View Full Version : Double standard in the "liberal" media
k4kyv
05-01-2008, 05:37 PM
This is not intended to endorse any one of the three contestants in this year's round of "Lesser-of-the-Evils". It is intended to show a clear example of bias in the so-called "liberal" media.
For the past few weeks, the news media have been obsessed with the outlandish and insane teachings of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his relation with Sen. Barack Obama. But why has so little attention been given to the outlandish and insane teachings of this man?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qNi7tPanUA
N4VGB
05-01-2008, 05:44 PM
So you don't differentiate between an endorsement and being a member of a congregation? :confused:
k4kyv
05-01-2008, 05:51 PM
But isn't appearing on nationwide TV shoulder to shoulder with the "Reverend", and saying "I am very honored by his endorsement", pretty close?
N4VGB
05-01-2008, 05:56 PM
For someone with their picture on K1MAN's website in a bosom buddy pose, that's funny!
Sorry, couldn't resist that one.
k4kyv
05-01-2008, 05:58 PM
For someone with their picture on K1MAN's website in a bosom buddy pose, that's funny!
Sorry, couldn't resist that one.
Remember, Tim and I were helping a poor unfortunate injury victim to the nearest medical facilities.
Precisely why none of the 3 current candidates for President will get my vote this year. I will write in the name of one in whom I have absolute faith and trust.
N4VGB
05-01-2008, 05:59 PM
Remember, Tim and I were helping a poor unfortunate injury victim to the nearest medical facilities.
Yeah sure. :)
KB9YCO
05-01-2008, 06:29 PM
But isn't appearing on nationwide TV shoulder to shoulder with the "Reverend", and saying "I am very honored by his endorsement", pretty close?
I'd go so far as to say that it's no different. McCain, like pretty much any politician, will take any perceived momentum in his direction and use it to his advantage. The main difference being that Obama has at least said that he doesn't agree with Wright, while McCain hasn't said anything about Hagee being a complete extremist wacko.
I'm not really a fan of any of these politicians either, but fair is fair and I would agree that most of these stories, like the Wright story, have more to do with sensationalism than they do with any sort of notion of fairness in political coverage. Of course the Democratic party isn't exactly helping it's image by dragging out the process long after the Republicans have had a candidate.
Of course the Democratic party isn't exactly helping it's image by dragging out the process long after the Republicans have had a candidate.
But it sure makes for an entertaining election year!
N4VGB
05-01-2008, 06:41 PM
Precisely why none of the 3 current candidates for President will get my vote this year. I will write in the name of one in whom I have absolute faith and trust.
I would "write in" Jesus Christ but I think that even with a large majority win, he'd fail to show up.
McCain is a liberal. The real conservatives want Hillary Clinton to win.
n2ize
05-01-2008, 06:50 PM
Precisely why none of the 3 current candidates for President will get my vote this year. I will write in the name of one in whom I have absolute faith and trust.
Very good. You know I feel pretty much the same way about it. I coined the term "out of the hat, election", in that you can select a candidate by randomly selecting the names of the candidate at random from slips of paper in a hat and it wouldn't matter much which name came up. I actually did just that in selecting a candiate for the last presidential election. We may disagree on whom we may feel is the ideal or trusted candidate. But it's clear than none of the 3 front candidates is representative of the needs of this nation. The primary problem we have at present is no real viable choice.
N9MOQ
05-01-2008, 06:53 PM
This is not intended to endorse any one of the three contestants in this year's round of "Lesser-of-the-Evils". It is intended to show a clear example of bias in the so-called "liberal" media.
The fact that most people think there are only 3 left, instead of 4, is a very good example of the bias of the media in itself.
Those that have the term "liberal media" branded into their heads got that slogan from... the media itself!
Sort of like when those in the government, run for president and say they are fed up with the government and want to change it. They ARE the government. They want to change themselves? What has been stopping them?
K0RGR
05-01-2008, 10:13 PM
This Hagee fellow is quite something. Go read his Wikipedia biography.
As I said before, if McCain nominates that fellow from Connecticut as his running mate, we can just sit back and watch the Knesset run our country for the next 4 years. Hagee will be the chief cheerleader.
Sorry Rev. WRight is closer to right than this guy, and this guy is 100% far right.
He's one of those whackos who believes that WWIII between East and West will bring about the second coming of Christ - an extremely dangerous man!
kf6rdn
05-01-2008, 10:51 PM
Precisely why none of the 3 current candidates for President will get my vote this year. I will write in the name of one in whom I have absolute faith and trust.
Me too.
I'm written in Homer Simpson.
Either that or Doctor Who.
I'd go so far as to say that it's no different. McCain, like pretty much any politician, will take any perceived momentum in his direction and use it to his advantage. The main difference being that Obama has at least said that he doesn't agree with Wright, while McCain hasn't said anything about Hagee being a complete extremist wacko.
I'm not really a fan of any of these politicians either, but fair is fair and I would agree that most of these stories, like the Wright story, have more to do with sensationalism than they do with any sort of notion of fairness in political coverage. Of course the Democratic party isn't exactly helping it's image by dragging out the process long after the Republicans have had a candidate.
I didn't know McCain was a member of Hagee's congeration for the past 20 years. Do tell!
KB9YCO
05-02-2008, 03:05 AM
I didn't know McCain was a member of Hagee's congeration for the past 20 years. Do tell!
I'm not sure what you're reading but I can assure you that I never said that either. Nice try though.
My point was that most of these politicians (pick one) will align or distance themselves from anyone that they think will be to their advantage. McCain may not have been a member of wacko Hagee's flock of nuts, but saying that the endorsement is "an honor" is pretty much the equivalent of endorsing Hagee's extremist behavior.
I don't endorse or condone Obama or McCain's behavior, but it's pretty much the same parallel in both cases.
k4kyv
05-02-2008, 07:51 AM
Of course the Democratic party isn't exactly helping it's image by dragging out the process long after the Republicans have had a candidate.
But isn't that what the conventions are supposed to be for? Both parties used to produce higher quality candidates for the general election back when the nomination was decided at the conventions, instead of via the long drawn-out ordeal of staggered state-by-state primaries.
The conventions were actually interesting to watch, and all 3 TV networks pre-empted all their regular programming to televise them. They were also carried on national radio networks. Now, they get scant network TV coverage and practically no radio coverage. They have essentially been turned into boring cheerleading sessions for each party's candidates, that accomplish little more than costing gobs of money.
If Clinton and Obama had agreed from the outset to carry out spirited but positive campaigns with a pledge to ultimately support the nomination winner, the long drawn out affair would have helped whichever one is eventually chosen. They are certainly getting a lot more media exposure at the moment than McCain. Unfortunately, it is a fact that public exposure, name recognition and tabloid style gossip count a lot more leading up to US elections, than do the canditates' political philosophies and the positions they take on important issues.
But the public is getting burnt out on hearing these two candidates bash each other day after day.
If you depended on the LIB media to do their job, you would have never heard of the wrong Rev. Wright. The LIBS are now going nuts because Barry appeared on Fox News Sunday.
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=A748A9EF-3048-5C12-00F9E24ECC803265
kg6amw
05-02-2008, 07:09 PM
What those in the media should ask Obama but never seem to -- People are worried about your judgment. There's your friendship with Pastor Wright, and you say you didn't know about his rants. There's your friendship with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, and you say you were 8 when they were blowing up people and buildings, but in November of 2007 they said horrible things about the U.S. There's Tony Rezko, your business partner on the land deal which makes him your neighbor, and now he's in the dock.
Happy days are here again??
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/02/marginalization-or-how-the-left-got-out-foxed/?print=1
kg6amw
05-03-2008, 02:05 PM
Next question the media should ask -- You heard him preach on "white man's greed," that's in your memoir Dreams from My Father. And when you told him he couldn't deliver the opening prayer at your campaign kick-off, you said it was because he could be "a little rough." How often did you hear him preach on the greed of white people, and what did you mean by "a little rough."
What LIB media??
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/05/hell_freezes_over_ombudsmen_at.html