Is hangten right about the media?Follow

Really? Wow.

You know, Silver derives his numbers from print sources you just claimed were "neutral" and has cites for every one of his numbers. Makes a lot more sense to take a bunch of uncited numbers given by supporters of the events, though.

Good thinking. And, more importantly, good reporting.

Oh, it's even better... you want to know who helped collect those numbers?
YES!! Gbaji is going to throw away over a hundred linked and cited numbers with reports from FREEPERS!

I don't know how you could have missed it Joph. You didn't once notice all the news channels using the word "teabagging" when talking about it? You didn't notice TDS (which you watch IIRC) making a funny skit about it? You didn't notice MSNBC coverage in which their reporters were literally laughing while giving the report?

This report

Or this one

And this one, in which it's implied that the Conservative folks at Fox were the ones using the word


That last one is the most amusing. The "fun" everyone was having with this was tied into this perception that those foolish Conservatives just didn't know what teabagging was. Yet, while conservatives said things like "tea parties", and referred to "teabags", they didn't specifically talk about "teabagging". That was spin concocted by everyone else in the media.


So yeah. Dismissive. And I don't believe you somehow managed to miss this Joph.



Several of those shots in the last link were from evening news segments Joph. You may have missed it, but the mocking aspect of this was pretty prevalent.

Even if it was just one, that's too many Joph. If any single person on any news show made light or a joke about a protest involving race or ethnicity we'd all be up in arms about it. Yet, this protest got mocked pretty much from day one and no one cared. Gee. But there's no bias going on here...


You don't see it because the jokes are funny to you Joph.

Several of those shots in the last link were from evening news segments Joph. You may have missed it, but the mocking aspect of this was pretty prevalent.

Even if it was just one, that's too many Joph. If any single person on any news show made light or a joke about a protest involving race or ethnicity we'd all be up in arms about it. Yet, this protest got mocked pretty much from day one and no one cared. Gee. But there's no bias going on here...


You don't see it because the jokes are funny to you Joph.

Yes, Joph. Joph, this is about truth and justice, Joph. The liberal agenda, Joph, would Joph on it's way to Jophing the country into Jophlivion, Joph.

I'm now trying to wipe chocolate brownie mixed with a latte out of my keyboard....thanks a lot.

Stop with the bait and switch Joph. I linked to a number of clips from a number of sources. I said that some were commentary and some were evening news type things.

The last one I linked was an MSNBC news report. That the clip was shown on Olbermann's show is irrelevant. It was intended to be a news piece for dissemination.



It's "obvious commentary"? It's on the nbcwashington site, on the "news" and "local" tabs. There's nothing to indicate that this is an editorial aside from the writing style. Why would I assume this isn't supposed to be "news" Joph? Because of the content itself?

Is this the state of news sites now? That they mix commentary in with their journalism? Isn't that kinda part of the problem?


The point is that many mainstream news sources picked up the word "teabagging" and repeated it, presumably with lots of ********* from the left about how they got folks on TV to say the word. I personally saw the word used on a local NBC broadcast here in San Diego, and what looked to be one of those scripted news stories that gets carried all over the place. If I remember correctly it when something like this: "There's a new movement taking hold around the country... Teabagging! People from all over blah blah blah... etc...". I don't remember it verbatim, but I saw it, and it was obviously one of those scripts that are sent out to affiliates for them to read on air with their own people.


A whole lot of lefties in the media had a whole lot of fun with this. And yeah. After the fact, it's hard to find transcripts and whatnot. Probably because all of the more mainstream folks removed the content as soon as someone told them what the word meant. No one wants a record of them reading a script with the word teabagging in it Joph. It's kinda obvious why you can't find them now. But they absolutely were using the word in mainstream news stories at the time. I remember thinking repeatedly "Don't they know what that word means"? And not when watching a cable commentary show Joph. Evening news coverage on broadcast TV.

I'm sorry guys, but all laughing aside (tea-bagging does rhyme with de-bagging after all, snicker), I would have thought that in the enlightened company that is the arsylum posse everyone would know by now that with the exception of a few notable journalists (very few /mourn) that 'News' as it is disseminated via the teevee/internetz/radio/press is just another form of marketing.

To argue that it (the 'media') is biased one way or another is a pointless exercise, because its so fucking obviously biased.

The mad thing is, they dont even (on the whole) pretend to not be biased. Why? Because most humans dont give a toss past who got booted from American/Australian/UZbeki Idol that week.

For anyone to be getting their grundies in a bundle over individual news items because they show one group of people in a bad light is utterly crass and hardly deserves a whole thread to itself.

The 'News' is run by global corporations ffs! Does anyone really believe that of all the things that global corporations do out there in pursuit of more influence and power and profit, the same ones who also run the 'media', are doing so for their anything other than their own profit driven purposes? As anything other than giant marketing exercises??

C'mon....

But tax cuts don't work right?

Unless of course it involves a business that pushes their agenda.

So yes I am right. The media and liberals have always been bed buddies; now it appears they're tying the knot.

A bit ironic that Democrats don't think tax cuts work but then cut the tax rate of their media strongholds by 40% when they're in trouble.






Edited, May 13th 2009 3:27pm by publiusvarus

Jophed,

They wouldn't have cut the tax rate for wal-mart if it was in trouble would they?

Beats me. I don't live in Washgton state and know jack-all about their governor.

I'll certainly feel more qualified to talk that then than I feel qualified talking about WA's governor's actions.

Lemme know when it happens, kk?

If you're real lucky, you'll get to ask me on the account you're using now!


Stop banning Varrus!

Elne,



The story is Obama's giving it to them. Guess you don't see a conflict of interest there.

Also Time Magazine recently actually asked it's reporters which of them would take a pay cut so they wouldn't have to cut jobs. LMAO wonder which ones stepped up and said, "cut my pay I won't mind".

The only way the liberal media can survive is by taxpayer funded bailouts.