Web use has become such a widespread phenomenon that for next year's presidential election, Yahoo is set to host the first-ever online presidential debate.
Unfortunately, all of the web media sources it's chosen to partner up with are liberal leaning. David All explains:
When mega-giant Yahoo! decides to play in the political sandbox, I’m going to pay attention. Yahoo! is currently ranked number one in Alexa.org’s Top 500.
So when it was reported this week that Yahoo! had partnered with Slate, Huffington Post, and PBS's Charlie Rose to host the first-ever online Presidential debate, as a conservative Republican, I immediately felt a curling in my stomach [...]
Don’t misunderstand the thrust of this post. This is not a personal dig at Arianna Huffington, the Washington Post’s Slate, or PBS’ Charlie Rose. In fact, I’ve said nice things about Arianna before.
Independently, these organizations and individuals serve as a valuable voice to their audience.But, that audience is neither objective nor balanced, which means the “first online Presidential debate” will fail to effectively penetrate the conservative sphere. And that’s a dynamic Yahoo! needs to explain (and hopefully, amend).
Read the rest, including the not-so-surprising revelation that the vast majority of the WaPo's readership are registered Democrats
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This is hardly surprising.The
April 26, 2007 - 22:02 ET by BlondeThis is hardly surprising.
There are a couple of tacks to take. Intrude beforehand and noisily insist that conservative sites participate in this particular debate; If rebuffed, ridicule this debate until it publicly becomes identified as the fraudulent liberal commercial it shall certainly be; hire a bunch of actors to reinact it, a la "old" (funny) SNL; or keep beating the drum that the dems are too chicken to debate in a realistic and fair forum.
Question is, will the republican leadership have the gumption to go for it?
"Question is, will the r
April 27, 2007 - 00:16 ET by DCC1"Question is, will the republican leadership have the gumption to go for it?"
Thats to easy, NO!
They are a bunch of whimps who are so afraid that if they speak up that the media will attack them, that they smile and nod their heads, so that the media will let them get their point across politely. Guess what, it ain't gunna happen, WAKE UP REPUBLICANS! The days of civility have passed, this nation needs the right to step up, and shout down the left in the media! Their job is to report the news, not make it, and untill the republicans grow a pair they are just as guilty as the left imo in letting them continue with the socialist anti-American EVERYTHING agenda the left has!
Crazies to the left, and Whimps to the right
Republicans WAKE UP!
April 27, 2007 - 07:33 ET by CTToo true!
Let's see: They probably se
April 26, 2007 - 22:57 ET by kathleenirishLet's see: They probably see Charlie Rose as the conservative, traditional one; Slate as moderate; Huffington as "progressive" *. What's the beef, you radical, conservative, warmongering-Rove-and-Fox controlled-conspiring Nazis at Newsbusters?? We have the field covered! Didn't you hear us tell you, again and again: we are the compassionate, inclusive, open-minded ones. You are the peons of the dim-witted, Rush-worshipping, common folk who hold onto jingoistic, oppressive Western ideology of capitalistic domination of the disenfrachised minorities! You probably can't even read these words, we are so intellectually superior! Thank goodness we have the capacity to use, "responsible speech" in OUR reporting over here in MSM Holy Land.
*Thou shalt not use the perjorative "liberal" when identifying one's self when one is, in fact, a card-carrying looney leftist moonbat wolf in sheep's clothing.
P.S. Did you like the "debate" tonight with the 7 dwarves? Hahahaha!!! Hillary is such a plastic phony! What a narcissist! Keep it coming, you screeching banshee!
" 'Fred's Slacks' is a winner!!"
This would be hilarious if it
April 27, 2007 - 00:19 ET by DCC1This would be hilarious if it weren't so true, as it is, it makes me want to puke!
Make no mistake we have MANY enemies, the worst of which is the enemy within!
"*Thou shalt not use the
April 27, 2007 - 01:29 ET by DCC1"*Thou shalt not use the perjorative "liberal" when identifying one's self when one is, in fact, a card-carrying looney leftist moonbat wolf in sheep's clothing"
What is so funny is that even liberals know that liberal is a dirty word, so they try to come back at us calling us "Neo-Conservatives", but sorry there is nothing new about Conservatives. We have principles and stick to them, unlike the wavering morals of liberals in the political winds. This perplex's them, they absolutely do not understand this. They have to brush it off that we are so simple minded that we connot change to the latest poll result. The only thing "Neo" in politics is the ever shifting ground that liberals tred.
Crazies to the left, and Whimps to the right
Oh, something's new about '
April 27, 2007 - 04:32 ET by sarcasmoOh, something's new about 'em, all right. In fact, I'll give you 2 examples: Nation-building in Iraq and pork-spending levels under the virgin veto pen. And come to think of it, both problems stem from totally-ignoring the libertarian wing of the Republican party, while at the same time energetically kissing the Ted Haggard wing's ass (hey, didn't y'all know that gets Ted kinda excited?)
JMR
Yahoo and Google are both lib
April 26, 2007 - 23:52 ET by mattmYahoo and Google are both liberally biased search engines. It seems to me that their programming is designed to give anti-Bush, or anti-conservative results even if you're searching for anti-Dem stuff...
***WARNING SARCASM***Oh my,
April 27, 2007 - 00:26 ET by DCC1***WARNING SARCASM***
Oh my, whatever do you mean??? These sites are not, as some critics would call, "Liberally biased", they show what a vast majority of Americans feel, the debate is over, now is the time to unite in the hatred of Bush, and the imperialism of the far right, neo-con nazis!
Crazies to the left, and Whimps to the right
I'm sorry, but if it's truly
April 27, 2007 - 01:52 ET by Mike BrattonI'm sorry, but if it's truly going to be an "online debate," let's see one the real way.
With just words.
You know--make the candidates type out their answers? The same way the rest of the world debates online?
If the candidates respond too quickly, we'll suspect cutting-and-pasting is at work. (Or a hired typist.) If they respond too slowly, they're either Googling information for their responses, or displaying their lack of techno-savvy. And both spelling and punctuation will most definitely count.
Who cares about a change of venue for the same, tired, stand-behind-a-podium debate? Let's see how their ideas come across when the lip-biting, gesticulating, and image-consulted nonsense is stripped away.
--Mike
im with you mike, they dont h
April 27, 2007 - 02:02 ET by Zmeademanim with you mike, they dont have ideas other than bush lied . bumper sticker logic
It seems to me that there is
April 27, 2007 - 05:03 ET by old croIt seems to me that there is a concerted attempt by the democrats/liberals to expunge the conservative viewpoint from this presidential debate. With the cancellations of Fox's debate hosting, and now this, it seems to me that there is collusion between Howard Dean's democrat party machine and the MSM.
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