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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…)

Talk about a potential disaster….  Given all the recent revelations about Pam Bondi’s sheer lack of integrity, insufferable manipulation and self-serving political stupidity, I guess nothing should surprise anyone anymore.   But this is ridiculous…  Even the possibility being put ‘out there’ is reason enough to question the judgment of the Romney campaign.   Sheeeesh….

(via Business Insider)  As Mitt  Romney draws closer to a decision about his 2012 running mate,  speculation about who the Republican presidential candidate will select to be  his No. 2 has reached a fever pitch.

Romney is expected to make the announcement sometime after he  returns from overseas next week. In the meantime, his campaign  has launched a major surrogate blitz, dispatching seven of the most  buzzed-about VP contenders to rally Romney supporters in swing states.

But this afternoon, the campaign added a surprise name to the  list: Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. (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…)

Use this thread as an open thread just for Zimmerman Case stuff. A place to just dump, collect, or discuss general information about the Trayvon Martin VS George Zimmerman Case.

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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…)

Obama’s back-door amnesty for young illegal aliens is now causing chaos for federal immigration agents.  There is no burden whatsoever on young illegal aliens to produce any evidence that they meet any of the new relaxed criteria to be allowed to stay in the United States.  Federal agents are being ordered to release these young people, even in cases where they have committed violent acts against federal agents.  Watch this press conference hosted by U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) with top officials from two unions that represent U.S. immigration law enforcement agencies:

Representative Mike Kelly (R) of Pennsylvania recently gave a rousing speech on the floor of the House of Representatives about the effects of government overregulation on the economy: