Media Bias?....What Media Bias??

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JONGSSTRAW

Monday, July 21, 2008 5:28 PM

All Big-3 Network News anchors are with Obama in Iraq. When McCain went there I think maybe it was mentioned in the late edition of the Tombstone Epitaph. Any debate about the liberal media being in the tank for Obama is over. I think Couric brought her autograph book along.

SIMONWHO

Monday, July 21, 2008 5:39 PM

Except that the media give McCain a free pass on pretty much everything, not out of bias, but if they actually did their job and reported how inept he is, there simply would be no contest and the news media needs there to be a sense of drama in the run up to the election.

MIIKE

Monday, July 21, 2008 5:49 PM

mccain should go back and lock himself in his cage in hoa lo and save the world from another disasterous presidency.McCain was put in the infamous Hoa Lo Prison. This ghastly, brutal place was built by the French in 1896

October 12th, 1985. Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.

JONGSSTRAW

Monday, July 21, 2008 5:51 PM

"Except that the media give McCain a free pass on pretty much everything, not out of bias, but if they actually did their job and reported how inept he is, there simply would be no contest and the news media needs there to be a sense of drama in the run up to the election."

You could say the same thing for their failure to report Obama's many gaffes as well. While they may not brazenly appear to be anti-MCain, they do seem to appear to be all in Obama's corner, and this un-precedented coverage of his trip is a dire indication that they don't even give a darn anymore about hiding it.

KWICKO

Monday, July 21, 2008 5:58 PM

The word I heard from the Big 3 was that, simply put, Obama invited them along - and McBush didn't.

So, since he didn't think of it, it's automatically a "bad thing" for Obama...

Mike

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KWICKO

Monday, July 21, 2008 5:59 PM

And, of course, there's that whole McSame-chiding-Obama-for-not-having-gone-to-Iraq-lately thing - and NOW they're bitching about him GOING.

Christ, man, Phil Gramm was right - McCain's supporters really ARE a bunch of whiny bitches!

Mike

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence[sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

I can't help the sinking feeling that my country is now being run by people who read "1984" not as a cautionary tale, but rather as an instruction manual. - Michael Mock

The Myrmidons were an ancient nation of very brave and skilled warriors as described in Homer's Iliad, and were commanded by Achilles. - Wikipedia

HERO

Monday, July 21, 2008 6:28 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
And, of course, there's that whole McSame-chiding-Obama-for-not-having-gone-to-Iraq-lately thing - and NOW they're bitching about him GOING.

Actually they are bitching about Obama setting his policy BEFORE finding out the facts.

They are also mentioning to the one or two media types who DIDN'T take the trip with Obama that Obama opposed the surge and the surge worked.

Both valid points. Not that anyone is around to here them.

If a tree fall in the forrest but the media does not cover it...does it make a noise?

H

SERGEANTX

Monday, July 21, 2008 6:53 PM

The mainstream media have become the tools for the rich and powerful to manage the herd. They warp our society as they warp the minds of those who sign up in the name of entertainment. I don't see things changing until people wake up from their TV induced stupors.

That's starting to happen around the edges, but I'm not sure the 'core constituency' will ever be anything more than malleable putty in the hands of the Karl Roves of the world.

SergeantX

"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock

FREMDFIRMA

Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:47 AM

I think it's that the big media has simply realized nobody gives a shit.

This one's a no-contest, McCain is draggin around so much party baggage that even a lot of die hard conservative types won't lift a finger, and the blowback hostility directed at the current administration (as if it weren't enabled by a pack of feckless, gutless democrats who played doormat since they got elected ) is carried over right onto him by default.

I don't much like Obama neither, in fact he represents more of the same we've gotten for years at the hands of HIS party, endless platitudes, lies and promises, but no real action whatever.

But then, considering what's going to happen to his ass one way or another, I don't feel too sorry for him neither.

If someone bags him, well, he gets to his maker a bit sooner than the rest of us....

And if they don't - then he gets crushed under the mountain of epic FAIL the current administration has left, which'll be all the worse since they will no doubt pull an Engler and sabotage everything in sight on the way out as a gesture of petty retaliation against us "peons" for failing to provide them with the fawning adoration they think they deserve.
(While nearly every one of them flees the country at high speed, care to make some BETS on that one, folks ? )

If Obama is smart, and I haven't decided whether he is or isn't, cause he plays a good PR-poker game, he's gonna hold out as long as possible and at the last minute select someone SO evil that no one would dare assassinate him cause they'd be stuck with THAT monster instead....

You know, kinda like Shrub did.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

AURAPTOR

Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:23 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SimonWho:
Except that the media give McCain a free pass on pretty much everything, not out of bias, but if they actually did their job and reported how inept he is, there simply would be no contest and the news media needs there to be a sense of drama in the run up to the election.

McCain is more qualified in his little pinky than Obama is in his whole fist bumping body. Talk about not doing their job and showing how inept someone is, Obama makes the most inane comments imaginable, and no one in the media bats an eye.

" No one has a crystal ball. "

OH REALLY! Then how else do you explain the fact that McCain called for more troops to deal w/ the violence in Iraq, and when more troops made the scene, the violence went down ?? If McCain ( and yes, Bush ) don't have a crystal ball, then it must be EXPERIENCE and sound JUDGEMENT which you DON'T have, that allows them make that call.

Sorry you just talked yourself out of the Presidency. Maybe next time you won't be such a NOOB when it comes to - EVERYTHING!

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