Media Bias?....What Media Bias??
POSTED BY: Jongsstraw
UPDATED: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 20:25
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Hello,
It seems to me that the news outlets in general have abandoned journalistic integrity in exchange for what they feel will draw viewers/sell papers.
But you can rest assured that if Obama makes a big gaffe (Offering Pork Sausage and Champaigne to the leader of Pakistan, for instance) that the media circus will turn on him, making him the freak of the week.
For Mccain's news coverage, we can see that his policies do not wildly diverge from his predecessor. So... nothing new, nothing interesting.
When Obama screws up, it makes news. And if Mccain says something different, it will make news. If a girl hits her brother with a baseball bat and kills him by accident at a little-league game, it will make news, and if Black Americans say they have trouble getting married, it will be a featured article at the top of CNN's headliners.
The news ceases to amaze me with its inequities.
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
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"Bush surrounded himself with people he thought had foreign policy experience, but they proved to be lawless, reckless, and inept."
This is bass-ackwards. 'The Team' - the neocons - picked Bush as their face on the machine, he didn't pick them.
As to whether or not Bush was even minimally qualified (or even mentally sound) for the job, the video says it all:
For an interesting take on the events in the video:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/schoolvideo.html
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Quote:See, this is why, politically at least, you're an idiot, AU. Your blind hatred of the 'left' and 'liberals' limits you to statements such as this. Your black & white world views, while admittedly comforting to have, are simplistic at best.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
McCain is more qualified in his little pinky than Obama is in his whole fist bumping body.
And I am no fan of Obama, I just see him as moderately less dangerous than McCain.
But from your POV, the fact that McCain is a Republican means he has an "S" underneath his shirt...
We need Ron Paulisall
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There have been an awful lot of assumptions about what people believe in this thread. These political discussions always get so nasty in forums, since people will type things they would NEVER say to somebody's face. (Yes, yes, I know YOU are perfectly honest, reader, and always say what YOU mean, no matter what, no matter who's listening. I obviously didn't mean YOU, I meant all those OTHER people. Srsly.) Really, folks, we all like to believe we are that uncompromising and brutally honest, but very few of us are, including me, and those who are that direct are usually thought of as tactless and rude.
To try to nudge this thing in some kind of useful direction, I think any objective analysis of the last 20 years of American politics would show that the 2-party system is doing more harm than good. The political machinery is too big, too pervasive, and has too much control over candidates who are supposed to be beholden ONLY to the voters. While I found Clinton to be despicable and not particularly bright, and think that most of his presidency was basking in the long-term benefits of conservative economic policies that got him re-elected even while his party ridiculed them (Historically a president's economic policies rarely, if ever, get to the grass-roots level before he's out of office.), I do at least applaud the fact that he was basically a self-made man. ALL Americans should have been apalled at the '04 election: Two old-money born (or married) billionaires. THAT is not what America is about. This election is equally apalling. Who am I supposed to support here? Obama's idealism is refreshing, but it hides a dangerous naivete. McCain does have some varying viewpoints, but are they really enough to ransom the country from the last 7 years of division? Do EITHER of these men have the FOGGIEST idea how to handle the situation they will be handed in the Middle East, or with an unsteady economy? Most importantly, will either of them advocate the smaller govermnment and greater personal freedom on which the nation was founded? The answer to that last question is a bit "NO" for both of them. I would like to vote 3rd party and send a message, but I am a pragmatist and do not want to "throw my vote away," and I know that ultimately that is all it amounts to when you do that. So, I will choose the lesser of two evils and move on.
To all of you who have chosen a party line and are defending it, all you're doing is standing hip-deep in pig-slop and slinging mudpies at the other guy doing the same thing, no matter which side you're on. It doesn't matter where the filth comes from, their side or yours, at the end of the day you're still going to be covered in $#!@. So, the rest of you, or those who realize how dirty it is down there, come up on the high road and watch the games below. The fight is so futile its become amusing to me...in a sad way.
The two-party fight across the nation ceased long ago to be about DOING right. Now it's just about BEING right. Either side will lead the country into damnation if it means being able to tell the other side, "I told you so." God help us all.
"When you can't do somethin' smart, do somethin' right!" -Jayne Cobb quotes Shepherd Book
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Obama makes the most inane comments imaginable, and no one in the media bats an eye...
You mean like when he pointed out the troubles on the border between Afghanistan and Iraq? Oh, wait - that was McLame. Can you show me the border between Afghanistan and Iraq on a map? When I look, all I can see between those two countries is some weird area called "Iran".
Mike
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence[sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions
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Quote:SHUT UP, TED!!!
Originally posted by SchoolboysWink:
those who are that direct are usually thought of as tactless and rude.
isall
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I was an Edwards supporter. I only reluctantly decided for Obama because I just couldn't support Hillary Clinton. But I would vote for anyone no matter what their party affiliation if I think they will follow policies I agree with on the whole (it's a rare person who finds the perfect candidate).
McCain ??? That bought and paid for sacrificial goat ? Don't you think that if the republican machine could get an idiot like Bush into the WH they couldn't do the same for a real nominee ? They've written off the presidency for this time around (and really, how good is any president going to be dealing with the mess Bush is leaving behind), their main effort is to make sure that IF McCain somehow stumbles into the WH he will be their puppet.
Ron Paul ? Sorry, the guy's a racist and misogynist, and in terms of being an extremist nut-job, just slightly behind McCain.
Show me a better candidate of any party, and I'll consider them.
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Quote:Maps that do not show that border are tricks by the American Left to lull us into a false sense of security...
Originally posted by Kwicko:
You mean like when he pointed out the troubles on the border between Afghanistan and Iraq? Oh, wait - that was McLame. Can you show me the border between Afghanistan and Iraq on a map? When I look, all I can see between those two countries is some weird area called "Iran".
Wemustattackisall
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So, I will choose the lesser of two evils and move on.
In other words, welcome to the pig-slop. Come on in, it's about hip-deep and rising.
I'm not the biggest Obama fan by any means, but when someone goes around making statements about how great a President Bush has been, and how "experienced" he was before he got into office, I have to call them on it. Factually, Obama is FAR more experienced at a national level than Bush was when he ran. Bush had NEVER served in any national office, he had run for a seat in the US House, and lost, badly; he had failed as an oilman, a businessman, a scholar, a pilot, a soldier, a male cheerleader, and at every other venture he'd ever tried, but being such an abject failure just means, to the folks like 'Rappy, that he's "experienced". Failure should not be the sum total of your life's experience.
People like to point out Bush's term-and-a-quarter as governor of Texas, but those people don't know a single thing about Texas politics. In this state (yes, I'm from here, unlike Bush, who wears a stupid cowboy hat and claims to be a "rancher", and is about as good at that as he was at finding oil in Bahrain), the governor has less than no power. He's a figurehead, and nothing more. This is by design; after the Civil War, the federal government had the right to install state governors, so Texas reworked their state constitution to give the governor no power whatsoever. Seriously, the Texas governor is tied with the governor of South Dakota for DEAD LAST PLACE when it comes to their power and legal authority to actually DO anything. The real power in this state lies with the Lieutenant Governor and with - of all things - the Railroad Commissioner (because he decides where the oil moves, and how, and when, and how much).
In other words, a United States Senator from Illinois has about three hundred million times as much actual power in this country as a Texas Governor. Hell, we think so little of our governor down here that someone just burned his house to the ground, and they're not even looking for the culprit! As much as I might understand the sentiment, I abhor the action; the Governor's Mansion here in Austin is a beautiful historical building, and trashing it was just pure stupidity. It's analogous to burning the White House because you don't like the current resident...
I just wanted to hear from 'Rappy himself how experienced in national-level politics he really thinks Bush was in 1999, because the answer is "NONE". He was "none experienced", as Spinal Tap might say.
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
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Originally posted by SchoolboysWink:
The two-party fight across the nation ceased long ago to be about DOING right. Now it's just about BEING right.
The bickering and political posturing began even before offical political parties. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson argued constantly about the direction this country was going to go in right from the formation of the country.
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