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Saturday 
01 November 2008
Liberal Bias In The Media My Ass
More than the ridiculous claims that Obama is a Muslim (as if that is categorically a bad thing), a terrorist sympathizer, a Marxist, etc., I’d have to say that the GOP red herring that pisses me off the most is one that predates Obama’s candidacy by many years: There is a liberal bias in the media.
Yeah, right.
From Steve Benen:
For reasons that I can’t quite figure out, CNN has decided to devote an entire program this weekend to how conservatives — and just conservatives — are looking at the election. National Journal, listing all of the weekend’s political programming, had this item:
Election Countdown: View from the Right features Townhall.com’s Amanda Carpenter, Washington Times’ Brian DeBose, Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes and ex-Romney press sec. Kevin Madden (CNN, SAT, 5pm).
There are a couple of things wrong with this. First, there apparently is no “Election Countdown: View from the Left.” As Kyle at Right Wing Watch noted, “It seems that CNN has decided that the weekend before the election is as good a time as any to give conservative commentators an hour of free airtime to lay out their agenda. If CNN is also planning on giving liberals an hour to talk about the election, I haven’t heard anything about it.” (I have a call into CNN, but as far as I can tell, the right will get an hour, and the left will get nothing.)
I’m trying to imagine what the response would be if CNN announced it was giving an hour of programming to a progressive look at the election, 72 hours before voters headed to the polls, and then had no similar program for conservatives. We’d probably hear quite a bit about boycotts and FCC complaints.
Second, “Election Countdown: View from the Right” is being hosted by David Brody, the in-house correspondent for TV preacher Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network. CBN is, of course, the network in which Robertson claims to heal diseases through the television, spews radical rhetoric about groups he hates, tells people who can’t afford it to send him their money, and where Robertson and Jerry Falwell blamed 9/11 on Americans.
In fact, Brody recently bragged that by appearing on networks like CNN as often he does, he has the chance to spread the Gospel and win converts for Christianity.
So, to summarize, CNN is giving the right an hour of programming, three days before the election, handing the reins to a televangelist’s pundit, who wants to take advantage of “witnessing opportunities” in the mainstream media, so viewers can hear what the right thinks of the election.
It’s quite a liberal media.
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CNN is still trying desperately to shake its Clinton News Network angle that it swings in the other direction. By pandering to everyone, it fails miserably. What is amazing is watching CNN International is actually quite good since it is competing with the BBC World Service. Both just tell you what happened without the spin and shitty “experts”/”consultants”/etc that the US media does.
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“I have a call into CNN, but as far as I can tell, the right will get an hour, and the left will get nothing.”
You’re blind. Liberal causes get 8759 hours per year on CNN. Donna Brazile is on the CNN payroll. DL Hughley works for them. I guess one hour of conservatives as guests, with no endorsement from CNN is just too much.
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Are you guys really debating that most journalists support Obama? I thought the Bushies had a real cult of personality going - which is why they always disliked McCain - but the willingness to suspend belief in support of Obama may yet surpass even the Bushies’ tenuous grasp with reality.
You guys really think he’s a different kind of politician who is going to tuck you in at night and kiss your furrowed brows until you fall asleep, don’t you?
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Even the media (not Fox) says the media is biased. Just ask Politico.