CNN turns the truth upside-down, makes it look like Wilson is getting flooded with cash donations

[garybeck]

[redqueen]

1. Aw, someone didn't like your OP and unrec'd it.

K&R :)

[berni_mccoy]

4. There is a fucking Unrec Briggade running around here!

[Jackpine Radical]

5. I just unrec'd the unrec.

Least I could do.

[Lerkfish]

6. don't worry I canceled out the unrec

[JuniperLea]

23. I make a habit of cancelling those out...

whenever I can!

K&R... and a hearty neener neener to boot! hahaha!

[intheflow]

66. Me too.

I've even rec'd some things I normally wouldn't have just to cancel out an unrec.

[George II]

70. How does one "cancel" unrecs? Is it merely by adding your own rec?

[berni_mccoy]

2. I'm Sick of The God Damned RW MEDIA!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

26. me too! Good thing we don't have cable here..

helps keep my blood pressure down.

I only know about most of it from keeping track here on DU

KILL THE FMM (Flying Monkeys Media)

[ShortnFiery]

3. CNN - Egos on parade passing rumor and innuendo as "hard news."

:crazy:

[Warpy]

7. Reverse psychology at its finest

and most unintended.

Expect more people to contribute to Miller because of it.

[Goldom]

8. Saw this this morning and raged...

Mentions the $750k about 5 paragraphs in. Absolutely, no question, trying to spin it. They know most people only read the headlines.

[garybeck]

9. 75% of people just read the headlines, and they know that. n/t

[Enthusiast]

43. Oh, it's intentional alright.

All you have to do is watch Lou Dobbs just one time to understand where CNN's head is at.

[blogslut]

10. Rob Miller raised more than half a million dollars in less than 24 hours

Too bad the goons @ CNN are incapable of recognizing a real news story.

Hey, CNN!

Bang, bang, bang.

[garybeck]

14. supposedly up to $800,000 now n/t

[blogslut]

17. On the way to $900,000

http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/19079

I predict he clears $1,000,000 by then end of the weekend.

[garybeck]

24. how about $1,000,000 by the end of the day? n/t

[Scruffy1]

49. Why stop at a million?

The only thing that these asshats care about is money. He just got some from me. You will not dis the commander in chief at a joint session and walk away. We need to make him an example. five million by next year would do it. If he was still in uniform he would be court marshalled and jailed. Maybe we cab stop his reserve pension. I know he sure pissed Rahm off. See how much he gets for his district now.
Earmarks can cut two ways. I'm off to hear y President speak in good old Minneapolis.

[renate]

57. welcome to DU!

:hi:

Hope you have (or by the time you read this, had) a great time seeing the President! Please be sure to tell us about it!

[PatrynXX]

73. yeah CNN has it at $1 million at the moment

but it's rounded. $700,000

another comment said the dem had raised $7 m so CNN is about as off base as the coast guard shooting that didn't happen on the 11th.

[redqueen]

19. I'm sure they recognize it.

And I'm sure their reason for downplaying it has nothing to do with ratings, nor is it accidental.

[onestepforward]

11. CNN has been Faux Lite for some time now. n/t

[tiptoe]

41. One of 6 corporate thug-like MSM suppressing the '08 Prelim Exit Polls & truth re Obama's win-margin

See: When will the MSM release the 2008 Exit Poll Report? (TIA)

 

[barbtries]

12. i saw that in the hallway

it's so shallow and obvious and not a gawd damn thing to be done about it. aaaargh

[closeupready]

13. They are based in Atlanta, right?

So, there you go.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

15. CNN's headline during the battle of Stalingrad

German Army consolidates its position, forces Russians to fight on 360 degree front.

[Pangolin2]

20. Or the 2008 election, "McCain finishes in 2nd place, Obama ends up next to last"

...

[fascisthunter]

16. douchebags... yeah, CNN isn't biased

[azmouse]

18. I'm glad I stopped watching CNN many years ago.

They're a waste of time.

[Douglas Carpenter]

21. kick and recommend!!

[tanyev]

22. Oh, I just mentioned this in another thread before I saw your post.

Un-frakking-believable.

[kelly1mm]

25. I think the point they may inarticulably be trying to make

is that his outburst has given him a fund raising bump over normal levels and that some RWers are touting him as a hero. It would be responsible of them to point out the 4-5 times amount of dollars his challenger has raised in the same amount of time but this is the MSM we are talking about.

[garybeck]

27. nah...

putting it on the headlines like that, it's pretty obvious what they're doing.

[robertpaulsen]

28. Corporate News Network. Par for the fucking course. n/t

[Uncle Joe]

29. They're not trying to report reality, they're trying to influence it.

Thanks for the thread, garybeck.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

30. P R A V D A

x(

[defendandprotect]

31. DU'ers are getting it that TV lies to them . . . but they don't seem to get the whole picture

of them being COMPLICIT in much of what's going on ....

Good find --

Btw, I'm looking for an address to send a check to his opponent -- Rob Miller --

I tried to find a contact yesterday, but not successful. I'll keep trying.

:)

[garybeck]

37. Miller's donation site must be pretty easy to find, supposedly he has almost $1,000,000

[madville]

32. WP says Wilson is up to $750,000 and is expected to top $1 million very soon

n/t

[garybeck]

35. Oy, how much of that is from health care corporations?

compare that to his opponents which I'm sure is mostly people making smaller donations

[wisteria]

33. I witnessed this first hand, watching Cambell Brown suggest that Wilson may get the last laugh.

And, no mention of his opponent receiving well over a million.

This is corporate media controlling the message.

[windoe]

34. It is the perfect time to redefine LIES.

i

[Canuckistanian]

36. Actually, it's FIVE times more

Rob miller is well over $1 million.

[wildbilln864]

38. Most Trusted Name in News!

:rofl: :rofl: Too harsh?

[FrenchieCat]

39. Digusting! CNN is a joke. It is easy to get ugly watching that channel....

cause that's all they are; ugly!

[ClayZ]

40. OMG... it gets thicker and thicker!

K and R

[Name removed]

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[TheCowsCameHome]

44. Those confederate dollars won't help much, Joe.

Nicy try, though.

[seabeyond]

45. this morning cnn is obama lying video. they point out where it states illegals (yes i said it)

are not allowed health plan the say

repug point out this part of bill (small print, highlighted, cant read) cnn doesnt read what it says and concludes.

so this is the issue

and goes off the story

they show where obama is not lying, brings question in that he lies adn does not even read what they are pointing out. my mouth dropped open as they ended the story.

beyond shoddy reporting

[Caliman73]

47. Like they said on Bill Maher last night

There is no more journalism. They are passing off inaccurate, ratings driven bullshit for news. The head of IWVA, the guy who is frequently on Rachel was saying that there is never any expertise sought on these shows. They get "political analysts" to come on who are basically consultants with little experience on the issue. Richard Clarke said that "news agencies used to tell us what happened during the day and now they tell us who won".

I remember when news was not specifically for profit and was set up for the public good.

[seabeyond]

50. oh the days. i stopped watching oct 2004. they FINALLY put on a kerry speech, 20 minutes

a mere 20 minutes. after time and time again saying kerry did not say what he would do, they finally have a speech on tv come back to commentators and say.....

he is so boring, so dry

was a huge wtf. didn't talk about what he was saying, didn't clarify, analyze, discuss.... just bitched when talking about iraq, health care, education and small business was dry.

i turned off news and dont watch. will read cnn on internet, and others and now listen to bbc, but when listening to bbc i hear the shit too. mostly good

[Caliman73]

53. Isn't it sad that we get better news about our country from foriegn news agencies?

BBC often reports things that aren't on our networks. I still watch KO, Rachel, and occasionally Ed to get some more liberal analysis of news events. Other than that I pretty much scour the internet for information too.

[seabeyond]

54. repug hubby will turn those on at night. stewart and colbert is all the tv i watch

but then will flip to msnbc afterwards. he likes to sleep with tv on. so i see some of that.

mostly i grab clips off net when cooking dinner. TYT is a good one to cook to.

[dotymed]

46. Amazingly.............

No MSM station has mentioned the SIBEL EDMONDS testimony.
please go to bradblog.com and read it.....it will blow your
socks off. It tells of bribery,leaking of nuclear secrets to
foreign governments, blackmailing; all of this by our
Congressional representatives....and no coverage.

[HughBeaumont]

48. "liberal media" . . . siiiiiiiggggghhh . . . .

[tomm2thumbs]

56. great graphic thnx

[Quantess]

74. interesting.

[Kaleva]

51. AP is reporting that Wilson has raised over $700,000.00

[marshall]

52. CNN: Mission Accomplished?

Was the purpose of the article to pimp Wilson's campaign? The Washington Post is reporting that he has now raised 750 million dollars now.

Another case of life imitating art, I guess.

[Myrina]

55. Compared "news" this morning at 8:00 AM ...

.... CNN opened with the TeaBaggers/Glenn Beck Bullshit rally - live feed, someone on the ground.

MSNBC, on the other hand, hadn't even mentioned it by the time I turned the tv off at 8:20.


Whoever calls CNN "Liberal" is full of shit.

[stray cat]

58. He is!

hate to break it to you but he has lots of support. He raised 700,000 in 1 day

[Kajsa]

59. Didn't those jackasses start the panic in DC

yesterday with the Coast Guard training exercises?

And they claim it was "responsible journalism" to
misrepresent what the hell was going on without
FACT CHECKING first.

What a bunch of incompetent jerks.

[Joe Bacon]

60. Screw CNN

The liars who run the Confederate News Network can go to hell.

[stray cat]

61. DUers condemn CNN for stating the truth? he did raise 700,000 in 24 hrs

his opponent raised about a million. We avoid facts as badly as free republic

[Parker CA]

67. In all fairness, this OP was posted when Wilson had raised only $200k. He has caught up

rather quickly though. Lots of money in parts of his district and lots of special interest money lining his pockets. As for the more recent comments, I can't help you there, and agree that avoiding reality hits both sides of the aisle at times.

At least this go 'round, perhaps Miller will have a bit more of a fair shot because of the money we've helped him raise. ;)

[aquart]

62. Yeah, that was the sad impression my mom got from CNN.

I keep asking why she watches that crap.

[Swamp Rat]

63. k&r

[HCE SuiGeneris]

68. Manny just coined a term "Presstitutes" in another thread.

I immediately thought of your creative talents...

If only I could PhotoShop,

[Swamp Rat]

71. That term has been used at DU more than a few times over the last few years.

:D

[HCE SuiGeneris]

72. Heh heh, heh...

Thanks for the laugh, Swampy :7

[The Wizard]

64. CNN jumped the shark

in 1998 when they and the rest of the corporate presstitutes failed to question the Clinton witch hunt and subsequent impeachment that was nothing more than an attempted coup d'etat of a duly elected government.

[bridgit]

65. CNN has a vested interest in doing so after being part of the sham journalism...

that's given these violent republican misogynists their place *in* the news. While CNN may not be Fox, they do intend to be part of creating derision they will then 'report' themselves. Unless any news is able to cut through CNN's Ad matrix, as indisputable news is able to do; CNN's smack-down format is all about turning truth upside-down/inside-out

[George II]

69. I saw that and wondered about it. And...

...somewhere I saw also a headline that said something to effect that the "you lie" incident spurred more than a million in donations. That made me feel good (figuring it was all for Wilson's opponent, Miller) until I went to the article discovered they were combining the two campaigns, implying that Wilson was getting as much as Miller was. I wish I could recall whose site that was, but went to another site too quickly.

[Contrary1]

75. I hope they continue to falsely inflate Wilson's donation "total".

Morans will figure he doesn't need their dollars.