Joe Dan Gorman, Chuck Norris’ bodyguard, recaps the incestuous relationships between the Obama Administration and the noodling Alphabet Soup networks — ABC, CBS and NBC, as well as CNN. In this edition of Intellectual Froglegs, Joe Dan also blasts the bureaucrats in Washington who’ve thrown obstacles in the way of America achieving energy independence. Forward-thinking governors should defy these fruitbats.
Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of murdering babies born alive. “However, most networks didn’t report on the Gosnell trial,” says Jodi Miller. “They were already too busy ignoring Benghazi to find time to cover it.” In this edition of NewsBusted, Miller also touches on the IRS’ growing scandal involving illegal harassment of conservative groups, the Justice Department snooping on the Associated Press and Elizabeth Colbert Busch’s defeat in her South Carolina Congressional race.
MSNBC and other liberal outfits now acknowledge that the Boston bombers were motivated by religion. “Of course,” says Jodi Miller, “they’re still not saying which religion.” In this edition of NewsBusted, she also touches on the US tax code, tycoon Warren Buffett and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Internet search engine Google has been accused of meddling in international politics after it unilaterally decided to replace the term ‘Palestinian Territories’ with ‘Palestine’ on the Palestinian Google search page.
The left-wing media still keeping quiet on the Kermit Gosnell abortion trial. So why is the left keeping mum on a story tailor made for primetime coverage? Zo thinks the media is in denial to protect their pro-choice agenda. Hear more on this ZoNation. H/T PJTV
Imagine you’re a pot reporter. Pot as in weed, marijuana, bud. What could possibly go wrong when you cover a drug that is legally contentious but widely tolerated? Reporter Michael Montgomery finds out the hard way.
CNN’s Candy Crowley on Sunday started to say that deceased Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev had posted “Islamic videos” online before apologizing and calling them “terrorist videos.” “We know that both the CIA and the FBI were told by Russia, their counterparts, ‘You got to look at this guy, we think he’s been radicalized. We think he’s a terrorist,’” the State of the Union host told panelists. “Then we have the fact that up came these, at some point after a trip to Russia and before it, up came Islamic videos — or, I’m sorry, terrorist videos on his website. … At least one department, Homeland Security I believe, knew he’d either come or gone to Russia. And he’s putting up, you know, in praise of terrorism. Why in the world didn’t anybody think, oh, wait, this is a danger sign?”
UCLA ethnomusicology professor Tim Taylor talks with Kennedy from Reason.TV about the rise of music in radio advertising and the early days of television. Taylor is the author of a book — The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music and the Conquest of Culture.
From the early days of radio through the rise of television after World War II to the present, music has been used more and more often to sell goods and establish brand identities. And since at least the 1920s, songs originally written for commercials have become popular songs, and songs written for a popular audience have become irrevocably associated with specific brands and products. Today, musicians move flexibly between the music and advertising worlds, while the line between commercial messages and popular music has become increasingly blurred.
The news media has espoused some truly bizarre theories regarding the possible motives of the Boston Marathon bombers. But NPR Correspondent Dina Temple-Raston takes the cake by citing all the reasons that righties love terrorizing Americans in April, not the least of which — to observe Adolf Hitler’s birthday!
