Today's Episode = January 3, 2014 Friday Globaloney

some things are just too funny.  So funny that the self-proclaimed cognoscenti that stink up the coastal areas of North America, and their mouthpieces in the media and academia can' t be troubled to notice them publicly.
One of the funnier ones right now is the ice-bound ship down near Antarctica.  People in the northern hemisphere frequently forget that the seasons are reversed, and it is early SUMMER there.  It seems that a crowd of Global Warming flaks decided to go down to show the awful effects of runaway global warming, with hungry penguins, drowning bears, clear water where they deem that ice "should" be, and all of that.  Problem is, there's more ice in that region than was reliably recorded a CENTURY ago!  More.  Much more!  So much more, that their ship got stuck in the ice.  And could not get out.  The Chinese icebreaker vessel could not get through either, and IT got stuck.  The Australian ice breaker could not get through either, and had to turn back.  Efforts to evacuate the Warmists via helicopter were stalled for days due to horrible cold weather.
Did you note the irony ofa ll of this?  If so, you did well.  The New York Times and it's co-liars somehow missed it.  So did some 94% of all the mass media.  Matter of fact, some flaks in the once-respected magazine Nature just came out at the same week with yet another apocalyptic scare story that global warming is in fact far worse than once thought.
That was right after the IPCC very quietly backed off some of their doom predictions.  Seems that "warming" has not been found in FIFTEEN YEARS!
How does one reconcile this?
Apparently, the would be rulers, the kakistocracy to borrow a term, have chosen to ignore the facts and conceal the matter.

The Video that CBS Doesn't Want You To See

with a tip of the hat to Andrew Breitbart's Big Journalism site, here is an example of what the Lame Stream Media is trying to censor out of the public arena.

Kakistocracy in the Media

kudos to Doug Ross over at his DirectorBlue blog for a GREAT story that seems to show widespread collusion, at least an echo chamber, within the so-called Main Stream Media (a.k.a. the MSM) with an account of some 200 nearly identical news headlines. That includes both print media and a variety of TV outlets.
One might suspect collusion between these flaks for the Democrat Party, MoveOn, ACORN, SEIU, Families USA, and the Progressive States Network, and other known malefactors. And one might be right.

And the downward spiral continues.

Today's Entry -- The New York Times (or Slimes)

Periodically we hear, see, or read some self-serving Drive-By Media type declaim with passion about newspapers. Ooop, make that NEWSPAPERS, and the Holy Calling that being an ordained Journalist is. How the world will come to an end, corruption abound unchecked. How this Sacred Fraternity, operating without fear or favor, is the nation's last bastion against the Powerful.
Bah!! Humbug! What a pile of steaming manure.
Interjection here: what we are going to be mentioning here are

• slanted stories
• planted stories
• items not covered at all
  

All of these things may be true, here and there. I have not seen it, not ever, but I suppose it could happen. But I've seen, often, the collusion of the local news media, TV, radio, and local papers, with the completely corrupt. Places like northeastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Arkansas, parts of Tennessee, parts of Alabama and Georgia. And, of course, outlets that have a reach beyond the local, in places like Chicago and New York.
Usually, these don't extend far. A blind eye to ''arranged'' zoning changes, a blind eye to illegal gambling operations, ''pay to play'' scams, prearranged construction contracts, ticket fixing, dropped DUI charges, or unenforced child support orders. Probably happens in your town or one near to you. As I said, generally the scope is local and limited.
But sometimes it isn't.
Sometimes the stories covered, or not covered, have ramifications that are national or international in their effects. Here's a good example. During the most recent campaign for President of the USA, there were plausible reports linking one candidate to a corrupt organization involved in vote-buying, intimidation, vote fraud, and a variety of other criminal behaviors that seemed to be intrinsic to that organization. A major newspaper, with national and international influence, had access to these reports and was in a position to judge their merit. And refused to air the stories. The term in the trade is ''spiked''. They did not spike the stories because they were not credible and verifiable. They spiked the stories because they judged (correctly) that an informed electorate might alter the voting pattern based upon this information.
Foolish me. I thought that was part of the self-proclaimed holy mission of these media cabals.
Obviously, that is not the case. The real mission of many, perhaps most, of these operations, is to support certain causes and candidates, and to oppose other causes and candidates. Bluntly, they are taking sides, no matter how they deny it.
Case in point: the offender here is the New York Times.
the corrupt organization is generally known as ACORN, an acronym for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
and the politician playing footsie with a corrupt organization? None other than one Barry Soetoro, also known as Barrack Hussein Obama.

Read up on it here.

''Alleged Beheading'' ????

Not all of the kakistocracy is in government, of course. A whole lot is, of course, and not just in elected positions either.
Some of it, very much, is in academia. We'll get to some of that later.
But the chattering classes in the news media are filled with some of these dolts. And ''dolt'' is about the nicest word that I can think of.
Here is a pretty good example of it. A person who has managed to have a piece published in the Toronto Star. Kathy English, writing there, seems to feel that the murder of a woman by her husband for the ''crime'' of wanting a divorce should not be connected to his Muslim faith nor Shariah law. Now, self-delusion and willful blindness are not all that rare. But we rarely get so far into denial as to descend to a phrase such as ''alleged beheading''. That's a new low. There was nothing ''alleged'' about this, the guy cut his wife's head off. Something almost unknown, by the way, except amongst the Muslims of the world. Pretty much a characteristic of that bunch.
Yet, somehow, these ''molders of public opinion'' can't be bothered to admit it, and deliberately obscure the truth.
So, Kathy English and your cohorts at the Red Star North, you are hereby elected to 'Kakistocrat of the Day'. Take your bow.