{"id":25133,"date":"2015-03-10T12:37:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T16:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25133"},"modified":"2015-03-10T12:37:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T16:37:47","slug":"the-double-standard-at-work-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25133","title":{"rendered":"The Double Standard At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unfortunately the mainstream media in America has become the spokesperson for the Democrat<\/a> Party. Things are reported or not reported according to the impact they will have on the success of that party.<\/p>\n

On March 8, New York Magazine<\/a> posted a story about the problems at NBC<\/a> that led to the dismissal of Brian Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The story reports:<\/p>\n

Others complained about Williams\u2019s unwillingness to go after hard-hitting stories. Multiple sources told me that former NBC investigative reporters Michael Isikoff<\/a> and Lisa Myers<\/a> battled with Williams over stories. In February 2013, Isikoff failed to interest Williams in a piece about a confidential Justice Department memo that justified killing American<\/a> citizens with drones. He instead broke the story on Rachel Maddow<\/em>. That October, Myers couldn\u2019t get Williams to air a segment about how the White House knew as far back as 2010 that some people would lose their insurance policies under Obama\u00adcare. Frustrated, Myers posted the article on NBC\u2019s website,<\/a> where it immediately went viral. Williams relented and ran it the next night. \u201cHe didn\u2019t want to put stories on the air that would be divisive,\u201d a senior NBC journalist told me. According to a source, Myers wrote a series of scathing memos to then\u2013NBC senior vice-president Antoine Sanfuentes documenting how Williams suppressed her stories. \u00adMyers and Isikoff eventually left the network (and both declined to comment).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The actual definition of divisive is having a negative impact on a Democrat.<\/p>\n

Today Newsbusters<\/a> posted another example of how the American mainstream media works.<\/p>\n

Newsbusters explains:<\/p>\n

Despite the networks\u2019 eagerness to tout Democratic opposition to the GOP letter (the letter stating that the Senate should weigh in on any agreement with Iran), on two separate occasions the \u201cbig three\u201d completely ignored a letter penned by former Senator Ted Kennedy<\/a> (D-Mass.) written to the Soviet Union in 1983 aimed at undermining President Ronald Reagan<\/a>\u2019s nuclear negotiations with the Communist regime.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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…Kennedy\u2019s message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. \u201cThe only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations<\/a>,\u201d the memorandum stated. \u201cThese issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign.\u201d<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The Republicans who signed the letter are reminding the President of the Senate’s role in approving treaties. They are asking the President to respect the separation of powers in the U.S. Constitution<\/a>. Ted Kennedy was asking the Russians to get involved in an American election. It seems to me that the latter is much more significant than a reminder of how the U.S. Constitution works.<\/p>\n

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