Move Along: Associated Press Spins Wisconsin Recall As Meaningless Nationally
Even the New York Times, in an article by Jeff Zeleny today headlined "Recall Battle in Wisconsin May Snarl Obama Camp", acknowledges that a victory by Republican Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin's recall election on Tuesday could spell trouble for President Obama's re-election effort.
But while the Times might be bending to reality, the Associated Press soldiers on in support of Obama. With even a Dem poll pointing to a Walker victory, the Associated Press, apparently fearing the worst, proclaims in an article today that "Few November clues to be found in Wisconsin recall." Authored by correspondent Thomas Beaumont, the AP tells readers "you'd be wrong" to see Wisconsin as a national harbinger. More after the jump.
After quoting a Dem strategist claiming "it's a Wisconsin-specific moment, not a national referendum," Beaumont dutifully concludes that "the Wisconsin recall doesn't say much at all about the presidential race in the other 49 states." He claims "there's agreement" with that proposition, but quotes no Republican to that effect.
Bottom line: with a real possibility of defeat looming, the AP, with other elements of the MSM sure to follow, is starting to spin away the Wisconsin results.
Move along, nothing to cheese here!
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BS!
Submitted by In Excess on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 9:22am.
Even Debbie Wasserman Schultz called it a 'dry run' for Novembers election.
That was then; this is now.
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 9:26am.
It was, when they thought Walker would be kicked out; now that it looks like it's going to fail, it means nothing.
NYT
Submitted by In Excess on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 12:08pm.
Even the NYT admits a Walker win has implications for November and puts Wisconsin in play where 0bama won by 14 points in '08:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/us/politics/walker-recall-battle-may-h...
Sure, and the 2010 election shellacking was ......... ???
Submitted by merly1 on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 9:24am.
The lib media still hasnt come to grips with recent election reality.
Remember, Pelosi cited her polling days before 2010 elections that Dems would keep the
House. :oD If they lose in WI, for all the media supported union uprising, it could be a GOP sweep in the
fall = House, Senate, WH. Main Street is p*ssed- off, and that is a fact.
2010? You're kidding, right?
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 9:28am.
They still haven't come to grips with Bush's wins in 2000 and 2004!!
No, you are correct
Submitted by merly1 on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 9:47am.
they still seem unbelievable bitter about those elections, too.
It's still amazing to watch
Submitted by celator on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 9:49am.
It's still amazing to watch the AP's union member reporters blatantly spin any "the union lost" stories, ala the Wisconsin vote.
Fox Lies!!!!!!!
Submitted by adamsmith on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 9:52am.
That is the rallying call of the Neo-Lib lefty Pinkos...In reality it's half the news they never hear from the Lamestream Lefty Monolith. The Neo-Lib reaction is the same every time, "How in the hell did the Repukes win?" That's the result of living in their echo chambers and cheering for their team instead of gathering factual knowledge. If they were to read NewsBusters two days running they would explode. I can't wait for Nov. 6........Hopefully many heads explode. Personally I want to see Ed Schultz have an on air stroke. Rachel Maddow is already half way in tears "reporting" the Propaganda, um I mean news.....
Not a Dry Run
Submitted by bmacdmac on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 10:01am.
If Walker wins, the unions lose and that means their favorite son loses (the Democrats). Walker has started that state on the right path, as several Republican Governors have and that spells big trouble for Democrats.
The unions are on their way down the drain
Submitted by johnsonl on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 1:21pm.
along with the recipients of their funding, the democrats.
Whistle and spin
Submitted by lgeubank on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 10:03am.
Whistling past the graveyard, huh? And spinning events -- trying to tell people what to think.
Whistle and spin, Dems.
The rule book is easy...
Submitted by c5then on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 10:19am.
If Walker wins, it is insignificant and has no bearing on any national scale.
If Walker loses. it is THE MOST SIGNIFICANT election in history and will show unprescedented support for President Obama.
I suspect that Walker will win by enough votes that a recount and scrutiny of the votes will be unnecessary. So we won't know the extent of the union voter fraud. This is the true "dry run" that they were talking about.
This is why the DOJ is almost apoplectic over the Florida voter purge of non-citizens. In my opinion VA, OH, PA and NC ought to start similar programs ASAP.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Virginia is purging their voter rolls as we speak.
Submitted by johnsonl on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 1:24pm.
Every eligible voter in the state is being reissued a voter registration card. Everyone else will have to show evidence of legal presence to get a card.
What did your expect? It
Submitted by John21 on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 10:31am.
What did your expect?
It was only important if the liberal agenda was going to win, now that is looking dimmer it is totally unimportant to the overall agenda.
The propaganda media is very predictable. If facts can be made up or twisted like playdoh to support their agenda and masters that its all good. If it can not be twisted enough to satisfy the agenda and masters than it is unimportant or it is ignored entirely. Their small minds and large egos will not permit any other solutions. They will never look at the facts without a large glass of Kool-Aid at their side to take them to their little utopian world and mental peace. Remove the Kool-Aid and you would have mass mental breakdowns in the propaganda corp (not necessarily a bad thing).
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“Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.” Ronald Reagan (1977)
This one will be big.
Submitted by NeoKong on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 11:22am.
They have been pushing this recall for over a year.
The Dems and the unions have spent tens of millions of dollars on this and this is their number one issue now.
If they lose tomorrow it we be a kick to the groin for them and very demoralizing after so much effort.
It will be the fourth heartbreaking defeat in only two years.
The State House and the governorship went red in 2010.
Walker pushed through his union reforms against fierce opposition.
Their first recall attempt failed.
Their attempt to put a union supporter on the State Supreme Court failed.
How much more pain can they these people withstand...?
Oh, man~too funny
Submitted by GG_NB on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 11:22am.
You just have to laugh! They are nothing if not predictable.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Huh?
Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 12:29pm.
"It's a Wisconsin-specific moment, not a national referendum."
Ok, I'll remember that, when the calls for recounts clog up the Wisconsin Court for months after Obama loses the State.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
easy to translate
Submitted by Dr. Ron on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 3:33pm.
ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC...the New York Times, Newsweek and Time magazines and many other media outlets don’t judge news events by their importance in relation to the current condition or the future of the USA.... They deliver...or sit on....news according to a simple formula: Does it, or doesn’t it, advance the re-election of Barack Obama? If it doesn’t, it isn’t news; if it does, it becomes banner headlines/page 1 and/or on the air 24/7...whether true or not!!
Now, if Walker wins , media wants to prep us for: it's no big deal! BUT, if he loses , it will be the Second Coming!!!
Scott Walker's Recall, a Battle for Sanity
Submitted by berlet98 on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 1:59am.
Scott Walker's Recall, a Battle for Sanity
Tuesday, June 5th might be the day that determines the future of the state of Wisconsin and offers a glimpse of America’s future post-November 6th.
The results of the misbegotten, hugely expensive, recall election of the Badger State’s duly elected Republican governor at the instigation of Big Labor and civil service unions will effectively serve as a barometer of nationwide voter sentiment on economic realities, despite Democrat efforts to play down the significance of the outcome.
At this late stage, with conservative Scott Walker leading liberal Tom Barrett by as many as eight percentage points in various polls, it appears Walker will still be the governor after the dust settles and the ballots are honestly counted. Democrats are notorious for minimizing the importance of contests they think they will lose, a habit perfectly illustrated by their president’s failure to support their candidate or even visit Wisconsin in the closing days of the election.
The state’s Republican Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch nailed the truth of the significance of a probable Walker victory: “How can they [Obama's Democrat Party] possibly spin this? There is no consolation prize here. It’s clear–the path to prosperity is paved with fiscal responsibility. And everyone shares in prosperity.”
The supreme irony in the unprecedented recall attempt is that Walker was elected primaily on his pledge to return his state to fiscal sanity after years of Democrat reckless spending. To the chagrin of Democrats and their union supporters, Walker has largely fulfilled that pledge and they despise him for his achievement.
The Wisconsin recall has been described as “the battle of our times,” which it is and isn’t.
It is undoubtedly a battle.
Last spring, the nation witnessed the disgraceful lengths to which Walker’s opponents would go in that battle when teachers abandoned their classrooms in order to trash the Capitol building in Madison, slander and threaten the governor and his family, employing tactics more befitting Third Worlders than Americans.
Complementing those mindless displays, Democrat legislators literally ran away from their legislative responsibilities in Madison and state troopers had to be sent to round them up.
For the second time in two years, this election pits . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=25034.)