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8/4/2008
Dooley: A massively biased media
Remember this? One Democrat protested the slow passage of the Wisconsin state budget and literally every media outlet in Wisconsin, and many around the country picked up the story and made him out to be a sympathetic figure.
Wisconsin legislator is no happy camper By P J. Huffstutter, Los Angeles Times October 21, 2007, in print edition A-14 – Tired of watching fellow legislators bicker over the state budget and delay its passage for more than 100 days past a July 1 deadline, state Rep. Tom Nelson decided to stage a one-man protest. He packed up his pajamas, an air mattress and a toothbrush and moved into the state Assembly chambers at the Capitol last week, setting up camp on the plum-colored carpet between his wooden desk and a marble pillar. Nelson vowed not to leave until the budget passed.
On Friday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi adjourned Congress for a 5-week vacation without addressing the biggest issue in the country, energy prices. Thirteen Republicans refused to leave, staying on the floor to continue discussing this issue that Speaker Pelosi refused to deal with. Though the Speaker had the lights and microphones turned off, these dirty little tricks did not stop the vocal protest.
On the Friday evening news, ABC, CBS and DNCTV (NBC) decided to take a pass on the thirteen brave Congressmen who dared make noise about Nancy Pelosi’s obstructionism.
In a seemingly unrelated move Messiah-in-training Barack (censored) Obama watched his poll numbers drop five points over the week making the race a statistical dead heat.
How could this be?
Obama had just returned from his I’m pretending to be President world tour. Almost every media person in the country broke out his or her passport to follow Obama around the globe and report lovingly on his every move. How could someone get that much favorable attention and drop five points?
If you listen to the left they’ll tell you it was because of the McCain camp breaking out Brittney and Paris in their advertising, but I’m not buying it.
The American people are discovering who Barack (censored) Obama truly is. After all he told us himself this week when he said, “I have become a symbol of America returning to our best traditions."
The American people have begun to figure out that Obama is not all he has been made out to be by a massively biased media. This isn’t about attack ads, it is about people making decisions for themselves in-spite of the slickly packaged empty suit of the junior senator from Illinois.
Those Republican Congressmen will be spending the first weekday of their five-week vacation tomorrow on the House floor still talking about energy policy. The media will probably continue to ignore them while instead, they try to boost Obama’s poll numbers once again.
Hopefully the American people will continue to see things in a more reality-based focus than the media does.
Fred Dooley blogs regularly at Real Debate Wisconsin.
COMMENTS
Give me a break, Fred. It isn't just the media, the public in general is fed upwith the so-called "conservative movement." They've had the power and we aren't pleased with what they did with it.
The economy is trashed, and the R's are blaming the D's for not passing legislation, all while they themselves are blocking progress through the filibuster.
I'll ask my favorite question: How are you liking (the economy) so far?
Jack Lohman (Mon Aug 04 07:51:07 2008)
Pay attention Jack, I'm talking about a massively biased media and their coronation of Barack (censored) Obama. This posting has nothing to do with your well known crack-pot pet ideas..
Fred (Mon Aug 04 08:47:17 2008)
I guess Speaker Pelosi was elected by the environment, and not the electorate, since that is where her heart is.
Arrogance prevails as they try to buy off the voters with promises of 1000 bucks..
Is your voice only worth that America ?
These problems were fostered by politicians, created by politicians, and promoted by politicians.
And, we expect THEM to solve them ?
Rich
Rich (Mon Aug 04 22:21:38 2008)
Give me a break, Jack...the R's are NOT "conservative"--look at how they've managed to grow the govt! We all know that politicians are after their own glory in most cases--BOTH parties.
"The economy" has been sick for a long time--inflation is a sign of that, and look how long that's been with us! In fact, if you know anything about the real value of money, you'll realize that taking the country's money off first the silver standard, then the gold standard, is at the bottom of a lot of rot. In other words, how much gold IS there at Ft Knox? Certainly not enough to cover all the paper chits floating around, that we call "money".
Re. drilling for more oil--there is only a limited supply, we all know we need to develop something better (which is NOT ethanol, which uses more net energy than it makes, and drives up feed prices for farmers)...BUT, in the meantime, ANY increase in oil supply is better than NONE.
And, I wonder, does Nancy hang her clothes out to dry? What kind of car does she drive? How many square feet is her house? (A/C costs a lot). Does she drive instead of fly? (Air fuel use is worse than gasoline use.) Does she use any plastic items? (Almost all plastics and artificial clothing fibers are made from oil.) Finding out the answers to these questions might be interesting.
emily matthews (Tue Aug 05 09:51:17 2008)
I have made no statements outside of why the media and the people are on the same page, which is what your post is about. Oh, except that the right wing wackos are blaming the left wing wackos for a stalemate they themselves have created.
But why don't you mention Barack (censored) Obama again? I'm just dying to know what his middle name is.... like, that's really going to make or break his presidency, should he get in.
His middle name seems really what your post is about, which is not the direction I suggest we take our criticisms. There are far more important and mature issues than his birth name.
Jack Lohman (Mon Aug 04 09:20:55 2008)
Fred Dooley is comparing apples and oranges. Tom Nelson was protesting lack of action on a state budget that the state has at least the theoretical responsibility to pass by July 1.
The Republicans in Congress were protesting the refusal of Rep. Nancy Pelosi to allow a vote on offshore drilling, much sought after by the likes of Exxon-Mobil.
A resumption of offshore drilling is supported by almost three out of five Americans, who are as anxious as the Republicans who staged their protest for a quick fix for high energy prices.
They have enough perks that they don't have to worry about $4 a gallon gasoline, but they do have an election coming up, and they'll do almost anything to prevent the oil companies from losing their grip on Congress.
But there is no quick fix for the energy crisis. Civilization is in this pickle for the long haul. The question isn't so much whether the Republicans on the House floor will survive as whether civilization will survive.
What's more important, politics or the climate?
"I want to save the planet," Speaker Pelosi said in her well publicized response to the GOP sit-in.
(There are 61,000 hits on Google. Hardly a story that escaped the media's attention. To contend it was ignored doesn't pass the smell test. Maybe it was a complaint that an attempt to spin a story backfired.)
Of course, Pelosi is only slightly more likely to save the planet than patrons of Big Oil are likely to bring back $2 a gallon gasoline. But her response was a hopeful sign, according to economist Paul Krugman.
"...Ms. Pelosi’s remark was a happy reminder that environmental policy is no longer in the hands of crazy people," Krugman wrote in The New York Times. "Remember, less than two years ago Senator James Inhofe — a conspiracy theorist who insists that global warming is a “gigantic hoax” perpetrated by the scientific community — was the chairman of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee.
"Beyond that, Ms. Pelosi’s response shows that she understands the deeper issues behind the current energy debate.
"Most criticism of John McCain’s decision to follow the Bush administration’s lead and embrace offshore drilling as the answer to high gas prices has focused on the accusation that it’s junk economics — which it is."
And as Election Day approaches, we're likely to be fed much more junk economics, junk politics and junk attacks.
Will off-the-mark accusations of media bias dampen the media's zeal to point this out? I hope not.
Rich Eggleston (Mon Aug 04 10:17:26 2008)
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