Posted on 11/10/2016 11:44:06 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
Bias: The one-word explanation for why the liberal media were completely caught off guard by the groundswell of support for Donald Trump among working class families: Obama.
In his book on the 2008 presidential election, former CBS News correspondent Bernie Goldberg titled it "A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (and Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media."
Like any such torrid romance, the mainstream media never could see the flaws in the object of their deep and abiding affection. That devotion continued unabated for eight years.
So, as a result, as failure piled on failure during the Obama administration, the press pretended that all was well.
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Yup.
It wasn’t bias it was collusion.
Collusion that was held up by arrogance and disdain.
The only thing that ‘caught them off guard’ was that we don’t/didn’t believe their lies.
This election, was the first time even my relatives who are liberal, admitted the media is slobbering leftists.
The first time.
Americans have a biased, leftist media machine. The media’s problems is now, Americas recognize that.
Even the left gets that.
Disdain for truth, the will of the people and the American system of governance.
They hate what America is supposed to be and it shows.
They are so attuned to emotions and false-idol worship that they can’t recognize substance....
Uniparty media all in for uniparty candidate. Easy.
How could all these polls about the election be so wrong when polls show Obama has a 53% approval rating.
Uuuummmm, maybe the polls are wrong about that approval rating are wrong too
Liberals talk only to other liberals.
Echo machines repeat only what is said to them.
They live in a reinforcing bubble of liberal lies and mindless sycophant slogans.
As one person posted, they are self-licking lollipops.............
They weren’t caught off guard.
They lied.
They failed to get Hitler elected.
They are not blind, they are cynics. They are paid to drive the propaganda of statism, totalitarianism, communism.
Deep down they may not be 100 percent on board with communism, but their careers depend on them towing the line.
They are like producers of porn. It may not be gratifying or fun for them to write this stuff but they have to do it to advance at their jobs.
They are organized, regimented, recruited, by these large news companies, run by the likes of Murdoch, Bezos, Schmidt, Zuckerburg, Soros, or some other leftist tyrant to crank out commie propaganda and they always will be dutiful.
All this phony journalistic soul-searching and introspection is just posing.
They want to make it look as if they, now freshly chastised by the Trump election and their failure to predict it, will come to their senses, shake off their biases, and be wise and fair in reporting the next election cycle.
It's bull. They will be shilling for Moochelle or for whomever in the Democrat Party they are told to market when the time comes.
It's what they do.
They give their questions ahead of time to their uniparty candidate. Ran as much, over 90% of stories, negative, about the opponent.
They hand rant scripts to their own cameraman and break down litrally on camera, when their master soros funded plans don’t work out because the one avenue they couldnt stop the truth from getting out on, got out.
Watch anything coming out from the uniparty on the internet adnd free speech laws. You will se who is not on our side, but is uniparty.
I think Hillary could have won this handily if she had done things differently many years ago & then continued in that venue. Might have been a Democrat accused of pretense & acting like a Repub,but so what? Something similar worked for certain others for a number of years.
The created a false impression to suppress the Trump vote and began to believe thier own false narrative. When the Prince did no show up with the glass slipper they realized they were not in Cinderellas fantasy anymore.
They lied and oversampled their media templates.
The guy that kept me sane thru the whole process was Sundance over at Conservative Treehouse.
Between Freepers and Treepers we kept on course so thank you both!
Amen
Freegards
LEX
That’s one of the problems with libs. They recognize the problems with their situation, but do nothing to correct it and they will do the same thing in 4 years.
They did it twice with Clinton even though he lied to therm about the economy, his part of the war in the middle east, and his dealings with China that got our left coast in the cross hairs for a nuclear attack. They also did it twice with Obama who escalated the war, lied about our economy, and destroyed our social security and medicare funds trying to protect a failed healthcare system that hasn’t accomplished anything he said it would. He also created so many pandering programs along with mishandling funds that he has more than doubled our deficit and destroyed our financial set up so we lost our S&P rating along with trap people in those programs.
The libs are stupid. They’ll do it again.
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The LSM doesn’t get to frame the narrative without being checked anymore.
Investor’s Business Daily was the only polling outfit that got right on the mark. They deserve some recognition.
[A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the mass of the people who have no means of distinguishing the false from the true paragraphs of a newspaper." --Thomas Jefferson to G. K. van Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785. (*) ME 5:181, Papers 8:632"I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents." --Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1799. ME 10:78
"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions." --Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1804. ME 11:33
"[I have seen] repeated instances of the publication of what has not been intended for the public eye, and the malignity with which political enemies torture every sentence from me into meanings imagined by their own wickedness only... Not fearing these political bull-dogs, I yet avoid putting myself in the way of being baited by them, and do not wish to volunteer away that portion of tranquillity, which a firm execution of my duties will permit me to enjoy." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:226
"Conscious that there was not a truth on earth which I feared should be known, I have lent myself willingly as the subject of a great experiment, which was to prove that an administration, conducting itself with integrity and common understanding, cannot be battered down even by the falsehoods of a licentious press, and consequently still less by the press as restrained within the legal and wholesome limits of truth. This experiment was wanting for the world to demonstrate the falsehood of the pretext that freedom of the press is incompatible with orderly government. I have never, therefore, even contradicted the thousands of calumnies so industriously propagated against myself. But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, 1807. ME 11:155
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