Does the rightwing believe in the "liberal media" myth simply because...

[bedowin62]

I hope I am not just seeing what I want to see but I think there is a major shift happening in the major business media outlets. Business media has traditionally been Republican and would tend to feed from and back into the Republican ideology. Just as so many other people and institutions scratching their heads and wondering exactly what the Republican party is doing these days so is the business community, and the business media. Granted they not saying, "You know what? Liberals are great people too." But they finding the long term Republican strategy would actually be disastrous for business, large and small. This is not that dissimilar to what is happening with the Defense Department. The DoD does not want to be some monolithic behemoth of the world. They want to be able to do the job and keep their people safe and ready. Some greedy defense contractors want the first option. Same dynamic with business. For the most part people in the market don't care if the company has 1,000 or 100,000 people as long as the companies will make them money and are reliable. They don't want some monolithic behemoth of a corporation with makes one segment of the market filthy rich only to have the whole country go into recession when the too-big-to-fail fail. Ask someone on Wall Street if they like Sen. Warren they will probably say not particularly. Ask them if they think Sen. Warren is right and the answer would probably surprise a lot of Republicans.

There is one GIANT fallacy in your argument.
The Obama administration has been a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE friend to Wall Street...at the expense of the rest of the nation.
There has never been a corporatist President to the likes of the current one.

When you sleep at night I imagine you wake up every half hour or so, yell, "OBAMA!", roll over, and go back to sleep. Is that about right?

i guess you wake up every hour; face Mecca where your obama statue is and holler "CHANGE!!"?????

 

[Oldstyle]

What I find amusing is how Barack Obama's "strategy" for our economy has become massive amounts of quantitative easing to keep the markets artificially inflated...which of course makes the wealthy who were able to borrow the essentially "free" money to invest in the markets even more wealthy while doing nothing for the Middle Class or the poor...all the while complaining about "income inequality" an inequality that they have created and fostered. It's quite an amazing thing to watch...

 

[Stephanie]

You see folks, this is how the left/progressives/commie shut you down and stifle your FREEDOMS all for their AGENDA

they belittle you as stupid, ignorant, don't know what you see or feel, make UP all kinds of untrue and hateful stuff about you AND then spreads around, etc

Keep falling for it at your own peril...

 

[RandomVariable]

America Lost $10.2 Trillion Of Wealth In 2008 - Business Insider
John Carney
Feb. 3, 2009

You'll hear lots of talk about how recessions are caused because people feel poorer or irrationally react to a flood of bad economic news. But the truth is that these depressed feelings are rooted in reality. Americans don't just feel poorer, they are poorer:

U.S. homeowners lost a cumulative $3.3 trillion in home equity during 2008, according to a report from Zillow. (MortgageWire.)
One in six homeowners is now underwater on their mortgage.
The stock market erased $6.9 trillion in shareholder wealth in 2008.

Add together the loss of housing equity of $3.3 trillion and the stock market loss of $6.9 trillion, and you've got a historic loss of wealth of $10.2 trillion.

To put that number in perspective, it's almost one fifth of the GDP of the entire world. It's about the size of the US Debt at the end 2008, meaning we could have paid off the entire debt of our government with the money we lost last year.

Thankfully, past performance may not indicate future results. Maybe now that we've finally lost $10 trillion we're coming near the bottom. Fingers crossed, guys!

Read more: America Lost $10.2 Trillion Of Wealth In 2008 - Business Insider

As it says, yes, homeowners lost $3.9 trillion in home equity but the stock market also lost $6.9 trillion. A lot of traders and other people in the industry lost their shirt on that one. And who is standing in the way of rebuilding what was lost and keeping it from happening again? Wall Street might not want to admit what they know but they know.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

What I find amusing is how Barack Obama's "strategy" for our economy has become massive amounts of quantitative easing to keep the markets artificially inflated...which of course makes the wealthy who were able to borrow the essentially "free" money to invest in the markets even more wealthy while doing nothing for the Middle Class or the poor...all the while complaining about "income inequality" an inequality that they have created and fostered. It's quite an amazing thing to watch...

Exactly...under Obama the wealthy have never been better off.
Think about that.
Wall Street/central banks have enjoyed unprecedented prosperity in the middle of the 2nd worst economic downturn in our history. Three record years.
Top 7% wage earners have bathed in a wonderful 28% earnings increase!!!!!
The rest of us???? we have sucked on a 5% decrease.
Yet the liberals eat up the "unfair income" speeches that their dear leader spouts off like Sunday dinner.
You just can't make this stuff up.

 

[bedowin62]

THESE are the same LWNJs that thought it was a good idea to pass a 2000-page bill without reading it; insist that RECORD WELFARE AND FOOD STAMPS are "forward progress"
and who lie and make up rules about their trainwreck healthcare bill as they go along

 

[iamwhatiseem]

THESE are the same LWNJs that thought it was a good idea to pass a 2000-page bill without reading it; insist that RECORD WELFARE AND FOOD STAMPS are "forward progress"
and who lie and make up rules about their trainwreck healthcare bill as they go along

And who spouted off 3 million signups on ACA as a big success...when SO many of them are unpaid medicare signups.

 

[mudwhistle]

If anything, the "Liberal" media is too soft on Republicans

They have been bullied by Republicans whining......you are not FAIR to us. You only pick on REPUBLICANS

As a result, the media downplays Republican obstructionism, brinkmanship and outlandish rhetoric to make it seem like each party is equally at fault

Downplays it?

You mean censors it, don't you?

Look...Republicans act like assholes and have brought one branch of government to a halt. An objective media would be all over the party and demand accountability. Yet our "Liberal" media had downplayed the obstructive behavior of Republicans and blamed Congress as a whole

All in a sense of "fairness"

You are a product of media-bias.

 

[Stephanie]

Downplays it?

You mean censors it, don't you?

Look...Republicans act like assholes and have brought one branch of government to a halt. An objective media would be all over the party and demand accountability. Yet our "Liberal" media had downplayed the obstructive behavior of Republicans and blamed Congress as a whole

All in a sense of "fairness"

You are a product of media-bias.

he's a product of lies and hate the same as the OP

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Downplays it?

You mean censors it, don't you?

Look...Republicans act like assholes and have brought one branch of government to a halt. An objective media would be all over the party and demand accountability. Yet our "Liberal" media had downplayed the obstructive behavior of Republicans and blamed Congress as a whole

All in a sense of "fairness"

You are a product of media-bias.

You left out one word..."willing" product...

 

[Oldstyle]

America Lost $10.2 Trillion Of Wealth In 2008 - Business Insider
John Carney
Feb. 3, 2009

You'll hear lots of talk about how recessions are caused because people feel poorer or irrationally react to a flood of bad economic news. But the truth is that these depressed feelings are rooted in reality. Americans don't just feel poorer, they are poorer:

U.S. homeowners lost a cumulative $3.3 trillion in home equity during 2008, according to a report from Zillow. (MortgageWire.)
One in six homeowners is now underwater on their mortgage.
The stock market erased $6.9 trillion in shareholder wealth in 2008.

Add together the loss of housing equity of $3.3 trillion and the stock market loss of $6.9 trillion, and you've got a historic loss of wealth of $10.2 trillion.

To put that number in perspective, it's almost one fifth of the GDP of the entire world. It's about the size of the US Debt at the end 2008, meaning we could have paid off the entire debt of our government with the money we lost last year.

Thankfully, past performance may not indicate future results. Maybe now that we've finally lost $10 trillion we're coming near the bottom. Fingers crossed, guys!

Read more: America Lost $10.2 Trillion Of Wealth In 2008 - Business Insider

As it says, yes, homeowners lost $3.9 trillion in home equity but the stock market also lost $6.9 trillion. A lot of traders and other people in the industry lost their shirt on that one. And who is standing in the way of rebuilding what was lost and keeping it from happening again? Wall Street might not want to admit what they know but they know.

Give some thought to this, Random...what was lost? Both the housing market and the stock market were going through a "bubble" period where the value of both was far higher than it had any business being. When you have bubbles such as this it is inevitable that you are going to have corrections that occur. Yes, the housing market lost trillions in equity and the stock market lost trillions in equity as well but how much of that equity was simply an inflated value brought about by a bubble in the first place?

 

[natstew]

America Lost $10.2 Trillion Of Wealth In 2008 - Business Insider
John Carney
Feb. 3, 2009

You'll hear lots of talk about how recessions are caused because people feel poorer or irrationally react to a flood of bad economic news. But the truth is that these depressed feelings are rooted in reality. Americans don't just feel poorer, they are poorer:

U.S. homeowners lost a cumulative $3.3 trillion in home equity during 2008, according to a report from Zillow. (MortgageWire.)
One in six homeowners is now underwater on their mortgage.
The stock market erased $6.9 trillion in shareholder wealth in 2008.

Add together the loss of housing equity of $3.3 trillion and the stock market loss of $6.9 trillion, and you've got a historic loss of wealth of $10.2 trillion.

To put that number in perspective, it's almost one fifth of the GDP of the entire world. It's about the size of the US Debt at the end 2008, meaning we could have paid off the entire debt of our government with the money we lost last year.

Thankfully, past performance may not indicate future results. Maybe now that we've finally lost $10 trillion we're coming near the bottom. Fingers crossed, guys!

Read more: America Lost $10.2 Trillion Of Wealth In 2008 - Business Insider

As it says, yes, homeowners lost $3.9 trillion in home equity but the stock market also lost $6.9 trillion. A lot of traders and other people in the industry lost their shirt on that one. And who is standing in the way of rebuilding what was lost and keeping it from happening again? Wall Street might not want to admit what they know but they know.

Give some thought to this, Random...what was lost? Both the housing market and the stock market were going through a "bubble" period where the value of both was far higher than it had any business being. When you have bubbles such as this it is inevitable that you are going to have corrections that occur. Yes, the housing market lost trillions in equity and the stock market lost trillions in equity as well but how much of that equity was simply an inflated value brought about by a bubble in the first place?

Yes, and the bubbles were caused by Democrat Laws.

 

[whitehall]

How many conservatives are employed by ABC, NBC, PBS, CNN or MSNBC? Fox has liberals on all the time. The problem for the left is that they believe all the hate filled blogs and they become hysterical about a single fair and balanced network.

 

[Stephanie]

How many conservatives are employed by ABC, NBC, PBS, CNN or MSNBC? Fox has liberals on all the time. The problem for the left is that they believe all the hate filled blogs and they become hysterical about a single fair and balanced network.

yep, the left is brainwashed sheep who doesn't mind being led around by the nose from these leftwing hate sites (like mediamatters, thinkprogress, hufferpufferpost, Salon), I could go on and on

Many time people in the media have said they have a liberal slant and a lot of journalist donate only to the Democrat party

but hey, it's all your minds because you're all stupid

 

[edthecynic]

So left-wing losers dont want to admit the media is biased to the Dem Party and the Left overall?


what do you expect from people who call record welfare and food stamps "forward progress"?

Your own side has repeatedly pointed out "Liberal Bias" is merely a strategy.
I have posted several already in this thread, here is another:

"There is some strategy to it [bashing the 'liberal' media]. If you watch any great coach, what they try to do is 'work the refs.' Maybe the ref will cut you a little slack on the next one."
- Rich Bond, chair of the Republican Party, 1992

 

[mudwhistle]

So left-wing losers dont want to admit the media is biased to the Dem Party and the Left overall?


what do you expect from people who call record welfare and food stamps "forward progress"?

Your own side has repeatedly pointed out "Liberal Bias" is merely a strategy.
I have posted several already in this thread, here is another:

"There is some strategy to it [bashing the 'liberal' media]. If you watch any great coach, what they try to do is 'work the refs.' Maybe the ref will cut you a little slack on the next one."
- Rich Bond, chair of the Republican Party, 1992

He must be as clueless as you are.

 

[mudwhistle]

How many conservatives are employed by ABC, NBC, PBS, CNN or MSNBC? Fox has liberals on all the time. The problem for the left is that they believe all the hate filled blogs and they become hysterical about a single fair and balanced network.

Bill O'Reilly is a damned liberal that used to work for the mainstream. He's from New York, went to Harvard. The left is so far left they call him a con now.

 

[rightwinger]

So left-wing losers dont want to admit the media is biased to the Dem Party and the Left overall?


what do you expect from people who call record welfare and food stamps "forward progress"?

Your own side has repeatedly pointed out "Liberal Bias" is merely a strategy.
I have posted several already in this thread, here is another:

"There is some strategy to it [bashing the 'liberal' media]. If you watch any great coach, what they try to do is 'work the refs.' Maybe the ref will cut you a little slack on the next one."
- Rich Bond, chair of the Republican Party, 1992

That is exactly what the media lets republicans do

Republicans bitch about every call and eventually the media stops calling fouls

 

[rightwinger]

How many conservatives are employed by ABC, NBC, PBS, CNN or MSNBC? Fox has liberals on all the time. The problem for the left is that they believe all the hate filled blogs and they become hysterical about a single fair and balanced network.

None

There are also no liberals employed. They hire journalists and hold them to strict journalistic standards. Something FoxNews never does

 

[Stephanie]

Links and video at site

SNIP:
Top CBS, ABC, CNN execs all have relatives working as advisors for White House


posted at 5:31 pm on May 13, 2013 by Allahpundit





Not just any execs and not just any advisors, either. Watch as Ric Grenell floats a possible explanation for some of the Benghazi coverage, especially vis-a-vis rumors that CBS is unhappy with Sharyl Attkisson’s dogged reporting . Would the media reaction really be different without the sibling/spouse conflicts of interest, though? Half of me thinks the blood ties between the White House and media VIPs deserve lots of publicity and half of me thinks that publicizing it inadvertently lets them off the hook. They’re not in the tank out of family loyalty, they’re in the tank out of ideological loyalty. Replace the leadership at CBS, ABC, and CNN and you’ll get the same results. But Grenell’s not arguing to the contrary: The point here is simply to show that our government leadership and our media leadership are so chummy that, not infrequently, they’ve literally lived in the same house. It’s an especially vivid illustration of a wider problem.

And that problem can be pretty darned wide .


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