Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[Diomedes]

Robbing a gun store is not a smart plan.  Gun shop owners don't farg around.  Sticking up the local police precinct might actually be a better idea.

[Father Demon]

I voted early today, following through on my promise not to vote for McCain on Election Day.

In other news, I officially changed my party affiliation to "UNAFFILIATED" and did not support either Republican for U.S. Senator or Governor.

Suck on it, everyone.

That sounds about like what I'm doing, going Repub, Repub, and Dem for the Big 3.  I may change my party to Democrat just to mess with the polls like several others on here.  I think that was Dio's idea.

[shorebird]

Ya' know, even though I don't like either candidate too much and really don't agree with Obama's share the wealth stuff, because I don't think that making rich people less rich will make poor people less poor, having a black man elected to our highest office would go along way towards showing the rest of the world that we aren't the racist country that we are perceived to be, if thousands of white voters elect a black man.

But I'm sure that if he is elected, some neanderthal skinhead will try something stupid, and the rest of the world will look at that and think that one idiot is a reflection on the rest of our nation.

[Cerevant]

Over-the-top Media Bias FTW

I find it most amusing that this guy blasts the prevalence of opinion pieces with an opinion piece.

Regardless, he completely ignores the key point that Obama already suffered the attacks - a non-stop stream of negative press that persisted throughout the first two thirds of the primaries.  Anyone remember CNN being referred to as the "Clinton News Network"?  The media does have a bias: a bias for fresh meat.  McCain brought this on himself when he injected fresh meat (Palin) into the equation.  It was a calculated risk - he knew that all the attention would help his cause, and it did.  The problem is that she had more skeletons in her closet than he thought.  If he had picked someone who had already been through the wringer (any of the other candidates, Liberman, Ridge who had been through a senate confirmation, etc), there wouldn't have been this feeding frenzy.

I will agree that there are serious issues with media objectivity - objectivity works for 5PM news casts and one paper a day, but not for the internet and 24 hour news networks.  The whole process is broken, but I don't see how it is going to get fixed.

[Rome]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t101rO7WuAM

[Magical_Retard]

the author of the article lost me when it started going off about how the media was/is biased AGAINST Israel and cited the coverage of the Hezbollah/Israel war of two summers ago...claiming the media was only showing the destruction in Lebanon.

that point is so ridiculous. if anything critisizing Israel is off limits. in public. in private. in the media. in politics. YOU MUST LOVE ISRAEL for you to be a decent human being. EVERY media outlet refers to Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. no one ever claims any action of Israel to be even remotely similar to "terrorism". there is no media coverage of the illegal settlments in Palestinian territories. back to Lebanon...maybe the coverage was slanted because majority of the damage to infrastructure and civilians was in Lebanon. shocker i know.

think about this for a second. whenever a suicide bomber kills innocent Israels everyone in the media and in politics is up in arms claiming these terrorists are preventing the peace process. if only these terrorists would stop. then almost always you hit a lull in militant activity, like right now for example, and you do not hear of a terrorist attack/suicide bomber. you know what else you don't hear about? the continued illegal settlements. or the continued struggle. or the lack of a peace process. the only time the media remembers Palestine is when Palestine reminds them thru some horrific act. you see pictures of kids holding antisemitic signs. calling for the death of Jews. but how come you never see the picture of the Israeli kids holding up similar signs? or the pictures of Israeli kids signing missiles with phrases like "from Israel with love"?

because they don't exist? ha! the media is very biased FOR Israel.

the other example the author uses is Rev. Wright and Ayers. SERIOUSLY? these topics have been exhausted to death since the primaries. he wants the media to get interviews from these men. you cant force interviews and i am sure they are not going to grant one. in fact this is all mccains campaign is now. this is all that is discussed. its all that's been discussed since the primaries when the clintons brought it up.

now im not saying the media might not have some darling of their owns. no one source is completely without bias, asides from the AP or something. but enough of the liberal media bias crap. a lot of this mccain brought on himself when he picked palin.

[ATV]

"Fair and balanced, as always"...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SFu7NUekwM

You never, never, see "news" anchors on any of the major news outlets treating guests like this - Insulting them, talking over them. What a farging joke. Anybody who thinks this is legitimate news as a farging sad sack of steaming shtein.

[Magical_Retard]

This is what Media Bias looks like in FF's dream world...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neJAroXH4Mg

turns out this lady is the wife of some GOP consultant.

not only that but when mccain was on her show for a interview she just tossed softball questions to him.

on another hilarious note, tonights the daily show was hilarious. they sent one of their "correspondents" to a mccain palin rally. hilarity ensued.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Again, any examples NOT on Fox News?

Basically, Fox News is the one media outlet that is not in the bag for Obama, so we're going to keep posting every piece of buffoonery from them?  Neat.

[ice grillin you]

White people shouldn't be allowed to vote

It's for the good of the country and for those who're bitter for a reason and armed because they're scared.

Jonathan Valania


As a lifelong Caucasian, I am beginning to think the time has finally come to take the right to vote away from white people, at least until we come to our senses. Seriously, I just don't think we can be trusted to exercise it responsibly anymore.

I give you Exhibit A: The last eight years.

In 2000, Bush-Cheney stole the election, got us attacked, and then got us into two no-exit wars. Four years later, white people reelected them. Is not the repetition of the same behavior over and over again with the expectation of a different outcome the very definition of insanity? (It is, I looked it up.)

Exhibit B is any given Sarah Palin rally.

Exhibit C would be Ed Rendell and John Murtha, who in separate moments of on-the-record candor they would come to regret, pointing out that there are plenty of people in Pennsylvania who just cannot bring themselves to pull the lever for a black man - no matter what they tell pollsters.

These people are ruining things for the rest of us white people who are ready to move on. Sure, they have their reasons, chimerical though they may be: He's a Muslim. He's a terrorist. He's a Muslim terrorist. He's going to fire all the white people and give their jobs to blacks.

But those are just the little white lies these people allow themselves to be told, a self-induced cognitive dissonance that lets them avoid saying the unsayable: I cannot pull the lever for a black man.

Hey, some people just aren't ready yet, even the governor said so. Just like some people aren't ready yet for computers or setting the clock on the VCR.

Or, to hear Murtha tell it, some people - specifically some people in Western Pennsylvania - will never be ready. But the fact is, if you did a statewide head count of racists, you'd find just as many in eastern Pennsylvania as you would in the western part of the state.

That's why this ban on white people voting I'm proposing has got to be statewide. And I'm sorry to say, it's going to have to include all white people, even those who would vote for Obama, because you can't just let some white people vote. That would be unfair.

By this point, you either think I am joking or are calling me an elitist. I assure you I am neither. OK, maybe a little of both. But it wasn't always like this. I come from the Coal Belt, from that Alabamian hinterland between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, as per James Carville's famous formulation.

I am, in fact, just two generations out of the coal mines that blackened the lungs of my grandfather, leaving him disabled, despondent and, finally, dead at the ripe old age of 54.

So, understand that I am saying all this for the good of the country and, in fact, for the good of those hard-working white people that Hillary used to pander to.

I know those people, I come from them. They are not some shameful abstract demographic to be brushed under the rug of euphemism by Wolf Blitzer and his ilk.

I have broken kielbasa with those people. I went to school with their children. I have gone to Sunday Mass with a deer-hunter hangover with those people. They are bitter with good reason, and they are armed because they are scared. They mean well, but they are easily spooked.

I fear for what is to become of them after the campaigns leave town for the last time, and Scranton and Allentown and Carlisle go back to being the long dark chicken dance of the national soul they were before the media showed up.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

MSNBC is getting just as bad as Fox News, and people are starting to notice.

[SD_Eagle5]

MSNBC and to a lesser extent CNN both lean to the left, but Fox still leans further to the right then they do to the left. Foxnews wouldn't be as bad if they didn't reach so much.

[PhillyGirl]

MSNBC and to a lesser extent CNN both lean to the left, but Fox still leans further to the right then they do to the left. Foxnews wouldn't be as bad if they didn't insinuate Obama was a terrorist.

[ice grillin you]

the bias is def there with olberman he certainly doesnt hide it the difference is msnbc doesnt contain the outright hate that fox does


for example olbermann gives his worst persons in the world every night....last night he gave it to the kid who hung a palin mannequin from his house calling is despicable....meanwhile fox news is still calling obama hussien and a terrorist...not to mention almost on a daily basis throwing out thinly veiled racism when talking about him

[PhillyGirl]

Guess the GOP hadn't found a stoop low enough yet...


http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/adl-condemns-ug.html