More 'Guess The Party' From The Politicized LSM

[Edgetho]

Yes, Virginia. It's about politics. It's about how the LSM has used the 1st Amendment as a shield to hide behind as it TOTALLY and COMPLETELY propagandizes for the democrat party.

Do they report some hard news? Sure; if it involves negatives against Republicans, positives for democrats, if it's Foreign News or if it's so big and so well known that they have no choice but to report on misbehaving democrats accurately.

But given the chance to skew the 'News' and do so subliminally (look it up, libturds) by reporting one misbehaving miscreant's party and not the other's....

They will. Every time.

Guess the Party
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While you're waiting for Dave's official Cavalcade of Elbows, you might want to check this out. This is more egregious than the usual Guess the Party situation.

As Newsbusters tells the tale, within the short space of 40 seconds, (MS)NBC's Brian Williams reported on two politicians caught up in scandal -- Tray Radel, the Florida Congressman who was busted with cocaine and who just resigned over that infraction, and former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, on trial for 21 counts of bribery in accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars for awarding city contracts to companies that bought his favor.

Within 40 seconds, these two stories were reported (briefly). The party affiliation of one of the men was reported, but not the other.

Can you guess the party which was prominently mentioned in this story, and which party went entirely unmentioned?

Spoiler Alert: Yes, you can guess. More specifically, you can guess with 100% accuracy.

For years, I have made this point: This persistent bias in reporting can be almost entirely cured by simply writing, into each news organization's style book, a directive as to when to report a misbehaving politician's partisan affiliation (always) and where in the story to do so (the headline, always).

There is one simple reason the media does not include such an unbiased rule in their stylebooks: They wish to be biased. To make an even-handed rule would limit their ability to do just what Brian Williams did last night -- to use their own partisan leanings to decide if they should note the political affiliation of a corrupt or embarrassing politician -- and they do not wish to be even-handed.

They want to keep on doing this, forever, and forever, and forever more.

By the way: Also note that Tray Radel's infraction can be characterized as "personal misbehavior" (a la Clinton) whereas Nagin's trespass -- bribery -- gets right to the heart of job performance, that is, his position within the political structure.

Thus, Nagin's misbehavior is more political and has more to do with actual political outcomes than Radel's, which is more personal, and has almost nothing to do with political issues our outcomes.

And yet, and yet. Brian Williams wanted you to know Radel is a Republican, and he wished desperately to make you forget that Nagin is a Democrat.

At the link, Newsbusters recounts some recent media refusals to label Democrats as such (for example, Bob Filner, the 20 year Congressman and progressive wingman to Nancy Pelosi, turns out to not belong to any political party, in the media's reportage at least). Video at the link too.

Via Instapundit

 

[occupied]

I think it's amusing when the right plays victim, like spoiled children complaining that their bed is too soft or their candy too sweet.

 

[Edgetho]

I think it's amusing when the right plays victim, like spoiled children complaining that their bed is too soft or their candy too sweet.

It's called 'observation', bitch.

You should try it sometime.

But why would you want to do that? You spend your entire waking life being told what to think by your Orwellian Masters in the Pop Culture LSM who are nothing more than the propaganda arm of the DNC.

Besides, you're too stupid to observe and understand. You have to be told what things mean.

 

[occupied]

I think it's amusing when the right plays victim, like spoiled children complaining that their bed is too soft or their candy too sweet.

It's called 'observation', bitch.

You should try it sometime.

But why would you want to do that? You spend your entire waking life being told what to think by your Orwellian Masters in the Pop Culture LSM who are nothing more than the propaganda arm of the DNC.

Besides, you're too stupid to observe and understand. You have to be told what things mean.

I don't watch TV news, and take a dim view of anyone who uses such a dubious source of information, why is anyone surprised when it sucks? You seem to think it is biased towards the left but the real answer is that it is biased towards bullshit and corporate profit.

 

[JakeStarkey]

More 'Guess The Party' From The Politicized Fox
which is the media arm of the GOP

tis what tis, Edge

 

[OriginalShroom]

More 'Guess The Party' From The Politicized Fox
which is the media arm of the GOP

tis what tis, Edge

Even Dan Rather says that line is pure bullshit.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Of course Fox is pure bullshit

 

[JakeStarkey]

Fox is the outlet that bought a Florida judge to say that the 1st Amendment protects their deliberate and false stories

 

[HenryBHough]

Of course Fox is pure bullshit

Yes, from your Democrat perspective, that surely is the case.

Yurt had it right but your denial blinds you to that sad reality.

 

[Clementine]

I think it's amusing when the right plays victim, like spoiled children complaining that their bed is too soft or their candy too sweet.

An organized plan between the White House and media to unfairly shape public opinion is not a mere inconvenience, as you would suggest.

The real reason liberals hate FOX is because they don't control them. FOX news reports on either party and mentions party affiliation for both. I've seen them report on Republicans just the same and they don't hold back on details that make them look bad. Only the talk shows, such as Hannity, are clearly bias and only an idiot would think that talk shows, like Hannity or even Maddow, are actually news. They are opinion. The liberal media and people like Katie Couric, who call themselves reporters, are nothing but propagandists for the left.

There are still a few people who watch CNN or MSNBC, believing that it's just ordinary reporters giving the facts on the events of the day. That is false. We have too many programs calling themselves news shows who barely mention anything that paints their party in a bad light. No wonder there are so many ignorant people who still don't know what the deal with Benghazi is or what NSA is doing.

 

[zeke]

I think it's amusing when the right plays victim, like spoiled children complaining that their bed is too soft or their candy too sweet.

An organized plan between the White House and media to unfairly shape public opinion is not a mere inconvenience, as you would suggest.

The real reason liberals hate FOX is because they don't control them. FOX news reports on either party and mentions party affiliation for both. I've seen them report on Republicans just the same and they don't hold back on details that make them look bad. Only the talk shows, such as Hannity, are clearly bias and only an idiot would think that talk shows, like Hannity or even Maddow, are actually news. They are opinion. The liberal media and people like Katie Couric, who call themselves reporters, are nothing but propagandists for the left.

There are still a few people who watch CNN or MSNBC, believing that it's just ordinary reporters giving the facts on the events of the day. That is false. We have too many programs calling themselves news shows who barely mention anything that paints their party in a bad light. No wonder there are so many ignorant people who still don't know what the deal with Benghazi is or what NSA is doing.

Well, isn't that the reason cons hate MSNBC and such. You don't control them.

But why do you all whine. Like you all like to say, open your own TV station. Right. Free market and all that shit. Open a couple of your own FOX's and quit fucking whining about the TV and media that you don't like and can't control.

The people that don't watch FOX and such are not voting Republican anyway.

So quit bitching and whining. Hear it all the time on here. The media's so mean. Big ole media meanies.

You all just need a FOX fix. Dial it in.

 

[occupied]

I think it's amusing when the right plays victim, like spoiled children complaining that their bed is too soft or their candy too sweet.

An organized plan between the White House and media to unfairly shape public opinion is not a mere inconvenience, as you would suggest.

The real reason liberals hate FOX is because they don't control them. FOX news reports on either party and mentions party affiliation for both. I've seen them report on Republicans just the same and they don't hold back on details that make them look bad. Only the talk shows, such as Hannity, are clearly bias and only an idiot would think that talk shows, like Hannity or even Maddow, are actually news. They are opinion. The liberal media and people like Katie Couric, who call themselves reporters, are nothing but propagandists for the left.

There are still a few people who watch CNN or MSNBC, believing that it's just ordinary reporters giving the facts on the events of the day. That is false. We have too many programs calling themselves news shows who barely mention anything that paints their party in a bad light. No wonder there are so many ignorant people who still don't know what the deal with Benghazi is or what NSA is doing.

There is another thread current right now that also deals with the news media where I have pretty much addressed what you are saying.

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/338346-the-perfection-of-propaganda.html

 

[blackhawk]

I think it's amusing to see Democrats whine whenever FOX reports on their lies, screw up's and scandals if you went strictly by MSM reporting you would swear there had never been a corrupt or scandalous Democratic politician in the last 30 years.

 

[KingOfCars]

I think it's amusing when the right plays victim, like spoiled children complaining that their bed is too soft or their candy too sweet.

An organized plan between the White House and media to unfairly shape public opinion is not a mere inconvenience, as you would suggest.

The real reason liberals hate FOX is because they don't control them. FOX news reports on either party and mentions party affiliation for both. I've seen them report on Republicans just the same and they don't hold back on details that make them look bad. Only the talk shows, such as Hannity, are clearly bias and only an idiot would think that talk shows, like Hannity or even Maddow, are actually news. They are opinion. The liberal media and people like Katie Couric, who call themselves reporters, are nothing but propagandists for the left.

There are still a few people who watch CNN or MSNBC, believing that it's just ordinary reporters giving the facts on the events of the day. That is false. We have too many programs calling themselves news shows who barely mention anything that paints their party in a bad light. No wonder there are so many ignorant people who still don't know what the deal with Benghazi is or what NSA is doing.

Well, isn't that the reason cons hate MSNBC and such. You don't control them.

But why do you all whine. Like you all like to say, open your own TV station. Right. Free market and all that shit. Open a couple of your own FOX's and quit fucking whining about the TV and media that you don't like and can't control.

The people that don't watch FOX and such are not voting Republican anyway.

So quit bitching and whining. Hear it all the time on here. The media's so mean. Big ole media meanies.

You all just need a FOX fix. Dial it in.

Actually, all the "cons" I know could care less about a station that draws 38 viewers per night.

 

[HenryBHough]

38?

No, make that 37.

One transgendered voted TWICE; once as a male and once as a female.

 

[Edgetho]

When people hear the term 'Main Stream Media' they immediately think of the Press. The News-Bearing, news-writing, Talking Head, New Yawk Slimes, Mag-Rag press.

Not so. The LSM consists of far, far more than that.

Singers, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers, Band Members, Copy Boys, Camera Men, etc, ad nauseum. And the one thing they love more than anything else in the World is -- Themselves.

They're all the same. They all (unfortunately) think the same...... Outside of a few; most notably in the Country Music Industry.

Actors and Actresses who announce their Conservative and/or Patriotic feelings are subject to being shunned and ridiculed. Unless, like Clint Eastwood, they're so powerful that they can't be hurt by leftist/socialist Hollywood.

Interesting Article...

I snipped a fair portion of it, but here's the link if you want to read it. I recommend it

Ed Driscoll » Pete Seeger?s Totalitarian Trifecta

[In] August 1939 Hitler and Stalin signed a pact and became allies. Overnight the communists took a 180-degree turn and became advocates of peace, arguing that Nazi Germany, which the USSR had opposed before 1939, was a benign power, and that the only threat to the world came from imperial Britain and FDR’s America, which was on the verge of fascism. Those who wanted to intervene against Hitler were servants of Republic Steel and the oil cartels.

Edge: Most of you, especially our completely stupid libturd pals, don't know that for the first Two Years of WWII, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were allies. The gas running through the Bombers over London and the Panzers rolling over France in 1940 came from the Soviet Union. Before that, when the Nazis invaded Poland from the West, the Soviets invaded Poland from the East just two weeks later.

But Hitler wasn't a socialist

Enough from me.

Given his lengthy career from shilling for the Hitler and Stalin non-aggression pact to dropping by Occupy Wall Street one night in 2011, Seeger was arguably “America’s Most Successful Communist,” as Howard Husock dubbed him in 2005 at City Journal:

It was no surprise last year when rock stars, led by Bruce Springsteen, barnstormed battleground states for John Kerry, and no surprise that, save for a handful of country singers, George W. Bush could count on no similar support from pop performers. After all, American music stars are overwhelmingly left-liberal, and often publicly so—from punk rockers Green Day, who recently recorded American Idiot, a “George W. Bush Rock Opera,” to Grammy-winning blues rocker Bonnie Raitt, who once dedicated an album to “the people of North Vietnam.” Asked why President Bush’s iPod featured songs by singers who’d campaigned against him, White House advisor Mark McKinnon dryly observed: “The fact is that any president who would limit themselves to pro-establishment musicians would have a pretty small collection.”

The conventional wisdom holds that it was ever so—that American popular musicians have always been leftists, and that music-as-radical-politics has stretched across the decades, expressing the nation’s social conscience. The late New Left chronicler Jack Newfield, for instance, celebrated a “native tradition of an alternative America” that included not just such openly activist musicians as Woody Guthrie but also apparently non-political singers like Hank Williams and Mahalia Jackson.

Yet this “native tradition” is a myth. Until quite recently, popular music’s prevailing spirit was apolitical: “It has a good beat, you can dance to it, I give it a 95,” as fifties teens gushed about new records on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. The politicization of American pop dates from the 1960s, but it grew out of a patient leftist political strategy that began in the mid-1930s with the Communist Party’s “Popular Front” effort to use popular culture to advance its cause.

One figure stands out in this enterprise: the now-86-year-old singer, songwriter, “folk music legend,” and onetime party stalwart, Pete Seeger. Given his decisive influence on the political direction of popular music, Seeger may have been the most effective American communist ever.

 

[zeke]

An organized plan between the White House and media to unfairly shape public opinion is not a mere inconvenience, as you would suggest.

The real reason liberals hate FOX is because they don't control them. FOX news reports on either party and mentions party affiliation for both. I've seen them report on Republicans just the same and they don't hold back on details that make them look bad. Only the talk shows, such as Hannity, are clearly bias and only an idiot would think that talk shows, like Hannity or even Maddow, are actually news. They are opinion. The liberal media and people like Katie Couric, who call themselves reporters, are nothing but propagandists for the left.

There are still a few people who watch CNN or MSNBC, believing that it's just ordinary reporters giving the facts on the events of the day. That is false. We have too many programs calling themselves news shows who barely mention anything that paints their party in a bad light. No wonder there are so many ignorant people who still don't know what the deal with Benghazi is or what NSA is doing.

Well, isn't that the reason cons hate MSNBC and such. You don't control them.

But why do you all whine. Like you all like to say, open your own TV station. Right. Free market and all that shit. Open a couple of your own FOX's and quit fucking whining about the TV and media that you don't like and can't control.

The people that don't watch FOX and such are not voting Republican anyway.

So quit bitching and whining. Hear it all the time on here. The media's so mean. Big ole media meanies.

You all just need a FOX fix. Dial it in.

Actually, all the "cons" I know could care less about a station that draws 38 viewers per night.

Then what is up with all the whining and bitching about the LSM. You all aren't watching it anyway. SO what is the problem?

 

[zeke]

Hey edgy. maybe one day you will figure out that the lies and bullshit being sold by the likes of you and your Republican brethren just don't have much appeal to the main stream people in the country.

The Republican line of shit has been going on for years. If anyone was buying it, it would have already been done and you Rethugs would be looking at holding the WH and Senate.

But that hasn't happened has it? Instead you rethugs are sucking hind tit and bitching and whining about how you aren't getting fed enough. LMAO. It is always the weaker dog that has to suck hind tit. And the rethugs can't get much weaker. But you all will try. Eventually you all will starve yourselves.

 

[Edgetho]

Hey edgy. maybe one day you will figure out that the lies and bullshit being sold by the likes of you and your Republican brethren just don't have much appeal to the main stream people in the country.

The Republican line of shit has been going on for years. If anyone was buying it, it would have already been done and you Rethugs would be looking at holding the WH and Senate.

But that hasn't happened has it? Instead you rethugs are sucking hind tit and bitching and whining about how you aren't getting fed enough. LMAO. It is always the weaker dog that has to suck hind tit. And the rethugs can't get much weaker. But you all will try. Eventually you all will starve yourselves.

Do you have anything to add other than the fact that you don't like being outed as an obamabot and a non-thinking product of our Pop Culture?

I take shots at you people all the time. But I usually back it up with HARD data. You don't. All you got is emotion and lies.

Yours is a failed ideology. Get over it. This administration will be remembered as the worst in American History.

And people like you are the reason why.