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My Opinion as to why journalists are REALLY going all-out left this election cycle
Investors.com ^ | 08/03/12 | Douglas Mackinnon

Posted on 08/23/2012 3:29:25 PM PDT by austinaero

Douglas McKinnon teases us with "That said, in off-the-record conversations with my left-leaning journalistic friends, not one believes Obama is going to win re-election. Not one. While most believe Mitt Romney to be a weak candidate, they are still convinced that he will comfortably defeat Obama on Nov. 6.

These liberal and jaded journalists privately admit that Obama has been exposed for what he is: an overhyped, self-invented candidate with no real-world experience who has been frozen into inaction by the enormity of the office he holds."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: bias; journalist; liberal; msm
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To: austinaero

Neil Munro of the “Daily Caller” had an interesting take on why so many journalists lean so far left on C-Span today - He said “it’s all about them” - not so much that they support liberals per se, but that liberals and ‘rats are the people who support big government and big government leads to many more interesting stories than what ‘pubs claim to be seeking - smaller government, more local control, and consequently less big-time excitement and involvement for the reporters - makes sense......


21 posted on 08/23/2012 9:23:42 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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I think this is right, but not he whole story. They have been demonizing R/R and jimmying polls so that WHEN Romney wins, like Bush in 2000 he will be viewed at least in some circles as illegitimate. It would help undermine the entire GOP agenda.


22 posted on 08/24/2012 3:42:32 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
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