Posted on 07/23/2008 8:39:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Drudge Report ran a juicy item about the fact that only one reporter showed up to cover Republican John McCain at a campaign stop in New Hampshire the other day.
Just one.
The lonely print reporter from the Manchester Union Leader stood on the tarmac, waiting for McCain's plane to land. McCain, obviously upset at being dissed by yet another meager media throng, didn't stop to chat.
"Did you ever notice that when John McCain is on TV he's always grumpy?" asked a colleague in the cafeteria who whispered, lest others denounce him for Barackian Thought Crimes.
"McCain's always made to look old and angry, a curmudgeon. And Barack Obama? He's always seen as presidential, cool, smiling, shaking hands," whispered the guy.
I believe this phenomenon is called liberal bias. And the country has caught on.
Since I mentioned it a few days ago, newspapers, Web sites, radio and TV news have been full of stories about media bias and outraged denials, recrimination and guilt. Always the guilt. Obama's people know we're guilty.
Guilt is what McCain is playing on, too, trying to shame journalists with a new video with dueling sound tracks about the Media Love that Dares Speak Barack, featuring MSNBC host Chris Matthews shrieking that when he hears Obama talk, a tingle runs down his leg.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
It was most ungracious of McCain not to speak to that lone reporter Manchester Union Leader who bothered to show up. Ronald Reagan wouldn’t have done that. He’d have given that reporter a rip-roaring interview that would have made the Obama cult envious when they got back from the Magical Media Tour.
McCain just doesn’t have it in the personality department.
How do we know he didn’t? Because this guy says so?
You’re right, President Reagan was great that way: I was a mere Specialist/4 when I helped my officers brief him and he was always very gracious to even low-level personnel like myself. On the other hand, I can understand Senator McCain’s anger and frustration, can’t you? He is the experienced, well-qualified candidate that went through Hell for our country and they’re treating a rookie senator that’s never done anything like a conquering hero merely due to his ethnicity.
So what is McCain going to do when the media wants “debates”?? His history of cozying up to the MSM has blown up in his face but has he learned his lesson? Will he let the Obamination pick the moderator, the channel, the time, the place, the questions and the format or will he finally wake up and realize he’s not their Chosen One?
The media also culled images of Bush in mid word or looking angry. They did it to Reagan too. They even embedded foul mouthed captions on the internet major news outlets in the rollover/file names for Bush photos (and his supporters) when he won in 2004.
The media pulled these sorts of tricks on Mr. Smith in Frank Capra’s movie too. They are even more brazen now.
The press has always been run by a&&holes who try to mold public opinion and establish the real power brokers.
Yes the media is guilty of deceit. In the aftermath of the 1968 DNC convention coverage they pretended to have been objective (they were of the McCarthy contingent and the talking heads who were considered “mavericks” ran network news for the following 40 years).
TV Guide even asked if the public’s outrage and demand for FCC investigation was going to put network news’ “objectivity” in question.
Coverage of his overseas trips was always as sparse as they could make it.
They are so intent on anointing = ah, seeing this Polished, Programmed Puppet in office that they've lost all inhibitions as to hiding their total bias...
I thought there were campaign laws about equal coverage?
This last week has been nothing but one long campaign ad...
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