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Loving John McCain - the sad tale of extraordinary media bias
"Examine McCain's position on any given question and compare it with the
press coverage of that position. Again and again, you will see that many
of the most admired and respected reporters in the business are not
merely "in the tank" for McCain; they are practically unpaid members of
his campaign staff."
This is the best article I've seen exposing the extent and depth of the media's love affair with McSame.
It really does deserve to be promulgated - please pass it on to everyone you know.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080707/alterman
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Comments (4)
Thanks for the link. It really is astounding how few of the negative stories about McCain get attention. I listed a bunch at the bottom of my post at (shameless plug) http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/06/the-brooks-article-point-by-po.php
that aren't getting any coverage. Take a look at any of those items and imagine if they applied to Obama instead of McCain. The MSM would have a field day.
June 23, 2008 12:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think this quote should be pulled out everytime one hears the criticism that Obama is the most liberal senator...
"According to VoteView, McCain's voting record in 2005-06 would place him second in the contest for America's most conservative senator in the 109th Congress and eighth in the 110th Senate. McCain supported Bush in 95 percent of his votes in 2007 and has managed to achieve a perfect 100 percent score so far in 2008."
what's better? a liberal or a conservative who agreed with Bush over 95% of the time in the last two years?
June 23, 2008 1:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yep, and nobody ever talks about it. Every reporter just keeps noticing how strange it is that McCain has 10-15 points higher ratings than his party and GWB, despite the same or worse policies. Geez, I wonder why! Perhaps if reporters can get the taste of barbecue out of their mouths, they could figure it out... (Talk about drinking Kool-Aid - who would have thought something as ordinary as barbecue would work just as well?)
Now, the only source that covers media bias is apparently Fox News, where they never forget to mention that "the media are still hugely in love with Obama"...
MSM, WAKE UP!!!
June 23, 2008 7:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
M(cC)ain Stream Media
June 23, 2008 8:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
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