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Joe Scarborough and Hillary Hate
It will not be a surprise to anyone that many Hillary supporters feel that the MSM has been extremely favorable to Obama during the primaries. Much of the grievance is targeted toward MSNBC, which is commonly seen by many on the left as a counter to the right wing agenda promoted by Fox.
It is counter intuitive for Democrats to praise Fox for its objectivity as Rendell did earlier in the week. I don't agree entirely agree with Rendell's sentiment about Fox but I do feel that the lines have become less determined.
Joe Scarborough on MSNBC is a good example. He is a man with a history and an agenda, and neither Hillary Clinton nor his audience may know it, or much like it.
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"It will not be a surprise to anyone that many Hillary supporters feel that the MSM has been extremely favorable to Obama during the primaries."
You are right, it will not surprise anyone that many Hillary supporters are delusional in their absurd beliefs that MSNBC is favorable to Obama or any Democrats (outside of Olbermann being a fair counterweight to the otherwise right-wing bias of MSNBC).
If any other candidate than a Clinton, like say, Obama, were in the same situation and insurmountably behind in every relevant metric, would have been run out on a rail in the media narrative well over a month ago.
The entire premise of your post is flawed.
April 3, 2008 7:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
you are just smarter than everyone. sorry.
April 3, 2008 7:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not by a long-shot actually.
April 3, 2008 9:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
I hope that you are being sarcastic cause my reply to you is.
April 3, 2008 10:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Scarborough is an equal-opportunity douche bag. MSNBC is only watchable due to Olbermann and some commentators like Maddow. They float their fair share of obnoxious, downright devious talking heads though -- and even Scarborough is fresh as a daisy compared to Pat Buchanan.
April 3, 2008 7:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd like to nominate Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman for this list as well.
April 3, 2008 8:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, I actually don't even have cable but I get CNN. I see the greatest hits moments online for the other stations.
I thought CNN was very pro Obama early on. But I think that they have for the most part come back to the middle recently.
April 3, 2008 8:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
How can you get CNN without cable?
April 3, 2008 9:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
I use the RF cable to get reception and it picks up some random stations. All the non cable stations and some random cable stations.
April 3, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, I don't trust any of those stations. MSNBC, CNN, etc. But of them all, Fox News is definitively the worst. Those other stations have their bias, and might occasionally get their facts wrong, but I don't know that I've ever watched a Fox News show that didn't have it's facts wrong (and I'm not just talking about matters of opinion).
Yes, pity me. I've watched several hours of Fox News. My in-laws like it, and when we travel to Georgia, we stay at their house. (Don't get me wrong, I love my in-laws. I just don't care for the Fox News, although I suppose it is educational in an unintentional way.)
April 3, 2008 8:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gimme a break.
The Clintons are just like Bush.
"The mean media is after me!"
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT, GET THE HECK OUT!
April 3, 2008 9:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Clinton is not anything like Bush and if you haven't noticed she is not going anywhere despite the sterile crap coming from like you.
April 3, 2008 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
My take on Fox News is not that they get their facts wrong, but that they know the facts and deliberately ignore them in favor of scandal, shock, or anything that will get people's attention. Then the other news shows, to their shame, repeat what Fox said as if there were some merit in it.
It's hard to continue to be nice to the media people when they do that over and over, but politicians have to pretend to be nice or else they will really get slandered.
April 3, 2008 9:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
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