Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly cited the Media Research Center's latest special report, "Obama's Margin of Victory: The Media," in the midst of the "Unresolved Problems" segment for his August 26 program.:
There is no doubt that NBC News continues to be in the tank for Barack Obama. According to a Media Research Center study, NBC is the most lopsided network in favor of Barack. Pro-Obama reports outnumber negative Obama reports by 10-to-1 on NBC News, according to the study. Even some NBC News commentators recognize the corruption.
At that point O'Reilly's producers cut to video of MSNBC's Joe Scarborough scoffing at the notion that colleague David Shuster and others at MSNBC are strictly independent and non-partisan in their reporting. [See Mark Finkelstein's related post on that here.]
O'Reilly also cued video of CNN's Lou Dobbs complaining that his colleagues in the media are "in the tank" for the junior senator from Illinois. [See Noel Sheppard's August 25 blog post on that here.]
Besides finding NBC had a 10-to-1 slant, MRC's Rich Noyes discovered that:
Barack Obama received his best press when it mattered most, as he debuted on the national scene. All of the networks lavished him with praise when he was keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic Convention, and did not produce a single negative story about Obama (out of 81 total reports) prior to the start of his presidential campaign in early 2007.
For more of the study, see the executive summary here and the full report here (also available here as a .PDF).
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I did manage to catch this
August 27, 2008 - 12:28 ET by bigtimerI did manage to catch this last night and was tickled pink.
BOR did a good job with all of this last night...
I am quite sure Olbie, Shuster and Matthews were happy as bugs in a rug about his report too...hehehe...
Excellent job MRC...as always.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
OBAMA: THE LIE-A-THON
August 27, 2008 - 12:45 ET by reelman46Let’s see…you are raised in an atmosphere of radical secular socialism…you go to college and chose to pal around with radical secular socialists…
you chose a church steeped in radical politics and stay 20 years, you enter politics after being blessed (so to speak) by radicals then you get to the U S. Senate and vote radical…
so radical you are the #1 liberal without a doubt…you have the record on file of radical votes but NOW you want to morph into some kind of “moderate reasonable semi-conservative misunderstood” politician.
Forget the 20 year track record.
Voters that dumb should evaluated for a mental disorder.
Millions are not fooled. Neither am I.
(theconservativecrawfish Blog)
Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D. (theconservativecrawfish)
this free daily democrat
August 27, 2008 - 13:21 ET by TruthMongerthis free daily democrat advertising year after year is really starting to piss me off
how much do we have to spend of our own damn money just to try and keep up...? our promo doesn't even come close
these democrat bastards get billons of $$$ worth of free advertising every day from the MSM, hollywood, prime tv, the GD music industry...
someone in the DNC needs to pay a damn bill pretty soon
Journalism is the opium of the liberals
Yeah
August 27, 2008 - 13:26 ET by cvgbuckeyeYeah, well, you can be sure that the producers at msnbc use the technology to monitor EVERYTHING that Fox says and if appropriate, give an instant feedback to Old Laurel & Hardy cause not even 10 minutes later, Laurel & Hardy went on a 10 minute tirade about Wolfson and Rove being on Fox and how biased Fox, BOR and the whole crew were.
CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT! I almost think they believe their own lies but if not, they actually believe that the viewing public does.
IN MY OPINION, 90% of the reason that McCain now leads in the polls and the reason that he will also win the election is because of the outright dishonesty of the msm and that the publics hate of them has intensified to a totally intollerable level.
The beauty of it is that horses hinds-ends like those on msnbc and other places are totally oblivious to it and are going to be in shock on the morning after the election.
I can't wait!
The real question is...
August 27, 2008 - 13:23 ET by c5thenWhen is such obviously biased coverage going to be seen as the contribution-in-kind that it is to the campaign?
I think that this election cycle is a test by the media to see if and how much they can influence an election. I've never seen the coverage this biased and this blatant before in my over 40 years.
The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.
Obama’s Left -A Trojan Horse
August 27, 2008 - 14:28 ET by ZachJonesIsHomeThis election is one of the most important in our history
for many reasons. The most important of
these is that for the first time our government could be in a situation where
primarily only the voices coming from the extreme left could very well dominate
the discussion and legislative action regarding the critical issues facing our
country’s future for years to come. Please
Consider: Obama’s Left -A Trojan Horse (Donkey) Approaches at
zachjonesishome.wordpress.com
Located: http://zachjonesishome.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/obama%e2%80%99s-left-a-trojan-horse-donkey-approaches/
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Crawfish
August 27, 2008 - 17:08 ET by seriouslyCouldn't agree with you more, well said.