Disrupting the Narrative of the New Left, its allies in Academia, Hollywood and the Establishment Media, and examining with honesty the goals of cultural Marxism and the dangers of reactionary and abusive political correctness.
THE NARRATIVE AND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
“Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.”-George Orwell
I am shocked, shocked that the guy who sat in Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years would defend Islamic violence by attacking Christianity.
— Razor (@hale_razor) February 5, 2015
Should anyone be surprised that C.Kyle used word "savages" when referring to AQ in Iraq given what we've now witnessed?
@MonicaCrowley next
— martha maccallum (@marthamaccallum) February 5, 2015
Fox News once again found itself at the very top of Public Policy Polling's annual survey of the most trusted news networks in America. A whopping 35% of those polled trust Fox News more than any other television news outlet. Fox even embarrassed second place. PBS earned that spot with only 14%.
Bringing up the rear are ABC (11%), CNN (9%), CBS (6%), and in dead last with a three-way tie at 3% are NBC, MSNBC, and Comedy Central.
While Fox News also ranks at the top of the "least trusted" television news networks, the "Fair and Balanced" network only earns that title by 33% of those surveyed. That is a stunning failure for the legions dedicated to marginalizing Fox --which includes Media Matters and all the rest of the mainstream media. MSNBC wins 19% of "least trusted," followed by Comedy Central (11%), CNN (5%), and the rest.
When asked about trusting or not trusting individual networks. Fox News came in second to PBS with 44/42. CNN stayed even at 40/40 -- proving once again that the "Most Trusted Name In News" is not.
MSNBC came in dead last and upside down with a brutal 34/44.
This is the fifth year PPP has conducted this survey and the fifth year Fox News has come out on top.
In separate attacks a month apart, Islamist terrorists made it clear that they believed they acted in the name of their religion, exacting vengeance for their fellow Muslims. Yet several media pockets have gone into overdrive to deflect attention from that Islamist motivation.
Still carrying the weapons that killed British soldier Lee James Rigby in his bloody hands, Michael Adebolajo explained why he attacked an unarmed man on a London street Wednesday: "We swear by Almighty Allah, we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone. The only reasons we killed this man is because Muslims are dying daily. This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. We apologize that woman had to see this today, but in our lands our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your government. They don't care about you."
The New York Times omitted reference to the attacker's invocation of Allah, relegating it to page A7. ABC, NBC and CBS similarly omitted the Islamic reference.
Media Matters for America went further, accusing Fox News of "Islamophobia," for comments about the attackers' motivations. The liberal organization made no reference to the attackers' own words, but emphasized condemnations of the attack from British Muslim leaders. Commentator Michelle Malkin was singled out in the Media Matters post for saying the videotaped attacker was "quoting chapter and verse, sura and verse, from the Quran the justification for beheading an innocent solider there, and of course they've targeted civilians as well."
In fact, that's exactly what Adebolajo did. "But we are forced by the Qur'an, in Sura At-Tawba, through many ayah in the Qu'ran, we must fight them as they fight us."
Yet Media Matters cites Malkin's comments as an example of Fox's "Islamophobia."
Rich Ferraro's title at GLAAD is VP of Communications. He is the head of his department, for what that's worth. I have some advice I would like to offer so that he can do a better job from now on.
Before you make an attempt to "communicate" you really should have a clue as to what is going on. A good first step would be to communicate with the other departments of your own organization. For instance, if Ferraro had taken the time to check with Marc Honaker over in Development about the guest list for their annual awards banquet (held last weekend) he would have saved himself quite a bit of humiliation this weekend.
Fox News anchors Kimberly Guilfoyle ("The Five") and Jamie Colby ("America’s News HQ") attended the event and posed for a picture. Seeing this picture from the event caused Rich Ferraro to throw a hissy. He issued the following statement to Equality Matters, the LGBT arm of Media Matters for America:
If Kimberly and Jamie expect to attend future GLAAD events, they will first need to sit down with us to discuss Fox News' embarrassing, biased and misinformed coverage of LGBT issues. The invitation is open. Fox News's track record on LGBT issues is abysmal, and it makes no sense to me why any LGBT people or allies would want to be a part of that.
Rich Ferraro
In addition to posting Ferraro's statement, Equality Matters did what everybody associated with MMFA does: obsess about the pure evil that is Fox News. Of course, none of the thoughtcrimes they listed had anything to do with Guilfoyle or Colby. But guilt by association is the bedrock of MMFA's strategy, as it is with most of the Left. The implication was that Guilfoyle and Colby were little more than party crashers who had no business being there at all. How dare those huzzies crash our party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As intended, the statement made headlines. And that's when Ferraro's embarrassment happened. TVNewser had obtained an email from GLAAD director of creative development Marc Honaker urging a current FNC staffer to "ask [Roger] Ailes or Suzanne [Scott] to buy a table for FNC." Honaker, who once worked for Bill O'Reilly's show, said in the email that Colby and Guilfoyle had expressed an interest in attending the banquet, writing, "We'd love to have lots of FNCers!" Oops! Awkward...
Once this evidence hit the internet it wasn't long before Ferraro was forced to calm himself and issue another statement, this time to Huffington Post:
"My earlier statement was a reaction to FOX News' coverage of LGBT people and not any individual journalists. A GLAAD executive did invite Kimberly and Jamie to the GLAAD Media Awards, and we were happy to have them, with the belief that they signaled a change in the way Fox News would cover LGBT issues. But the next day, we had a flurry of reports that Fox News let anti-gay activist Tony Perkins make the false and dangerous claim on national television that 'evidence' shows that being gay is 'overwhelmingly negative to both the individual and society.'
It was not my intention to offend Kimberly or Jamie. Part of our work at GLAAD is to raise awareness and visibility of allies from all walks of life, particularly among the growing number of conservatives who support LGBT people, and we look forward to working with voices like Kimberly, Jamie, and any other allies at FOX News to accomplish that."
He mentioned Guilfoyle and Colby by name and yet he claims that he didn't intend to offend them... Umm, okay. Well at least it's nice to know that they are now official friends and allies.
