Ann Coulter: Wasn't Bobby Jindal Great in 'Slumdog Millionaire?'

Are you kidding Tommy. Obama is worshipped as a Messiah especially by the liberal-biased media.Where have you been.

Ann Coulter's remarks had nothing to do with political correctness or incorrectness, but are reflective of a person who cannot distinguish the line between satire and demeaning, bigoted slurs. It was racist, and low class. By the by, Bobby Jindal is an American of Indian descent.

If the media are so liberal, why did most mainstream news outlets swallow Bush's lies about Iraq?

You hear it all the time, especially during election season. "The media is biased" -- a criticism leveled from both the Right and Left.

In fact, there's a cottage industry devoted to "exposing media bias," most of which has people in the news biz rolling their eyes. And for good reason: not that media criticism is unwarranted, it's just that most of it, to put it bluntly, is oversimplified nonsense that generates more heat than light.

Perhaps the weakest aspect of pop media criticism is its lack of clarity. People talk about the media as if it were a single entity.

"The media"? Are we talking about the broadcast or print media? Are we talking about the Colbert Report, PBS, NPR, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal or the Cape Cod Times? Are we talking about reporters, editors, publishers, radio talk-show hosts, columnists, bloggers or TV pundits?

As Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi wrote in a recent issue of American Journalism Review, "critics often blame 'the media,' as if the sins of some are the sins of all. It's not just a bland, inexact generalization; it's a slur. The media are, of course, made up of numerous parts, many of which bear little relation to each other. Critics need to define their terms. Holding 'the media' responsible for some perceived slight is like blaming an entire ethnic or racial group for the actions of a few of its members."

Still, surveys show ever-increasing public skepticism about the traditional news media. According to survey data cited by media scholar S. Robert Lichter, two-thirds of the public thought the press was "fair" in a 1937 survey but by 1984 rolls it dropped to 38 percent, while only 29 percent said the same about TV news.

Adding insult to injury, a national survey conducted by Sacred Heart University in January found that only 19.6 percent of respondents said they believed "all or most" reporting, while an a larger percentage (23.9 percent) said they believed "little" or none of it. Next stop: zero credibility.

These survey results should be taken with a grain of salt, in part because, news consumers tend to overstate how closely they pay attention to news, as the Sacred Heart study indicates.

For example, the survey found that Americans described the New York Times and NPR as "mostly or somewhat liberal" -- about four times more often than they described those two outlets as "mostly or somewhat conservative."

"Leave aside the blunt generality inherent in this. (Is all of NPR -- from "Morning Edition" to "Car Talk" -- "mostly or somewhat liberal?") The more important (and unasked) question about this finding is its shaky foundation. Given that only small fractions of the populace read the Times or listen to NPR on a regular basis, how is it that so many Americans seem to know so much about the political leanings of the Times and NPR?" Farhi asks.

Part of this disconnect stems from the lack of actual content analysis among the general public and an over-reliance on anecdotal examples.

Take this year's primary campaign season, for example. Depending on which candidate you supported in the primaries, the universal claim is that the media was biased for/against Clinton or Obama. Yet, a study of the A sections of three agenda-setting newspapers (the Washington Post, NY Times and L.A. Times) done by researchers at Bowling Green State University paints a more nuanced portrait.

The study found Clinton and Obama received about the same number of "positive" and "negative" headlines from those papers (from Labor Day through the Super Tuesday primaries in early February). About 35 percent of the headlines for Obama were positive and 27 percent were negative. Clinton received 31 percent positive and 31 percent negative. The rest of stories were considered to be either mixed (with positive and negative elements) or neutral.

all conservatives are celebrities, we tend to worship ourselves as often as possible, and for good reason. we are not neccesarily repub's or demo's, but true americans with high moral values.....Well, ok I may be stretching it a bit, but you liberals have only one to worship, the pied piper of chicago and how he managed to fool some of you that he is a celebrity is beyond me

Damn it man, you had me up until the last line. The only way I can say you are not wrong is if you do not consider Obama a Democrat Celebrity. That is hard to swallow what with the GQ, Entertainment Weekly, Vouge, etc covers.

If President Obama stepped off Marine 1 and took a dump in front of cameras on the lawn, Chris Matthews would openly weap and proclaim it the most important Presidential dump in history.

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as of yesterday, the republicult is headed by an entertainer, a celebrity.

If the dear leader wants to serve jindal up in a roti it is his privilege. I can sort of see him pointing to a trembling patush and saying, GET IN MY BELLY!!

A bigot and an entertainer running the party. That explains a lot.

Lol Clif. Fat Bastard serves Indian!

Republicans and the Conservatives are extinct like the Dodo Bird. Reason for extinction are stupidy, greed, incompetence, lies, fraud, corruptions, discrimination, and backwardness ( beliefs in the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, unscientific beliefs, etc. heh'heh'heh'heh')

Clif (Tortuga) Kuplen

“I can sort of see him pointing to a trembling patush and saying, GET IN MY BELLY!!”
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I can sort of see me saying, who cares what you think, you irrelevant baffoon!

This is why they (GOP) will always be a "little people party'. They are finished. they cannot accept that they are no longer in power. They will not admit to their mistakes. their current leaders are Russ, and Ann. The only thing that will help them is a strong dose of draino.

Hey Ryan, where ever you are....this story is for you...

but please tell me, this is NOT you....lol

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=12306342&ch=4226713&src=news

lol, what is it with you guys and the messiah crap??


too damn funny...

Well she is at it again ....LOL she is trying to be a Rush !!! Not possible even though both are blow hards. She is a Trans want-to-be. SHe is going down...ok bad pun She is going down fast and she can't accept the loss. Her looks ar e gone she intelligence.....lol well never had it

I can sort of see me saying, who cares what you think, you irrelevant baffoon!


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wah! it's 'buffoon' but you were probably all het up because of your party's newfound cult status. I WANT you to not care what I think. What's important is what the Dear Leader of the republicult thinks you should think.

You all have cast your lot behind your dear leader and his cult of quasi political entertainment. That's the way Rahm Emanuel et al planned it but you'll never believe it.

So now your platform is that more deregulation will remedy what deregulation caused, bush was right, your dear leader is right and we need more of the last eight years - it'll be ten by then.

I agree, I'm not relevant at all. Your dear leader is the only relevance and the only true path is his path and if you vary from it at all, how did he put it, I never want to hear from you again!

You have only one message to rally behind - you hope america fails.

You're absolutely right. Your party is in charge and it can get away with saying and doing anything it wants.

Which is why it's in the position it's in today. Nice work, Rahm!

Michelle, I promise that was not me! ; ) that was too funny! I hate cats and would never waste my weed on one. Now a good dog maybe... but then again... I love animals too much to be getting them high...

Love Rybo!

and

BONG!

Love your dear leader's imitation of Michael J. Fox. We're lookng forward to more of those. He's a regular Kenny G!

Yes that's right

Love Animals

Hate Cats

Well.... not all cats ; )

Just the ones that jump on my lap and stick their ass hole in my face! woah!!!

BONG!

This is how the joke works: Wasn't JFK great in "The Quiet Man"(feign mock outrage here), wasn't Martin Van Buren great in "The Storm"(Feign here) wasn't Obama great in "The Wiz"(LOL), and of course, wasn't little Tommy great in "Brok


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Your Dear Leader is doing well in The Man Who Would Be King, too.

He says 'I hope America Fails!' with such throbbing forehead vein conviction. He nailed that meme with a pile driver!