Disgraceful.
MSM - the media wing of the Democratic Party!
They were pimping!.......
More of the same from the part of "progressives"!
I really can't tell you all the things I'd like to do to Howard Wolfson.......... Every time I see his face, I conjure up thoughts that would certainly incarcerate me if they were anything but thoughts.
Kudos to NBC in this case though. Even though they downplayed it later, they did go ahead and call OH as they should have.
Kudos to NBC. The rest can add this to their sorry resumes.
What a bunch of sickos.
I guess this is because at 12:41 am on Wednesday morning there were so many people who had yet to get in their cars and go to the polls? Is that the "momentum" that would have been stopped?
I think even the polls in Hawaii were closed at that point.
The NY Times didn't call Ohio for Kerry until yesterday evening, about 6:30pm eastern time. The Kerry campaign should give them some kind of award for being such loyal troopers!
I love it when a plan comes apart.
This doesn't surprise me. I felt this was true when I heard the MSM monday morning. They obviously didn't want to call Ohio to Bush until Kerry had decided he had lost...I hope they don't think that they still look like "journalists.":-)
Howard Wolfson, a strategist, burst into the "boiler room" in Washington where the brain trust was huddled and said, "we have 30 seconds" to stop the other networks from following suit.
Meaning the representatives of CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN who were garrisoned there needed to get out their cell phones immediately. Unfortunately, the NBC rep was in the men's room.
It's gonna be harder and harder for them to control the Media. People want and NEED real news. I hope we can get people to react to what they are seeing in the MSM.
Gad, I use to think what the Russians were doing with their media was bad, but these guys are worse, because they do the distortions and lying freely and willingly!
We've got to give NBC credit for making the right choice and calling Ohio for Bush early on, along with Fox News. The other networks were disgraceful, especially CNN.
FOX and NBC may have called Ohio, but they then refrained from calling Nevada, New Mexico or Iowa so they would not have to put any number over 269 on the screen. Even after CBS, ABC and CNN called Nevada and New Mexico, FOX and NBC did not. They did not call those states until the next day, even after the number of votes outstanding was well less than the spread between the candidates.
They were just as bad as CBS, ABC and CNN, just in a different way.
Maybe NBC is trying to maintain some credibility in journalism.
I dont understand how they thought they could help hanoi john in that way, I mean by that time, the votes had been cast.
I felt that all along. I knew once they called Florida and then Ohio for Bush...It was over. And they were so slow calling Ohio that I became worried that they would ask for recounts...That's why I couldn't get any sleep till Ohio was called.,..
I question someone's memory (or perception of reality). Had Florida not been called for GORE before the polls closed in the panhandle there never would have been a dispute there.