Posted on 10/02/2008 3:57:45 PM PDT by lancer256
It would be foolish of me to deny the obvious truth in a recent e-mail message I received pointing out how different the presidential polls would be today if the mainstream media were not so liberal.
Quit complaining, you say; there's an alternative media led by your brother, you whiner. Quit calling me a whiner, especially about the current plight of Republicans. It's my party, and I'll whine if I want to.
Unlike the MSM, the alternative media are honest that they are in the opinion business and freely admit their ideological leanings. They don't pretend to exemplify objective journalism. But unlike the MSM, their ethical commitment to truth is not routinely compromised by their mind-altering bias, as with that disgraceful episode known as Rathergate.
The MSM are a case study in psychological anomalies. They don't just deny their biases to us; they deny them to themselves, all while conspiring to affect the outcome of the election.
How do you reconcile their sincere self-denial of bias with their simultaneous demonstrations of bias? An epidemic of liberal insanity, with one side of the liberal brain forgetting to inform the other of what it's up to?
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No worries. Right after the election, no matter which way it goes, the media will engage in its quadrenniel self-examination and conclude that, yes, perhaps they were a little biased. Mea culpas might even be pronounced. Seminars will be held. Articles will be written. However, it will soon be forgotten and make as much difference in their future behavior as those past mirror-gazing exercises.
We’re all frustrated....just ATTEMPT to be fair and balanced.
I’d love to see a blog or ‘dirt sheet’ created that logged the off camera and personal debris of the MSM actors. They are public figures like Palin and open game IMO. That includes any and all dirt, email records, personal records, you name it.
Do you believe Ifill hasn’t written a sentence for her new book? Neither do I....someone out there can prove it. Give them a venue.
LLS
But unlike in previous cycles, unless osamabama wins and - along with pelosi/reid - passes an msm bailout package, many will be receiving pink slips.
This is a war that must be fought. EVERY conservative voice in every form of media must make this topic number one. Consevatives and Republicans get a fair share of face time on the networks and cable shows. Each appearance should include an attack on the lack of fairness and outright bias of the network and host. Do it relentlessly. Laugh when they deny it. Show no shame. Repeat it again and again. Start with the truth that objective journalism died in the 2008 election cycle. This is a war that must be won.
they refused to grow a backbone;
when they started to spend more than Marxist Dimocrats did (THANK YOU GEORGE W. BUSH for this little item);
when they moved from the right and did not even stop at center and went right over to the left;
Then liberals started from the grass roots. They
took over colleges
took over high schools and grammar schools
thus took over the entire education system
took over the TV media
took over the print media
took over the polling stations
took over the registration for voting offices
took over the legal system, to include attorneys and judges, thus the courts; took over and convinced minorities that THEY, not the republicans gave them civil rights and voting rights, when we all KNOW that racists dimocrats tried for years to keep this from happening. Example: Lester Maddox and George Wallace. Example: senators, to include AL GORE SENIOR to tried to block the civil rights and voting rights acts.
I am sure the list grows much much longer, but I won't make you read it all. You already know it. Republicans have basically done a very, very poor job of getting the message out. They fumble the ball more than any group in history. Republicans had a chance in 2000 to rule the roost for the next couple of decades. If they had been smart and played their cards right, they would have planted a foundation to destroy liberalism. However, they screwed the pooch. They BECAME liberals themselves. Then, they ran and hid when liberals blamed them for everything but the Lindberg baby kidnapping (or maybe they did and I missed it).
I elected after many years of being a card carrying member of the republican party to toss that card in the trash. I left the party, and just as President Reagan said, "I did not leave the republican party (yea I know Reagan said dim) they left me." And that is what they did. Sadly, the conservative movement HAS NO leader in Washington. Who do we have? Who do we run in 2012?
“many will be receiving pink slips.”
I do hope so. I hope conservatives don’t just forgive and forget after the election, but rather do constructive actions to ensure those pink slips keep coming. I freely admit I maintain a personal blacklist of stations, networks, entertainers, athletes, sponsors and others whom I will avoid supporting in any way. I use my own criteria based on my personal standards and the behavior of the blacklisted person or company has to be pretty egregious. I don’t share my list with others nor try to sabotage these entities, I just refuse to give them my money. If a lot of conservatives will do the same, some of these biased outlets will go belly-up even faster than they already are doing.
They are no more biased than they have ever been, just more people know about it. Slowly, more and more people will dismiss them as the “leftist” media. No use in complaining about it. We just have to fight to get OUR word out.
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Whoever is waiting for McCain to be more direct shouldn’t hold their breath. McCain’s strategy has been to win the base with his selection of Sarah Palin (he has), and attract independents. Based on the second part, he cannot unleash Sarah Palin, and he cannot point the finger to the true guilty party of the financial meltdown lest he be criticized as “partisan” and lose the independents. Unfortunately, the Republicans get then successfully tagged with the financial meltdown without anyone defending them. And McCain loses.
You can’t deny your bias if you don’t recognize it as bias. In my 50 years on this earth, I am seeing things that would embarass third world countries playing out in America. Today I saw bums voting in Ohio, I saw reports that the FEC won’t investigate illegal campaign contributions going to the O because it’s too close to the election, I saw the potentially biggest financial meltdown since the great depression treated as a Republican scandal and the pond scum who want to fix it are the ones who caused it in the first place. And the MSM don’t seem to care.
God help US
The MSM will never care, they are willing agents of the left, it’s up to us to do the nitty gritty work, neighbor to neighbor.
They are no more biased than they have ever been, just more people know about it.I disagree. In the past they were biased. Now they are working for the cause. There's a difference.
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