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Liberal Bias Central to
Obama Media Edge

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin

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Posted By:Dreadnought, 2/19/2013 9:30:41 PM

Politico writers Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen are on to something with their feature published today about President Obama’s mastery of the mainstream media. Their conclusion that the president and his staff have broken new ground in manipulating journalists and shaping favorable coverage of the administration is so obvious that it is almost inarguable. As I have argued several times over the past four years, no president since John F. Kennedy has enjoyed the sort of advantage or lack of serious scrutiny that the president has received. Vandehei and Allen are right when they point out that the calculated leaks

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Anner40, 2/19/2013 9:34:23 PM     (No. 9185812)

They are so afraid of being called racist that they bend over backward to praise anything he does...be it right or wrong.....


Reply 2 - Posted by: 4Justice, 2/19/2013 9:46:14 PM     (No. 9185834)

Not liberal -- Leftist!


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: bwebb, 2/19/2013 11:46:26 PM     (No. 9185978)

Prior to the first election of Sen. Obama to President...it was obvious that the US media was overtly for Obama. Since then the US media has been acting more like a Obama PAC every day...except for Fox News. I watch Fox News most of the time since I am a moderate Republican and like Fox programs,hosts,and anchors. Yes...there is media bias and it is destructive.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Janjan, 2/20/2013 7:17:02 AM     (No. 9186227)

There is no media. There is a propoganda arm of the Democrat Party who think it is their duty to promote their leftist agenda, and there is the rest of us.


Reply 5 - Posted by: mulhaven, 2/20/2013 7:20:07 AM     (No. 9186234)

The DNC media goofs are what they are. They are people who have spent their lives in support and promotion of the ´Rat party. As I understand it, most of those in their position are people who failed out of some other course in college and finally ended up in "journalism". The saddest observation is that in the past 100 years there have been throngs of people who took them seriously.

I heard a fellow talking once who was a reporter in the thirties and who sent sent stories out of rooms set up for the press, and he never met another reporter during the whole of the depression who wasn´t a supporter of FDR. Can you say, "DNC media goof"?


Reply 6 - Posted by: Gretchen, 2/20/2013 7:33:36 AM     (No. 9186260)

And the hand-wringing is legion. Yet, the Right continues to play the game and abide by the rules that are designed to make them look like the idiots.


Reply 7 - Posted by: Arby, 2/20/2013 7:34:02 AM     (No. 9186263)

Part of it may be that prominent individuals (Walter Cronkite, e.g.) hid their bias much better than his counterparts today do. It also may be that we were systematically duped in the old days, with no Fox or electronic media to counter the lies, obfuscations and omissions. Either way, the current situation is appalling.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: rmagnus, 2/20/2013 8:06:20 AM     (No. 9186319)

This headline ranks up there with "Sun Source of Heat for Earth"


Reply 9 - Posted by: Felixcat, 2/20/2013 8:31:58 AM     (No. 9186369)

The first "Black" President propped up by a bunch of white, liberal/Leftists so called journalists. So typical for those of us who deal with the minority worker promoted way above his/her ability and then proppped up and defended by guilty while liberal managers.


Reply 10 - Posted by: dolphin, 2/20/2013 8:46:51 AM     (No. 9186399)

Duh.

Anybody got any ideas on what to do? No? Okay. Fine.


Reply 11 - Posted by: udanja99, 2/20/2013 8:47:31 AM     (No. 9186402)

If we cast our minds way back to late summer of 2008, Sean Hannity was saying then that the media was dead, that it had committed suicide by 0bama. It took the so-called journalists at Politico a presidential golf trip 5 years later to figure it out?


Reply 12 - Posted by: Vivi, 2/20/2013 8:58:57 AM     (No. 9186433)

It´s worse than mere bias. Watch Gregory´s grin fade and the camera cut away.


http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?feature=related&v=XqiOQOJ_U_Y


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: Me?Opinionated?Nah!, 2/20/2013 9:13:38 AM     (No. 9186462)

Powerful, Influential Media Giant, yet Somewhat Kiddingly Self-Acknowledged “Just a Simple Man” Bill O’Reilly, is world-famous for his many in-your-face facets. Not the least of his aspects is his frequently interrupting and brashly talking over people on his Factor TV program when he deems they are bloviating, reverting to talking points or simply drifting off topic. He doesn’t even hesitate to insult intelligent, accomplished, professional speakers such as Brit Hume, Laura Ingraham, Bernard Goldberg or even the esteemed Dr. Charles Krauthammer, just to cite a handful. Those people most assuredly deserve better than his offensive, impertinent rudeness. He deserves having his enormous, overinflated ego publically punctured with the nearest sharp implement. In his case, a pin would be most appropriate inasmuch as O’Reilly is also world-famous for frequently being fixated on the pejorative “pinhead.” Someday someone is bound to finally be afforded the opportunity to get a word in edgewise. Or perhaps not. By the way, when was the last time the liberal media reported, much less highlighted, an incident whereby a gun prevented a crime from taking place or saved an innocent life? I can’t remember. Can you?


Reply 14 - Posted by: mulhaven, 2/20/2013 9:17:54 AM     (No. 9186475)

Cronkite had success convincing the people that the Tet offensive was a loss, when in fact it was an overwhelming success.


Reply 15 - Posted by: J F Ackerman, 2/20/2013 9:31:14 AM     (No. 9186495)

Our Republic cannot survive without an adversarial press- that´s the point. What we call "the press" hates our Republic as much as Obama does. They are only too willing to be his vanguard of Orcs in our destruction. We´re Americans. They are not.


Reply 16 - Posted by: Clinger, 2/20/2013 9:44:02 AM     (No. 9186533)

It used to only be bias but that has morphed into media activism. When you photoshop and outright lie it´s more than bias. Let´s shift our lexicon from media bias to media activism, or someting better perhaps. Bias leaves room for them to be simply predisposed, wrong, rather than reflecting on intent which is abundantly evident.


Reply 17 - Posted by: chicodon, 2/20/2013 9:50:18 AM     (No. 9186546)

Occasionally the press steps up. Remember this fiasco over Obama´s phony Twitter Town Hall?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7gBrBcG3xk


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: congaree53, 2/20/2013 10:25:20 AM     (No. 9186642)

Too much whining for my taste. Reagan survived the media before alternative media and so did Nixon (insofar as he was re-elected) Since the dawn of Rush Limbaugh, we have lost 4 of the last 6 POTUS elections outright, and lost the popular vote in 5 of 6.


Reply 19 - Posted by: 49 Ford, 2/20/2013 10:51:25 AM     (No. 9186690)

That´s coincidence, #20, not cause & effect. And Nixon and Reagan faced very different electorates from what we have today. Even RR would have rough going trying to sway the ignorant, greedy and sybaritic mobs who seem to make up a small majority of today´s voters.


Reply 20 - Posted by: stablemoney, 2/20/2013 12:32:14 PM     (No. 9186879)

There are no subtleties such as liberal bias. The state run media are out and out democrat party advocates and propagandists.


Reply 21 - Posted by: joew9, 2/20/2013 1:42:06 PM     (No. 9186998)

Sadly, JFK still has not faced scrutiny even in history books. Based on that experience - most of us will be long dead before the main stream media faces up to what Obama has done wrong. And considering that the MSM still has not faced up to what FDR did wrong which turned a recession into a depression - I have to wonder if it will actually ever happen.

They say we are supposed to learn from history. But when history is written by those who made the mess and they wrote it to absolve themselves of any of the blame - there isn´t much left to learn from history.


Reply 22 - Posted by: redwhite&blue2, 2/20/2013 1:44:37 PM     (No. 9187005)

BUSH LIED PEOPLE DIED!!!
BUSH LIED PEOPLE DIED!!!


Oh wait, that was Obama and Clinton and Panetta who lied about Libya where four Americans died......

Never Mind! s/


Thats our hated ASS-PRESS in a nutshell.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: roger h. cook,MD, 2/20/2013 2:28:20 PM     (No. 9187127)

I just finished rereadinh In Te Garden of Beasts about our liberal ambassador to Germany from 1033 to about 1940.The stoty of hitlr worship and his and goebbles manipulating the press of Germany and the word. It sounds like what has happen to the MSM now ,howeverI dont think our press is mamanipulate it is their own communist thinking using Obama as an excuse ala Hitler.


Reply 24 - Posted by: knarfski, 2/20/2013 2:44:05 PM     (No. 9187165)

RE Bill O´Reilly: granted, his interview style is too often autocratic, even intimidating at times, but in a larger context his overall contributions to society may turn out to be outstanding.


Reply 25 - Posted by: rocco49, 2/20/2013 6:12:26 PM     (No. 9187623)

O´Reilly should be:

1)Dressed as a clown
2)Ignored
3)Made to work at NBC
4)Ridiculed Incessantly
5)Told to shut up forever

There thats a good start...now the same for Beckel, Williams, Powers, and all the other democrat rat "strategists" and guests who stink up that sorry excuse for conservatism, Fox News! Give us just one bleepin´ REAL conservative news station and watch it jump to NUMBER ONE instantly!!!


Reply 26 - Posted by: ArtieC, 2/20/2013 7:12:09 PM     (No. 9187685)

I don´t think it s fear of being called racist. The media shares Obama´s radical worldview that America is not exceptional and is in fact a country of second rate redneck racist murdering crackers and deserves to be punished in a world court.


Reply 27 - Posted by: Dodge Boy, 2/20/2013 9:27:20 PM     (No. 9187867)

Folks, it all starts with the indoctrination centers, also known as the public schools and colleges. Care to guess who runs them? When will we acknowledge this as part of the long-term plan to neutralize progressive-ism.


Reply 28 - Posted by: BaseballFan, 2/20/2013 9:35:13 PM     (No. 9187885)

Thank you, #2.
Anyone still calling it "liberal" is 100% clueless.


Reply 29 - Posted by: Ida Lil, 2/20/2013 11:25:03 PM     (No. 9188057)

and we all hold their future in our hands because we do not turn them off and tune them out they continue to exist.



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