HuffPost running Bill Kristol's propaganda as a real story.

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HuffingtonPost has posted the Kristol-operated Center for Media and Public Affairs (If you need more info, check out this post by Underpants: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=109x35271)smear as the AP ran it, with no explanation where it came from and no attempt to point out the obvious flaws. If you have a few minutes, contact them to let them know they've fallen for it.

(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/31/study-media-coverage-has_n_139916.html)

This is the e-mail I just sent them:

"The Center for Media and Public affairs is a Bill Kristol- run organization, with ties to the Project for a New American Century
and a vested interest in the McCain/Palin ticket.

If you want evidence of inherent bias in the article, take the following quote from the head of CMPA - ""For whatever reason,
the media are portraying Barack Obama as a better choice for president than John McCain," said Robert Lichter, a George
Mason University professor and head of the center. "If you watch the evening news, you'd think you should vote for Obama."

It is simply not sound analysis to suggest that because there are more negative stories, those negative stories are unfairly negative.
If, for example, a certain brand of milk was shown to be contaminated with melamine, there's no reason to believe that coverage explaining
that contamination was "for whatever reason...portraying" the competitor's brand as a better choice. To suggest so without proof is
inherently harmful and, I would suggest, part of a concerted propagnda on the part of the right.

MediaMatters - http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200811010002
Sourcewatch - http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Media_and_Public_Affairs
Salon.com - http://dir.salon.com/story/politics/conason/2002/12/18/bush/index.html"

(edited for a typo)

[AllegroRondo]

1. reality has a Liberal bias

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2. Absolutely. nm

[ColbertWatcher]

3. Bravo! Good for you! k+r, n/t

[mrcheerful]

4. Plays well for McCains base and the racists. doesn't make much sense to

those who have seen and heard both McCain and Palin at rallies. Tell me what have McShit or Barbie said anywhere what they plan to do if elected, all they have done is fired up the base and racists with we are white Obama is black so vote for the white people who look like you because if you don't all types of bad things are going to happen.

Most of america knows that the president doesn't have unlimited powers as the pukes are claiming, they know that congress and the senate shape and make the laws not the president, unless he has a congress willing to rubber stamp every ideal the president comes up with, theres only been one time that happened, the 6 years of shrub dictating and puke congress rubber stamping. Most of america is tired of that kind of crap, they have seen their buying power decrease and the rich getting all the breaks while they had to make up for those lost tax dollars.

This election is not about people voting for their moral values, this election is about people voting to save their lives homes and families, more people are living pay check to pay check praying to whatever higher power they have that they don't get sick or their job disappears over sea's. Sure the loud biggoted assholes are pretending everythings fine and dandy, that Wall street isn't affecting their lives but these assholes never vote democratic anyhow, MSM just puts them on their nightly news shows to make it seem that everything is fine.

Oh I have heard them, yeah my 401k was wiped out but I'm not worried it just means I have a chance to "invest" more and get the better stocks then I could afford 2 years ago. Again these people live in dream land, they buy lotto tickets knowing that sooner or later they will be richer then their wildest dreams, they take risks that sane people wouldn't try, they pretend to be Vanderbuilts or Hiltons, but they are just getting by like all the rest of us. But again they refuse to vote democratic because they would lose face if they admitted their party sucked.