I believe that people are biased. I do not believe that there is this monolithic entity known as the "media" that has a collective "bias."
Nobody said anything about a monolith. To speak of liberal media bias is to speak in general terms. Of course there will be the isolated stations like FOX, as well as a few talk radio shows that are openly partisan, but on the whole, the elite news outlets including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, PBS (essentially everything but FOX) are overwhelmingly biased in favor of whoever it is that's running against a Republican. This is anot a secret, and it is silly to suggest it isn't so.
I also think that a number of voices in conservative America get a lot of mileage from playing the persecution card.
It is only a persecution card ifit is unjustified. You certainly wouldn't call Jews who commemorate survivors of the Holocaust as "playing the persecution card," so your choise of words here reveals your own bias on the matter.
I think the love of Obama has much more to do with what some people find to be charismatic about him. Much like the media fell all over themselves for 'W' during his campaign.
The "love" of Obama? You make it sound like the polls are in favor of Obama by 98%. It is more like half and half so there is no real evidence that the country just happens to love Obama more. So what are the odds that every single news Journalist just happens to be in love with Obama when the odds are only about 50% that the country as a whole is? And what happened to journalistic ethics and seeking to be, or at least,
appear to be objective? You talk a lot about Murdoch, but you seem to be ignorant that George Soros, one of the richest men in the world, has been dumping tens of millions into media campaigns to attack the right.
And don't you know this "love" is mostly staged? Take for example the school children singing in praise of Obama. Do you really think they all support him? That they know anything about politics at their age? You don't think maybe someone put them up to it?
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/o ... 08.article"Obama's critics have ripped the song, comparing it to a video of North Korean children singing to their dictator."
No kidding.
I hope this was because he was on the job when doing this. Otherwise, that would be a pretty egregious infringement upon his rights.
Yes he was on the job, but the CNN reporters pretty much do similar things. I remember one was reporting from a convention where thousands had gathered to hear Obama speak, and the journalist was the giddiest of them all. He got all misty and said "you can just feel the message of hope." But he wasn't fired. No way. And that's not liberal bias apparently, because the issue is "more complex."
I agree that Rodriguez was being silly.
But silliness isn't the issue. She was being openly favorable to the Obama Biden ticket. In isolation these incidents might appear dubious but they add up, and people are influenced by the perception of the media. Surely you understand this. Ultimately the media has a tremendous impacton how people vote, and can be the deciding factor in a close election.
She had an opportunity to fill us in on what she knew. She knows about Roe v. Wade. I think that is clear enough. Maybe she froze up and blanked on others. Maybe she just doesn't know that much about SC rulings.
The issue wasn't about being able to discuss particular rulings. Apparently she was asked to name some. We already know for a fact that she is aware of other SC rulings because she has mentioned them in her debate in Alaska. The point here is that the liberal media is ignoring Biden's remarks that unquestionably reveal his ignorance, and are focusing on ambiguous instances against Palin that require mindreading.
Am I to understand that the fact that Ifill wrote such a book is evidence you are offering for the liberal bias of "the media"?
I'm saying that because she is overtly biased and in the tank for Obama, there is no reason to expect her to be a fair moderator, and she should never have been appointed to begin with. Thompson brought this up because it was newsworthy. Rodriguez, ironically enough, claimed ignorance while at the same time complaining about Palin's ignorance.
In other words, their raison d'etre is to be something of a Newsbusters masquerading as a media outlet? I seem to recall some of their own employees were recently unhappy about a long patch of Obama bashing--so much so that one got up and left the set.
Have a reference? I've never heard about this. In any event, FOX isn't nearly as biased as the rest. Just compare apples/apples. The View hosts were ganging up on McCain and called him a liar when in fact he wasn't. They all acted like they wanted to have Obama's baby.
Why is it necessarily a problem that she wrote favorably about Obama on her own time?
This woman has ain invested interest in seeing Obama win the election. Because the book will be released on inauguration day. A book tends to sell more copies if it is about a man who is the President, instead of someone who almost became President.
What I also don't get is why it is bias to ask a vice-presidential candidate how much she knows about the Supreme Court and its historic role in this country.
But that wasn't the question Trevor. She was asked specifically which rulings she
disagreed with. This isn't the same as saying "discuss with us any SC ruling that comes to mind."
Both liberals and conservatives really want to know what she thinks of rulings that they care about. So asking is bullying? Expecting her to know is unreasonable?
Again you are ignoring the point that Obama and Biden were never asked any of this. EVER.
No, I don't think it is conservative bias to report on it. It is disingenuous to suggest that this is evidence of biased reporting on the job. Biased reporting on the job is evidence of biased reporting on the job, not which candidate one prefers or writes about elsewhere or on one's own time.
I think you have overlooked the fact that she had a vested interest in seeing Obama victorious. I'll let you factor that into your thinking.
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