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Here’s a good lesson in the power of TV news. Watch this MSNBC report on New Jersey Governor Chris Christies “gruff” response to a question on a local TV show.

Now watch the entire answer.

Do you think the TV newscast was fair to spend several minutes discussing only “It’s none of your business.” without showing the rest of his response? This is a great example of bias in the media.

I should point out that I’m assuming that MSNBC didn’t continue the report by showing his entire answer. To do so would have been the fair way to do it.

I’m only going by clip that I posted.

The point here is to show how easy it is to trash someone by omission. It’s not always what you report. Just as often it’s what you don’t report.

I don’t think it was a wild assumption on my part, by the way.

Sarah Palin likes to call the dinosaur media the lamestream media and they proved her right last week with the frenzy over her emails.

Jon Stewart nailed ‘em.

I’m sure the media, now that they have some time on their hands, will turn their investigating skills on  President Obama.

They wouldn’t have to look far. They could just look into what Stanley Kurtz pointed out in “Radical in Chief.”

“The revelations in Radical-in-Chief include a reconstruction of socialist conferences Obama himself admits attending in the mid-1980′s; heretofore unknown documents from Obama’s initial stint as a community organizer in Chicago; documents closely tying Obama to a hard-left community organizer training institute; documents detailing Obama’s ties to ACORN and the ACORN-controlled New Party–and revealing his public account of those ties to be false; documents shedding new light on Obama’s foundation work and his sustained political alliances with Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright; documents shedding light on Obama’s endorsement by the Democratic Socialists of America in 1996, and much more.”

Obama supporters who were apoplectic when they found out that Todd Palin may or may not have been a member of the Alaska Independence Party which may or may not be in favor of Alaska seceding from the union, will say, “Who cares what meetings he attended or who he hung around with.”

But let’s dig into those emails to find out what Sarah was saying about Piper’s homework assignment.

The media are having fun with Sarah Palin again. She’s being ridiculed for saying that Paul Revere warned the British.

A lot more than Joe Biden was ridiculed for saying that FDR went on TV to calm people down after the 1929 stock market crash –the dumbest thing ever said by a national candidate.

Maybe everybody who’s laughing at Palin should read Paul Revere’s version of what happened on his ride.

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It began, he writes, when “it was observed, that a number of [British] Soldiers were marching towards the bottom of the Common. About 10 o’Clock, Dr. Warren Sent in great haste for me, and beged that I would imediately Set off for Lexington, where Messrs. Hancock & Adams were, and acquaint them of the Movement, and that it was thought they were the objets.”