Posted on 08/09/2012 4:34:16 PM PDT by chessplayer
At the top of Tuesday's O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, host Bill O'Reilly rightly observed "the American media overwhelmingly favoring Barack Obama over Mitt Romney" and predicted that the slanted news coverage "will give the President about 3% or 4% of the popular vote" in the general election.
O'Reilly cited numerous studies over several years that demonstrated the media predisposition that "clearly favors the more liberal candidate, and has for decades." In 2004, then-assistant managing editor of Newsweek magazine, Evan Thomas, made a prediction remarkably similar to O'Reilly's when he admitted that media bias in favor Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry was "going to be worth maybe 15 points," a number he revised down to five points months later.
On Tuesday, O'Reilly explained the electoral impact of the media being in the tank for the Democratic Party:
...it gives the Democrats a major advantage because their agenda – whether it's bashing Mitt Romney or promoting the President – will be covered far more extensively than the Republican agenda. Second, stories that make the President look bad will be played down in the national press. While anything Mitt Romney does will be described as a gaffe, a mistake or just plane dumb.
A clear example of that can be seen in the refusal by NBC, ABC, and CBS to cover a nasty and false pro-Obama ad that suggests Romney contributed to a woman's death from cancer, while at the same time promoting the President's resurrection of the GOP "war on women" meme.
O'Reilly led the Talking Points Memo segment by referencing a Monday discussion with media critic Bernie Goldberg, who told viewers: "Look, obviously journalists are Barack Obama's most loyal base. They will not abandon him and they've got too much invested in him."
Much of that discussion centered around a Media Research Center study that found that 86% of the network news coverage of Romney's recent overseas trip focused on supposed gaffes and missteps rather than on the substance of the trip itself.
America has had four years to get a clue on this slime slug pig faced criminal. If they need the MSM to NOW tell them the details, they don’t need to vote, just head down to the gulag.
He is correct. I said this when it was clear the elite wanted Romney. Politics aside, he is utterly unlikable and incompetent. And I’ll say yet again . . you think it’s bad now? JUST wait til after Labor Day.
I can understand why reporters are often the first to get whacked during revolutions.
“Lemme plug ‘em, Boss...I love rubbing out reporters.”
-Ward Bond in “Rackets USA”
Im beginning to agree with you. Romney is becoming a disaster. I would rather have Ann run
The major media is not biased toward the DNC, they are DNC.
The shock is not that the DNC media favors the DNC, but that decade after decade Repubs still look to DNC’s media to get their message out and then feel betrayed when, again, DNC’s media make monkeys of them. Again.
The real danger is all the votes Obama bought with welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, bailouts and other largess. The recipients are dependent and can’t/won’t give it up. Eventually all of this will crash but not before Obama has taken full advantage politically.
The real sad part is, Lil Barry will not need that 3% or 4%. 48% of the American public on the dole translates to 48% of the electorate voting to keep those checks coming. All I know is keep loading, because it is going to get real rough in the next few years.
3-4% is too much. Bill needs a math class.
If I had access to some C4, I’d sabotage every bit of drive-by-media infrastructure I could.
Way more than that. They only need to ask one or two questions and keep asking them and OBama’s whole house of cards would crumble. If they really did their job and treated Obama anywhere near the way the treated Bush, it would be worth 20% easily.
Bill is off. From most political polls, we know that 30% are liberal nutcakes. The media delivers 8%. Dead bodies deliver another 5%. Illegal immigrants deliver another 5%. Winning requires another 3% through ballot tampering.
It has been said that “you can’t fix stupid”. Stupid is exactly what those who have emersed themselves in MSM “reality” have become.
When stupid becomes the majority, America is done. It looks like that scenario just might be closer than we think.
Oh come on, O'Reilly may be a pompous buffoon and a laughable blowhard, but you're being a little bit hard on him, aren't you?
I am told Sean Hannity wanted to play this video on his show but was pressured in not doing so....
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28
How did someone “utterly unlikable and incompetent” start a major hedge fund, buy up companies, revive many of them and make more than $300 million dollars? Are you worth even ONE MILLION dollars? Did you save an olympic games venue that was mired in corruption? Which state were you governor of? I didn’t want Mitt Romney to be our candidate, but get real! Compared to Barack Obama, he’s a dynamo, Henry Ford meets Bill Gates!! When did Mr. Obama ever meet a payroll? When did he manage so much as a small department at Dollar General or a hot dog stand?
Get use to it, “O” will get another 4 years.
I talked with 4 coworkers yesterday (these are educated folks mind you: engineers, high tech maintenance people) and they parroted the State run Media's talking points the whole time. They are not too thrilled with Obama, but will vote for him because Mittens through people out of work, killed that guy's wife, pays no taxes, etc.... that is what they believe and there is no use trying to tell them otherwise.
With a substantial financial advantage, Romney should be able to win comfortably, even the youth vote.
Sample ad:
Obama will give all you young people free contraception, among many madates inflicted on employers. But don’t count on a job anytime soon.
Mitt Romney would rather get you a good-paying job so that you can purchase your own contraception with your own paycheck. And your employer can hire more people.
So which would you rather have: contraception from Obama, or a job from Romney?
I remember when these same lamestream media gave Carter a 10 point lead in October of that year. Then when election time came, it was over by 9 o’clock that evening, with Reagan winning 49 states. Then what did we get from same media? All kinds of excuses on why they called it wrong. So, I will let all of these so called “NEWS PUNDITS” read their tea leaves and ponder their belly buttons. I’ll wait until the election is over. In the mean while I’ll fight like hell to get OBAMA thrown out
I remember when these same lamestream media gave Carter a 10 point lead in October of that year. Then when election time came, it was over by 9 o’clock that evening, with Reagan winning 49 states. Then what did we get from same media? All kinds of excuses on why they called it wrong. So, I will let all of these so called “NEWS PUNDITS” read their tea leaves and ponder their belly buttons. I’ll wait until the election is over. In the mean while I’ll fight like hell to get OBAMA thrown out
O’Reilly is complicit in the media’s bias due to his continual kissing of 0bama’s ass hoping to land another interview.
You think likeability and competence have ANYTHING to do with making money? You have got to be kidding. Let’s talk Paris Hilton, among a GAZILLION others. And saying that someone else is worse (even if it IS Hussein) has absolutely nothing to do with how bad “our” guy is.
It did for him.
I’ve got a bucket full of things I don’t like about Mitt. But I do not have a single thing I like about Obama or the Democrat party and if my small company is to survive Obama must go. We gave to Perry, Gingrich & Santoruum but like you said “Mitt won”.
Don’t like it but we’ll give to a superpac that is fighting a dirty war to remove the scumbag muzzy Obama. I’ll not give a dime to the RNC or Mitt but will give all I can to Tea Party groups and pacs that understand exactly what we’re fighting for.
Mitt will win by default and had better do as promised and gut this government, throw out Obamacare and change our tax code. Then he’ll not only get my vote for 2016 but will also get my donations.
For now he only has my vote and that is by “Default”.
“I remember when these same lamestream media gave Carter a 10 point lead in October of that year. Then when election time came, it was over by 9 o’clock that evening, with Reagan winning 49 states. Then what did we get from same media? All kinds of excuses on why they called it wrong.”
I sure hope that’s what happens, but Romney is no Reagan and that may significantly change the outcome. Romney is wooden on the stump and is usually in hiding rather than running.
Are your coworkers by any chance freepers?
You are describing a lot of Obama’s fans here.
Paris Hilton never started a company or met a payroll. She is an heiress of the Hilton hotel chain and made a sex tape. Why would you compare anyone to her? Mitt Romney somehow won the Republican presidential nomination, deal with reality, not what could have been.
I try not to waste my time on these bitter, drivel driven comments, but sometimes I can't resist.
Again, my belief is that people of your sullen ilk are major controllers of those around you. You didn't get your way in the primaries (neither did I) and you can't function and would run out in traffic to let people know of your displeasure if you thought you would not get hurt.
You are thrashing around, lashing out over something you can't control. I pity people like you and those around you whose lives you make equally miserable.
Larry Sabato agreed with O’Reilly that there is “a lot of bias in the media,” but said he was exaggerating the impact on undecided voters.
If I recall correctly Sabato said it’s more like 1%.
“The real danger is all the votes Obama bought with welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, bailouts and other largess.”
He has already locked-up the black, Hispanic, female and now the gay vote.
Romney is not a shoe-in...not by a long shot.
Expect Democrat turn out to be very low this year. The youth vote will not turn out for the Kenyan this time. It will probably be more like 2010 again.
Maybe it’s just that you’re surrounded by a lot of educated liberal fools.
Personally, I haven’t talked to anyone who is voting for him, and that includes some foolish relatives that fell for it hook, line, and sinker 4 years ago.
My sentiments as well. I firmly believe he can be "gotten to" and the GOP has some highly talented people, that if given half a chance could lite his fuse. However, in the tradition of the GOP candidates no personal attacks will take place and if anyone should offend the jug eared mulatto, a prompt apology and request for forgiveness will be issued. They will bow to Obama as Obama did to the King of Saudi Arabia!!
“Mitt will win by default and had better do as promised and gut this government, throw out Obamacare and change our tax code.”
Freebies have never been repealed. Newt was able to roll them back in the 90s but freebies have NEVER been repealed.
Romney is a totally unprincipled scalawag who wets his finger, sticks in the air and goes with the flow. Don’t expect too much from him if, by chance, he happens to win.
I predict that the real onslaught is being held back until after the convention. Love him or hate him Romney is no idiot. They have a plan and it’s being executed on their timeline not ours. Be patient.
Amen to that. Romney is simply waiting in the weeds to pounce.
Larry is a Dem and he HID the fact he was working for Sen Webb when he ran around to all the network playing pollster for the VA senate race.
He was finally outed but he did alot of damage by all he was trashing of Sen Allen with that phony Macca scam.
Larry is dirt.
Even better then because the lefty said Democrat turn out will be low and the youth will not turn out for the Kenyan.
Thanks for the info. I’ve seen him on FOX a few times lately so it’s good to know these things.
O`Reilly is exactly right. Obama has no greater force multiplier than the immense, free support he gets from the “media.” The power of propaganda is golden for the candidate who benefits from it. American voters, not a particularly bright bunch on the whole, will take at face value the loudest messages they hear. They can`t be counted on think critically or conduct research into complex issues. That`s the distinctive advantage of a friendly “media.”
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