#26958 - 02/28/10 07:38 PM
Re: Liberal Media Bias, my ass!
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I think Democrats have learned to "expect no help" from the media.
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#26960 - 02/28/10 07:51 PM
Re: Liberal Media Bias, my ass!
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If you're suggesting an editorial board looking at John "Bomb, Bomb, Iran" McCain and his tag-along nincompoop Sarah Palin, coming to the conclusion that the other candidate was preferred is a "bias", then we'll have to agree to disagree or you're not being serious.
I know candidates who have been endorsed by and had their opponents endorsed by the same paper. Did that media source have a bias and then lose it?
Edited by Stash (02/28/10 07:52 PM)
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#26962 - 02/28/10 07:56 PM
Re: Liberal Media Bias, my ass!
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I'm suggesting (seriously) that the Democrats received "help" from the media in the last election.
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#26963 - 02/28/10 08:01 PM
Re: Liberal Media Bias, my ass!
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I'm suggesting (seriously) that the Democrats received "help" from the media in the last election.
The topic is "Liberal Media Bias". It's a myth created by the Wrong Wing in order to brainwash the lemmings who will give it traction. Every candidate seeks endorsements and, yes, they can help (they don't always). But, it is not due to a "Liberal Media Bias". And Democrats don't automatically expect them (or help) as they would if a "Liberal Media Bias" existed.
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#26964 - 02/28/10 08:21 PM
Re: Liberal Media Bias, my ass!
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I'm suggesting (seriously) that the Democrats received "help" from the media in the last election. Well, look at the alternative. Can anyone seriously suggest that McCain was a better alternative? Obama was fortunate that the republicans nominated McCain, rather than say Chuck Hagel, Richard Lugar, or any number of other competent republicans.
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#26965 - 02/28/10 08:24 PM
Re: Liberal Media Bias, my ass!
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Ahem. I was responding to: I think Democrats have learned to "expect no help" from the media You're not turning all Turnow on me, are you? But speaking of liberal media bias, we have acknowledgement straight from the donkey's mouth: “I don’t know if it’s 95 percent...[but] there are enough [liberals] in the old media, not just in ABC, but in old media generally, that it tilts the coverage quite frequently, in many issues, in a liberal direction....It’s an endemic problem. And again, it’s the reason why for 40 years, conservatives have rightly felt that we did not give them a fair shake.” — ABC News political director Mark Halperin appearing on The Hugh Hewitt Show, October 30, 2006
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#26968 - 02/28/10 08:44 PM
Re: Liberal Media Bias, my ass!
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— ABC News political director Mark Halperin appearing on The Hugh Hewitt Show, October 30, 2006
The Hugh Hewitt show? This is your "proof"? LMAO Hugh Hewitt is just to the right of Adolf Eichmann, and Halperin claims to "agree with everything he says politically." Gee, I wonder if Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity think there's a "liberal bias" in the media, too?
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#26970 - 02/28/10 08:55 PM
Re: Liberal Media Bias, my ass!
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Thank you, SemantiCop. Sheese.
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#26971 - 02/28/10 09:34 PM
Re: Liberal Media Bias, my ass!
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Hugh Hewitt is just to the right of Adolf Eichmann, and Halperin claims to "agree with everything he says politically." So that's proof that liberalism is a mental disorder. 
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#26977 - 03/01/10 08:12 AM
Re: Liberal Media Bias, my ass!
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I'm suggesting (seriously) that the Democrats received "help" from the media in the last election.
The Memo was born with the Bush administration, early in 2001, and, intentionally or not, has ensured that the administration's point of view consistently comes across on FNC. This year, of course, the war in Iraq became a constant subject of The Memo. But along with the obvious - information on who is where and what they'll be covering - there have been subtle hints as to the tone of the anchors' copy.
For instance, from the March 20th memo: "There is something utterly incomprehensible about Kofi Annan's remarks in which he allows that his thoughts are 'with the Iraqi people'. One could ask where those thoughts were during the 23 years Saddam Hussein was brutalizing those same Iraqis. Food for thought." Can there be any doubt that the memo was offering not only "food for thought", but a direction for the FNC writers and anchors to go? Especially after describing the U.N. Secretary General's remarks as "utterly incomprehensible"?
The sad truth is, such subtlety is often all it takes to send Fox's newsroom personnel into action - or inaction, as the case may be. One day this past spring, just after the U.S. invaded Iraq, The Memo warned us that anti-war protesters would be 'whining' about U.S. bombs killing Iraqi civilians, and suggested they could tell that to the families of American soldiers dying there. Editing copy that morning, I was not surprised when an eager young producer killed a correspondent's report on the day's fighting - simply because it included a brief shot of children in an Iraqi hospital.
These are not isolated incidents at Fox News Channel, where virtually no one of authority in the newsroom makes a move unmeasured against management's politics, actual or perceived. At the Fair and Balanced network, everyone knows management's point of view, and, in case they're not sure how to get it on air, The Memo is there to remind them.
-Fox News producer Charlie Reinahttp://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fox_News
Edited by Lumberjack (03/01/10 08:12 AM)
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