[quote]smh23 wrote:
[quote]ZEB wrote:
Stop it you’re embarrassing yourself. I don’t care which conservative commentator ran the story first. In fact, it might have been Sean Hannity on his radio show, and as you know he works for FOX. The point is the same. The MSLM made excuses for Obama as soon as the story broke. And as I reminded you where were the stories about Obama’s Socialist party membership? While Romney was making a forutne in private business Obama was reading Marx. But for some reason the media is focused on what Romney was doing some 25 years ago but they didn’t bother talking about Obama’s activities back then.
The press is bias to the point of being absurd. They don’t even pretend anymore.[/quote]
If you look back, I waded into this discussion with a narrow goal. I do not have any desire to launch into a debate about media bias–I agree with you on much of it, and the rest is irreconcilable.[/quote]
Then you should not have said this in your first post, [quote] if newsmen have any real overriding bias, it is for the new and against the old. [/quote]
But, glad you now agree with me that the main stream media has a liberal bias. But, as far as I’m concerned that’s like agreeing that today is Monday.
[quote]Misinformation is different. You said that the press ignored the Wright controversy. You said they “left it out.”
You were wrong. The first substantive mention of Wright’s idiocy in an outlet of influence came in the Washington Post–a liberal rag, is it not? And then Fox and ABC came out with independent analyses two months later. Not one of the three pieces editorialized any more than the next.
Then I mentioned to you that a New York Times search for Wright yields multiple thousands of results. If you read results from the editorial side, you will find both left and right-leaning interpretations. And you will find apologists, for whom I have as little respect as do you.[/quote]
My assertion is that the MSLM would have loved to not talk about Wright, they did, and when they did they had many excuses for Obama’s deplorable behavior in attending that racist church for 20 years. I could google the many soft peddled stories that YOUR liberal brothers in the press did but I don’t have the time or desire. AND–YOU KNOW I’M RIGHT!
[quote]But if you read the newsy treatments–if you can’t tell which is which, news stories have justified margins while editorialized pieces do not–you will find coverage indistinguishable form that of Fox or ABC or whatever. In other words, you will find the story as it is.
It is easy to attach a popular opinion to some hot-air assertion and shove it up your laptop’s ass. It is much more difficult to make sure that you are correct.[/quote]
The only hot air assertion is one made in defending a liberal news media.
It’s easy to attach an opinion that the MSLM soft peddled Obama attending a racist church for 20 years because because that is exactly what they did!
And I bring up the title of this thread to point out that Wright is not the only story that was soft peddled by the MSLM.
Nothing about Obama joining a Socialist organization 20 years ago? That isn’t nearly as important as Romney making a couple hundred million in a free enterprise system. What a bunch of crap!
Where was the headline’s about bomber Ayers and Obama’s close relationship with this person?
Where are the headlines about Harvard not releasing Obama’s grades?
Where is the outrage about Obama’s cocaine use? When Bush admitted pot use the press had a field day up to his last day in the White House!
Where are the current headlines about Obama lying about being from Kenya in order to garner certain monetary favors relative to tuition etc.? (And you liberals are sooo insulted that anyone would think that Obama is not from the US–idiots)
In short, when GW Bush was President there was a mean spirited headline every other day. Hell, Bush didn’t even have to do anything all he had to do was breath. But with Obama, perhaps because of his color and certainly because of his left leaning policies the MSLM gives him a pass day in and day out. And if he does win reelection it will be because the MSLM covered for him just as they did in 2008.
The main stream liberal news media is a sham!
And your arguments are totally without merit!