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
10:14 pm
LP
That is the same for Democrats…….. I voted for Hillary last time
NFL Playa
September 25th, 2012
10:14 pm
Maybe the MSM referees need to unionize more
So they can up their quality.
Cause the amateur hour MSM referees are making bad calls left and right.
Maybe we should stop listening to them.
Liberal Pariah
September 25th, 2012
10:14 pm
They BOTH don’t, just you
Poor homework by Jay...
September 25th, 2012
10:14 pm
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-viewpoint/082712-623715-one-sided-media-coverage-shows-bias.htm?p=full
…It wasn’t like he repeated the mistake in all 57 states, or more precisely in Beaverton, Ore., in May 2008; or while traveling on the “Intercontinental” railroad in Cincinnati on Sept. 23, 2011; or perhaps, while he was speaking to the “President” of Canada in Chicago on Aug. 7, 2007.
He might not have known how to say it in “Austrian” while in Strasbourg, France, on April 5, 2009; or perhaps he was thinking of “Polish Death Camps” at the White House on May 30, 2012; or thinking about when he met with world leaders in that splendid “Asian” city, Honolulu, on Nov. 16, 2011.
He might have been thinking of the brave Navy “corpse” man at the prayer breakfast in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 5, 2010, which may not sound so strange to someone who also said: “On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today…”
All these examples were unreported or under-reported gaffes of President Obama.
The mainstream media didn’t seem to think these incidents were worthy of a media feeding frenzy, unlike those of poor Dan Quayle.
Liberal Pariah
September 25th, 2012
10:14 pm
Obama is the Replacement Ref of Presidents
JamVet
September 25th, 2012
10:15 pm
BOTH, sore losers are…………………. losers.
It is fun to watch them squirm for Mitt as they try to sell themselves on the belief that they use “superior reasoning”.
The magic of one link to some nutjob birther website!
Being hyper critical is not the same as having critical thinking skills, cons.
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:15 pm
Braves still have an outside chance
They have pulled within 4 with 8 to go
Liberal Pariah
September 25th, 2012
10:15 pm
BOTH…I hate it that we have so much in common. I feel your pain.
Truly
Doggone/GA
September 25th, 2012
10:16 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”
First rule of the conned: NEVER let a good lie die
NFL Playa
September 25th, 2012
10:16 pm
Liberal Pariah
I beg to differ. The replacement refs showed up.
getalife
September 25th, 2012
10:17 pm
Both,
Their minds should be studied by psychologists
NFL Playa
September 25th, 2012
10:18 pm
“Braves still have an outside chance
They have pulled within 4 with 8 to go”
Spoken like a con
etc. etc. etc.....
September 25th, 2012
10:18 pm
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/donations-by-media-companies-tilt-heavily-to-obama/
Wall Street may lean Republican this presidential election cycle, but the New York media world is staunchly Democratic.
All the major media companies, driven largely by their Hollywood film and television businesses, have made larger contributions to President Obama than to his rival, former Gov. Mitt Romney, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit, nonpartisan Washington-based research group that publishes the Open Secrets Web site.
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:18 pm
Jam
Kam called it a few months ago. It will only get worse as the witching hour draws near………
Romney / Ryan: they need to adopt this theme song. They probably need one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKBttQmhDBw&feature=related
Marty Huggins'
September 25th, 2012
10:18 pm
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:07 pm
Umm yeah I never said it occurs everyday. Seems to be your point but it ain’t mine.
I would argue that if any senator today had proclaimed President Obama had sullied the Christian religion it would have been a lead story on every news outlet.
Seems when Harry Reid says it about Mitt Romney the only people at the AJC who have discussed it are editorial columnist.
Again it is in my opinion more bias by omission.
If it makes you feel better I could probably find the same type of bias by omission only slanted in a conservative fashion.
getalife
September 25th, 2012
10:19 pm
Both,
I thought the Braves are the first for the wild card.
G Mare
September 25th, 2012
10:19 pm
Okay, I am out for now. This discussion is circular, as it is going nowhere & persuading no one. Circular as in going nowhere & circling the drain. Wish I knew how to post that rimshot video; it really fits here.
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:21 pm
I would argue this, I would argue that but can’t find the blatant and obvious out of all the non editorials that ran today
hahahahahah
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:21 pm
getalife
They are, but still have outside chance to win the division, which would put the Nationals as the 1st WC team
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:22 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur8ftRFb2Ac&feature=related
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:24 pm
LP
No sweat. Several of my close friends are very conservative. Some of them social cons, others economic cons….. a few both
They give me no quarter, I give them no quarter………
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKOngTfTMs0
In the end, political ideology is one of many many variables that make up who we are as indivduals
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
September 25th, 2012
10:25 pm
Bias by omission = Boo-hoo-hoo nobody takes my my poutrage seriously, so they must be biased.
Marty Huggins'
September 25th, 2012
10:25 pm
Keep Up the Good Fight!
September 25th, 2012
10:13 pm
Well I liked Gladiator the movie. Thought it was too long though.
More into comedy and horror flicks. I know weird combo.
Why?
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
September 25th, 2012
10:13 pm
Oh no the horror I spelled something wrong. Not only that but I spelled something wrong that is not an actual word recognized in the English language.
No good arguments so you make this one really. You that desperate?
JamVet
September 25th, 2012
10:25 pm
Yep BOTH, the con meltdowns are going to grow exponentially in the next six weeks.
They are truly…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehwSEVbBZl4
The Media (hardly)...
September 25th, 2012
10:25 pm
“We thought we’d bring you up to date on those protesters, the Occupy Wall Street movement. As of tonight, it has spread to more than 250 American cities, more than a thousand countries — every continent but Antarctica.”
— Diane Sawyer on ABC’s World News, October 10, 2011. On a later edition, Sawyer corrected her still-absurd hype: “…more than a thousand cities around the world.”
“Can we just enjoy Obama for a moment? Before the policy choices have to be weighed and the hard decisions have to be made, can we just take a month or two to contemplate him the way we might contemplate a painting by Vermeer or a guitar lick by the early-seventies Rolling Stones or a Peyton Manning pass or any other astounding, ecstatic human achievement? Because twenty years from now, we’re going to look back on this time as a glorious idyll in American politics, with a confident, intelligent, fascinating president riding the surge of his prodigious talents from triumph to triumph….’I am large, I contain multitudes,’ Walt Whitman wrote, and Obama lives that lyrical prophecy….Barack Obama is developing into what Hegel called a ‘world-historical soul,’ an embodiment of the spirit of the times. He is what we hope we can be.”
— Esquire’s Stephen Marche in a column for the magazine’s August 2011 issue: “How Can We Not Love Obama? Because Like It or Not, He Is All of Us.”
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:26 pm
Kam
It is there and I know it……… All around us like the plague, but I just can’t show you unless I go to a right wing website………………
Atlanta 1
September 25th, 2012
10:28 pm
329 comments. Took 5 minutes for you to write and you got 18 in on a beautfiul day…
Your my idol…
The Media is ‘in the tank’ for this President. You would have to be an idiot not to see it – but that’s a fact of life- no point in whining about it…
Have a great night..
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:28 pm
Jam
It isn’t over yet, but I suggest you are on high ground come election day when this occurs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEQTJV_3-w
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
September 25th, 2012
10:29 pm
BOTH
I tripped over it on my way out the door this morning. You can’t swing a dead cat without knocking it down.
Kinda like those weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Marty Huggins'
September 25th, 2012
10:31 pm
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
September 25th, 2012
10:25 pm
As I thought you don’t want to discuss any issue. It is your wishes to simple ridicule any whom share a different opinion than yours.
I have made my case as to what I see as media bias. I am sorry you do not agree.
I gave you exactly what you have asked for yet each and every time you just cast it off as poutrage or some other cute little word.
Would you like to have a reasonable siscussion or you just want to call each other names and make fun of one another? Cause I can do that too I just choose to try and have a debate with facts and information.
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:31 pm
Kam
Bingo………
Post of the day
Give that man a gold star
Kam
Mary Elizabeth
September 25th, 2012
10:31 pm
G Mare, in case you check back in. I was named for my mother, and her mother, by my father. (Of course, one of his friends suggested, to my father, that he actually had me named for the queens of England!) Only months later, my father’s brother gave me the most horrendous nickname, when I was a toddler, that I have been trying to discard all of my life! But, tell that to your brother and sister!
You are a sweetheart, and I appreciate you!
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:32 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KPP6izjN6Y
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
September 25th, 2012
10:33 pm
I gave you exactly what you have asked for…
What “exactly” did I “ask” for, sport?
JamVet
September 25th, 2012
10:34 pm
Your my idol…
It is hard to take our cons seriously when they consistently make grammatical mistakes that would embarrass an average fifth grader.
More confusion…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIuf_SPvX-Y
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:35 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JybkqBGrVs&feature=related
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:38 pm
Everyone have a great night and an even better tomorrow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_JAgHxR14&feature=related
Get the LED out
gm
September 25th, 2012
10:42 pm
F. Sinkwich
That appease has kept this country safe for 4 years, as for Allen West, who cares what that disconnected wana be uncle tom thinks.
Marty Huggins'
September 25th, 2012
10:42 pm
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
September 25th, 2012
7:17 pm
What is your plan as a member of the media to regain our trust?
Our?
Who granted you the authority to speak for anyone other than yourself?
—————–
Did you post this or did you get name jacked?
If you did ask it you directly asked me something. I gave you the answer and you didn’t agree with it and I tried to show you my position.
So that’s what you asked of me.
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:45 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPM6ni4bQzc&feature=related
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
September 25th, 2012
10:45 pm
So that’s what you asked of me.
Good boy.
Now can you answer the question that you deflected earlier?
Who granted you the authority?
Mr. Snarky
September 25th, 2012
10:48 pm
As far as liberal bias goes, media outlets are businesses first and foremost. Headlines like “Obama’s lead grows” are always going to attract more readers than “Romney is with the margin of error”. You cons and your persecution complex are kind of pathetic not to see the MSM for what it is, and that is not liberal or conservative bias but dollar bias.
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:50 pm
Snarky
Correcta-mundo
Just Saying..
September 25th, 2012
10:52 pm
On the other hand, it IS becoming clearer what’s in Hanger 51. The few Republicans left who are connected to reality.
They’re hiding.
G Mare
September 25th, 2012
10:53 pm
Thank you for the appreciation, Mary Elizabeth! Re the nicknames, my brother was named Richard, always known to us siblings as “Dickie.” Took him a lot of years to retrain his three sisters to call him “Rick.” Ah families! I celebrate us now – Mare, Dee, Rick, & Elizabeth – for the kids we were & the siblings we still are, or perhaps I just wish we still were. It is hard to stay close to siblings across so many miles. I am here in GA, sisters are in CA, & our brother is in Hawaii. Yah for email!
Ah, I am into the nostalgia tonight, probably because of the scary med test I am facing this week.
That said, I am out for tonight.
JamVet
September 25th, 2012
10:54 pm
Loved that Lazy, BOTH what a badass band.
This was another…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrwk9SvdaLk
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:55 pm
G mare
Hope everything works out for the better
Best of luck
Tundra Dude
September 25th, 2012
10:56 pm
Marty wrote:
Why and or how would they exaggerate that much.
Actually, your sources have a bad case of BID (bad info disorder)
Fact: Maier Park hosts the annual Summerfest. This year there were 800,000 visitors over 10 days.
uDDer nonsense, 5,000 capacity…they have that many port-o-potties.
Your source forgot to mention the 23,000 seat amphitheater, I’d guess.
Marty Huggins'
September 25th, 2012
10:56 pm
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
September 25th, 2012
7:17 pm
What is your plan as a member of the media to regain our trust?
Our?
Who granted you the authority to speak for anyone other than yourself?
———–
I already answered it once. You didn’t like that answer. But I will give it again.
See a poll came out that showed 60% of those polled do not trust the media. I do not trust the media, both liberal and conservative. Therefore it is a logical thought to include myself with those who have expressed a distrust in the media.
So see there I was asking what to do to restore my trust and the 60% who also do not trust the media.
Therefor making us a group of those who do not trust the media.
I believe to show ownership or possession of something as a group the proper term is OUR.
When a group share an opinion and have. Informed their opinion is it not Their opinion?
See you chose to make up In your mind that it was a talk radio talking point. Or at least that is what you typed.
But again I was only speaking for those who had already confirmed to share the same opinion as I do. At least we share the opinion on this issue. Thus making it our opinion that we don’t trust the media
Now tell us all why that is not good enough for you.
I got it maybe you could call me some made up names too. Ya know to really set your point home.
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
10:57 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qQnGfZpIfY&feature=related
JamVet
September 25th, 2012
10:58 pm
October baseball back in the ATL!
Yeah, baby!
Sweet redemption after last September…
Welcome to the Occupation
September 25th, 2012
10:59 pm
Mr. Snarky:
I would argue that it is not quite as pecuniary as you suggest, but rather has more to do with the media as institution’s self-understanding as part of a privileged system of power. At least as important as the pure profit motive for ex. is the drive to establish contacts with individuals wielding real power, which is necessary obviously in order to report on it, but which ends up implicating those who witness it from that privileged perspective in the very power they cover, giving them a strong incentive to identity with the authors of the very power they are supposed to be viewing from a critical distance.
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
September 25th, 2012
11:00 pm
But again I was only speaking for those who had already confirmed to share the same opinion as I do.
Again — you are assuming authority to speak on behalf of others.
Again — who granted you that authority?
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
11:00 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9nfVrusSMg&feature=related
JamVet
September 25th, 2012
11:01 pm
Yes indeed lady G Mare, hang tough!
Good vibes going your way…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7h9jLCqFc
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
11:04 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh8Ic6MbtoU&feature=related
JamVet
September 25th, 2012
11:04 pm
The Fourth Estate has always been in a no win situation.
God bless our free press.
Just don’t ask Spiro “Nattering nabobs of negativity” Agnew!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHY5l4eaOF8
Marty Huggins'
September 25th, 2012
11:05 pm
Tundra Dude
September 25th, 2012
10:56 pm
You want to re think that. Cause this is what I found and it speaks about the actual event. 2500 seats and another 2500 in bleachers.
Obama to speak at BMO Harris Pavilion on Summerfest grounds
By Don Walker of the Journal Sentinel
Sept. 19, 2012 | (83) Comments
“President Barack Obama will speak to supporters Saturday at the BMO Harris Pavilion, the newest venue at Maier Festival Park.
The pavilion has seats for 2,500, plus benches for an additional 2,500 people. All of that seating is under cover.
At Summerfest this year, an additional 5,000 people could be accommodated at the pavilion on a standing room-only basis. Don Smiley, Summerfest’s president and CEO, said Wednesday that he was not sure whether standing room-only spaces would be made available.”
http://m.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/obama-to-speak-at-bmo-harris-pavilion-on-summerfest-grounds-mq6u1rp-170344706.html
Tundra Dude
September 25th, 2012
11:06 pm
Jay Bookman
For conservatives, it’s ‘Blame the media!’ time
Suggested assignment for conservatives:
Discover for yourselves who actually owns the major networks/papers and look at the makeup of the boards of directors.
Last time I checked, didn’t seem like a lot of flaming Liberals amongst them.
Journalists are employees. If the boss(es) disapprove of their work, obviously they can be let go.
Actually, the late Tim Russert said, he discovered early in his career, not to concern himself with pleasing the “boss”, but please the Owner!
They BOTH suck
September 25th, 2012
11:08 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJeBvNuYPMM&feature=related
Marty Huggins'
September 25th, 2012
11:10 pm
Kamchak ~Thug from the Steppes
September 25th, 2012
11:00 pm
They(all 60%) has already spoke to the matter of their trust in media.
I didn’t need any authority, they had already spoke for themselves in the poll. I’m not speaking for them and just because you insist on claiming otherwise doesn’t make it true.
Again if they had not already spoke for themselves and claimed to not trust the media I would not have included the. As sharing my distrust for the media.
But they had already spoke for themselves and by doing so they shared they had the same opinion as I. Thus we share the same opinion making it our opinion. And our lack of trust. See there is a group who has already spoke and and placed themselves in the 60% lacking said trust.
Deangelo
September 25th, 2012
11:13 pm
I follow a college football team a little west of there. Their last coach was fired after two years where he won 3 games. The current coach is 0-4. Last year’s coach had one a game by this date. Yet, there are a lot of fans who insist the new coach is better. He “looks” more organized on the sidelines. His team is “in the game.” He “seems” more upseet about bad plays. These fans say that other teams’ fans across the state were making fun of the old coach, but, even though the new guy has yet to win a game they’re glad we’ve chanaged coaches. Other than going from bad to worse, what’s the difference in these 2 coaches? Well, the new one who “looks” better and “appears” to be better organized, etc. isn’t the same race as the former coach. That’s about it. Clearly facts say the team was horrible last year and has only gotten worse, but these people see “real” improvement based on subjective factors. There are a ton of people who don’t think that their opinions might be subconsiously swayed by someone’s race, but I tell you, whether it’s in football, politics or the boardroom, these judgements are still made by certain people. It’s up to good people to direct the discussion back to the facts and away from name calling and non-measurable criteria when you hear this type of trash talk.
Don't Tread
September 25th, 2012
11:15 pm
“Rathergate..One event for which people were fired is of course complete evidence of so much bias.”
CBS defended the “authenticity” and “accuracy” of their reporting for weeks, until it was proven (repeatedly) beyond any doubt that the documents in question were forged. People were fired 6 months later, well after the election was decided.
Let’s not forget the MSM political contributions to Democrats. They’re not going to contribute a ton of money to people and then undermine them in their own press.
Then there’s the many studies on liberal bias in the media which found that liberal bias is injected into nearly all news subjects but most readily apparent when the topic of discussion is hot-button issues like gays, race issues, environmental issues, gun control, and entitlements.
Get Real
September 25th, 2012
11:17 pm
The media is left leaning and the majority of Americans do not trust what is being spewed as far as political reporting is concerned. Is this supposed to be some sort of epiphany?
Marty Huggins'
September 25th, 2012
11:19 pm
Thulsa Doom,
You do know the speech in question was held in the Pavillion and not the Amphitheatre right?
But don’t let facts get in the way right!
http://www.summerfest.com/about/bmo-harris-pavilion/
How many seats did it say it holds again? What is 2500+2500 again. Oh nevermind the pavilions own website answers that for me.
”
PURCHASING BMO HARRIS PAVILION CONCERT TICKETS OUTSIDE OF SUMMERFEST
For shows outside of Summerfest, the BMO Harris Pavilion will operate like other amphitheaters that feature reserved seats and General Admission Viewing Areas. The BMO Harris Pavilion features various high-quality seating options under the roof with custom padded chairs with cup holders in the first 5 rows and permanent fixed assigned seating in the rest of the Blue Circle (Lower Bowl 2,500 capacity). Additionally, the Upper Bowl features bleachers with backrests for added comfort (2,500 capacity).
General Admission Viewing Areas will accommodate approximately 5,000 attendees adjacent to the Upper Bowl and outside of the roof area.”
Anytime you feel that need to apologize or recant your earlier post just feel free. I already forgive you.
Marty Huggins'
September 25th, 2012
11:41 pm
Welp,
Think I’m gone hit the hey
Hope there are no hard feelings. Hopefully will get a chance to blog tomorrow.
Of course if I don’t means I’m making money so can’t complain.
Good night
And
Good Luck tomorrow all
Welcome to the Occupation
September 25th, 2012
11:42 pm
Get Real : “The media is left leaning and the majority of Americans do not trust what is being spewed as far as political reporting is concerned. Is this supposed to be some sort of epiphany?”
No epiphany, just a canard and half-truth for gulling the slow-witted.
Ron
September 25th, 2012
11:59 pm
Hey Jay, ever seen a grown man nekkid? Ever been to a Turkish prison? Do you like gladiator movies? KMA!
Get Real
September 26th, 2012
12:00 am
Welcome……just common sense for those of us with our eyes and ears open. Your moniker indicates where your head is……
TLM
September 26th, 2012
12:46 am
.
Oscar
September 26th, 2012
1:29 am
As far as the football game, bad calls are a part of the game and always will be. Take it in stride and don’t whine and be a baby. We all get bad calls and good calls. Whether we play football, work in an office or in construction. Take it and go on.
Oscar
September 26th, 2012
1:53 am
And I will add the same is true if you write for a newspaper or if you are running for office.
And for Romney and the polls. Romney is one of those guys that the more you know him, the less you like him. And the more he talks the more the public knows about him. Hard to blame the media for that.
Time to shut down for the dayeven for oldsters like me that like to stay up at night.
ld
September 26th, 2012
2:36 am
Romney’s problem IS the media in that it’s actually reporting the stuff he’s saying.
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Mary Elizabeth
September 26th, 2012
3:50 am
G Mare, My thoughts and prayers are with you concerning your medical tests. Peace be with you.
Mary Elizabeth
September 26th, 2012
3:52 am
Here is an article worth reading by Paul Krugman, regarding media “balance.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/opinion/krugman-the-centrist-cop-out.html?ref=paulkrugman
lynnie gal
September 26th, 2012
5:03 am
If Republicans can’t win even with their very own 24 hour news show that spews nothing but conservative propaganda, and nearly complete domination of talk radio, there’s no hope for them. Awww…
Mary Elizabeth
September 26th, 2012
5:27 am
Continuing the theme of extremism, in a different context, from my last post is today’s front page headline in the AJC:
“Obama: World must reject extremism”
“Confronting global tumult and Muslim anger, President Barack Obama (at the UN General Assembly) exhorted world leaders Tuesday to stand fast against violence and extremism, arguing that protecting religious rights and free speech must be a universal responsibility and not just an American obligation.”
stands for decibels - race traitor
September 26th, 2012
5:56 am
I saw this Jay-piece earlier, couldn’t quite formulate an on-topic response but I think I’ve got a shred of an idea worth sharing now.
I think I understand the appeal of blaming the media for any misfortunes. It makes for a fabulous Unified Theory of Everything to Infinity and Beyond. If you’ve decided that virtually anyone who decides to report news for a living is by their very nature to your political left, then it would make sense that everything coming from those people is slanted against you.
(obviously I can offer a half-dozen reasons why this Unified Theory is utter horse-hockey, and frequently I do, but I’m not in the mood right now.)
stands for decibels - race traitor
September 26th, 2012
6:00 am
Here is an article worth reading by Paul Krugman
Be warned–he is TIRED of trying to reason with you people.
Fred ™
September 26th, 2012
6:42 am
Wow, not even the late night trolling with the Rush Limbaugh bumper sticker slogans. The Republicans must be really feeling scared…….
weetamoe
September 26th, 2012
6:43 am
As Jay Carney once explained, *The president was not understood by some people because he is a professor of law. He speaks shorthand.* And the media did not explode into laughter. Instead they all nodded wisely and discussed in detail all of the scholarly articles Obama has written, and quoted all of those glowing praises of his lectures by former students. And the media totally forgot to speak truth to power while smearing the middle class TEA party conservatives who had not the power but the courage to do just that.
Fred ™
September 26th, 2012
6:51 am
Oh gee, another dolt who thinks the tea party fools are intellectuals. I think the whole teaparty “movement’ was summed up by that tea party idiot holding a sign at a rally that said, “Keep your Gov’t hands off my medicare!!!!!!!!”
Orange12
September 26th, 2012
6:54 am
Just remember. The USA is living off money Obama and his administration have borrowed and have no clue how to pay it back. The total gets bigger every day.
Jay
September 26th, 2012
6:57 am
How utterly charming of the Mecklenburg County (VA) Republican Party:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151047858243909&set=a.10150117213753909.290606.78005643908&type=3&theater
Jay
September 26th, 2012
6:57 am
I’m sure the media made them do that.
Fred ™
September 26th, 2012
7:00 am
Orange12
September 26th, 2012
6:54 am
Just remember. The USA is living off money Obama and his administration have borrowed and have no clue how to pay it back. The total gets bigger every day.
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How do you live with yourself telling so many lies? Don’t you have a conscience?
Orange12
September 26th, 2012
7:01 am
Another typical Obama supporter.
http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=761142&ocid=ansent11
Orange12
September 26th, 2012
7:03 am
Fred,
Take your meds, you’re going off the deep end again.
Doggone/GA
September 26th, 2012
7:03 am
Jay – wish I could see that photo – whatever it is, but my employer blocks facebook access
USinUK - thug with a uterus ... and former Girl Scout
September 26th, 2012
7:13 am
for Republicans, it’s ALWAYS blame the media time!
” … THAT’S how big a conspiracy it is!”
Resistance is futile!! You will be assimilated
USinUK - thug with a uterus ... and former Girl Scout
September 26th, 2012
7:16 am
Jay – 6:57 – what kills me is that those pics have been there for months – and only NOW have they been found to be “offensive”
stands for decibels
September 26th, 2012
7:16 am
Jay – wish I could see that photo
It’s the “Obama the witch doctor with the bone in his nose” pic that right wingers have been circulating for years to convince us that Obamacare is bad.
I could google it and link you to it, but you know, f-ck those guys.
USinUK - thug with a uterus ... and former Girl Scout
September 26th, 2012
7:17 am
“It’s the “Obama the witch doctor with the bone in his nose” pic”
but noooooooooooooo, they’re not RACIST or anything …
AU Liberal in ATL
September 26th, 2012
7:20 am
Romney is a lousy politician, not to mention that his policies, as far as anyone can tell, are equally lousy. Place blame or give credit where ever you like. I personally think the real problem for the republicans is their extreme lurch to the right and their willingness to pander to the Tea Baggers and the ridiculously religious.
Re-electing the President is the most important issue we currently face as a country. A new poll now has the President up by double digits in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. If those numbers hold, and I fully expect they will, it’s over.
This is exactly what Limbaugh, Hannity, OReilly and the like are really hoping for. For them it means job security.
Jack
September 26th, 2012
7:20 am
Liberal polls are generated by non-voting liberals who want the present welfare programs to continue and grow in scope.
Fred ™
September 26th, 2012
7:22 am
Jack
September 26th, 2012
7:20 am
Liberal polls are generated by non-voting liberals who want the present welfare programs to continue and grow in scope.
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How cute. Here’s Jack with his daily Rush inspired driveby.
Wave at the funny little man……..
stands for decibels
September 26th, 2012
7:22 am
Liberal polls are generated by non-voting liberals
Including heavily Gooper house effect pollsters like Rassmussen? and Gallup?
anyway, sheetz.
Fred ™
September 26th, 2012
7:22 am
LOL we HAD fresh sheets for a moment but there was a formatting error. I WAS first………..
Uneducated, uninformed, vote against my best interest, Howdy Doody
September 26th, 2012
7:23 am
I saw Mitch Romly on 60 minits and he said it was garantede that he was gonna win. He said it and I beleive it becoze he is a fine Christain famly man. Mitch Romley is Gods canidate.