It’s been a rough week for John McCain, with images of Barack Obama before cheering troops and heads of state. Foreign policy was supposed to be Obama’s weakness. So how is McCain responding? By blaming the media. His campaign produced two videos mocking the media’s love affair with Obama. It also tried to play the bias card when the New York Times asked that a commentary by his campaign be redone to provide new information. The Times may have overdone it, but as it later noted, it is common practice for newspapers to request that submissions be reworked, and the Times has published at least seven other commentaries from McCain since 1996 and said it was eager to publish him again.
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This really isn’t a ‘card’. The media has really wanted to get Obama elected…well…minus Faux News. That’s ok, they don’t want fairness in reporting, so they can cry in their soup for all I care.
Political_mama
Posted July 23, 2008 at 1:55 pm | Permalink
This really isn’t a ‘card’. The media has really wanted to get Obama elected…well…minus Faux News. That’s ok, they don’t want fairness in reporting, so they can cry in their soup for all I care.
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Pmom where has any conservative on this blog ever said they didn’t ‘want fairness in reporting’. If you are referring to the Fairness Doctrine it has nothing to do with news reporting and everything to do with freedom of speech and free enterprise.
Thanks for admitting though that there is extreme bias in the MSM.
Strike one:
“The Times may have overdone it,…”
May have?
Strike two:
“…the Times has published at least seven other commentaries from McCain since 1996…”
7 articles in 4,380 days?
Oh, brother.
Our dysfunctional media, and the Republic’s “family values” candidate,
‘What will we do in Campaign 08 when the press corps helps voters “imagine?” ‘
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh090106.html
“But in December 1999, Nancy Gibbs and John Dickerson, writing in Time, described the way their cohort was covering — and covering up for—their champion:
GIBBS/DICKERSON (12/13/99): And then there are the stories he tells — to which, if there’s a pattern, it’s to exalt other people and deflate himself.
A presidential candidate is not supposed to tell you about the rules he broke or the strippers he dated, or the time he arrived so drunk that he fell through the screen door of the young lady he was wooing.
The candor tells you more than the content, and reporters sometimes just decide to take McCain off the record because they don’t want to see him flame out and burn up a great story.
‘The Power and The Story’
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,992801-8,00.html
“7 articles in 4,380 days?”
Duh, Fleet, hate to break this to you, but McCain is a US Senator, he doesn’t work for the Times.
“Duh, Fleet, hate to break this to you, but McCain is a US Senator, he doesn’t work for the Times.”
Then don’t use being published 7 times in 12 years as an example of no bias.
“Then don’t use being published 7 times in 12 years as an example of no bias.”
McCain is the one claiming bias – the usual smokescreen of someone running behind. Seven published commentaries is neither proof for or against bias.
The issue, according to McCain, was that he was asked to rework his commentary.
Ah, that is the editor’s JOB.
Damn.
I got to see reporting too which was really neat. We were so exhausted, but we knew we had to stay awake to rid Campaign 08. I won’t get into reporting about 7 articles of a ‘card’; you will have to visit it yourself.
Reporting I can give you is to go for 7 articles. You will usually have to worry about installing fairness separately. Fairness against making your straight are 43/47, about 92 %.
“Seven published commentaries is neither proof for or against bias.”
Tell it to brownlee, not me.
Hey Sidney – want some cheese to go with that whine?
Oh yes, McCain has it so rough. Recently CBS edited it’s broadcast in order to hide a McCain gaff. Major news outlets avoid pointing out McCain’s history of telling rape jokes and other things that demean women. Reporters interviewing McCain even brought him coffee and doughnuts. On the other hand the media goes weeks about Obama’s bowling score while not showing the huge rounds of applause and smiling soldiers who greeting Obama in the Middle East.
McCain is just upset because he’s irrelevant and his Bush policies are nothing new.
Wonder if he wants some cheese with that whine?
bth, you beat me to it!
If McCain really wants the media’s attention, he needs to scream ‘Reverse Discrimination’! (of course, he may already have and the media just thought it was an off hand Mccain joke)
It is so obvious that the MSM is biased. They always have been but it has gone overboard with Barack Obama. I don’t get it, he’s just another democrat but who is more to the left than any of them.
I thought it was funny when Katie Couric kept asking him about the success of the surge and would he have voted differently had he known it was going to work. He just couldn’t bring himself to say yes, he had to say no. And she kept on him and he was getting very frustrated.
Do we really want someone like tha?. He is so stubborn and so sure that he is right even when proven wrong. How arrogant. Then he couldn’t even handle a simple question by the media, his own kind. Does he need everything scripted for him? We’re talking about the most important job in America. Do you really trust him to protect America? Do we really think the enemy will wait for his writers to give him a script when they are demanding decisions that can either destroy each and everyone of us or save us? I don’t think so. He needs to be able to think for himself.
If she’d of pressed Mccain like that, I bet he’d of said “You trollop….”
Surely, Shirley, we haven’t forgotten the Saturday Night Live skit:
“The sketch showed Clinton being thrown one hardball pitch after another, while Obama was tossed a succession of lobs and softballs. The subtext was clear: The news media had given Obama a free ride up to that point, while running Clinton ragged.”
“Pmom where has any conservative on this blog ever said they didn’t ‘want fairness in reporting’. If you are referring to the Fairness Doctrine ”
You hit the nail on the head Outie! Ding Ding Ding. You get what you ask for and then you beetch about it. Wahh.
pmom- What in the world are you talking about?
Posted by Maggotpunk
On the other hand the media goes weeks about Obama’s bowling score while not showing the huge rounds of applause and smiling soldiers who greeting Obama in the Middle East.
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Could it be there weren’t that many soldiers doing that because they realize he is trying to throw away all they have done this past year? Or maybe you were mistaking applause and smiles from people in the Mid East and Europe hoping we will be brought down to our knees by Obama putting us at their economic and social level in current society.
And as for Media Bias, well here are some story links you can copy and paste.
tinyurl.com/5wkzzd
tinyurl.com/6rvl2j
tinyurl.com/68sb4h
Remember the thousands who were reported to be at his rally, but no mention of the free rock concert? Media bias? It’s a given.
“From CNN to the New York Times, the media hyped Barack Obama’s Portland, Oregon rally on Sunday, some comparing him to a rock star.
Unmentioned in national reporting was the fact that Obama was preceded by a rare, 45-minute free concert by actual rock stars The Decemberists.
The New York Times, which ran a color photo of the crowd, estimated the throng at 75,000, noting that it was “the largest crowd of his campaign so far.” There was no mention of The Decemberists, and the Times described the weather as “an unseasonably hot day.”"
“There’s nothing wrong with a candidate using celebrity power to draw a crowd, but the media have a responsibility to report their presence. By ignoring the free concert, the Times and other outlets made it appear that 75,000 people were drawn only by Sen. Obama’s considerable charisma.”
The media is in love with Obama there is no doubt of that, in a sense though McCain might be lucky in that.
With McCain misstatements it is blowing holes in his rep as a foreign affairs expert and military leader.
Obama could remain silent and just let John have the mike, it will be a win by default.
“estimated the throng at 75,000, noting that it was “the largest crowd of his campaign so far.” There was no mention of The Decemberists”
Yeah, the Decemberists would probably easily draw 75,000 all by themselves. They have one major label CD release and they are going to draw 75K?
Yeah, right.
get hip, clark, get hip.
The media love the B. Hussein Obama.
“get hip, clark, get hip”
I was born hip, Fleet, I live hip and I will die hip.
So, does your band play any other hot songs like “King of the Road?”
You know, like really HIP songs.
fleettwood
Posted July 23, 2008 at 6:38 pm | Permalink
Unmentioned in national reporting was the fact that Obama was preceded by a rare, 45-minute free concert by actual rock stars The Decemberists.
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uh, you ever listen to The Decemberists? A little advice: wrap your wrists in something kevlar first because believe me, there’ll come a time when you’ll want to do a little cuttin’. Preferably AWAY from the music, but by that time you’ll settle. You want to be wearin’ a bit of strategic kevlar when that time comes (slap a piece over your heart, too, because anything to put you out of that misery will come to mind if you listen long enough).
Seriously, it wasn’t newsworthy because anybody who’d show up for one of their own shows ain’t votin’ for McCain. Not any time before hell freezes over, anyway. Those folks are probably nice, but they are also 100%, pure-D, lily white Democrat.
Quick, somebody, call these Mcsamist an Waaaaaambulance!
Came back to bite you, didn’t it cons?
The media love affair with Obama I mean?
Oh you were fine and good with it to get Senator Clinton out of the race.
NOW it’s your turn to deal with it.
It’s been a rough week for John McCain, with images of Barack Obama before cheering troops and heads of state. Foreign policy was supposed to be Obama’s weakness.–Brownlee
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Ah Phillip, our naive Obama cheer leading editor. Cheers by our troops (did you expect them to boo)and greeting by heads of state does not equal foreign policy savvy. Obama would get chewed up and spit out by the shrewd Middle East leaders.
“Obama would get chewed up and spit out by the shrewd Middle East leaders.”
Do you mean like Maliki slapped down Bush and McCain in just one interview?
Ummm, no WS. I’m sure he is way beyond a simple put down. Though it may be part of a game he is setting up with Obama, unbeknownst to the O man. Maliki, I’m sure is figuring there is a good chance he will win.
After an extended sojourn in Southeast Asian countries, one of which features an authoritarian, yet polite government (Singapore) and another that wears its Islamicist heart on its sleeve and features some fine, fine cuisine (Malaysia), CF2K is back in the States.
As to the topic of the thread, no surprise to watch Repukes who can’t hack it in the marketplace of ideas–this time, John McSame–trying to push their own version of the “Fairness Doctrine.” Just another example of how they don’t actually believe anything they say, as well as another example (as if one were needed) of how they cry like little girls in order to work the refs.
And then there’s the convenient disappearing by our resident Repukes of the DC media’s multi-decade McCain lovefest. How do they love more than they love “Straight Talk?” Maggotpunk alludes to this with reference to CBS’s self-editing with regard to McLame’s “misstatements” regarding Iraq and, well, virtually everything else as well. Anybody been reading those AP stories that excoriate Obama for supposedly doing precisely what John McCain has done?
No surprise, then, to watch all the usual WeBlog Wingnut deadwood chiming in with the canard of “liberal bias.” Given the total discrediting of their ideological preferences and the impending failure of their floundering Presidential candidate, blaming somebody else is all they have.
“Ummm, no WS. I’m sure he is way beyond a simple put down. Though it may be part of a game he is setting up with Obama, unbeknownst to the O man. Maliki, I’m sure is figuring there is a good chance he will win.”
Can you translate that into English for us?
Outlander,
“Obama would get chewed up and spit out by the shrewd Middle East leaders.”
Oh. You mean the way that Bush got punked by Kim Jong-il (breaker of treaties/launcher of missiles), Vladimir Putin (”I looked into his soul…”), Hu Jintao (Bush WILL be at the ceremony opening the Olympics), Ariel Sharon (manipulated America while spying on us), and yes, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (greatest beneficiary of the Iraq War)?
Has there ever been a more disastrous innocent abroad than George W. Bush?
“Plays Biased Card”….WE says in questioning voice…. See Below, You Read, You Decide.
Here are the donations of the big media companies etc. The bias runs anywhere from 20 to 1 up to 100 to 1 in political giving to the Dems vs Repubs.
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=301702713742569
Biased Media? Isn’t that a news organ that won’t say exactly what you tell it to?
Did McCain check with Barry? Barry makes all the rules. When anyone says something Barry doesn’t like he acts like a spoiled brat.
“Obama would get chewed up and spit out by the shrewd Middle East leaders.”
Yea, like Bush got taken by Curveball and Ahmed Chalabi.
Right, Obama lacks bush’s gut check abilities!
Bush’s “gut check” is just gas caused by constantly having one or more feet in his mouth!
McCain playing the biased-media card
As the kids say, NO DUH.
“Nearly 7 in 10 Americans (67 percent) say they believe most in the media want Obama to win the November election—while a scant 11 percent think the media are pulling for John McCain. Moreover, only about 1 in 10 (11 percent) volunteers the belief that the media is neutral on the race to become the 44th President of the United States.”