MRC's Bozell Addresses Media's Closing Campaign Pitch: Bashing the Tea Party
NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center president Brent Bozell appeared on last night's special Sunday edition of "Hannity" to address what's easily become the liberal media's closing campaign tactic for liberal Democrats: attempting to discredit the Tea Party movement and its candidates.
For example, in an October 26 interview with former president Jimmy Carter, Chris Matthews suggested Tea Partiers are simply the mindless dupes of corporate interests.
"Remember the 'poor, uneducated and easy to command types?'" Bozell asked Hannity. To the liberal media, "[t]hat was the religious right 20 years ago. Now it's the Tea Party," Bozell noted on the October 31 "Media Mash" segment:
BOZELL: It's "you poor Tea Party people. You don't know what you're doing. You don't know how you're being manipulated." People are seeing right through this. They're seeing right through what Chris Matthews is trying.
Hannity then aired an October 22 clip of Maggie Rodriguez interviewing Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) wherein the CBS "Early Show" host insisted the Tea Party movement was outside the political mainstream:
HANNITY: I guess this is the media elite in New York, Washington and California... They really believe this. They can't believe what's happening to their anoninted president.
BOZELL: Sean, to paraphrase Maggie Rodriguez, there is no question that she does't know what she's talking about. I bet you dollars to donuts she's never been to a Tea Party event.... She certainly doesn't read newspapers. If she read newspapers, she would have seen the Gallup poll yesterday. What did the Gallup poll show us? Forty-eight percent of Americans call themselves conservative. Thirty-two percent moderates. Twenty percent liberals. By 2-to-1 it's conservative over anything else.That's the highest number that conservatives have polled since they started doing this in 1994. Higher than 1994 even. So it's the highest ever. this is a surge for that philosophy. The people who consider themselves as supportive of the Tea Party is at an all-time high in America. She's saying the opposite of reality.
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That last statistic he spoke
Submitted by Thoreau on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 1:34pm.
That last statistic he spoke of was extremely depressing. This means that all of the MSM are treasonous. Not really news, but damn. Not even one story about the communists/leftists destroying property. Really?
Setting up the narrative in advance
Submitted by Chris Of Rights on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 1:43pm.
This is just setting up the narrative in advance.
Remember what I've said before. No election results are ever good for the GOP. If they win, it's bad news, and it they lose it's even worse.
They are telling us how awful the Tea Party is now, so that starting on November 3, they can kick the "the Tea Party will be the death of the GOP" narrative in high gear.
SANITY/FEAR-BAGGERS
Submitted by MrShy on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 1:51pm.
Is what we'll call the elitist, hipster, RACIST (or so it appears :)) anti-Tea Partiers/anti-patriots...
Eye for an eye? You betcha' :)
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The media has been largely
Submitted by humanzee on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 2:10pm.
The media has been largely ineffective in attacking the Tea Party message.
They can't attack the ideology and have mostly focused on personal attacks on a few key members.
Christine O'Donnell served as a lightning rod. A lot of the liberals' animosity has been directed at this woman on the national level.
So much focus has been put on her that they've been unable to successfully attack people like Carly Fiorina in California.
While the media on the national scale has been focused on Delaware, Carly Fiorina may take California. The race is a lot closer than Democrats would like.
If O'Donnell didn't exist, it's quite possible that the liberal media would have been focused on keeping California as blue as possible.
The MSM took the bait and instead focused on O'Donnell while other GOP candidates have avoided a lot of attention.
CO'D must win
Submitted by williamhenley on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 2:15pm.
Christine is a must win in Delaware. I am voting for Joe Miller in Alaska, another must win. I hope that every Palin backed candidate wins!!! And a few that should win besides.
In Alaska, Democrats want to
Submitted by humanzee on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 2:23pm.
In Alaska, Democrats want to suppress the vote.
I doubt Murkowski can win a write-in candidacy. She doesn't seem to have the charisma to carry it off. She can't win her primary and all of sudden she has the charisma of a cult leader and can get hundreds of thousands of people to write her name in?
Some polls show her leading. I call a big fat pile of BS on that one.
Miller is the likely winner but Democrats and Murkowski want Palin's blood. So they're desperately trying to misinform people and keep them home so the Democrat has a better chance of stealing an election.
Excellent points, every single one.
Submitted by Blonde on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 2:45pm.
And isn't it funny, how the media's cheer-leading of Charley Crist has suddenly gone silent after last week's little attempted pick-off of Kendrick Meek?
Oddly, over the weekend, the local mullet wrapper had a story how this was hurting Meek, to the point of quoting democrats who said a vote for Meek was a wasted vote.
Sweet.
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When some on the left
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 2:49pm.
When some on the left suggests Tea Partiers are simply the mindless dupes of corporate interests, or we are at war for the oil, it's a neo-Marxist attitude.
Thanks MBM! Your attacks
Submitted by Free Stinker on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 4:58pm.
Thanks MBM! Your attacks will help remind us all to vote tomorrow, and to drag all our family, friends, and neighbors to the polls with us./// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال