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Author Of Book On 2012 Election: ‘Without Media Bias, America Would Vote Like Texas Or Kentucky’
Mediaite ^ | 1/29/13 | Noah Rothman

Posted on 01/30/2013 7:27:10 AM PST by Lakeshark

On Tuesday, David Freddoso, author of Spin Masters, How the Media Ignored the Real News and Helped Reelect Barack Obama, joined the hosts of Fox & Friends to discuss pro-Democratic media bias in 2012 and beyond. The author detailed the case against the media in this interview and in a recent column for the New York Post in which he quotes a political scientist who attributes much of the nation’s support for Democratic politicians to the pro-Democratic coverage of politics in the mainstream media. Without that biased media, the author and the political scientist say, the nation’s voting patterns would more closely mirror any typical red state.
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Really big stories like Benghazi became non-stories,” he added. “Editorial judgments were made to play these things down.”

Freddoso noted that coverage of the unemployment crisis in Obama’s first term was also poor. “We always hear about ‘McJobs’ when there is a Republican president,” he observed. “With Obama, you have that going on super-sized and, instead of covering the fact that part-time work is replacing full-time work, wages have been going down – not since the crisis, which wasn’t Obama’s fault, but since the recovery started – is his recovery.”

Freddoso said that the press even played an active role in tarring Republican candidates. He cited one episode in which George Stephanopoulos brought up an “imaginary contraception ban that no one was advocating and nobody ever supported” in a Republican presidential primary debate.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho2012; bias; bookreview; corruption; democrats; electionfraud; enemedia; fraud; freddoso; liberalmedia; media; mediabias; mediacorruption; msm; partisanmedia; pravdamedia; romney2012; sorosmedia
Without the media Bambi would have gotten less than 40% of the vote.

Without a strategy to deal effectively with the democrat/media complex we will lose in perpetuity.......

1 posted on 01/30/2013 7:27:21 AM PST by Lakeshark
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To: Lakeshark
Without a strategy to deal effectively with the democrat/media complex we will lose in perpetuity.......

Amen. Our problem's not abortion or immigration or any fiscal issue. It's the media. Unless we find an effective way to counter the tsunami of anti-GOP press coverage that hits every American home every day we're dead in the water.

2 posted on 01/30/2013 7:33:23 AM PST by pgkdan ( "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Lakeshark
Without the media Bambi would have gotten less than 40% of the vote.

Without a strategy to deal effectively with the democrat/media complex we will lose in perpetuity.......

And as long as the Stupid Party continues to put out candidates who are nothing more than Democrats-lite, and refuses to investigate election day voter fraud, we will continue to be clobbered at the poll.

3 posted on 01/30/2013 7:36:00 AM PST by laweeks
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To: laweeks

And as long as folks are not willing to think for themselves and allow the MSM to do it for them, this will continue.

Yeah, the Repubbies could do with better candidates, but the electorate is truly a collection of brain dead, walking zombies. If Ronald Reagan were alive and running today, most of them would not vote for him, they’d be too lazy to even find out what he stood for, and the media would tear him down. After all, he was married twice, you know. ;-)


4 posted on 01/30/2013 7:47:23 AM PST by Clarence
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To: Lakeshark

Time to give the NY based arrogant media the heave ho !


5 posted on 01/30/2013 7:51:44 AM PST by CORedneck
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To: laweeks
And as long as the Stupid Party continues to put out candidates who are nothing more than Democrats-lite, and refuses to investigate election day voter fraud, we will continue to be clobbered at the poll.

Why the GOP won't challenge vote fraud.

6 posted on 01/30/2013 7:54:41 AM PST by Carry_Okie (GunWalker: Arming "a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as well funded")
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To: laweeks
And as long as the Stupid Party continues to put out candidates who are nothing more than Democrats-lite, and refuses to investigate election day voter fraud, we will continue to be clobbered at the poll.

Don't kid yourself, we can run the Perfect Conservative, and the media would still clobber him. This is NOT the same country back when Reagan run, so you all need to get real.

We either find a way to counter the media, or we are lost.

7 posted on 01/30/2013 8:12:20 AM PST by Paradox (Unexpected things coming for the next few years.)
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To: Clarence
but the electorate is truly a collection of brain dead, walking zombies.

If you could see all the nuclear bombs set off IN the US, you might think that is the reason we are all so messed up.

Oh, wait... you can see it.

A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945

8 posted on 01/30/2013 8:53:20 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (What difference does it make (if they eat cake)?)
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To: Paradox
We either find a way to counter the media, or we are lost.

The dinosaur media is slowly killing itself off. We just have to help them do it faster.

The MSM is the "free" media. Real news comes at a cost.
For example: we have to purchase a bigger, and therefore more expensive package, in order to get FOX news. Without the additional cost, all we'd get is CNN. BLAZE TV is even more expensive. It only comes with a deluxe package. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC are either free or the cheapest available.
When it comes to printed "news", most people just read the headlines as they walk past the magazine stands. That, too, is free left wing "news."

9 posted on 01/30/2013 8:57:54 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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"Without Media Bias, America Would Vote Like Texas Or Kentucky’

I totally agree. My sister used to watch CNN. She "heard" FOX was a bad, biased news channel. I pointed out the bias on CNN to her almost instantly. For example, she thought the SNL skit about Sara Palin was real. She had a bad opinion of Sara because of it. When I told her it was just a SNL skit, she was shocked. CNN never mentioned it was just a joke. They let the viewers think it really was Sara. She felt like a fool, because other people were around when I told her.
Today, she watches FOX. CNN made her look really stupid in front of everyone.

10 posted on 01/30/2013 9:21:43 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: pgkdan
Unless we find an effective way to counter the tsunami of anti-GOP press coverage that hits every American home every day we're dead in the water.

Yep its like trying to win the Supper Bowl when all the officials have bet money on the other team.

11 posted on 01/30/2013 9:33:04 AM PST by usurper (Liberals GET OFF MY LAWN)
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To: Lakeshark

             

12 posted on 01/30/2013 9:48:52 AM PST by tomkat ( .. shall NOT be infringed)
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To: Lakeshark

My opinion has been for many years is that the main job of lib media is not to lie to the public, it’s to keep information from them. It’s not the lies they tell, it’s the truth they hide.


13 posted on 01/30/2013 10:53:36 AM PST by driftless2
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To: Lakeshark

We are selling them the rope.

Cable TV and Satellite TV funding our destruction.


14 posted on 01/30/2013 11:03:03 AM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: CORedneck

Inspire early retirement?


15 posted on 01/30/2013 11:27:52 AM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: Lakeshark

Newt and Reagan got around the liberal media. But back then the media tried to pretend it was professional journalism in a constitutional republic. Back then we did not have a bunch of pinheaded globalist CEO’s who have decided the Chi-coms have the best government system for their global workfore and marketplace.

The press is so far out on a radical limb, they are going to hit the wall. The farther left they go, they will all be vying for a smaller and smaller percentage of the population. They can afford only one radical left cable station and that will not be long for this world.

Mittens had a chance to get a concrete message of domestic economic revitalization of small business, etc. and a restoration of constitutional freedom and away from federal police and regulation power abuse and he failed to do that. We need so much reform.

One method Republicans used to operate was through those investigative TV shows that focused on government corruption and waste and offering solutions to fix the problems highlighted on the shows. Surely they can do better with this. Sean Hannity actually did a show about government waste and abuse that was really popular with viewers. The ditzy libertarian Fox guy who used to do consumer reporting on one of the Networks should do investigative reports on government abuse and waste.


16 posted on 01/30/2013 7:39:23 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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