Friday, October 3, 2008

Biased or Just Opinionated?

After 40 plus adult years of watching Republicans and Democrats talk politics and being asked questions on their differing points, there are distinct differences in the style and methods of their answers in this day and time. That leads us to how the media covers the whole political enchilada.


Watching James Carville comment on Sarah Palin’s debate performance on CNN was akin to having a cat offer an opinion on how an ala carte lunch of mouse taste. Needless to say, James gave the Alaskan Governor marks that were below Beelzebub's views on original sin while Joe Biden was the Second Coming just behind the First Coming, Obama Himself.


What is the value of having Carville trash Palin like a bastard calf?


None at all unless you are a 100% Liberal Democrat.


Which lead us further down the political path to the value of asking any of today's Democrats any question?


Think back on all the questions asked of all Republicans and Democrats on all the political shows on all the news programs on both broadcast and cable the past 10 to 15 years.


For the most part, the Republicans give an answer and many times that answer is shaded with the Republican’s opinion, but it is an answer to what was asked. Now, 99 times out of 100 the Democrat never ever answers the question except for repeating the DNC’s daily talking points. The Democrat will most times continue this talking points tirade trying to talk over and drown out anyone else’s point of view.


Keep this in mind the next time you watch any time any Democrat is on the air answering any question other than the normal Mainstream Media's “Isn't Obama the greatest thing to ever happen to mankind?”


There is nothing wrong with having an opinion as it would be a very dull world if everyone agreed 100% on everything. But when one is biased everything they say is shaded with that outlook.


Example: the Obama campaign has implied that any criticism of his views are racist. If you do not agree with his every word, you are racist. If you do not follow him to the letter, you are racist. If you do not vote for Obama, you are a racist.


This view is a subtle undercurrent in four fifths of all news coverage getting us back to CNN asking James Carville’s opinion on Sarah Palin’s debate performance.


Which finally gets us to the proof in the pudding, are all the television news divisions and cable news channels overtly in the tank for Obama other than Fox News?


Yes, ABC, CBS, MSNBC and CNN are all so pro Obama that it is embarrassing to watch them claim to be unbiased while patting themselves on the back for showing how fair and banalced they are in trashing of any and all Conservative Republicans.


Combined with their fawning over Obama and presenting him in a Messianic light of epic proportions, to those of us old enough to recall, todays Mainstream Media's coverage of Obama is like the old days of Pravda, the Soviet version of truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth as the Kremlin says it, period!


Fox News is Fair and Balanced and one can readily agree that in a world of Liberal Spin offered as fact on the other news outlets, presenting both sides as Fox does can look odd. Just as a ray of light looks odd in a sea of darkness.

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