Oh, the humanity!

Let's take these sweet little nothings one by one:

-"birthers":  The same media that spent untold hours of research, over 8 years, trying to prove that President Bush may have missed a few national guard meetings in the early 1970's, refuses to cover the fact that President Obama has spent a million bucks fighting the release of his birth certificate.  Some even claim that the "certification of live birth" he has trotted out is his real birth certificate, either because they are ignorant or lying to your face..  If it were Republican President Barack Obama, would the media be a tad more interested in why he fights to hard to keep this information from us, when a five minute telephone call to Hawaii's bureau of records and a processing fee of probably less than $20 would end the speculation right there?   

-"tea parties":  They were held all over the country, culminating in a major march on Washington DC that had anywhere from 70,000 to hundreds of thousands of participants.  By comparison, Cindy Sheehan, at the height of her notoriety, almost never had more than a couple of hundred people with her on the side of the road in Crawford, Texas - most days she barely had a dozen or two.  But it was Republican President George Bush she was going after, so Sheehan was front page news every day.

-"town halls":  People - most of them coming from their homes as individual citizens, not sent by the union or a soros-backed organization,  protesting across the country, and media resent having to cover it?  They think it's a right wing plot?  That's too bad.

-"ACORN" - which even calderone and allen admit is "scandal-plagued", and which has gotten tens and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, with the possibility of literally billions more from the so-called "stimulus package" - is caught aiding and abetting illegal activity, including the prostitution of underage illegals from central American.  And that's not a news story, just some right wing flight of fancy?  If ACORN were procuring Republican votes intead of Democratic votes, would they be so quick to bury it?

-"The speech...to schoolchildren":  This speech was supplemented by Department of Education recommendations for teachers to follow which elevated President Obama to unique status among all Presidents (he was the only one even mentioned by name to study or discuss).  If that were Republican President Obama, would they have reported it?

-"van jones":  One of 32 unvetted "czars" appointed by President Obama who run major parts of government and answer to no one but him - and unbelievably unfit for the job he was handed.  If Republican President George Bush had ever tried to create a stealth government-within-a-government like this, with "czars" like van jones, would he not have been mercilessly attacked by the press?

Don't you find it interesting - and sickening - that all Calderone and Allen can glean from this is that the right wing is making some political points?  Don't you find it interesting - and sickening - that there is no understanding that if "the right" is covering these stories more it is due 100% to their NOT being covered by the mainstream media? 

Wouldn't you think this would trouble Calderone and Allen a bit?  Maybe a lot?

Well, now you know better.

And it is for this reason that they are as shamelessly biased as the mainstream media their piece gives a free pass to.

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One other thing:  Calderone and Allen say this about Fox News:

While liberals may dismiss Fox, the network clearly dominates cable news -- often beating both MSNBC and CNN combined in prime-time.

No guys, Fox doesn't "often" beat MSNBC and CNN combined in prime time.  Except for very rare occasions it ALWAYS beats MSNBC and CNN combined in prime time.  In fact, on average it comes close to doubling MSNBC and CNN combined in prime time.

Since you didn't bother to do the minute or two of research that would have given you this information, I did it for you.  Here are the latest data from www.mediabistro.com.  Read them and see the real story:

The Scoreboard: Monday, September 14

By Chris Ariens on Sep 15, 2009 04:57 PM

25-54 demographic: (L +SD)

Total day: FNC: 457 | CNN: 176 | MSNBC: 145 | HLN: 170

Prime: FNC: 813 | CNN: 228 | MSNBC: 224 | HLN: 228

	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:
FNC	Beck:	Baier:	Shep:	O'Reilly:	Hannity:	Greta:	O'Reilly:
	734	494	454	1026	793	614	547
CNN	Blitzer:	Blitzer:	Dobbs:	Brown:	King:	Cooper:	Cooper:
	178	121	175	204	207	270	296
MSNBC	Matthews:	EdShow:	Matthews:	Olbermann:	Maddow:	Olbermann:	Maddow:
	184	204	177	296	188	188	138
HLN	Prime:	Prime:	Issues:	Grace:	Issues:	Grace:	Showbiz:
	138	178	195	335	179	190	297

Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:
FNC	Beck:	Baier:	Shep:	O'Reilly:	Hannity:	Greta:	O'Reilly:
	3085	2238	2005	3778	2919	2394	1733
CNN	Blitzer:	Blitzer:	Dobbs:	Brown:	King:	Cooper:	Cooper:
	706	625	648	651	1030	825	783
MSNBC	Matthews:	EdShow:	Matthews:	Olbermann:	Maddow:	Olbermann:	Maddow:
	603	628	568	1032	947	536	408
HLN	Prime:	Prime:	Issues:	Grace:	Issues:	Grace:	Showbiz:
	358	456	546	936	595	504	623

Does it occur to you fellas that the reason Fox predominates is not just because it is covering these stories and the other guys aren't.  It is because a lot of people feel they are major stories that should be covered and Fox is the only network doing so?

Think about it.