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See the initial post for my "usual witty commentary." An excerpt:
Week six of the "official mid-term election campaign coverage" (as if it campaign coverage ever stops) and the DBM is in panic mode. The plot to drive out the "evil Republicans" by using Iraq is in tatters since every time they forced the President to talk about Iraq and the War On Terror his polls and the Republican's polls go up, so they had to get off of that real quick. Then they went to the dugout for their "relief slander" and pulled out the Foley scandal 3 weeks early, because trends weren't looking good and "real reporters" in the DBM were beginning to ask questions about the total BS that Billy Jeff had been spouting off in his meltdown on Fox. Can't have that!...
... it's time to haul out the next "master strategy that is guaranteed to win back Congress for the rightful masters of the little people™." What plan, you ask? Simple, get more push polls and use their "conclusions" as the basis for claiming that the Dhimmicrats are really the party of a tough aggressive foreign policy!
No, really. Stop laughing. I mean it. ...
I won't be on FR for the next few hours. I'm heading out to GOP county campaign HQ to man the phone bank for a few hours. First time, so I'll stumble through a bit. They're also going to give me phone lists to call from home, which will give me something to do when I have to hide in a dark room because my eyes are giving me grief. I'll even get them to print out the list in a big font, if I can. Even if I can't see much I can still make phone calls!
Go out and get involved. Only a few weeks left and this election is going to be 100% decided on turn out. Don't pay any attention to the push polls. They are trying to discourage us and suppress our turn out. Don't let the SOBs win.
After all, when was the last time the polls got the elections right?
I just did an analysis of all the DBM's (including FNC) political web sites. I wanted to see if there really is bias in the DBM. I wasn't surprised to find it, of course.
I used the Foley "Scandal" versus the newly brewing information about Harry Reid.
The Foley scandal broke the day he resigned, Friday, Sept 29th. The Harry Reid scandal first broke on Tuesday the 10th, with the Solomon story on AP. Four days after the Foley story, every major DBM outlet, print and television, had it as the top story. Four days after the Reid story broke, only a few of the DBM have highlighted it, and then none as their top story.
Foley resigned after being outed. Reid is still serving as the top national elected democrat in the world.
Foley's supposed sexual predation of House pages, several perhaps underage, has led to calls for Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House of Representatives, to step down, from within his own party, by almost all the top democrats, and by most of the DBM. Harry Reid has been asked to step down by a only couple of media outlets (Philadelphia Inquirer).
The television political web sites as of 10:00 AM CDT, Saturday 14 Oct 2006. Only two have any information on the Harry Reid Land Deal Swindle (as of my posting--note that these pages will probably be updated as time goes on):
The DBM says that there really is no bias in their reporting, and that just as conservatives state there is bias towards the Left, Leftists state there is bias to the Right (as the DBM is owned by big corporations, who are Rightists). However, an objective analysis shows that when it comes to the Foley versus Reid scandals, the one damaging to the Republicans has been disseminated far and wide, while the one involving the Democrats has gotten virtually no coverage. The Foley scandal has worked its way into the national consciousness, hurting the Republican chances at keeping control of the government (indeed, a story the DBM is directly reporting and attributing to their coverage of the Foley scandal), while it appears that suppressing the Reid scandal is being done with the express desire to ensure it doesn't harm Democratic political chances in the coming election.