For conservatives, it’s ‘Blame the media!’ time
Alarmed by polls that they claim not to believe, conservatives are rushing to find explanations for why Mitt Romney may lose the presidential race.
You know, the race that they claim they don’t believe he’s losing.
The obvious explanation is the same one they trotted out after their 2008 defeat at the hands of Barack Obama: The media. Four years ago, you may recall, Obama supposedly got elected because the media failed to “vet” him properly by making a big deal of the Rev. Wright and Tony Rezko and the birth certificate, etc. Such criticism overlooked the fact that their own presidential candidate, John McCain, also failed to make a big deal of those things. He and his staff not only judged those claims unconvincing, they feared they would cause a backlash against the GOP should he bring them up.
You see, McCain understood that the things that get the base all riled — the things that they see with perfect clarity through their right-wing lens — just don’t look the same to the rest of the country.
This year, the press is once again coming under attack from conservatives unable to believe that they again appear to be losing an election to that Kenyan Marxist anti-colonialist. In fact, if you accept the notion that right-wing vitriol rises in direct proportion to right-wing desperation, these arguments provide more compelling evidence of Mitt Romney’s problems than any poll could offer.
For example, Mona Charen complains that “Mitt Romney is facing perhaps the most corrupt and tendentious coverage in presidential history as members of the fourth estate eschew any semblance of integrity in their attempt to skew interpretations in favor of their pinup, Mr. Obama.”
“In 1988, Michael Kinsley issued a now-famous definition: “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.”
Now, almost a quarter century later, we need a new definition for the word. Here’s mine: “A gaffe is a statement that makes a Republican politician look bad.”
And of course, the always consistent Jennifer Rubin at The Washington Post, apoplectic that Obama supposedly called the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens “a bump in the road,” tell us that “Had Romney said such a preposterous and grossly insensitive thing as Obama did, there would be calls for him to quit the race; alas, when Obama does it’s not even front-page news for most of the mainstream media.”
(The fact that Obama said no such thing does not deter Rubin in her belief that the media should have condemned him for it.)
However, to get an insight into just how deep this thing really runs, you have to go to the home page of National Review, where they ask their readers an intriguing question: “Are conservative pundits too tough on Romney?”
And the answer is, of course they are!
Conservatives believe that even conservatives are biased against conservatives, THAT’S how big a conspiracy it is!
– Jay Bookman
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They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
8:52 pm
Orange12
Reid is a dufus. I have said that numerous times.
F. Sinkwich
September 25th, 2012
8:52 pm
“Why is this bias always LIBERAL?
Maybe because, if you look at the world from a VERY conservative position, as you clearly do, everything will of course seem liberal.”
C’mon Jay. There exists no, as in zero, zip, nada conservative bias EVER at ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, WaPo, NY Times, AJC, etc.
If you show me ANY example, I would be shocked.
JamVet
September 25th, 2012
8:53 pm
scott…Damn you are persuasive.
Marty Huggins'
September 25th, 2012
8:53 pm
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
September 25th, 2012
7:38 pm
I don’t understand why you feel the need to be such a d1ck but hey ya your choice.
Would it have been better if I asked what Jay plans to do to get the trust back of the 60% who do not trust the media?
Would that have essentially change the context of the question I asked?
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
8:56 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NmQswZk9qA
getalife
September 25th, 2012
8:56 pm
Orange12,
It is pretty obvious, those two Mormons don’t get along.
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
8:58 pm
Jam
Jam on this Steely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQqhqbrXhI
What a tune?
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:02 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUtZ2J6rNDw&feature=related
getalife
September 25th, 2012
9:02 pm
filky,
Do you watch cnn?
wolfie apologized for asking dan senor about Dowd’s piece on neocons slithering back with romney.
dan said it was not worthy of comment and wolfie said yes and laughed.
There ya go.
JamVet
September 25th, 2012
9:02 pm
BOTH, good call and great Dan.
The endless con whining (Everybody is out to get us!!!) gets old.
Another great Dan…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8C7bupfY9s
barking frog
September 25th, 2012
9:04 pm
All government blames the
media at some point except
the SCOTUS and they just
ignore it.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
September 25th, 2012
9:04 pm
Would that have essentially change the context of the question I asked?
Yes.
This has been another episode of one word answers to a simple(ton’s) question.
JamVet
September 25th, 2012
9:06 pm
Those test tubes and the scale
Just get them all out of here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGr6knsm8t0
Adam
September 25th, 2012
9:06 pm
GOP after election day: “They sampled too many Democrats!!!”
Marty Huggins'
September 25th, 2012
9:08 pm
JamVet
September 25th, 2012
8:04 pm
That’s a fine piece you put out there.
Only problems it’s full of lies, conjecture, and outright speculation.
For your information as to not make yourself look like a disseminator of false information. If you care about that sort of thing.
Me personally I do not watch too much news. Can honestly say in MY home I have never watched Fox, or Msnbc, watched CNN once by accident for a while. Must admit my wife watches Nancy Grace’s crazy self.
Now I do watch channel 4 news in the AM here in the ATL.
But I don’t watch PBS or any of the other outlets you mention.
Guess I don’t like people telling me what the news is. I guess I would rather read it myself.
Now carry on with your elitist attitude and have a nice day.
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:10 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmw3MINdaTw&feature=related
back at you
Jam: Not one person was willing to present one non editorial article and dissect it for the “liberal bias” yet they all claim it is there…….
WOW……….. willful ignorance and even stupidity is a shame
I have only brought up hat challenge 5 or 6 times since I have been on this blog. Not one person has ever replied. EVER
If it was so prevalent, it should not be too difficult. Guess they need that talk radio (that they don’t listen to) to tell them when it is there and how much of it exists.
TaxPayer
September 25th, 2012
9:10 pm
Wow! Conservatives just see liberal everywhere they look. Except the mirror. That’s their one and only truly safe place. Wait! What’s that! The mirror was made in Iran. And it was made to make what is reflected look like it is conservative. Be paranoid, conservatives. Be vewwwwwy paranoid.
getalife
September 25th, 2012
9:11 pm
Where do you read your news Marty?
Marty Huggins'
September 25th, 2012
9:12 pm
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
September 25th, 2012
9:04 pm
How?
F. Sinkwich
September 25th, 2012
9:14 pm
“Only problems it’s full of lies, conjecture, and outright speculation.”
That’s Jammie’s raison d’être.
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:14 pm
Adam
That is funny
Welcome to the Occupation
September 25th, 2012
9:15 pm
F. Sinkwich: “There exists no, as in zero, zip, nada conservative bias EVER at ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, WaPo, NY Times, AJC, etc.”
As I explained, there is barely any outlet as war-mongering as the Washington Post, a place where every rumor and half-baked rationale for why we should join the Netanyahu/Likud party line in justifying a pre-emptive attack on Iran is breezily aired right from the mouthpiece of the editorial page.
The views expressed on such matters dovetail nicely with some of the more warlike right wing views expressed here as we saw in the previous thread.
As for the New York Times, while it is certainly not as breathless in its rush to justify war adventures like Iraq, it’s not far behind the WaPo, especially when you consider the platform it gives warmongers like Thomas Friedman.
So, if you don’t think that there is any “conservative” opinion represented by any of the MSM outlets in this country, that just goes to show how little you know about how the media really works.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 25th, 2012
9:15 pm
channel 4 news in ATL? Hmmmmm… sounds elite. Must be a private station.
JamVet
September 25th, 2012
9:16 pm
Keep Reid and Romney.
Give me Anderson and Hunstman. (A thinking man’s Mormons.)
Marty, see my 8:15…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS8BaYxkRbc
Doggone/GA
September 25th, 2012
9:16 pm
“Also I wonder why Foxs ratings are so high if they are only catering to a small group”
Fox News is the #1 CABLE news network. Cable viewership of news is tiny compared to network news. Being #1 of a small segment only counts as “high” in a small way.
Mary Elizabeth
September 25th, 2012
9:17 pm
G Mare, 7:48 pm
Thank you for your kindness.
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:17 pm
Sink
Any problems dissecting that non editorial article for liberal bias?
hahahahahaha
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:20 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba_nYP6e_JE
Tap Out
September 25th, 2012
9:21 pm
“Whine, cry, complain, point fingers, accuse”, seems to be the motto of the GOP. I’m way to masculine and hard to be a republican.
Marty Huggins'
September 25th, 2012
9:21 pm
getalife
September 25th, 2012
9:11 pm
A variety of sources actually. I am sure you will show me how they are awful and biased as well.
I usually read my news from online sources. I have found the paper editions outdated and a waste of trees.
I start my day off by checking 3 sites daily, BBC news online, then usually the AP, followed by Consortium news(picked it up in college).
Then thru the day I visit the usual suspects of ABC news, CBS news and a sprinkle of CNN. Occasionally I check out Reuters.
Is there any other questions you would like answered about me Ms. Couric?
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:22 pm
Doggone
It is like saying you placed 1st in the time trials after the medals have already been handed out for the actual event
Marty Huggins'
September 25th, 2012
9:23 pm
Doggone/GA
September 25th, 2012
9:16 pm
Agreed, I was simply using the examples Jay had given to me.
Stonewall
September 25th, 2012
9:23 pm
One side says “Blame the Media”, the other side says “Blame Bush”. When will it end?? Blame both sides. As the Prince in Romeo and Juliet said “A plague on both our houses. All are punished.”
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:25 pm
Sink
And yes Bookman is biased, just as Wingfield is……….. Maddow, Hanitty, Limbaugh, Shultz, Olberman, Boortz, Krautehimer (misspelled)
Now, how about that non editorial article?
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:26 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq8OU-7JDFA&feature=related
JamVet
September 25th, 2012
9:27 pm
The one song that more than any other got me through those gawdawful George W. Bush years…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_XiffXlDao&feature=related
bman
September 25th, 2012
9:27 pm
I haven’t watched any news in years. If I were to watch, which one is the most balanced?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 25th, 2012
9:29 pm
bman — try SNL Weekend update.
F. Sinkwich
September 25th, 2012
9:30 pm
“Any problems dissecting that non editorial article for liberal bias?”
Look, SUCK, it’s been proven to all except the pea-brained that the MSM has a lib ilk bias, through and through.
If you refuse to accept that, that’s a you problem.
I’m not about to waste time once again substantiating the obvious. Next you’ll challenge me to prove the sun rises in the east.
Marty Huggins'
September 25th, 2012
9:31 pm
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:25 pm
I do not read the columns in the AJC. So I cannot claim they have a bias either way.
It does appear that Julia Wallace( the editor of the paper) did see some type of bias.
And if she didn’t see a bias then she created one by responding to a bias that was not there.
http://m.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/03/10/atlanta-paper-responds-concerns-about-bias-becomes-fairer
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:32 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCWVuCCWqzQ&feature=related
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:33 pm
Marty
Not asking for a survey but your or another blogger’s analysis.
You are welcome to pick the NY Times, Washington Post or whatever………
Just not an editorial
Thanks
Steve Shamrock
September 25th, 2012
9:33 pm
Jay…you really need to layoff the maryjane…you are truly delusional.
JamVet
September 25th, 2012
9:34 pm
I haven’t watched any news in years.
You and me.
What is most perplexing to me is how people can turn on and listen to hate radio first thing in the morning. That one I’ll never figure out…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGNdpnYYEkQ
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:34 pm
Sink
Thanks for your concession and inability to prove what you state without quoting another source…………..
woodstockmimi
September 25th, 2012
9:36 pm
In reply to Sinkwich at 8:42 p.m.:
“…condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims — as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. …are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.”
“Our response is to say that while we certainly don’t agree with, support, or in some cases, we condemn the views that are aired in public that are published in media organizations around the world, we, at the same time, defend the right of those individuals to express their views. For us, freedom of expression is at the core of our democracy and it is something that we have shed blood and treasure around the world to defend and we will continue to do so. That said, there are other aspects to democracy, our democracy — democracies around the world — and that is to promote understanding, to promote respect for minority rights, to try to appreciate the differences that may exist among us.”
Sinkwich, please tell me which of those statements is an apology or appeasement.
Steve Shamrock
September 25th, 2012
9:36 pm
Jay….this blog is almost as ridiculous as when you played the race card and got a serious beat down. Remember that.
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:37 pm
It is there because Boortz, Newsbusters, Fox, Limbaugh, etc said it is, isn’t using one’s own brain to prove what they claim to be true
If they said jumping off buildings is good for you, would you do it?
Liberal Pariah
September 25th, 2012
9:41 pm
Every non editorial article has a worldview behind it whether it be a Liberal or Conservative article. No serious person can deny the existence of liberal bias among the MSM. The press works almost in tandem with the Obama campaign to advance its arguments and downplay its candidate’s mistakes and shortcomings. Media bias is nothing new. It has been demonstrated in studies ranging over at least the last thirty years that the press leans decisively to the left. Just last year, Professor Tim Groseclose — no conservative — argued convincingly that media bias typically aids Democrats by 8-10 points in a typical election. It’s not as big a conspiracy as many conservatives think, it’s just the way most of the MSM believe and they report accordingly. After Watergate, the tone of journalism changed from reporting from the sidelines to being in the game.
getalife
September 25th, 2012
9:42 pm
Yeah Marty, one more question.
Why are you lying?
You just posted newsbusters
You read rw garbage..
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 25th, 2012
9:43 pm
Poor Marty, working so hard to claim he is above the bias and then citing newsbusters as a source….right up there with that TV station broadcasting all the way to Roswell.
G Mare
September 25th, 2012
9:44 pm
Mary Elizabeth, you are welcome. Apropos of nothing, the first of my double name is Mary &
I have a sister named Elizabeth. I don’t know if it is a catholic or a Southern thing – my sisters & I have double names. Sister #2 & I got shortened to Mare & Dee. Elizabeth was called Libby until, in adulthood, she opted for Elizabeth. As I said, apropos of nothing on this blog topic which seems to be going in the usual directions. SIGH. I am SO ready for the debates & the election TO BE OVER!
Okay, can’t resist: OBAMA/BIDEN 2012!!
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:44 pm
Liberal Pariah
Then you will dissect the non editorial of your choosing, right?
Jay
September 25th, 2012
9:45 pm
Jay….this blog is almost as ridiculous as when you played the race card and got a serious beat down. Remember that.
No, Steve. But I guess we can add that to your other right-wing fantasies.
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:48 pm
Jay
Can you help these folks out? I have presented the challenge numerous times and all I get is what someone has been told or some survey.
Seems that something so prevalent and obvious would not be that difficult to demonstrate unless the individual really doesn’t know it for a fact, but has willfully decided to believe whatever they have been told or read………. almost like programming or brainwashing……..
Liberal Pariah
September 25th, 2012
9:49 pm
Arthur Brisbane as he left the NYT observed this: ‘When The Times covers a national presidential campaign, I have found that the lead editors and reporters are disciplined about enforcing fairness and balance, and usually succeed in doing so. Across the paper’s many departments, though, so many share a kind of political and cultural progressivism — for lack of a better term — that this worldview virtually bleeds through the fabric of The Times.
As a result, developments like the Occupy movement and gay marriage seem almost to erupt in The Times, overloved and undermanaged, more like causes than news subjects.’
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:49 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSfOB8ANdWU&feature=related
Meanwhile...
September 25th, 2012
9:50 pm
The majority of Americans (60%) also continue to perceive bias, with 47% saying the media are too liberal and 13% saying they are too conservative, on par with what Gallup found last year.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/149624/Majority-Continue-Distrust-Media-Perceive-Bias.aspx
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:51 pm
LP
So you have that article or will you continue to rely on right wing websites or others sources?
It is that blatant, right?
G Mare
September 25th, 2012
9:51 pm
Jay@9:45,
!
Marty Huggins'
September 25th, 2012
9:51 pm
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:33 pm
Got a feeling no matter what I put up you are going to disagree. So what is the point. But against. Y better judgement. I will give it a run.
This is what popped up when I typed in “examples of media bias” this is the first link.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/top-50-examples-liberal-media-bias/
Quick examples off top of my head the Wall Street Journal and AP both claimed 18000 to be at an event in Wisconsin. With the AP even claiming it was the largest crowd this campaign season.
But it appears that the venue the Henry Maier Festival Park only holds about 5000 and worse I believe a local news showed footage of the event and it was not even full to capacity.
Why and or how would they exaggerate that much.
Now it’s your turn to tell me where I have errors and where all of the top 50 are wrong.
Joe the Prophet
September 25th, 2012
9:51 pm
It never fails to amaze me how Ralph Reed and his bunch, Faith and Freedom Coalition, support a polygamous, polytheitic cultist for President………
Even worse is how easily they sacrifice America’s well-being as a country for their ideological causes….
I’m thinking maybe those days are over, for a very long time…..
Liberal Pariah
September 25th, 2012
9:51 pm
Here’s 50 examples:
http://www.westernjournalism.com/top-50-examples-liberal-media-bias/
I know you won’t like the source but the facts are there though you are probably too ideologically blinded to see it. Jay did a great job of filling up a blog with a non issue. There is no debate, the MSM has a Liberal bias due to the worldview of those who work in it.
From Boortz (look at the message!!!)
September 25th, 2012
9:53 pm
While media bias has always existed, the American public seems to finally be realizing what I’ve realized for a while now: the ObamaMedia is in the tank for Barack Obama (hence the label, the ObamaMedia). This bias has become incredibly blatant because the ObamaMedia feels the need to defend itself, because it is largely responsible for the election of Barack Obama in 2008. His failure is their failure, so they will do what they can to make sure that he does not fail in November.
This bias comes in many forms. Here are just a few examples from the last few days …
CBS Doesn’t Air Obama Admitting Mistakes in Campaign Ads
CBS Concedes: Romney Better Push Libya Because the Press Won’t ‘Make the Case for Him’
Politico, WSJ and AP Report Obama Crowd in Wis. of About 5,000 as 18,000
Brent Bozell and the folks at the Media Research Center and Newsbusters have been chronicling this bias for years. In fact, Bozell just wrote a column on this the other day: ‘Bias by Omission’ in Liberal Media Has ‘Gotten to Ridiculous Heights.’ Sometimes the bias isn’t even in how you cover a story but what stories you choose to cover (or ignore).
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:54 pm
Marty, Meanwhile
You dissect the article of your choosing………….
You shouldn’t need a crutch, right?
If it is their for anyone to see then you should be able to show it in today’s AJC, NYT, WaPO, etc………….
Liberal Pariah
September 25th, 2012
9:54 pm
If BOTH is going to claim that a RW website is illigetimate because it is right wing then he loses his own argument because the same is true of the LW media. Otherwise known as the MSM.
I try not to confuse a Liberal with superior reasoning but it so hard not to.
JamVet
September 25th, 2012
9:54 pm
There is no debate, the MSM has a conservative, corporatist bias due to the worldview of those who own it.
Liberal Pariah
September 25th, 2012
9:56 pm
There is no debate, the MSM has a conservative, corporatist bias due to the worldview of those who own it.
Finally somebody throws some humor into the discussion.
Cherokee
September 25th, 2012
9:56 pm
There is no ‘liberal’ media.
The whole idea is an invention of extremist righties who try every day to sell their ideas in the marketplace – and fail miserably.
God forbid that they admit their ideas are not viable….
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:57 pm
Joe
Ralph Reed is a con artist……..
In his hey day with Abramoff, he would take payments from Abraomoff to advertise how evil gambling was to scare of certain Indian tribes from lobbying for casinos, while Abramoff would lobby for other tribes to have casinos in the same states……….
He uses his Christianity for his own profits…….. A sick and deceitful man he is
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:58 pm
“Years ago, Republican party chair Rich Bond explained that conservatives’ frequent denunciations of ‘liberal bias’ in the media were part of ‘a strategy’ (Washington Post, 8/20/92). Comparing journalists to referees in a sports match, Bond explained: ‘If you watch any great coach, what they try to do is “work the refs.” Maybe the ref will cut you a little slack next time.’”
Liberal Pariah
September 25th, 2012
9:58 pm
Example: Planned Parenthood’s founder espoused genocide and is in the business of killing babies, a disproportianate amount in the black community. Never gets reported from this angle. Why?
Marty Huggins'
September 25th, 2012
9:58 pm
getalife
September 25th, 2012
9:42 pm
Mighty big accusation to claim I lied.
Well see when I source something it is usually from a google search got a bad memory and can’t always remember where I read something.
I guess you missed the part where I stated I read a variety of sources.
I didn’t know I needed to list each and every single news site I have ever read and/or looked at.
But hey if you get an ego boost from calling folks liars by all means.
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:58 pm
‘The press isn’t quite as biased and liberal. They’re actually conservative sometimes,’
‘I admit it,’ Kristol told The New Yorker. ‘The whole idea of the ‘liberal media’ was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.
getalife
September 25th, 2012
10:00 pm
Lets play the game. Google media has corporate gop bias and look at all those articles. Which is true?
Well, that is up to the reader’s bias.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 25th, 2012
10:00 pm
Marty, so tell us again about that news you watch in the mornings on ch 4 here in the ATL? Or would that be Fox 5 news that you claim you never watch in “your home”.
Have you ever done any architecture?
kayaker 71
September 25th, 2012
10:01 pm
There is no liberal bias in the main stream media……..
BWhahahahahahahahahahahahahahah….. How can any person with more than one synapse believe that the media treats liberals and conservatives the same? This is so ridiculous that it is not even worth a post. Bozo could be an ax murderer or a child molester and the media would say that he is just misunderstood. The media, including Bookman’s blog, is not only biased but most of the time, tells only that part of the story that makes their point, whereby they stop. Only an idiot would believe what the main stream media produces is “news”. Bookman and the MSM are so far in the hip pocket of Bozo that the truth no longer matters. Hell, the New York Times sent a reporter to the WH to clear a story that they were about to run to make sure that Bozo’s WH approved. Now that’s reporting, wouldn’t you say? It is not only a joke, it is a pathetic excuse for what used to be journalism in this country. Bookman and the MSM wouldn’t know true journalism if if rose up and bit them square on the ass.
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:01 pm
LP
So I assume you will not be presenting an article from any msm article…………
hahahahahah
Boortz told me, Limbaugh claimed it……… I heard it on Fox and read it on Newsbusters
“No….. I don’t have any of my own evidence, but I tell you those source I named are golden,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I know it is true”
hahahahahahah
Jay's full of it....again....
September 25th, 2012
10:01 pm
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/mary-kate-cary/2012/09/21/americans-are-sick-of-medias-pro-obama-bias
I feel the same way—I’ve gotten to the point where I tune out much of the political coverage because it makes my blood pressure so high. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. On that same homepage at NBC News, here are the headlines for today:
1.Romney paid 14.1 percent effective tax rate in 2011
2.Obama’s battleground advantage grows
3.Obama hits Romney on 47 percent: ‘I don’t see a lot of victims’
4.Ryan gets boos at AARP conference
5.Polls: Obama ahead in Colorado, Iowa and Wisconsin
6.Obama swipes at Romney over ‘47 percent’ comments
And yet we know that Romney also gave away $4 million last year to charity; that there are just as many polls showing Romney within the margin of error as show Obama ahead; and that Ryan was also applauded at the AARP conference—but there is no mention of those in the headlines. Apparently NBC feels we need to be reminded twice that Obama disagrees with Romney’s ‘47 percent’ comment.
getalife
September 25th, 2012
10:03 pm
Marty,
I have been blogging for a long time and I can tell by reading your arguments. My bs detector is going off on you.
Jm
September 25th, 2012
10:03 pm
“right-wing fantasies”
I thought those involved toe tapping and swimming naked on foreign trips…..
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
September 25th, 2012
10:05 pm
LEVIN: ‘Michelle Obama The New Eva Peron With Her Lunch Standards’…
drudgey spam.
No bias there.
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:05 pm
getalife
Almost 3 hours and not one blogger has presented an article from today’s msm dissecting all the bias…….
They need talk radio, newsbusters and Fox to tell them the “examples” or they wouldn’t even have a clue
HIGH-LARIOUS
Marty Huggins'
September 25th, 2012
10:05 pm
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
9:54 pm
When did I claim it was there for anyone to see?
I’ll look forward to you dissecting all 50 examples given.
I mean you been asking for one, hell there are 50.
And yep I picked the one that was most present in my mind. But yet that makes it wrong. I’ll look forward to your dissection of that as well.
In my opinion most of the bias displayed in media regardless of if its conservative or liberal biasis the same it is here on a blog. It is done through omission of information. Or the ole good for the goose good for the gander thing.
Have you honestly never witnessed a bias by conservative or liberal media?
And yet another example...
September 25th, 2012
10:06 pm
Internal Department of Justice emails obtained by The Daily Caller show Attorney General Eric Holder’s communications staff has collaborated with the left-wing advocacy group Media Matters for America in an attempt to quell news stories about scandals plaguing Holder and America’s top law enforcement agency.
Dozens of pages of emails between DOJ Office of Public Affairs Director Tracy Schmaler and Media Matters staffers show Schmaler, Holder’s top press defender, working with Media Matters to attack reporters covering DOJ scandals.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/18/emails-reveal-justice-dept-regularly-enlists-media-matters-to-spin-press/#ixzz27XNzWODP
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:06 pm
“So I assume you will not be presenting an article from any msm article…………”
meant to type “any analysis from………………”
Liberal Pariah
September 25th, 2012
10:07 pm
BOTH..I don’t have the time or inclination to quote thousands of individual articles and I can tell you are not responding to my superior reasoning and arguments. The bias is in the ‘fabric’ of the articles as the reporting is being filtered in a particularly biased way. Happens with Libs and Cons. I gave you at least 50 examples of where this LW bias played out. Just because you don’t like the messenger doesn’t mean the message isn’t true. I need to find someone to dialogue with that is smarter than a 5th grader. Goodnight.
JamVet
September 25th, 2012
10:07 pm
Pariah, are yours the the tears of a clown?
Just manup, neocons and quit whining about how everyone is out to get you.
You and your Cult of Victimhood are beyond paranoid, and you’re always looking for excuses and somebody else to blame your losses on.
Absurd…
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:07 pm
Marty
Do you have an article from today’s msm that is not an editorial to prove your point?
It occurs all the time, right?
getalife
September 25th, 2012
10:08 pm
What happened to Kristol? Does he have Iraq remorse and starting to be honest. Talk about change.
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:08 pm
LP
Your concession has been accepted
Thanks for playing
Marty Huggins'
September 25th, 2012
10:08 pm
getalife
September 25th, 2012
10:03 pm
Well there ya have it. GetLifes bs meter is going off.
Can’t discuss issues but he hears his BS meter.
What a Joke.
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:09 pm
Jam
They are building their “excuse” case for what appears to be a Romney let down next month…………….
Liberal Pariah
September 25th, 2012
10:10 pm
To all the Conservatives here on this blog: Isn’t funny to watch Libs deny something so obvious most of them don’t truly believe their denials? They are just glad for it. To deny bias in any media is ignorant and to deny LW bias in the MSM is beyond ignorant. Sheesh.
Marty Huggins'
September 25th, 2012
10:10 pm
Getalife,
Let me guess you are one of those nut jobs that listens to your “Gaydare” too huh?
Simply amazing!
Liberal Pariah
September 25th, 2012
10:10 pm
I didn’t concede. I claimed victory. Happens to you all the time I am sure.
Liberal Pariah
September 25th, 2012
10:13 pm
Jam…I deal in facts as I see them. Life isn’t fair and neither is politics. The irritating thing to me as a Conservative is that even though I feel he is a superior candidate to Obama, Romney is what I have to vote for. It’s been a long time for me that I have not had to hold my nose when I vote.
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:13 pm
Claiming victory over a dolt like yourself……….. yes it does
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 25th, 2012
10:13 pm
Marty, do you like movies about gladiators?
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
September 25th, 2012
10:13 pm
Gaydare?
A variation of truth or dare, perhaps?