I was reading a CNN poll someone sent me via Twitter suggesting that Obama’s health care reform speech Wednesday night favor his health care plans — a 14-point gain among speech-watchers. Here’s the last paragraph:
The sample of speech-watchers in this poll was 45 percent Democratic and 18 percent Republican. Our best estimate of the number of Democrats in the voting age population as a whole indicates that the sample is about 8-10 points more Democratic than the population as a whole.
Disclosure: I don’t particularly support or oppose Obama’s health care plan, but it is clear that the US media is a joke and pro-Obama.
Alfred, lay off the dope, will ya? Wilson’s political career is over. He embarrassed his constituents, his party, his peers, and his president.
No surprise, Olbermann is talking about you as well in this rant:
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/node/31150
>Wilson’s political career is over. He embarrassed his constituents, his party, his peers, and his president.
Why, because he lied in the New York Times about his trip to Niger?
MikeN….because he exposed his abject stupidity to the entire country, which is a reflection of the stupidity floating through the right wing of the R party these days. Or maybe that’s always been there, hidden behind the reasonable voices that used to be in charge.
That, and his D opponent has acquired over $700,000 in donations since the speech.
Miken, plus there’s plenty of stuff like this that his opponent can exploit.
http://tinyurl.com/ljkz36
The “shout” expresses the same frustration many feel toward this Pinocchio as he pretends to run the country.
No apology required.
DrDodd, I can understand frustration at incompetent presidents, we just finished possibly the most astounding case of presidential incompetence this year. But shouldn’t guys like Joe Wilson be frustrated about things that actually exist?
Or maybe they should be frustrated that their governance sucked so bad that they lost control of the entire federal government.
You blame Obama for that?
#46=Baggins-You blame Obama for that?
I blame 99% of those in government for the problems we are experiencing. They are a bunch of arrogant control freaks that insist on having a say in every aspect of our lives.
Everything they touch is made worse yet the promises keep flowing and the sheeple keep believing.
The sooner we learn it’s the government that is the enemy and not individual republicans and democrats the sooner we will see the way our of the coming 1984 nightmare.
#41If Wilson didn’t apologize, he would have emerged as a front runner for president…
Now he will only be re-elected with comfortable margins.
The loon echo chamber is sounding hollow to the rest of us…the ratings tell the tale…on cable, fox news and broadcasting news beats all competitors combined.
Americans will not let the necessitous and dependent among us, take over.
They need to get a job, which will be available, once we stop robbing the economy to fund leftist loon social engineering.
From a broad range of news sources…
Shameless Joe Wilson turned a joint session of Congress into a brainless town hall meeting, a Mission Accomplished photo-op, and a cynical 9-11-based justification for the death of civil liberties delivered in one very tight ball of that signature GOP swill: one part cynicism, one part fear, and two parts pie-eyed dogma. And all the man did was shout.
#49 President Bush endured Congressional and astroturf hecklers during his address to both houses…often…
Then Democrats lauded the right of dissent.
Proof of Bias?: http://tinyurl.com/nxru4j
Bush booed by Democrats in 2005: http://tinyurl.com/l55f9x
The fact that journalists are more likely to support a liberal government is not a joke, it is inevitable. As university educated middle class they are simply more likely to vote that way. The media are a social group who are always likely to have similar views, and more educated people are statistically likely to vote for the democrats. You must also remember that (remembering this crude generalization) democrats are also more likely to read more and try a greater range of sources. Thus you get lots of smaller businesses serving them rather than one big corporation which everyone goes to (like fox). Thus more reporters will be for left wing publications than right wing ones, even if there is a more equal spread among the audience.
Also remember that the democrats have more support at the moment.
Always amusing to hear the “liberal bias” accusation hurled at multi-billion dollar media corporations. Ah yes, those flaming socialist media barons!
As Stephen Colbert so famously pointed out a couple of years ago at that National Press Club speech, the media has given up on reporting on facts, because that requires investigation, which requires real investigative reporters, which costs money. So they have settled on reporting what the Democrats say and what the Republicans say, then they throw up their hands and say “we’ve done our job.” And since the Republicans have proven willing to go further and further out from reality, we get stories with the basic gist of “Republicans say sun rises in the west; Democrats disagree.”
That’s why the meme “facts have a well-known liberal bias” has taken root so strongly. The “liberal” media can’t bring themselves to actually admit when the Democrats are right.
ROTFMAO. DAMN Republicans are tin foil hat retarded now a days. GE and Viacom are “leftist” now? Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes, “You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.”
There hasn’t been anything close to a lefty socialist party since the 40s. We’re a ONE party country. We have a one corporate party, split into anti abortion / pro choice sides just so we have the appearance of choice. Wake up.
>and more educated people are statistically likely to vote for the democrats.
Depends on the level of education. Democrats get the votes of people with the most education and the least education, but in between, with more education you are more likely to vote Republican. Same with income.