WashPost Headline Clash: Walker Survives 'Close Vote,' But US 'Decisively Elects' Obama
In the same spirit as Scott Bauer's claim for Associated Press of a "narrow 7-point gap" in the Wisconsin recall polls, so The Washington Post on Wednesday's front page classified Scott Walker's win as "Walker survives," and below that, "LONG LINES AND A CLOSE VOTE." Close?
Via my Twitter friend mattjmobile, here's a reminder of the Washington Post's front page on November 5, 2008, when Obama won by the same margin as Scott Walker: "Obama Makes History: US DECISIVELY ELECTS FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT." [See below]
Know that when the Post said Walker survived a "close vote," they published him ahead 13 points with 71 percent of precincts counted.
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In Obama's victory, the
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 8:17am.
In Obama's victory, the description was unconsciously affected by their "soft bigotry of low expectations."
It started then and continues to this day. That's why everything this president does is not only great, but historic, unprecedented (actually that's true because everything he does is a "first" for a black president), and the greatest EVAH!!
delete double
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 8:09am.
delete double
And Walker defeated Barrett by a bigger margin . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 8:35am.
. . . than he did in 2010.
The whole post-mortum of the Wisconsin recall is amusing. When the Left occupied the state's capitol building, they got daily coverage. Outraged students and union members were prominently portrayed and interviewed.
But now that the circus is over and Wisconsin is returning to normal, the MSM -- like its Democratic Party handlers -- downplays the significance.
Gal, Hot Air has a great
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 8:55am.
Gal, Hot Air has a great video by the American Future Fund showing how this election was sooo important to liberals before it started looking like Walker would win, but now......Meh.
Also, notice the Dow's best day of 2012 yesterday........
Submitted by merly1 on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 8:47am.
and nary a single media outlet suggests the Walker rout, perhaps signaling the end of the
Owebama era, union power, et al as a cause. Instead, it is a "possible QE3, etc"
Election eve~
Submitted by GG_NB on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 8:51am.
This is exactly the narrative splashed all over Google election early-eve from sources including (but lordy, not limited to) "news" organizations like The Washington Post. Oh, except they already had projected that Barrett was going to be the BIG winner by about 6 p.m. (maybe earlier -- that's just when I started Google searches). That was all based on exit polling. Uh, hello? The exit polling was wrong. I guess they didn't get the memo on that. Someone should call them before they realllly embarrass themselves. Nah, too late.
And no, it wasn't a narrow margin. That was a clear, robust victory.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Washington Post
Submitted by oldfart on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 8:55am.
All the yellow journalism that is not fit to print.
Wow....
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 8:58am.
I've known for a long time that liberals have a hard time accepting reality, or at least living in it, but seems like there are new heights(or depths, depending on what it is) that are reached when you see stuff like this.
BTW, The newspapers are STILL wrong, we don't have a black president.
-Jon
The Walker re-elect story is
Submitted by celator on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 9:23am.
The Walker re-elect story is one of the best textbook examples of media bias we have. The MSM/union member reporters spun the story in three timed phases, which makes the MSM distortion of the whole story easy to follow:
1. BEFORE ELECTION--months of anti-Walker vs pro-union stories where Walker was cast as Beelzebub and the public unions were painted as heroes.
2. ELECTION DAY--MSM reporters insisting the voting data showed this was a "tight race", even though anyone with functioning eyeballs could read the very same data on the screens the MSM reporters were reading from. It's warn't close a'tall. So we could watch the MSM tell its whoppers before our very eyes.
3. POST ELECTION--MSM/union member reporters still spinning the results, insisting the race was close, it was all about the money, placing their Walker victory stories in the back pages of newspapers.
This is just a dry run for the MSM Obama re-elect campaign.
Media Bias
Submitted by Nunyabizness on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 9:55am.
It's not news that the leftist media in this country will only report those things that support their views of the world, all others get ignored. The recall election is just another in a long line of proving that the MSM isn't worth the paper it's printed on, nor the airwaves they use to broadcast their BS (or the electrons used for digital versions of same).
It's a shame that it has become this way, but it is the reality. They are complicit in the demise of our once-great nation.
Media and unions lose
Submitted by ohio granny on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 10:33am.
The total defeat of the MSM/democrats/liberals in Wisconsin is one more example of how irrelevant the so called MSM have become. They have lost the last little bit of credibility they had. Trying to spin it any other way just proves
The media and public employee unions were the losers in this election. By trying to spin this election as close proves one of two things, either they are clueless or liars. Clueless and liars, yeah, I think they are both.
I got absolutely
Submitted by nolefan2 on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 12:04pm.
nauseated at hearing over and over and over, the phrase "survived the recall." I had to stop short of throwing something at the TV everytime I heard it. If I had taken a drink every time I heard it, I'd have passed out on the floor. I expected no less a reaction from the MSM and I was not disappointed. The final straw was when they began to say that this was a victory for Obama. "What you talking about, Willis?" I guess we should just allow the fools to have their folly.
More "good" news for Baracka.
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 12:07pm.
RCP just did a poll, this week on the presidential race. Romney leads 46%-45%, with 9% undecided in Michigan.
Also, the dems trying to recall Governor Snyder have called off their efforts "in light of the results from the Wisconsin recall".
UpNorth~
Submitted by GG_NB on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 12:14pm.
Having 9% undecided in Michigan is good news. Now Romney needs to get up to the Midwest and start making HIS case. Ignore O -- and set out his economic solutions. That's what the Midwesterners want to hear, in my opinion -- especially in places like Michigan and Wisconsin.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Agreed, GG. And, having Romney up at all
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 12:38pm.
is great news.
As the "generic" Republican, up until Romney cinched the nomination, has been trailing Baracka for ages here. Romney trailed less than a month ago, so this is, at the least, people being comfortable enough to actually voice their preference.
This, in spite of the built-in bias of the polling, wherein they over-sample the Southeast portion of the state, like Detroit, Wayne County and places like Ann Arbor(UofM), Lansing(MSU) and the rust belt along I-75. So, not good news for the dems so far.