The price is too high for continued media bias
October 9, 2008 7 Comments
More media bias, more cover up, more weeks of a very long, long campaign season. I bounce between not caring at all about who gets elected President and caring very much. Maybe America will have to hit rock bottom with a President Obama before we come to our senses, maybe McCain really isn’t the maverick after all, maybe, maybe, maybe….
Maybe in these next few weeks Americans will at least rise up in mass to take on the media bias that gets worse with each passing moment. The silence in the media about Obama, his associations, his radical views have grave consequences. We are being poisoned and/or lulled into not caring because we are so sick of this horrible trend in America. The price is just too high for continued media bias.
The media can go after Sarah Palin with wicked intensity. Attack her character, turn their heads the other way when her e-mail is hacked, make fun of her accent, take a photo of her legs, a half shot of her face that is not flattering. I could go on and on.
This is Iowa- what do these things matter to us? I say A LOT! We must stand up and be counted before the Liberal Media is such an influence that even Iowans fall prey to their vicious ways. Some of may not like John McCain, agree with his views, be disappointed that “our” candidate of choice did not make it to this point in the 2008 election process. I understand. I also understand that so much is at stake with a President Obama + an unchecked Liberal Media + our enemies just waiting for an Obama presidency.
I happened upon the following post. I liked it and want to share it here on Iowa Defense. The poster asks “Who is with me?”- and I say I AM, callmecrusader. Who else will care about where the Liberal Media is taking us with their media bias scandal? And if you care, what will YOU do?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095728/posts
Posted on Thursday, October 02, 2008 8:59:38 AM by The Fop
“I’ve been an FR reader since 2002.This is my first vanity post.
For months, conservatives have been complaining about the unprecedented favoritism that the media has been showing Obama, which goes well beyond the normal amount of favoritism that the media shows towards Democrats during an election year. But we need to take a step back and realize that the media’s reluctance to pin the blame for this financial crisis squarely on the shoulders of the culprits who are responsible for it is not just part and parcel of their desire to help Obama get elected. It is a scandal unto itself that makes Rathergate look like small potatoes. And it’s time for popular and respected conservative pundits to go way beyond making snarky comments about media bias and frame it as such.
People can argue about whether or not we’re on the verge of another Great Depression. But the consensus amongst economists across the political spectrum is that this is the most serious financial crisis that the country has faced in a long, long time. The fact that people are being forced to tune into YouTube, FoxNews, conservative talk radio and the blogosphere in order to hear the truth is criminal.
This is an issue that is much more serious than John Edward’s affair or John Kerry’s Purple Heart medals. This is an issue that affects the whole country. We’re talking about people’s assets, their homes, their life savings. If Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Chuck Schumer, Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson were Republicans, they’d already be as infamous as Joe McCarthy, G. Gordon Liddy, and Kenneth Lay. The American people deserve to know the names of the people and the details that are responsible for this crisis.
I know that conservatives are disheartened by current election polls. But we’ve got a full month until the election. Instead of flailing away at all the different stories that the media is ignoring in regards to Obama, we need to put some serious focus on this particular issue.
Conservative pundits and bloggers need to hammer away at the fact that this is potentially the greatest media bias scandal ever. If we do this, we could not only succeed in defeating Obama, but we could bring down the Old Media once and for all. That would be quite a two-fer. The media’s credibility is already at an all time low. Let’s finish them off for good.
Who’s with me?”
Yea I cant even watch TV with out wanting to throw up it is far to long to go like this we should make a stand against those who benefit from the maylay created by biased reporting and formaly complain
almost constant anti McCain/Palin on MSNBC and even CNN. Only FOX has had numerous segments on ACORN.
When it takes 12 news analysts on CNN to tell me how bad McCain did in the debate and how good Obama-man did, well, how pathetic!!!!
And to top all of this off, anyone who does not think like the biased media/pundits are just plain stupid. I have a name for the media and it it not stupid. It is so bad that am sure it would not be printed out on your site!
I am with you in my ire about the God-Almighty thinking media.
There is more than us than there is of them. At least we have that going for us. Talk to your friends. Talk to your neighbors. Talk to your family. Ask them to join us in pointing out media bias and then finding ways to give it to them as good as they give to us. Gag me with a spoonful of media bias. I would like to throw up all over their fancy sets, state of the art battle ground maps, and fancy outfits. Most of them make me sick.
Just watching CNN and MSNBC- Larry King/Rachel Maddow.
Wow- It is like watching rabid dogs that are out to get McCain/Palin. If it is not them- it is the experts that they are interviewing. Maddow is especially cruel. I don’t know what her ratings are but I would rather watch reruns of almost any show than watch that mean chick. Would love to see Palin take out her frustrations with the media on Ms. Maddow.
I don’t know what will ever happen with media bias. The press are like mad hornets all a buzz over the racist Palin and negative campaign being promoted by McCain. I just don’t get it how we have allowed this media bias to get this far. Just as with the financial crisis, I guess we were just hoping for the best. We can now see that hoping has not done a bit of good. It is time for action now. I plan to be sending off e-mails to the big boys at CNN, MSNBC, etc. and what else might work is to pay attention to the advisers. We have to do something and do it soon!
I agree. Let’s fight media bias together. There’s been a lot of talk in the corporate media about a Obama/Ayers “association”. Some claim that it’s been a long time coming.
But I’m still waiting for John McCain to denounce his unwholesome relationship with G. Gordon Liddy. Where is the moral outrage, and who hears cries of conspiracy from the Right regarding mainstream media’s suppression of this story?
Read the nasty details in THIS LINK to an article from May.
Here are some highlights:
“How close are McCain and Liddy? At least as close as Obama and Ayers appear to be. In 1998, Liddy’s home was the site of a McCain fundraiser. Over the years, he has made at least four contributions totaling $5,000 to the senator’s campaigns — including $1,000 this year.
Last November, McCain went on his radio show. Liddy greeted him as “an old friend,” and McCain sounded like one. “I’m proud of you, I’m proud of your family,” he gushed. “It’s always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great.
Which principles would those be? The ones that told Liddy it was fine to break into the office of the Democratic National Committee to plant bugs and photograph documents? The ones that made him propose to kidnap anti-war activists so they couldn’t disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention? The ones that inspired him to plan the murder (never carried out) of an unfriendly newspaper columnist?
Liddy was in the thick of the biggest political scandal in American history — and one of the greatest threats to the rule of law. He has said he has no regrets about what he did, insisting that he went to jail as “a prisoner of war.”
All this may sound like ancient history. But it’s from the same era as the bombings Ayers helped carry out as a member of the Weather Underground. And Liddy’s penchant for extreme solutions has not abated.
In 1994, after the disastrous federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, he gave some advice to his listeners: “Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they’re going to be wearing bulletproof vests. … Kill the sons of bitches.”
He later backed off, saying he meant merely that people should defend themselves if federal agents came with guns blazing. But his amended guidance was not exactly conciliatory: Liddy also said he should have recommended shots to the groin instead of the head. If that wasn’t enough to inflame any nut cases, he mentioned labeling targets “Bill” and “Hillary” when he practiced shooting.”
Read SERENDIPITY.
Today I hear reports of Obama being upset with FOX news.
The whining by Obama and his supporters gets very intense with just the tineee tiny bit of heat. Personally I think Obama has thick skin and so do his supporters.
They all should try being Sarah Palin for a day. Then they would have good reason to squeal.