[November 2010]

Why her long-ago comment about masturbation played such a prominent role while BO’s admitted cocaine use is unmentionable goes a long way to demonstrate how the media is stacked against Republicans.
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Conservatives have a fair shake from FOX News, so long as the conservative view isn’t too far from the mainstream Republican view. We also have the Drudge Report, which is fair in it’s selection of stories tilting towards the entertaining over the important. We have Rush Limbaugh and a bevy of talk radio guys. We have the Free Republic and a set of self-referential bloggers and internet activists. We have Brietbart who I don’t know much about. We have the National Review and Human Events, Focus on the Family, and a few non-profits that have some reach. I’m listing them because it’s such a small sliver of the media compared to the daily papers nationwide, the local news, ABC, CBS, NBC, Disney, A&E, CNN, the weekly and monthly magazines and the weight of the mainstream media. It’s a rough road. I don’t think there is a single family friendly “traditional” network on the air in the entertainment space.

[gusopol3]

I’m apparently the only person who believes this, because I’ve floated the idea several times and had no takers, but I am firmly convinced that drive-time top-of-the-hour headline news is far and away the most important news source in the country. And there, even Fox radio news is just the AP radio service ( listen to Shep Smith during Hannity at 4 or 5 PM). I heard a discussion on NPR, of all places , yesterday afternoon between a Republican and Democrat pollster. The Democrat opined the the Democrats won the “low information” voter segment handily (at least she’s honest, we always hear about how smart and educated the Democrats are). I’ll bet that drive -time radio news on music stations is the only info they get, and listen to it! Last week, it was all BO campaigns here, there and everywhere with excerpts from his hackneyed speeches, which isn’t news at all. Yes, conservatives have a feast of information, but it is layered in redundancy on the same 20 % of the electorate.

[goat granny]

If conservatives ignored what kids did in college, cause most college kids do stupid things and it was decade ago some would be more inclined to disregard the slime the democrates dig up and vote for what a person is now and not what they were in their late teens and early 20's...If they did stupid things as an adult in the not too distant past, that is a different thing one must consider...

I know such slime does mean too much to the very conservative voter....

The majority of us did dumb things in our past. Very few could come out of such a investigation with their past pure as the wind driven snow..