Dear Common Tator,
Well, I hope you're right.
But I'm more than a little skeptical.
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Election night in 1980 I was hosting the election coverage for my radio stations. We had ABC news. The polls closed in the east at 6:30 EST. We carried the 5 minute newscast a 6:30. Abc said in that news cast it was too close to call.
I got the latest AP wire copy and started our coverage at 6:30 by going to each of our three local reporters.. two covering local races and one carrying state races. We were using ABC to cover the national race. After the last of the three had done 30 seconds each It was 6:38Pm. I started to read an AP story date and time stamped at 6:33Pm. It said the race was too close to call. I was in the middle of saying it might be a very long night when my producer told me in my earphones to join ABC at 6:40Pm. Jimmy Carter who was in Plains Georgia and was going to concede.
Jimmy Carter announced to the networks just as the polls closed at 6:30 that he was going to concede. They asked him to wait 10 minutes so all the network stations could be notified to join the network to cover his concession.
By the way Reagan won 489 electoral votes to Carters 49. But according to the media at 6:33PM.. the race was two close to call. That was 2 minutes after Carter told them he was going to concede.
A few months later I ran into Pat Buchanan and he said that he was at CBS at noon when the exit polls came in. The networks and AP all knew by noon EST that it was a Reagan landslide. Yet six and a half hours later they were still saying the Carter Reagan race was too close to call.
They were lying.
Nothing has changed. The media is lying... The president knows they are lying. Karl Rove knows they are lying. The Washington press corp knows they are lying. Most Senators and Congressmen know they are lying.
They hope to change public opinion by lying. They are failing. Each time they fail, they lose clout with politicians.
So the media like the Washington Post and CNN try ever more biased and outrageous attempts to destroy the president. They think the public is stupid. Some of them are.. But the middle class that make up the swing voters in the USA are not stupid.
The meida thinks people do not remember that they said that disasters are local business. That it was the Mayor in NEW YORK and not the president who was responsible for the good handling of 911. People saw the New Orleans mayor all over TV. He made an ass out of himself with his whinging.
They will draw their own conclusions. People who think the media thinks for the unknowing and ignorant, don't understand that the unkonwing and ignorant do not watch news on TV, listen to news on the radio or read papers.
Those activices are limited to those that can think.
The media thinks their audience is dumb. The audience is not. They see through the media.. That's why the media polls far worse nunbers than President Bush.