Posted on 11/11/2008 11:13:20 AM PST by usflagwaver
The power of the Main Stream Media (“MSM”), the Internet and cable TV notwithstanding, remains paramount. Over the last 3 years, that power has been on gaudy display. While there were a number of factors that led to Obama’s victory, including Republican deficiencies, the power of the Media all but handed Obama a victory when it should have heralded his doom. Here are just some of major highlights of the many ways that the Media did just that:
Setting the Table/Talking the Economy Down. Media bias against the Bush Administration has long been rampant. The MSM has been talking down the Bush economy, literally, throughout his entire term. In fact, “When Bill Clinton ran for re-election in 1996, the unemployment rate was 5.2 percent, inflation was three percent and economic growth was 2.2 percent.” In October of 2004, the Bush “unemployment rate was 5.4 percent, inflation was 2.7 percent, and economists' consensus forecast for economic growth [was] 3.7 percent.’ However, a study “found that while the national media mainly cheered the Clinton economy in 1996 (85 percent positive), reporters have mostly jeered the Bush economy in 2004 (77 percent negative).” The 2007/2008 cycle was no different. At the beginning of 2008, FoxNews’ Neil Cavuto pointed out in an AP article that stated: Americans are being subjected to, and I quote "economic water torture." Ben Stein, in response, stated that “the media has been selling us on fear and recession for months maybe years now. . . I think if we have a recession, if we have a serious recession,
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Yep...McCain could have walked on water...it would not have mattered.
Those here that tried to delude themselves with the “old, dead media” mindset should be kicking themselves about now.
The media chose McCain for us because they knew that he would be easier to beat than a true conservative.
MSM Headline: "McCain Can't Swim!"
My favorite part...
Praising and Protecting Obama
The Media ran more stories about Obama, they ran better stories about Obama and they avoided serious questions about Obama.
As for the stories they avoided to protect him, there are simply too many examples that fall under this category- but I shall give it the ole’ college try:
Why didn’t the Media investigate and highlight:
1. Obama’s overseas internet fundraising which was wildly illegal?
2. Who funded Obama’s stay at Harvard?
3. What Obama was doing at Columbia in the early 80s;
4. The full extent of the Bill Ayers relationship;
5. Why Obama employed ex-Farrahkan employees;
6. Why the SF Chronicle didn’t trumpet Obama’s coal remarks;
7. Why the LA Times withheld the Khalidi tape;
8. Whether anyone else was at Rev. Wright’s church during those 20 years, heard his hatred and watched Obama hear it as well;
9. Why did Obama’s school transcripts from Indonesia designate him a Muslim?
10. Where Obama was really born;
11. Whether Obama really wrote his own books – which are not written in his manner of speaking whatsoever;
12. Why Obama said Wright’s sermons were too spicy which led Obama to cancel Wrights appearance at the opening to his campaign; and
13. Why Obama gave Wright $23,500 in 2006.
Can we get over the Obama and media derangement syndrom and focus on where we go from here?
Very good article.
These questions will be explored as time goes on. Obama voters are going to find out that our new president isn’t the man they thought he was.
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