Another organization posing as a legitimate “watchdog” group has emerged and defecated an interesting new study (By study, I mean in the theistic sense, where one has a revelation of a hypothesis and fills in the answer themselves). The organization is called the Culture and Media Institute, and it’s the child of the infamous Media Research Center whose fair and unbiased headline reads “Documenting, Exposing, and Neutralizing Liberal Media Bias”. I don’t exactly know what neutralize means in this context, but all joking aside, that is rather alarming. So this is how it works. The organization says something, for instance in this case, that atheism is given favorable coverage in the press, and instantly, several major batshit news organizations write Non-Op pieces about the “study” that has effectively exposed an evil atheist conspiracy in the news media. You can find examples of this phenomena here and here.

What is particularly disturbing about this tactic is how these collective bodies of news organizations are attempting to flood the media with certain memes. One parent organization creates a “research” group that then funds a “study” which is then given to the collective news organizations to spread around… Before long the image that the “liberal” media somehow protects atheism (something we personally know is absurdly false, thanks Paula Zahn) is tossed around the in people’s heads as if it were a legitimate or valid claim. The meme flooding is not entirely unique, it exists in less fashionable form by organizations like the Heritage Foundation and the Discovery Institute, both of which are infamous for trumping “talking points” that have no basis in reality.

The head of these organizations is a man named Brent Bozell, who looks eerily like a block of stomach cheese and a viking.

I feel like we shouldn’t be condoning vikings to run media research groups. They may try to keep the fact that they raped and pillaged as a bloodsport out of the news.

Associated Press - March 11, 2008 12:54 PM ET

CHICAGO (AP) - Atheist activist Rob Sherman says it’s unconstitutional for Governor Rod Blagojevich to give $1 million to a burned-out church.

Blagojevich has said Pilgrim Baptist Church would use the money for administrative offices and educational purposes so not to violate the separation of church and state.

But Sherman says it would. He appeared at a morning meeting of the Illinois Capital Development Board even though the governor’s proposal wasn’t on the agenda.

Sherman says the governor can give away money but only for secular services.

Blagojevich pledged the money because the initial $1 million he promised after a 2006 fire at the church mistakenly went to an unaffiliated school.
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Okay, what the fuck. Strip this man of his office and his ability to put this kind of money anywhere. Churches should not be asking for government money, period. This kind of insanity needs to stop, and good for Sherman and his family for what they are doing over there in Illinois.