One of my best friends is an anchor for a TV station, and thus a ‘journalist’. He is always telling me what moderates he and his buddys at work are, and how their personal views never cloud their work… I know that he thinks it is the truth, but I also know that he is full of sh*t. He and the others like him have been indoctrinated so well that they can not even see their bias anymore. It is absolutely impossible for a human being to be completely neutral about anything! I know that the vast majority of ‘journalists’ will vote for Obama, and that fact alone causes bias in their work, whether they see it or not.

Also- the Politico claim that Palin was barely holding her own against Biden is obviously crap! I will never be visiting their site again. That article was the last straw. What a bunch of garbage that whole thing was!

Okay. Now African Press International says it has a deal with Fox to release the alleged Michelle Obama tapes.

CanadianGuy on October 28, 2008 at 11:49 PM

Maybe a little off-topic, but HillBuzz.com (a PUMA site that now supports McCain/Palin) has provided some links to this African Press International site, which has claimed for over two weeks now to have a damaging audiotape from Michelle Obama. The contents of the tape remain unknown, although they hint that there may be an issue of Obama having been adopted by Barack Obama Sr., meaning that he may be the son of another man.

According to their website, the delay in getting the tapes to Fox seems to be due to API’s concerns about lawsuits and for the safety of its leader, and just today there’s a post about the Obama campaign manager offering a $3 million bribe to API not to air the tape.

Personally, I’m not sure whether this is a potential bombshell against Obama, or a huge hoax, or a tempest in a teapot. But if it is a bombshell, time’s a wasting!!! There’s only six more days, and if Senator Obama was willing to travel to Kenya in 2006 to stir up riots for his buddy Odinga, what would a President Obama do to these API people?

As Drudge says, developing…

FWIW.

He failed to explain why the bias is worse this election than during any others.

According to his logic, biases are the same for every election. That is simply not true this year.

Dorvillian on October 28, 2008 at 10:46 PM

Blogging about the Politico is a wast of 1′s and 0′s .. mostly 0′s.

Blah, blah, blah…we know we’re biased…blah, blah, blah…we don’t care…blah, blah, blah…

m064404 on October 28, 2008 at 10:45 PM

I wish I had read your comment instead of the article – though I admit I was predisposed to believe that was what it was going to say.

Self-fulfilling prophecy or educated conservative reader? You decide. (laugh)

It is not our impression that many reporters are rooting for Obama personally.

Wow, impressions are so hard to find -sort of like trying to find a self-absorbed liberal writer.

Oh wait, that is way easy to find, just hard to stomach.

As it happens, McCain’s campaign is going quite poorly and Obama’s is going well. Imposing artificial balance on this reality would be a bias of its own.

Daggers in my eyes!

Can the press just report the truth about Hussein? Can the press just play Books on Tape of Obama’s racist comments in his own voice from his insipid books? Can the press just report him in his own voice in the NPR interview whining about the “tragedy” of the SCOTUS not being able to spread the wealth enough? Howsabout in the same interview declaring that the US resembles Nazi Germany?

Howsabout the LA Times not releasing the tape of Hussein lauding Khalidi at a shindig attended by Ayres and Dhorn? Has his association with the New Party been used to illustrate that the epithet Socialist is not just a political cussword in his case, but an apt description?

Has the press done ANY investigative reporting on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (or Woods or Joyce Funds) and the fact that Ayres hired Hussein to head it up? Howsabout the entities it funded? In fact, has there been ANYTHING resembling investigative reporting by the MSM that wasn’t merely an attempt not to be outflanked by the New Media – which of course, Hussein and the Dems want to squelch if possible.

Has the MSM tied Hussein to the Dem movement in congress to confiscate 401(k)s? Has this been reported at all at ABC, CBS, NBC, NYT, LAT, WAPO?

It isn’t just bias or spin in reporting that is the problem, it’s suppression of the truth. And if this cabal of MSM and Dems can suppress the truth passively and still sleep at night, they can supress it actively to the same effect. If elected, they will attempt to destroy -DESTROY- their political and religious enemies starting day one, and it couldn’t have been done without the smiling faces on your TV set that bring you the evening news.

Good God these elitist media types are so stuck in their own echo chamber they cannot see the truth.

csdeven on October 28, 2008 at 10:56 PM

exactly. blah blah blah yada yada yada

MB4 on October 29, 2008 at 2:10 A

Great bullets. That would have been great either at a rally or blasted out one by one during the last debate.

It’s entertaining to witness the open use of the word “bias”, a term more appropriately applied to the media of 15 years ago. Today, most of the “stories”, with rare exception, are standard run-of-the-mill PR pieces.

That they believe that their agenda driven propaganda is so sophisticated that it flies over the heads of average Americans is a miscalculation, however; they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams of evading campaign finance laws.

I will be in Kauai on election night, sipping an umbrella drink and watching the waves. The results should be in by the time I eat dinner.

Bishop on October 28, 2008 at 10:48 PM

Are you trying to make me hate you?

Lamer than lame.

http://survey.utk.edu/mrIweb/mrIWeb.dll?I.Project=POLITICS08

It’s a little long, but worth the effort to fill it out, if only to help demonstrate to these tools in terms they understand that their glory days are over.

A Confession From A Former Obama Supporter
Posted on October 28, 2008 by renaissancelady48
I received an e-mail via a friend concerning an former Obama supporter’s confession. She is a former Obama believer but realizes if he is elected president, the government will control everything and she can’t bear it. Although I can’t speak to the confessor’s veracity some of it does ring true. Here is the e-mail:

Comment by DAVE FROM NAWLINS
October 27th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
I copied this off of teamsarah.org tonight.

They are making a big impact and are growing very fast.

Hi Greta,
A confession from an Obama supporter
sarah p Says:
October 27, 2008 at 5:04 am
Okay, I want to clear my conscious a little. Hopefully you could make a blog post to help some fellow Clinton supporters out. I work for a campaign and can’t wait for this week to be over. I was doing it for a job. I was not a fan of any candidate but over time grew to love HRC.

The internal campaign idea is to twist, distort, humiliate and finally dispirit you.

We pay people and organize people to go to all the online sites and “play the part of a Clinton or McCain supporter who just switched our support for Obama”.

We do this to stifle your motivation and to destroy your confidence. We did this the whole primary and it worked.

Sprinkle in mass vote confusion and it becomes bewildering. Most people lose patience and just give up on their support of a candidate and decide to just block out tv, news, websites, etc.

This surprisingly has had a huge suppressing movement and vote turnout issues.

Next, we infiltrate all the blogs and all the youtube videos and overwhelm the voting, the comments, etc. All to continue this appearance of overwhelming world support. People make posts to the affect that the world has “gone mad”. That’s the intention. To make you feel stressed and crazy and feel like the world is ending.

We have also had quite a hand in skewing many many polls, some we couldn’t control as much as we would have liked. But many we have spoiled over. Just enough to make Real Clear Politics look scary to a McCain supporter. Its worked, although the goal was to appear 13-15 points ahead.
see, the results have been working.

People tend to support a winner, go with the flow, become “sheeple”. The polls are roughly 3-5 points in favor of Barack. Thats due to our inflation of the polls and pulling in the sheeple.

Our donors, are the same people who finance the MSM. Their interests are tied, Barack then tends to come across as teflon. Nothing sticks. And trust, there were meetings with Fox news. The goal was to blunt them as much as possible. Watch Bill O’Reilly he has become much more diplomatic and “fair and balanced” and soft. Its because he wants to retain the #1 spot on cable news and to do that he has to have access to the Obama campaign and we worked hard at stringing him a long and keeping him soft for an interview swap. It worked and now he is anticipating more access. So he is playing it still soft.

This is why nothing sticks.

The operation is massive, the goal is to paint a picture that is that of a winner, regardless of the results.

There is no true inauguration draft or true Grant Park construction going on. There will be a party, but we are boasting beyond the truth to make it seem like the election is wrapped up.

Our goal is to continue to make you lose your moral. We worked hard at persuasion and paying off and timing and playing the right political numbers to get key republican endorsements to make it seem even more like it was over and the world was coming to an end for you all.

There is a huge staff of people working around the clock, watching every site, blogs, etc. We flood these sites. We have had a goal to overwhelm.

The truth is here. I could go on and on, but you get the picture.

I am saying this because I know HRC was better for the country, and now realize this. I was too late by the time I connected to her.

To me Barack was just a cool young dude that seemed like a star. I didn’t know him or his policies, but now I understand more than I care to and I realize his interests are more for him, and the DNC and all working like puppets with Dean. I always thought a president wanted the better good for the country. The end result I see is everyone dependent on the government, this means more and more people voting for the DNC.

This means the future is forever altered. I don’t see this as America, so I am now supporting John Mccain.

Sarah Palin is a huge threat, and our campaign has feared her like you can’t imagine. If it seems unfair how she has been treated, well its because she has had a team working round the clock to make her look like a fool. This is a big conspiracy and I am so shocked that its not realized.

We released a little blurb the other day that the Obama campaign was already working on reelection and now putting our efforts towards 2012. This was to make it seem like it was above us to continue caring about 2008. Trust me, its a lie. David is very smart, but its a sticky ugly not very truthful kind of intelligence.

Its not over yet, but I think the machine is working. And its a hill to climb.

I will be quitting my post on Nov 5th and my vote will be for John Mccain. Fortunately, my position has been a marketing position and I don’t feel I had any part of anything I would feel guilty for. But I look forward to getting out of this as the negativity and environment upsets me.
I wish you all well, and goodluck.

PS my name is not really sarah. but I am a female and I understand your plight.

I absolutely have no idea who this former Obama supporter is but some of things she has written ring so true. I have had no faith in the polls. I haven’t believed their truthfulness for more than three weeks now. It even occurred to me that Scott Rasmussen was in the tank for Obama in the primaries, he never said one thing favorable towards Hillary. That is the explanation for his polls. I’m not certain about Gallup but those polls have been bizarre as well. I have been fairly certain that they are overpolling Democrats supportive of Obama. I have no idea how they are doing it, but they are.

I was listening to Bill O’Reilly tonight when it dawned on me that he was really in the tank for Obama. He has been for quite some time now. My friends and I have been discussing this for several weeks. As for Fox News, they have been particularly nasty towards the McCain/Palin ticket lately. Their polls have been skewed as well. And I must say I wondered who paid Fox off to be “less balanced”.

I said it in an earlier post…ignore the polls. I have some good news on them I will post soon. Just get out and vote. Talk Talk Talk. Reach out to the undecideds. When you do speak to indies and undecideds, speak up for McCain. Palin has her supporters and the star quality. It is time to give John McCain a hand up. Get excited about him.

Recently we bombed Syria. Iran and Syria had strong words for our actions. They even accused us of bombing a “factory” or something. McCain needs to be running this country. He will not be tested. He will know exactly what to do if we need to respond to these two countries.

Vote Country First. We are on the precipice of dangerous times with Syria and Iran. McCain is the only answer.

Oh, God! I would love to see McCain win, just to see the stupid MSM choke on their own tongues! That would be so sweet!

Frankly, it’s the only reason I want McCain to win.

Other than Palin giving the media scoffers her middle finger, nothing would be sweeter than seeing the look of horror on the faces of the media worms as McCain gets the nod.

This column makes me wonder if there’s a Pulitzer for intellectual dishonesty.

snaggletoothie on October 29, 2008 at 2:12 AM

There might be an Ig Nobel for Illiterature.