The Washington Examiner
May 14, 2012
Romney "bully" claims much ado about nothing
The Washington Post is shamelessly campaigning for President Obama with the Mitt Romney hate crime hit piece for attacking a boy who bleached his hair in high school. I bleached my hair blonde when I was in Junior high school in Downey, Calif. 10 years before Romney's incident, and my gym teacher called me "fruitcake." I didn't know there were any gay people, and I don't think the teacher knew that either.
Anyway, my hair came out orange, I was in a club called the "Lynx" at school, we had jackets, and my girlfriend wore my jacket to show we were going steady. Even when I went on to high school as a track and cross country jock, we didn't know anything about gay people in the 50's.
President Obama is distracting from his gay marriage endorsement, by playing the dirtiest of politics, through his biased media, and this is just the beginning.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, Calif.
San Bernardino Sun
January 1, 2012
Payroll tax fiasco
It's certainly not surprising that the Democrat-controlled Senate and Republican political chumps kicked back the House bill to extend the payroll tax cut for one year, with a Senate bill to cut the extension for only two months. That's what Democrats and last-minute spoilers do to direct blame where it doesn't belong.
Indeed, President Obama's feigned attempt to say that he wants the tax cut extended for one year is nothing more than an election-year distraction from what he really wants - the end of the Bush tax cuts in 2013, which will surely bring on further damage to the economy.
Political machinations in a presidential election year are expected. However, when it's so deceitful and reckless that it has far-reaching effects on our economy and security - as it has over the past three years - it is not only unconscionable, it is mass malfeasance.
Worse, when the liberal media sells its journalistic soul and objective integrity to be biased political mouthpieces and campaign supporters for the Democrat Party and President Obama, the public watchdogs are only loyal to an ideology that feeds them, which is tantamount to being un-American.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley
New York Post
November 12, 2011
Testing Cain's character: harassment from the left
The biased, liberal media are doing a Clarence Thomas-style political lynching of Cain, similar to the demonization of Newt Gingrich.
It’s what Democrats do against their most dangerous opponents.
I would like to see a Gingrich/Cain Republican ticket to restore America.
Daniel Jeffs
Apple Valley Calif.
New York Times
Sunday Dialogue
July 24, 2011
Lessons from the tabloid scandal
The liberal news media’s assault against Rupert Murdoch, in Britain and the United States, is clearly politically motivated. Its primary goal is to damage the Fox News channel for the 2012 elections.
DANIEL B. JEFFS
Apple Valley, Calif., July 21, 2011
Washington Post
February 27, 2011
Qaddafi, Gaddafi, Kadafi, or Kadafy?
With all the media coverage of the Libyan revolt against the terrorist/despot, Qadaffi, they can't seem to agree on the spelling of his name. Webster's dictionary and Wikipedia list his name as, Muammar al-Gaddafi. The New York Times has listed his name as el-Qaddafi, the Associated Press as Moammar Gadhafi, and the Los Angeles Times as Moammar Kadafi to cite a few, while others name him as Kadhafi, Kaddafi. Momar Kadafy and my spell check, as Khadafy. Maybe he should just be Also Known As: QGKdaffy.
Indeed, credibility seems to be lacking if journalists can't get a major figure's name correctly. Particularly, when the person is responsible for the murders of so many innocent people. Iraq's murderous dictator, Saddam Hussein notwithstanding, there are also been reported differences in al-Qaeda's terrorist leader's name: Osama & Usama bin Laden. The FBI's most wanted lists him a Usama bin Laden, while a dictionary lists his full name: Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden.
Regardless, they all represent brutal evils against humanity and should be identified by their correct names as such.
Los Angeles Times
Opinion L.A.
October 27, 2010
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS and NPR are unconstitutional
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 set up public broadcasting in the United States, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and eventually the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR).
When Lyndon B. Johnson signed the act into law on November 7, 1967, he described its purpose: "It announces to the world that our Nation wants more than just material wealth; our Nation wants more than a "chicken in every pot." We in America have an appetite for excellence, too. While we work every day to produce new goods and to create new wealth, we want most of all to enrich man's spirit. That is the purpose of this act."
"More concretely: It will give a wider and, I think, stronger voice to educational radio and television by providing new funds for broadcast facilities. It will launch a major study of television's use in the Nation's classrooms and their potential use throughout the world. Finally — and most important — it builds a new institution: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting."
Congress and President Johnson crossed the constitutional line with this Act for one reason only. To promote the liberal/progressive culture and politically correct ideology in the press and public education to exclusion of all others. That unconscionable abuse of power and influence is widely evident in PBS, NPR and our throughout schools. The firing of NPR political reporter and analyst, Juan Williams is clear and convincing evidence that Mr. Williams was fired for being politically incorrect and associating himself with Fox News as a contributor.
"Congress shall make no law….abridging….the freedom of speech, or of the press…." So says the First Amendment, which means Congress shall make no law, including the establishment or funding of any press.
Therefore, The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, which includes the establishment of The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, should be repealed as unconstitutional, and congressional funding should end.
Riverside Press Enterprise
August 8, 2009
Lament lost trust
With the loss of Walter Cronkite -- and other news anchors with objective integrity who kept their ideology to themselves -- the liberal media betrayed their responsibility to free-press journalism and the American people, and trust was lost ("America loses its anchor, 'the most trusted man,' " July 18).
If the media's blind allegiance to Barack Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress continues, they will surely run our country all the way into social, political and economic ruin.
As Cronkite said at the conclusion of his news broadcasts, "That's the way it is." Indeed, "the way it was" was far better than the way it is. I miss the comfort of trust that he imbued.
Dan B. Jeffs
Apple Valley
The way it was better than the way it is
By Daniel B. Jeffs, founder DDC
July 21, 2009
With the loss of Walter Cronkite -- and other news anchors with objective integrity who kept their ideology to themselves -- the trust was lost and the liberal media went on a run to betray their responsibility to free-press journalism and the American people. If their blind allegiance to Barack Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress continues, together they will surely run our country all the way into social, political and economic ruin.
As Cronkite said at the conclusion of his news broadcasts, "That's the way it is." Indeed, the way it was, was far better than the way it is. Sadly, I miss the comfort of trust he imbued.
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Author: Alexandra Kitty, Robert Greenwald (Introduction)
Publisher: The Disinformation Company
April 2005
DDC review:
After watching the DVD, the book was not any more revealing of the
media-left's personal attacks on FOX, et al. In fact, both are outright hate
pieces depicting themselves looking in the mirror, challenged by truth and
unable to handle the fact that the left won the war against journalsim.
Dissing the tea parties
The Press-Enterprise
Riverside, CA
April 18, 2009
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The Daily Press
April 20, 2009
Bias pervades media
The left-wing media establishment attacked or ignored the tax day "tea parties" because the media are a product of the liberal schools of journalism and most of the nation's secular-progressive colleges and universities -- condescending and dismissive of anything opposed to their ideology.
Contrary to popular belief, the First Amendment is not exclusive to the left, and real journalism is not dead. I am thankful that we have objective local and regional newspapers, the fair and balanced Fox News Channel and others looking out for us.
If it were not for the far-left tyrannies and entitlement-driven government, there would be very little media-driven hate and discontent in America. I shudder to think of what it would be like without the truth.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley, CA
Press Enterprise
July 18, 2008
Snow leaves a void
I was deeply saddened by Tony Snow's passing ("Journalist embraced press secretary role," July 13).
I knew he was a good man the first time I listened to him filling in for Rush Limbaugh. Since then, he was the only political commentator who held my full, undivided attention.
He spoke the honest, educated truth. He was the human bright spot in a dark, phony business. I sorely miss him.
Daniel B. Jeffs
Apple Valley
The news and entertainment media are dangerous to your health
The media (newspapers, newsmagazine, television news, book publishers and the entertainment industry) are dangerous to public health. Why? Because most of what people know about what is going on outside their personal lives, they learn from the media. And the vast majority of the media are of the liberal, environmentalist, big government, socialist persuasion as opposed to conservative, limited government, pro-business, free market ideology. In other words, Democrats as opposed to Republicans.
Ordinarily, there would be nothing wrong with opposing ideas, as long as there are reasonable elements to healthy debate. But it's not working that way because the media are one-sided and essentially irresponsible, which makes them dangerous to all Americans.
It's bad enough when the media participates in the social engineering of society, constantly releases unreliable studies about health, corrupts young people with amoral entertainment, and does little if anything to turn around the failure of public education. Indeed, our schools have been turned into factories of ignorance and warehouses of violence.
But when the media blindly oppose our actions in Iraq and the war against terrorism, and they are instrumental in supporting extreme environmentalism to the degree of putting our energy producing capacity at increasing risk. And they oppose our attempts protect our oil import interests by stabilizing the Middle East -- regardless of the fact that it's better to fight terrorism there than here on our soil -- they put our country in danger of further terrorist attacks and economic collapse, which is simply unconscionable and tantamount to treason.
Public opinion is falsely created by media and transmitted to the public with selective, manipulated, invalid and unreliable polls -- ignoring the underlying opinion of the true majority. Unfortunately, the media has a single purpose in mind. To make President Bush, his administration and the Republican Party look so bad, that the Democratic Party can gain control of the presidency and Congress in the next two elections, at any cost -- which is dangerous to America's health.
Considering the events of the last half of the 20th century to the present, the people would be much better off with truth and balance in the media, without a superficial society of selfish interests and extremes, and without the two-party system. Our only hope may rest with the proliferation of communications and information via the Internet, nonpartisan elections, and much more democracy. Indeed, our survival may very well depend on it.
Daniel B. Jeffs, founder
DDC
January 5, 2006
Surprise! UCLA study finds "A Measure of Media Bias"
(18 of 20 major news media outlets are left of center)
UCLA Policital Science Professor Tim Groseclose
Groseclose appeared on C-Span Washington Journal
January 5, 2006
http://www.polisci.ucla.edu/faculty/groseclose/Media.Bias.pdf
Los Angeles Times replaces left-wing columnist, Robert Sheer with a more radical leftist, and America hater, Joel Stein. The Times' attempt at commentary balance is feeble at best. Here's an example:
Warriors and wusses
By Joel Stein
Los Angeles Times Op-Ed page
January 24, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-stein24jan24,1,9515.column
Visit American Digest at: http://www.americandigest.com for a response to Joel Stein's poison...
Saddam's Terror Training Camps
What the documents captured from the Iraqi regime reveal -- and why they should all be made public
By Stephen F. Hayes
Senior Writer
Weekly Standard -- January 16, 2006 issue cover story
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/550kmbzd.asp
Good news in Iraq
Published in the Washington Times
December 5, 2005
Making a big deal out of our Defense Department paying for feeding good news to the press in Iraq to counter bad news from insurgents is blatantly hypocritical, particularly when it comes from a free press rife with bias against any good news about the conflict in Iraq.
Staff Writer, Adrienne Ziegler and our local newspaper, the Daily Press, should be commended for providing readers with some rare good news from Iraq ("Fort Irwin officer speaks from Iraq" Victor Valley Daily Press November 20, 2005).
Re: Today's debate ...war was a mistake
USA TODAY November 16, 2005
War in Iraq and against terror a mistake?
It is disappointing to see how USA TODAY caved-in to the propaganda machine of the left-leaning news media, by joining the partisan political dispute undermining the efforts in Iraq and the war against terror.
Re: "Duty under siege"
By Tim Rutten
Regarding Media
L.A. Times Calendar section
November 12, 2005
Tim Rutten's defense of journalists is one thing. However, when responsible journalists are overcome by irresponsible partisanship and arrogance, it is a matter of deep public concern.
Letter to Meet the Press
November 13, 2005
The media's scary business
Since the election and re-election of President Bush, Tim Russert has betrayed his commendable journalistic signature of fairness and objectivity in favor of partisan interviews and reporting. His confrontational interview with King Abdullah of Jordon and his biased interview of Republican RNC chairman, Ken Mehlman on Meet the Press, November 13, 2005, are cases in point.
Attention: Brian Williams, Tim Russert, Chris Matthews and Laurel Erickson:
I worry about NBC News
October 16, 2005
I have been an avid news consumer for many years, and I am deeply concerned citizen troubled by the evolution of the news media
Re: Regarding Media: "It's hard to feel bad for Gerlado"
By Tim Rutten
L.A. Times Calendar section
September 17, 2005
L.A. Times Media critic Tim Rutten's commentary, "It's hard to feel bad for Geraldo," highlighted his venomous bias and hatred for Fox News, while minimizing New York Times TV critic, Alesandra Stanley's lie about Fox reporter
Re: "Maher strives to level the field"
By Paul Brownfield
L.A. Times Calendar September 16, 2005
Maher strives to slant the field, further left
Re: "Why don't we all have a recall"
By Bill Maher
L.A. Times Opinion September 9, 2005
(curiously missing from the L.A. Times website, or there would be a link to the commentary)
Recall Bill Maher
Bill Maher's feeble hatchet work about recalling President Bush is not cute, not satire, not funny, and it's certainly not political commentary...
Re: American Caesar: Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned
by Rosa Brooks
L.A. Times commentary September3, 2005
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-brooks3sep03,0,7334703.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions
Who is Rosa Brooks?
Rosa Brooks' "American Caesar," comparing President Bush and the hurricane disaster in New Orleans to Emperor Nero's burning of Rome, is undoubtedly one of the most shallow commentaries the L.A. Times has recently published.
Cindy Sheehan, Bush and Iraq
The left-elite news media are not interested in Cindy Sheehan as the
grieving mother of a son killed in Iraq who has been wronged by the evil
Bush administration ("Vacaville speaks," Inside Politics, Nation,
Wednesday).
Washington Times
August 13, 2005
Founder's letter published in the Washington Times
May 19, 2005
Newsweek's blunders send troubling message
L.A.Time Editorial Page Editor Commended
Andres Martinez was appointed Los Angeles Times Editorial Page Editor in
September 2004. His commentary, "Filibuster Doubletalk" is important, worth
reading, and a welcome, objective departure from the left-leaning op-ed
pages of the newspaper.
FILIBUSTER DOUBLETALK
By Andres Martinez, editor of the editorial page
Los Angeles Times April 6, 2005
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-martinez6apr06,1,429278.column
...The filibuster goes too far in upsetting the balance struck by the Constitution and empowering an obstructionist minority. Surely the founders didn't intend for the Senate's "advice and consent" review of presidential nominees to require a supermajority.