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We look forward to you sharing your "evidence", thanks.

I tend to ignore people who can't be bothered to use google on their own, and instead ask for everything to be handed to them...

We're talking about half a century of gun control laws and increasing crime rates. There's no single link to ALL that information.

There's a few quick ones:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2012/02/21/disarming-the-myths-promoted-by-the-gun-control-lobby/2/

http://people.duke.edu/~gnsmith/articles/myths.htm (See #10)

http://www.liveandlocalenc.com/proof-gun-control-increases-crime/

http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig7/lemieux1.html

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/22/do-strict-gun-laws-really-stop-gun-crime/

http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp#right-to-carry

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/weekinreview/29liptak.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/02/04/gun-crimes-increase-massachusetts-despite-tough-gun-laws/XjlDQLZlUDvsf3KS8PqyGK/story.html

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2010/06/25/stossel-argues-gun-control-increases-crime-i-was-once-clueless-senator-schumer

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2013/02/17/the-nation-toughest-gun-control-law-made-massachusetts-less-safe/3845k7xHzkwTrBWy4KpkEM/story.html

That seems like the only way to return maximum value to the taxpayers, too.

Will that un-spend 600+ million dollars?

Hard to do that when it didn't cost 600+ million dollars in the first place.

If Glenn Beck's organization is debunkinging a negative rumour about ObamaCare than it's probably false.

How House Republicans changed House rules to prevent Democrats from working with 28 Republicans who would have signed a clean budget bill from bringing the bill to the floor. (aka House Resolution 368.)

For bonus reading:
19 Times Democrats Tried to Negotiate with Republicans to avert the shutdown by sending the Senate's proposed budget to a bicameral conference committee.

paranoid conspiracy theorists which, according to MSNBC, makes you all racists, bigots, homophobes, terrorist, teabagging, hate-mongering, hating haters who hate.

http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/who-has-access-to-your-kids-information-more-people-than-you-think/

http://eagnews.org/medical-laboratory-procedure-results-and-religion-invasive-common-core-data-mining-worries-parents/

http://nces.ed.gov/forum/datamodel/eiebrowser/techview.aspx?instance=studentElementarySecondary

They have closed many national parks and government websites, but The Healthcare Insurance Market Place is open. Are not 'selective shutdowns' illegal for political gain? U.S. Pres acting like a dictator. Also noticed he shutting down private businesses. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/04/park-rangers-guard-inn-parking-lot-from-guests-during-shutdown/

Car Dealers won't go out of business, online sales of cars will be made illegal. It's already being made illegal in some states as seen with Tesla.

Its not hard to make the law exactly how they want it. The law is usually crafted by think tank organizations who's sole purpose is to lobby and craft legislation. The reason its not "perfect" to you, is its not made to suit you. Its made to suit the lobbyist group. An example is gun legislation, is almost always crafted by a group like HCI (handgun control Inc). Obamacare was crafted by lobbyist groups, read about it here http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/26/from-architect-to-lobbyists-obamacare-designers-stand-to-profit-handsomely-from-bill/

Follow the money. If you think the senators/reps actually wrote the bills themselves, you're in for a rude awakening.

6. Your car could be hacked by the CIA/NSA in order to assassinate you:

See this story quoting the former counter-terrorism czar on the death of reporter Michael Hastings, who was working on an expose about CIA Director John Brennan.

From the reaction shots in the audience, particularly that of Will Smith and his family, I did not get the impression that the majority were in the "You go girl!" camp.

I have not been paying much attention to this, but I saw this blurb that calls into question the Will Smith family's shock: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/26/sorry-it-seems-that-will-smith-stunned-family-photo-was-too-good-to-be-true/.

Perhaps these two will get even bigger asteroids!

We can name some ice chunks in Saturn's belt after all of the black kids beating up and killing white people over Treyvon.

Have you compared the rent in DC to the rent anywhere in Kentucky?

You don't seem to challenge my primary point... Which is that the per-pupil expenditures have quadrupled over 50 years without anything to show for it. If anything, the education quality declined. Thus, anybody complaining about "scarce dollars" for education as the GGF poster did, or "underfunded schools" — as the even more pompous Racist-in-Chief put it in his recent speech — are either awfully ignorant or scandalously demagogic. Or both...

As far as the high cost of living in DC, yes, obviously, we are fulfilling the Founding Fathers' nightmare — the residents of the Capital city are becoming unduly powerful: not just because of the sheer unavoidable physical proximity to the government, but also because that government's power over citizens' daily lives is growing much too fast — and the income of various officials growing with it. But that's another topic altogether, of course.

Mitt Romney gave $4 million to charity in one year - 1/3rd of his income.

Giving money to your own social clubs like the mormon church and its affiliates like Brigham Young University, or the George W Bush Library, or the private school where 5 of his kids attended isn't charity, it's tax-deductible self-interest. Naked quid pro quo.

Before I posted I went and read up on his tax returns, just to make sure that my assumption of self-interest was true. That he hadn't made a liar out of me and my cynicism by really giving the bulk of his donations to organizations that would not benefit himself in one way or another. In the process I found out some interesting "character" related points:

1) His 2010 tax return showed only 11% of his income went to non-profit deductions. The mormon church directly gets 10% straight off the bat as tithing, leaving 1% for everything else. In fact, his own 20-year summary shows he averaged less than 12.6% until the 30% spike in 2011 brought the average up to just under 13.5%. Why such an outlier in 2011 when he had roughly half the income that he did in 2010? Seems to me that once he won the party primary his donations went up.

2) In 2011 he did not claim the maximum allowed tax deductions for his donations. He only claimed a deduction for $2.25 of the $4 million that was eligible. Why would he do that? Well, the guy who runs Romney's family trust said it helped to keep his campaign promise of paying at least 13% in income tax every year. Here's my question, now that he lost the election, did he go back and file an amended return to claim the entire $4M? We will probably never know, maybe a real man of character would not. A real republican would be happy to over-pay his taxes without a complaint, right?

My source for those two points is this article at The Blaze - I figured I'd go with a conservative news source to give Romney the benefit of the doubt in the reporting.

There are more recent examples such as Saudi Arabia accusing a condor of spying

As it turns out, Condor was a spy

After watching this, I consider that any man with just a little common sense would support the overthrow of Morsi. Which does not mean supporting the slaughter of hundreds of opponents in the aftermath. But the independence of the USA was not completed in one day, neither was the French revolution, nor will the Arab revolutions. It takes time before an appeased democracy takes place after centuries of colonial occupation and military dictatorships.

There are more recent examples such as Saudi Arabia accusing a condor of spying Or Egypt Blaming Isreal for shark attacks. The fact is that the Egyptian government wants to distract it's people from the latest military takeover of the government and finding something to blame on the "Zionists" is a time tested way to do that.

I used to have a Moroccan co worker who blamed Israel for everything bad in life down to his country's poor economy. It really is a weird how an otherwise intelligent person could miss the game of misdirection being played out repeatedly.

Yeah, but think about homeschooling your children and stand by for the raid.

Then again, Romney gave away 30% of his income, which is very UNLIKE Clinton and suggests he may be a man of character.

Giving money to your own social clubs like the mormon church and its affiliates like Brigham Young University, or the George W Bush Library, or the private school where 5 of his kids attended isn't charity, it's tax-deductible self-interest.

Before I posted I went and read up on his tax returns, just to make sure that my assumption of self-interest was true. That he hadn't made a liar out of me and my cynicism by really giving the bulk of his donations to organizations that would not benefit himself in one way or another. In the process I found out some interesting "character" related points:

1) His 2010 tax return showed only 11% of his income went to non-profit deductions. The mormon church directly gets 10% straight off the bat as tithing, leaving 1% for everything else. In fact, his own 20-year summary shows he averaged less than 12.6% until the 30% spike in 2011 brought the average up to just under 13.5%. Why such an outlier in 2011 when he had roughly half the income that he did in 2010? Seems to me that once he won the party primary his donations went up.

2) In 2011 he did not claim the maximum allowed tax deductions for his donations. He only claimed a deduction for $2.25 of the $4 million that was eligible. Why would he do that? Well, the guy who runs Romney's family trust said it helped to keep his campaign promise of paying at least 13% in income tax every year. Here's my question, now that he lost the election, did he go back and file an amended return to claim the entire $4M? We will probably never know, maybe a real man of character would not. A real republican would be happy to over-pay his taxes without a complaint, right?

My source for those two points is this article at The Blaze - I figured I'd go with a conservative news source to give Romney the benefit of the doubt in the reporting.

This is not to say the Clintons' donations weren't similar self-serving, that's not my point at all. I'm saying you are drawing a questionable conclusion based on a narrow reading of the facts.

Much as I would like to agree with you I no longer trust such statements because of similar things getting shut down:
Permit requirements shut down another kid's lemonade stand
The Inexplicable War on Lemonade Stands

He himself later apologized for lying to congress:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/02/james-clapper-apologizes-for-lying-to-congress-about-nsa-surveillance-clearly-erroneous/

So he definitely lied.

Yet he was never charged with a crime.

I suppose this sets the precedent that all you have to do after committing a capital felony is give a half-assed apology, and you're off scot-free.

Not quite. You see it's somewhat like when someone in the previous administration violated national security laws by releasing the name of an undercover government agent (Valerie Plame) in an attempt to further the administration's goals. The investigation of who leaked the information was, shall we say somewhat lacking, as no charges were ever brought. So the precedent was set prior to the current administration (I don't know how far back we can go so I limited my example to something from the immediate predecessor - if someone has some nice history books with similar examples from say pre-1860, I'd love to hear about them.)

And of course the reason for all this is that the laws only apply to those who are not in the inner circle of power. The laws only apply to those on the outside. Those on the inside are generally immune from prosecution (or even receiving an administrative reprimand) unless all hell breaks loose and "they" need to find a scape goat.

He himself later apologized for lying to congress:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/02/james-clapper-apologizes-for-lying-to-congress-about-nsa-surveillance-clearly-erroneous/

So he definitely lied.

Him and Obama. Not that he will impeach himself for it, but I figured at least letting him know we are not happy with him lying about this might be a good thing. I know the White House petitions are close to running gag now, but it made me feel a little less impotent when I signed it.

http://wh.gov/lgT1t

Small step. Then we can start talking about 2014 and trying to get some new blood in.

He himself later apologized for lying to congress:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/02/james-clapper-apologizes-for-lying-to-congress-about-nsa-surveillance-clearly-erroneous/

So he definitely lied.

Yet he was never charged with a crime.

I suppose this sets the precedent that all you have to do after committing a capital felony is give a half-assed apology, and you're off scot-free.

He himself later apologized for lying to congress:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/02/james-clapper-apologizes-for-lying-to-congress-about-nsa-surveillance-clearly-erroneous/
So he definitely lied.

His post is based on twisted history and ignoring inconvenient facts. Fortunately there are still people who remember and are willing to set the record straight. You may as well start reading them since they won't go away, inconvenient facts seldom do. In fact you may want to start reading from those sites anyway. If you believe the nonsense in his post you don't have enough diversity in your reading material, so it will do you good.

You may want to heed the words of Yoda, "Always in motion is the future." Si se puede! Then, Now

Viva Marco!, Viva Bobby!, Viva Nikki!, Viva Mia! , Viva Allen!

The lies about conservatives are starting to grow thin.

... and have no government benefits for any child who is not breastfed for 2+ years, given adequate vitamin D, and given a lot of vegetables, fruits, and beans, all of which are shown to improve overall immune system functioning... Any kid who is fed junk food, including refined sugar, which has been shown to suppress immune functioning should also be denied benefits. Further, since school is a breeding ground for disease transmission, anyone who does not homeschool should also be denied any government assistance. After all, vaccines only prevent (at best) some specific diseases. What I list above would prevent the incidence of most diseases -- including ones there are no vaccines for, which is most of them including future ones that emerge.

While we are at it, let's also deny benefits (including tax deductions) to those adults who do not eat right and so run a greater risk of being a burden on society. Same for smokers, or those who drive badly, or are promiscuous and so at risk of STDs. Same for those who do not exercise enough.

So, what would be the next step in putting this expanded version of your idea into action? Maybe we could have a big government database to review what people purchase on their credit cards at grocery stores and restaurants and score people's eating habits that way? Not sure how to check the other things... Maybe paid police informants like this one?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/25/shock-undercover-police-agent-caught-on-tape-seemingly-planting-drugs-on-ny-business-owner/

Or maybe two-way telescreens in every room being mandatory? /sarcasm

It's not difficult; The concern is that these government organizations are blantantly, deliberately, and willing violating said law(s), and going ahead with mass spying on the public.

At least Google tell you up front that they're going to collect data on you in some form or another.. At no point do they ever state otherwise.

With the CIA and NSA, all we have is some dodged questions and weak promises that they're actually holding up to the letter of the law. We have no way to properly audit them to ensure that they're actually in compliance, and their congressional admissions are rather concerning that they in all likelihood aren't.

Yes, they specifically been found to be lying to congress. That's one of the reasons that Snowden blew that whistle. It became so obvious that they chose someone to be the fall guy.

Now let's take that sacrificial goat and continue to dismantle the illegal program until they are no longer doing illegal activities.

And no, he doesn't know what treason is.

Besides, OSC's SF books have nothing to do with his views on a totally orthogonal societal issue.

Not so. Enchantment is about pre-ordained heterosexual marriage and the struggle of the Christian partners against pagan deities. It's a thinly-veiled showcase of his beliefs.

Boycotting the former because of the latter is called an ad hominem. Case in point, a lot of people enjoy Disney movies and Ford cars despite Walt Disney and Henry Ford being nasty antisemitic pro-nazi nutjobs.

No, boycotting the business of someone whose beliefs you despise is called the free market. Christians do it all the time. Whether or not someone can enjoy a movie is incidental to whether or not they choose to do so. Personally, I boycotted the movie Powder because the director was a convicted child molester. I don't give a shit whether or not the movie was any good. Disney knew of his history when they hired him, and I won't give them a dime of my money for that product.

2) I was unaware that sex with someone other than your spouse was illegal in the USA. I suspect you are actually full of shit when you claim that it is.

It depends entirely on what state you live in.

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2012/11/15/illegal-cheat-spouse-massachusetts/

http://www.9news.com/news/article/317914/188/Cheating-on-your-spouse-still-illegal-in-Colorado

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/01/13/cheating-arizona-wife-could-face-jail-time-under-states-anti-adultery-law/

Worth the trouble? You should weight how much it costs you privacy vs what could cost you don't worry about it, but unfortunately, english is a bad language to realize how important the future is.

How it could affect you? You can check what have the FBI/NSA about you. You can see precedents of what NSA did with private information (if that the respect that soldiers in the battlefield deserve, good luck about you). You can see the starting trend of misusing information and how it could impact you in the future.

I think that the widespread perception of the danger is not enough... yet. But as jailing/killing the people that could inform you about the real situation is the new normal, you probably won't be aware of why you should had done it before until it hits you. Or won't have the chance, as the next salvo probably will be outlawing consumer encryption (it already started). Some of the things that you can do could be complex or cumbersome to do, but you can start progressively with this tools, taking the path of least resistance, it will protect you not just from the NSA, but from other evil people and organizations too.

Is not like you won't end in jail for a sarcastic comment, or get expelled over a joke, it will work in the other way, seeing sarcams where they aren't and getting you anyway. And getting this mess in your private mail, where you usually joke and don't care a lot about potential readings of what you say, because, well, you don't have anything to hide, will make life interesting in the next years.

In 2005, Zimmerman was charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest.

With the way charges are trumped up this could mean anything from saliva, to merely brushing up against the officer and not immediately complying. If you haven't already seen videos of police running up to someone saying stop resisting, there are plenty on youtube. In fact there is a story about a girl thrown in jail for buying water. "...Nevertheless, Daly was charged with two felony counts of assaulting a law enforcement officer after she grazed two agents with her SUV trying to flee, and one felony count of eluding police..." which sounds really bad until you read that they're plain clothes, have guns drawn, and tried breaking her windows. Where do they find these tools, have you ever mistaken packaged bottled water for booze? Ridiculous!

He chose to disregard police instructions

Dispatcher != police. Why am I pointing this out? Because you're implying that dispatchers are police officers. Dispatchers can tell you something, but it isn't a lawful order. It carries about as much weight as me telling you not to put salt on your food or to shut up. Maybe a car analogy will work, it's like the warning light coming on to check your engine. It's a good suggestion, but it is not a command.

Been drinking a bit too much caffeine today?

While this alleged incident is reprehensible, I don't think it warrants going John Wayne Bobbit on the perp. It's no excuse for the behavior however I do wonder why from the blog posting there's this:

Note: There will be no names named here. The perpetrator is not named. Likewise the heroes of the story who probably saved me from going to jail and at the very least comforted me when it felt like the floor was going to fall through are left unnamed. That said if you want to know the names I am willing to discuss it privately.

Okay, this raises a few questions, no names mentioned, no charges filed and I guess maybe the Police were involved or not but... shit, the blog posting reads more like "The Vagina Monologues" and goes wandering around. It may make a great chapter in an upcoming novel but I'm not discounting what she's saying either, it just doesn't ring true when you won't say "Look, this MF named Mr. ______ tried to rape me. And these other folks ______ _______ saw it." Look, if you're assaulted go to the authorities, file charges and name names. If this guy is a bad apple and he needs to be called out otherwise this is an incident that *maybe* happened and without at least some other folks stepping forward and saying "yeah, I saw it" or "yeah, he raped me" then these can be considered hearsay or fiction. If you're going to put it in a Blog, put the names down for Christ sake.. Shit last year two guys making jokes were lambasted as being chauvinists all across the Internet for something that is magnitudes less significant than this supposed incident. You know what, I call that offensive but it's also free speech.

Now, I'm not condoning violence against women, especially Rape but let's also not forget how lynchings start and recently the infamous case of DSK and how that all fell apart. Yeah DSK was(or is) a womanizer and probably didn't deserve all the BS he received, or maybe he did: including losing his position with the World Bank. I kind of put these kinds of stories in along with what Roseann Barr did a few years ago with "Repressed Memories."

So please put the chainsaw down and look objectively at what this person and their story and certainly cheer for her standing up to this guy but don't start eviscerating every guy out there.
 

What about the end result? Give the government a big hammer and he will see everyone as a potential nail, even a joke, or an accident could put you in the wrong side of the stick.

And the government is a lot of people, with both clear big money behind bias, and people that could not do what is supposed to do with that information (Snowden is an example working against them, that was uncovered because he wanted to go public, think in others going against you for personal profit not going public).

Actions like this? Or like this? There are a lot of kinds of monitoring, some more intrusive than others, but the abuse of it is always ready to happen.

President Obama said he was committed to being the most transparent Administration in history. It seems to be coming true, but not in the way votes expected. But it is true, the administration is becoming increasing transparent.

The EPA’s Secret Email Accounts

Most Transparent Administration Evah is Riddled with Secret Email Addresses

More secret email accounts for Obama’s EPA chief?

So, this can be added to the growing list of administration scandals fighting for public attention: Benghazi, IRS suppression of conservative political groups, IRS suppression of orthodox religious groups, IRS suppression of adoption, IRS seizure of health records, exploding costs for healthcare reform, ....

I guess it must be morning wherever the press has been on vacation the last couple of years.

Mandating that you will have a backdoor in every computer and device will be a boom for security surely, as in nuking it, not security software will tell you that you have that backdoor opened. If you choose to leave part of your data to facebook ot twitter is your option (but better don't try to be funny with your friends, is risky). If someone uses that backdoor to read the password for your bank, or enter effectively to that bank, and steal your money, that isn't your option anymore (maybe stealing from your bank account is a bad example).

If Google have that information, US government agencies have access to it as well, and will use it, even if you don't belong to any company. And definately would call evil any patent/company that basically forbids joking

So you are walking in thin ice, you could get big charges for something that you don't see as a crime (or see it as a joke or a prank). And people do weird things in that kind of situations,

Heck, if the government already cant see all that you type, people that you don't know and could put you in big trouble (or at least, big inspection next time you go to an airport) if don't get the joke of something you said, why can't the people around you, that you already know?

We don't need his confession or his statements to convict and give him the death penalty 18 U.S.C. 1121, 1512, 2119, 2322a . Thus the question of Miranda is mute.

Besides he can't talk anyway, respiration tube/ throat injury/sedation..

THIS! Two guys with pressure cookers shut down a major american city, innocent American's were deprived of their 4th Amendment rights (just as one example, stripped naked guy) Endless pictures of paramilitary police and armored personell carriers roaming the streets of Boston Door to door searches by police that essentially are indistinguishable from military without search warrants brandishing firearms ... You tell me who won? It certainly isn't the American citizen.

THIS! Two guys with pressure cookers shut down a major american city, innocent American's were deprived of their 4th Amendment rights (just as one example, stripped naked guy) Endless pictures of paramilitary police and armored personell carriers roaming the streets of Boston Door to door searches by police that essentially are indistinguishable from military without search warrants brandishing firearms ... You tell me who won? It certainly isn't the American citizen.

Also... what exactly does skin contact with ricin do?

According to this, nothing:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/17/ricin-scare-in-washington-fast-facts-about-the-deadly-poison/

They don't need to monitor "the internet", few local points have good portion of all communications, if the private companies that handle that traffic do a lot more with it than just plain storing, then those 3-letter agencies can do it, and better . And they don't need to have people to watch all over it, pattern matching could do both online and offline searches to pick "interesting" traffic, and then focus on people (is not that there are'nt examples that they are actually doing it)

Probably they don't monitor/store "noise" (i.e. images, video and other binary formats that adds most of the traffic, and probably they don't focus in encrypted communications like https or vpns unless something calls their attention), but they surely have the resources to monitor all the rest.

Remote control aircraft are not permitted for commercial use.

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/04/17181948-damn-the-regulations-drones-plying-us-skies-without-waiting-for-faa-rules

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/15/faa-halts-mans-drone-photography-business-over-regulations/

Democrat activists came up with it. There is one fellow in particular, in the employment of George Soros, named Brett Kimberline whose made it an art form.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/05/25/readymeet-soros-funded-domestic-terrorist-brett-kimberlin-whose-job-is-terrorizing-bloggers-into-silence/

http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/lt1800/swatting-against-conservative-bloggers-continues-u

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/06/07/sen-demands-eric-holder-investigate-swatting-attacks-against-conservative-bloggers/

Democrat activists came up with it. There is one fellow in particular, in the employment of George Soros, named Brett Kimberline whose made it an art form.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/05/25/readymeet-soros-funded-domestic-terrorist-brett-kimberlin-whose-job-is-terrorizing-bloggers-into-silence/

http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/lt1800/swatting-against-conservative-bloggers-continues-u

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/06/07/sen-demands-eric-holder-investigate-swatting-attacks-against-conservative-bloggers/

http://original.antiwar.com/paul/2011/10/24/tsa-releases-vipr-venom-on-tennessee-highways/

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/20/2212225/tsa-doing-random-truck-searches-on-tennessee-highway

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2011/10/25/ron-paul-calls-tsa-jack-booted-thugs-in-response-to-highway-checkpoints/

The story was carried on a local television news segment, and in the segment, they were stopping automobiles, at random, as opposed to checking the trucks at the weigh stations. Those three links were among the first hits on a google search - there are lots more.

This is probably a result of the guy in Dallas that found a meat packing plant dumping blood in a nearby river via his video-capable drone.

please, fox just lies, saying other news networks are somehow as bad is ridiculous.

Saying "I hate Fox News, they are biased" doesn't scream out "I just want honest, balanced coverage". It screams out "I am a biased left-winger". Take one obvious example, NBC/MSNBC have had a rash of "selectively editing" videos recently. There was the 911 call in the Trayvon Martin case, the bogus sandy hook "heckling", and taking a Romney speech completely out of context.

The news gathering in the US is atrocious. Anyone who is not completely biased can see Fox is right-wing, MSNBC is left-wing, and the rest are center-left (although CNN seems to push more to the MSNBC side these days). They are all a bad combination of sensationalist ratings driven garbage combined with a huge agenda that rarely has the viewers' best interests in mind. If you don't view the news with a filter that considers the source, you are being deceived."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/trayvon-martin-nbc-news-editing-911-call-306359
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/29/msnbc-caught-selectively-editing-another-clip-this-time-of-sandy-hook-victims-father/
http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/06/19/msnbc-busted-for-editing-romney-comments-out-of-context-backtracks-sorta-video/