Schuster is clearly biased against Sarah Palin, and he appears to think that he is playing to his teammates at his station, as well as what appears to be those biases of the bulk of their viewers.

These stations clearly are biased and cannot be trusted for fair, balance, objective reporting.

Truly objective news reporting and analysis has died at MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, BBC, New York Times, LA Times, and others.

If it weren’t for Fox News, conservative talk radio, such as Hugh Hewitt, Rush Limbaugh, and others, and a few good bloggers, like Michelle Malkin, Debbie Schlussel, etc., and some conservative commentary authors and authors, like Thomas Sowell, Mike Adams, etc., the leftist, liberal, hate filled agenda would go unchallenged and unanswered.

Wouldn’t it be counterintuitive if the attacks by the MSM on Sarah had no effect whatsoever on the Novemeber 4th vote and that the financial meltdown alone sealed McCain’s fate once and for all. In other words, Jesus could have been McCain’s running mate and he still would have lost. Idle speculation-perhaps!

technopeasant on January 12, 2009 at 10:04 AM
I kind of suspect that the dem ticket was the opposite of that… you know.. 333 times 2…

bullseye on January 12, 2009 at 10:57 AM

I think you meant the far left, wack job Liberal’s number was 666, right?

Of course I went to public school, so my math sucks but I know about Black heritage month and Gay rights…

Wouldn’t it be counterintuitive if the attacks by the MSM on Sarah had no effect whatsoever on the Novemeber 4th vote and that the financial meltdown alone sealed McCain’s fate once and for all. In other words, Jesus could have been McCain’s running mate and he still would have lost. Idle speculation-perhaps!

technopeasant on January 12, 2009 at 10:04 AM

I kind of suspect that the dem ticket was the opposite of that… you know.. 333 times 2…

Real, hard nosed, love America, bold Conservatives = 2010 Win

Palin, more ready to serve as VPOTUS the day McCain picked her than Obama 11 days before taking office.

Christien on January 9, 2009 at 3:11 PM

That, of course, is why the media consistently compared Palin to Obama in putting her down, not to Biden. The obvious order was Biden < Obama < Palin < McCain, with the middle two a close call. It’s why Biden didn’t even show up as a blip on the radar during the last weeks of the campaign — nobody really wanted to remind the voters who on the other ticket will now be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

Most of you guys don’t get it. The corporate media is driven by bank, not ideology. The love Palin. She drives viewership and readership number up. The more of her the better as far as your beloved MSM media is concerned. Same with Obama for the same reasons. MSM wet dream if Palin runs in 2012 against Obama. You’re giving the networks, etc. way, way too much credit.

dakine on January 11, 2009 at 8:34 PM

Hmmm…but the coverage of Obama and Palin doesn’t/didn’t seem to be quite the same now, does/did it? Nope. Some “love”.

Now that we know this, we must develop a strategy to fight it. I don’t know what will work – but I do know that party infighting about Palin (whom I support) at this stage of the game is counterproductive.

Missy on January 11, 2009 at 2:16 PM

I had suggested to some of our local gop “leaders” that we consider going after the media outlets. We are near a major city where a lot of them are located.

What was ticking me off was that they were not covering the Ayer’s thing at all. That phoney hack AP piece that said that there wasn’t a problem with Ayers soothed a lot of people. My thought was to get a busload of people with signs and stand outside the media locations… Signs like “Why won’t the media tell the truth about Ayers” etc.

Of course, no one had the balls to try that. Their response was the 1960′s phone banks, knock on doors and put signs on yyour lawn (which the union goons would slash as fast as they went up)

Here’s my thinking

1. The media is dependent on advertising (No, I’m not talking boycotts yet because I dont think they would work)
2. The media generates viewership because people trust them
3. Calling that trust into question will start to shake the foundation
4. A couple of hundred people noisly protesting outside their studios and newspaper hqs would be hard to ignore, especially in my city where the studios are on a major artery.

Now, if the media refuses to cover the protests, an ever increasing number of people will be wondering “Hey , why aren’t the covering the 100′s of people outside their doors?”

I also think a second strategy would be to target the local democrap and rino house members with protests outside their office. Things like “why isn’s our congressman calling for an investigation of Barney Frank??” The media could afford to not cover it for a while but again, they would eventually have to cover it.

McCain tried to be friends with the media and they ran a story that he was having an affair

go figure

Now that we know this, we must develop a strategy to fight it. I don’t know what will work – but I do know that party infighting about Palin (whom I support) at this stage of the game is counterproductive.

Palin is being pushed by the liberal media to be the future of the GOP by the same media who pushed McCain as the nominee. Why? They don’t want the Republicans to have a real candidate.

popularpeoplesfront on January 11, 2009 at 11:25 AM

That’s not the dynamic that I see. What I see is: Palin is loved by a large number of conservatives. She is feared as an effective candidate. Therefore, she must be slimed and trashed into oblivion.

bleh

popularpeoplesfront on January 11, 2009 at 11:25 AM

you must be dense if you came to the conclusion that the media is pushing Palin in the way that they did McCain

something is not right

I have accused the MSM or the ‘liberal media’ of many things but one thing that I would not have the audacity to even suggest is that ‘Palin is being pushed by the liberal media to be the future of the GOP by the same media who pushed McCain as the nominee’. SP is hated by the MSM and her supporters know it. The MSM would love to destroy her. It’s called Palin Derangement Syndrome. I don’t know what makes you think that the MSM is in Sarah’s corner. Are you suggesting that Shuster is a closet Palin supporter, that Obama is secretly in political love with Sarah? That’s like saying that the European Jews supported Hitler and Nazism or the Nationalist Chinese loved Mao. I guess you can make a case for any position if you try hard enough, but as the elites like to say it is NOT intellectually honest. Quite simply the lefties hate Sarah’s guts and if they could send her to a concentration camp to be executed they would gladly celebrate that day.

Palin is being pushed by the liberal media to be the future of the GOP by the same media who pushed McCain as the nominee. Why? They don’t want the Republicans to have a real candidate.

When I went to my district convention I heard at least half a dozen people give speeches and say “McCain wasn’t my first pick… or even my third pick.. but he’s going to be our nominee so we all have to unite behind him” That’s what happens when we allow the liberal media to pick our candidates.

Palin is a joke of a candidate.

Judging by the number of supporters already on board with Sarah I do not think that Sarah will have any problem attracting to her the best intellectual and political minds available. I think Sarah is waiting for Obama to be inaugurated (Jan, 20) before she does anything concrete, so as not being accused by the MSM of trying to steal Obama’s thunder. I predict if she is interested in 2012 she will make her intentions known by the end of February (perhaps the CPAC conference). Team Sarah currently has over 63000 members devoted to electing Sarah in 2012 and the movement hopes to have 100,000 members eventually. Sarah will eventually have to declare herself to keep these people motivated, or they will eventually stray away and find another GOP political home. I am sure Sarah knows this and will act accordingly. In addition
Sarah will never be as popular with the GOP base as she is now, unless of course she becomes POTUS.

Sarah’s credentials as a libertarian supporter should have been accentuated by the McCain campaign over her credentials as a social conservative. Rather than being portrayed as a right-wing religious nut, the McCain campaign should have played up Sarah’s belief in individuals being allowed to live their own lives, being non-judgmental towards lifestyles, and linking personal freedom with lower taxes and lower government spending and fiscal responsibility.