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Posted on 04/17/2011 8:49:19 PM PDT by DissidentDingo
So I’m reading about Sarah Palin’s speech in Wisconsin today, which was brilliant by the way. I think the question has been answered because this sounded like a campaign speech to me.
Anyway the liberal hack reporter for the Associated Press, some joker named Todd Richmond, of course littered the article with the usual “subtle suggestions” intended to slant the narrative in the “correct” manner so we rubes in trailer park country get the right message.
First, the fool reports that “hundreds” of people showed up to hear Palin’s speech. Later, when he has to report the crowd estimate from the Capitol Police of 6,500 he makes sure to tell us that the Capitol Police is an agency of Gov. Walker’s Administration. Thanks, I thought they were an agency of the Justice League of America…boy do I feel dumb. I get it though, they’re an Executive Branch agency so it must be a conspiracy to boost those crowd numbers all the way up to the completely unrealistic and astronomical number of between six and seven thousand people! Where’s Oliver Stone? By the way…how many people did the media say were at the Obama Inauguration? It was like six billion right? How about the “Million” (Ha!) Man March?
The best part was Richmond’s interview with a union creep named Tim Wersland who “can’t believe these people are for real” and thinks Palin is “biased”. Imagine that…a liberal reporter who pretends to be neutral, using a statement from an anti-Palin protester who calls her “biased” to try to…suggest…and she’s never said she wasn’t biased you idiot…she’s a politician, she’s not supposed to be biased…you are, you @#$%… I’m getting a nosebleed.
Of course this Wersland goon was only one of “hundreds” of counter-protesters…see, now “hundreds” is a lot! So Imagine how embarrassed Richmond was when he saw that a Reuters journolist named Nick Carey also interviewed Wersland for his article which was posted two minutes later. Gee, that’s embarrassing. I guess that’s why a few hours later Richmond deleted that part of his article and replaced it with a quote from some “lady” named Kathy Abel who wants us all to know that she hated Palin “before it was cool”…my response to that would get me banned from this site.
You’d think that out of the throngs of counter-protesters…I mean…what are the odds that two reporters working for different news agencies would stumble upon the same “man on the street” and interview him…and apparently never see each other even though the articles were posted within minutes of each other?
In all fairness, Wersland seems to have that kind of luck with the media. He was previously interviewed…out of the many thousands and trillions of anti-Walker protesters…on March 11th by IPS News reporter Katrin Dauenhauer who happened to stumble upon this random iron worker.
It’s almost like the media have certain “go-to” people for sound bites.
Here are the links, see for yourself. This is how stupid they think we are.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/16/us-usa-campaign-palin-idUSTRE73F2UP20110416 The Nick Carey article
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110416/ap_on_re_us/us_wisconsin_tax_rally The original Richmond article
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/04/16/2804338/labor-protesters-surround-tea.html “The corrected version”
http://www.socialistbulletin.com/international/wisconsinpolicesupportprotest The March 11 interview
In all fairness, Wersland seems to have that kind of luck with the media. He was previously interviewed…out of the many thousands and trillions of anti-Walker protesters…on March 11th by IPS News reporter Katrin Dauenhauer who happened to stumble upon this random iron worker.
It’s almost like the media have certain “go-to” people for sound bites.
Here are the links, see for yourself. This is how stupid they think we are.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/16/us-usa-campaign-palin-idUSTRE73F2UP20110416 The Nick Carey article
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110416/ap_on_re_us/us_wisconsin_tax_rally The original Richmond article
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/04/16/2804338/labor-protesters-surround-tea.html “The corrected version”
http://www.socialistbulletin.com/international/wisconsinpolicesupportprotest The March 11 interview
“It’s almost like the media have certain “go-to” people for sound bites.”
They do, and you’re seeing it more and more.
They always had these people, usually Democrat “Activists”, that they used for “Street quotes. But now, in the internet age, they are being outed.
Unfortunately those sound bite einsteins are the same exact people they pick for juries, local school boards, and get a microphone stuck in their face when natural disasters strike. It's like media production crews have a stupid auora monitor and can cull them from a crowd.
They do have “go to” people for quotes.
I remember a big joke out of NYC or something where a guy almost made a living getting quoted ad naseum about any topic.
I wish someone had a montage of that guy you’re talking about, I’d love to see it.
yahoo and kansas city are A/P, so they used the same source.
Reuters is separate.
That March 11, is a real doozie Local, I guess.
Right! DissidentDingo did a great job here!
I wish I had the montage too. I remember the story quite well. He was just “pulled out of the crowd” and interviewed about a dozen times.
Yeah, the Yahoo and Kansas City used the same article, but the Kansas City one was six hours later after the article was corrected to remove the Wersland interview and replace it with a quote from someone else after AP realized that they used the same “man on the street” as Reuters. It’s at the very end of both articles, you can see the difference.
Where do I sign up to be the “typical man on the Street”
Does this contract work include a per diem???
Yeah, his name is Greg Packer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Packer
mostly stimulus and Pigford money from what I’m guessing...
OH YES! ABSOLUTELY!
I noticed that! Like I said, excellent *investigative journalism* by you!
Wis.State Journal reported some large number of demonstrators, but said they were so co-mingled that it was not possible to give separate numerical estimates of Tea Party/Walker supporters and union supporters.
Much thanks my friend...sorry, it’s been a long couple of days and I’m going cross-eyed.
They do, and you’re seeing it more and more. They always had these people, usually Democrat “Activists”, that they used for “Street quotes. But now, in the internet age, they are being outed.
Absolutely correct. I have worked in "The Media" for over 35 years and my late Father was in the media for 40 years before that. They all have "go to people" for quotes.
I call B.S. on that too...for some reason I don’t see the Tea Party crowd being “co-mingled” with the union filth. (no offense to any “union filth” out there...used to be one myself)
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You’re most welcome! I’m tired too and I’m signing out. I pinged Sarah’s List because it’s really about trying to misleadingly trash her, so please know I truly appreciate your *work*!!!
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