Has POLITICO become a right wing site?

[dumpdabaggers]

I remember back during the 2008 campaign it seemed Politico was a left leaning site. Now a days it seems to be eager to publish anti Obama hit pieces, and they have just abot promoted the tea baggers.

Another so called "non partisan" site that seems to lean big right now is realclearpolitics.com, They exclude polls that seem more favorable to Democrats. Realclearpolitics loves Rasmussein. They seem to link mostly to right wing columnist, and tje "Liberals" are mostly DLC types.

[CreekDog]

1. They called Politico right wing from the start

:hi:

[LaydeeBug]

34. +1 nt

[glowing]

2. You are kidding right? You honestly don't know about Politico?

[dumpdabaggers]

3. Tell me about it.

NT

[Warren Stupidity]

21. here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Allbritton

p.s. it is called 'google'.

[Submariner]

4. POLITICO is known as a more sophisticated Drudge site

POLITICO and Drudge link stories for each other.

[dumpdabaggers]

5. I only began reading it in October of 08.

The polls there are always freeped, i know that.

[Frances]

6. Politico had a winner of the week during the 08 campaign

They awarded the prize to McCain one week when everything went well for Obama and not so well for McCain as I remember

[onehandle]

7. Politico, examiner.com, foxnews.com...

All right wing sites that pretend otherwise.

[11 Bravo]

13. FoxNews doesn't even pretend.

[Aramchek]

8. politiCON

[givemebackmycountry]

9. Become?

Become?

Another reason why I laugh at the occasional Tweety worship here on DU was the day "Politico" launched.
It was one of those days when Tweety was on during the morning and early afternoon shift and I don't recall what was going on that day that MSNBC was using him out of his normal time slot.

Tweety was popping in his trousers, effusive in his praise for "Politico" and gushing platitudes for that right wing hand job that runs the operation. Mike Allen?
WTF is his name, can't recall.

At the end of the segment Tweety damned near needed a wet wipe to clean himself, I swear.

"It's such a great thing" he said, and that "Politico" would "change news and make news" and I swear he had a tent in his pants.
Just like the foreplay session with Tom Delay, and the full on man on chimp love with Bush and his "flight-suit" codpiece.

Look, the next time a liberal left leaning so called "legitimate" news outlet launches please let me know, because the next time will be the first time.

ALL BROADCAST AND CABLE TELEVISION IS RIGHT WING, ALWAYS. NEVER IS THERE A DEVIATION TO THAT PREMISE.
And no, "Current" does not count.

Become?

[left coaster]

10. ..and if you pull my left leg, it plays 'Jingle Bells'... nt

[struggle4progress]

11. Politico and realclearpolitics have always been rightwing

[Arkana]

12. It was created by former Reagan groupies.

Of COURSE it's right-wing.

[Cha]

14. Really.. How frothing fantasy oriented

can you get?

[Warren Stupidity]

20. fantasy? You are clueless

Robert Allbritton, a noted conservative CEO<1><2>, is chairman and chief executive of Allbritton Communications, which owns television stations in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere, all affiliated with the Disney-owned ABC network. He is also the owner and founder of the Capitol Hill newspaper Politico, and was CEO of Riggs National Corporation, the parent of Riggs Naional Bank, from 2001 to 2005.<3>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Allbritton

[Cha]

32. I don't care how much money or

power they wield..the rwhacks sell fantasy.

[saltpoint]

15. I'd like a site something like that for news updates but not THAT site.

[Jennicut]

16. It was always a Rethug site, run by Rethugs.

Robert Allbritton, a noted conservative CEO, is chairman and chief executive of Allbritton Communications, which owns television stations in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere, all affiliated with the Disney-owned ABC network. He is also the owner and founder of the Capitol Hill newspaper Politico, and was CEO of Riggs National Corporation, the parent of Riggs Naional Bank, from 2001 to 2005.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Allbritton

Frederick J. Ryan Jr., former Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, and currently chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation, is president and CEO of Politico. The connections between Politico's leadership and conservative and Republican party establishment has led to accusations of conservative bias.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico_%28newspaper%29

For those that don't know, Real Clear Politics is also run and owned by conservatives.

[nmbluesky]

17. ReallY???

I always thought that Politico always be Right-Wing.. I can't remember if it was left-wing.. mmmm

[FrenchieCat]

18. FUCK POLITICO!

That's been my motto for a while.
I don't link to Politico, I don't go to Politico,
I don't read Politico, and I don't believe Politico.

In otherwords, I don't support Politico in anyway.

Oh...and FUCK POLITICO!

[Warren Stupidity]

19. No it was always a rightwing site funded by rightwing fucks

and staffed with rightwing fucktards with an explicit mission to provide a rightwing 'netroots' front for promoting rightwing fucktology.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

22. Ummm....I'm not sure what site you were reading doing 2008 but

It was always a right leaning site. I remember reading it for the first time back during the middle of the primaries without having heard anything about it previously and immediately discounting it as a serious source of journalism because of its clear right wing bias

[Dappleganger]

23. If you have to ask...

you need to take a good, long hard look at yourself.

[HCE1947]

24. Politico is a political tabloid akin to the National Enquirer

Politico was probably more balanced when they started, but in
the 2008 election, they definitely moved right. 

Once Obama entered office, Politico became a subsidiary of
Rupert Murdock. They deal more in sleaze than anything else. 

I removed them from my favorites in 2008.

RealClear Politics is the same. They at one time presented
balanced stories and data, but today, they lean more toward
the Tea Party fringe. I never read much there anyway, but I
did look. 

The only way to put a dent into these sites is to avoid them.
If people avoid them en masse, and make it clear that they are
doing so, then you might see a change. Do not bet on it.

[dionysus]

25. they've always been sleath RW, i guess they're just more open about it now.

[NJmaverick]

26. Politico is run by Republican operatives, so it's not becoming a right wing site

it always was a Republican site

[blm]

27. What EVER made you think Politico was anything BUT a RW, pro-fascist site? How long have you been

paying attention to politics and agenda journalism?

[dumpdabaggers]

28. In the last month before the election they seemed pretty pro Obama

Or they just saw the fact that McCain was done.

[blm]

29. And what about the previous years? BTW, everyone in DC knew Dem nominee would win 2008 and knew it

by fall of 2006.

So...when did you first take notice of Politico and how did you not notice it's RW bias till now?

[LoKnLoD]

30. Why do ya think...

They always get the scoops from the Dick Cheney when he crawls out from under his rock?

[mkultra]

31. become? has always been.

[rocktivity]

33. What you you mean "has"?

They came out of nowhere to co-sponsor the 2008 GOP debates, and Bush himself wished them well.

My personal nickname for them is "Politics' answer to TMZ."

Same thing with RealClearPolitics: loved their polling data, avoided their stories.

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rocktivity