"Mainstream" (corporate) Media on a new tear against President Obama (declining poll numbers)

[Proud Liberal Dem]

and back to shilling for the Republicans: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/288905-house-gop-rebounds-after-disastrous-start

Is anybody seeing any real-life *momentum* back towards the Republicans? It kills me whenever I start hearing stories about bad poll numbers for President Obama yet nobody ever seems to bring up the fact that he and the Democratic Party are light-years more popular than Republicans are at any given moment not to mention the fact that the Republicans are still in disarray with no evidence that things are noticeably improving for them. Why can't there be more of a focus on the party that has its stuff together and is trying to do stuff instead of endlessly handwringing over "what Republicans need to do to win more votes and stay relevant"?

[Cha]

1. The corporate media Whores are Irrelevant. They did their best

to not call out bush, mccain, and mittLies.. but, the last two got beaten anyway.

Remember the damn polls during this last election? Who was right? That's right, Nate Silver.

I haven't watched corporatemedia for 11 years. They're now shilling for rapists.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022533548

[Dawson Leery]

2. Yet right leaning Gallup has Obama at +8 for approval.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. The way they're talking about it on the "news"

you'd think that President Obama is reaching George W. Bush levels of (un-)popularity. Man, their crusade to tear him down just feels so old (again). *sigh*


They will be doing the "dance of joy" the instant that a Republican gets elected to the WH. Mark my words (though hopefully we won't have to find out if I'm right or not)

[Cali_Democrat]

4. According to them....

Romney still has all the momentum.

He's still surging to this day.

[angrychair]

5. The reasons are simple

Without constant conflict there might not be enough "breaking news!!!" to fill the 24-hour news cycle. If PBO were to get the upper hand and sway public opinion to much he might be able to push through his agenda but if you tear him down and create the narrative of conflict and discord than you create news. How else to explain how the NRA, with only a couple of million members, controls the gun policy debate on a national scale? By corporate media highlighting conflict and discord and making the issue intractable in Congress but always news worthy.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. I know, I know

it's just horribly depressing. It's not that I expect the media to fawn over President Obama (or any President for that matter) but it just bugs the hell out of me how they hound and hamstring Democratic Presidents and always beat them over the head the instant their popularity starts to decline but give Republican Presidents a wide berth to do what they want to do and prop them up almost no matter what. The Bush "tingle" didn't fade until at least 2005-2006 and that was pretty much because his (mis-)administration's overreach and gross incompetence was waaaaay beyond what they were capable of spinning and/or cover-up (had we known some of the stories they were deliberately sitting on in 2004, Kerry might well have been sitting in the WH). They didn't hound George W. Bush about being "bipartisan" with the Democrats during the six years that Republicans controlled the WH, Senate, and House. Of the last two Democratic Presidents in modern history, both of them have had Democratic control of WH, Senate, and House for 4 years at two separate points, 2 each to get things done only to suffer a midterm backlash that has them having to deal with the Republicans in at least part of Congress (Clinton had to deal with an entirely Republican Congress for the remaining 6 years of his Presidency). It just.......makes me sick.