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Yesterday, ABCNews responded to the RNC’s request for equal airtime for President Obama’s ‘townhall’ meeting with this letter. Here’s a part that I thought needed monitoring:

Second, ABC News prides itself on covering all sides of important issues and asking direct questions of all newsmakers, of all political persuasions, even when others have taken a more partisan approach and even in the face of criticism from extremes on both ends of the political spectrum. ABC News is looking for the most thoughtful and diverse voices on this issue. ABC News alone will select those who will be in the audience asking questions of the president. Like any programs we broadcast, ABC News will have complete editorial control. To suggest otherwise is quite unfair to both our journalists and our audience.

Saying that they’ll run an hourlong infomercial for the president, then deny the RNC time to have their say, is bad enough. To say that they’ll ask hard-hitting questions of President Obama was worse. This report suggests that ABCNews isn’t being honest:

ABC is refusing to air paid ads during its White House health care presentation, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, including a paid-for alternative viewpoint!

The development comes a day after the network denied a request by the Republican National Committee to feature a representative of the party’s views during the Obama special.

Conservatives for Patients Rights requested the rates to buy a 60-second spot immediately preceding ‘Prescription for America’.

Statement from Rick Scott, chairman of Conservatives for Patients Rights: (more…)

If you haven’t read Victor Davis Hanson’s article for NRO, put that down as today’s must reading. VDH excoriates President Obama for “making things up.” I particularly appreciate the fact that he isn’t gentle in his excoriation of President Obama. Here’s a sample:

The “Big Lie.” Team Obama says that Judge Sotomayor misspoke when she asserted that Latinas were inherently better judges than white males. Yet the people around Obama knew before Sotomayor was nominated that she has reiterated such racialist sentiments repeatedly over many years.

Obama complained that his deficits were largely inherited, even though his newly projected annual deficit and aggregate increase in the national debt may well, if they are not circumvented, equal all the deficit spending compiled by all previous administrations combined.

The president lectures Congress on its financial excesses. He advocates “pay as you go” budgeting. But he remains silent about the unfunded liabilities involved in his own proposals for cap-and-trade, universal health care, and education reform, which will in aggregate require well over a trillion dollars in new spending on top of existing deficits — but without any “pay as you go” proposals to fund them. (more…)

The Right Blogosphere’s anger was stirred when Bill O’Reilly declared himself the policeman of the internet. That happened when he accused HotAir of peddling hate speech based on a comment left on HA’s post about Sonia Sotomayor. The next morning, Michelle Malkin rightly stood up for her bloggers during Jon Scott’s program. That night, Bloviating Bill admitted that the offensive comment came from a commenter, not from either blogger.

That wasn’t enough for Bloviating Bill, though. During his Reality Check segment, Bloviating Bill said that it wasn’t enough for websites to say that they aren’t responsible for their comments, adding that they should police their comments like his people police his website.

That’s where Patterico’s Pontifications entered the fray:

The latest “Bill O’Reilly blog posting”:

Above: Bill O’Reilly.com blog posting

Here’s the text of the “blog posting”:

NO HOMOS NO HOMOS now will the League arrest me for my right wing statement, perhaps i will be taken off the New Yuk slimes CHRISTMAS card list. what you do or dont do in your bed room is none of my business just dont tell me I am wrong if i say NO MARRIAGE FOR HOMOS NO MARRIAGE FOR HOMOS. Hay maybe you can have a vote and lose and have the courts overturn your vote. Well that cant happen in AMERICA now can it.

to any one whos name begins with an R REMEMBER NO MARRIAGE FOR HOMOS. Awaits to knock on the door from the lack of free speech AG. AND janet baby

This afternoon, Mitch and Ed interviewed Patterico during their NARN show’s final segment. They quickly called Patterico when they read his Tweet saying that Patterico’s subscription as a Bill O’Reilly premium member was cancelled:

I wish I could share today’s “BillOReilly.com blog posting” . . . but my membership has been terminated:

Due to violations of the Terms and Conditions of BillOReilly.com attributed to your account, your Premium Membership is hereby terminated effective as of the date of this notice. The termination is final and any attempt to use the site or to renew membership either directly or indirectly will similarly result in termination and/or blocking use of the site.

I’m not sure what terms and conditions I supposedly violated. I never posted any comments (or “blog postings”) on O’Reilly’s site. All I did was quote (and screencap) two embarrassing comments from the message boards.

It’s a bit much to think that Patterico’s membership was coincidental. In fact, it’s impossible to think that his premium club membership isn’t the direct result of him exposing Bloviating Bill as a phoney.

This Monday, Bill O’Reilly owes HotAir an apology for his criticizing that great website for following the same guidelines as he does on his website. He owes another apology to Patterico for cancelling his subscription for exposing Bloviating Bill’s phoniness.

I’m not holding my breath waiting for Bloviating Bill’s apology, though. I can’t imagine that it’s his style to admit that he doesn’t practice what he preaches.

Technorati Tags: HotAir, Patterico Ponntifications, Blogs, Bill O’Reilly, Bloviating Bill, Hypocrisy, Apology

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

Earlier this week, Bill O’Reilly smeared HotAir by insinuating that HA trafficked in hate speech. This is nonsense. His proof? A commenter to a post called President OBama by the name Hussein.

O’Reilly eventually offered a non-apology apology when it was pointed out that this wasn’t from Ed or Allahpundit but from a commenter. Bloviating Bill went onto say that it isn’t enough to say that comments don’t reflect the views of the website, that websites have an affirmative responsibility to police their comments.

The bad news for Bloviating Bill is that bloggers don’t take that type of bloviating sitting down. They investigate, something that Bloviating Bill only occasionally does. One such investigative blog is Patterico. Here’s what Patterico found while policing Bloviating Bill’s website:

Here’s the text of the “blog posting”:

NO HOMOS NO HOMOS now will the League arrest me for my right wing statement, perhaps i will be taken off the New Yuk slimes CHRISTMAS card list. what you do or dont do in your bed room is none of my business just dont tell me I am wrong if i say NO MARRIAGE FOR HOMOS NO MARRIAGE FOR HOMOS. Hay maybe you can have a vote and lose and have the courts overturn your vote. Well that cant happen in AMERICA now can it.

to any one whos name begins with an R REMEMBER NO MARRIAGE FOR HOMOS. Awaits to knock on the door from the lack of free speech AG. AND janet baby

It’s so refreshing to know that Bloviating Bill’s staff do such a great job monitoring the hate speech on his website. (SARC)

Seriously, Bloviating Bill’s not practicing what he preaches and his double standards while pretending to be the supreme moral arbiter makes Bloviating Bill a pinhead.

Meanwhile, Michelle Malkin, Patterico, Ed Morrissey and Allahpundit have pointed out Bloviating Bill’s hypocrisy and double standards.

These bloggers are patriots for investigating Bloviating Bill’s accusations and for highlighting the fact that he’s two-faced blowhard.

Technorati Tags: Bloggers, Michelle Malkin, Ed Morrissey, Allahpundit, Patterico, Patriots, Investigation, Bill O’Reilly, Hypocrisy, Double Standards, Pinheads

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

The Lady Logician has jumped all over John Reilly’s admitting that his estimate on how much the Democrats’ Cap and Trade tax increase costs in this post. This information hits at the heart of Democrats’ misinformation campaign:

While $800 is significantly more than Reilly’s original estimate of $215 (not to mention more than Obama’s middle-class tax cut), it turns out that Reilly is still low-balling the cost of cap and trade by using some fuzzy logic. In reality, cap and trade could cost the average household more than $3,900 per year.

The $800 paid annually per household is merely the “cost to the economy [that] involves all those actions people have to take to reduce their use of fossil fuels or find ways to use them without releasing [Green House Gases],” Reilly wrote. “So that might involve spending money on insulating your home, or buying a more expensive hybrid vehicle to drive, or electric utilities substituting gas (or wind, nuclear, or solar) instead of coal in power generation, or industry investing in more efficient motors or production processes, etc. with all of these things ending up reflected in the costs of good and services in the economy.”

In other words, Reilly estimates that “the amount of tax collected” through companies would equal $3,128 per household–and “Those costs do get passed to consumers and income earners…

In other words, Reilly’s estimated cost ignores costs that will be incurred AND it assumes something that isn’t provable, namely that this Demmocratic congress will return the $3,128 in the form of a tax rebate. The Lady Logician also included this important admonition to the post: (more…)

Conservatives have rightfully complained about the Democrats’ intended march toward nanny statism. Now it’s getting ridiculous. Sen. Benjamin Cardin has proposed extending nanny state protections to newspapers:

With many U.S. newspapers struggling to survive, a Democratic senator on Tuesday introduced a bill to help them by allowing newspaper companies to restructure as nonprofits with a variety of tax breaks.

“This may not be the optimal choice for some major newspapers or corporate media chains but it should be an option for many newspapers that are struggling to stay afloat,” said Senator Benjamin Cardin.

A Cardin spokesman said the bill had yet to attract any co-sponsors, but had sparked plenty of interest within the media, which has seen plunging revenues and many journalist layoffs. (more…)

Last week, I found out that President Obama’s teleprompter has his own blog. Tonight, I found out that his teleprompter is issuing ultimatums via YouTube:

If I were advising President Obama, I’d tell him to immediately give his MVP everything he wants ASAP, especially with an important press conference tonight.

Technorati Tags: Blog, YouTube, Teleprompter, President Obama, Press Conferences, Speeches, Ultimatum