My rant about the MSM ownership by the Clintons

[mckeown1128]

I know everyone likes to say that this media outlet favors Hillary or this one favors Obama. But, if you look at the over all picture of the last year their are a few things you will find.

1. A whole year of the media calling Hillary the inevitable candidate.

2. After any debate(with the exception of a very select few) the media would say that automatically "Hillary wins because no one stood out." I can't remember how many debates they "crowned" her the winner because the debate was boring.

3. In New Hampshire the media really screwed Obama on the expectations game. He was behind by twenty points the whole year and then closes it to 2 1/2 percentage points behind Hillary. Normally that would be consider a tie at best. But the media strummed up the Obama victory so much that anything other than double digit victory would be considered a loss. The Clinton campaign if you will remember was brilliant at playing lowering their expectations.(They continually sent campaign staffers out to say that if they could close to single digits it would be a victory.)

4. The almost tears. For weeks people were saying that she needed to show emotion. I remember the night before it happened, some pundit was raving about Hillary's emotional coldness. Well timed watery eyes...if anything changed the talk of the race off of Obama's Iowa win and onto Hillary showing how much she cares.

5. The race card. I want to be clear here. The Clintons are NOT racist. They did play a race card but not how people think they might have. Their murky almost inappropriate MLK comments were not meant for white people. The comments were meant for the black community. They wanted AA to get mad at Hillary. This caused all of this back and forth in the media about race. The Clintons talking heads then went out on the news to connect AA angry at Clinton over these comments to Obama. They essentially tricked the media connect the AA community's comments into Obama's comments. This has pushed the AA community into Obama's arms...but has pulled out white voters who don't want to vote for a Jesse Jackson candidate. Any one who thinks that somehow Obama wanted to play the race card is frankly an idiot. This is the primary reason he won't get the nomination. His strength was in his ability to get white and black votes. Why would he want to throw that away in order to win SC...which it looked like he was going to win anyway after Iowa.

6. The Clintons call for Obama to be vetted and the media does as told. Ask yourself, how many Clinton scandals have been brought up in the last year.... ... .... NONE. But every media source is jumping on the Rezko thing, even though it was fully covered last April-May. So any scandal about the Obama is brought up for news but nothing about Clinton. Last time I checked there are plenty of Clinton scandals. The media played into the Clintons hands. They just assume everyone already knows and remembers the Clinton scandals. People have short attention spans. All that anyone is thinking about are Obama scandals like the voting present or Rezko or even McClurkin(which I heard brought up on tv the other day.)

7. NV expectations game... Obama gets the Union endorsement. Everyone assumes he will win. He doesn't....thus Clinton has a "huge victory"

8. Bias in the post SC coverage (here is my prediction.... they are going to say that Obama's win will be nothing special because AA's voted for him(which insultingly the media just assumes that AA will vote for the AA) There of course was no downplaying Hillary's NV or NH wins due to large numbers of women voting for her.

9. The Clintons are making a big deal about the lack of delegates and about Obama running national ads that happen to play in FL. This is NOT about her trying to get the delegates. In all likely hood she will not need those delegates. What she wants is for EVERYONE to be talking about FL so that when she wins on Tuesday(I think because Obama and Edwards have not had a chance for the voters to get to know them...Hillary is well known and people will assume that she will be a third Clinton term)..anyway when she wins on tuesday EVERYONE will be talking about it. I ask you does anyone care about what happened in Iowa, NH, OR NV. Nope because right now it is only about SC... On Feb 5th the momentum will be from FL not SC.

10. John who? The Clintons can't use the same techniques against Edwards so they... don't talk about him. The media of course don't talk about him either. I can't make up my mind about which is worse...being ignored COMPLETELY or having the media play the public away from you.


So don't give me any of that crap about Obama getting favorable media treatment. :rant:

[Atman]

1. Being ignored completely is worse. "The Media" even admits it.

They just won't apply it Edwards. On KO last week his guest blamed a lack of media coverage for Rudy falling off the radar screen. Apparently, "you can't just disappear from the public eye and expect people to remember you on election day' or whatever the quote was, relating to Rudy's "Florida-only" strategy. But somehow, if the media DELIBERATELY ignores a candidate, the voters don't vote for him because he's simply not resonating. It's a total crock of shit the way Edwards is being treated, and that is the most fundamental reason why his is not getting votes. When was the last time you saw a news show feature Edwards' picture alongside Clinton's and Obama's? It's like he doesn't even exist.

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[mckeown1128]

2. I know. It isn't fair for Edwards. This is why they should...

ban polling. That way the media will not know who to ignore.

[kurth]

3. But the media has bandwidth to cover ALL FIVE GOP candidates

I rest my case.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. Oh it's deliberate and calculating on their part and the corprats don't care at all that

we are on to their sick and self-serving game. After all, we can't stop them and they know it.

[Zodiak]

6. Oh we can

but we won't.

We are cowards who honor the property rights of thieves who rob us blind. We offer them no consequences at all.

In any normal society, we would have yanked their licenses or burned their corporate headquarters down. Or at least thrown a brick through their windows while they do their stupid "morning shows". But instead we sit outside of their studios with signs hoping a camera will fall on us so we can wish cousin Bobby a happy birthday.

We are slaves and cowards. Our children's children will despise us.

[Atman]

8. Wish we could rec individual posts.

:thumbsup:

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[msongs]

5. O P R A H nt

[mckeown1128]

7. o...k...a...y.... nt