David Gregory cherry picks polls to favor McCain
By SilentPatriot Wednesday Oct 15, 2008 5:30am
Look at these two screen shots from David Gregory's show "Race to the White House" today (Tuesday 10/15). Notice something strange? The Virgina poll is over two weeks old, and the North Carolina poll is nine days old. And what do you know, both show McCain with a small lead! Why rely on old data? Maybe because the newer ones conflict with the McCain "Comeback" storyline?
Here are the current trends in Virginia:
And North Carolina:
Virginia has been polled five times since October 1, for a composite average of Obama: 51% - McCain: 44% Obama is above 50% in all five.
North Carolina has been polled four times since October 7, for an average score Obama: 48.5% - McCain: 46.25%
Nicole caught Tom Brokaw pulling the same crap a few weeks ago. There must be something in the coffee over there at the "Meet The Press" studio. Either way, Gregory is presenting old polling data as new for the sole reason of benefiting McCain. He should be ashamed.
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Frist!!!
and i wondered why he had such a big looking mouth...maybe for him to get on his knees, shape his mouth in the doughnut shape, and take it in deep for the Republicans
dickhead
One word to describe Gregory; TOOL.
but NBC is letting Gregory wear his number. And use old numbers.
Russert was famous for this kind of misrepresentation.
pick out GWB approval ratings from a little back to flag in the news, say from October 2001?
Newsmedia still loves them some McCain. Disgusting.
Can we please end the Frist, the teh's, the internets (plural) in comments and articles?
What's next comments like R U 4 BO?
Why? You think there's something wrong with reminding everybody who and what the republicans, and especially, the Bush administion are?
You're not asking for much. LOL! :D
The night Gregory decided to dance eith Karl Rove was all I needed to go from liking Gregory to loathing him! What a blow-job giving piece of garbage> I hope MSNBC fires his sorry ass after the election! Fuck you Gregory and the horse you rode in on!
Jeebus; don't insult the poor horse!
Yeah you're right- sorry horse!lol
Why do you think the NBC/MSNBC bosses forced Olbermnan and Matthews to the sidelines and made Gregory their election anchor? Olberman and Matthews speak their minds and Gregory is a corporate hack.
What do you call nuts on a wall? Walnuts of course.
What do you call nuts on a chest? Obviously, chestnuts.
What do you call nuts on a chin? Chin nuts maybe?
No, nuts on a chin mean that Lindsey Graham has his hoo ha in David Gregory's pie hole.
chin nuts.
I know this joke. and it's harsh. funny as hell though.
;)
What a waste... he needs to take his place in line right behind lieberman.
Gregory's wife works for someone in the Bush Admin or GOP. If he wants to keep things happy at home......
Even more delicious, she was the former (recently resigned) General Counsel and SVP at Fannie Mae. And she's a Democrat! Her name is Beth Wilkinson
Even more delicious, she was the former (recently resigned) General Counsel and SVP at Fannie Mae. And she's a Democrat! Her name is Beth Wilkinson
Isn't he just pointing out Bill Frist has left teh Senate?
It is not something in the coffee, it is something in their paycheck envelopes that skewers their thinking.
The word is NOT 'cherrypick' - it is MISREPRESENT.
Misinform, mislead, hoodwink etc etc.
Both factions of the war party can do it.
You're so right, it should be a real crime with real penalties to knowingly report false stories on anything calling itself "News".
But between the Fox and the Mouse(ABC) we would need to build more prisons just to hold them all.
naw. he can afford not to be ashamed. When "ashamed" pays better than the defense contractors like Westinghouse/CBS and GE/NBC, then guys like Brokaw will be ashamed.
That's 100% the truth.
I noticed this day before yesterday when Gregory pulled out this bogus number and poll and asked Senator Salazar of Colorado, how id Obama going to over come McCain in Co? I was looking at another poll that had Obama up over 5 points. I knew that David was doing the KKKarl Rove watusi.
That David Gregory is a tool?
Cause you'd be correct in saying that.
I have emailed MSNBC several times with all of these concerns, does not seem to help, but makes me feel better, perhaps we could send a barrage of comments, sometimes greater numbers help.
What do you expect from Karl Rove's dance partner?
dancin' dave is a hack. i've been watching his program lately and every friggin segment is framed about how the hero st john the tortured can revive his campaign and go on to victory. every friggin segment about barack obama is framed negatively or how the mccain campaign is attacking them and how they are defending themselves.
he appears not to have the slightest clue about real time developments; but always ready with the rnc talking points.
his ratings also suck.
Couldn't agree more. He should stay in the morning edition, and stay off the evening and late night edition. And most of all he should stay off politics, he is often caught flummoxed when real-time news event happens in front of him. He is better in the newscaster role than being a news anchor. He is in the 30s, and he is boring as hell.
Tuesday was the 14th, but otherwise you are 100% correct.
the only reason to use old data is that the current data dosen't support the bullshit and it's very important in American that the graph on the TV screen match the bullshit coming out of the TV speaker.
But then again I have always questioned what I see on TV news, they try to tell you important stories but rarely devote enough time to the ones that need more time to be explaned so the people never really understand just what is going on.
My wife and I used to be fans of the Today show and most of NBC, but this latest election has convinced me to BAN NBC from our home. I will no longer support this network and their obvious devotion to John McCain. We can no longer count on them to be "Fair and Balanced" in their reporting - using old data does not cut it.
Thank god for the internet, or we wouldn't have a source for unbiased news.
Yep (that and the jesus shows they keep on putting on in our local network made me stop watching nbc - although I do watch keith and rachel). By this process, I've eliminated all the networks (except comedy central).
Really, they aren't trying to help McCain. Chris Matthews didn't really call the media "McCain's Base", it is all just your imagination.
Gregory was and apparently still is Karl Rove's dance partner. He's a disgrace to "journalism." Would like to see Rachel Maddow call him out on his blatant efforts to benefit McSame/Palin.
I'm sure Rachel could and would--but I'm sure Rachel has a VERY full plate of pundits' shit that needs calling out these days. The election would be long over before she could get through it all.
They don't get ratings by reporting that the election is all but over. They get ratings by reporting the horse race.
Of course it's unethical reporting... but why is anyone surprised?
Want to tell me again how we got LIED INTO A WAR with a nation that never attacked us?
Why do we find it a surprise to find out that there are Republican shills working in the media? Could we be any more naive?
More to the point, how many of those reporters have stock in the Stock Exchange? And why isn't it mentioned? It IS a direct conflict of interest, yet we never find out about it.
The media is fixed. Stop watching. Put them out of business for not telling us the truth in a timely fashion.
The teevee is the weapon of the enemy. This is not hype. It is the major player in creating a Republican Reality.
The fact that the polls are showing Obama with a ten point lead suggests to me that Obama probably has a more than twenty point lead.
Turn off the teevee. It's patriotic.
It is pretty obvious that the MSM behemoths are rooting for that "close" election. It's company policy and hacks like Brokaw ,Gregory, Gibson et al are merely toeing the company line. Viewers=ratings =Corporate profits. There is a potential benifit to this pervasive "in the tank" behavior by todays pretend journalists. If we could manage to harness the energy from all the departed genuine newsmen spinning in their graves,current world energy crisis solved!
Two of the three large networks are owned by major defense contractors--GE owns NBC asnd Westinghouse owns CBS. THAT'S the basis of the otherwise uncritical pro-McCain slant by the MSM. The media are owned by the same shitasses who want to see is at war FOREVER.
Ike warned about the marriage of the military and private industry. What a shame he couldn't imagine that the marriage would become a menage a trois with broadcast "journalism" being the newly arriving whore.
It MUST look close. They need a plausible enough story planted long enough out to put off any critical look at how the Repubs will steal the election courtesy of Diebold and the rest.
Republicans are shaking in their boots in local elections and congressional and senate races because of anti-republican sentiment - but the presidential race? Ooooh, too close to call.
With a show called "Race for the White House," you'd want to pretend it's close. How exciting is a race where one is 14 points ahead?
That said, David Gregory sucks.
The corporate media in the U.S. has more in common with the controlled and censored press in the former Soviet Union than what an independent 4th Estate should be in a democracy. Jefferson would be horrified.
That's what the entire Bush administration propaganda machine has been about. It's been bad in the past, but it is completely unabashed now.
And it will get worse with the NSA now able to listen to every phone call we make and read every single email we send. Believe me, every one of us is now subject to "profiling," depending on the contents of our conversations and our emails. Every word you write or speak on your phone is now being monitored--NOW!--and certain words are being flagged. Our constitution is F U C K E D. This is not "maybe;" it's a DONE DEAL.
Much worse is coming unless Obama (who voted for immunity for AT&T, Verizon, et al.) can bring himself to do something about it--and not get killed in the process.
Way too many polls. Why can't they just stick to Harris and Gallup.
What's happening is too many partisan on all sides going to online polls by news sources they oppose: liberals on FAUX, conservative on CNN.
)O(
Too many polls to track? The BBC has a good interactive graph of the four main ones. I check it every day. And I like the look of the trend lines!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/629/629/7...
The racist factor is being hashed over constantly in major media reports, definitely making me suspect this is their last best hope to re-elect disaster.
Doesn't Gregory have an editor / boss and don't they together or unilaterally craft a narrative designed primarily to generate ratings rather than reflect objectively determinable facts?
If the network says "get your viewership up" and they decide this week to try to boost the McCain demographic to effect that, isn't that SOP?
Just as half of the surrogates on Tweety's show say things that neither we nor they could possibly believe for a moment but that fill air time or trigger visceral reaction, isn't at least 51% of what we see on these non-Fox shows just bad theater? On Fox of course its 100% propaganda.
I really can't tolerate "Race for the White House", personally.
Boy these guys are really pulling out all of the stops to try and get McCain in office.
i don't want everyone to get a false sense of security. if they show the race is close, that many more will come out to vote. i'm afraid if they show a poll w/ obama up by 14 or 20 that people are going to say, 'oh, it's handled, i don't need to vote today'.
we are already stepping on thier necks. we cannot let up now or ever.
If you watched Morning Joe this morning, I know how you feel. Brokaw was on warning that if Obama wins and dems take the house and senate, that we will be in trouble.
Pat Buchannan (sp?) was saying something like Palin may have been the best veep choice in history.
I thought bullshitting the country was the job of Fox News.
I gave up on Gregory's show a long time ago. He only does one thing, try to make himself important. He's failing at that too.
I suggest they're just preparing the rest of us for the inevitable and unexplained mclame 'win'. It will look and smell a lot like the last two reslug 'wins'.
Brokaw seemed to think if the Democrats control the White House, Senate and House, that is a bad thing. Didn't the Republicans with Bush in office control both the House and the Senate? That is one reason we got into trouble. Don't think the Democrats in control could be as dangerous as the previous administration. Look where we are; two wars, economically destroyed. We cannot afford the Republicans. They had their chance.
Remember when these pricks used to simply report and investigate the news instead of trying to create it? Remember when a reporter was considered anathema if he or she interjected his own opinion into his or her reporting?
Journalism: yet another thing that Republican deregulation has destroyed
Imagine one party owning the house, senate and presidency? Unlike the GOP though there won't be a raping of America for they've left no meat on the bones of our great country! EVEN the last two years have not been the Democrats unlike the media and pundits love saying. With a 49/49/2 senate and cheney the tie breaker, we've been a majority in name only, not in votes, it takes 60 votes to win there and the news is not much better in the house of 435 where we don't have surpass a veto votes. So America quit blaming the Democrats, it's the GOP that has owned the house and senate for too many years to remember ... to include the stiffling of the past two years.
For the criticism to be valid, we need to know if there are newer polls published by both the Virginia and North Carolina sources. A separate poll of the same region is not sufficient, due to differences in sample size, questions, and demographics.
The news medias are rife with 2 types of agents. The witting and the unwitting. Gregory has long sinced tippped his hand as one of the witting.
I just don't trust anyone with that much hair!
I thought cherry-picking is what you did at virgin poppin' parties.
(palin's kids need not apply, you betcha)
Maybe NBC gets their info from old media, newspapers and TV. They should try the internet if they want todays news, not yesterdays.
....since they can already control what you see--what you think you know...
Make sure that you call or email David and let him know what you think.
Wonder what happens to these guys when they get their own shows, do you think their Corporate Masters might have something to do with it.
I'm just sayin'.
Which, while it explains Gregory, Tweety, et al ...
... doesn't explain Olbermann and Maddow. Different corporate masters? Maverickyness? Belonging to a team of mavericks?
I think they are allowed to have their shows because the Corporation that owns MSNBC is trying to steal ratings from Bill-O and Hannity.
THAT part is about ratings.
i would think that anyone with integrity could always say no.
I don't think any reporter or "journalist" should emcee a show of their own. It ruins their reputation no matter who it is. For example, Andrea Mitchell. Whether you like her or dislike her, after she takes the seat as a moderator on subjects that she will be reporting on, it just makes her look like an actor instead of a true journalist.
What the heck is that Gregory genetically gay faced Rove brown nose doing. EWWWW, I just grossed myself out. How can his network let him pick and choose how to present these so called facts. This is the idiot that MSNBC replace Matthews and Oldbermann on election night with. This is the idiot that danced along with Rove during that pathetic rapping display.
Who the heck is he sleeping with at MSNBC.
That's David Gregory! Maybe he's desperately hoping his days of dancing with the administration aren't numbered. Wake up and smell the coffee, David! You're supposed to be in the NEWS business, but your NEWS is like peas porridge cold - nine days old!
I always get David Gregory and Dick Gregory mixed up?
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Damn that hurts.
Throughout the primary, a favorite theme for David Gregory went something like this: "Why can't Barack Obama connect with Reagan Democrats and blue collar voters in places like West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania?"
No one pushed this line of attack on MSNBC more than Gregory.
When the primary was settled and Barack Obama was the victor, it turned out Obama had no problem whatsoever connecting with these groups and recent polls prove this.
Yet, as recently as late last week, David Gregory was still pushing the "Obama has trouble connecting with blue collar Democrats." I'm inclined to think Gregory is a PUMA -- he just can't accept the fact that Hillary lost and Obama won, so he's using his pitiful program to try and undercut Obama.
I'd guess something simpler. These people don't give a damn what they say so long as their masters keep signing the checks.
Have ANY of you ever worked in a news-room?
You cover the 'stories' you're told to cover, the way you're told to cover them, by people called "editors."
Your stories also go through those same 'editors.'
These 'editors' add or subtract things from your "stories" according to their orders from their bosses, called "publishers."
There's a reason they call it 'boilerplate."
Years back I sold ads for a right leaning rag. I didn't do any reporting but I did see what went on there with the articles and the ads. It wasn't pretty and I'm pretty sure some of it was illegal. Happily for the area, it has long since gone out of business.
It might have been "unethical," (emphasis on "might" because 'ethics" in the press is pretty much an oxymoron. Remember F Stone's bon mot: "The press is free to those who own one!"
Dear gawd, Bob Schieffer is gonna "moderate" tonight?
Wake me when it's over...
Why, yes.
I'm a video editor for the local CBS affil. Been here 22 years.
And the hierarchy in television is news director > managing editor > executive producer > producer > reporter/writer > video editor. I'm afraid it's not quite the corporate conspiracy you're making it out to be - low staffing impacts your news much more than someone in a corner office futzing over the minutiae.
Oh, and in video, we call it 'wallpaper.'
The MSM disinformation machine is in high gear because their corporate masters are deathly afraid of an Obama win. I heard some MSNBC hack yesterday call the FL race a "draw" because it was "close to the margin of error." Let's translate that manipulative garbage into english---Obama is ahead in the race!
And Gregory is hardly alone in his manipulation and cowardice, read on about his fellow media hacks:
www.mediamatters.org
Their profession has devolved into little more than a carny freak show, with the exception of Keith Olbermann, Bill Moyers, Rachel Maddow, and Jack Cafferty. They are the only ones I watch--the others---believe them at your own risk.
Sure, they're going to try to bias their reporting of the facts; fact is that's all they can do to keep their ratings up. This is and always has been a "ratings game" so if people feel that this election is over, their ratings will hit the skids.
What I find more disgusting is the overt attempt by CNN (who should be ashamed of themselves) to link ACORN to Obama when they know that there is absolutely no ties according to fact checkers.
ACORN was actually established by a Republican from Texas and highly endorsed by John McCain.
How they can conflate voter registration fraud with "election fraud" with the intentionally criminal 'VOTER PURGE' WHICH TOOK PLACE IN 6 SWING STATES LAST WEEK is beyond anyone's logical comprehension.
CNN IS IN THE POCKET OF BOTH THE RNC AND THE GOP.
THANKS TO JOHN ROBERTS, CNN'S NUMBERS ARE DROPPING LIKE MC CAIN'S CAMPAIGN. FACTOR IN LOU DOBBS AND AMERICANS ARE REJECTING THESE HATE-FILLED RACIST SYCOPHANTS.
John Roberts is a GOP shill. Ban John Roberts from your television viewing on CNN. John Roberts' ego is larger than the entire network. He's a pathetic, pandering disgrace to daytime news.
Not only have faux-reporters like John Roberts so overtly tried to do hit jobs on democrats but now CNN is spinning the false ACORN story against Obama.
It's clear that Obama's voter registration drive has nothing to do with the activities of this BI-PARTISAN GROUP CALLED ACORN. In fact, McCain attended their convention and had a photo-op taken with this group.
If anyone has ties to ACORN, it's John McCain.
If CNN continues to bring us bogus news, it's time to ban this fake channel from our homes. Many of us already have.
If they continue with their ACORN lies and spin, americans will do to them what they've done to the sleaze of the McCain campaign - rejected and repudiated it totally.
Where's that news? That's far more criminal and important to the american people than some ACORN trivialities. This involves criminal charges.
In ACORN, if bogus people are registered so the employee makes a few bucks, how does that have any effect on the election?
Obviously, this is sooooo much a "non story" since bogus people can't show up to vote.
The mainstream media is showing americans every day/every hour whom they can trust.
In this business of bringing fact and not fiction to the american people, MSNBC is winning by a mile. CNN now has joined the likes of FOX news in terms of the respect of the people.
CNN + FOX = MORE OF THE SAME.
As I see it, if the mainstream media continues to bring us fiction instead of fact, the people will basically shut them down and throw them into the abyss of irrelevancy - as they have done to FOX news. All Fox has is the 23%ers at this point. They're literally singing to the choir. No one else is watching their blather and lies. Independents certainly are not which means that clearly 78% of americans wouldn't watch Fox news if it were the only news station on the air.
Let's get serious. Shut the MSM down HOW?
With the demise of the Fairness Doctrine and changes to FCC duopoly rules, broadcast media has become a case of pay-to-play. Unless you have a Warren Buffet-sized pile of cash lying around, you've got nothing.
Rush Limbaugh will bloviate about the 'marketplace of ideas,' but it's no longer a marketplace where anyone can come in and set up a table - you have to pay the market fee, have permits, and so on. And the best tables are available to the select few who have the cash.
Why do you think they want to spike net neutrality? Same reason - if predominance on the net requires fees for access and bandwith, suddenly, there's no grassroots, only corporate and money-backed interests.
JD Roberts used to ROCK on MuchMusic's METALLLLL POWER HOUR!!!!
How that for journalistic credentials?
he should go back and do that again. he's clearly no journalist. he said "the obama campaign is trying to tie mccain to keating 5". speaking english shouldnt be the only qualification work at cnn.
I couldn't agree more,while flipping channels I heard CNN's Lou Dobbs say: "the libral media",what a hack. I too only watch the exceptions you listed. Thumbs up across the internet to you.
This has to be the most boring newscaster on television today. His affect is totally flat; his demeanor reminds us that it's time to flick the channel when he arrives on the scene. Whomever made this questionable move to give David Gregory his own hour-long show has made a serious miscalculation. When Gregory's show comes on, everyone leaves the room. The guy's a boring drone.
I can't comment on his show because I would watch it if someone strapped me to the chair.
I wonder if MSNBC will allow Olbermann to do it tonight? I'll have to check the context of these graphics, but pretty damning if he's representing these as current numbers.
Gregory's just a media whore trying to make a fight out of this impending massacre.
I don't want a news report that is fair and balanced. Just give me the facts and I will make my own decisions.
I don't want a reporter playing a roll, there are plenty of people who can sit on their ass and read a teleprompter. Reporters should be on the streets and on the phone digging up the facts, nothing more or less.
Getting stories, that is, in principle (and in practice, if they're any good), is that their familiarity--developed in doing dozens and dozens of such stories--makes them at least potentially 'experts' in the fields (the "beats") on which they typically report. Reporters ALL know who is lying, and about what. They used to be able to say so, but not any more. All they can do (by their bosses, are PERMITTED to do) now is play he-says/she-says...
When is MSNBC going to see that the guy has one of the least attractive personalities hosting a show on their network - and when you look at their lineup, that's saying something.
Prediction: he'll be off MSNBC within the year. He's horrible.
Maybe right after the Election hullabaloo is done.
Male newsanchor is hard to come by, odds that he will probably stay around. Right now, he represents the boring dude, the status quo, with a leaning towards the right.
I wonder why Jack Abrams isn't being used. He could pit people from opposite sides together, and Greg can't. Jack Abrams can also react immediately to the real-time news, and change the show on air, David, just can't, he will always try to go back to the script.
Why does David Gregory hate reality and fair and open elections?
He is the only reason I ever would look at that show. My problem is I have to go to a Bar to get those Stations. My TV in the Condo doesn't get regular CNN, just CNNI.
Not that I MIND going to bars to get information. Matter of fact it's fun to hear all the people hooting and Jeering at the Telly.
A TV talk-show where they travel around the country, go into bars, pick the drunkest ones there to comment on topical events.
)O(
Since one channel used Fozzi Bear to explain stock market terms after the crash of '88, to have a TV News Show starring the muppets. Kermit the Frog would be the main anchor, Miss Piggy entertainment news, Beaker and Honeydew science news, Sam the Bald Eagle political news, and of course Fozzi for economic news.
)O(
I think Jack came back too soon after a tragedy like that. I know he was trying to survive it by just keeping on. But did you notice that every day, he got more and more out-of-hand? Like a man who has no more to lose and could less give a crap? Blitzer was having to talk softly to him, correct him in a gentle tone, as you do with somebody you care about who is fragile or unwell. I watched Ole Jack and thought, "Oh, no." And hoped it didn't mean he was just about finished at CNN. Because America needs him.
I hadn't noticed he was gone, I click around a lot. Come back, Jack.
The major news around this election have been neglecting the economy lately. Given the state we find ourselves in, I think it is important for us, as consumers, to support 'green business.' For example, I came across a website, http://www.simplestop.net that stops your postal junk mail and benefits the environment. I hope the next President will support the effort.
He's just a garden-variety whore. waddaya 'xpect?
What once was a reliable, honest station has become nothing more than a gang of GOP operatives.
CNN has now reduced itself to being a total "pimp for the RNC".
Turn CNN off in your homes. This channel has become dangerous to the health of your children with their lies and spin.
CNN has run afoul. Americans are noting it every day. CNN and David Gregory, in particular, have become mouthpieces of the RNC. Hell, now they're fighting over RNC "talking points" for cripe's sakes.
CNN has become a gang of fools and incompetents. And David Gregory is the largest jacka$$ on their programming.
Gregory is not on CNN, he's on MSNBC
Yes, unfortunately for MSNBC, we know this. Gregory is on MSNBC and is one of the worst newscasters they've ever had.
♫ Morning POP ♫
And good morning right back attcha. (I'm writing this in my best Sarah Palin voice) :)
Dog she irritates me.
"Gregory is not on CNN, he's on MSNBC"
I think that's why he said "CNN and David Gregory." I, too, go on alla time about CNN, and then the MSNBC-ers by name.
HEY! Yesterday (I think...), the MSNBC anchor called for a certain clip of something exclusive to MSNBC, and instead, up popped a clip from CNN, and played through by mistake. Now THAT was weird! Any more doubt as to how broad our news choices on TV are? I only even watch TV news to see what they are pulling, and to catch Olbermann, followed by Maddow, then over to Comedy Central, for some truth.
Fox News was invented to deliberately portray the openly ridiculously biased corporate tool fraternity and laughable proganda machine with the Bush/McCain talking points messaged to them all day long through a direct pipeline, no other information sources allowed into the room. CNN and MSNBC merely "portray" the supposed "straight news alternatives" to the comedic bias over at Fox News. After all, they are not as bad as FOX NEWS, are they? Not nearly! That PROVES they are unbiased. See?
For me, Candy Crowley wears the "I AM THE WOTRST OFFENDER OF ALL" T-shirt.
Fortunately, there is an alternative tonight for the debate if you choose to watch it.
Watch it in it's entirety on CSPAN. Then you don't have to have a gang of bobbleheads trying to brainwash you.
Check out how much CNN stands to gain from their corporate tax breaks under the McCain plan and you'll quickly realize why this station is so willing a "GOP WHORE".
so I'm sure Jack Welch is still telling them how to report the news. Maybe Gregory is looking at some Nantucket property, so he's currying favor with Welch by sucking up to McCain. Then again, after Gregory's shameful performance as a back-up dancer to MC Rove, this could all just be voluntary.
Changing the topic to include the latest form of media prostitution is far too great a task for some intellects to handle.
The mainstream media whoring isn't restricted to Fox News these days. They've spread it around in attempt to suck up to everyone. The latest is MSNBC in their new David Gregory show - such an obvious Rove operative that they should be ashamed of themselves. Besides, the obvious link between Rove and Gregory is what's now tanking the David Gregory show. What don't they "get" about 91% of americans believing this country is going in the wrong direction? This means that the tactics of Karl Rove are so criminal in the minds of 91% of americans that the link between Gregory and Rove is destroying MSNBC's reputation right now. (91% of viewers reject David Gregory's show?).
As for CNN, they've become the latest casualties of the GOP as they attempt to spin things which aren't there.
This is a ratings game as well as the purchase of the goods and services of the sponsors who support these shows.
One would think that they would recognize the fact that to have 91% of americans boycott their sponsors is not a good thing.
I am way more paranoid than that. I believe we're on a world-change fast track that's been a long time coming, is overdue and speeding up without regard for who "notices" or "objects." I think the news channels (and the press) are hellbent on putting a stop to this terrifying "WE NEED CHANGE" threat, do or die, because in the coming world, they are to be safely entrenched within the Ruling Class (they are in it now, and intend to STAY!), toasting with the good stuff while the other 91% (us) line up for rations of Victory Gin. Corporations own the world. They are ready to sit their throne openly. The press is their means of getting this thing GWB fast-tracked finished once and for all. The worker bees at CNN, NBC, NYT, WaPo, want the world to be a beautiful place for THEIR descendants. That doesn't bode well for OURS.
I think McCain is supposed to win, and when he gets uppity, tries to be "president," he is supposed to die (oops!), and Palin will be delirious to step up as Miss United States President 2010--a little worried that she might have to do something, and do it correctly, on the fabulous World Stage...thence all too glad to hand those reins to the neocon machine headed by Cheney et al. THE END.
Scary book that would be, huh.
CNN takes John McCain's low road to the skids New
Wed, 10/15/2008 - 06:35 — anonymous (not verified)
CNN has run afoul.
They're forcing chickens into early morning jogging?
You're right! Americans are ditching CNN's morning programming simply because of John Roberts. This man is such a GOP whore that it's not funny. No one wants to watch this amateur as he buffs up his own ego every morning. No one wants to watch this "purveyor of nasty" as the first thing their eyes see each day.
John Roberts is not just your average canadian media whore. He's become the "poster boy" for the new culture of MEDIA PROSTITUTES.
he's not even worthy of picking the toe nail of edward r murrow.
They have names...but the names are irrelevant.
They are actors in the political kabuki, the public morality play of power enacted for our distraction and entertainment.
If you believe ANYTHING you see in the media is related more than marginally or coincidentally to the 'facts' or is anything more that an example of whatsoever is the dominant narrative of the moment, you need to retire to a monastery.,..
If McCain becomes the next president I may retire to a monastery any way.
Couldn't resist that one POP
You're in a happy mood this morning/your evening. Did happy hour already begin?
Your comment made me laugh. I love puns!
I like that one YSB
I think you meant convent
Unless you want to see if you can get monks to break their vow of silence
oh god... Oh God...OH GOD!!!
Out of the frying pan into the friar??
I'd love to see the poll of how many americans believe what they hear these days on the mainstream media news programming?
I think those numbers would be astounding.
It's become patently clear that the 24 hour news shows are becoming extinct and irrelevant. Newspapers have all but totally died, thanks to the internet. And again thanks to the internet, you and I don't have to listen to these warped bobbleheads spouting off propaganda in our faces.
We can visit fact check sites to find out the "real truth" instead. If these mainstream channels continue to be nothing more than "purveyors of spin and lies", then they deserve to become irrelevant to the american people.
Once was that when you heard something on a legitimate news program, you could believe it as "fact". Now we're lucky to find a morsel of truth embedded amongst the vitriolic propaganda.
Sadly but incontrovertibly true: the american mainstream media has failed the american people. For this, the american people will help to make them extinct.
David Gregory cherry picks a poll. Stop the presses. Keith Olbamamann, Chris Matthews, David Schuster, Chuck Todd and Rachel Madcow have been doing this for months.
While you're busy making your list, let's not forget to include Mr. O'Loofah, Rush (the narcotic) Limbaugh, Pat Buchanen, and all of the hate-radio war mongers to that list of yours.
I actually used to like David Gregory when he asked tough questions at Presidential press conferences and briefings.
Now he just a fucking dumbass, obviously bought and paid for by the corporate fascist media.
If the polls hold up, it's going to be a big let down for TV ratings for election coverage on Nov 4th and could be over by 9ET. They need to make it interesting leading up to the big game just like the hype leading up to a Super Bowl.
That's why it's imperative that americans use their voice against these media whores.
If 91% of americans who believe that this country is going in the wrong direction decide to turn off the media whores, they'd be extinct right now.
So, tune them out and turn them off today. Watch the debate on CSPAN. This is one of the few stations I permit in my home.
☻☻ Getting Into The HABIT ☺☺
Wed, 10/15/2008 - 06:44 — Bangkok Bob
I read this poem in Playboy Magazine back in 1977...
ahem...Ahem...AHEM....
Whenever I see a monk's ass I just grab it
Said a mildly amorous abbot
However, it's vastly more fun
To make it with a nun
But harder to get into the habit.
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The corporate fascist media will always be in the tank for Republican fascists like McLiar or Bush or Chaney. The fascist media will do 'anything' to promote fascism..it is their duty to destroy democratic values.
But let's deal in facts here for a moment. Here's what the John McCain tax cuts to the whoring media actually means in their pockets:
GE(NBC) - $25 million
Time Warner (CNN) - $500 million
Walt Disney (ABC) $640 million
News Corp (FOX) $80 million
Viacom (CBS) $190 million
I rest my case. If you don't believe me, just google it. This amounts to $1.44 million under John McFascist to the corporate media giants.
It's time to shut them all down for violation of the "truth in reporting laws" of this country.
Ever watch the commentators on Professional Wrestling?
Think there is any difference?
To paraphrase someone's comment from last week:
"Oh my G*d!
Thats John McCain's music! Could this be a comeback ...?"
BTW:
2+2=3
----Sincerely,
Corporate Media
Goebels once said:" He who controls the message controls the masses". The mainstream media corruption has been a platform of the GOP for a long time. They've almost accomplished it with the help of GW Bush with their current vulgar tax breaks. John McCain intends to perpetuate these tax breaks (hush money).
It wasn't long ago that whispers in the msm had to do with the fact that they would become america's "kingmakers". It's obvious that this is precisely what they're trying to become.
Reject these self-professed "kingmakers" today. Turn them all off.
What we see today is the reich-stag plan of KKommi Karl Rove. Just like the midterms, he's almost accomplished his diabolical contamination of the mainstream media.
The only way our media now stands a chance of remaining alive and vital is to break the ties to Fascist Karl and George Bush right now.
Otherwise, our mainstream media as we've known it will suffer the fate of the dinosaurs.
Tell the Designers we hate the fact that the messages after the first page (like in page two) are irritating because you have to leave where you are to go back to page one to see what was said. Big lack of continuity.
This all about the horse race. The MSM has to have a horse race or nobody will watch. Just look at the last debate, Obama cleaned up on McLame, it wasn't even close. McLame shuffling all over the stage, like a senile homeless man, and the MSM talking heads telling us it was a close debate. They will say and do anything to make this look lie a barn burner of a race.
Yes, pathetic would be a word to describe the media whores trying to polish a turd.
It was so apparent to everyone (their whoring) that they, themselves, became an american laughingstock.
Chief among these morons was Pat Buchanen. Why any station keeps this senile old demented fart on their shows is beyond me.
Trust me: Many, many long-time media careers are swirling the commode right now due to their overt attempts to paint a pig as they did during the first two debates. Many careers are over already - much to the surprise and chagrin of these american media prostitutes.
This man needs to be checking out nursing homes and not seen on any station who wants to be considered legitimate at this point.
He still thinks McCain won the first election; he still believes that the Moose won the second election. What planet is this man living on?
Buchannen so obviously is out of touch with middle america (and the rest of america who voted overwhelmingly in the polls) that he's looking totally senile and pathetic - and is taking down the stations who provide a platform for him.
God! my spelling sucks in the morning.
try it. it is kind of fun
The only class acts on the MSM is, KO and Rachel.
David Gregory Dancing on stage with KKKarl at the White House correspondents dinner!
Enough Said!!!
The Akron Beacon Journal did the same thing recently, posting on the front page that McCain had a two point lead over Obama despite the fact that more recent polling data showed McCain clearly trailing. Assuming that this is intentional as opposed to simple sloppy journalism, what's the point? Do they honestly think they'll discourage democrats from voting or am I missing something?
CSPAN is the place to watch the debate. That way you don't have to listen to assholes tell you what you just saw with your own eyes.
Since June 2000, Gregory has been married to former federal prosecutor and former Fannie Mae executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, Beth Wilkinson (major league Republi****).
So much for his objectivity.
Any more questions?
david gregory = rove's butt plug.
sorry if anyone finds that crude but when you laugh it up and dance with the most harmful to democracy sort of political operator and then change from watchdog/hard question journalist to lapdog for your dance partners party....kind words do not come to mind. but hey, gregory has his own show, he is now considered or at least offered up as a political wonk and someone we should all listen to when he offers his opinions. that is hard to do with images of the rove dance and the sound of ignorance running through my brain. he has built a nice little carreer for himself at the cost of his integrity. sort of like McCain in that respect.
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