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DOUBLE STANDARD: Khizr Khan Receives 50x More Coverage Than Pat Smith on ABC, CBS, NBC
News Busters ^ | August 1, 2016 | Geoffrey Dickens

Posted on 08/01/2016 4:11:36 PM PDT by george76

Two weeks ago at the Republican National Convention (RNC) a grieving mother blasted Hillary Clinton for the debacle of the 2012 Benghazi attack. Last Thursday, at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), grieving parents gave a speech criticizing Donald Trump for his statements against Muslims.

While all the grieving parents deserve sympathy, the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network evening and morning shows seemed to only care about the parents that showed up at the Democratic Convention. Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazla’s DNC appearance earned 55 minutes, 13 seconds of Big Three network coverage, nearly 50 times more than Pat Smith, whose RNC speech honoring her son earned just 70 seconds of airtime.

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This is a textbook case of bias-by-agenda: One of these stories (the Khan story) matched the Democratic agenda, and the partisan media couldn’t push it hard enough. The other (the Smith story) reflected poorly on the Democratic nominee, so it was barely mentioned.

While Smith’s emotional pleas were downplayed by the networks, Khan’s speech and subsequent back and forth with Trump were played up.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: abc; attack; benghazi; benghaziattack; cbs; dnc; enemedia; khan; khizr; khizrkhan; media; nbc; newspapers; oldmedia; patsmith; rnc; rncspeech; smith
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1 posted on 08/01/2016 4:11:36 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

RICO Press.


2 posted on 08/01/2016 4:13:08 PM PDT by Lent
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http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/08/01/clinton-cash-khizr-khans-deep-legal-financial-connections-saudi-arabia-hillarys-clinton-foundation-connect-terror-immigration-email-scandals/


3 posted on 08/01/2016 4:13:53 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: Lent

Even Fox is going on and on.


4 posted on 08/01/2016 4:14:39 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: george76

TRUMP 2016!

STAY STRONG! STAY CONFIDENT! EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO FAKE IT!

STAND STRONG!


5 posted on 08/01/2016 4:16:02 PM PDT by Huck (This is my opinion. There are many like it but this one is mine.)
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To: Lent
Faking Bogus Investigations will never lay a finger on Hillary.

Neither will the Rat minions at ABCNNBCBSPBS.


6 posted on 08/01/2016 4:17:28 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: george76

If Republican elite are not goingt o buy media outlets like the Democrat elite do then they should just pay the taxes and they should pay a lot of them.


7 posted on 08/01/2016 4:18:36 PM PDT by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: george76

If Clinton had attacked Pat Smith in the same fashion that Trump attacked the Khan’s then I imagine it would have been a bigger story. But if Trump had kept his mouth shut this would have been out of the news by last Friday.


8 posted on 08/01/2016 4:19:28 PM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: george76

Welcome to the General Election.


9 posted on 08/01/2016 4:19:35 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: george76

The media is our enemy. Of course they aren’t going to give us fairness.


10 posted on 08/01/2016 4:19:40 PM PDT by Celerity
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The Ministry of Propaganda has been tasked with stopping Trump.
From the beginning, they have tried again and again to make something cause him to fall.
They will continue even after he is sworn in.

I’ll be flying my flag for the first time since Usurpation Day, Jan. 20, 2009


11 posted on 08/01/2016 4:21:11 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Travis McGee

Khan has a pocket constitution, but it’s in mint shape. He was just handed it before getting on stage.

It’s his coveted copy of the Koran that bothers us.

And yes, his wife is being abused. Work in social services for a few weeks and you can see that loud and clear.


12 posted on 08/01/2016 4:21:27 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: Lower Deck

Bingo!!


13 posted on 08/01/2016 4:21:57 PM PDT by paul544
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To: george76

We knew we would be fighting the media and Hollywood the whole way, but their level is way more blatant than most of us would have believed.


14 posted on 08/01/2016 4:22:01 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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This kind of thing where Trump is totally in the right but the media gin it up to make it look wrong is how horrible the media is. I don’t know anyone but idiots upset about Trumps comments and those on the GOP side are more upset at the optics based on how the msm reacts versus the reality that Trump was attacked personally from the stage in a very false way. You can attack Trump on many things but on his support of the military that is not just unfair but ridiculous. Maybe Trump shouldn’t have shot back but how do we ever expect to end this tilting of the playing field if we do not hit back and hit back hard.


15 posted on 08/01/2016 4:24:19 PM PDT by Maelstorm (Free is just another word for someone else has to pay.)
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To: Lent

The Commissars are really earning their take home pay.


16 posted on 08/01/2016 4:25:31 PM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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To: Celerity

Fifty times the coverage without one word of Kahn’s Muslim Brotherhood connections.

This media blitz is effective. Most potential voters have no idea what MB or Sharia Law are all about.


17 posted on 08/01/2016 4:26:38 PM PDT by Zuse (I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
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To: Travis McGee

Steve Benen-abler


18 posted on 08/01/2016 4:28:45 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: george76


greaseman photo: greaseman grease1-big.jpg

...And take the whole week off !


19 posted on 08/01/2016 4:29:05 PM PDT by golux
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To: Lower Deck

Clinton didn’t have to attack Smith. The media did it for her.
The same media that canonized the Khans.


20 posted on 08/01/2016 4:29:17 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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