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Gee, I can't believe that adding another ultra-liberal mouthpiece like Joe Klein didn't improve ratings. CNN just doesn't get it. The average Democrat doesn't watch new channels. They are watching "Geoge Lopez" or "Moesha" or "Survivor". They don't understand the issues that are discussed on CNN, and aren't smart enough to pick up the suttle attempts at bias. Thats why ratings are low. Only intelligent people(conservatives) watch the news channels and they are watching Fox News.

I think you are right in most elections, but I fear that Hispanics will turn out big for Bustamante. Anything can happen, you are correct. But Bustamante will draw at minimum 30-35%. Schwarznegger may outdraw him, especially if McClintock drops out. My point is that Bustamante has a larger base level of support than Arnold or McClintock.

Only intelligent people(conservatives) watch the news channels and they are watching Fox News.

Welcome to FRee Republic, wylene. I hope there is room in your spectrum for those of us who long ago gave up on "television news" as being specious, puerile, limited, biased and irrelevant. There are far better sources, even though none of them (in so far as I know, or assume) are "pure."

TV news, even FOX (I presume) has a fatal weakness -- it has to present something to keep the viewer's eyes glued. Which is why print journals such as National Review and others continue to have a market.

You know, you're right. Why would you watch CNN? they have a bias, ok. That's bad. But obviously nobody is listening, when they were the only cable news channel they had a naturally occuring monopoly, once competion came they lost out. the fact that they are blaming their troubles on Fox News bullying is telling. It goes to show that they are putting their own journalistic impulses, however biased they may be, on hold because they are in a ratings war with Fox which they are hopelessly losing.
Elite liberals don't get their news from CNN, they get it from the old gray lady or from Ted Turner (aka; the krazy krakker) himself at some bullshit $5000 a plate 'charity event'.
Peopel on the far left espouse that there is some kind of Right Wing disnfo machine running the media because it doesn't run socialist propaganda 24/7, and the rest of the liberals are either too dumb or too self-absorbed to watch any news.
I find your Moesha line, hilarious, but think about it. There are more blacks in the ranks of the Middle class than ever before. A friend of mine is a black kid who grew up in the streets of Boston a huge liberal. He was smart, he bought a bunch of income property in the late nineties that has tripled in value. Now he's 28 and worth about $800,000. Guess who he voted for in the Mass. gov election, that's right, Mitt Romney. I went into his house last week and Fox News was on. guess what Ted, another one bites the dust.