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1. Hucbald:

I’ve been sick and tired of the term “media bias” for over ten years now. There is no “media bias.” “Media bias” is a myth: The MSM/Paleo-Media are partisan leftist hacks, and they amount to nothing other than the propaganda arm of the leftist Democrat party.

I wish people would get this straight, like the difference between its and it’s, to and too, and for and fore.

Sep 15, 2008 - 1:55 am 2. Rachel Peepers:

Jennifer Rubin, your story is spot on. Unfortunately, the exposure of the mainstream media for what they really are; hacks for the Democratic Party is not exactly a hot news flash.

The mainstream media has been toting water for the Democrats since I learned my A B C’s.

Those alphabet networks along with the NY Times, Washington Post and LaLa Times have taken permanent residence in the land of make believe.

Why, they’re so in bed with Marxist, left wing ideology, they don’t even have the decency to try to cover their biases by pulling up the sheets.

These journalistic frauds are throwing handfuls of mud, globs of goo, a smorgasbord of smear at Sarah and Todd, John and Cindy, plus their children; hoping beyond hope that something sticks.

Obama’s campaign is like a car with bald tires that’s just hit a patch of ice. It’s lost all its traction.

The Ayers business, the Wright scandal, the clinging to bible talk, the worthless surge lie, the No Drilling Doctrine, the 57 state statement.

All that stuff the mainstream media tried to cover up is now coming home to roost. The cat’s out of the bag. Obama represents the old style of dirty, dreary, damnable politics of personal destruction. His hate for the military is palpable. His reaching for the mainstream media to save him is pathetic. His campaign that was supposed to take the Democratic Party to the promised land seems to have punched a one way ticket to failure.

I don’t think it was John McCain that did Obama in. I don’t think Sarah Palin can take all the credit either.

The group that smelled out Obama for what he is weren’t even politicians.

They were Bob and Barbara Smith. Mary and Dave Wilson. They were average every day hard working Americans who have something Barack Obama thought wouldn’t be a factor in this Presidential campaign.

Remember when Fr. Flager was mocking Hillary? Flager said, “I (Hillary) was supposed to have the nomination. It was mine.

No it wasn’t Hillary who fit that mocking to a tee.

It was Obama and all his fainting followers. They thought the Presidency was theirs. Then something came and took it away.

Well, Obama, that’s not fair at all. Is it?

But you think Sarah swiped it from your grasp. Wrong. She might have loosened it. What took this election is you Barack. Your incesuous relationship with the mainstream media.

Because when the Wilsons and Smiths. and the O’connell realized whwat cahoots you were in with corrupt journalism, the Wilsons and Smiths, and the Greens and the Illstons said, hey, you’re not playing fair. You said Sarah was wrong to think she could be a VP with five kids at home. But that wasn’t fair. That’s sexist. That’s old politics. The politics you said you werent’ a part of. You lied to us Obama. We don’t like that no matter how nice your speeches sound. Then you said Sarah was a pig. you know you meant it. We know you meant it.

Would it have been so hard, Obama, to be straight with the average folks. Don’t you think we’d have been smart enought to understand?

Well, average folks aren’t dumb. Average folks know the difference between a snake oil salesman and somebody like a Sarah Palin.
Obama, with Sarah Palin, you didn’t play fair. We want to elect a President and VP who plays fair. Who don’t have to cheat and lie to win.Obama, you thought your newspaper friends could fool us.

Well, guess what. There are aspects of right and wrong we do understand. And we can apply those words to actions. Which we did. To your actions. And, guess what? We didn’t like what we saw.

Well, I afraid to say, Obama, that if you didn’t run into to a lot of people who believe in fairness and decency, you may very well have gone all the way.

Which would have been bad. Because Obama, you weren’t going to do what’s good for the country. You were going to do what’s good for Obmama.

Barack, I can’t vote for you. Because the truth and decency that are part of me no longer lets me believe I want to have anything to do with you.

Sep 15, 2008 - 2:04 am 3. Kirk:

“”"major newspapers and television networks will have to justify their own conduct, repair reputations and mend fences and convince news consumers they still matter.”"”

I wish this were true. I really do. This is not the first time the media has been caught alone wearing a clown outfit in a closet with a leftist politician. What happens is what always happens. Everything is ignored. Everyone acts like nothing happened. Republicans act like the media is their best friend, democrats simmer to their usual level of hate and outrage until the next cycle. The MSM will never admit what they do, even on the way to their last bankruptcy hearing.

Sep 15, 2008 - 2:40 am 4. Jeff Bonwick:

It really is of a different order this year, isn’t it?

Media bias is nothing new — ask Dan Rather how President Kerry is doing — but in previous elections there was at least the pretense of objectivity. Even that is gone now.

It’s one thing to have a preference in an election, but many of Obama’s supporters seem downright crazed — I cannot imagine how they’d cope with defeat. I mean, I support McCain, but if he loses, I’ll take solace in the historical significance of electing a black man and wish him well. How many Obama supporters can say the same?

Sep 15, 2008 - 3:15 am 5. Bullfrog:

I sincerely hope the author is right, and that the MSM is forced to start reporting responsibly or risk death. Of course, now that I have said it, it sounds pretty naive. The media has alot of clout, and have, to Kirk’s point, done this before seemingly with little to no impunity.

But this time around is different right? ABC, CBS, etc, are not the only game in town and the average person can simply turn off the TV and search the Web for their news. Are the blogsites the last stake in the coffin of the MSM, now that this election year has really exposed them, even to those who were maybe on the fence about whether Charles Gibson and his ilk were really liberal thinkers?

Sep 15, 2008 - 3:28 am 6. Another View:

You guys are so right. The media is so in the tank for Obama and the Dems. Look at these clips. Then go tell all the Dems the truth.

http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=43

Sep 15, 2008 - 3:36 am 7. Perry Logan:

It’s amusing to see Republicans treated by the media–a privilege formerly reserved almost exclusively for Democrats.

Not much fun is it, guys?

Sep 15, 2008 - 3:39 am 8. Douglas:

We just thought Bush Derangement Syndrome was bad. Wait until The One loses, it will be ugly to the third power.

Sep 15, 2008 - 3:39 am 9. David Thomson:

The MSM illogically believes that helping Democrats will somehow save the industry. On a gut level, the instinct of self preservation has taken over. These people realize that many of them will be losing their jobs in the next few years. They will have to find another way to earn a living. The irony is that their anti-Republican bias is quickening their demise.

Sep 15, 2008 - 3:43 am 10. JVDeLong:

The media people are not neutral observers, but active players. However, unlike all the other players, they never get cross-examined. For example, there are no interviews with Gibson asking how he came to mangle the quotation about hoping that we are on God’s side.

So – to Jennifer and other conservative bloggers – why aren’t you interviewing the media players as you would any other participant? Asking about the quote mangling would be a good start.

Sep 15, 2008 - 3:48 am 11. Steve:

It is good that the new media is rising and the old media is declining, but is it fair to limit campaign spending when the press strongly favors one party over another? I’d like to ask McCain why it is important to control campaign spending (via the McCain-Feingold bill) when the press is largely one-sided.

Sep 15, 2008 - 4:02 am 12. jean:

The “national televsion newtworks who thinks they are special” i.e. CBS,ABC and NBC are so far in the tank for Obama it is turing the Public away from him instead drawing the public to him. These networks and Obama and his camp, think the American People are so “dimwitted” as I have seen stated in very articles that we can’t think for ourselves, but we need them to tell us how and what to think. They are under estimating the American People. If Senator McCain wins, him being the person he is, he will work with the press even though they have tried to destory his reputation, and his wife’s.
If he wins, America will have a strong and necessary President for the times we live in.

Sep 15, 2008 - 4:32 am 13. RE:

The media have made a rather disgusting spectacle of themselves, but it’s for the best. They’ve dropped the facade and their dishonesty is in the spotlight for all to see.

The traditional media outlets simply cannot be trusted.

Sep 15, 2008 - 4:43 am 14. ozziepat:

The MSM is not going to condemn the MSM, nor will it resurrect itself from its declining state. It has become degenerate – and too collectively stupid to care. Sadly, millions of useful idiots still believe what they read in the NYT or watch on MSNBC and will make no effort to find alternative information sources.

I think we need to realize that the MSM is spiraling downward toward a level of leftists-only consumption. The closer to that “floor”, the less reason the media has to even try to appear unbiased. It’s preaching to the choir now, and that choir doesn’t care about balance, facts or objectivity. And writers and editors will toe the leftist line or find themselves in the next wave of layoffs.

Sep 15, 2008 - 4:46 am 15. Ed Wallis:

To add to what Rachel P. and Jeff Bonwick write, it has indeed gone quite bit further this election round than the typical “political retouching” in the Flat Line Media of Leftist candidates.

Yes, yes, there are the unexamined issues raised above, all of which deserve the journalistic light of day – among others, Obama/Ayers business, Rev. Wright/Pfleger, positions on the surge, on drilling.

Yet, here we have a presidential candidate saying (paraphrasing…) “we won’t let them steal this election”…and no one raises an eyebrow?!

This is next to incitement to revolution…whether related to Saul Alinsky or not. I ask only when Zerobama will be put on the hot seat for this.

Sep 15, 2008 - 4:50 am 16. Boris:

More right wing delusion. The media love McCain. Stop whining because they finally decided to point it out when McCain and Palin lie.

Sep 15, 2008 - 5:19 am 17. Don:

Boris, as a member of the nomenclatura you need maintain a lower profile!! As a proud member of the “progressive as long as it does not affect me” party (as are most of your media peers), you need be more circumspect on your commentary!! We had a monopoly (in the past), we could subtly turn opinion in a direction we deemed more “constructive”. But this chaos called the “internet” has interrupted the eventuality of the dialectic. With allies like the KOS(omol) and MoveOn we can at least compete (by them sounding shrill and hysterical), so that our media elites can sound more mature and even tempered (and hopefully more believable). So Tovarich/Genosse you need to maintain a lower profile, if only to delay the exposing of the truth . . .

Sep 15, 2008 - 5:31 am 18. TomP:

Cancelled newspaper subscriptions send a real message. Real journalism died long ago.

Sep 15, 2008 - 5:40 am 19. chicago:

The media, the ultimate loser in the election campaign. they threw out their ethics to place the One on top of everyone else. now the entire nation is seeing the bias and has condemned the media bias.

when the people doesn’t trust the media, they then turn to the bloggers, when they see that leftwing bloggers have all lost it and became jerry springer surrogates, they all turn to the right wing bloggers and found that the only decent and objective, ethical, decent journalism available in the country today can only be found among the right wing blogs and sites.

is it any wonder that 63% of americans think that there’s media bias? is it any wonder that Obama’s poll numbers are sinking no matter what the liberal media does in smearing McCain/Palin? it is very clear to everyone that the only reason that the media hates McCain/Palin is becuase they hate Bush and majority of voters are seeing it for what it is.

Obama will continue to slide in the polls. look for McCain to gain 4 of the 6 battleground states solidly in his camp. look for Obama to continue melting down to a blob of uhs and ahs and stutter more….maybe add a twitch or two.

Obama’s toast, all liberals know it. they can pour millions of dollars more to his campaign but the independent voters of this country has been innoculated against the media bias and will not swing back to Obama again. the media, hollywood, the democrats, have been lumped into on mass of hateful and out of touch blob of political mess that will be out of touch with majority of americans for at least a generation.

Sep 15, 2008 - 5:48 am 20. SAF:

The republicans deserve to lose because of their poor stewardship of the country. And it would be a great thing for the US to elect a black president. Unfortunately, Obama is unqualified for the job and the democrats are running so left that they have put their victory in jeopardy. The democrats play to the press and the press is so left that they loose touch with the electorate.

Worse of all while Rome (the US) burns Nero (congress & president) fiddles.

Sep 15, 2008 - 5:48 am 21. Peter Boston:

The only way that the Great Unwashed – the hard-working, God-fearing middle class – is going to take back this country is to stop electing to any political office any person who has graduated Harvard, Yale or Princeton. That would probably be enough to break the elitist old boy network. Better yet if the electoral pogram were extended to any person who graduated from a school that bans ROTC or military recruitment on campus.

We cannot affect who gets hired or promoted in the MSM but we can break the back of liberal elitism at the ballot box.

Sep 15, 2008 - 5:54 am 22. B Dubya:

Boris, you are off mission.
Go find Moose and Squirrel. Dasvidanya, Boris.

Sep 15, 2008 - 6:01 am 23. B Dubya:

I suppose that the American press just could not resist the temptation to assume the business model of Pravda circa 1975. Now they are totally the organ of the American cutlure of treason, set in motion almost 80 years ago by their saint Uncle Joe. If you recall, he provided the blueprint to his useful AMerican tools for bringing down America, and the left has been follwing it ever since.
Neo-Stalinists, same as the old Stalinists, just not yet in a position to tear up that pesky Constitution.
I say it time to marginalize these people.

Sep 15, 2008 - 6:08 am 24. Frank Logan:

For more than 20 years, “60 Minutes” was my favorite program on TV, and I religiously watched the evening news on one of the alphabet networks. Rathergate jolted me out of my naivity, and I saw they could not be trusted. Like in a marriage, when the trust is gone the marriage is over. I am one of thousands, if not millions, who never watch these programs any more.

Sep 15, 2008 - 6:32 am 25. Cowcup:

The best strategy for McCain and Palin is what worked for them the best. Play nice, play strong. Good manners. And refuse to play victim. As Palin did in RNC. The lipstick response is a slightly deviation from that theme. The lipstick should not provoke a cry of sexism from McCain camp. But, instead, should invite a I-am-nice-and-let-voters-compare response.

Sep 15, 2008 - 6:34 am 26. exDemocrat:

It’s the aged 55-65 ex-hippies who are killing our country right now (our Worst Generation).

America will survive but these losers, thankfully, will be gone soon. Mortality is a b*tch.

McCain/Palin ‘08

Sep 15, 2008 - 6:35 am 27. AJ:

And yet, after CNN.com’s article (No, I dont know why I read it but was looking for any mention of McCain’s leap in the polls and there was none, of course), 90% of the comments said the media is PRO McCain b/c they have not exposed all his “lies.” They did not say what these “lies” were.

Poor libs, when they lose, it’ll be rough — but they can blame the media, the weather, racism, etc — never themselves.

Sep 15, 2008 - 6:36 am 28. Mike M:

I have to agree Hucbald. Bias would be favoring a candidate in a report because that person happens to be your own cousin; what we are seeing is the cousin writing the report. How does it happen? Consider who is who on college campuses. Many kids at college are there for the real purpose of learning a particular subject area that they want to pursue as their life’s professional direction. Such includes engineering, medicine, law, teaching, business, etc. But then there are degree majors for things like Political Science and Psychology for those who have no clear idea of why they went to college. Witness WHO these people were when they were in college and WHO they are today. At UMass for example, there are always ‘riots’ and tree burnings and protests (see link) and these are THOSE clowns – not the ones who came to college for an education. (My son got his BS and MS at UMass and told me almost NOTHING ever happened in the northeast quadrant where all the serious students lived; the drunkedn whiney mayhem was always by the ‘liberal arts’ students.) So while the engineers go off to get jobs to build things, med students go on to cure people, teachers go off to teach, etc – WHERE do the morons on that linked video end up, those who never grew up and think having temper tantrums to get attention for themselves is normal behavior? Hint, they ain’t running businesses or building stuff or curing anybody or teaching – they’re STILL whining, still trying to get attention, still acting like the little immature morons they were on campus but now doing it for leftist lame stream media.

Sep 15, 2008 - 6:54 am 29. Douglas Bogle:

One thing the MSM forgets and or chooses to ignore, is that in the leftist utopia there is no free speech.

Look at Venezuela a relatively new leftist regime. Reporters are being killed, and media outlets are loosing their liscenses.

I guess the MSM feels if they suck up enough their ideal gov’t will not shut them down.

So young.

Sep 15, 2008 - 7:06 am 30. Therese:

I think that the best way to deal with this whole media bias problem is to boycott them. If more people turn off these stations and stop buying the publications with these obvious hidden agendas, they will lose money. Advertising money comes from viewership and subscriptions. Once the money flow starts drying up, they will either change or go out of business.

I am doing this myself and I hope that more people will.

Even for liberals, money speaks and when we cut off their flow of advertising money, we cut off the media pulpits that they are trying to use to wrongly influence everyone.

Sep 15, 2008 - 7:13 am 31. jbb:

I used to buy the Wash Post every day for 25 years (might of missed a couple times) but I haven’t read them for 2 years because of their hard slant to the left. My wife and I watched Inside Edition and Access Hollywood (news porn) but stopped because they’re in the tank for Obama. These people are p!ssing off half the people that bought their papers or watched their shows. Actors like Danny Glover, Sean Penn and a lot more. It’s degusting watching them bad mouth there country in other countries. MTV evidentially doesn’t seem to mind p!ssing off half the country either.

Sep 15, 2008 - 7:22 am 32. Ex-fetus:

Considering that Journalists rate between child molesters and arsonists in the approval ratings, it isn’t such a bad thing having the MSM go foaming at the mouth berserk over Gov. Palin. The Internet keeps pointing out how rabid they are, which just creates more votes for McCain\Palin. Nothing wrong with that. Only one thing stands between Ohhh….BAMA and his return to the Senate for a little more seasoning;

“The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
Joseph Stalin
Georgian Soviet politician (1879 – 1953)

There is a practical limit to how much a rigged Diebold Machine can change the election. As long as it’s not close, we will be alright. If it’s close those Diebold machines could be key.

Sep 15, 2008 - 7:24 am 33. jbb:

“degusting” = “disgusting”
I should learn to use spell check.

Sep 15, 2008 - 7:24 am 34. jerry:

I think it was James Taranto of the WSJ who blogged after the 2004 election that in spite of the conventional wisdom that the MSM would moderate its positions and biases because of the competition from the new media the most likely scenario is the one we see unfolding today. The fractionalization of the media would drive the MSM to abandon the middle and serve the radical leftist cause. Conservatives and moderates have been abandoning the leftwing biased media for the past decade. The MSM is serving their market. The problem is that the MSM has failed to recognize that they have lost credibility with the general public.

We have always had a partisan media. There is nothing wrong with that. Everybody always new that the New York Times was all Democratic Party all the time and the Manchester Union Leader was all Republican all the time. The broadcast media, in part because of the fairness doctrine, never developed its partisan roots. Rather then demanding fairness from the broadcast media I think the FCC should require all broadcast outlets to endorse a political candidate or party so that biases will be out in the open. In addition, I would require all political stories in an election year label the reporters political views if they have endorsed, donated to or actively participated in a political campaign on their own time. If the public knows the explicit biases of a reporter or network they can filter out the biases. I believe that such requirement will end up moderating network coverage.

Remember a partisan press is a healthy press. A party press warps and distorts reality. Today’s press is as much a party press as Pravada, Izvestia and TASS were in the old Soviet Union.

Sep 15, 2008 - 7:46 am 35. Retep:

Boris
About 90% of the msm admit to being democrats and their financial contributions to the democrat candidates are about 20-1 over Republicans. And you expect us to believe that they’re objective?

Sep 15, 2008 - 8:17 am 36. Therese:

When the media pretends to be objective, but is highly partisan, something is wrong.

I think that people are outraged because a lot of them really didn’t know how much the press has been pushing their own agenda. This has to stop!

It’s okay to have differing opinions. This is what a democracy is all about. But when it is done under the guise of being neutral, it has to be addressed.

The MSM has become liberal propaganda machines and my hope is that this election cycle angers enough people in the country so that something is done about it.

Sep 15, 2008 - 8:35 am 37. Neocon Hippie:

Hucbald:

My pet spelling peeve is the use of “loose” for “lose”. It is amazing just how common this is on the internet.

Sep 15, 2008 - 9:41 am 38. TomJW:

When someone quotes some trash from the MSM on their blog, I don’t bother to read it. I don’t need to stuff more lies into my head. Let them slowly die out. They are already being replaced.

Sep 15, 2008 - 9:46 am 39. Hugh Bris:

More like into the tank for the final flush…

Sep 15, 2008 - 10:07 am 40. ElitistMediaRFools:

Charlie Gibson is the Dan Rathers of ABC

Sep 15, 2008 - 10:12 am 41. tomw:

Sarah Palin is a joke. The Bush Doctrine is well defined, and she was completely stumped when asked what she thought of it.

What about “Saying no to the bridge to nowhere” – That’s a flat out lie. She said yes to bridge, until it was unwise politically. But she still accepted the earmarked funds. This is her example of reform,people. How does this pass a smell test?

Sep 15, 2008 - 10:38 am 42. Jerry L.:

To all of the above.The msm (small) has been replaced in case you missed it. i know no one that gets their real news from the msm, mostly they go there for comic relief.Have fun kids.

Sep 15, 2008 - 10:40 am 43. jerry:

Tomw:

Perhaps you would like to read the actual verbatim transcript of the interview before making stupid statements. ABC edited the interview to make her say things that she didn’t say but ABC wasn’t smart enough to make their web transcript match the video.

Palin’s reversal of support for the Bridge to Nowhere may have been driven by expediency but at least she knew enough to reverse herself. Biden and the second fiddle went on to vote for it a second time. That is change that we can all believe in.

Last week Palin and Obama both went before hostile interviewers. Obama was so inept that O’Riley started laughing at his lame answers. Palin, edited for effect by ABC news, still came off sounding more articulate then Obama.

Sep 15, 2008 - 11:05 am 44. Rob:

Baloney! Where are the examples of this bias against McCain?

Sep 15, 2008 - 11:14 am 45. jlpillinois:

If anyone believes in conspiracy theories – this is definitely looking more like a conspiracy everyday.

CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC are a part of a conspiracy that appears on a surface level to be a conspiracy to destroy this country.

I no longer watch any of the above – once in awhile I will do a fact check to see if they have become less nuts – I mean more fair and balanced, and they never fail to disappoint me. Actually, as you all know they are out of control. They got away with the hit job on Hillary Clinton. They were beaming in their success, as was Obama. Now, their hit jobs are not working against Palin, and it is setting them insane. Obama and the MSM are throwing a 2 year old temper tantrum, because they are not getting their way. What a sad day to see CBS, ABC, NBC go down this low.

Sep 15, 2008 - 11:18 am 46. always right:

I believe one major reason the old media was so in the tank with Obama is that they truly believe they can play a significant role in his administration (plus a dem controlled congress).

Nobody can resist the wielding of true power, even if they are not the front man.

Sep 15, 2008 - 11:27 am 47. Judy, NYC:

i stopped watching cnn when it was clearly in the tank for obama during the primaries. they are the worst of all the cable news stations. ugh. msnbc has redeemed itself by consigning the two obama schmucks, olbermann and matthews to janitorial service, but i still don’t watch. i don’t trust them. strangely, (because i was a life long democrat) fox news, is actually the most balanced and i don’t get a stomach ache watching them. as for the msm like the nytimes, wpost and the like, they have no journalists, so i can’t imagine who is writing their “reporting”. i know they admire that esteemed tv news program “the view”, with its erudite crew, because they’re still writing about it. the lies that mccain and palin are lying, made me laugh out loud. as if. my g-d, nobody lies like these news organizations. the newspaper editors should be pauperized for their irresponsible rumor mongering. barry obama must have made them some pretty big promises for such fealty from these slobs, who remain unrepentant over the filth they poured on hillary clinton,and unperturbed about doing the same to sarah palin. we’re smarter now, of course. and, lucky for us, they are much dumber.

mccain-palin ‘08

Sep 15, 2008 - 11:31 am 48. William of Orange:

tomw writes:

“Sarah Palin is a joke. The Bush Doctrine is well defined, and she was completely stumped when asked what she thought of it.

What about “Saying no to the bridge to nowhere” – That’s a flat out lie. She said yes to bridge, until it was unwise politically. But she still accepted the earmarked funds. This is her example of reform,people. How does this pass a smell test?”

..old news, tiresome, and already deconstructed to a fare-the-well on this an other sites. Go learn how to use Google and come back with something substantive, butt wipe.

Sep 15, 2008 - 11:47 am 49. Sandra M:

Frank Logan said:
For more than 20 years, “60 Minutes” was my favorite program on TV, and I religiously watched the evening news on one of the alphabet networks. Rathergate jolted me out of my naivity, and I saw they could not be trusted. Like in a marriage, when the trust is gone the marriage is over. I am one of thousands, if not millions, who never watch these programs any more.

Same here. However, recently, I tuned in for a segment on Afghanistan which accused our military of killing civilians. A couple of weeks later, film was found which showed the opposite.

The main stream media is hemorrhaging viewers and readers badly. With all the pink slips being given out, journalism is going to become an ever more competitive profession. The lazy, biased propagandists may have to go into other fields to survive.

Hollywood is also suffering from boycotts. When Conservatives get together and make films Americans want to watch, the bottom line will win out over propaganda.

And the last great bastion of impregnable Marxism will soon be breached by Charles Murray’s book REAL EDUCATION and his idea of requiring certification by exam rather than graduation from an Ivy League university as a requirement for careeer and life advancement. Would you rather hire an accountant from Harvard who gets a C on his fourteen hour exam or a graduate of an online university who scores an A.

Given the exorbitant costs of a college education with much going to a left-wing bureaucracy, majors that teach resentment and entitlement (Black Studies, Women’s Studies, Chicano Studies, et al)
and to leftists like Gloria Steinem, and John Edwards $65,000 for a speech at Hofstra and many others, many parents are rebelling at the costs of 4 years of babysitting that don’t guarantee a good job or career. Hello to technical schools that offer jobs in new growing industries, and vocational training that guarantee well-paying blue collar jobs.

Hollywood may have helped undo the Ivy League by presenting the current college world as an Animal House zoo of binge drinking and decadence.

The biased media, left-wing Hollywood and Marxist dominated universities are all losing. What a great time to be alive!

Sep 15, 2008 - 11:56 am 50. Dave II:

tomw- just a thought, (and I’m not going to dwell on the point that Charles Krauthammer made so eloquently of there being FIVE different Bush Doctrines, NONE of them being a typical Presidential “Doctrine” but more a strategy…so what’s the point?) but it occurs to me…

If Sarah Palin WAS the 2nd coming of Bush/Cheney, then WHY is she supposedly so unfamiliar with “Doctrine” of that administration? That doesn’t sound right!

Put another way: If you are so worried she will be just like them, why do you INSIST she know it verbatim? Seems to me you’d be GLAD the VP nominee doesn’t have a lock-step grasp of the administration you so despise…

But I digress…the slanted editing and blatant omissions from that interview will come back to haunt ABC and Charles Gibson for years! It was a hatchet job that was, unfortunately, allowed by McCain’s campaign that believed a “controlled” interview environment meant a balanced and fair interview would take place…

So much for believing THAT fairytale!

NO LONGER will the American public take the MSM for “THEIR WORD”!!!

That ship has sailed!!…they are now LITERALLY, a mouth-piece of leftist propaganda that we need to run through our Orwellian-Think Bias-Filter before we are able to glean the truth!

Of course, seeing as how the national media is centered in either New York or California…we should have known that’s the case for years, and in a way we have. It’s not really new at all.

What IS new is that, THIS YEAR, the MEDIA’s metro/changey candidate is going down in flames…and they are beside themselves with apoplectic derangement and befuddlement.

And the MORE the try…the WORSE they make it!!!

WHAT IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT’S FIT TO PRINT IS GOING ON HERE???????

Well…I could say the internet, for one…but the MAIN reason is the candidate they soooooo want to see elected is being reasonably and deliberately looked at…and is found to be LACKING in so many ways as a President!

Simply put: The media is FINALLY seeing how LITTLE power they actually have.

And it just pisses them off to no end!

Sep 15, 2008 - 12:06 pm 51. Sandra M:

I was watching C-SPAN’S WASHINGTON JOURNAL yesterday, and many callers (Black Democrats from their accents) were reciting Democrat Party calling points.

Worse, the host, who I believe has been there for decades, seemed to get his information from the New York Times. It was alarming to think that people without computers are getting such a biased view of the campaigns.

Sep 15, 2008 - 12:20 pm 52. Jim,MtnViewCA,USA:

The MSM is still powerful, after all the election is still reasonably close in spite of the fact that Obama is an empty suit.
If the Dems should win, it will usher in a paradise on earth–no media will report anything bad that is happening.

Sep 15, 2008 - 12:37 pm 53. Believer:

“In the end the voters, and not the media, will elect the Presidential ticket.” Yes, Jennifer, but it’s the ‘voter’ I’m worried about.

I recently read BO supporters are doubling their efforts to register voters now that his numbers are sliding. And we know who they use — ACORN. Voter fraud will be a real problem in the swing states. BO plans to win this. And I don’t trust him to win honestly.

All the work you and Clarice and others have done – so well I might add – over the past months must be exposed to the broader public. I have an idea it’s mostly preaching to the choir here. Maybe a campaign of televised ads could be run over a number of weeks to inform Independents who only get news from the MSM, or the Lefties who only visit sites that share their political views. With the obvious question at the end of each ad asking why the MSM hasn’t bothered to explore this — expose them every time along with BO.

BO, to my mind, will not accept defeat graciously. He might very well take it like his Kenyan ‘cousin’ for whom he campaigned last year. I think he’s already sown the seeds of trouble should he lose. And his wife’s comments have aided in that effort. The bitterness at the prospect of losing is growing and I’m reading about warnings of riots again should that happen.

Because there’s a potential for violence, I think it’s imperative that we no longer be ‘polite.’ The truth must be exposed. Completely. So that no claim can be made that it was his race that caused his defeat. Nothing is further from the truth. There are too many legitimate concerns about this fraud — he couldn’t get a security clearance if he applied for one.

And, too, his candidacy must go down in stunning defeat so that no claim can be made that the election was stolen from him. Once Americans are informed about who he is, surely there can’t be more than a relative handful of twisted or feeble minds who will justify voting for him.

Sep 15, 2008 - 12:38 pm 54. tomw:

Jerry, these transcripts?
GIBSON: Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?

PALIN: In what respect, Charlie?

GIBSON: The Bush — well, what do you interpret it to be?

PALIN: His world view?

GIBSON: No, the Bush doctrine, annunciated September 2002, before the Iraq War.

PALIN: I believe that what President Bush has attempted to do is rid this world of Islamic extremism, terrorists who are hell-bent on destroying our nation. There have been blunders along the way, though. There have been mistakes made, and with new leadership, and that’s the beauty of American elections, of course, and democracy, is with new leadership comes opportunity to do things better.

GIBSON: The Bush doctrine as I understand it is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense, that we have the right to a preemptive strike against any country that we think is going to attack us. Do you agree with us?

PALIN: Charlie, if there is legitimate and enough intelligent and legitimate evidence that tells us that a strike is imminent against American people, we have every right to defend our country..

Sorry, but McCain, Obama, Ron Paul, they all new what the Bush docrite was when they were asked the same question. Her response shows that she hasn’t even been following the debates. Her “I can see Russia” line was my favorite. How can you honestly put faith in someone who doesn’t even understand what the issues are?

I don’t fault Palin for reversing on the bridge to nowhere, I fault her for using it during her RNC speech as an example of fighting earmark spending. Hello, Alaska STILL GOT THE MONEY!!! How can you ignore this fact?

William of Orange butt wipe. Facts are facts. She had no clue the bush doctrine is and she definitely didn’t say “no thanks” to the bridge to nowhere money.

Sep 15, 2008 - 1:20 pm 55. Ed Wallis:

“Believer” 12:38pm –

The “ACORN”-vote problems ARE a genuine concern – and possibly a dent in Zerobama’s campaign (due to his earlier work in Chicago).

Yet, I wonder if something else, something larger (if proven), might be looming…

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/15/did-obama-try-to-scotch-an-iraqi-us-agreement-on-military-forces/

For me, a hear/speak/see-no-evil reaction to something on this scale would be a “final” nail in the coffin for the Flat Line Media.

Sep 15, 2008 - 1:25 pm 56. ManekiNeko:

I believe that what people are calling the MSM should more correctly be called the Legacy Media, or, perhaps, the Legacy MSM.

Sep 15, 2008 - 1:27 pm 57. Rachel Peepers:

Here’s a thought for Ed Wallis to explain better than I can, not to mention, W O Orange, DaveII, Sandra and the rest of you I don’t recognize yet.

Listen to what Obama accuses John and Sarah and the Republican party of doing. eg. stealing the election, trying to scare the voting public, playing the old style, negative dirty politics.

I’m starting to realize those accusations are the mirror image of precisely what Obama and his henchmen are trying to do themselves.

It’s a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black.

Sep 15, 2008 - 1:38 pm 58. Militant-Infidel:

In regard to all the discussions about education in journalism, one fact is perfectly clear. Nobody ever flunked out of journalism and then graduated with a degree in engineering, education, medicine or science. There are plenty of examples for a degree in journalism being the “shelter of last resort”.

MI

Sep 15, 2008 - 1:43 pm 59. OLDPUPPYMAX:

The arrogance and self-importance of the MSM is so remarkable that it refuses to see what everyone else does…their own hit pieces on Palin are increasing her popularity while doing even greater harm to their own credibility. No one is more deserving of this self-imposed train wreck than the MSM.

Sep 15, 2008 - 1:55 pm 60. Dr. Dean:

“Any pretense of fairness by the mainstream media is gone.” That the media is attempting to destroy Obama’s enemies is all too clear. So, then what are the ramifications if Obama is elected? The focus is on the campaign ramifications, but if Obama is elected, I am concerned about a press that as they got their guy elected they will be fully vested in doing anything to ensure he does not fail. That should concern any American regardless of party affiliation.

Sep 15, 2008 - 3:28 pm 61. RE:

The mainstream media has become the public relations arm of the Democrat Party. If Obama were to be elected, believe they would continue to be the same noncritical cheerleaders we see today, similar to the European media. I’d expect a significant erosion of freedom of speech in this environment, starting with the disingenuously named ‘Fairness Doctrine’ and the passage of ‘hate speech’ laws – a bit of both ‘1984′ and ‘Brave New World’.

Sep 15, 2008 - 3:55 pm 62. Snapshot: MSM, Lefty Blog Full-Court Press for Obama:

[...] Jennifer Rubin on what’s at stake for the MSM. Posted by Dan Collins @ 1:23 am | Trackback Share This [...]

Sep 15, 2008 - 7:02 pm 63. Believer:

Ed Wallis:

Yes, that potential Logan Act violation has bothered me all day. I read about it at Texas Darlin’ – you linked to her on something else – and she’d posted about it this morning. I’m glad to know her site – thanks for that.

And I hope you’re right — that this nails all of them. But reading the HotAir version now makes me more cautious about how true it might be. If it is, it makes BO an absolute creep. And that’s a generous assessment.

Sep 15, 2008 - 7:25 pm 64. Master Cranky Hucklebubble:

The problem is that Obama used up his quota of moonshine and fairy dust and everyone knows it. There is nothing the MSM can do to draw more converts to his holy altar. Even if Obama parted the Red Sea tomorrow it would just seem like overkill and would be met with a collective yawn. I wonder if a lot of journalists realise that they put their reputations on the line for him with their hageographic reporting that the thought of being in the wilderness under a McCain administration is driving them absolutely insane.

Sep 15, 2008 - 7:57 pm 65. i b squidly:

‘Woodstien’ turned journalism from a craft into a profession. Instead of working beats and learning their way up they studied Coiffure, Intonation and PC at Ted Baxter U. It’s not so much they’re biased as much as they’re truly stupid and berift of a rounded education.

Spying on the DNC for Nixon in ‘72 was illegal for E Howard Hunt. It wasn’t illegal (ahem) when he spied on Goldwater ‘64 for the CIA. LBJ made Nixon look like a piker. The DC press corps knew it the rest of us weren’t supposed to. Nixon carried 49 states in ‘72 but the MSM wailed “How? I know no one who voted for him!”

Reagan faced a hail storm of bias and won because Lyn Nofziger played them as Lucy with the football to their Charlie Brown. Ronnie treated them as a redheaded stepchild and their resentment boiled and boiled to an eruption for J F’n Kerry. Shirley Temple had a better salute but some nitwit with a mike breathlessly repeated Kerry’s bogus assertion that 4 months in ‘Nam was two tours. Yeah, the hero of the army of Genghis Khan couldn’t keep anything straight. Fingers in their ears screaming Liar Liar at the honorable Swift Vets, POWs and CMHs was their cultured response.

This cycle smug in the miasma of their flatulence they’re backing an absolute loser. They’re desperate and dangerous but it will, in the words of the bard signify nothing. The MSM will lose and learn nothing because they are that stupid. BDS will morph to something new and angrier. Fortunately their demo’ is dying.

Sep 15, 2008 - 7:58 pm 66. Believer:

I’m listening right now to Mark Levin’s radio show — and I’m thrilled he’s mad (as usual) about how the truth of the FannieMae/FreddieMac meltdown isn’t being told. According to him:

It’s 98% in the lap of the Dems. Obama’s hand is in it too. Playing along with the Dems. He’s profited some $120K from it and now uses this mess to promote his socialist agenda.

Jamie Gorelick(sp?) is involved — the same woman who at Justice wrote the law that built a wall between FBI and CIA – no shared intelligence before 9/11. Thanks, Bill.

I hope Jennifer will report on this. Because this will be the huge issue most likely before the election, and it’s clear CNN/MSNBC etc. will be helping Obama to divert attention away from Dem responsibility and blame Repubs for the mess.

According to Mark L., Repubs in 2004 tried to get better oversight of Fannie and Freddie, but Pelosi and Dems fought it. Don’t let them shift the blame!!

Sep 15, 2008 - 9:31 pm 67. Believer:

These federal level failures are reminding me of the local/state level failures BO has had his hand in — only to offer his socialist/big government solutions to the messes HE makes!!

Has this been his longterm MO – or does everything he touch turn to rot?

Sep 15, 2008 - 9:35 pm 68. BMoon:

The unhinged, truly demented fury in the recent spate of attacks by the press against McCain-Palin is nothing more than the wailing and gnashing of teeth as they sing a death dirge at the funeral of their messiah’s campaign. It is their open, undsguised, resentful admission of defeat.

Yet, this is nothing new. The East Coast press has been almost completely leftist for many decades going back to FDR. Carrying the same DNA as their harsher distant cousins at Pravda -humanistic utopian leftism – they truly believe that they have a divine right to lie, distort, manipulate and treat the American public as if they were ignorant soviet serfs who must be propagandized into bringing about the worker’s paradise that exists only in their outdated books and warped minds

Listen to this repeat of history in the 1972 election (lifted from Paul Johnson’s Modern Times, pp649), where Nixon told his staff, referring to McGovern: “Here is a situation where the Eastern establishment media finally have a candidate who almost totally shares their views. The real ideological bent of the NYT, WP, Times, Newsweek, and the three TV netwroks is on the side of amnesty, pot, abortiion, confiscation of wealth (unless it is theirs,) massive increases in welfare, unilateral disarmament, reduction of our defenses and surrender in Vietnam.” Nixon painted the entire ‘72 election as a test between the Leftist eastern establishment elites and the rest of the country. Of course, Nixon won by a huge landslide, but listen to how one powerful editor typically responded: “There’s got to be a bloodletting. We’ve got to make sure nobody even thinks of doing anything like this again.”

Unfortunately for those of us in 2008, the insanity of leftwing elitist propaganda has metastisized from the old East Coast elites to most centers of information accross the country. This has happened through their conquest and dominance of the university. None of this will change, good Americans, until we have a real reform in the education system, where left-wing fascists dominate almost all the humanities faculties, a reform where there is a fairness doctrine as far as allowing conservative perspectives back into the classrooms and faculties of American universities.

Sep 16, 2008 - 1:10 am 69. Gary Ogletree:

Will the MSM pull back and try to disguise their agenda now that the broad public is hip to their game? I suspect they will make a short lived failed effort. Like the soldiers of Hamas they are slaves of emotion, fervant believers in bizarre theories that would crumble under rational examination. Subjugating Americans to the Obama version of a socialist caliphate is their very own Jihad.

Sep 16, 2008 - 4:57 am 70. Ed Wallis:

Rachel 1:38pm – It’s also know as “projection” (in psychological terms?)…part of why, day after day, I am less reluctant to use the adjective “unhinged” for all-riled-up-Leftists. It does seem to a degree to be a mental illness/defect.
_________________

Slightly OT:

There’s alot of action at balanced-to-conservative websites by Alexrod’s Astroturf writers*…you know, those “concerned Christians,” “sincere feminists,” “true Independents” who appeared sudddenly after Palin’s announcement…many of whom claim to be “former McCain” supporters but now ardently support Zerobama.

The veneer gets pretty thin and, after a few posts of their “party-line-prepared rhetoric,” it is clear what fraudulent thoughts they posit here. The only thing which comes through is the vitriol.

But I encourage them to keep on trying! Axelrod must have to pay out a heap of cash from Zerobama’s war chest, so better he spend the effort here.

* SEE:
http://jimtreacher.com/archives/001554.html
http://minx.cc/?post=273492

Sep 16, 2008 - 5:09 am 71. Kondratieff:

‘ If they fail in their mission to revive the candidacy of their favorite son, the major newspapers and television networks will have to justify their own conduct, repair reputations and mend fences and convince news consumers they still matter. Good luck with that.’

Jennifer, you are an optimist!! PBS will revive them!

Sep 16, 2008 - 5:18 am 72. LisaP:

Oh Freud, oh slip: “my Muslim faith”–Baroque Insane Oblahma. It’s been OVER since August 29th, when our next Vice President, Sarah Palin, ALASKA GOVERNOR, was introduced to America. The MSM knew it, and has been hissy-fitting ever since.

Sep 16, 2008 - 8:06 am 73. Grant Drive:

Good column, with one flaw:
Bill Daley is a major Democrat pol, but the Chicago machine is actually run by his brother, Mayor Richard M. “Richie” Daley.

Sep 16, 2008 - 9:28 pm 74. Pajamas Media » PJM Political 9/17/08: Sex, Lies, And Mucinex:

[...] Jennifer Rubin, Pajamas Media’s DC Editor, on Charlie Gibson’s interview with Sarah Palin; and her thoughts on Jill Greenberg, the freelance photographer who shot the cover for the Atlantic’s John McCain interview, then risked a lawsuit from the Atlantic after her comments on the Internet exposed herself as Patient Zero for the burgeoning new condition, McCain Derangement Syndrome. [...]

Sep 18, 2008 - 1:05 am 75. Nunya:

Oh sorry, I had no idea that the MSM was still relevant. They certainly gave up accuracy too many generations ago. Newspapers are obsolete and kill trees (I haven’t blackened my fingers on one in over 20 years) and on principle I refuse to watch TV news on any of the “major” outlets.

Internet coverage is definitely the New Media, where ALL viewpoints are represented, and Old Media have only themselves to blame. But like all good Liberals, they never will.

When McPalin landslides come November, I hope they freeze out all Old Media and like during the campaign, take their message directly to the people via their own website, and local rallies and TV coverage. The MSM cannot be trusted, period.

Sep 19, 2008 - 10:22 pm 76. Nunya:

BDS will morph to something new and angrier.

Already has: Palin Madness Syndrome

Sep 19, 2008 - 10:30 pm 77. Robert:

How can we trust the media, how do we know if the media gave the democrats the questions that were going to be asked in the debate so they would be prepared to answer them.

Oct 13, 2008 - 8:29 am

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