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The Real Reason the Media Got This Election All Wrong
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 11/9/2016 | Staff

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; hillary2016; liberalmedia; mediabias; trump
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To: IBD editorial writer

Good job, and the additional info/articles beneath it (blue-lined) is worth a read as well.

The relationship between the DNC and both NBC/CNN is probably criminal.


41 posted on 11/10/2016 2:38:16 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Secret Agent Man

Touch tablets, and by extension smortphomes, deliver in actuality what Madonna promised but didn’t..


42 posted on 11/10/2016 2:41:39 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Impy; IBD editorial writer; stephenjohnbanker; GOPsterinMA; justiceseeker93; LS; randita; ...

The Leftardniki are losing their minds today.

Reactions...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grD_IINiH9c

This is just BEAUTIFUL....

Snowflake Armageddon...


43 posted on 11/10/2016 3:33:37 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Tunehead54

My quote is a response to the article headline.


44 posted on 11/10/2016 4:19:32 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Impy; IBD editorial writer; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; justiceseeker93; LS; randita; ...

if there were a national shift of 0.6% from T to H ... we would be doing the recount now in PA or perhaps PA and FLA. I thought it would be NV and CO. Trump had a different kinda mix, that is for sure.

not that easy to win PA and WI and lose NV

PS
NH has been called for Hillary and AZ called for DT


45 posted on 11/10/2016 4:25:00 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT (i WANNA HEAR MORE GLOATING!)
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To: NFHale

Thank You. I’m gonna have to save that one and watch it over and over again. Too funny!

Poor snowflakes.


46 posted on 11/10/2016 7:30:44 PM PST by Jeeper (The national security of the United States can never be left in the hands of liberals.)
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To: Jeeper

“Hello Darkness... my old friend...”

Heheh... it was perfect.

Rachel Madcow isn’t so smug today, is she...


47 posted on 11/10/2016 7:32:17 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; randita; Impy

4 years ago, my current hometown went for Obambi by 15% margin.

Trump won by 8%.
not sure when the last time a GOPer carried this town during an even year. Even in CT, Trump won the male DEMS with no college degree. Of couse, with that kind of a swing, it was more than male DEMS.


48 posted on 11/10/2016 9:18:54 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT (i WANNA HEAR MORE GLOATING!)
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small town central CT ... plenty of blue collar


49 posted on 11/11/2016 3:25:58 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (i WANNA HEAR MORE GLOATING!)
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To: trebb

They are true believers in the leftist agenda and their own superiority.


50 posted on 11/11/2016 3:40:16 AM PST by kalee
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To: TigersEye
It wasn’t bias it was collusion.

When you work for your boss is that collusion? They are all employed by the same globalist cabal.

51 posted on 11/11/2016 3:45:30 AM PST by Stentor
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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; Clintonfatigued

Is it me or does anyone else feel the urge to do copious amounts of coke since the wee hours of 11/9?


52 posted on 11/11/2016 4:04:20 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Impy

I read (in 2 different places), that the guesstimate of illegal alien votes was 1.5 million.

The Don CRUSHED her.


53 posted on 11/11/2016 4:11:56 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; Clintonfatigued

The few stills and tiny bit of video I saw of The Don yesterday had me thinking of how regal he is. Like a panther prowling in the wild.

Then I was remembering 2008: Una Paloma Negro and his “Office of the President Elect” garbage. Remember that? Remember the comment he made about RR?

F him. Too bad our WHITE HOUSE was sullied by such a creature.

#MAWA: Make America White Again


54 posted on 11/11/2016 4:43:48 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

I see Trump overall just carried 2 counties, Litchfield and Windham (of course, that beat Willard’s 1 win in Litchfield). Windham hadn’t voted GOP for President since 1988.


55 posted on 11/11/2016 6:10:21 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: IBD editorial writer

Another BS article. The MSM is an arm of the DNC. Hubris was the cause of their “miscalculation.” They thought they could control the outcome.


56 posted on 11/11/2016 6:21:35 AM PST by kabar
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To: GOPsterinMA; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; stephenjohnbanker; Clintonfatigued

Pepsi is better... and so is Mountain Dew...


57 posted on 11/11/2016 6:25:33 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: IBD editorial writer

I’d say the one word was HUBRIS


58 posted on 11/11/2016 6:50:17 AM PST by KosmicKitty (Waiting for inspirations)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Impy

http://www.courant.com/politics/elections/

there is a map here by town.
PResident (CT)

cities, wealthy towns, college towns are DEM
everything is TRUMP
most shocking is East Haven. Trump by 11%

about half towns went Trump


59 posted on 11/11/2016 6:58:08 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (i WANNA HEAR MORE GLOATING!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

my town always goes DEM 55%. No GOP ever wins my current town.

this year, only DEM who won was Blumenthal.
a real sea change.


60 posted on 11/11/2016 7:00:33 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (i WANNA HEAR MORE GLOATING!)
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