child. At “Occupy NH,” a woman was charged with Occupy events. To date, not one network has covered pimping a teenager. the topic, as a report by our News Analysis Division, The police have been attacked by Occupy protesters Occupier Outrages Omitted, documents. in Oakland, Calif., at Zucotti Park in New York City, in Last year, when it was claimed but never documented Albuquerque, Denver, Portland, and Vancouver. In San that Tea Party activists had called a congressman Francisco, Occupy radicals slashed two policemen with the N-word and spit on another lawmaker, ABC, CBS, a razor. and NBC ran round-the-clock stories and used the Just how many times have you seen those stories accusations to smear conservatives. reported on television? But does anyone recall fatal shootings and rapes In fact, most of these incidents have not received at Tea Party events? They never happened. Assault, national coverage on the network news programs, vandalism, public defecation, heroin dealing and public which reach about 35 million Americans every day masturbation? They also never happened. They are through their morning and evening shows combined. taking place, however, at the Occupy demonstrations Yet ABC News interviewed Obama on Oct 18, where and, by their silence, the liberal media are applauding he said of the protests, “We are on their side.” On the protests, as are the left-wingers in the White House Oct. 6, Pelosi praised the Occupy radicals: “God bless and Congress. them … The message of the protesters is a message We’re exposing this madness every day, and keeping for the establishment everyplace. No longer will the the public informed about how far left the Fourth recklessness of some on Wall Street cause massive Estate has turned. We are America’s news watchdog, joblessness on Main Street.” And still they said nothing. on the hunt to create a media culture where truth and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) cheered, “All of us should liberty flourish. join that movement,” and House Democratic Caucus Sincerely, Chairman John Larson (Conn.) declared, “The silent masses aren’t so silent anymore. They are fighting to give voice to the struggles that everyday Americans are L. Brent Bozell III going through.” Founder and President DECEMBER 2011 3 MRC Special Report Exposes CPB’s Worst Instances of Left-Wing Bias 20 Reasons to End Public Broadcasting’s $460-Million Gravy Train The ongoing battle against liberal media bias is daunting enough — ABC, CBS, and NBC combined reach more than 35 million Americans every day. Then there’s cable news, Hollywood, and the Internet. On top of all that is the $460-million taxpayer-funded worried about what’s going on in the Good Lord’s Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which pays mind, because if there is retributive justice, he’ll for NPR and PBS, and is nothing more than a left-wing get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchil- government-run propaganda machine blanketing the dren will get it.” nation with liberal story-telling. l In 1994, leftist columnist Julianne Malveaux went The U.S. House voted to defund the CPB earlier on PBS and wished Clarence Thomas dead: “You this year but the proposal went nowhere in the Sen- know, I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and ate. A new Special Report by the Media Research butter and he dies early like many black men do, Center, Counting the Reasons to Defund: The 20 Most of heart disease.” Memorable Leftist Excesses of Public Broadcasting, l NPR’s Loren Jenkins, who documents the 20 worst examples of liberal bias in raged against the Afghanistan Public Broadcasting since 1985, exposing why the fed- war following 9/11, said in eral news organ doesn’t deserve taxpayer funding. October 2001 that his job was to Let’s look at some of those excesses. find U.S. troops on the battle- l On his PBS show in May 2010, left-winger Tavis field: “The game of reporting is Smiley absurdly challenged a critic of radical Islam to smoke ‘em out.” Asked if he by claiming that Christians would expose where U.S. troops blow people up every day: were in Pakistan, Jenkins snapped yes, “You report “Oh, Christians, every day, it. I don’t represent the government.
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