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Wave goodbye to
the Obama media

Daily Caller, by Tucker Carlson & Neil Patel

Original Article

Posted By:StormCnter, 11/5/2012 5:40:11 AM

By tomorrow night we’ll likely know the name of the next president. But we already know the loser in this election cycle: political reporters. They’ve disgraced themselves. Conservatives have long complained about liberal bias in the media, and with some justification. But it has finally reached the tipping point. 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. Consider Benghazi. An American consulate is destroyed and a US ambassador murdered at a time when the president

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: beca, 11/5/2012 5:41:20 AM     (No. 8988611)

couldnt agree more........good bye


Reply 2 - Posted by: miceal, 11/5/2012 5:43:10 AM     (No. 8988614)

I just hope President Romney remembers how he was treated and by whom when his NEW Press Secretary assigns the seats.....


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: javaboy, 11/5/2012 5:48:34 AM     (No. 8988621)

And you, corrupt media, I think I'll miss you least of all....


Reply 4 - Posted by: uno, 11/5/2012 6:02:00 AM     (No. 8988629)

Haven't watched the alphabet news since they tried to stonewall the Lewinsky scandal by discrediting Drudge and haven't subscribed to a newspaper in decades. Haven't missed them and won't miss them. May their revenues fade away to nothing!


Reply 5 - Posted by: Malia2012, 11/5/2012 6:12:46 AM     (No. 8988638)

This column in the Daily Caller speaks for most thinking Americans. The corrupt-leftist-media is beyond contempt. They make a mockery out of "freedom of the press" by propping up with their lies, the most anti-American "president" in the history of this Country. Sickening.


Reply 6 - Posted by: lonestarm3, 11/5/2012 6:15:05 AM     (No. 8988640)

MSM (or as Sarah Palin says, LSM) journalism is dead.

It does not even deserve a respectful burial.


Reply 7 - Posted by: pineledger, 11/5/2012 6:32:18 AM     (No. 8988658)

Depends on who wins.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: ocjim, 11/5/2012 6:35:38 AM     (No. 8988660)

There are a handful of good old fashioned news professionals in the otherwise corrupt news media like Jake Tapper and Sheryl Attkisson. I just don't understand how/why they remain there among all those Brian Williams' and George Streptococci.


Reply 9 - Posted by: Bjnealeigh, 11/5/2012 6:39:54 AM     (No. 8988667)

I have said all along that the stimulus money paid off the media. They have very few viewers and very few subscriptions to the newspaper. How are they staying afloat otherwise? Obama gave them stimulus money. Thus, Obama news all the time. They are so corrupt, all of them. I never watch the networks for anything. We don't take the newspaper. However, I am very informed. I get my news from the Internet. I know I am not alone in this. Obama is a liar and a thief.


Reply 10 - Posted by: Deedo, 11/5/2012 6:41:30 AM     (No. 8988671)

Due to the coming election, I watched the Sunday news programs on the alphabet networks. Typical panels were 4 or 5 to 1 in favor of liberals. Plus, they asked the liberals each to speak first and then gave the token conservative a few moments to counter. The libs were all in happy, smug agreement that Obama and all the Democrat senate candidates were shoe-ins to win.


Reply 11 - Posted by: Rather Read, 11/5/2012 6:45:49 AM     (No. 8988677)

I can't help but wonder what the late Tim Russert would have thought of all this. He was a good newsman, and an honorable liberal. Sharyl Atkinson and Jake Tapper are sadly, the exception. Reporters who try to find out the truth.


Reply 12 - Posted by: OhMy, 11/5/2012 7:00:53 AM     (No. 8988696)

I have trouble believing as so many are saying that this election is close but even if it is a landslide for Romney it is still downright scary that Obama will get even 40% of the vote. There are legions of citizens who don't know anything about what is going on and will believe the outright lies Obama and his media hacks tell. The corrupt propagandistic media has succeeded in making a pack of lies believed. They may have a setback but they will keep trying.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: Judith, 11/5/2012 7:01:53 AM     (No. 8988698)

The corrupt media will still be there on November 7. They will either be propping up the obama regime or trying to destroy the incoming Romney. And NOTHING will have changed in that arena. It is not as though the media serve the people or truth and they are really never held accountable.


Reply 14 - Posted by: kate3513, 11/5/2012 7:04:15 AM     (No. 8988704)

ABC, NBC, CBS, have no place in my home and haven't in three years. No newspaper darkens my door. I search for my news on the Internet. I can find the truth there with little effort. FOX NEws is the only channel I watch on TV. Now somehow we need to find a way to enable those who are not able to afford additional channels to be able to have Fox News in their homes . Part of the reason we are in this situation is a huge number of Americans only news source is the MSM. They have had no balance to help them make wise decisions. Goodbye with no regrets!


Reply 15 - Posted by: leopardtwo, 11/5/2012 7:08:53 AM     (No. 8988706)

Always remember the trashing of President Bush, VP Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Rush Limbaugh, Governor Palin, George Allen of VA, etc., at the hands of the leftist media.


Reply 16 - Posted by: planetgeo, 11/5/2012 7:21:01 AM     (No. 8988718)

Unfortunately, the corrupt media are like viruses. You can never really get rid if them. They just keep hanging on even though you try to starve them out of existence by dropping your subscription or never watching their channel. Somehow they eke out an existence and then go into full eruption when a Republican gets elected.

I guarantee that once President Romney is in office, their curiosity and their investigative interest will once again be rediscovered.


Reply 17 - Posted by: TheOwl, 11/5/2012 7:22:11 AM     (No. 8988719)

# 2 - I wouldn't hold my breathe on that. As far as settling scores goes - I'm just afraid that if the powers that be FINALLY go after Obama over Benghazi - that the new president will pardon his actions.

Don't worry. Of course I'm voting for him - Romney that is. But I'm bracing for a white wash assisted by Romney of the Obama years. In the name of "let's move on" of course.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: ocjim, 11/5/2012 7:25:48 AM     (No. 8988725)

#15, Add 2010 California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman to your list.


Reply 19 - Posted by: Nevadadad46, 11/5/2012 7:27:19 AM     (No. 8988730)

IMO. the left media have destroyed themselves on the altar of socialism and elite-ism. Who reads that junk anymore? The hardcore ex-hippie Maoist? A minority to be respected for its tenacity. But, like once dangerous Spartans in the Roman era, they are really not taken seriously anymore. We watch people like bob Beckle and Juan Willams make complete fools of themselves every week trying to justify the implausible positions of their lords like the hollow shirt Øbama. No normal thinking individual could possibly swallow their arguments as plausible or logical in any sense. Yet, the media keep right on selling those invisible beans.


Reply 20 - Posted by: pedant_von_knowitall, 11/5/2012 7:28:23 AM     (No. 8988733)

I don't know, the obama media may have succeeded in reelecting the son of an obama.


Reply 21 - Posted by: Patchy Groundfog, 11/5/2012 7:30:42 AM     (No. 8988739)

The framers of the Constitution specifically mentioned freedom of the press because it never occurred to them that the press would become a propaganda arm of the government; such a condition was simply outside their collective experience. They believed a free press would act as a watchdog and bark at laws and actions that violated the Constitution.

The watchdog is now a lapdog and a rabid one at that, snarling and foaming at the mouth at anyone who questions the imposition of undiluted socialism.


Reply 22 - Posted by: Janjan, 11/5/2012 7:39:23 AM     (No. 8988749)

The mainstream media have become largely irrelevant and if Romney wins they will be toast. Not because Romney will punish them (he won't), but because they will be left with the realization that they couldn't pull it off.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: enuf8, 11/5/2012 7:45:09 AM     (No. 8988759)

One would think anyone considering themselves a journalist or TV news reader might have a bit of intelligence or exhibit a bit of common sense, but this is not the case. The media IMO has always been center left, but during the Clinton years is when the extreme activity started and the bias has been progressively worse since then. There seems to be no embarrassment for their actions.
Reporting of news is no longer the standard; everything is Opinion. Thanks to the internet one can piece together a picture of what is news-worthy.


Reply 24 - Posted by: Periwinkel, 11/5/2012 7:51:33 AM     (No. 8988773)

#s 2 and 17...I have no doubt that a Romney administration, as did the Bush administration in their time, would not want their four years tainted with the detritus from the previous crapweasel's time in office. It is an almost unwritten rule and Mitt Romney would not seek retribution...it is undignified and unpresidential. Regardless of how the Obama-ites behaved.

I am sorry, because I want to see Bronco Bama perp walked to jail like so many other Chicago politicians as they finished their time in office.

Does anyone know offhand how many previous Illinois governors are in jail right now? It's two or three and known as the Chicago way.


Reply 25 - Posted by: LZK, 11/5/2012 7:53:16 AM     (No. 8988778)

Ditto!!

LZK


Reply 26 - Posted by: aposematic, 11/5/2012 7:53:58 AM     (No. 8988779)

The Marxist MSM/Press have been promoting Democrats and destroying Republicans for over a Century. This election changes nothing in the Media.


Reply 27 - Posted by: BcdErick, 11/5/2012 8:03:24 AM     (No. 8988801)

Unfortunately I agree with #7. If Obama wins the LSM will preposterously re-write history to claim that the poor fool has an overwhelming "mandate". All those that point out that Obama is easily the worst president in American history will be called racists. Vocal protesters opposed to Obama stealing the election will be arrested with mindless cheer leading from the LSM. I'm not being pessimistic. If Romney wins the same professional victims will be apoplectic and angrily denounce America as racist and the election invalid because only racists and haters would vote for a smart, successful white guy. Either way these tools may have to retire the word racist from the dictionary.


Reply 28 - Posted by: enemyofthestate, 11/5/2012 8:05:35 AM     (No. 8988805)

If Romney wins (an I'm taking nothing for granted), the corrupt political reporters will still be there in full force, saying or writing anything to discredit him and his administration, for the next four years. They will continue to poison public opinion.


Reply 29 - Posted by: so_free_me, 11/5/2012 8:08:08 AM     (No. 8988810)

I know plenty of older people in rural NH who can't get cable, can't afford satellite, and therefore only get PBS and ABC. The internet is foreign to them. If they had access to Fox the number of informed voters would skyrocket as they are good people, but live in the past.


Reply 30 - Posted by: aposematic, 11/5/2012 8:10:49 AM     (No. 8988816)

Tucker is a fool, don't know about Neil; but if both believe this election will change anything in the MSM/Press, then they are both fools.


Reply 31 - Posted by: fed-up, 11/5/2012 8:12:31 AM     (No. 8988822)

I think this all started, or at least got much worse, with Bush-Gore in 2000. The liberal left was outraged that Bush won. They spent the next 8 years, even in a time of national concern over our own safety, trying to ruin the President. They didn't even try to show impartiality any longer, as they live in the bubble of peers who think like they do. Obama has been used much like he used others in the past. They pushed him and his idiotic policies down our throat. They covered for him at every turn. They continue to lie for him.

I can only hope others are wrong about Romney. I think he has a love for our country
that will not allow him to play politics with Bengazi. I am praying non-stop for him and our country.


Reply 32 - Posted by: hoofanmom, 11/5/2012 8:17:48 AM     (No. 8988831)

I'm going to print this article out and mail it to our local newspaper editor with a note that this is why they are struggling to survive. Not that it will change their approach, but one can always speak truth kindly and hope it penetrates. Our editor is a decent newsman but the publisher is a flaming liberal.


Reply 33 - Posted by: Jethro bo, 11/5/2012 8:17:56 AM     (No. 8988832)

This election isn't even close if not for the Kneepad Media. And don't think for a second we will not have the Kneepad Media once this election is over. Come Jan 21, the day after President is inaugurated, expect stories about eh increase in the homeless, pictures of flag draped coffins with US service personnel from Afghanistan and global warming hysteria to be all over the Alphabets and print media. They will do the same things they always do when a Rebublican is elected. Pavlov’s dog was less predictable then these clowns.


Reply 34 - Posted by: BirdsNest, 11/5/2012 8:18:15 AM     (No. 8988833)

I will be waving with the middle finger of my right hand.


Reply 35 - Posted by: cake crumb, 11/5/2012 8:20:42 AM     (No. 8988840)

Watch them all suddenly find their 'objectivity' when Romney is elected.


Reply 36 - Posted by: hoofanmom, 11/5/2012 8:20:44 AM     (No. 8988841)

#24 you are so right! Just pay attention to the verbs used. Reporters are not reporting facts - they are editorializing as they go but often subtly through word choice more than angles.


Reply 37 - Posted by: capt scurvey, 11/5/2012 8:21:56 AM     (No. 8988845)

I will not forgive nor forget that none of this political nightmare we are now living would have been possible without the treachery of a corrupt partisan media.

You sort of expect it from your politicians, but media has always been tasked with a higher purpose; protecting us from them...


Reply 38 - Posted by: Rinktum, 11/5/2012 8:28:02 AM     (No. 8988854)

The media will quickly rediscover their "bite" in a Romney administration. My hope is that President Romney will have a Press Secretary who will be of good cheer, be a great communicator, and will not be steamrolled by the media. He needs a Tony Snow because that position is going to be a very important one. The media will turn into snarky pit bulls come November 7th and will try and define a Romney presidency. Unlike Obama's perpetual honeymoon there will be no honeymoon this time around for President Romney. Please choose wisely.


Reply 39 - Posted by: Pepperblue, 11/5/2012 8:28:38 AM     (No. 8988857)

I'm waving goodbye with one finger.


Reply 40 - Posted by: mickturn, 11/5/2012 8:34:30 AM     (No. 8988871)

The Alp[habet MSM that broadcasts on the PUBLIC AIRWAVES must have their licenses revoked for obvious bias and politics vs. unbiased reporting. Their licenses should be put up for auction to the highest bidder and the current holders are barred from bidding!

That will put things right. As for the cable MSM, they can be dealt with by letting advertisers know that no one will buy their products!

Now on to more important matters!

All Marxist run Universities should be barred from any grants or other govt. money programs, DONE!

All Unions must be outlawed, union leadership should be arrested and held for trial on charges of Treason, theft of union funds and practicing politics.

All 501c corporations and others with 'tax exempt status' should be forced to pay taxes IF they have been a political arm of the Dimocrap party.

All foreign donations and foreigners who have corrupted out political process (Soros for instance) should be arrested no matter where they are and held for trial for Treason and conspiracy to undermine our govt.

I could go on but you get the picture!


Reply 41 - Posted by: artlover, 11/5/2012 8:35:03 AM     (No. 8988872)

I think you also have to blame the univerities who are putting out these lame brain people who have no morals, no love of this country and even want to destroy this country. There are NO true patriots out there in the teaching profession anymore. They are union members who care more for the unions and their greed than they do this country.


Reply 42 - Posted by: nimby, 11/5/2012 8:36:29 AM     (No. 8988877)

Where will the corrupt media run and hide after tomorrow?


Reply 43 - Posted by: Farmwife1, 11/5/2012 8:50:09 AM     (No. 8988923)

If there is one thing I’ve learned since the Clintonista years is that some people will believe what they want to believe, and the truth be damned. Therefore lamers like Chris Matthews still provide a service by validating the hardcore useful idiots’ agenda. In a way this is good because Rush said he will continue until everyone agrees with him; we will have Rush for a very long time.


Reply 44 - Posted by: Galtoid, 11/5/2012 8:50:41 AM     (No. 8988926)

Additionally, you can safely say "goodbye" to the stale, predictable moderated-by-liberals presidential debates. But, the focus of most revolutionary journalism needs to be on our liberal journalism schools across the country.


Reply 45 - Posted by: bella, 11/5/2012 8:54:04 AM     (No. 8988933)

Sadly, #11; Russert would have fallen right in line, just look at Brokaw and Williams.


Reply 46 - Posted by: Me?Opinionated?Nah!, 11/5/2012 8:55:22 AM     (No. 8988938)

With only a handful of praiseworthy exceptions,

This is the Definition of “Journalism” in America:

Distort The News! Omit The News! Invent The News!

But, Under No Circumstances Whatsoever, REPORT The News!


Reply 47 - Posted by: Hazymac, 11/5/2012 8:57:36 AM     (No. 8988950)

Being both a cynic and a pessimist, I cannot bring myself to share Carlson and Patel's confidence that the fading Legacy Media is close to fading completely out. Yes, we have known for most of our lives that they are water carriers for the Left, and we can observe that their bias is by now startlingly obvious. The alternative media is inexorably taking the place of the propaganda organs of the Left, but the Fourth Estate's colony of intellectual cockroaches, eschewing the light, will scamper around for a while longer until they're stepped on and squashed. They are diminished and obsolescent, but not obsolete. Yet.


Reply 48 - Posted by: MarinMike, 11/5/2012 8:59:34 AM     (No. 8988953)

#41, that is exactly what they expect of us.

If a newly elected president prosecutes the previous president, a dangerous precedent is set, and it will come back to bite.

Let Issa and others work in the check and balances of constitutional law.


Reply 49 - Posted by: Maybeth, 11/5/2012 9:00:06 AM     (No. 8988956)

Stimulus money?
Nah.
It's called Soros money.
He's Obama's puppeteer.
He buys people.
The Old Media sold out on America.


Reply 50 - Posted by: maryc, 11/5/2012 9:02:50 AM     (No. 8988971)

You can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. Thank you Lucianne for the light shone on all that has happened in these 4 years. For letting the truth be seen.


Reply 51 - Posted by: Victor Volsky, 11/5/2012 9:02:54 AM     (No. 8988972)

A word of caution to those who share Hannity's view that the press died in 2008: in March 1919, the noted journalist Lincoln Steffens accompanied State Department official William Bullit (the future U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union) on a trip to revolutionary Russia. Later on, Steffens proclaimed triumphantly: "I've seen the future, and it works." But according to Bullit, Steffens came up with this phrase on the way to Russia, not after he had seen the future. 1919 seems a lot earlier than 2008, doesn't it?


Reply 52 - Posted by: berlin, 11/5/2012 9:06:42 AM     (No. 8988982)

Twenty four hours after Romney’s inauguration in January all these sleaze balls will wake up and scream that Romney is the worst President in history because he hasn’t fixed the economy, unemployment, the war in Afghanistan and whatever else they can think of. Don’t count out these people who lost their integrity a long time ago.


Reply 53 - Posted by: globalwarmer, 11/5/2012 9:09:23 AM     (No. 8988989)

You'd think that with shrinking audiences and subscriptions the owners of old media would seek a format change to fit the market and increase their profitability. Trouble is, they know nothing of the free market and, in fact, are out to destroy it. We'll just have to wait until the old media goes up for a fire sale and conservatives buy them out.


Reply 54 - Posted by: peterfleming, 11/5/2012 9:14:57 AM     (No. 8988998)

Tucker and Patel, are too kindly, call them timid, as they refer to destructive TV & press people as "liberal"? (a word that means freedom). TV/press are, in fact, anti-liberal, big State, endless tax & spend. Mildly call them socialists, OR economic fascists, government colluding privilege with big corporations: like Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany. Or, go full bore, call them Communists Stalin's Soviet terrorizing slavery. Nah, too scared to call them commies. Just stop calling them
"liberal"! They can call ALL of it, "the line", or “the complex". The amazing Andrew Breitbart called it "The Complex", in his bestseller, "RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION". Andrew busted the press, calling their rules of behavior, “The Complex”. He was getting close to "cultural Marxism" before he died. In fact, for many years, this rigid press and Hollywood uniformity was called, "The Party Line", named after the American Communist Party" and its bosses who decided from month to month, exactly what the "The Communist Party Line” was. What you said and wrote, was all at risk of being brutally punished by The Party Bosses, and ALL your fellow commie pals. New Media has countered "The Line", exposing truth, the lying pattern of censoring. New Media is exposing the Old Media cover-up of Benghazi, birth certificate, czars, on and on. Old Media chastized for their Party Line. Their Protection Racket of Beltway crimes.


Reply 55 - Posted by: Roark, 11/5/2012 9:33:11 AM     (No. 8989045)

#8 - You made my morning! Equating George S. to bacteria (and not the good kind) is brilliant. Though, I'm not sure how bacteria feel about that. There are a lot of them, you know.


Reply 56 - Posted by: Razorgirl, 11/5/2012 9:57:19 AM     (No. 8989113)

As long as the LSM is headquartered in New York City and DC there will be no change. They sit in their high rise ivory towers and look down on the rest of the country with contempt and disdain. If they would come down off their high-horse every once in a while they would see the rest of the country has indoor plumbing and electricity too. Some of us actually have college degrees and can use a computer.


Reply 57 - Posted by: J F Ackerman, 11/5/2012 10:04:22 AM     (No. 8989139)

I call 'em the Prostitute Press for a reason.


Reply 58 - Posted by: RancherJack, 11/5/2012 10:08:33 AM     (No. 8989147)

Wish it were true.

It's not.

Don't be seduced into fairy tale land.


Reply 59 - Posted by: bighambone, 11/5/2012 10:09:53 AM     (No. 8989155)

Remember when Romney was at the correspondents dinner party in Washington, D.C. last month. He made a "joke" of the so-called liberal mainstream media, by saying something like "When I state what my plans are to fix the American economy, it appears that it is the liberal media's job to make sure that the American people never hear those plans". You have to figure that Romney has the liberal media's number and once Romney is elected that he will not play their little games.


Reply 60 - Posted by: Mr. Know-It-All, 11/5/2012 10:15:11 AM     (No. 8989176)

I think it finally dawned on me.

Yes the "news" organizations are full of leftists who no doubt think that obumbler's agenda (whatever that is) is a good thing. In that respect they would go easy on him no matter his skin color.

But oblamer is clearly getting more than just a pass. He's getting active help. And I think it is just a manisfestation of the affirmative action mentality.

With all their blather of racial equality and their quick willingness to blame racism as the cause of opposing The One, in reality liberals see blacks in this country as poor, incapable children that just have to get help from them (the benevolent liberals) in order to succeed. So in their deepest beliefs, being tough on obummer is the same as chastising a young child who missed some notes during his piano recital. You just don't do that!

Who are the real racists here?


Reply 61 - Posted by: Persecutor2, 11/5/2012 10:16:01 AM     (No. 8989180)

OK, haven't read the article yet--but #2 touched on a fantasy of mine: President Romney stands in front of the WH press corpse and says something like, "The outlets you represent, almost unanimously, did everything in their power to see that I wouldn't be here today to address you in this capacity. Please tell me why I should extend any consideration to you at all." I know, won't happen--but he came pretty close at the Cardinal Newman dinner.


Reply 62 - Posted by: BeatleJeff, 11/5/2012 10:18:32 AM     (No. 8989186)

And let us not forget the equally corrupt pollsters with their biased questions, slanted sampling, and bogus turnout models. They've tried to sway voters with their dishonest output just as much as the biased leftwing media has. Thanks to the New Media on the internet, that curtain has been pulled back exposing the humbugs manning the special effects. A lot of polling agencies are going to be discredited after tomorrow.


Reply 63 - Posted by: geoguy, 11/5/2012 10:39:29 AM     (No. 8989252)

If Zippy wins, it will only emboldened the MSM even more. That is the real danger.


Reply 64 - Posted by: dman, 11/5/2012 10:52:41 AM     (No. 8989302)

Just as the solution to improper free speech is more free speech, the solution to a biased free press is more free press. While I agree that Carlson and Patel's piece is a bit of wishful thinking, there is a solution. It's time to ramp up Fox broadcast into a prime-time and morning alternative national news outlet. All the pieces are obviously in place; Rupert only needs to pull the trigger. Bring on the Fox evening news with Brit Hume.


Reply 65 - Posted by: John21, 11/5/2012 10:54:49 AM     (No. 8989313)

I agree that a large number of media personalities have lost any credibility and have shown a total lack of integrity during this campaign and administration.

I believe that those same bias individuals will beginning tomorrow, begin the undermining of the Romney administration. They will do to him what they did to Bush; he will be portrayed as stupid, out of touch and a terrible human being. The liberal media will continue their drive to a far left agenda that they in their very limited capacity think is right.

They will also try and get people someday again believe their propaganda, but I think they went too far this time and the people recognize how bias and prejudice they are.

You just can’t fix stupid


Reply 66 - Posted by: gwmcclintok, 11/5/2012 10:55:42 AM     (No. 8989315)

The MSM is toast. The main thing is that when Romney wins they will realize they have lost all humf when it comes to attacking Romney. Their credibility is now shot. People will laugh them off when they now try to attack Romney as they did Bush.


Reply 67 - Posted by: Freeloader, 11/5/2012 11:03:39 AM     (No. 8989336)

Wave goodbye indeed! How many of the clown suits in the MSM saw the "Chick-fil-A Tsunami" coming back on August 1st?

The Drive-By's weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth on November 6th is going to be frightful!


Reply 68 - Posted by: chicodon, 11/5/2012 11:04:50 AM     (No. 8989340)

If Obama gets returned to the throne I believe a lot of things will be changing, including his consolidation of the media. The FCC will become a Ministry of Change. Worst of all, he will claim a mandate to do whatever necessary to homogenize the government/media message... across the spectrum. Look out Rush, Fox and Anti-Muslim film makers.


Reply 69 - Posted by: geronimo, 11/5/2012 11:06:24 AM     (No. 8989344)

As long as the LSM controls print media, it will be hard for the New Media to reach everyone. #30's comment about older viewers being confined to the alphabets is true - not just in NH but because seniors generally are somewhat slower to adapt decades of viewing patterns to the New Media.

Take it from this oldster, though, that cable and satellite are not the only resources. Many of us are pretty good with a computer (as long as it doesn't break down).

The Tea Party News Network has a new site
http://tpnn.com/
and promises election coverage beginning at 3 PM tomorrow.

Perhaps under the Romney administration, what Carlson calls "political reporters" will make a last-ditch fight for self preservation and begin some actual reporting.

Wouldn't it be fun to see the New Media representatives in the majority at WH press conferences and briefings by the new Romney Press Secretary?


Reply 70 - Posted by: Hardright, 11/5/2012 11:25:36 AM     (No. 8989425)

Without the cover from the msm this race wouldn't even be close! If anyone needs a little break from all this and haven't seen Henri the frenc cat, watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q34z5dCmC4M


Reply 71 - Posted by: Getagrip19, 11/5/2012 11:26:32 AM     (No. 8989429)

I was aware of extreme media bias since Reagan was president. Nice to see others catching up finally.


Reply 72 - Posted by: radrelic, 11/5/2012 11:40:20 AM     (No. 8989482)

A President Romney was opposed by the media and he and Ryan have had to wade through them and keep their heads above the muck.

Hopefully their administration will keep in mind the duplicity of the dems and their media and ride out any storm just as Romney did about his taxes when the nervous nellies in the GOP wanted them put out as demanded.

When Newt took over the House in 1994 he capitulated to power sharing with the dems and then we watched dirty Harry and Pelousy reign of power aiaded by the press.

This is a new day and we need to keep after the media on blogs and social media and any other way. The race isn't over until the goal of smaller government and states rights is achieved.


Reply 73 - Posted by: VAfreedomluver, 11/5/2012 11:47:03 AM     (No. 8989505)

The media's leftwing bias has become more extreme in just the last four years. During the Bush administration, the Washington Post made a half-hearted attempt to be balanced--in the news section, not the op-eds, which are full of flaming commies. They were actually much better than the NY Times during that period, believe it or not.

However, the moment Obama took office, the Post dropped the mask completely and has been more biased towards the Democrats than at any time since I first started reading it.

When Romney wins, he absolutely needs to have an aggressive media strategy. Under the First Amendment, he obviously cannot suppress the media, but he's also under no obligation to kowtow to them. I totally agree that Fox News and outlets like the Daily Caller, NY Post and Washington Times get first dibs on press conference questions and information releases. Let the WashPost, NY Times, and the broadcast networks subsist on crumbs. Make them perform actual acts of journalism if they want stories--assuming they're even capable of that anymore.


Reply 74 - Posted by: peasantnumberthree, 11/5/2012 12:33:17 PM     (No. 8989651)

One other point about the MSM is that with Romney as President, they can forget about Obama bailing them out...


Reply 75 - Posted by: GreatPlains, 11/5/2012 12:42:59 PM     (No. 8989676)

Pat Caddell accurately described today's old media
as " enemies of the people ".
Our house no longer watches any offering , news or otherwise , from ABC , CBS or NBC.
If I could figure out a way to delete them from my cable package I would .
I have no idea who the sponsors are
for the agitprop channels .
Brian Williams has long been an anti Republican
propagandist and mouthpiece for the Democrat Party.
He always used terms like " everyone says " or " people are saying " to begin his pieces slandering Republicans .
I will never forget before the 2004 election, when the unemployment number was 5.4 % .
Williams showed black and white Depression era footage of men on bread lines
and said that if President Bush
was re elected , " people predict " that will happen again in Bush's second term.
Tapper and Ms Attkisson should work for FOX. Their journalistic integrity is wasted where they are now.


Reply 76 - Posted by: Merrijane, 11/5/2012 12:43:14 PM     (No. 8989677)

Wait, weren't they the losers in the LAST election cycle?


Reply 77 - Posted by: avidyananda, 11/5/2012 12:58:50 PM     (No. 8989721)

The media will lost credibility with some. But there is a hard core out there--media as well as people who want very much to believe the misleading information fed them by the media. If Romney should win, it is guaranteed that there will be a howling, petty, vicious, persistent, stupid and unbalanced mob of media people attacking Romney by Wednesday morning. And they'll keep it up forever.


Reply 78 - Posted by: avidyananda, 11/5/2012 1:00:19 PM     (No. 8989726)

I know how to spell'lose,' and I know how to spell 'lost.' Must have been overwrought...


Reply 79 - Posted by: Philipsonh, 11/5/2012 1:00:45 PM     (No. 8989727)

We do not watch any MSM on TV or listen on the radio. We do not receive any newspapers and only subscribe to Financial literature. We watch Fox Cable News, if anything, grudgingly, because even they have become somewhat PC. We get all our news from the Internet and Conservative talk radio stations some of which we tune into on the internet. I believe that many millions of Americans do the same as we do. Frankly, if anyone from the Obama Administration pops up on the screen, we often change the channel, because they nauseate us with their lies. It is a sad state of affairs that the MSM has turned into
a Democratic propaganda outlet, and quite odd
that many intelligent people will not do their job, which is to report the news in an independent manner. As the article implies their end date has been hastened by their biased reports, which bear no relation to actual reporting. Lastly, I think Fix Cable News is heading in the wrong direction by having two sides represented in most situations. To me, that is fair, but UNbalanced, because many on the left appear to be unhinged from reality. Not to pick on
one individual, but I rarely watch THE FIVE
because MR Beckel make no sense to me. I can see no reason to have him as part of the show. I am sure that the ratings would go up if they had only informed, rational folks involved. Mr Beckel is not rational. That is my opinion.


Reply 80 - Posted by: lencu255, 11/5/2012 1:02:11 PM     (No. 8989731)

Well, let's acknowledge:
1.The media BELONGS to the leftists.
2.They are paid by the leftists - either directly through the stimulus-shmimulus money or by intimidating the companies to advertise in newsrags and on local tv.
3.They will do what they are told, no matter how many working in the media are leftists or conservatives - fascists/commies know how the vet their ranks.
4.The media will dump on Romney's administration even worse than they did before!

What needs to be done?
1.Cut government, overt and covert, funding from the lefties.
2.Build the conservative mainstream media!


Reply 81 - Posted by: Bla Bla, 11/5/2012 1:23:46 PM     (No. 8989783)

Buh-BYE!


Reply 82 - Posted by: Delinda, 11/5/2012 1:37:43 PM     (No. 8989824)

Not in our lifetimes? Where have you been? Do you remember what the liberal media did to George Bush? To Ronald Reagan? To Sarah Palin? To every republican president? They will be here to lie and misconstrue every undertaking of the Romney administration, rest assured. How I wish the American people had the ability to vote THEM out!


Reply 83 - Posted by: larryp, 11/5/2012 1:39:04 PM     (No. 8989829)

No more dasish and coffee and note pads. The Press room gets closed. oh yes. and the Press can meet ouytside under a Swap-meet style canopy or canopies
There will be rows of white Syroco chairs set up. If the want refreshement, bring it.
Stupid questions get you sent to the back of the room.


Reply 84 - Posted by: Caveman, 11/5/2012 2:15:10 PM     (No. 8989907)

They can't go anywhere.
If Romney wins, who will keep fanning the flames with the 47%. Someone will have to ''expose'' all of the new administrations ''lies''. They will be required to report ad nauseam about the cuts to EBT cards, food stamps, welfare, social security, and medicare.
The public must be informed of the atrocities.


Reply 85 - Posted by: Smaj, 11/5/2012 2:32:33 PM     (No. 8989944)

The LSM is a full arm of the criminal and corrupt left. Hopefully the electorate will elect Romney and reject the criminal currently in the WH. The turning point on the LSM's bias occurred many years ago, to those actually paying attention. The Long March through our institutions has produced far too many Honey Boo Boos; if Romney wins these people will wake up Wednesday morning, go, "Hmm", and go on with their self-absorbed lives.


Reply 86 - Posted by: 4Justice, 11/5/2012 2:56:18 PM     (No. 8990022)

#46, I agree. At the risk of losing my name again and being cut off, I will say that Russert was not all that honorable.


Reply 87 - Posted by: Phosphene, 11/5/2012 3:41:21 PM     (No. 8990184)

Where are they going exactly? As soon as Romney takes office "Real" unemployment, the names and faces of every military casualty, gas prices, the national debt, every national calamity, and every glottal stop Romney makes will be splashed across every newspaper and news ticker.


Reply 88 - Posted by: DoktorFranken, 11/5/2012 4:46:05 PM     (No. 8990353)

".....some justification."

Some justification?!?!?!? That's like saying that the First Wookie is sometimes pushy.

I have said that after this election EVERYONE should boycott the alphabets AND their sponsors. That would kill them completely. And they certainly deserved a cruel death for the Treason that they have committed towards America's freedoms and the Personal Assassinations that they have committed on Conservatives like Romney, Ryan, West, Bush, Palin, Rush, and all of the others LDotters have listed here.

It time that they died and disappeared.


Reply 89 - Posted by: Omen, 11/5/2012 4:49:43 PM     (No. 8990364)

The MSM are like the dinos.
Oblivious to that bright object(Talk Radio,internet,FNC etc)coming closer & closer. Only unlike the dinos kids won't want to play with them.


Reply 90 - Posted by: verdantheart, 11/5/2012 5:01:10 PM     (No. 8990394)

News Flash: I work in journalism so let me give you an insider's quick take. This profession pays poorly unless you are working for network TV. Further, journalists see society 24/7. While you are sleeping, there is another world out there, active and pulsating, and that figures into how journalists see life. Some of it is tragic. Just take my word for it.

Comment on this site and others to your heart's content. But, your voice really can be heard if you write to the news sources you abhor. That would be metro dailies? Most of them have a person who is supposed to be YOUR advocate. The e-mail is often ombudsman@thedailyfishwrap.com or whatever your local outlet is. Make it your job to find out how to contact that person, and DEMAND fair news coverage front page to back.

Why did so many papers endorse Romney this election? My guess is advertisers put the word out to publishers that their money was going elsewhere if news outlets didn't support a capitalist candidate. Think about it. Then act.


Reply 91 - Posted by: typhoon, 11/5/2012 6:28:23 PM     (No. 8990546)

If Repuvlicans win, the MSM need to be stripped of their licenses to brodcast.


Reply 92 - Posted by: jetsman, 11/5/2012 6:40:43 PM     (No. 8990575)

We have found the enemy and they are the united states state controlled media.
But,I feel the american public are too stupid to figure this out and they may just
vote lord messiah o'bama back in office.


Reply 93 - Posted by: twinspineve@gmail.com, 11/5/2012 7:46:42 PM     (No. 8990673)

i do not buy the newspaper. i get all the news i need from the internet. the opinions expressed by the readers are stimulating. i feel well informed and learn a lot from the arguments and exchanges expressed. the newspapers are putting themselves out of business. it is a shame.


Reply 94 - Posted by: strike3, 11/5/2012 8:00:05 PM     (No. 8990700)

I would rather see obama "whitewashed" #17 than listen to four years of "the problems caused by my predecessor."

Obama is a sickening, immature little twit and I don't care what Romney says about him after he's gone.


Reply 95 - Posted by: jeffkinnh, 11/5/2012 9:09:58 PM     (No. 8990819)


Reply 96 - Posted by: jeffkinnh, 11/5/2012 9:18:14 PM     (No. 8990841)

WHEN Romney wins and WHEN he gets the economy turned around it will be painfully obvious that Progressivism is bereft of any value. That's what the media supports and they thought that BO embodied Progressivism. They have been cut adrift, just as they have been so many times in the past by people who they invested their fervent beliefs in but who turned out to be duds. They never look to the root, that Progressivism is simply wrong and anyone who tries to support it is doomed to fail. The people that try must suspend rational actions.

The MSM has been unmasked and hopefully they will be replaced by an honest media that serves a valid role as watchdog for the public instead of lapdog for the dems.


Reply 97 - Posted by: spengler, 11/5/2012 9:23:32 PM     (No. 8990857)

Alternative media is alive and growing.

Any discussion of "MSM" is a waste of time.

They only exist if you watch or read them.

We have not watched CBS, NBC, etc for at least 10 years.


Reply 98 - Posted by: O.G.'s Mom, 11/5/2012 9:46:57 PM     (No. 8990916)

Haven't watched the alphabets since Fox came on. And we won't even have the NY Times in the house to line the cat box. My cats' poop is too good for that paper. That said, I can only hope that Tucker is right. I would love, LOVE to see the NY Times reporters and those stupid TV people on the unemployment lines. Especially Stuffin Envelopes and that moron Brian Williams. Had Benghazi happened under a Republican President, there would have been a drumbeat every night about how the administration was lying, followed by how expensive gasoline has become. And then with Sandy, that would have been the knock out punch with the Republican president's incompetence. How do these people look at themselves in the mirror? Their professional dishonesty is shocking. Their demise can't come soon enough.


Reply 99 - Posted by: Penney, 11/5/2012 9:53:33 PM     (No. 8990942)

Good bye, old media. ...Ya lost it. Your years of dem bias have finally caught up with you. And take the dems' hollyweird with ya!


Reply 100 - Posted by: Dodge Boy, 11/5/2012 9:54:47 PM     (No. 8990948)

Let's not kid ourselves that the msm will go away tomorrow. Until we push the msm out of business to be replaced by objective alternatives, expect more of the same.



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