Writing before Obama won the election, Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel of the Daily Caller contended that bias, dishonesty, and corruption were helping to undermine and destroy the liberal media. “The broadcast networks, the big daily newspapers, the newsweeklies—they’re done,” they said. “It’s only a matter of time, and everyone who works there knows it.”
Unfortunately, there is no evidence this is the case. Although liberal news outlets are losing viewers and readers, Obama’s victory has invigorated these news organizations and given them a new lease on life. They are more powerful than ever because they correctly predicted the race. They understood the nature of the electorate and how it had shifted in Obama’s favor. What they have achieved is something that the conservative media were striving for—a measure of credibility. It came not through their reporting, of course, but through their emphasis on polls and an understanding of how a progressive infrastructure, financed largely by George Soros, has assumed great importance for the Democratic Party machine.
Many in the liberal media are gloating that so many Fox News commentators were proven wrong in their predictions of a Romney victory. Not surprisingly, the conservative predictions of a Romney victory were mocked on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show.
By contrast, Nate Silver of The New York Times, one of the nation’s most prominent liberal outlets, has achieved enormous credibility, having correctly predicted Obama’s victory and the outcome in 50 out of 50 states. USA Today noted, “Silver had been under fire from Republicans for consistently putting Obama’s chance of winning in a range of 60-90 percent.” The FiveThirtyEight blogger turned out to be correct.
Bret Baier used his “Winners & Losers” segment on the Fox News Channel Special Report program to acknowledge that liberal or Democratic-leaning surveys and polls came out on top in predicting this year’s presidential election. He noted that a Fordham University study “credits the Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling (PPP) as the most accurate of the survey companies this year.” PPP also does a poll in partnership with the Daily Kos and the Services Employees International Union (SEIU), and it was second.
Rasmussen, one of the favorite polls of conservatives, was near the bottom of the list of the 28 polling organizations. Rasmussen had Romney leading Obama 49-48 percent on Election Day.
University of Colorado political science professors Kenneth Bickers and Michael Berry, who appeared on Fox News and talk radio, had projected an Electoral College landslide for Mitt Romney based on a model using economic factors such as unemployment data and changes in personal income. On the Fox Business website, Gerri Willis cited the prediction, noting that “Obama faces the headwinds of history. No President since FDR has been re-elected when unemployment is above 8 percent.” How many times did we hear that statistic mentioned in the context of the belief that Romney was destined to win?
“The model was wrong,” Bickers is now quoted as saying. Eric Gorski of the Denver Post reported, “Bickers said the Obama campaign managed to neutralize Romney’s ‘strengths on economic stewardship’—exit polls showed voters held similar views on each candidate’s ability to steer the economy—in part by shifting attention to issues such as immigration and women’s reproductive rights that play to Obama’s strengths.”
None of this negates the fact that Carlson and Patel were correct in their analysis of liberal media bias. They wrote, “Not in our lifetimes have so many in the press dropped the pretense of objectivity in order to help a political candidate. The media are rooting for Barack Obama. They’re not hiding it.” They went on to say that “many in the press are every bit as corrupt as conservatives have accused them of being,” but added, “The good news is, it’s almost over.”
It’s not over. Conservative use of flawed polling data has played into the hands of the liberal media. In order to recapture credibility in covering politics, the conservative media will have to acknowledge not only the bias on the other side, but the bias on their own.
A good start was made by Breitbart’s John Nolte, who wrote: “Mea culpa. We were dead wrong about the polls. Not only did the Real Clear Politics poll of polls end up being almost perfectly precise, but the most accurate pollster of the 2012 election cycle ended up being the Daily Kos’ Public Policy Polling (PPP). My guys, Gallup and Rasmussen, didn’t even make the top twenty.”
Real Clear Politics, an aggregator of polls, had Obama winning by 2.5 percent. The actual results were Obama 50.8 and Romney 48.3.
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Our Election process has been corrupted. I am not sure it will ever be honest again. they won by a lot of fraud. So Obummer is planning to be dictator forever
I pray for our Country after what the liberal media has done
The ayatollah barack hussein (I wish I could use my middle name)(muslim) obama has taught his followers and the lemmings well – lie and cheat and you will get everywhere. I suppose all the college kids that voted for him will also use his mantra when they write their exams LIE CHEAT AND STEAL – LIE CHEAT AND STEAL… I shudder to think what zealots and idiots the universities will be churning out in the next 4/5 years/
It sure would be nice if we actually had news programs. Now they are just entertainers selling liberal dribble.
Stories are breaking today that more votes were cast in areas in Florida and Ohio than there were registered voters. In Philly, 99% of the people voted and they ALL voted for Obama…REALLY????
Maybe the reason the far left sites were the most accurate is because they were in on “the fix” and knew by just how much the voting would be rigged. I don’t believe Romney really lost–I believe he was robbed and that the Communists are now in full control.. Welcome to Venezuela.
What do you want to bet that before his term is out there is some legislation introduced to remove the 2 term restriction so that the Dictator-in-Chief can rule FOREVER!!!
The two-term restriction is a Constitutional Amendment (#XXII.) Of course, Obama can simply ignore it as he ignores every other constitutional limitation on federal government authority, but the only legal way to extend presidential terms is by amending the Constitution.
THE BEST PART IS THAT THERE ARE MORE TRUE AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES THAN THERE ARE COMMUNISTS. TIME TO FIGHT !
Where were those American’s on Nov. 6th? I hear there are actually more like us then the other way around but it sure doesn’t look like that when we vote! Something wrong w/this picture
Obama didn’t win the election; he stole it. There is proof of voter fraud all over. Listen to these go to: http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/did-voter-fraud-swing-election and read Joseph Farah’s evidence of voter fraud. Go to: http://www.teaparty.org/florida-vote-twist-more-ballots-than-voters-15622 and read of evidence of fraud in Florida and how West’s team is “ready to go to war to get the recount, ” and they are not giving up. So, these liars and cheaters in our lying lamestream media should be ashamed of participating in massive voter fraud and lying to the American people. Before every fall comes PRIDE.
In addition to massive bias, the media is a party to fraud and treason. I can’t imagine giving even a minute measure of credibility to them. For an interesting view on their culpability, see the following article at Canada Free Press:
Rise of the Mediacracy – Oct 18, 2012 by Daniel Greenfield @ Canada Free Press
(Sorry, I tried to transfer the link, but it didn’t work.)
TV media having become the greater enemy of the people has been instrumental in character assassination of elected whistle blowers since their attack on Sen. Joe McCarthy fifty years ago and have yet to admit their mistake that has been made continuously more evident by Hollywood celebrity declarations and thirty years of state department corruption climaxing with Hillary’s buck stops here declaration.
Don’t expect anything less than boycott of all products and services advertised between the bits of misinformation and whitewash of their hero winners to change the content of TV media. They are subsidized by billionaires that determine the limits in neurotic treasonous agenda half truths.
Their advertising income base is dependent on the same audience that both pay for the ad expense added to consumer products and believe their misinformation. With so much political party and TV media fraud emerging, no complaint or election is necessary to adjust
their bottom line for correction of their misinformation.
No registration or permit is yet required to participate in such proven effective activity. It’s simple. You have the money and they want it. Watching their tripe to make a list of their adds makes the time both enjoyable and patriotically productive..
When it is all said and done, SEE WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO VOTE. NOW WE KNOW.
GET OUT AND VOTE EVERY TIME. IT MATTERS.
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE MORE OF THE SAME.
LAY OFFS AND MORE LAY OFFS.