Not content with controlling donut, soft drink, salt and slurpee consumption,  New York Mayor Bloomberg shifts his focus to things of a more, well, personal nature when he proclaimed – “Hospitals Should Lock Up Baby Formula To Force Women To Breastfeed”.

New Yorkistan City – Starting Sept. 3, the city will keep tabs on the number of bottles that  participating hospitals stock and use — the most restrictive pro-breast-milk  program in the nation.

Under the city Health Department’s voluntary Latch On NYC initiative, 27 of  the city’s 40 hospitals have also agreed to give up swag bags sporting  formula-company logos, toss out formula-branded tchotchkes like lanyards and  mugs, and document a medical reason for every bottle that a newborn  receives. (more…)

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It has become well established that the Corporate Media, as it exists today, no longer focuses on objective “reporting”, but serves solely as a high priced conduit for editorializing a particular point of view or Agenda.  Even the “News” pages are mere fig leaves for proselytizing the mantra that is au courant.

A recent example of this egregious behavior is in the rush by the Progressive Left to politicize the shooting in Aurora, CO as the work of the “Tea Party”.  Disingenuously,   Brian Ross of ABC News “reported” (/sarc/) that the alleged shooter was a “Tea Party” member, and nationally “outed” on live camera a local resident and Tea Party activist.

Except that Brian Ross was wrong.  Very, very wrong.  And if he knew – he didn’t care – he rushed to live camera to breathlessly report what was an acute error.  And hopefully – a very expensive one for ABC News.

Graphic: h/t UnAmusement Park blog

There is no “correction“, no “mea culpa” that can help you recover from that.  Once again, the Corporate Media was unmasked as not a “News” agency, but as a Propaganda Outlet.

Want to know why Newsweek was sold for a $1?  Why Microsoft disentangled itself from the failing MSNBC franchise?  Why the head of the flailing CNN stepped down?  Why do many local convenience stores no longer even stock the “newspapers”? (more…)

Prog Singers / Hollywood Progs – Are some of the most stupid progs alive….  

This story is so typical of ‘Hollyprogs’ it’s almost funny.   Almost.

Singer Madonna recently called French National Front leader Marine Le Pen a “Nazi,” because of her views on immigration.  (Marine Le Pen is essentially most easily described as a French version of Sarah Palin)

In typical prog fashion Madonna only knows the Hollyprog talking points and is insufferably waddling around in the shallow end of the geopolitical gene pool near her ex-hubby Sean Penn.    Hollyprogs love to talk about warm and fuzzy stuff like “open borders” regarding immigration, as if people of the world can just go on life long walkabout until they find a country they like, then just pitch their tent. (more…)

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The frustrating thing from my truthseeker perspective is the seeming unwillingness of the media sorts to ask the obvious question:   Why change attorneys between the arrest/bonding ($1000) hearing and the plea?   What happened?

HatTip arkansasmimi  ORLANDO – Shellie Zimmerman says she’s not guilty of perjury.  Her new attorney, Kelly B. Sims, today filed paperwork, entering that plea on her behalf. That means that she won’t have to show up at the Seminole County criminal building Tuesday for arraignment.

Zimmerman, 25, is accused of lying when she told Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester Jr., while under oath, that she and her husband were broke.

At the time, prosecutors allege they had ready access to $130,000, money donated by supporters of her husband, murder defendant George Zimmerman.

Friday was the first time Sims, a board-certified criminal-trial specialist, was identified as Shellie Zimmerman’s lawyer. The Orlando attorney has been practicing in Florida for more than 20 years and has worked on high-profile cases in the past. (more…)

Product consumption relies on two things…. a producer who makes a product, and a consumer who consumes the product.    In relation to the news as a product the American consumer is static, unchanged, and consistent –  A “Center-Right” majority.  

It is the left-wing product CNN is selling which few consumers actually want.   Unless they change their product nothing will change.    Unfortunately, they are constitutionally incapable of seeing how out of touch, and unwanted, their product is.  They are PROGS!

The evidence of this disconnect is right there in the words of the quitting Jim Walton. 

He believes the product is “centrist”.   His product contains the ideology of: Christiane Amanpour, Brooke Baldwin, Roland Martin, Robin Meade, Soledad O’Brien, Don Lemon, Fareed Zakaria, Piers Morgan, Anderson Cooper and others….  Yet, Jim Walton BELIEVES the product is “centrist”…  typical prog disconnect.

NEW YORK — CNN chief Jim Walton said Friday he is quitting, saying the company needs new leadership at a time its flagship U.S. network is suffering through some of its poorest ratings ever.

Walton built the company into a profitable international news organization in his 10 years as president of CNN Worldwide, and said it is on track for record profits this year. But the U.S. network is the most visible part of the business and is now entrenched in third place behind rivals Fox News Channel and MSNBC in prime time. (more…)

If you give birth to a child, give him food at times, or not; do the minimum required to get by without having yourself exposed to the Department Of Children and Family Services; and essentially, as he grows, do nothing with that child except to dispatch him to a place where you are not bothered by that child….. This is the outcome.

Wash.Rinse.Repeat.

There are hundreds of thousands, perhaps MILLIONS of these children now in various stages of youth and young adulthood.   Here is a summary of their recent 3 month activity:

Walking – Punched out dead  —–      Shot Walking   —–   Delivering Pizza Stabbed 50 x

Shot Jogging while white   —-    Shot Delivering Pizza    —   Beaten Swimming while white

Delivering Chicken Wings   —–   Knock out Game       ——-   Walking While White

Walking White  Knock out ——-  Stabbed while shopping — 76 YOA HomeInvasion/Rape

They show up on page 5 or 6 of the newspaper during their capture for playing the “Knock Out Game”, or shooting people for “Thrill Kills”, or if people accidentally talk to them they jump out of the car and shoot.    They rape little girls during their adolescence, smash bricks in the faces of others as teens, enjoy lighting people on fire while they are alive, and perhaps order a pizza or chinese food to shoot the delivery man for a U-Tube video.  Then you have the random “cap-a-joggers-ass” for jogging while white, or smash faces with bricks for more giggles.   They develop alternate monikers like No-Limit-Nigga, and if you exit your vehicle during your drive time amid their presence you are requesting a beating.

If you describe the grown up version of the pre-schooler in the above video honestly you are labeled a racist.   But if put your head down and ignore you risk becoming a victim.  A tenuous choice. (more…)

Constitutionally hypocritical gay-progs plan to disrupt Chick-fil-A restaurants by taking over the restaurants and kissing, making out, and slobbering all over each other to punish the business and disgust the patrons while teaching them some kind of lesson in forced tolerance….. or, something.

I.Hate.Progs.   All of them.   Constitutionally incapable of seeing how insufferably stupid it is to demand people respect their views, while simultaneously refusing to accept anyone who does not agree with their personal lifestyle. 

I hope all the non-prog gay people can fire back a little at the way this is being carried out.   If you stay silent you are no better than the “moderate” muslims watching the beheading.  Hopefully Rahm Emanuel (Chicago Mayor) and Thomas Menino (Boston Mayor) double down on the illegal banning of private enterprise based on political ideology.   The folks at Chick-fil-A can become quite rich through the wrath of litigation.   And I hope they do. 

(CBS News) — Gay rights group Equality Illinois is asking gay and lesbian couples to go to their local Chick-Fil-A restaurant next Friday for a “kiss-in” campaign, which the group is promoting along with other gay rights organizations nationwide, reports CBS affiliate WBBM in Chicago. (more…)

Five years ago (2007) when John Stossel worked for ABC 20/20 he produced this news story about the TRUTH of gun control and how the anti-gun alliances are intentionally deceptive. The statistics do not lie.

On Friday’s 20/20, ABC anchor John Stossel discussed the self-defensive benefits of gun ownership, debunking the myth that “gun control reduces crime.” The segment aired during 20/20’s recurring series, “Myths, Lies & Downright Stupidity,” based on Stossel’s book of the same title. Citing the recent Federal Appeals Court for DC ruling overturning Washington, D.C.’s ban on gun ownership, Stossel talked to the pro-gun plaintiff in the case, Tom Palmer, and pointed out that the murder rate in D.C. increased after the city’s gun ban: “Since Washington’s gun law passed, the murder rate actually increased, even while America’s murder rate dropped. It’s because guns can also save lives, says Palmer, as one saved his years ago in California.”

Welfare recipients are now getting upgrades to smartphones (Assurance Phones) at taxpayer expense – That large Federal tax on your cell phone bill (which keeps increasing) is now being used to give free cell phones and free cell phone service to people on welfare.   Apparently smartphones, along with internet access are considered a basic civil right under the Obama administration.

Introducing the latest version of the Assurance Wireless Government Welfare Phone – The new Obama phone: