Media shows bias in NY 23
The New York Times editorial page is a perfect weather vane for the way the liberal media’s hot air is blowing. In an October 26 editorial called “Torching the Big Tent,” they lamented: “The feeble pulse of moderation in the Republican Party is in danger of flat-lining in the Nov. 3 Congressional election in upstate New York.”
Media’s treatment of Hoffman and the GOP has been despicably biased
The feeble “moderate” the Times was backing for Congress was Dede Scozzafava – pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-union power, pro-tax hike. The Times found these positions to be proof of “refreshing tinges of centrism.” The Times lectured the conservative movement to embrace this candidacy, since “creative ideas and candidates, not right-wing zeal, are the obvious way to get back in the game of democracy.”
Any New Yorker foolish enough to follow the political advice of The New York Times deserves what he gets.
What if the Times portrayed this battle for the 23rd District of New York the opposite way? What if the surging campaign of conservative Doug Hoffman was portrayed as “Revenge of the Irate Moderates?” Liberals would rub their eyes in utter disbelief. But just three years ago, the Times editorial page was using those exact words to describe the hard-left forces behind Ned Lamont, who upset moderate Democrat Sen. Joe Lieberman in the primary, only to lose to him in the general election.
The idea that Ned Lamont was a leftist was downright ludicrous to the Times. Lieberman “tried to depict Mr. Lamont and his backers as wild-eyed radicals who want to punish the senator for working with Republicans and to force the Democratic Party into a disastrous turn toward extremism. It’s hard to imagine Connecticut, which likes to be called the Land of Steady Habits, as an encampment of left-wing isolationists, and it’s hard to imagine Mr. Lamont, who worked happily with the Republicans in Greenwich politics, leading that kind of revolution.”
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Why do Republicans call the media "liberal" when the media is mostly owned by Republicans? I never get that. Is Fox liberal? Limbaugh? Any of the thousands of stations that carry him? The Wall Street Journal?
If the media were truly liberal, George W. Bush would have been in prison years ago for war crimes that the media would have actually reported, rather than what they did, which was to ignore them.
DOUG, I PRAY YOU WIN THIS ELECTION AND WILL BE TRUTHFUL ,HAVE COMMON SENSE AND WORK WITH " :WE THE PEOPLE" WHO NEED HELP,HELP,AND NO COMMUNIST OR MARXISTS COUNTRY. HELP TAKE THIS COUNTRY BACK-PLEASE!!
SINCE WHEN DOES THE MEDIA HAVE THE POWER TO DETERMINE WHO WILL BE IN CONTROL OF & LEAD THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THEIR OUTRIGHT BIAS TO THE LEFT FRIGHTENING & UNBELIEVABLE….THIS IS NOT THEIR FUNCTION, WHICH IS TO REPORT THE NEWS, NOT TO SLANT THE NEWS IN ONE DIRECTION OR THE OTHER. I FEAR THAT THEY ARE BEING CONTROLLED BY & DIRECTED BY THE WRONG PEOPLE.
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. WE MUST KEEP IT FREE & UNBIASED. CAN ANYONE, PLEASE, TELL ME WHO ARE IN COMPLETE CONTROL THE AMERICAN MEDIA, & HOW DID THIS CIME ABOUT???
I THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE BRAINWASHED BY THE MEDIA AND THE MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE.PEOPLE SHOULD WAKE UP AND SEE THROUGH THE FALSE AND DANGEROUS MOVIE THE DEMOCRATS PLAYING
It's called propaganda:
Any systematic,widespread dissemination or promotion of particular ideas,doctrines,practices,etc. to further one's own cause or to damage an opposing one.
Ideas,doctrines,or allegations so spread: now often used disparagingly to connote deception or distrortion.
Webster's New World Dictionary-Third College Edition.
Call the Media what it is..Oboma's Propaganda Machine.
To Britney: So sorry you have been brainwashed by the Oboma's Propaganada Machine dear… you need to think for yourself!