Media coverage is so biased, Even MSNBC is in on it. They have created the scenario

[dumpdabaggers]

The numbers of the Tea Party have been greatly inflated, the reason for certain election results are blown way out of proportion. Every Democratic loss is Obama's fault, every Democratic win is hardly mentioned.

Sarah Palin has been turned into a major player becauser the media wanted her to be. Never has a defeated VP candidate gotten so much attention. Especially one who by all accounts caused thier presidential candidate to lose worse than he might have.

Just look how none of them are calling Rand Paul to task for any of his nutty views. The spin is that "The Tea Party Candidate Wins Big." In truth, he got fewer votes than the two top Democratic candidates.

The media was positive the Republcian's would win Murtha's district. When they didn't, little is said about it.

This is what happened when Jimmy Carter was elected in 1976. During the campaign the media was mostly very positive about him. As soon as he took officde they did nothing but tear him down. They are doing the same thing with Obama.

The MSM believes they were in love with Obama during the campaign. Now they are going the other way to prove they are "fair."

[blm]

1. Too late. BTW, media never loved Obama, everyone in DC knew by 2006 that Dem would win 2008

and IF the corpmedia could have changed that they would have.

[dumpdabaggers]

2. Disagree, Obama got increbile press coverage.

I do not think another candidate could have survived the Jerimiah Wright thing. While I think a lot of what Wright said was true, this would have been a magic bullet for a lesser candidate.

[Frances]

3. It was Obama, not the MSM, who handled Wright

[rocktivity]

36. And it was the blogophere, not the MSM

who pointed out that the Clintons also had ties to Wright, and that the GOP candidate had ties to controversial clergypeople of their own. The MSM doesn't have the last word about what goes on anymore.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[blm]

6. Baloney - media didn't LOVE Obama when they played that tape repeatedly for a month.

Obama survived it because GEORGE W BUSH and DICK CHENEY were SO bad that their pet media couldn't help protect them as much as they needed, anymore at that point. Bush WH looked SO bad that Wright tape didn't knock off Obama the way media hoped.

[karynnj]

29. Exactly - the media blew the Wright thing into a story for weeks

Compare that to the almost no coverage given to Sarah Palin's extreme anti-semetic church. Remember that Reverend Wright was not Obama. There was FAR less time given to outrageous things McCain himself did - like singing "bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran"
http://mccainsings.com/

[Cha]

27. No, the "media"whores didn't love Obama..

Obama survived because he's Obama.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

32. Yes, he did, but what it mostly negative or mostly favorable?

PEW did a survey in which people were asked who they thought was more favored by the media--Obama or McCain. Though most people said Obama (because that's what the MSM and Republicans kept repeating), the analysis actually showed that Obama received much more negative coverage, a la Reverend Wright, William Ayers, Muslim and "birther" rumors, than did John McCain.

In other words, the fact that the MSM never brought up the Keating 5 scandal; never mentioned McCain's infidelities; never went after McCain for flip-flopping on immigration and a host of issues; never really took him to task for negative campaiging--says so much.

It is a myth that the M$M loves Obama. In fact, it's a lie that was first peddled by Hillary Clinton, then John McCain. It's a common tactic that politicians resort to when they are losing in an election. The easiest thing to do is blame the "LIBRUL MEDIA" for their loss.

[Lasher]

4. Funny, they didn't worry about being fair when they fawned all over Junior.

All during both campaigns and for almost his entire two terms.

[dumpdabaggers]

5. I agree, they went before Bush on bended knee.

It was embarassing.

[BreweryYardRat]

35. Not "bended knee", "bended kneeS."

That IS the time-honored position for a blowjob, after all.

[still_one]

7. It is amazing to watch how they go out of their way to put the Democrats in a bad light

Take solace in the fact that a month ago they were saying the Democrats were going to lose Murtha's seat, and the other races were going to go with the establishment

In other words, their analysis was completely wrong, and has been wrong for quite sometime now

[FrenchieCat]

8. The problem of course is that being wrong doesn't stop them......

hardly even slows them down!

[emulatorloo]

24. It doesn't stop them because they are trying to shape the future with propaganda

What else can explain their refusal to fact-check Republicans and devote so much air time to a bunch of angry fringe kooks?

[FrenchieCat]

30. Exactly! That should be against the law!

[EC]

9. Well, they never exposed Ron Paul's nutty views

either...so why would they with his son? Chris Mathews does mention that both Pauls are nutty and want to do away with everything from the Dept. of Ed to EPA to Social Security...


Yeah, these are things that have to be pointed out, because Paul is making way with ending wars and legalizing pot...while not mentioning his odd-ball theories...



I just cannot get over a man named after a second rate romance novelist is being seen as even viable.

[ProSense]

10. "Sarah Palin has been turned into a major player becauser the media wanted her to be. "

You have got to be kidding? You seem to be confusing media hype with reality. Yes, the media can create perception, but it's only valid if people buy it.

"The MSM believes they were in love with Obama during the campaign."

Sounds more like what you believe. Regardless, it's nonsense.

[dumpdabaggers]

12. Prosense, the whole world believes media was pro Obama in 2008

Perception is reality in prolitics. When are you going to learn that?

[blm]

15. BS - that's the GOP lie mainstreamed by corpmediawhores.

Funny, you certainly are a HUGE fan of RW lies spun thru the corpmedia - that's MY perception from watching you take every opportunity to REPEAT the lies.

[ProSense]

16. Yeah, the "bitter" and Wright controversies were pro "elitist" Obama.

What utter bullshit.

[wiggs]

18. Not close to true. nt

[spiritual_gunfighter]

11. MSNBC is always in on it

there is no difference between MSNBC, CNN, and FOX other than the nighttime line up. MSNBC echoes what the rest of MSM is saying. They are all the same.

[dumpdabaggers]

13. Even Maddow seems to be becoming more establishment media as she has been accepted by them.

I could not believe how she failed to challenge that RNC dick last night.

[Dr.Phool]

34. Are we watching the same show?

She latched onto Paul like a pit bull, and never let go. Let him make a complete ass of himself. Forced him to, really.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

14. DAMMIT, MSNBC.... TELL THE TRUTH

[State the Obvious]

17. MSM has become "drunk with power"......

They enjoy writing the scripts for what the American people will...or will not....hear. And will NOT give up their power to manipulate the minds of people who cannot think for themselves.

(We need to demand more from them.)

[okieinpain]

19. well you have to admit palin is pretty hot, how else does someone

get thousands of dollars for a speech in which they read stupid jokes off of their blackberry. isn't America grand.

[TheKentuckian]

23. Meh...Peggy Hill with big, nice hair, and an old hot but fading stripper body

Palin's hawtness is terribly overrated, in my opinion. She'd probably fall to average at best with a human proportion hair budget.

In 3-5 years she'll be washed up because those wrinkles will be more clear and there'll likely be a sag here and there, even with a full moose diet and a great trainer because she is absolutely intellectually incurious, hasn't a single idea, lacks vision of any sort, and is quite lazy.

[emulatorloo]

25. Peggy Hill is a lot smarter and more empathic then that hateful vindictive quitter.

[TheKentuckian]

38. Talking pure appearance here.

[Beam Me Up]

20. The M$M are not friendly. Their function is societal perception control

(aka propaganda), not to deliver information that could empower the body politic to challenge the actual structures of (banking/corporate/MIC) power that rule.

M$M operate according to three primary rules:

1) Never turn public attention to the actual structures of power that control government, who they are and how they operate.
2) Keep public attention focused on divisive issues and politics that neither reveal nor threaten the actual structures of power.
3) Give the public a distorted perception of itself as effectively powerless: distracted, divided, agitated and fearful.

[State the Obvious]

22. Your 3 points are excellent reminders of what is REALLY happening. nt

[onenote]

21. While it is true that Paul got fewer votes than the top two Democrats

i wouldn't read too much into that. That is a pretty common pattern in KY. Bunning got fewer votes in his last primary than either of the Democrats and still won. Its also happened that way in governor's races. Its not surprsing since these are closed primaries and there are a lot more registered Democrats in KY than registered repubs. The good news from where I sit is that as a percentage of registered voters, turnout among Democrats was even with turnout among repubs (around 33 percent for both parties), which suggests that there is not the "enthusiasm gap" among the most active voters that some have hypothesized.

[Beam Me Up]

26. kick -- this needs more attention and more recs.

[brooklynite]

28. Unrec'd

In five minutes, I found stories at ABC, MSNBC, CNN, CBS and most major papers about Rand Paul's remarks.

I found stories at AP, Newsweek, the Economist, CBS and even Fox News about Democratic enthusiasm and Republican concern over the results of PA-12.

Let's not read conspiracy theories into every aspect of the media.

[politicasista]

33. He gone

See profile. :)

[Thrill]

31. Cable News is all about Sensationalism

If they can get this kind of a rise out of you. They have done their job.

Thats why its great when the President calls them out in speeches

[Blue-Jay]

37. HA!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=user_profiles&u_id=258455

I called this troll from post #1. Seeya, motherfucker.