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How to cook up a juicy poll, AP style.

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:59:53 GMT

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we don't know if the differences between AP-CfK's Sept. 5-10 and Sept. 27-30 results were created deliberately, but the results sure look suspicious

The more recent poll shows Obama with a 7-point lead among likely voters, both with and without leaners; the earlier poll showed McCain with a 5-point lead with leaners, and 4 points without.

Almost all of this 12-point swing (11 points with leaners) is more than likely almost completely due to major differences between the two polls' samples:

"Somehow," the sample make-up changed from 33-31 Democrat to 40-29 Democrat from the earlier to the latter poll -- a shift of nine points.

After correcting for differences in the samples, almost all of Obama's double-digit pickup disappears, leaving McCain with four- and three-point leads without and with leaners, respectively.

Either AP isn't supervising its GfK cooks properly, or it's directing them to poison discussions of presidential race

Tags: ap, media, msm, bias, polls, politics, election

95 democrats voted against the bill

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:03:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Yet all we here is how it is the republican's fault. How the minority party in the house is responsible for the failure of a bill pushed by the majority even though quite a few of the minority voted for the bill. Pelosi couldn't (or more likely, wouldn't) reign in her own troops in support of the bill, so how is it the republicans are to blame?

Clip Source: ztruth.typepad.com

Nearly 100 Democrats in the House of Representatives voted against the financial bailout bill yesterday. Fifteen Democrats in California from the home state of the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, even voted against the bill.

Thirteen Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee voted against the bill, too! And seven Democrats on the Homeland Security Committee voted against the bill, including its chairman!

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., one of the main congressional negotiators, and chairman of the House Financial Services Committee failed to get his democratic team on his own banking committee on board with the bill!. Now that's telling.

Yet, all we hear the Democrats on TV do is to spew their partisan venom against the Republicans.

Final vote

Tags: pelosi, house, congress, housing, media, msm, bias, lies

Obama debate gaffes the MSM won't talk about.

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:01:24 GMT

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Clip Source: gatewaypundit.blogspot.com

1.) Barack Obama said he "immediately and forcefully" condemned Russia for invading Georgia.

Not true- Here's video proof--

[Video]

2.) Obama said Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger supported his plan to talk with rogue regime leaders without preconditions.

Kissinger responded immediately after the debate

3.) Obama said he supported offshore drilling

During the primary Obama was against offshore drilling

4.) Obama said he supported nuclear energy.

His preconditions make it impossible to expand nuclear energy at this time

5.) Last night Barack Obama said he was in favor of missile defense systems.

Not true- Here's video proof--

[Video]

6.) Barack Obama said "No soldier dies in vain."

in 2002

Nor should we allow those who would march off and pay the ultimate sacrifice, who would prove the full measure of devotion with their blood, to make such an awful sacrifice in vain.

7.) Barack Obama says he supports the middle class

Obama voted for increasing taxes on individuals earning as little as $31,850

Tags: obama, debate, election, politics, media, msm, bias

NYT all the news unfit to print

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:44:42 GMT

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Clip Source: gatewaypundit.blogspot.com

On its editorial page today The New York Times published a complete lie about Governor Sarah Palin from Alaska:
"Wasilla Watch: Sarah Palin and the Rape Kits"

The editorial attacks Sarah Palin for a complete fabrication (while it props up Joe Biden):

This is completely false.

** There is not one single record of the Wasilla police department charging any rape victim for an examination.

Not one.

The Finance Department searched all financial records on our system for fiscal year 2000, 2001 and 2002. There are no records of billings to or collections from rape victims or their insurance companies in our system.

Bob Owens discovered this and also reported that these rumors began at an obscure liberal blog written by a man in LA after Sarah Palin was chosen as the Republican VP candidate.

By the way... Joe Biden met with the Georgian leader today without the press and guess what?
-Not a peep from the liberal media.

Tags: nytimes, news, media, msm, bias, politics

Gibson interviews: Obama vs Palin

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:07:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.hillaryclintonforum.net

Obama interview:

How does it feel to break a glass ceiling?
How does it feel to "win"?
How does your family feel about your “winning” breaking a glass ceiling?
Who will be your VP?
Should you choose Hillary Clinton as VP?
Will you accept public finance?
What issues is your campaign about?
Will you visit Iraq?
Will you debate McCain at a town hall?

What did you think of your competitor’s [Clinton] speech?

Palin interview:

Do you have enough qualifications for the job you’re seeking? Specifically have you visited foreign countries and met foreign leaders?
Aren’t you conceited to be seeking this high level job?
Questions about foreign policy
-territorial integrity of Georgia
-allowing Georgia and Ukraine to be members of NATO
-NATO treaty
-Iranian nuclear threat
-what to do if Israel attacks Iran
-Al Qaeda motivations
-the Bush Doctrine
-attacking terrorists harbored by Pakistan

Is America fighting a holy war? [misquoted Palin]

Tags: gibson, obama, palin, interview, media, msm, abc, bias, politics

ABC's creative editing

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:59:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Without any major mistakes by Palin the media is reduced to using creative editing to try and make her look bad. It's like they have gone to the Michael Moore school of reporting.

Clip Source: elections.foxnews.com

Millions of TV viewers who watched ABC News’ interview with Sarah Palin Thursday night never saw her take issue with a key question in which she was asked if she believes that the U.S. military effort in Iraq is “a task that is from God.”

The exchange between Palin and ABC’s Charlie Gibson, in which she questioned the accuracy of the quote attributed to her, was edited out of the television broadcast

Gibson asked Palin: “You said recently in your old church, ‘Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.’ Are we fighting a Holy War?”

Palin’s response, which appears in the transcript but was edited out of the televised version

“You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote.”

“It’s exact words,” Gibson said.

The edited televised version included a partial clip of that quote, but not the whole thing.

A promo posted on Yahoo! News Friday continued to misrepresent the exchange

Tags: abc, msm, media, bias, palin, gibson, politics

What is "The Bush Doctorine"

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:59:49 GMT

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Clip Source: elections.foxnews.com

Charles Gibson, who is being credited with stumping Sarah Palin on the definition of the “Bush Doctrine,” has himself defined the nebulous phrase in a variety of ways, including one that mirrored Palin’s disputed explanation.

In 2001, Gibson himself defined it as “a promise that all terrorists organizations with global reach will be found, stopped and defeated.”

But when Palin tried to give a similar definition on Thursday, Gibson corrected her.

The term “Bush Doctrine” was first coined by columnist Charles Krauthammer three months before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11

“There is no single meaning of the Bush Doctrine,”

“In fact, there have been four distinct meanings

the one Charlie Gibson cited is not the one in common usage today

Gibson should of course have said in the first place what he understood the Bush Doctrine to be

Palin was well within bounds to have asked him to be more specific

the doctrine has no universally acknowledged single meaning

It was a bit of a sham on Gibson’s part

Tags: bush, palin, gibson, media, msm, bias, politics, election

Obama campaign expects media to bring down Palin for them

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:23:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I don't think it is from a lack of trying.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

By every indication, Mr. Obama’s aides underestimated the impact that Mr. McCain’s choice of Ms. Palin would have on the race. Mr. Obama and his campaign have seemed flummoxed in trying to figure out how to deal with her. His aides said they were looking to the news media to debunk the image of her as a blue-collar reformer, even as they argued that her power to help Mr. McCain was overstated.

Tags: obama, palin, media, msm, bias, politics

CNN's Roberts: How shoud WE respond to rep attacks on dems?

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:54:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: They aren't even pretending to be unbiased anymore.

Clip Source: minx.cc

CNN's John Roberts Asks Paul Begala: How Should "We" Respond to Republican Attacks on Democrats?

"We"?

Two possibilities:

1) John Roberts is asking what he, as a Democrat, must do to win.

2) John Roberts is actually just soliciting the media's marching orders from the DNC right on television now, without the discretion and pretense of doing it via email or at a bar.

Most likely possibility? Both, of course.

Tags: cnn, media, msm, bias, politics

Mark Penn: The media has lost credibility

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:47:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cbsnews.com

Howard Wolfson argued that you all unintentionally paved the way for Palin

the media may now be treating Sarah Palin with kid gloves. Do you agree with that?

Mark Penn: Well, no, I think the people themselves saw unfair media coverage of Senator Clinton.

I think that when you see them going through every single expense report that Governor Palin ever filed, if they don't do that for all four of the candidates, they're on very dangerous ground.

I think the media so far has been the biggest loser in this race.

all of the media is now being viewed as partisan in one way or another. And that is an unfortunate development.

So you think the media is being uniquely tough on Palin now?

I think that the media is doing the kinds of stories on Palin that they're not doing on the other candidates.

that's going to subject them to people concluding that they're giving her a tougher time.

This is an election in which the voters are going to decide for themselves. The media has lost credibility with them.

Tags: media, msm, bias, sexism, mccain, obama, palin, clinton, politics

The liberal media spin zone

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:21:25 GMT

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Clip Source: newsbusters.org

Headlines Offer an Alternate Liberal Reality

Agence France-Presse (AFP) took the plunge in reporting with this

Bush: 8,000 US troops to leave Iraq

Good news to most Americans

MSNBC continued their strong tradition of liberal bias

Bush to keep troop levels in Iraq for '08

But our friends at MSNBC weren’t content to stop there

Troops won't return on Bush's watch

The Times Online took it a step further

President Bush to maintain US troops in Iraq until almost last day in office

The AP’s headline refused to allow even a hint of good feelings about a troop drawdown

Bush keeping Iraq troop levels mostly steady

The BBC followed closely to the AP format:

Bush to announce troop reshuffle

The Washington Post continued the trend:

Bush to Keep Iraq Troop Levels Steady Until After He Leaves Office

I suspect that the bias won’t stop here. One could only be partially surprised if they were to wake up tomorrow morning to

Bush to Personally Allow the Death of US Troops Until February

Seriously, would anyone be shocked?

Tags: media, msm, bias, iraq, military, politics, war on terror, success

Palin's Nielsen ratings nearly match Obama's

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:51 GMT

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Clip Source: www.redstate.com

The Nielsen numbers are out, and wow, they are good. Sarah Palin's speech, despite being carried on only six channels compared to Obama's ten, despite the lack of a huge venue or months of hype, was viewed by only a million fewer people than Barack Obama's Speech o' the Century.

The Sara Palin speech generated 37.2 million viewers, just a 1.1 million viewers short of Barack Obama's record-breaking speech on Day 4 of the Democratic Convention. The Palin speech was carried on only six networks while the Obama speech was carried on ten (including BET, TV One, Univision and Telemundo).

Palin attracted a large female audience (19.5 million women, or 4.9 million more than Day 3 of the Democratic Convention).

Ratings for viewers 55+ (25.2) continue to be about ten times higher than for teens (2.2)

Day 3 for the GOP attracted more Hispanic viewers (1.4 million) than Day 3 of the Democratic Convention (1.2 million), even though Univision and Telemundo did not carry the speech.

Tags: palin, obama, tv, politics, media

Sexism and Sarah Palin

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:33:22 GMT

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Clip Source: womencount.org

It started Friday afternoon with John Roberts on CNN, and then in a slow build over the weekend it became clear what the leading sexist charge would be against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin: Is it appropriate for her to accept the vice presidential nomination given the magnitude of her current family responsibilities?

The obvious retort is whether anyone would ask the same question of the father of a four-month-old with Down Syndrome and a pregnant teenager. We think not.

The very notion that Sarah Palin should not have accepted this nomination because she is a mother with demanding challenges underscores just how far we have to go.

WomenCount was born of the passion its founders had for Hillary Clinton’s clear view of social issues and progressive values. We cannot pretend that Governor Palin meets any standard of progressive politics or social values.

But regardless of the candidates’ ideology, we will work to stamp out sexism when we see it on the campaign trail.

Tags: palin, women, election, politics, msm, media, bias, sexism

How out of touch is the mainstream media?

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:25:29 GMT

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Clip Source: newsbusters.org

Newsweek's Eleanor Clift disclosed on the McLaughlin Group

that John McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for VP was greeted by “literally laughter” in “very many newsrooms.”

ELEANOR CLIFT: This is not a serious choice. It makes it look like a made for TV movie. If the media reaction is anything, it's been literally laughter in many places across news-

JOHN McLAUGHLIN, TALKING OVER CLIFT: Where is that? See that?

CLIFT: In very, very many newsrooms.

MP3 clip

Clip Source: www.rasmussenreports.com

There have been significant changes in perception of John McCain in the two days of polling since he named Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Since then, 49% of Republicans voice a Very Favorable opinion of McCain. That’s up six percentage points from 43% just before the announcement. Also, 64% of unaffiliated voters now give positive reviews to McCain, up ten points since naming his running mate.

There has been little change in perceptions of Obama since his Thursday night speech and the Palin announcement

Tags: msm, media, bias, obama, mccain, palin, election, politics

Lou Dobbs: Media 'in the tank supporting the Obma candidacy"

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:28:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

HANK SHEINKOPF, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Good for democrats, not so good for the nation in the long term. Barack Obama is interesting, he's new, therefore he is news. OK. The fact that a black man can reach that pinnacle of success, raise the amount of money, run this kind of organization, beat Hillary Clinton is big news. At some point there has to be some fairness in the discussion. The problem here from the beginning is from day Obama showed up, I was wondering when the reporters will start chiseling his face on to Mt. Rushmore and the guy hadn't even won the nomination yet. That's the danger here, Lou. And people know it and they're not stupid. Average guy says wait a second, I want news and he isn't getting it.

Clip Source: newsbusters.org

LOU DOBBS

My colleagues in the national media are absolutely biased, in the tank supporting the Obama candidacy while claiming the mantle of objectivity.

Well, I think the way the national media in this country right is performing, is disgraceful.

"The Washington Post" has put Barack Obama on the front pages of the Washington Post three times as many times as Senator McCain.

"Time" magazine has run seven covers with Obama. McCain two.

I mean, this is not close, folks. And it is ugly. It is nasty. And I guarantee you, we are watching a shift in the way in which the media in this country, which is already reviled by the public, I believe it's going to be even worse.

When these news organizations are doing this and trying to pretend cloaking themselves in the mantle of objectivity, you know, they're silly, (trulish), absolutely in my opinion, despicable phonies.

Tags: dobbs, media, msm, bias, obama, campaign, politics