No Bias Zone: ‘Journalist’ Calls Tea Parties ‘Right-Wing Bloodfeasts’

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No Bias Zone: ‘Journalist’ Calls Tea Parties ‘Right-Wing Bloodfeasts’

Written By : Warner Todd Huston

One of my early blogging assignments was the media bias beat over at Newsbusters, so I became particularly attuned to picking up on how the Old Media toes that “unbiased” journalistic line. Unfortunately, in sometimes subtle ways their rhetoric is geared to smear Republicans in any way possible.

Here is a perfect example. Last week in a a Chicago-based report on Illinois Republican Gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady, NBC Chicago’s Edward McClelland described suburban tea party events as “right-wing bloodfeasts.”

Catch this unbiased reporting:

Brady attended a Tea Party in Oglesby on Tuesday night. Like most of the right-wing bloodfeasts he holds south of I-80, it wasn’t reported on in the Chicago media.

“Right-wing bloodfeasts”? Yeah, not too biased there, eh? And what was with the “he holds,” line anyway. Bill Brady was just attending the tea party event, not “holding” it. He had precisely nothing to do with the planning or organization of the event. Yet here is this media hack trying to make it seem as if the candidate is the main guy behind all the suburban “bloodfeasts.” Here is this maven of the Old Media implying that Brady is the guy organizing tea parties obviously attempting to smear the candidate with the tea parties in the minds of his readers.

Entirely dishonest writing.

Additionally, one wonders if old Eddie McClelland of Chicago’s NBC ever called an anti-war protest a “left-wing screamfeast,” or an anti-WTO rally a “left-wing commiefeast”?

One would doubt the possibility, of course.

This is the sort of underhanded rhetoric the Old Media uses in every market across the country as well as the national scene to come to the support of Democrats and to try to undermine the political right.

Toastrider

Blood for the blood god!
Proud Infidel

The Mainstream Snooze Media is scared spitless of the Tea Party Movement, the internet and Fox News, they ended their stranglehold on what the public sees and hears. Is it me, or do they get more and more blatant every week with their bias and editorializing in their so-called “reporting”?

http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/C3IKAXMRVZNEU5BZKUD7LK6WBA Pete Moss

Ha ha. The Tea baggerz are an extreme movement pulling the republicons along, while most of America is suffering from their ignorance, hatred, and racism. It's like fools on parade, which gives it validity in the media.

Mediumheadboy

There you go projecting your fondness for male genitals again, foreigner. You might want to get that looked at. It can't possibly be healthy.
UFKA_Smithwick

“Ha ha. The Tea baggerz are an extreme movement pulling the republicons along, while most of America is suffering from their ignorance, hatred, and racism. It's like fools on parade, which gives it validity in the media.”

Wow, you were almost exactly right. But you horribly misspelled “Obama” and “left”.

What you surely meant was: Obamunism is an extreme movement pulling the left along, while most of America is suffering from their ignorance, hatred, and racism. It's like fools on parade, which gives it validity in the media.

The only other concern I would have is that you claim it “gives it validity” to the media. The media was already on board and will never desert The One.

So other than some spelling errors and the conclusion not bad. C+.
TheDickNixon

Liberals are racist and fascist people petey. Quit lying, and where the fuck are those tax returns pussy?
Mr. EMT

Hey Passion Flower, we don't care that you suck on nuts, a lot, but could you keep your sexual proclivities to yourself? The whole meme about you being a nut sucking libtard, while amusing to us, is getting old and tiresome.
http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

Projecting your own gay fantasies and racism on others again I see.

mightysamurai

Oh God damn it! Why do I always miss the good blood feasts?

Kingfisher

Agreed. I was ready to bring my portable grill for the event.

What good is a bloodfeast without burgers and beer?
Fail_Baby_Fail

Playing with your toys in the basement????

mightysamurai

Projecting your pathetic, lonely hobbies onto other people again, are you?

At least you've moved on from projecting your homosexual fantasies on other people.

http://conservativebootcamp.com Martin Hale

“Your Honour, I'd like to introduce Example #39,873 of leftist/liberal tolerance into evidence.”
Soldout

You pick and choose little examples of bias, but you would claim that Fox is fair and balanced, whereas you would claim the rest of the media is not fair or balanced.

Do you now you appear to be blowing smoke out your ass?

Who owns the radio and television media, William. Is it liberal organizations, or conservative businesses?

Mediumheadboy

Ah, but who actually *reports* the news? Is it conservatives, or left-wing douches who want to change the world?

You're dismissed.
Christopher_Taylor

This argument always makes me giggle. The attempt here is to pretend that actual biased reporting which is easy to find and identify somehow does not exist because news organizations are owned by companies. And, in this infantile argument, anyone who owns a company must be conservative.

Its like dealing with 4 year olds.
UFKA_Smithwick

Find a foxnews quote that is as blatantly biased as this.

Then prove that foxnews accounts for 51%+ of the media.

D-Vega

“Terrorist jab”

TheDickNixon

So CBS, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and CNN are right down the middle in their coverage, dufus?

Also, what network aired forged documents in a attempt to change the outcome of the 2004 POTUS election? Was it FOX?

Fail_Baby_Fail

I know in your world DICK fox is 50% left and 50% right but in the world the rest of the planet lives in, not so much.

FOX is hard right
Msnbc hard left
CNN for the most part shoots down the middle.
CBS,ABC and NBC I dont watch so I cant tell you.

Toastrider

Er… so he's wrong, because you've flagged two networks correctly, one incorrectly, and three 'no answer'?

Man, do you lose arguments with your dog too?

http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/C3IKAXMRVZNEU5BZKUD7LK6WBA Pete Moss

Hey William, you are complaining about an EDITORIAL COLUMN.

Perhaps you are unaware of this, but the editorial pages are the one place where partisanship is acceptable, expected even.

Much ado about nothing, from William on the bias beat. I guess, William, there couldn't possibly be conservative bias in the media, and that's why you don't bother to look for it?

Mediumheadboy

Wrong as usual, foreigner. The editorial pages SHOULD BE the one place where partisanship is acceptable, but so-called “journalists” decided long ago that partisanship is just fine as long as it's partisanship for the “correct” side. So once again, go fuck yourself.
UFKA_Smithwick

Well as long as they keep it to the editorial and don't secretly collude to push their leftwing agenda on the public.

They've never done that have they?
TheDickNixon

Yet you complain about Hannity, Beck, and O'Reilly, which are nothing more than commentary and editorializing the news in broadcast form.

Good to see your hypocrisy.

http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/C3IKAXMRVZNEU5BZKUD7LK6WBA Pete Moss

Absolutely agree about the names you mention, and the same applies to Stewart, Olberman, etc.

The difference with Fox is that it is the network's policy to shape the news, with daily strategies and repeated catchphrases under the direction of management Fox has a political agenda, as proclaimed by its owner. No other networks have such an agenda for the left.

UFKA_Smithwick

I noticed you're conveniently glossing over the whole journolist fiasco where they plan out how they're going to do exactly what you have falsely assigned to foxnews.
TheDickNixon

THe scary part is you believe this drivel. There is no proof of what you typed.

Nixon proved 14 months ago CNN got daily talking points from the White House. Carville and Company had daily phone talks with Rahm Emanuel. Daily. Phone. Calls. With. The. White. House.

Top that cock gobbler. And where are those returns? You remember Matthews said his job was to make this President succeed? Anyone on Fox News on the record saying their job is to make Obama fail, not that he hasn't already failed.
http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

The difference with CBS, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and CNN is that it is the network's policy to shape the news, with daily strategies and repeated catchphrases under the direction of management CBS, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and CNN has a political agenda, as proclaimed by its owner. No other networks have such an agenda for the right.

TFTFY, petey.

http://conservativebootcamp.com Martin Hale

Does that in any way ameliorate the absolutely tyrannical tone of his statement, Petey? I'll answer that since you're likely strong enough to answer it honestly – no, it doesn't.

You can try to deflect, spin and distract, but ultimately you can't avoid the truth that this is just one more leftist who can't tolerate people who don't subscribe to his vision of the world and who makes childish, over-inflated, spiteful and hateful comments from his bully pulpit in the media.

Under our Constitution he has the right to make such statements, just as others have the right to give right back to him and those who support him. But in the long run, it begs the question of whether it's good for any of us to let such a process fester within our midst. How long will it take for our free society of devolve into a playground brawl of screeching children, each determined to demand his rights despite what it's doing to us all collectively? We already have a whole segment of our society on both the left and the right who've reached that level. Including you with your “my way or the highway” statements.
UFKA_Smithwick

It is funny though how you will go off the deep end accusing the media of being right-wing, citing Hannity, Rush, Beck and other opinion based shows and editorials. But when the mainstream media prints something horribly biased then that doesn't count, because that's just their opinion.
Christopher_Taylor

Funny how it is when Fox News' editorial shows tend to the right, that's irrefutable proof that the station is completely biased and lying, but when a newspaper's opinion pieces always are hard left, that's of no particular significance.

UFKA_Smithwick

Anyone who still believes the media is either unbiased or runs a little to the right needs to have their heads examined.

There is no other way, in the face of all this evidence, to maintain such a belief other than via mental disorder.
D-Vega

Isn't it a rightwing bloodfeast?

UFKA_Smithwick

Keith Olbermann, is that you?

D-Vega

No, can't you see the difference in charm and intelligence?

Kingfisher

It's nice to see you're striving for something. Let us know when you achieve both.

D-Vega

It's nice to see you crawl out from your cowardly rock, Fish.

It's also nice to see you on a thread without making pedophillic references.
Kingfisher

It's nice to see you crawl out from your cowardly rock, Fish.

Gee Vega, did you think of that (snort) fantastic retort all by yourself or did your boyfriend help you?

Aww, so you missed me that much, huh? It's nice to know that I get under your skin. I'll await for your next “fantastic” response. Don't forget to remind us how wonderful you think you are. We could all use a good laugh.

It's also nice to see you on a thread without making pedophillic references.

Thanks for reminding me. Did you renew your NAMBLA membership as you stated you would awhile back? I'm glad that your conscience is affecting your pedophilia fantasies.
D-Vega

It's good to know we can count on you to be as repugnant as possible.

Christopher_Taylor

Do us a favor and look up the definition and origin of the term “bloodfeast” some time.

D-Vega

Okay. Why? Are you saying he meant it literally?

There is certainly enough redmeat at these things to be a bloodfeast. Why is that seem so offensive?

mightysamurai

So if I called you a “beaner” after I saw you eating beans for dinner, that would be okay with you?

D-Vega

Well, I guess if you were being super-literal, then yes. Why why would not offend me? I probably think it was quite funny, except for the beaner one. That's just wouldn't fit. Maybe “I know you Puerto Ricans love your rice and beans.”

Christopher_Taylor

Get back to us when you look up the origin and meaning.

UFKA_Smithwick

You really don't see describing an essentially a very popular and peaceful organization in such a manner (when they would never consider ascribing similar labels to for more radical and violent leftwing organizations) makes it difficult for us to believe they are completely unbiased?

If every political organization slightly out of the mainstream got the same treatment I'd say they are being hyperbolic and need to settle down, but are not necessarily biased.

But the fact that ONLY conservative groups get this treatment and liberal groups (even very radical ones) are given a complete pass suggests that perhaps they are biased. Just slightly.

D-Vega

Yes, I am only going to defend this so far, because basically it's true but as a reporter you are not supposed to do that.

UFKA_Smithwick

You have yet to explain how a peaceful rally in support of increasingly mainstream views is a “bloodfeast”.

Consider: Obama is quite literally the reincarnation of Hitler. Yes, the Adolph Hitler in flesh. This statement is basically true but I'm not going to be bothered to defend or justify it.

You would accept such an argument without question right?