Category Archives: MEDIA BIAS

especially local examples

Veritas Salad

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Designated2

Congress becoming less and less relevant Well duh . . . It’s taken a long time for some of our conservative leaders to come to this realization.  Read the following excerpts from the question and answer session yesterday on Capitol … Continue reading →

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Big Ethanol, the Environment, Gas Taxes and the GOP

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Designated2

That we consider corn ethanol subsidies and mandates unethical and tax payer abuse is obvious from these pages.   There are environmental aspects that should be considered, and we do, but we find them most compelling with regards to human ecology … Continue reading →

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Argus-Dispatch Print Edition Trims Ethanol Commentary

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Designated2

Still, serves to undermine corn ethanol boondoggle Our post yesterday made reference to a lengthy AP story * in the Argus-Dispatch online edition about the detrimental environmental effects of current corn ethanol production policies and practices.   We predicted that any … Continue reading →

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A Thank You To All Veterans This Day.

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Designated2

The Argus Dispatch did a good job today on behalf of veterans.  Among the various stories and features was a masthead editorial which featured two poems: In Flanders Field by Lt. Col. John McCrae, and America’s Answer by R. W. … Continue reading →

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Tom DeLay – Texan With A Pair – QC Times – Pairless

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Designated2

And we are not referring to the boots DeLay wore on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ This Newsmax article highlights an interview with the former Republican leader in the House.  It was conducted by Steve Malzberg on his Newsmax TV show.  … Continue reading →

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MSNBC – The Mainstreaming & Sanitizing of Terrorists Network

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Designated2

This morning on MSNBC, Mika and Joe interviewed Bill Ayres (remember him?). The MSNBC Morning Joe program’s intro referred to Ayers’ book and described him, as he does himself, as a “dissenter” and more or less deplored how poor old … Continue reading →

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Local Democrats Going Wobbly from Constituent Pressure — QCT Exposed

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Designated2

Liberals Bustos, Loebsack and Braley did not heed QC Times memo . . .        Join Republicans in effort to pass individual funding bills . . .                           … Continue reading →

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Bullying Those With Religious Differences

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Designated2

Regarding our post earlier in the week: QC Times Agitprop . . .  and the QC Times’ Barb Ickes’ front page hagiography of a young “gay” and “out” local high school student,  our illustrious senior editor had this to offer: … Continue reading →

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More About How Obamacare Implementation Has Been “Smoothed Out”

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Designated2

Day two . . . Reports the QC Times missed . . .  blinded no doubt by the local glow they reported.  (adapted from a listing on Drudge this morning) Des Moines woman:  “worse today than yesterday” CBS News Washington … Continue reading →

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QCT Now Flacking for Obama Care at All Levels of Reporting

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Designated2

No shame, just blindered and purposeful apologias for Obamacare’s takeover of healthcare. As compared to its editors, in the past we have thought that the Quad City Times (QCT) staff reporters tended to be more “fair and balanced” than the AP … Continue reading →

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