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There We Went Again
Confronting a huge yet ignored lesson of Election 2012 — the Obama media’s enduring power.
Most observers of the 2008 presidential campaign — even including some liberals after the fact — were shocked and appalled by the media’s pro-Barack Obama sycophancy. Unfortunately, the intentional and unintentional advocacy of the media on behalf of Obama was even worse in 2012.
There are many reasons why the conservative movement failed to achieve electoral success this year, but perhaps one of the most significant is the enduring power and influence of the left-dominated “mainstream” media. The 2012 cycle demonstrated that left-wing journalists have far more sway on Americans’ opinions than many conservatives have been willing to admit.
While the right’s ability to access mass audiences has increased substantially in recent decades with the advent of talk radio, cable television, and the Internet, its audience reach is still tiny compared to the hundreds of millions who consume news generated by the liberal mainstream media.
It is true that the audience share of these supposedly objective outlets has decreased in recent years, but that hardly means they have lost their ability to persuade people, especially with working journalists now ever more willing to throw their self-styled proclamations of objectivity to the wind.
It was one thing for the press to refuse to vet Senator Obama after he threw his name into the ring in February 2007, largely ignoring his astonishingly weak record as both a state and U.S. senator while refusing to properly expose his connections to domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, his real estate dealings with the felonious Tony Rezko, and his many years sitting in the pews listening to the America-hating Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
It was also total malpractice the way the media blamed 2008’s financial collapse on George W. Bush and Republicans while completely ignoring the two pieces of legislation that directly caused the housing and credit bubbles — the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 — both signed into law by Bill Clinton, as well as the Community Reinvestment Act’s federally mandated lowering of lending standards.
But it’s quite another thing how the press behaved once the man they aided and abetted during the campaign was sworn in. From that point, many in the media appeared to believe it was their job to assist him in advancing his agenda even if that involved their providing false information to the public or not bothering to report administration failures along the way.
Consider that within days of Obama’s election, MSNBC host Chris Matthews made his intentions clear stating he believed it was his duty to aid the new president:
“I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work […] Yeah, it is my job. My job is to help this country.”
Within months of the new president’s inauguration, a fine example of the press’s complicity was demonstrated by how it initially ignored opponents of Obama — a.k.a. the Tea Party — and then dishonestly depicted its members as racists.
When a different, administration-backed movement emerged in 2011 advocating policies in line with the current White House resident, its members were fawned and gushed over as the violence and lawlessness that took place at their rallies went unreported.
At the same time as the Republican presidential nomination process was beginning, the media felt it was their responsibility to eviscerate and attack all the candidates.
Recall that after sexual harassment allegations were made against Herman Cain by Politico last November, ABC, CBS, and NBC ran more stories about this in the ensuing seven days than they did about Obama’s connections to Ayers, Dorhn, Rezko, and Wright throughout the entire 2008 campaign.
But the most repugnant behavior by the media was yet to come.
In January, the White House released a new edict concerning companies — including religious organizations — being required to provide free contraceptives to their employees even if it violated their religious beliefs. Prior to this, there had been absolutely no discussion of birth control from Republican presidential candidates. Yet this set off a firestorm of media attacks on Republicans and their so-called “War on Women.”
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TLP| 11.16.12 @ 6:54AM
I don't get it.
The Media is Corrupt?
No Sh*t.
Now what?
I've always thought that, since we on the Right are far too good for such triflings as BOYCOTTING every MFing Sponser of every one of these MFing Bullsh*t MFing Programs? Perhaps we can find other means to deal with this.
I like the idea of Goosing their Gander.
They love it when their Leftist friends send their Leftist Thugs out to some Corporate Executive's HOME, where HIS FAMILY lives. I say, Goose/Gander. I say we load up the Buses, and truck on over to where these MFers live, and take Sh*ts on their cars, for a change. Drive on their Lawns. Scare the Fck outta their Screwed up in the head Kids.
I apologize for using the term - MFers - so much, when referring to these Ccksckrs.
Maybe if David Gregory's Face was to accidentally fall onto somebody's Fist, 20 times or so?
Maybe if Joe Scarborough was to accidentally run in to some a his old Redneck Homeboys from his old Trailer Park Stomping grounds, back in the Panhandle?
Maybe if Gloria Vanderbilt's little Boy/Girl was to have all of his Homo Erotic Wet Dreams come true, in an alley, somewhere, behind some Mexican Biker Bar?
The point is, that they Spin their Lies, and they Cover for this POS in the White House because they know that they're Protected. They make Million$ every year, mouthing his Talking Points about The Evil Rich. Spinning and Twirling at his Command. They have theirs, and they want MORE. And, FCK You and Me.
I say - ROAD TRIP!
Joellen| 11.16.12 @ 7:45AM
Tim, see my reply and work on it, but know that your still the man.
TLP| 11.16.12 @ 9:28AM
See your Reply?
I thought this was your Reply.
Bob Grant| 11.16.12 @ 10:11AM
The problem, TLP, is we wouldn't make it to their homes.
We wouldn't get past the triple-layer security apparatus the ALL WHITE gated community provides for them.
I know boycotts go against my core principles but I don't see any alternative.
devan95| 11.16.12 @ 10:23PM
One alternative is to use their own laws against them. Since they obviously discriminate in hiring, we should be suing them under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.....
Alan Brooks | 11.16.12 @ 11:34PM
First you guys admit Reagan was your finest, and then you wonder how Obama could have defeated an opportunist such as Romney? You learned nothing from Dole and McCain's defeats?
Frosty| 11.17.12 @ 10:27PM
Hey, could you start with Alan Brooks and we'll be with you the rest of the way?
RJ| 11.16.12 @ 6:55AM
Good article and thank-you for your good work. Yes, culture determines politics. We need to make an impact outside of political campaigns.
Joellen| 11.16.12 @ 7:16AM
Thank you Mr. Sheppard, I think mourning for this past week, your article, along with Dr. Sowell's and Jeffrey Lords, have aided the process of getting up and moving on.
It's no secret to anyone who reads my responses how much I despise the media - they, I feel, are more guilty than the elected ones, who are intent in transforming America into a Socialist country.
They chose sides years ago, and although for our parents it wasnt as obvious, for us there is no doubt, whose side they are on.
Why cant the conservatives get a newspaper equivalent to NYT's started? Let's face it, the majority of the left dont even read - just watch the many video's out there depicting their knowledge of what's going on.
Why cant we have a mainstream channel - has anyone noticed the crap that's on tv? Yet do you all recall how well 2012 did and how all the recent Christian Movies have excelled?
I still believe that many people hunger for truth, why cant we provide it (Koch brothers, Trump)?
Just look at the responses you get here at TAS - some of these people are brilliant - let's put them into the mainstream media (just have to clean a few up (TLP :) ), but truly dont you think they would make a strong impact on those who are searching for the truth. We have the resources, lets at least make the attempt. As I stated, mourning time is over, lets get going on restoring America now, no more weeping and wailing, lets work to bring America back to life again.
TLP| 11.16.12 @ 9:33AM
THE NEW YORK POST.
Best Editorial and Op Ed Pages on the Planet.
A Conservative Paper through and through.
And, it's everywhere.
I even got one every morning when we went to Deleware this Summer. I get it when we go to The Cape, and when we go to Rhode Island.
Now, get thee to A Contest.
Go to Monday's Story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky. I put it there, in Honour of Purp, Pelleas, and everyone's Favourite Connoisseur of Foot Longers, and ONLY Foot Longers - Alanthere'snotenoughhaironmyhotdog Brooks.
You're gonna need to press the "Previously" Button.
Joellen| 11.17.12 @ 8:23AM
Best part of NYP is Mallard Fillmore!
SUBVET| 11.16.12 @ 10:23AM
ditto.............
Neatsfoot| 11.16.12 @ 2:40PM
You have the Washington Times - a pathetic joke.
The media has become increasingly decentralized with the internet.
The problem is not the media, the problem is the GOP had no message, and a robot for a messenger.
Stop blaming others and take a look inside . .
itsy_bitsy| 11.16.12 @ 7:16AM
Most media, but TV media in particular have become the Joseph Goebbels of our day! Those, like myself, who are watching the prostitution of the news take place, call them the MSM, but that's not really correct. Call them what they are propagandists, or better yet call them by the name of the most famous propagandist in history " The Joseph Goebbels Presscore".
Russel| 11.16.12 @ 8:55AM
I'm not in the mood to wax eloquent today , more like just getting dirty PO'd like Tim did . But yes , Goebbels is the one who always comes to mind when I hear some twerp ( like the one Hannity loathes ) talk about US being Nazi . Goebbels would be proud , beaming , of the US press corpse . Git himself a copy of Time and close the bathroom door excited . Or , hardned up over the one I'd like to throttle , Lisa Brady of Fox News radio . Hit it , Tim .
Von Mises Jr| 11.16.12 @ 9:09AM
William Shirer was an American Journalist working in Nazi Germany and wrote 'The Long Night." The Nazis put out complete lies about travesties alleged on Belgium, France and England to justify genocide of neighboring countries towns and villages. Like the Benghazi lies that will surely be told by Panetta and Petraeus today, the news reaching the German people was all propaganda.
The collaboration between the regime and the MSM is identical. Shirer could not report the truth until he was safely out of Germany. Likewise, today we often only get the truth if we visit sites such as Canada Free Press or the UK Daily Mail.
This is very frightening and not correctable by simply competing in the same arena. The truth only surfaced in Germany after the Nazis were defeated. It took incredible pain to be inflicted on the people before they learned the truth. Buckle up. It is going to be a bumpy ride.
pogybait| 11.16.12 @ 10:40AM
You are spot on, we have a media within the political system which emphasizes the immediate and facilitates the emotion and mood of the moment rather than analysis. So far I haven't seen Republicans demonstrate their convictions needed to master this or the emerging new media as well. Although they may be able to view the changes, they are unable to process or recognize the transitions . The question remains if the current group of journalists will antagonize the vast network of vested interests or exude such self indulgence that they fail to attract the masses to their illusions of a centralized state.
Von Mises Jr| 11.16.12 @ 10:55AM
Wait until January 15th when the jacka$$e$ open their pay stub.
Boehner offered to raise our taxes $800B last year and doubled down to $1.6T. Obama scoffed. He does not think that you should only have your taxes raised if you make over $250K.
At $100K, you are still among the global top earners and a capitalist "fat cat." So your SS goes back up $2K and Federal Taxes go up $4,269 for AGI of $70K.
So if you and your wife earn $50K each and have $30K in exemptions and deductions, you pay about $525 more of your disposable income next year even before ObamaCare raises the shit out of your property taxes and the fines kick in.
If your employer drops your coverage, you must pay for the Cadillac Plan out-of-pocket or pay 1% rising to a 2.5% fine by 2016.
Where does Joe six-pack get the money?
They may have not been paying attention before, but wait until they get the bill.
Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 6:51PM
Nice try, von Mises.
Actually ... NOT.
That sort of "historical revisionism" is nowadays known as a "shit-faced lie."
Yeah, I plan on being around this coming January -- and be eager to rub the facts in your face.
Von Mises Jr| 11.17.12 @ 7:34AM
Social Security deduction returns to 6.2% on the employee side regardless in January. If not, they bankrupt the program even earlier.
I know you are not good with numbers, but SS took in $637B in 2011 and paid out $733B. It stabilized in 1975 at about 3.2 to 1 (down from the original 1937 160 to 1) payers versus recipients and will fall to 2.1 to 1 with the Baby Boomers retiring in droves.
I wish you were correct Ralphie since I paid a lot of money into SS over my lifetime. Now you just keep on paying since I want you to give me my money back. Or at least as much as you can pay in until the whole thing collapses.
If you are young as well as stupid, and you earn $50K average for 40 years, you will pay $248K in SS taxes. It is alleged to last probably until I am dead, although I don't believe it. But just keep paying so I can get some of my contributions (taxes) back.
Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 11:19PM
What's your point, von Mises?
It's a "pension" program.
It's "solvent" until at least 2033 or so right now, and can very easily be tweaked to be solvent until 2080 or so.
All that crap about "where's the money?" is like what the panicked customers of the Bailey Savings & Loan said in "It's a Wonderful Life."
To be real simple and clear: SS is not a "Ponzi Scheme." Anything but. I like how Alan Simpson talks, but not how he thinks.
Von Mises Jr| 11.18.12 @ 7:13AM
Hey Perp, perhaps you should research Davis v Boston & Maine R. Co and Davis v Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston where the Supreme Court ruled that Social Security is unconstitutional since the taxes were paid by some for the benefit of others.
The government argued that the tax and benefit were no way related. Got that moron. The government said it not only was Social Security not a pension plan, but that the tax and benefit had no legal connection.
This means it is a tax, genius and that the congress can change the contribution, payout or requirements at any time. You are not entitled to anything, genius. ("The Real Crash" - Peter Schiff p. 158)
Why don't you piss off Perp. I did not answer for your benefit but to let good people that read here to know the truth and that you are an a$$h0le.
Rhoetus| 11.16.12 @ 7:04PM
Rules for Conservatives @
http://www.saveamericanow.us.com
Occam's Tool| 11.17.12 @ 12:47AM
My personal experience with journalists, both in watching them cruelly verbally and emotionally abuse a dedicated rural surgeon (they drove him to attempted suicide by abusing him publically for not selling out his personal practice), AND as a major player in an international newsstory (the psychiatrist for the Alabama Chain Gang), has taught me that they are vermin for the most part fit only for being kicked in the face (over 90% of them that I have met). When you are discussing Liberal journos, that figure approaches 100 percent, just as with ACLU attorneys. Subhumans.
Joellen| 11.16.12 @ 7:17AM
That should be 2016!
Kwan| 11.16.12 @ 9:23AM
Question is will the MSM be able to cover-up for what undoubtedly will be 4 years of endless failure, as Obama and the Commiecrats try to fundamentally transform the United States into a Totalitarian Socialist State. No doubt the dimwits will be told not to believe their lying eyes that tell them that the situation in the country is deteriorating by the day. But ultimately when this left-wing mirage collapses as a result of idiotic attempts to violate the laws of economic sanity, the MSM will have a hard time convincing anyone with an IQ greater than their shoe size, that voting for Democrats is a smart decision.
squalis| 11.16.12 @ 10:16AM
The article is already written, type set for a front page above the fold headline. The headline reads:
REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTIONISM!!!!
irish19| 11.16.12 @ 12:53PM
Exactly! The Won alluded to this in his recent speech about his "balanced" approach to avoiding the fiscal cliff.
Rhoetus| 11.16.12 @ 7:05PM
They are just like "Baghdad Bob" and their momma must be so proud.
PolishKnight| 11.16.12 @ 9:30AM
Romney lost because he failed to capitalize on issues that could have quickly won him the election. The economy is great, but it's an abstract concept similar to The Holy Constitution.
Romney had an opportunity to increase voter turnout when asked about "equal" pay for women. What the left means by this is preferential, higher pay for women while women also enjoy welfare and child-support and take time off of work and men pay the bills. Instead of calling the left on their entitlement scheme for women, he bought into it. In addition, he continued to ignore the racist entitlements Obama used to lock in 30% of the electorate.
In addition, Obama freaked out over the ads that called him out for ending work for welfare claiming they were "lies". When they're that hysterical and denying the nose on their face, then that's a good sign you should punch more there. That's what the left does when they see an ad polling well irregardless of how inaccurate it is. But he pulled his punches.
ElijahJack| 11.16.12 @ 9:35AM
Every time a person buys a high-profile branded product, he is empowering the dissemination of leftist propaganda. As an individual, I work hard to buy only non-branded products and communicate this fact by hand-written letter to those companies whose sales depend on large ad budgets. I also make an effort to note the sponsors of particularly egregious programming for similar attention. One of the only weapons we of the non-left have remaining is the profit motive. For those who believe big media is as the above article articulates, it is time to take action that can change the landscape of Madison Avenue and make media advertising far less profitable for both the ad agencies and their clients. Such can be done only at the individual level.
Kwan| 11.16.12 @ 10:04AM
The financiers of the left were forced to reexamine their assumptions. Big donors such as George Soros, his friend Progressive Insurance chairman Peter B. Lewis......Anyone buying insurance from this "Progressive" Insurance Company should wake-up. This guy Peter B. Lewis is a Commie-rat that any right thinking American Patriot wouldn't buy a policy from. Let the Obama voters support him, the ones on welfare that don't have a car, a house, a boat, or anything that requires insurance.
C. Vernon Crisler | 11.16.12 @ 9:38AM
Reagan was able to overcome a biased media. That's because, unlike Romney, he had something to say and didn't pander. When will the Republican & Conservative Establishment learn that you can't beat something with nothing.
Anthony| 11.16.12 @ 9:43AM
I disagree Vern. The culture has changed so much since the '80s. The whores in the MSM are now so blatant in their bias and corruption. As bad as the media were in the '80s, this bunch is far, far worse.
As I've said before, even Reagan could not have won in this present enviornment.
We need to take over these institutions, if it's not too late already.
C. Vernon Crisler | 11.16.12 @ 2:35PM
The media was even more biased during Reagan's day. Remember, there was no alternative media, no Fox News, back then. Reagan faced an almost completely liberal news media at the time of his election and for the next 8 years. But he did not pander and stayed the course despite vicious attacks from liberal media and Hollywood media.
Anthony| 11.16.12 @ 9:39AM
Mr. Sheppard, Exposing the media is not the answer, taking over the media is.
The totally corrupt whores in the MSM doubled down on getting Obozo re-elected. The lies, distortions, favoritism, and coverups were massive this time around.
We can complain all we want about Romney, who I believe ran a good campaign under normal circumstances, but the truth is, as I've been saying for months, if we don't take over the 3 pillars of corruption, the media, academia, and the entertainment industry, Rs will continue to lose.
It isn't reaching out that we need to do,we don't need to be more like Ds. Our culture has changed for the worse, we are indeed an idiocracy with half of America's population dumber than a doorjam.
If you asked the typical Obozo voter, Fast & Furious and Behngazi didn't even register with them.
The culture has become stupified, just the way the Ds wanted it. We need a sea change in America.
squalis| 11.16.12 @ 10:24AM
The MSM is the "Turducken Slammer" of our day:
\\http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi6CmQgd7Tk
squalis| 11.16.12 @ 10:26AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi6CmQgd7Tk
Purp| 11.16.12 @ 11:15AM
Yep, the media made Obama win...
It's the media's fault - Even though an entire Media Empire (Murdoch) was against Obama, 400 right-wing radio shows blanketed the airwaves with Obama being a failure, a Marxist, Muslim, etc.
Placing blame on the media in this day and age is a dog that don't hunt. Give it up, it's a stupid argument.
CJW| 11.16.12 @ 11:22AM
Purpie the Village Idiot p0sted the following after the election:
"Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."
So pupie believes and approves that God killed over 100 people, destroyed homes, and injured many so that Obama could win.
Last month purpie wrote that Ambassador Stevens is responsible for his own death.
This is the message of the loony left: Purpie and his band of followers. They do not deserve any response other that ridicule and mocking
squalis| 11.16.12 @ 11:43AM
The media did not win it alone for O, but the MSM gave him a big assist. That you can't objectively examine the possibility, with all the documented evidence easy to find, speaks to your blindness.
squalis| 11.16.12 @ 11:56AM
Purp ate the Turducken Slammer!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
Tom Kyba| 11.16.12 @ 12:42PM
Nice try comrade, but everyone including you, in between your crack highs that is, knows that the MSM is Pravda. The stupid argument in this case is your pathetic attempt to turn the tables with your Murdoch fixation. It wouldn't matter if the freaking John Birch society owned every media outlet in America, it's the content that matters. You and your army of eunichs knows this very well, so spewing just-so stories won't change that, not even in your tiny little mind. So, as usual, you come here and post lies. In the end, whatever else happens, you are a chickensh** for trying to propagandize people. You have proven yourself to be incapable of manning up.
Cluck cluck chicken man.
Occam's Tool| 11.18.12 @ 8:50PM
Next time, ignore the media and tell the Truth:
1) we are faced with Islamic scum
2) Our government wants too much control over our lives and spends too much money on "piss Jesus")
3)Taxation is a method of destruction, and must bekept to the minimum necessary.
Rinse, repeat. Keep pounding the message, and find the scndals in the Democratic party candidate's past and blast it out loud. No way one can go too low. That's the way to win.
Citizen Jerry| 11.16.12 @ 11:21AM
I have no idea how to go about this. But there must be some way to make these presstitutes PAY DEARLY for their corruption.
Who Knows?| 11.16.12 @ 12:02PM
Repeat after me—
The MSM is our ruler, our dictator.
Inspect “dictate”---To speak; to point out in words”.
The top dogs of the MSM ruling class don’t get where they are without following, THEMSELVES, the DICTATES of the evolved collective.
And, let’s see---like the guy in Plato’s cave parable, who escapes the darkness into the light, and realizes he’s only heretofore seen flat shadows, some people have been shocked enough to leave the brainwashing machine that is the MSM for what---30 years?
And, STILL, nothing changes, except the MSM strengthens its strangling grip on us all. It tends to be older people who wake up, and the youth who are entering adulthood firmly asleep. And, awake ones die out, faster than sleepers replace them.
I always find it pathetically humorous, when supposedly smart guys like Jed Babbin whine about people whining about the MSM.
What is a slave to do, except complain, when they realize what’s happening to them, who their master is? Of course, when you ARE a slave, and THINK you’re free, human nature still prevails, and you defend your—slavery, unconsciously, to be sure.
What to do?
Actually, it’s NOT-DOING that is called for.
Who Knows?| 11.16.12 @ 12:02PM
Say you’re constantly experiencing a sharp pain in your buttocks, and you go to a doctor. She would probably, these days, prescribe a pain pill.
But, if you found a TRUE escapee of the “cave”, maybe they’d point out to you that YOU are pinching yourself, and you just didn’t know it. Now, there are myriad ways to “pinch yourself”, so for example, an obese person reaches inside the body with way too much gross stuff, non-nutritious “food”, and voila---painful pounds of fat.
Just so, then, when it comes to the MSM, if after enough observation, understanding flashes, what else is the logical response, except---stop pinching yourself!!!
Remember when Reagan exposed the wizard of Washington DC, by saying “government is the problem.?
Well, the MSM slaves went right on jerking their mind “knees”, and did practically NOTHING about it!
Here’s the answer---boycott ALL the entire MSM. Until the elected leaders of the GOP realize that it’s WORSE for them to appear on ANY of their shows than it is to avoid them, the noose will only tighten around THEIR necks.
And yet, we DO have Fox news channel, which is “fair”---who cares!!! Even they are part of the problem.
Here’s the ONLY reason to go on a Meet the Press, for example---attack the questioner, his motives, his beliefs, his manhood!!! NEVER come close to answering his questions, or even appearing to think they’re serious.
The MSM is us, pinching ourselves.
STOP DOING IT!
Jack London| 11.16.12 @ 12:32PM
This is a petulant nonsensical article in the Jeffrey Lord tradition. The only thing it leaves out is why the media didn't find out Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya.
cuban pete| 11.16.12 @ 2:07PM
OK he was born somewhere in America but he allowed his literary agent to market him as Afican born. So he was comfortable with a lie.
True, his college and law school grades reveal he is brilliant as do the various articles he authored for the law review.
Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 4:10AM
You were doing ok until you got to the Obama/muslim thing, Jack.
Step back and take another gander on things, eh?
John786| 11.16.12 @ 12:35PM
So the solution is to have more media outlets; to get the conservative message Out. LOL. LOL.LOL. My advice is to keep your hate filled messages as quite as possible. The more people hear the irrational hate the more put off they'll become. You need to stay as quite as a mouse. People rejected your solutions. You need change policies. Remember Mousy, mousy.
devan95| 11.16.12 @ 10:19PM
You are obviously a product of the government union schools. Or, as you would spell it, skoolz.
Dave Williams| 11.16.12 @ 1:03PM
MSM reporters and editors are WHORES, every last man jack and woman jill of them. Boycott their products, and hunker down for (at least) four more years of living in a nightmare alternative universe....
rightwinger| 11.16.12 @ 1:19PM
It's clear that the media always helps the Democrats whenever they can feasibly do so. Having said that, don't you think our nominee should have explained how the D's were mostly to blame for the '08 financial collapse? And explained how the HHS mandate was a direct assult on religious freedom?
Ralph Novy| 11.16.12 @ 2:43PM
Check out
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....44253.html
Dobbs| 11.16.12 @ 6:21PM
Yes, the LEFT-STREAM MEDIA is a huge obstacle.
However, conservatives should set their eyes on those who are 14-18 years old. These young people are on the verge of becoming voters. And they're being indoctrinated by the Left, so we must -- MUST -- use creative ways to use technology and media messaging to break through to this group and win them over.
Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 11:22PM
Good luck with that!
But by all means do talk it over with a bunch of rich, white, paunchy, greedy guys on the links.
I'm sure you'll come up with a winning strategy to "reach" these young people.
Rhoetus| 11.18.12 @ 8:30PM
Dobbs: It's not the left-stream media, it's the "Ministry of Truth". ;-)
devan95| 11.16.12 @ 10:16PM
In addition to media employees being mostly Democrat, many of them are union members, as are the employees in the entertainment business. And since government employees are largely unionized this makes them natural allies. Hence, the government/media/union complex. Even Bill Oreilly brags about being a member of AFTRA. And just for kicks, call your local talk show and ask them how much they make from political ads. They get very defensive as you might suspect, refuse to answer, and then find a reason to attack YOU! Great fun. Breitbart lives!
Rhoetus| 11.17.12 @ 12:28AM
I raised my kids right! Skeptical of authority and defiantly pro-liberty.
Ralph Novy| 11.17.12 @ 4:12AM
Same here.
But I'd add "empathic."
Burlington| 11.17.12 @ 10:15AM
I recently asked an early and well known critic of Obama why with many millions available for adverse research Romney did not attack such an easy target rich opponent. Game changing charges such as sexual orientation and adultery, genetics, communist/Marxist background and narcissistic behavior. He replied that Romney couldn't go out on a limb without media support. He was tougher on Newt! Hey Mitt, you had an opprtunity to save the country and you blew it.
KelliQ| 11.17.12 @ 1:48PM
I would like to start a class action lawsuit against the so-called main stream media (esp. MSNBC,NBC,CNN,CBS,ABC) for malpractice for hiding so much information from us, for abusing (breaking!) the trust placed in them because of their position and power in our society, for keeping information from us instead of disseminating it as they are supposed to! Why can't we sue them for breach of trust and malpractice? They call themselves professionals and take certain special priviledges unto themselves for the purpose of giving us information. So, when they don't give us information that they have, shouldn't they be held accountable?
KelliQ| 11.17.12 @ 1:56PM
(sorry, part of my comment was edited out, here's the rest)
The rest of us are accountable if we withhold information that is vital to an investigation or a public trust or entity. If they are in the position of a public trust, receive the benefits as such, they should be, at the very least, efficient in their duties. If they are found to be negligent in their duties, they should be punished in some way. The media sources mentioned have been at least negligent and at worst malicious in their use of their power over the information they have had access. The only method they seem to recognize is via the pocketbook, so we should be sueing them for malfeasance, malpractice, and criminal intent! The money could be used toward the national deficit, since their actions help to increase it. Has anyone ever tried this before?
megalass| 11.17.12 @ 5:49PM
Why spending the whole wad on TV advertising is a bad idea:
Reason 6. TiVo
Frosty| 11.17.12 @ 10:36PM
Nothing is going to work until the right decides to commit themselves to making the lives of left wing journalists a living hell. They need to be abused, mocked, harassed, exposed, and humiliated until they quit or change. The left wing media is like an Iron Dome over our country preventing the truth from reaching the citizens. Soldiers are dying in wars to protect the media's right to lie to us. We owe it to our soldiers if not to ourselves. This should be the fun part.
RCV| 11.18.12 @ 1:16PM
What garbage! The so-called "truth" as you see it gets spouted every day by Limbaugh, Hannity, Fox, the NY Post, a thousand red state dailies and all of you on this and other sites. Your problem is that no one's buying the nonsense you spout.
Occam's Tool| 11.18.12 @ 8:51PM
Oh, they're buying, all right...they're not VOTING. Fox is rich, Limbaugh is rich, Hannity is rich.
Frosty| 11.18.12 @ 11:38PM
I don't think so. I think the huge majority of voters never hear Limbaugh, Fox etc. All they see or hear is what the entertainers, the msm, the vast majority of newspapers, which are liberal, want them to hear...which is, and has long been, grossly biased. If you can't admit to the huge liberal media bias that has existed and continues to exist, you aren't equipped to define what "truth" is.
Frosty| 11.18.12 @ 11:45PM
RCV, how long did the NY Times beat the drumb on Abu Graib? How long did it take them to even mention Benghazi? Imagine the soup line stories we would be getting if the current unemployment/foodstamp/welfare stats occurred under a Republican President. When gas was 1.89 a gallon, all we heard about was how Bush was colluding with his Big Oil buddies to profit. Not a peep about nefarious motives now that gas is 4.oo a gallon, and that's with Obama on record saying he wants gas prices to be higher! Pull your head out of wherever you keep it.
Martin kzovich| 11.18.12 @ 7:58AM
I agree with your article now the question is what will be done about it. ? It takes lots of money and persistence and motivation. The leadership of the current Republican Party lack the last two requirements. Oh and i forgot--guts--and that too is lacking. Running agai9nst the media is required and i think this is one of the failures. There is a need for new leadership with a broader vision.