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Reid Claims Media Is Unfair to Democrats
National Review ^ | October 3, 2013 | Alec Torre

Posted on 10/07/2013 2:21:02 PM PDT by lbryce

In an interview with Politico, Senator Harry Reid argued that the media is being unfair to Democrats in its coverage of the shutdown. Reid said he believes that there is no way someone viewing the situation objectively could conclude that Democrats are at fault for the shutdown.

You and other journalists have a real shortcoming in that you are trying so hard to be fair that you are unfair,” Reid said. “Democrats have had almost nothing to do with the problems here. It’s all Republicans.”

*SNIP**

Media Research Center, a conservative media-watchdog group, found that in 39 stories in the two weeks leading to the shutdown, CBS, ABC, and NBC blamed Republicans 21 times for failing to reach a budget agreement, both parties four times, and didn’t once blame the Democrats. In the 14 other instances, the reports blamed nobody.


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 113th; democrats; govermentshutdown; liberalmedia; reid
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To: lbryce

Whorehouse Harry is disappointed in the whores of the media, not being whorish enough in his favor.


21 posted on 10/07/2013 2:44:17 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: lbryce

“The MSM favors the Republicnas”. This ploy is right out of the Clinton play book; demonize and blame the other side for the very thing you are doing, in this case, citing the MSM’s bias of the dems when even a moron knows the MSM refuses to report the truth about any dems, particularly Reid and Adolf Obozo.


22 posted on 10/07/2013 2:46:24 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: SERKIT
That's rich.
23 posted on 10/07/2013 2:47:05 PM PDT by IGOTMINE (1911s FOREVER!)
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To: yldstrk

Reid is losing it.


24 posted on 10/07/2013 2:48:36 PM PDT by Mr. Wright
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To: lbryce

A little Star Trek here, “Your shields (the MSM) are failing Harry and the Klingons (us) are pissed”.


25 posted on 10/07/2013 2:48:53 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
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To: lbryce

Historians will one day record that a petty thief from Nevada was at the helm of the US Senate during the great American decline.


26 posted on 10/07/2013 2:50:22 PM PDT by allendale
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To: lbryce

The gerbils at Polutico are the most Obama friendly and of course Reid would whine to them that they need to step up blame on Republicans and The T.E.A. Party in particular.


27 posted on 10/07/2013 2:53:27 PM PDT by TexasCajun (Creepy-Ass Cracka -- Don't Call Me Cracker)
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To: lbryce

The gerbils at Polutico are the most Obama friendly and of course Reid would whine to them that they need to step up blame on Republicans and The T.E.A. Party in particular.


28 posted on 10/07/2013 2:53:28 PM PDT by TexasCajun (Creepy-Ass Cracka -- Don't Call Me Cracker)
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To: yldstrk

Reid and Shumer are still playing the blame game and found out it’s not working anymore. The LIES of this administration are becoming more apparent and people are now experiencing the TRUTH of certain issues such as Obummer care and the lie about being able to keep your doctor. The TRUTH about Bengazi...” what difference does it make!”=ZERO EMPATHY.
Obummer’s SPY program on US citizens has hit the media between the eyes because they have been on the receiving end.
This administration is being exposed for the SHAM and SCAM that it really is. The pure spite and malice shown by the Obamanation’s infliction of pain upon WAR VETERANS has blown up in Obama’s face.
It’s over for Obama and his fake government which is really just a lying mafia.
Reid, Pelosi and Schumer should retire. They have shown that they WILL NOT FUND areas of the government passed on to them by the House of Representatives.
Their whining is falling on deaf ears that have heard too many lies.
There reaches a point where the Ship of Denial no longer holds water.
Award the Democrats their straight-jackets and lead them to the padded room. Their years of destroying a great republic are about to end. They have misjudged the fact that the Tea Party represents the PEOPLE who built this country.


29 posted on 10/07/2013 2:54:55 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: lbryce

Our local NBC station (weekend “anchor”) said the other night that the government continued to be shut down as a result of the actions by the Tea Party, who are trying to block the AFA, which allows people who could not get insurance in the past to purchase health insurance. That was the total report on the shut down, must have been Friday at 6 p.m.


30 posted on 10/07/2013 2:57:02 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: lbryce

31 posted on 10/07/2013 3:00:41 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: lbryce

Boo friggin’ Hoo, Dirty Harry.


32 posted on 10/07/2013 3:15:33 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: allendale
Historians will one day record that a petty thief from Nevada was at the helm of the US Senate during the great American decline.

Petty!!??

This weasel and his minions have stolen hundreds of billions from the American taxpayer!

That is hardly "petty".

33 posted on 10/07/2013 3:28:15 PM PDT by Gritty (We are quickly running out of "boxes"...)
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To: lbryce

Just saw a news segment in which they talked about ‘moderate Republicans’ being ‘squeezed’. How is that ‘trying hard to be fair’? How about calling them what they are - left-leaning Republicans.


34 posted on 10/07/2013 3:29:19 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: jwalsh07

I don’t think Harry Reid is insane, but I do think he is more than a little senile.


35 posted on 10/07/2013 3:29:22 PM PDT by erkelly (Never underestimate the stupidity of the stupid party!)
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To: lbryce
This is hilarious!

Maybe Harry doesn't know how to turn on a TV or radio since he was born before either one of them were invented. Much too high tech for him. He tried listening a couple times, but couldn't stand to wait for the tubes to warm up. The catswhisker kept being jostled off the crystal...etc etc.

Besides, everyone knows that all the talk radio shows are filled with guys like they had on the spectacularly successful Air Amerika....

...aren't they?

Maybe that's what Reid hears from his tech savvy minions. Any person who has heard 95% of the media today knows that it is mostly Left of the Kremlin circa 1972.

Either Harry Reid owns no electrical devices due to his religious convictions (Worshipping Molech when he celebrates a pro-Abortion bill, or his daily talks with Satan) or he is a liar.

No one, not even Harry Reid is stupid enough to believe that most media is against the Democrats.

36 posted on 10/07/2013 3:33:48 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: clintonh8r

Dial whine-one-one!!!


37 posted on 10/07/2013 3:44:04 PM PDT by FLAMING DEATH (I'm not racist - I hate Biden too!)
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To: lbryce

Dingy Harry is far beyond canker sore status - more like an oozing pustule on the nether regions of the rat donkey.

Doesn’t he claim to be a deacon or something in his LDS church? Wonder how they like his lying example.


38 posted on 10/07/2013 4:18:23 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: yldstrk

Obama is the pimp for the media whores.


39 posted on 10/07/2013 4:18:28 PM PDT by abclily
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To: erkelly

My father in law is senile but gentler as he has slipped into senility. Harry Reid is a nasty nut.


40 posted on 10/07/2013 4:23:04 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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