PROOF of media bias in Clinton/Obama matchup!!!

[gcomeau]

Courtesy of my time machine, that allowed me to go back to February 13th and retrieve this footage (
The relevant coverage begins 1:10 into the clip... and the really instructive part starts at 2:20):

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=156701&title=potomac-primaries

I decided to undertake this quest after being inspired to look into the matter by the other thing Hillary said yesterday.

HRC: People have been trying to push me out of this ever since Iowa.

Q: Why?

HRC: I don’t know. I don’t know. I find it curious. Because it is unprecedented in history. I don’t understand it. Between my opponent and his camp and some in the media there has been this urgency to end this. And historically, that makes no sense. So I find it a bit of a mystery.

As you can see, Jon Stewart, back on February 13th, did an excellent job of illustrating the media's bias on this subject. Unfortunately it seems that it has worked in the opposite direction, with the media constantly playing up her chances in the contest and portraying it as a neck and neck race which anyone could win and insisting she was NOT out of the running even while she was racking up a long string of unbroken primary losses, many by landside margins... and we all know how this trend continued through Ohio, and Texas, and Pennsylvania... and all the way until North Carolina and Indiana when the camel's back finally snapped.

As for "her opponent" trying to convey some "urgency to end this"... WHERE and WHEN? EVERY SINGLE statement I have ever seen out of Obama OR his campaign staff has, clearly and without fail, stressed that Hillary is entitled to continue running as long as she wants.

I find this almost as despicable as that other thing that happened yesterday, for one simple reason. This argument that she is now making, trying to tell her supporters and the rest of the country that the Obama campaign and the media have been behaving unfairly to her through the whole campaign and oh she's a poor victim, combined with her ridiculous attempts to continue to tell the voters in Florida and Michigan that the Democratic party and Obama are trying to disenfranchise them when she knows damn well that isn't true, is designed to accomplish one primary objective, and that's to paint Obama's now inevitable victory as somehow illegitimate. This is not a tactic that is in any way designed to somehow give her the nomination, even seating those delegations would NOt accomplish that at this point and we all know it. This is a tactic purely designed to undermine support and enthusiasm for Obama's candidacy going forward into the GE and to throw up a roadblock between Obama and the Clinton supporters and Florida and Michigan voters he needs to being into his camp to win that race, and there are no two ways about it. And I don't buy for one single second that she doesn't know that that's the main effect of these statements.

[chknltl]

1. Well said

I wondered about the media bias FOR Senator Clinton's run as well. I figure that it is two-fold: It is great for their ratings and secondly the mainstream media is corporatist owned.

The corporatists have been caught unprepared when it comes to Senator Obama. They wanted a head to head between Senator Clinton and Senator mCcain because of the three, Senator Obama has the LEAST amount of corporatist ties.
KnR

[still_one]

2. Obama OR his campaign have NEVER said Hillary should drop out

However, what I have observed is how each candidate reacts under stress

[Captain Hilts]

6. True. The Obama campaign has not. The media has been beating that drum since February. nt

[gcomeau]

7. Someone didn't watch the video in the OP.

The media had been doing the exact opposite in February. They were repeating over, and over, and over... that this was a neck and neck race. That you couldn't count Clinton out. That this or that occurrence in an upcoming primary could swing the momentum back in her favor. They did it through February. They did it leading into Ohio and Texas. They did it for the next six weeks waiting for PA. And they continued to do it until North Carolina and Indiana finally made it so painfully obvious that she couldn't win that they simply could not continue saying otherwise.

This new "oh poor Hillary the media has been trying to get her to quit the whole campaign!" is a pure load of crap. Total fabrication. The media had been propping up the public perception that her campaign was still had a realistic chance of success for WEEKS when it didn't have that chance.

[Cha]

3. "Push" her out? What is she?...a Fucking Victim?

What The Fuck? She Pushed herself out with her Vile gin hole.

[boobooday]

4. I lost count of the "you can't count her out"s

The media didn't stop with it until the evening of NC/Indiana, and then they went right back there after WV.

[stellanoir]

5. The corporate media has been shoving Hillary's inevitability

down our throats since the midterms.

They never counted on an Obama emerging.

She screwed up universal health care, was in favor of NAFTA, backed welfare "reform" putting women and kids at tremendous risk, voted for the Patriot Act, the Bankruptcy Bill, IWR, the Kyle/Liebermann Act, has lead a hideous campaign surrounding herself with power mongering, disingenuous supplicants, and is horrifically in debt.

Some experience. Sure.

She's also lied repeatedly and said some ridiculously and unbelievably tasteless things.

[anigbrowl]

8. Well that would make her the obvious choice to take over when Bush leaves office.

[grantcart]

9. How did your remember that? great point here are a few more examples

here are some fluff pieces that were in the print media as they were getting ready to crown her.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/grantcart/55

[LTR]

10. All last year, the media has been cramming Hillary down our throats

Her and Obama both.

Forget Biden, Richardson, et al. It was all about HILLARY and (obama). That's one reason why I initially supported Edwards, because I didn't want the media to tell me who to vote for.

Hillary owes her entire candidacy to the media. Without them propping her up, she'd be Elizabeth Dole circa 2000 - a 'who gives a shit?' factor.