A Democratic senator has just announced his presidential candidacy. On the next morning's "Fox & Friends," a Fox News reporter who recently denied that Fox has any conservative leanings or that Sean Hannity is a conservative narrates a segment on the announcement. To analyze the Democrat's candidacy, she plays clips of two reporters, one from the National Review and the other from the Weekly Standard. Host Brian Kilmeade follows, schmoozing about the senator's prospects with a former senior aide to a conservative Republican governor.
Total lack of balance! Couldn't Fox News have found at least one Democrat to discuss a Democrat's candidacy? Outrageous, isn't it? Well, yes, it would be. Except it didn't happen. But the mirror-image did. Here's how this morning's "Today" covered John McCain's announcement of his candidacy on last night's Letterman:Andrea Mitchell, who recently denied that NBC has any liberal bias or that Chris Matthews is a liberal, narrated a segment in which the two media people appearing were Newsweek's Richard Wolffe [one of Keith Olbermann's favorite guests], and Anne Kornblut of the New York Times. Host Matt Lauer then kicked things
around with Tim Russert, former senior aide to liberal Democratic Governor of New York Mario Cuomo.
That's right. "Today" couldn't find one Republican to discuss a Republican's presidential prospects.
Outrageous, isn't it? And this time, it was all too real.
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If the Dhimmis want McCain,
March 1, 2007 - 08:22 ET by RowaneIf the Dhimmis want McCain, I say, lets give him to them, he sure hasn't been a Republican in years.
What is it about McCain tha
March 1, 2007 - 11:33 ET by balboaWhat is it about McCain that makes him a "non-Republican"? I'm not asking rhetorically; I'm curious as to why he's fallen out of favor with his own party.
bal,I cannot say for sure whe
March 1, 2007 - 13:00 ET by Dave Rbal,
I cannot say for sure whether McCain is a republican or not, as I have a tendancy not to equate conservative with republican, but one thing is certain. John McCain is not a conservative.
I hate newspapermen.....I regard them as spies.....If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast. -Gen. William T. Sherman
And further, Bal, some of u
March 2, 2007 - 10:11 ET by sarcasmoAnd further, Bal, some of us (ok, at least 1 of us...) see an effort right-now by the big government loving media to influence Republican party politics. The news media seem to be working very-hard to make this upcoming but-in-a-LONG-time election a "debate" (but featuring lots of unelected & unelectable Chris Matthews types leading the discussion -- this won't be no "Lincoln-Douglass!") between ONLY McCain (see links above) & Rudy (also a longtime supporter of big government, no matter what his shills might say, as any google search will reveal) as soon as they possibly can so that the "choice" is as usual big-government or big-government. Other ideas/candidates are NOT welcome (Anna Nicole's dead body being driven around in a hearse is, after all, of much greater import than the future direction of this nation!). Maybe there's a coherent explanation out-there for this across-the-board behavior that doesn't involve the words "antilibertarian media bias," but I have yet to see it.
JMR
"I'm old, and being a
March 1, 2007 - 08:29 ET by sarcasmo"I'm old, and being a Senator's great but I haven't had exactly an easy life at times, and people are starting to notice... How do I appeal to young eventual-voters who don't particularly care about me? Announce on the Daily Show or Colbert?"
(aide) "No, that's a good idea, but what you're trying to do would be too-obvious, and those guys are too-far-left anyway. Let's announce on Letterman or Leno instead, though."
JMR
McCain is the "adored on
March 1, 2007 - 08:30 ET by donsalesMcCain is the "adored one" among leftie journalists including NBC when he is bashing the current POS or the GOP majority opinion in Congress....
He's not their everloving sweetheart when he announces plans to go up against Barak or Hildebeast in the '08 elections.....and NBC has given up ALL semblance of balance in its reporting over the past two years.....
Nowhere to Run....Nowhere To Hide.....
Are We surprised?
March 1, 2007 - 08:53 ET by ChasvsThe MSM plan is simple. Denigrate and dismiss all Republicans and Bolster all Democrats. It's quite a simple plan, but has just proven successful in the 2006 elections! In 2008, it's the White House so they are thrilled to use this tactic to install their favorite Democrat!
This is nothing new, 15 years
March 1, 2007 - 09:39 ET by midnight cowboyThis is nothing new, 15 years ago the network socialists gave cover to a moletsing, draft dodging, lying, slick, person who protested his country while in a communistin land during a time of war and called him bubba, at the same time they denigrated a war hero, who kept the open flow of crude away from a dictator.
The MSM is steadily losing ground and viewers. Our job is to speed up and facilitate that process.
Russert comment
March 1, 2007 - 10:13 ET by PawpawNWhat's with the Russert comment of "insurgent candidate"! Was I mistaken or is this really what he said? Maybe too much Scooter on his mind!
"...appeal to voters.&qu
March 1, 2007 - 10:56 ET by mattm"...appeal to voters." This is what's wrong with politicians; they try to "appeal to voters" instead of trying to convince voters, by virtue of their character, their history and by the superiority of their policy agenda, that they are the right candidate for the job.
McCain's only been campaignin
March 1, 2007 - 11:17 ET by BruzillaMcCain's only been campaigning to be President for nine years or so now, so why would any Republican want to waste their time discussing McCain's announcement? It's not like he's someone who's tossed their hat in from left field.
Stick a fork in him, he's don
March 1, 2007 - 11:26 ET by Clear thinkerStick a fork in him, he's done even before he announces.
McCain has spent nine years distancing himself from the poeple he thinks are his base.
The liberal MSM has become an enemy of the USA.
Yep. I am not voting for him.
March 1, 2007 - 13:09 ET by Roger the ShrubberYep. I am not voting for him.
Dems favorite Republican candidate
March 1, 2007 - 11:17 ET by nkviking75Letting a real Republican speak about John McCain would expose the fact that McCain appeals far more to Democrats than his own alleged party. The MSM is trying to make sure that whoever wins the Dems' nomination will face a Democrat light opponent.
Russert
March 1, 2007 - 12:05 ET by iveseenitallI don't know what it is, but any picture of Tim Russert makes me feel queasy.
NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal
mcain
March 1, 2007 - 13:48 ET by ZmeademanAccording to a Druge report ,Mc{rino} Cain has said the soldiers lost in defending our freedom were wasted, the GREAT BHO said the same about 2weeks ago but then changed his tune. Will the rino also????????
Vote.com ran a strawpoll yest
March 1, 2007 - 15:26 ET by MikeBVote.com ran a strawpoll yesterday asking, "If the Republican primary were held today, who would you vote for?" Newt got 42%, Guliani got 33%, and McCain came in 4th with 6%. They did not include Tancredo in the poll.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
mccain
March 1, 2007 - 16:00 ET by ZmeademanIt seems Mr MC[rino]Cain had some handlers correct him on his use of the word "wasted" .I saw this on world net daily. This was not hard to predict.