Politico, the unofficial web-branch of MSNBC, and whose staff spends more time on MSNBC than Chris Matthews, has a so-called reporter named Joseph Williams who all but called Mitt Romney a racist on Martin Bashir’s show today. – Breitibart
POLITICO AND PENIS JOKES, lovely. But seriously, have people watched “Fox and Friends” lately? It’s a non-stop negative ad against Pres. Obama, just without the d*@! jokes.
Some in the chattering class will say the media conversation is all a distraction. However, considering how much the traditional and new media played to Barack Obama in ’08, it’s important to note that you can’t get fair coverage without some discipline from the media, which Joe Williams clearly does not have.
Having two whole cable networks geared for their favorite big two party, it’s also pretty astounding that CNN still can’t find their groove. I’ve really never seen such bad talent casting before. Even Current TV is managing to field some exploratory shows that are interesting to see flail around.
But when was the last time you heard any of the networks cover Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson or Progressive upstart Rocky Anderson? They can’t even get a good scandal going.
Unfortunately, since the public is besotted with the binary Obama-Romney Super Bowl it’s unlikely they ever will.
“But when was the last time you heard any of the networks cover Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson or Progressive upstart Rocky Anderson? They can’t even get a good scandal going.”
Ahhhhh, maybe because they haven’t been able to convince more then a paltry few true believers to support them?
“Unfortunately, since the public is besotted with the binary Obama-Romney Super Bowl it’s unlikely they ever will.”
This sounds more and more like someone who is getting their clock cleaned complaining it isn’t fair. If these candidates convince enough people to vote for them they will win. Do they stand a snowballs chance of traversing hell unmelted? No. Plain old simple no.
So I guess the folks who are so unimpressed with the two party system, rather then trying to effect change in the parties will just have to continue wailing and gnashing their teeth in impotent frustration.And in point of fact that only applies to one of the parties. The repugnantklan seems to be happy as clams on an unpolluted beach with the changes in their party.
You can’t possibly be this uninformed, but you do sound awfully bitter. I’m not sure why you’re so upset about my truthful and fact-based writing on the political times we’re in, but I don’t really care either.
“You can’t possibly be this uninformed, but you do sound awfully bitter.”
Uninformed? That’s the way it works. Unless you have outright voting machine rigging anyway. That in fact is the ONLY way it works. So unless these fringe candidates can do the leg work and get enough people to vote for them they are just whistling in the wind. If you want bitter and uninformed how about all the people wailing about how Obama and Romney are the same?
I’m not upset about your” truthful and fact-based writing on the political times we’re in” You call them like you see them. I don’t happen to agree with your assessment as to how lib/prog should go about trying to change things.
NO ONE is going to do anything but help the repugnantklan with liberal/progressive third party nonsense. Period.
It sounds like you are advocating the old “the worse the better” mantra from pr-revolutionary Russia. Frankly, I WILL take Obama over Romney…any day of the week and twice on Saturday.
I guess you are just that uninformed, because it’s absolutely not “the way it works.”
It works by buying the presidency.
“Leg work.”
That’s the funniest frickin’ thing I’ve read today.
Frankly, I WILL take Obama over Romney…any day of the week and twice on Saturday.
That’s *your* choice. Everyone has one.
I guess the “theory” here is that “legwork” can overcome the virtually 100 percent media blackout imposed on third party candidates. Perhaps Secular believes that Rocky Anderson should simply enlist the help of hundreds of Boy Rangers, who could spread the word using an ancient printing press in someone’s basement.
Hey Sec, ever hear of Ross Perot and Donald Trump? Regardless of what you might think of their politics, here are two guys who were given instant credibility by the media the moment it was suggested that they might run for President. Why? Might have had something to do with their bank accounts.
Anybody remember John Anderson? He didn’t have deep pockets and millions of dollars…but he mounted a credible third party try(or third candidate…don’t remember if he was still a Dem or an Inie) but bottom line is he DIDN’T have support from the voters…at least not enough voters to win. So it STILL gets down to one candidate, whether with the help of gazillions of dollars or not convinces enough people to pull their lever…or there is outright poll fixing which is another story. Just because the candidates or issues YOU want to win don’t doesn’t change that.
Yes, I remember John Andersen. I volunteered for his campaign, in fact. Here’s something else I remember about him: He was a candidate for the Republican nomination before he was an independent. He received a fair amount of attention from the press as a result. Wikipedia remembers that, also.
Something else I remember about Andersen is that his campaign was in 1980 – a generation ago, not to mention an entire media consolidation ago. The news was a very different thing in 1980 than it is now.
“Something else I remember about Andersen is that his campaign was in 1980 – a generation ago, not to mention an entire media consolidation ago. The news was a very different thing in 1980 than it is now.”
SO, a generation ago an Independent( He was a Republican” Been that long since there were any sane Republicans?!!!) back when the Media wasn’t owned by a few STILL couldn’t garner enough votes huh…..sounds like we’re stuck with the old two party system and either have to work from within to change the party or just roll over and go buns up doesn’t it?
I seldom watch Fox or Msnbc. I do watch the PBS Evening News and BBC World News. The biggest CNN problem has is it tried to brand itself as unbiased giving equal time to the left and right. Its the equivelant of giving equal time to Eli Wiesel and Joseph Goebbels debating the ‘Jewish’ problem in 1933.
Ditto, along with Al Jazeera English when I can, along with all the other channels.
CNN is a real puzzle to me. There are a lot of people in the news business who could turn the network around & in an election year they’re just stumbling all over themselves.
Taylor,
Are you a member of Fox News Watchers Anonymous? Secretly watching FNC during the daytime, when you think no one is looking?
You must be new, I watch or DVR ALL channels, yes, including Fox News. I’ve written innumerable columns about it. Why wouldn’t I? It’s impact on our politics is unquestioned.
Watching Fox News for any reason is unacceptable. Either you pledge not to watch FNC or I am out of here.
Buh-bye.
TRIPLE DITTO!!!! Next it’s going to be a demand that you stop using the letter w or their outta here!!!!!!! Wait a second….w….W BUSH!!!! Unless you stop using the letter……..
mitchflorida, its a free country and she can watch want she wants too. She has to do research and watches all the news channels.
Mitch, thanks for the endorsement of ignorance.
If you don’t watch Fox News, you have no business criticizing it. Personally, I don’t let Media Matters for America, MSNBC or ANY other outlet tell me what another network said and I why it’s stupid. I’m an adult and I can listen to both sides and judge for myself.
I wonder who the hell you think you are, making demands like that. I hope you were only kidding.
Amother huge problem with Fox News is that it has hired Scott Ramussen to do its polling under a subsideriy company. Nate Silver has throughly examined why Rasmussen had the worst record of any polling organization wrongly predicting Tea Party candidates winning Senate seats in Colorado and Nevada. He even had Christine (I am not a witch) O’Donnell closing the gap in Delaware making the race competiative.
The problem is that Rasmussen has a 5 to 7 point GOP bias in virtually all of their polling. Just look at the current Obama v Romney matchups in Real Clear politics poll of polls:
http://realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html
The Rasmussen polls conducts robo-calling polls. Poll organizations that use prerecorded robo call methodolgy is prohibeted by federal regulations from calling cell phones. Which demographic groups are most likley to be a cell phone only hourshold?
Take out the Rasmusen polls and Obama’s approval ratings and lead over Romney increases substantially..
The Rasmussen GOP bias is also erflected in Approval ratings:
http://realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html
The Daily Kos PPP polls are not included in the Obama Romney matchups. The PPP like Rasmussen is a robocall with prerecorded questions and has a Democratic Bias.
In the Real Clear poll odf polls all the other polls are conducted by live interviews including live interviews with cell phone responders.
She watches it so we don’t have to~
heh-heh… Why a professional political writer wouldn’t watch certain Fox programs along with the rest is beyond me. Jon Stewart watches Fox, along with the rest of us.
Checking out “Fox and Friends” recently was a new experience, but after the stats made the news I decided it was time to tune in. The NY Times recently covered some of what’s being talked about.
Hell I watch Pat Robertson….as much as I can stomach and even listen to limpwithnoballs just to know what the enemy is up to.
There’s something cosmically wrong about reading an article that says Jim Vandenhei and John Harris suspended someone for journalistic malfeasance. Frankly, what Joseph Williams had to say about Mitt Romney is no more fact-free than what most folks guests commentators on cable news say these days. He just had the nerve to mention dicks. Or maybe it was racism…
It’s no wonder Americans are so mis- or uninformed about the news.
Still glad I’m not wasting $50 or more a month on cable. Setting fire to that much money in my fireplace would be a more intelligent use of the money.
Meanwhile, Ed Schultz should seriously consider ending the practice of running a twitter feed as a scroll at the bottom of the screen during his show, it just makes his viewers sound like drooling, pumpkin-headed mouth-breeders.
Typical examples: “Romney Stupid Obama 2012!” “Obama Will Beat Romney Easy! Forward!”" “Ed Show Rocks Walker Stinks Obama 2012!” Really, really pathetic, not to mention distracting.
Personally I like what Charles Barkley had to say when a shot of Mittens came up during an NBA game(no doubt Mittens was there because some of his friends OWN NBA teams!) “Come November we gonna beat you like a drum!”
Who is the “we” that’s gonna “beat (him) like a drum?” I can imagine the reaction of the Obamabots over at MMFA if a white sports figure referred to beating Obama “like a drum.”
Did he mean the corporations that support Obama are going to beat the corporations supporting Romney (“Mittens?” Seriously, grow up and get off the playground already?)
Because this contest really is like an NBA game- sometimes fun to watch, but beyond the emotional level, the result doesn’t have much of an impact on our lives in the long run.
“I can imagine the reaction of the Obamabots over at MMFA if a white sports figure referred to beating Obama “like a drum.””
Really? And what do you imagine in that feverish lil brain of yours?
“Did he mean the corporations that support Obama are going to beat the corporations supporting Romney (“Mittens?” Seriously, grow up and get off the playground already?)”
What, you don’t like Mittens handle? And why should I leave the playground…politics is a full contact game…anybody can play, just don’t bring no weak shit….MNittens got WEAK shit.
“Because this contest really is like an NBA game- sometimes fun to watch, but beyond the emotional level, the result doesn’t have much of an impact on our lives in the long run.”
Really….Who is President “doesn’t have much of an impact on our lives in the long run.”?
So on what planet DO you live anyway?
I didn’t say that the President doesn’t have an impact on our lives. Seriously, you really should stop ranting every once in a while and invest in a good literacy course. I said that whether Romney or Obama wins will have very little impact, because they are basically the same person.
As for the rest of your post- really, I’m not going to demean myself by trying to respond- it’s like trying to converse with a severely undereducated, yet self-important, dope who is trying way too hard to be hip and edgy rather than just making a coherent point. Come back when you’ve built a vocabulary.