You’ve got to watch this video. CNN’s Soledad O’ Brien ran a focus group of self declared Republicans, Democrats and undecideds during the Palin/Biden debate.
Soledad asked them immediately after the debate, “How many thought Joe Biden won the debate tonight?”
I’d say about half the hands go up. O’Brien then inexplicably says, “So, looks overwhelming.” Then she asks who thought Palin won. Again, about half the hands go up and she describes it as “small hands.” Then she quickly declares Biden the winner and calls it a day.
Hey, how about a roll call, Soledad? Now to my eye, it looks pretty evenly split. I counted 12 for Biden and 11 for Palin. But take a look for yourself. Call me naive, but this kind of blatant bias still has the power to surprise me a little still. And for some reason when it comes to Sarah Palin, the media has just lost any connection with reality, decency, fairness…etc…
Now, does she forget that we can see her? Or does she think we can’t count? Does she not know about TiVo? Or perhaps she can’t imagine a universe that would allow the thought of Sarah Palin whooping up on her candidate?
h/t to Megan McArdle
October 7, 2008 at 9:21 pm
OMG I can not wait for this election to be over with. Even this post is a tad nit-picky about the raising of hands. One thing about being Americans, is that we have the right to raise our hand for whomever we want. It doesn’t take a reporter standing in front of me to sway my opinion. So this shouldn’t sway anyone elses. It’s ridiculous.
BTW. If the old man kicks the bucket, that woman is totally not ready to run this country.
MY Opinion without raising my hand.
October 7, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Here’s an even funnier clip from that “focus group”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QDpPZjihN0
October 27, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Many bloggers are describing how CNN rejected their postings about Obama’s socialism … even though it was in Obama’s own words. I have experienced similar censorship from CNN, as well as other biased media outlets. If Obama gets elected, and this great country declines into socialism, it will be the corrupt and biased media who will bear much of the responsibility. Free enterprise, opportunity, and the standard of living in the United States, are some of the reasons why people from all over the world risk life and limb to move here. A fair media is paramount to a free society. The media never vetted Obama. Now the momentum of his campaign and fund raising has made it very hard to stop his ‘run away train”. If Americans had known half the stuff we now know about Obama, he would never have gotten this far … and, there is a lot we still don’t know about Obama! For example … are hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions that are helping him get elected, originally from foreign sources? Is his birth certificate authentic? The media’s willful decision to grossly favor one side, and refuse to report the truth, is evil and betrays their responsibility to the American people. In my opinion the media’s actions, and inactions in this situation amount to criminal behavior. Who are the media accountable to?