“Mark My Words”

October 22nd, 2008 By: Michael van der Galien | Tags:

How the MSM spins everything in favor of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

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Here is what Biden said:

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They’re not even ashamed of themselves, we knew that, sadly for them; there are many other outlets, sites, newspapers and even channels and radio shows that are honest.

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  1. Jay_C
    October 22nd, 2008 at 15:08
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    Right, and if you question it, be prepared to have your “questioning of the fact /statement” ridiculed by MSM, rather than MSM seriously looking into the fact statement. 
    This is the MSM Recipie…Simple really..
    Is story demonstrably false but bad for the Republicans?
    If yes, report on the story / question / statement and implant subtle zingers into the story, and or take story out of context to sway the story / question / statement to be negative (for republicans) so non-truths have the façade of  “truth”
    Is story demonstrably true, but bad for the Democrats?
    If yes, report on the raising of the story / question / statement as the focus, and make only vague references to the actual story, in a dismissive manner, and focus on the raising of the story / question / statement as the possible problem.  Implant subtle zingers into the story to sway it positive (for democrats) so truths to appear non-truthful.

  2. Jay_C
    October 22nd, 2008 at 15:28
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    I find it intersting though, that despite all the MSM attempts to spin this in the direction of the Democrats, the race is still so close.  How close would the race be if the demonstrable facts were reported on rather than using spin / to push the race this way or the other.  It’s criminal in my opinion.

  3. Jay_C
    October 22nd, 2008 at 15:36
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    I’ll also add: If MSM does go on the offense with a story, they focus on the relatively trivial / mundane if they have nothing else to attack of the Republicans, and trump it up so the Republicans have to take time to explain themselves.  If similar issues can be brought up for Democrat candidate, ignore it until the public is already aware of it and at that point can’t avoid bringing it up.  Even then, just bring it up in a dismissive manner.

  4. c3
    October 22nd, 2008 at 18:43
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    I still find this comment bizarre.  Not by the Republican spin of “he’s not ready” but more in the “its us against the world” sense.  What was Joe thinking? 

     Joe, you of many years of foreign policy experience, “BE COOL!”

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