Posted on 09/19/2008 6:03:33 AM PDT by curth
The Mainstream Media Is Dead As It Attempts To Steer Election By Herb Denenberg, The Bulletin 09/19/2008
You should be aware of how, in a most unexpected and unintended way, the mainstream media is determining the outcome of this election.
As every reader of this column knows and, as perhaps everyone knows or suspects at this point, the mainstream media has been in a massive full court press to sell Sen. Barack Obama as president, without vetting him, without asking him tough questions and with treatment that some would think should be reserved for the second coming. By the mainstream media, I include most of the major newspapers, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and Philadelphia Inquirer; the three old-line major networks including ABC, CBS and, of course, the Obama Campaign Network, also known as NBC along with PBS; the cable news channels CNN and MSNBC; many of the radio stations owned by those networks along with NPR; and many national magazines such as Time and Newsweek.
The bad news is the mainstream media has been putting out a steady stream of the most biased, dishonest and fraudulent reporting and editorializing to push Sen. Obama down the throats of the American people. The good news is their efforts are so blatant and heavy-handed that a tipping-point has been reached. The public now realizes the mainstream media is acting as a cheerleader and campaign manager for Sen. Obama. The public realizes they have been fed a constant stream of pro-Obama propaganda, in at attempt to use fraud and deceit to determine an election outcome.
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For something that’s dead, it sure is getting up and moving around a lot.
Very interesting read. My sister lives in Minnesota and they watch the MSM. They hadn’t heard anything negative about Obama but one promising thing about the American people, they figured out that Obama is a bad choice without the media. They heard all the dirt on SP but like her anyway. Also, they know beyond a doubt just from watching that the media is in the tank for Obama.
Not at all. Who are you?? Limbaugh's publicist??
"The internet may be important, but the internet is like "the newspapers." It's an amalgam of lots of people saying what they think of know. I doubt there is any political/news site that even comes close to Rush in reach.
Sorry, but wrong. Limbaugh's audience is only 13 million. That still leaves about 287 million he doesn't reach. The internet may be an "amalgam", but it's on heck of a lot more than "lots of people saying what they think they know". There are a huge number of dedicated "fact sites", including primary reference databases that just could not be had. To use just one example--when Walter Kronkheit propagandized during the Vietnam war, there was simply no way to fact-check him. Today, when Charlie Gibson badmouths Sarah Palin, we can go to Youtube and see what got left out, lied about, etc.
"Additionally Rush preceded the Internet. When he effectively wrested control of Congress from the Dims in 1994 most of us were still on Compuserve if we were using a computer for communication at all."
Baloney. The WWW was around en mass well before 1994. I got off Compuserve well before that.
If a person is a believer in polls, there was a poll out the other day that showed that over 60% of the electorate believed the media was trying to help Obama and only 8% thought they were trying to help McCain. That would be moonbats who have totally lost it.
That's daily. His weekly number is 20 million.
If the Lame Stream Media would go after NObama with the truth, like they’ve gone after Sarah Palin with lies...
The polls would be 85-15 in favor of McCain/Palin!
1. They will project one state after another for Obama with only 1% of the vote in, causing Obama to rack up EVs fast and make it look like Obama is running away with it. Their intent is to depress McCain voters into not voting.
2. They will hold back reporting states McCain has won again hoping to depress McCain supporters.
3. There will be some key states with over 90% of the count done that will show the race tied or McCain slightly ahead and they will suddenly develope counting problems and have to stop counting for the night. Then the next morning the state will have went to Obama. The purpose of this is to manufacture the votes Obama needs for a win.
4. There will be reports of voter fraud and irregularities all over the country but it will always be pointed at Republicans. They will ignore the dem fraud. The reason for this, of course, is to create as much chaos for the purpose of bringing about the $#*tstorm that will follow for weeks and weeks of lawsuits and recounts.
I forgot to add watch for the early exit polls to show Obama in a landslide like they did with Kerry in 04.
Fox is already projecting Obama to take Illinois thanks to a greater than expected turnout among the deceased.
/sarc
It is really a right wing media that has convinced people it supports Obama, then they go so far over the top that they help McCain Palin.
This is probably the single most important thing we can do to save our country and I believe we're going to do it!
Well, I took the first number that showed up on a Google search. Even at 20 million, though, he reaches only a tithe of the ~300MM American populus. He's certainly a signficant influence, but the overall "conservative blog cloud" (including sites like FR which are really not blogs) reach far more.
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