LIBERAL MEDIA LOWERS BAR ON ITSELF

Identifying what the mainstream - liberal - media is doing with respect to John Patrick Bedell, the now deceased whack job who shot two police officers at one of the entrances to the Pentagon, is beyond despicable. In fact, it's so despicable there may not even be a word for it. In any case, tying the actions of a nutcase like Bedell to the Tea Party movement or conservatives is bad enough but doing so despite the fact that Bedell was a registered Democrat is just plain evil.

Yes, the liberal media seems to be chomping at the bit to deem Bedell a "Tea-bagger" to the point that some outlets - Christian Science Monitor and ABC's GMA - are apparently now willing to lie in order to create that reality. Michelle Malkin has more on Bedell, the Democrat Right Wing Extremist.

The Christian Science Monitor reported:

John Patrick Bedell, whom authorities identified as the gunman in the Pentagon shooting on Thursday, appears to have been a right-wing extremist with virulent antigovernment feelings.

If so, that would make the Pentagon shooting the second violent extremist attack on a federal building within the past month. On Feb. 18, Joseph Stack flew a small aircraft into an IRS building in Austin, Texas. Mr. Stack left behind a disjointed screed in which, among other things, he expressed his hatred of the government.

Not only does CSM do all it can to tie Bedell, a Bush-hating, 9/11 Truther Democrat to the Tea Party movement but just for good measure, they throw Joseph Stack into the mix as well. Stack was also a Bush-hater whose writings indicated he rejected capitalism and embraced communism.

Yet, the MSM wants to create an entirely different reality by registering both Stack and Bedell as dead registered Tea Party members.

It doesn't end there. Good Morning America had a segment this week in which interviewer Bill Weir used Janet Napolitano's DHS Right Wing Extremism Report as a prop, holding it up for viewers while asking former FBI agent Brad Garrett about the Pentagon shooting and the dangers of Right Wing Extremists like Bedell, a registered Democrat.



h/t to NewsBusters for the video

BIGGEST STORY OF 2009

Great piece at the American Spectator by Jeffrey Lord. Yes, the MSM has been conspicuously absent on so many huge stories but in 2009, the void they left began getting filled by a virtual newsroom, consisting of bloggers, talk radio hosts, and a smattering of opinion shows on cable (Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, etc). ACORN, Van Jones, Climategate, et. al. The MSM dropped the ball beginning with the Obama ascendancy but the ball has been picked up.

If you doubt, ask ACORN. Or Van Jones. Or the So We Might See campaign. You won't need Time magazine's once clout-filled "Man of the Year" issue to figure it out, either. Just take a look back at the bestseller lists, the ratings of Fox News or simply turn on your local AM radio dial.

The single most important news event of 2009 was the emergence of The Virtual Newsroom. A newsroom run by a virtual army of conservative journalists famous and unknown, their individual and collective impact multiplied exponentially by millions of Internet users, radio listeners, readers and television viewers.

How did this happen? How does it work in practice?

First, perspective is needed here. Like other big news events, it didn't happen overnight. There is history, lots of it.

Be sure to read the WHOLE THING. For those who may be inclined to despair over a seemingly insurmountable media establishment and corrupt government, Lord provides some much needed - dare I say it - Hope.

h/t to AS