Not long ago, a critical reader observed that most of my posts that week had focused on media bias. He was right. I have written a lot about that in this campaign.
In their election day roundup, Pajamas linked Roger Aronoff’s post finding “the mainstream media were overwhelmingly in the tank for Barack Obama, and did their part to make sure he will be elected.”
Howard Kurtz finds the same thing going on on TV Talk shows: “If anyone doubts there is a liberal entertainment establishment, it has been vividly on display:”
the McCain ticket was the target of 475 jokes by Letterman and Leno from Sept. 1 to Oct. 24, while the Obama ticket was zinged just 69 times, according to the Center for Media and Public Affairs. McCain just can’t catch a break in the pop culture wars.
(Via Victorino Matus at the Weekly Standard.)
The media fawn all over Obama while grilling John McCain. It seems the Arizona Senator gained nothing from making himself accessible to the media over the years, offering choice sound-bytes critical of his fellow Republicans when the MSM wanted to show divisions in the GOP.
It doesn’t seem John McCain was prepared for this “betrayal.” He did not realize that this time, to get his message out, he’d need to go around the media not through them as he had in the past.
As this campaign drew to a close, just look at two stories the MSM (with a few notable exceptions) has all but ignored.
- In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Obama had said his environmental policies could cause energy prices to skyrocket, possibly bankrupting coal companies. The national media gave the story short shrift. Local media, particularly in coal-producing regions, do seem to have picked this up.
- The Obama campaign disabled AVS, an Automated Verification System, for online donations. Disabling AVS safeguards disabled makes it easier for foreigners to donate (illegally) and for others to donate multiple times (with their combined donations possibly exceeding legal limits). Given that Obama refused public financing, you’d think the MSM would want to make sure that Obama complied with the law in raising his funds. But, they’ve barely covered the story.
I suspect that we’ll hear a lot about this fund-raising scandal after the election. And we may even learn that the Democrat spent more money than it raised.
Off topic, but Important
I just saw LIVE on Fox news in a Pennsylvania polling place TWO BLACK PANTHERS in Black Panther military uniforms holding night sticks walking around intimidating the people.
The police was called as was Fox news and showed it live on TV
Is this what we can look forward to for the next 8 years?
DD2, surely they are not there at Obama´s behest. But if someone in the media had asked him what he means by “Civilian National Defense Force”, we might be reassured (or not).
I saw the video this morning. A Black Panther member in a uniform should not be allowed as a poll worker, period. That one was there with a night stick should result in his arrest.
What media bias? ………………… It has been Obama worship.
With regard to the Obama worship, I find it fascinating that many political cartoonists and all manner of comedians are too smitten with Obama to see anything funny about him. Today in my office, one of my Obama-voting colleagues even remarked that Saturday Night Live would probably go down the tubes again if Obama wins because there’d be nothing to poke fun at. I restrained myself, though what I really wanted to say was: “What? You don’t think there’s anything funny about a guy with a tremendous ego and an enormous sense of entitlement who is constantly throwing his embarrassing past associates under the bus?”