Mainstream Media Has Decided It’ll Be Obama vs McCain
Unfortunately, this is all too true…
From an article by Bill Press in World Net Daily:
Super Tuesday’s over, and there’s no absolute winner among either Democrats or Republicans.
Nonetheless, even though no one candidate has yet locked up their party’s nomination, we might as well cancel the rest of the primaries or caucuses. The media have already decided that this year’s standard bearers will be John McCain and Barack Obama.
Yes, somewhere along the line, the role of the media has changed from reporting on the primaries to deciding the primaries. They pick their favorites, they give them preferential treatment, they tear down their opponents, and they anoint their winning candidates even before voters have a chance to go to the polls.
Step one occurs early in the primary process, when network executives decide which candidates get covered and which ones don’t. Among Republicans, too bad for Tom Tancredo, Ron Paul, Tommy Thompson, Sam Brownback and Duncan Hunter. Once the media suits decided they weren’t serious candidates, they got no media attention, which, of course, resulted in their never being taken seriously as candidates.
Among Democrats, the same thing happened to Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd and Bill Richardson – even though Biden, Dodd and Richardson had more experience to offer, and more concrete ideas, than either Clinton or Obama. Too bad. The media decided ahead of time that their ideas weren’t worth being heard, and so they weren’t.
Step two occurs once the field narrows, when members of the media fall in love with their favorite candidates and start slobbering all over them. Is there any doubt, for example, that everybody in the national press corps is in love with John McCain? If you believe what you hear and read in the media (always a dangerous proposition), McCain can do no wrong and Romney can do no right.
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Everybody knows about Romney’s flip-flops, yet McCain has changed positions on tax cuts, immigration, the Confederate flag, repeal of Roe v. Wade and the role of evangelicals in politics. Read about any of those in the press? Of course not.
Barack Obama gets the same worshipful treatment. We hear constantly about how “liberal” Hillary Clinton is too liberal, in fact, to get elected. Yet Obama’s liberal credentials leave Clinton in the dust. Unlike Clinton, for example, Obama favors granting driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. As reported by the Washington Times alone, he also supports the decriminalization of marijuana. And the National Journal named him 2007’s Most Liberal Senator. Who’s the real liberal here?
(WND)
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February 8th, 2008 at 10:57 amSee i said this the other day on a thread about McCain being chosen as the one the MSM would talk about for the Republican side. Cant remember who said it, but someone told me it was a “bad theory”. Even though its obvious that the media has alot of influence in shaping who we see as strong candidates.
February 8th, 2008 at 11:02 amElitist, condescending, arrogant bastards. But, I do think we outnumber them.
February 8th, 2008 at 11:04 amThe press picked mCCain they will now destroy him. It has already begun.
“Now that it’s clear he’s going to be the Republican nominee for president, it’s time to end our love affair with John McCain”.
“Don’t feel badly if you were once a “McCainiac.” So was I”.
http://www.milforddailynews.com/opinion/x466064788
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February 16th, 2008 at 10:29 amhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/end-of-a-romance-why-the_b_86086.html#postComment