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Must Read Book: How the Media Ignored the Real News to Get Obama Re-Elected
Townhall.com ^ | February 1, 2013 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 02/01/2013 6:25:54 PM PST by Kaslin

It's been a week full of liberal media bias examples, but after all, every week is full of them. We saw NBC news purposely edit another video clip smearing Second Amendment supporters in order to push a gun control agenda. This is the same agenda President Obama just happens to be pushing as he continues to single out the NRA and its members as enemy number one. The move by NBC impacted public opinion for a few hours until luckily new media, the team over at Twitchy.com precisely, debunked the entire thing.

Although this was a case of editing to fake news in order to influence the current political debate about gun control on Capitol Hill, often times the media simply chooses to ignore the real news for political purposes.

New York Times Best Selling Author and Washington Examiner Editor David Freddoso details this tactic in his newest book, Spin Masters: How the Media Ignored the Real News and Helped Re-Elect Barack Obama, which came out Monday.

In the book Freddoso states, "Sure the mainstream media tilt left -- even wildly left. We all know that, right? But it's even worse than you think. The trouble is not just bias -- it's that the media no longer even bother to report the news or investigate big stories."

Freddoso wades through the past year in media, covering everything from the media promoted war on women to the lack of coverage of big scandals like Operation Fast and Furious and the 9/11 terrorist attack in Benghazi. Using humor, Freddoso points out media's most ridiculous stories with sections in the book titled, "The Zombie-Eyed Granny-Starver from Wisconsin" and "Violence Against Fact."

If you're interested in knowing how many former mainstream media journalists are actually working in the Obama administration, he's got that covered too.

Get it, read it and remember it next time you watch the news or read the Washington Post. The book is available now on Amazon.

 


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: davidfreddoso; lamestreammedia; spinmasters

1 posted on 02/01/2013 6:26:01 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Not since the retarded hatred of the Jews by Nazis have we seen such vicious attacks such as on the NRA. It’s apparently not racist for calling white people stupid. Same Nazi retards, under different colors, with the same genocidal agenda.

Also lost on the “zeitgeist” is the fact that Hitler subjugated Germany and other nations by first attacking an elite boogeyman that could have denounced his plans.


2 posted on 02/01/2013 6:38:57 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Kaslin

3 yrs after 9/11 there were an additional 4 million jobs and the media called it a “jobless recovery”.

4 yrs after the 08 meltdown there were 7 million LESS jobs and the media call it the “new normal”.


3 posted on 02/01/2013 6:40:30 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: Kaslin; All

It won’t hurt to go to Amazon (at the link provided above) and vote “Yes” for the positive, five star reviews (two at the moment) and “No” for the negative reviews (none at the moment).

Even if you can’t do a review yourself, that always helps.


4 posted on 02/01/2013 6:41:53 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Kaslin

Read it? I’d probably be better off to just beat myself about the face and ears with it.


5 posted on 02/01/2013 6:45:30 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Cicero

I did go to Amazon and used the request to add this book to those available on a Kindle. Since I made the change to my Kindle Fire it is the only way I purchase books these days.

If this becomes available I will buy it.


6 posted on 02/01/2013 6:53:38 PM PST by highpockets
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To: Kaslin

In the old South Bull Conner thought he was a great cop because he was always fair to white people.

Conner wasn’t fair to black people because he and his friends didn’t like black people.

It’s why we look down on the Bull Conners of the world.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Members of the MSM think they’re great journalists because they’re always fair to liberal elites.

Journalists aren’t fair to conservatives because they and their friends don’t like conservatives.

It’s why we look down on journalists...


7 posted on 02/01/2013 6:58:39 PM PST by GOPJ ( Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. Vladimir Nabokov)
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To: Kaslin

NBC has created an inferior newsroom culture...


8 posted on 02/01/2013 7:00:12 PM PST by GOPJ ( Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. Vladimir Nabokov)
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To: Kaslin

And just why should we read this book, that tells us what we already know?

And what we know is this: The commie pigs own the farm. Period. End of discussion.

And if you are NOT ready to confront their aggression, you deserve neither peace nor quarter.

Waaaayyyy back when us EEEVVVILLLLE John Birchers predicted all this stuff, good men attacked us. Called us all kinds of names. “Tin Foil Hat crowd” Y2Kers, Birch Babies. And on and on. Rush Lintball, Jimmy Quinn, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity: “Hey Mr. Paranoid, keep a sharp lookout for those ‘black helocopters!’ LAUGH, LAUGH, LAUGH.

A commie under every bed! LAUGH, LAUGH, LAUGH.

We warned, we tried to educate, etc., etc., We were laughed at and impugned BY OUR OWN PEOPLE!

Now, all of a sudden, the Glenn Becks and Rush Lintballs (WHO LED THE CHARGE TO MARGINALIZE AND MALIGN US) sit and say: But WHO KNEW?, OH, JUST WHO EVER KNEW? JUST WHO EVER SAW IT COMING??)

(Lintball and Peker Beker now ADMIT that the lefties are light years ahead, and how the hell can we stop them now? Who KNEW they were SO organized and SO single minded?)

End of rant. Sorry all, its too late now. Go listen to Glenn and Rush rant emptily about the fate of the nation.

I’m done.


9 posted on 02/01/2013 7:04:41 PM PST by ConradofMontferrat (According to mudslimz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: Kaslin
thanks, for the post. now they publish it...i know..
i know..
i know..
i know..

10 posted on 02/01/2013 7:07:17 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Bozo man can :-)
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To: JudgemAll
Blurb on the cover of the latest issue of Rolling Stone Magazine:

THE NRA VS AMERICA THE POWERS BEHIND THE MERCHANTS OF DEATH.

11 posted on 02/01/2013 7:09:12 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: Kaslin

Making a list, checkin it twice...we already know who’s been naughty and not nice. And when the time comes, there will be hell to pay. Should have happened already.. how I despise these people. So Andrea, Chrissy, Madcow, Soledad, etc., etc. Your day is coming.


12 posted on 02/01/2013 7:13:52 PM PST by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: Kaslin

Really... is anyone here surprised to hear this?


13 posted on 02/01/2013 7:13:58 PM PST by Lake Living
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To: highpockets

Yes. Good suggestion. Others might do the same—ask for it to be on Kindle, which will also help expand reader interest.


14 posted on 02/01/2013 7:16:53 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Kaslin

I need to read a book to know this?!?

The old media are socialists collaborators. May they meet a just end.


15 posted on 02/01/2013 7:41:06 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: SueRae
So Andrea, Chrissy, Madcow, Soledad, etc., etc. Your day is coming.

Soledad got her pink slip from CNN today.
16 posted on 02/01/2013 8:04:28 PM PST by Colinsky
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To: Kaslin

How many HUGE stories about Obummer have been spiked by the press, not for lack of proof but because they’re protecting him? How many great photos (like maybe Obummer smoking a butt?) are idling away in hard drives because the photographer has become a whore for the current occupant of the White House?

This, more than anything else, is why I hold the current press corps in utter contempt. Journalism is an honorable profession ONLY when the God-given right of the people to know EVERYTHING is paramount.

Secrets ALWAYS come out, sooner or later. Is it worth it to hold them now?


17 posted on 02/01/2013 8:54:38 PM PST by DNME (Without the Constitution, there is no legitimate U.S. government. Period.)
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18 posted on 02/01/2013 9:00:23 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Kaslin
Must Read Book: How the Media Ignored the Real News to Get Obama Re-Elected...I don;t have to read about it - I just lived it in vivid color - that was maddening enough.....
19 posted on 02/01/2013 9:01:44 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Kaslin

And those who worship him truly believe the media is biased AGAINST obama. The fact that they worship him proves they’re stupid.


20 posted on 02/01/2013 10:22:06 PM PST by Terry Mross (Who long before America is no more?)
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