Liberal Talking Heads in Main Stream Media Crying -- Unfair Coverage of Obama

[Cabin4]

I made the mistake of turning on cable news this morning and ran accross CNN. Yes, against all my better judgement I watched as much as I could because they were reviewing the media's coverage (not just CNN's coverage) of Obama and his fiscal policy thus far. Without getting into the details of what was covered and the talking head opinions, whats yours? How has the media in your area covered this and what's your thoughts?

[billy_56081]

Well, from alot of what I've seen, you swear it is the second coming. 

It's hard to not vomit at times.

[Biohazard Monk]

IMO, the media is giving obama a free pass as compared to what they have done in the last eight years...

[Questor]

My radio market is absolutely dominated by National Public Radio / Minnesota Public Radio. Coverage of Obama is unrealistically positive. He can do no wrong. The coverage is almost non-stop. It's almost like a fantasy world.  The coverage is wildly skewed to putting Obama and his administration in a positive light. You would have to hear it to believe it.

For conservative talk radio locally, we are gifted with some very talented people like Jason Lewis and Sue Jeffers. They are quite a bit more circumspect than, say, Rush Limbaugh is. Lewis is knowledgeable of economics and focuses on the economic issues in his show. Jeffers is a business woman who focuses on how government policy affects on business. Neither has anything good to say about Obama.

The local paper is the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, which is referred to by conservatives as the "star and sickle" because of its sometimes comical leftist bias. The paper is gradually going out of business, or at least is shrinking dramatically like so many other metropolitan papers. Lately it is absolutely surprising how they have been fair in reporting issues related to Obama and his administration. This seems like nothing less than a miracle.

The other paper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press used to be a major paper but is now essentially a tabloid for the same reasons the Tribune is shrinking. It is no longer worth reading because it has become so weak. Most people who read it appear to be doing so strictly for coverage of local issues.

I can't tell you about TV because I don't watch it.

Minnesota is a left-leaning state because
1) Mining in the northern part of the state has been on the dole for generations
2) Farmers in the rest of the state are on the dole
3) Big government unions are on the dole
4) Over 3/5ths of the state lives in its only large metropolitan area.
5) Universities and medical research facilities are on the dole.
6) It is a welfare magnet, drawing people from within the region, nationally, and even internationally to collect welfare. The largest growing sections of the population are on the dole.

Corporate taxes in Minnesota are the second highest in the world, after Iowa.

It's basically a cold California.

[Biohazard Monk]

Sounds like you hit the state dead on!

[billy_56081]

Questor, Joe Soucheray isn't too bad either. Alot of common sence with him, something sadly lacking in America today. I know alot of the outstate MN crowd is getting tired with the liberals up around the capitol area.

[Redtail1949]

I was watching CNN this morning (i watch all channels to see what is being reported) and one of the guest in a session discussing how Rush Limbaugh was the New Leader of the Republican Party. One woman a Democratic Stratagist said something like this "....We as reporters and the American people have a right as well as a need to know everything in the life of Rush Limbaugh. So we can make an objective a fair judgement about this man."


Now that struck me as a perfect example of the double standard they set with their second coming of Christ Lincoln and Kennedy wrapped up in ythe black skin of Obama. They would not even discuss nor permitt questioning of about 20 years of the life of that man. Yet now we need to know and have a right to know about Rush.

What a bunch of hippocrites.

[Cabin4]

Obama, Rham Emmanuel, Paul Bigala of CNN and James Carville of CNN are all working together to cast Limbaugh as the leader of the Republican party. Paul & James work for CNN and even they will not deny they are strategizing with the Whitehouse on this. Even their own network (CNN) is questioning their role and when asked directly on CNN neither Paul or James will deny their involvement.

The whole Rush thing is a smoke screen created by Obama and the Whitehouse to distract people away from all the spending this idiot of a president is doing. They have a willing, complicit and conspiring main stream media to help them. And since the majority of Americans are so damn stupid, they can get away with it.

[kitchawan kid]

The media around here,N.Y. keep it simple"It's all Bush's fault"

[Cabin4]

Rush is just a convenient target for the socialists so they can divert everyone from seeing what anti American trash they are trying to pass through congress. That all this is about, Period. Rush is meaningless, he's just a pawn for the liberals to go after. Every time a conservative voice appears anywhere, Obama's Whitehouse puts a bulls eye on them. Sound familiar?? These are the teaching right out of the book of Marxism. So far the Marxists in the white house have targeted 4 conservative talk show hosts by name, which is unprecedented in American history.

Apparently they don't like the 1st amendment. As soon as they restrict this with the "fairness doctrine" they will come after your guns.

[ironglow]

  It is quite obvious that Immanuel, Bergala and the capitol gang are trying to flood the media with Rush..24/7...
  That way they figure friends in the media won't have to report that so many cabinet appointees are crooks and tax dodgers. These same buddies won't have to explain how the secy of state didn't even know the names of people she had to deal with,  and visited nearly every dictatorship in the mideast, gave $900,000,000 to the Gaza terrorists and then came home, snubbing the only  democracy (Israel) in the neighborhood.By concentrating upon Rush, the more dense members of the public didn't even notice how shabbily British Prime minister Brown was treated by Walks-on-water Obuma.
    Come on Americans...pay no attention to the man behind the green curtain...

  News flash just on TV;

   Chinese ships have shadowed and came dangerously close to American Navy ships, paying no heed to signals to stay clear..
  ....guess they know what kind of US leaders they are now dealing with.

[jimster]

"Personally, I think he is kinda anti-American with his polemics and rants"

I don't get a chance to listen to Rush too much these days, but I heard the whole speech he gave, nothing in that long speech was anti American...nothing at all...it was nice to hear someone tell it like it is, and reflect on what America was once founded on.  No problem with him agreeing with my views at all.

I do however hear anti American rants on here....it could also be said very easily some on here are way anti American....all a matter of opinion...they vary. 

After hearing Rush's speech I think he is involved in the conservative movement....I also think the smoke screen is very thin that the White house puts out there...people know the truth, they know the math...and the current administration needs to divert in a big way, because now many people are falling off their wagon, mostly because there never was a wagon to sit on.  The republicans will have to work 100 times harder to gain support after voting WITH the Dems all those years....(ya check the records, Dems will tell you they were in the way)...I'm not sure they will come back anytime soon unless they get the same type of attidude that someone like Rush has...tell it like it is, and stick with it...this would be a good time fo the independents to get a leg up on the two worthless parties.  We can only hope. 

Nothing wrong with telling it like it is....better than trying to reach out in most cases. There is no half way when it comes to what's right.  I do give lots of credit to the conservatives or conservative republicans who voted their party/republicans out...shows some integrity.   Bill O' asked a progressive socialist on his show...would they stop voting for Democrats if the Dems just wrecked the whole country trying to do things that did not work...she said NO...never would she swtch parties. That kind of tells you how it is when your stuck in party mode.   It also tells us that a majority is not always right...it also tells us that voting doesn't mean much these days to a lot of people. 

I like Rush just fine...good for him for saying what I would like to say,  but do not have the media or the money to do so.

[Cabin4]

"Personally, I think he is kinda anti-American with his polemics and rants"


I do however hear anti American rants on here....it could also be said very easily some on here are way anti American....all a matter of opinion...they vary. 

I don't think Rush is anti-American either. As much as I could care less about the republican party these days I also don't think he is the leader of the that party.

But I'm curious if you could give us an example(s) of anti American that you see here on GBO.

[jimster]

Like you Cabin4, I could care less about the Republican party as well...and never did care for the other party. 

As far as poing a finger at any specific thing or person and starting a flame war...no thanks...but for me if I read anything that suggests the US needs to change to more progressive socialism, needs to send our money to other countries, needs to pull up the people who won't pull themselvs up, suggests that we need to have more taxes when we can't control spending or where our money goes now...to me that is all anti American.  I also think anything in the constitution that is broken is also anti American...which means I got a beef with the last administration that will likely stick in my throat for as long as I live.  For me, times are tough, I've been watching all the administrations bust things lately....this one will probably be as bad, and even worse if you talk taxing us and spending.  I tought the last one was bad...we ain't seen nothin yet. 

[Cabin4]

Darn ! You did not take the bait jimster!   Okay, you saw it coming.   But I do like your explanation on anti American things.

Thanks for the follow up.

[lrs]

Personally, I think he is kinda anti-American with his polemics and rants at times....constructive criticism is welcome,,,but his is mostly deconstructive criticism and personality bashing...very juvenile
...TM7
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Now that's just plain silly.
This is what the democrats do.  They find someone to demonize.  George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Newt Gringrich, Carl Rove have been some of objects of massive demonization in the past.
Last year, it was Joe the plumber, a private citizen who dared ask a tough question to b.o.
Rush is also a private citizen.   
I think the b.o. administration, utilizing the power of the U.S. govt, and the democratic party, combining forces with accomplices in the mainstream press, going after a private citizen, is the ultimate un-American activity.

[Cabin4]

Personally, I think he is kinda anti-American with his polemics and rants at times....constructive criticism is welcome,,,but his is mostly deconstructive criticism and personality bashing...very juvenile
...TM7
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I think the b.o. administration, utilizing the power of the U.S. govt, and the democratic party, combining forces with accomplices in the mainstream press, going after a private citizen, is the ultimate un-American activity.

This is one of the tenets of a marxist, socialist or communist  movement. Find people to demonize and use demonization of them as the means to forward the cause.

Hitler used the Jews and the press swallowed like hungry hogs.
Obama will use conservatives and the press is swallowing like hungry hogs.