Carl Cannon: Media "Took Sides" Against Palin
Tim Graham of Newsbusters has an article up today summarizing this Politics Daily piece by long-time White House correspondent Carl Cannon.
Cannon's article is long, but well worth reading in its entirety, summarizing the history of liberal media bias in general, and the media's vicious attacks on Governor Palin in particular.
This New Journalism, if you can call it that, exhibited in 2008 was epitomized by an eradication of the lines between fact and opinion – and, even more troubling, between reporting and propaganda. Some journalists were content to repeat Democratic Party talking points or bloggers' rumors as though they were established fact, interspersing them with ideological commentary in a kind of toxic stew.
"She is a far-right conservative who supported Pat Buchanan over Bush in 2000. She thinks global warming is a hoax and backs the teaching of creationism in public schools," wrote Jonathan Alter in Newsweek on Aug. 29, 2008. Actually, she did not support Buchanan, she questioned whether climate change is man-made (not whether it's occurring) and gave creationists the most minor of rhetorical nods – and never questioned the teaching of evolution in schools.
But so it went.
And Cannon does something in his article that I have never seen an actual journalist do before - he looks back at the Palin/Biden VP debate and actually categorizes the lies, misstatements, and errors made by Joe Biden.
Sen. Biden, however, was in a place by himself when it came to bogus claims, absurd contentions, and flights of rhetorical fancy. He threw out several assertions that were so preposterous that – had Palin made them – they would have prompted immediate calls for McCain to dump her from the ticket.
The good senator from Delaware warmed up slowly, erroneously claiming that McCain voted with Obama on a budget resolution, and asserting wrongly that Obama wanted to return to the Reagan-era marginal income tax rates. He also embarked on an appallingly wrongheaded monologue about the constitutional history of the vice presidency. But when the talk turned to national security, presumably Biden's purported area of expertise, he went completely off the grid.
As I said, read the whole thing. It's well worth your time, and, while pointing out some of Governor Palin's missteps, it tells both sides of the story fairly.
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You mean the media is biased?
Example #12,889,002
Today's Top Story on the AP wire is Levi's "Press Conference"
A. Why is Levi giving a "Press Conference?"
B. Why is the "press" listening to him?
C. Why do the give the "story" top billing on Yahoo and CNN?
D. Who is paying Levi's attorney, and where is Levi's money coming from?
Cotton , this Levi has apparently done something important for the world.
And Cannon does something in his article that I have never seen an actual journalist do before - he looks back at the Palin/Biden VP debate and actually categorizes the lies, misstatements, and errors made by Joe Biden.>>
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That alone will make any article long. LOL
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Levi has run his course. It told him a week to learn his lines.
Cannon wrote a great article. I have never heard anyone in the MSM admit what they did last fall. Newsflash: The ONLY reason I jumped out as an early Palin defender was because of the insane criticism. So I guess Noonan is right: the elites did make her, but in reverse. She grows stronger with each passing attack. As TIME put it, "she's a walking middle finger to the BosNYWash elite." Right on, sister.
Is there anyway to find out how many ethnics complaints were filed against Romney and Huckabee and how much they had to pay out of their own pockets?
Why is young Mr. Johnston having a press conference? So they can provoke a response from Governor Palin.
Come on. Media loves a food fight. Palin would be wise to let this slide.
section 9:
Levi Johnston is resurrected by Axelrod anytime Sarah begins to gain too much traction in the polls.
In a way this is an acid test on the righteousness of her decision.
I read this article and I actually thought it was fair. The writer makes it known that he isn't really a Sarah fan but he certainly doesn't appear blind either.
I like it. It really compares and contrasts the absurdity going on.
FNC is discussing this article now.
Given the location of the MSM, I deem that they were getting their marching orders from Wall Street.
I believe Wall Street is actually more threatened by Palin than some might believe.
Wall Street politics and their political allegiance with the Democratic party is murky and shrewd.
Palin's social populism is a threat to the Wall Street crowd (regardless if some republicans worship Wall Street and its vices).
Palin must target Wall Street.
Well, there's something to the Wall Street critique. The Street fell in behind Obama in '08. Goldman decided to develop a market in Carbon Credits before the market actually developed, because they assumed that cap and tax would actually pass. Bush alienated the street, and a good weathervane of how the Street felt was someone like Kramer. However, the printing of unbacked currency is raising inflationary fears and this is alienating the street from the Administration.
Time will tell. Palin's populism needs to be measured with a dose of what makes capitalism work. Right now? The State is in the hands of the Looters, and the Street is just waking up to that fact.
Western , there's a lot of truth in that. Tim Giehtner worked for Goldman Sachs.
Some say he still does..
http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/07/former-us-assistant-secretary-of.html
It was an Ok article, although it leaves out the editing of both the Couric and Gibson interviews, hiking the sales tax doesn't seem right, I didn't even know abour Paul Hackett, the John Kerry wannabe of the Iraq War, life's too short. The continuing utter bankruptcy of the press, is not a bug, it's a feature
Everyone should read this:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/28816321/the_great_american_bubble_machine
"The Great American Bubble Machine
Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression "
The media ia biased?
Oh, the humanity!
I'm only on the Open Thread if anyone wants me.
Palin should emphasize the financial constraints and burdens, and maybe even, anti-competitive behavior by major Wall Street Firms (Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, etc.,) which stymies free market competition and private sector growth.
Without fair competition, financial services to main street and average Americans becomes more and more stressful and burdensome (hence rising costs for health care, education and home ownership for average Americans).
IMO, Obama and Geithner, have done nothing but window dressing. Adding additional regulatory agencies simply adds more bureaucratic redundancy.
Those who enforce the Federal regulatory laws on banking are "cut from the same cloth" as their brethren on Wall Street.
Without a change in leadership, free markets and individual liberty will continue to be dwindled away.
Palin embodies that "frontier spirit" and aggressive and unconventional approach in piercing the "bigness" of Wall Street (her approach to the oil and gas industry in Alaska is evidence of such aggressive political statesmanship).
I'm looking for Gov Palin to pull a quote from Atlas Shrugged about the current economic and political situation. Maybe connect some of the legislation to non Dog eat Dog. Or the unholy alliance of news media, legislators, unions, and the executive branch.
I can't believe people fall for this crap. They do this every single time. The press engaged in a character assassination, pure and simple. After they achieved the exact results that they wanted, and when it no longer counts, a wretched few trot out and wring their hands over how some went overboard. Nothing to see here. Move along. Aren't we so honest and brave? This will last exactly until Palin runs for prez.
I spit on them all.
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