Am I crazy or is the MSM trying to sweep "Troopergate" under the rug?

[iceman66]

It seems to me that this story is not getting the attention it deserves.

Here we have an independent, bipartisan investigation finding the Repug VP candidate to have violated ethics laws and abused her power, and there is nary a mention of it on the morning news.

In contrast, the ridiculous grasping-at-straws attacks against Obama re: Acorn and Ayers COMPLETELY dominated the cable news channels' election coverage for several days.

Gotta love that "liberal media"!

[Whisp]

1. CNN certainly has their giant Swiffer out.

[KewlKat]

2. Trooper what?

move along, nothing to see............per usual.

[succubus.blues]

3. I expected headlines

or at least front page news in my local paper. Nada.

[ShortnFiery]

4. Please recall that THE FEW OWNERS of the M$M will benefit with a GOP Executive Branch.

They throw us democrats "a few bones" to keep us peasants happy. But when it comes down to BIAS, the *few* who call the programming shots want McCain to score the Presidency.

WE MUST DE-CONSOLIDATE THE MSM - along with reinstating "The Fairness Act."

[Stagecoach]

5. It's par for course

When news comes out on Friday evenings. It doesn't have a very long life in the news cycle.

[iceman66]

8. If the shoe had been on the other foot

and Obama or Biden had been found to have committed ethics violations we'd NEVER hear the end of it, at least between now and 11/4, regardless of when the story came out.

[notaboutus]

26. Not true ! When it's a democrat we see it the entire next week

[Schulzz]

6. It's much more important what happened when Obama was 8 years old!

:sarcasm:

[nyhuskyfan]

7. CBS Radio

Led into the story with a sound bite from one of the dozen or so protestors outside complaining about the whole thing just being presidential politics.

I was pissed. That's not the lead angle in this.

[iceman66]

16. Right. This should be a "Big" story

Number one it shows Palin has the same attitude as Bush when it comes to abuse of power - she basically considers herself above the law. Do people really want 4 more years of this?

Secondly, it says a lot about McCain's judgment - and pretty much proves that he didn't vet her at all.

Bottom line is that if this story were given the attention that it legitimately deserves, it would cost McCain votes, and the MSM seems determined to avoid that even at the risk of showing obvious bias.

[npincus]

9. I'm waiting for the Sunday line-up.

[Warren Stupidity]

10. Ya think?

Why would a bipartisan pre-nomination Alaskan legislative committee investigation that found that Palin recently abused her power as governor, allowed her unelected husband to use her office for his own purposes, and that she violated Alaska's ethics laws be of any interest when we have clear evidence when Obama was 8 Bill Ayers was protesting the vietnam war in a very inappropriate way, and that 30 years later Obama met Bill and worked with him on educational programs for disadvantage youths? You cannot be series.

[AZSlacker]

11. Nah, its out there. The problem is that although they did find she acted

Inappropriately and perhaps unlawfully, the state personnel board are the ones who need to decide whether she broke the law. That investigation, if it is done at all, won't be complete till after the election so the story has run its course. I suppose the media could pick up on the narrative of "why did she abuse her power, etc." However I think the narrative of the hateful rallies and the fact that McCain is almost loosing control of them is much more powerful and damaging to him, so I'm happy for them to keep running with that.

[iceman66]

20. The narrative should be

that this is yet another example of how a McCain administration would be no different from a Bush administration - obstruction of justice as a matter of course, and officials who believe that they are above the law. Call me nuts, but I have to think that at least a few undecided voters might care about things like that.

[spanone]

12. my local rag prominently displayed it on page FOUR

[ShortnFiery]

15. Kudos, for a change to the Washington Post - It was front page lower right.

That was more than I expected. However, I have to keep reminding myself that there's a marked difference between the NEWs and EDITORIAL sections. IMO, the WP does an excellent job at most non-editorial reporting. :-) :thumbsup:

[JBoy]

13. I was pissed that the story came out late on a Friday.

Biden should wait for Monday to start making some hay with this. That will give it fresh legs.

[DrDan]

14. huh????

CNN had a big spread on it as I walked the treadmill this morning.

ACORN was never mentioned.

We must get different coverage.

[iceman66]

23. I have had CNN on all morning

and this has been mentioned a few times, but only in 20 or 30-second snippets. In contrast, on Wedensday-Thursday-Friday, it was pretty much non-stop Ayers and Acorn BS all day. I'm sure others could confirm this.

[DrDan]

41. I was on the treadmill around 7 and they did a good story on it

[speedoo]

17. Front page, above fold in today's NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/10/11/pageone/scan/index.html

I'd certainly agree that CNN is trying to minimize it, but not MSNBC. Can't comment on Fixsnooz, don't ever watch it.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. CNN.com chose to highlight OJ in their BREAKING NEWS banner rather than the Troopergate report

and both came out at the same time. :eyes:

But we know that is par for the course for these RW-biased M$M racist shills. :rofl:

[ShortnFiery]

21. IMO, they're 100% Corporate and it does come out racist sideways because the poor suffer when ...

the ruling class is consolidating all the wealth. :(

With the ultra-rich = their motto is "What's mine is mine. What's yours is mine." :grr: :nuke:

[BumRushDaShow]

28. Damn straight! n/t

[iceman66]

22. I noticed that

Leave it to OJ to provide a distraction at a convenient time!

[BumRushDaShow]

32. The OJ banner was so jarring given that the Troopergate report had JUST released

and every other outlet (except for Sludge... no surprise) was doing a Breaking on the report and people were downloading the thing and were on the air with it. And then some 15 minutes later, CNN.com finally gets around to updating their website with the story, with a headline trying to do a faux "balance" by minimizing that she was found guilty of abusing power and highlighting the line in the report about her still having the authority to hire and fire.

:wtf:

Problem is, according to I think one of the reporters from the Alaska Daily News, Monegan was apparently civil service and not an appointee, so in reality, she had to go through alot of convoluted things to fire him, which underscored the charge of abuse of power.

But of course this is the Conservative News Network we're talking about. :eyes:

EDIT to add: It is just past 10 am EDT and Sludge STILL hasn't added a single link to the Troopergate report! :rofl:

[shaniqua6392]

19. They have decided that we do not want to hear about it.

They have decided that the economy is more important. Move along...There is nothing to see here.

[mscuedawg]

24. Faux most def is....the news late last night for 30 mins on Shammity & Cones was...

....::dun dun duuuuuun:: the economy....

[Arkana]

36. The economy's no winner for Republicans either.

With all this bullshit and negativity McCain's effectively ceded the floor to Obama.

[Smarmie Doofus]

25. Not crazy. They are sweeping. DEM team will have to....

... reference it *specifically* for it to get any play at all.

[iceman66]

27. I think they should.

Generally, I think Obama has focused his attention on the top of the ticket, and rightly so, but this is a big deal.

The fact that Palin may actually have attracted some undecided voters to McCain also needs to be considered.

[Democat]

29. It's not just the media doing Ayers - it is the Republicans and McCain!

There was no Ayers story until McCain made a story.

If Obama doesn't make the Troopergate story a story, then it will die.

It's that simple. Obama can either let this die or keep it alive. It's his choice. If Biden goes out every day and beats up Palin over Troopergate, then it may stay in the news. If Obama's campaign lets it die, then it will probably die quickly.

[DemsUnited]

30. Howard Fineman & Lawrence O'Donnell had the same take on this last night on MSNBC.

They basically said that the biggest impact of the Troopergate report was it erased any last bit of credibility that Palin had. All the Obama campaign has to do to respond to Palins smears and lies is say we won't be lectured to about truth & ethics by someone who was just found guilty of abuse of power and ethics violations.

Fineman & O'Donnell said both say that the reformer, "not the same kind of politician" image that the McCain campaign has worked so hard on is now dust.

[quantass]

31. It's possible that Obama may bring up her corrupt misuse of Power in the debate to enhance his point

about change....with a national audience expected to approach 70 million i figure this would be the best time to expose her for all to see. I hope he does say it but history says he wont ... at least not until McCain tries to go the Ayers/Wright path during the debate

[DainBramaged]

33. Nah it's Saturday, kids football, raking leaves, food shopping

no one but us gives a shit, trust me. Come Monday however......

[Doodler71]

34. The McCain camp played this perfectly....

The report was held and not released until after 8pm EST on a Friday. Most of the steam was out before morning hit and now going into the weekend it's already 6th page news.

By Monday... it will be old news.

They totally played it and slid it past with a slight of hand that Criss Angel wishes he had.

[BumRushDaShow]

38. In all honesty, there was nothing that they could "play" because of the time difference.

And since the report was so huge, I'll defer to the committee's need to take some time to review and essentially redact out what would be releasable. I think the bigger story was the fact that the the day before, the McPalin campaign released their own nonsensical report that supposedly cleared her, and of course this thing came out as the opposite! :rofl:

AND I think the most surprising thing of all was the fact that the vote was 12-0 (unanimous) to release the report.

I don't think this will be old news by Monday only because this is one of the key scandals that surfaced RIGHT at the time of her selection at the end of August. And this story has been popping in and out of the news for the entire month of September.

[City Lights]

35. "Palin abused power" is the headline screaming from both Chicago papers today.

Don't know what's happening on the TeeVee though.

[nc4bo]

37. Damage control @ the max. Keep spinning all weekend and by Monday it will be a nonstory.

We have to keep pushing it, and not the "Palin was within her rights as Gov. of Alaska" line.

It's the ABUSE OF POWER we should be blabbing about - nonstop!!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

39. It was on the front page of my paper today (Indianapolis Star)

albeit at the bottom - underneath a story about the financial crisis we're currently in. Guess which story most people are probably reading (not good news for the Repugs either).

I sent an e-mail to the Obama campaign with a suggestion as to how to potentially use Troopergate. I hope Obama or Biden work it in somehow how "mavericky" it really is to abuse your office over a personal vendetta.

[Frank Booth]

40. Yesterday had the most coverage we'll ever see on this.

By next Wednesday, it will be dropped from the news cycle entirely.

[Overseas]

42. If you are asking whether the 5 media conglomerates are Republican owned and

blatant about their bias this year, YES THEY ARE.