It’s super Tuesday.
Woo.
I wish I could say that I’m thrilled, but I can’t. So far all it is proving is what we already know. I’m tired of the tag lines. If I hear one more utterance regarding “change” one more time I think I’m going to catch fire.
However, there is one thing that has caught me off guard, and that is the blunt mainstream media sickness. They don’t even hide it any more. They’re sick and they’re flaunting it.
I have NBC’s super Tuesday coverage on the background as I am blogging, and I finally had to put down the computer and give their disease-riddled rhetoric my full attention. I wish I hadn’t, but I couldn’t look away. I would have had an easier time looking away from a flaming train wreck.
Iraq sucks. The economy sucks. Health care sucks. The job market sucks. etc etc etc.
All the while, they are singing the praises of Clinton and Obama while highlighting the squabbling in the GOP and the latest Rush fiasco. Oh no, there’s no agenda there. And they’re definitely neutral and objective in their reporting.
Uh huh. If I actually believed what the media tells me, I would think that the war in Iraq is lost and we are just floundering, the economy is nearing that of the great depression, nobody has a job, health care is out of reach of everybody except the elite few and that the only way to save us from ourselves is to throw our freedoms and rights upon the democrat altar and pray for salvation. Eh, let me rephrase that since the dems outlaw praying… throw yourselves upon the feet of the democrats and plead for salvation.
Do these “professionals” think that this is OK? This is worse than irresponsible politics.
I will be updating as the nights draws on…
Bad news sells. The worse the news, the bigger the sales, circulation, and viewers. It’s why the Lohan’s and Spear’s of the world get so much attention. Why do think talk truned from recession to “depression?” A recession is ho-hum. But a depression would be NEWS. That sort of thing brings in the readers, listeners, and viewers. It’s a cold calculated business decision.
Also remember, we’re in the era of “Cronkite journalism.” All the stuff that Edward R Murrow warned and railed against. It’s the use of the anchor chair as a bully pulpit. It’s advocacy in an attempt to influence the news (and in some cases create it), in order to sway the public to a particular result.
I’m with u my friend..cringing at every politicians latest talking point..ugh!
I sat through the PBS report w/ David Brooks et al. I’m currently trying to settle my abdominal muscles from the violent retching.Sweet dreams America the morrow brings sorrow methinks.
I am so sick and tired of hearing the Democrats and the media telling me how much America sucks. It really pisses me off. Every time I hear a candidate say they are going to get America back on the right path or some other bullshit along those lines I want to hit the television. And the media just plays along, it is so frustrating!
Update 1:
CBS is doing their best to break apart all of the numbers by race and gender. Why? Is it really that important to divide?
Furthermore:
CBS is not only blowing Ron Paul off completely, they are claiming that he has won no delegates to date. Really? According to reality, Paul has won six delegates.
As a side note:
Where is Huckabee coming from? I thought he was written off, now the media is fawning all over him as he wins or is projected to win various states.
Update 2
Apparently the media has decided to go on the offensive against Romney and is doing their best to tear him down and boost Huckabee. They are now claiming that Romney may be a Huckabee spoiler.
They are claiming that Romney has no reason to be optimistic now. Nice.
Lame Stream Media is doing what they do best – sleight of hand, smokescreen deployment and spirit crushing.
If they wanted to convince people that KFed = Sir Paul McCartney they would relentlessly hammer it out – like they tried with the anti surge.
The cool thing is – no one likes getting lectured too much – and – reverse psychology could very well come into play.
It better come into play soon, it’s starting to get late.
Damn, I just couldn’t keep watching last night, so I went to bed… But waking up, I had that sick feeling that McCain had cleaned house… And lo and behold! He did.
I still can’t believe that Huckabee did as well as he did, and I can’t help but to wonder what sort of damage he is really doing. Of course, the media’s predictions last night that Romney was just upsetting Huck’s campaign turned out to be wrong (surprise!) but the fact remains that Huck’s presence was purposeful. I would think that he is hamstringing Romney while suckling up to McCain hoping for a cabinet position of some sort…
The media are a bunch of morons who are hell-bent on steering things their way. Some day it would be nice to have some sort of objective, neutral news coverage… But I think we’re stuck in a tabloid media era, and the media is going to cater to that sick obsession of lusting for bad news and gossip.
Last night I went and cast my ballot. A record turnout was recorded at each polling place for each party. We all know about bias in the media, but while watching the coverage last night I realized that even here in small town Alaska, the media is no longer trying to hide it. The following quote would almost be funny if it wasn’t on the news…
“the turn out tonight at the democrat caucus was more than a thousand people more than their wildest dreams. Tonight more than 4500 voters swarmed their caucus locations blocking traffic for miles with waits of up to three hours to leave the area.(then there was about a two second pause….) The republicans also had about 12000 people show up tonight.”
Sadly, it looks like RP took second. I am not sure I really understand that. While waiting in line, more than 50% of the people I saw there had RP buttons and signs. I only saw 4 Romney signs and it looks like he took it. My hopes were really up for RP to take at least one state.
I guess I can take some solice in that at least McCain took last here.
I hear you, Ryan. And your words won’t fall on deaf ears.
The media was in the can with the Republicans to help shut out Romney, by boosting Huck.
Seems to me the “New Progressive Republican Party” is playing ball with the media these days, seeing as they both have the same agenda, which is the destruction of conservatism.
AM, I hope you’re right. I really do. I am really starting to lose heart in the media and their ability to do any good for the people or this country.
It would seem that they are almost 100% agenda driven – which is not “news” it is “opinion” yet they are not intellectually honest enough to admit that they are stating their opinions and not facts.
Ok…so I’m going to agree with media white-washing. Only because I’m in it and it disappoints me as well. But doesn’t the war suck, afterall? I mean in the sense that people die daily over there. And doesn’t the economy suck right now? If it didn’t why would Bush bother with the now in limbo rebate that won’t mean crap in the longrun. I dunno….
But I’m tired of the media hype of Obama and Hilary too. I’m curious about what the “real” republicans are doing and I don’t really hear much of that.