1 media bias? must be  a day that ends in y.

2 Etheridge is now saying the microphone looked like a raspberry and he feared for his life.

3

George Will?

That Maccaca actd stupidly.

 

4 Oh, THAT Liberal media!

5 Unfortunately, the woman who will be Etheridge's opponent isn't too bright either.

6

It was an Inquisition.  I feared for my life and the welfare of my future campaign.

...mostly for my future campaign.

7 What a simple yet tremendously effective business model.  No wonder they are making tons of money there.

8
At least I don't have a wide stance.

9 Etheridge is now saying the microphone looked like a raspberry and he feared for his life.

We're lucking he hadn't been to one of these defense classes then.

http://tinyurl.com/ygy5vu

10 Crappy tipper, too.

11 Not to love Der Fuehrer is a great mistake.  *hums*

12

Not only are they trying to bury it some are spinning it as a Republican set up job. Those media bastards can't go out of business fast enough

13

OT, but drudge says that Petraeus has passed out on The Hill.  No details beyond that yet.  Prayers that it's just exhaustion.

14

yeah i made this point the other day in one of the threads.

You could also compare the number of articles or stories on Carli Fiorina saying Barbara Boxer has bad hair  versus Moonbeam Brown saying Meg Whitman is kind of  like Josef Goebbels.

15 After a while, I learned to just leave him the bottle and shine the glasses.

16

The Helen Thomas silence is more telling than the Etheridge v. Maccaca flap.

'Maccaca' happened during a tight Senate race, from a future presidential candidate. And there was the racism angle. The Etheridge thing includes none of that.

But the Helen Thomas blackout, with everything she represented and now represents, is indefensible.

17 To be fair, Allen was a republican.

18

Bammie should have put Etheridge in charge of the stimulus....

...because no one messes with big, bad Bob

19
Hey, lay off, it's not like anyone died.

20 I prefer to compare and contrast the IQs of the people who read the Washington Post rag with those who don't. Macaca is a clear winner.

21 Renee Ellmers?  I can take her.

22 But the media is biased towards the Republicans!

23 But David Wiegel is whining because we have been tough on him for calling it a "hug". He has never seen such meaness.

24
Never mind the extreme editing of the footage by all of the mainstream news outlets to help limit the damage to a democrat.

25 Does anybody think that Etheridge would have issued even his lame non-apology if there hadn't been video of his melt down?

26

The Helen Thomas silence is more telling than the Etheridge v. Maccaca flap.

'Maccaca' happened during a tight Senate race, from a future presidential candidate. And there was the racism angle. The Etheridge thing includes none of that.

But the Helen Thomas blackout, with everything she represented and now represents, is indefensible.

Yeah, i have found the excuses to be lame.

Also there are certain papers that didn't cover the initial comments, so the first their readers would have heard about it is when Thomas actually resigned. That is how it is with papers these days, they decide a controversy is not worth reporting, but then the fall out is so big they have to at least report on that.

The worst excuse i've heard concered her age. I've worked with old people, and calling for ethnic cleansing isn't something that happens when you hit a certain age. Losing control of your bowels, yes. Ethnic cleansing, no.

27 I want to know wtf the Washington Examiner is smoking in defending what Weigel wrote.

You can comment on that article.  Just sayin'. 

28 Hey atroll@5, any evidence Renee Ellmers lacks brainpower, or was that just troll droppings you left behind. She sounded very bright to me on The Ed Morrissey Show yesterday.

29 OT - Behold, the future of our healthcare!

Woman died after being given smoker's lungs

The Government's "transplant czar" insisted today that organ transplants were carried out on the basis of whether they would work - after it emerged that a cystic fibrosis sufferer died after receiving the lungs of a long-term smoker.

30 Three paragraphs on page C3.

Don't exaggerate.

They also assigned their expert-on-conservatism blogger to demand the identities of the cameramen, say Allen's chokehold attempt was a "hug," and have an embarrassing public breakdown when everyone right of Kos calls him out for being a shill.

31

The headline over those three paragraphs in the WaPo:

Rep. Bob Etheridge gets vicious in viral video -- but who filmed it and why?

32
"Do you fully support the Obama agenda"  -

That question is just so over the top.
It's vicious and it smells.

33

EVIL RIGHT-WING BUSH-PUSHING RADIO STATION (NPR)-

Battleground poll of 70 most competitive House districts (60D 10 R) show Republicans leading Democrats by a 49-41 margin.

Amongst the most enthusiastic voters (pegging enthusiasm from 8 to 10), Republicans win out 53-39.

 

That crafty Karl Rove-backed "news" source OBVIOUSLY is in bed with the Right.

 

Sorry, channeling Markos right there.

34
If he would have grabbed my arm and neck like that - police would have been called.

35 Remember the good old days when we thought that the MFM were just biased and not a bunch of paid marxist traitors completely fabricating story lines.

36 In the movie, look-alike, Tom Poston, will play Etheridge.

37 It's perspective my friends. The NBA is a league of short white guys with no athletic ability. Well if you look at the trainers. I think the proper response is laughter. Mock the silliness of the MSM and their desire to control the narrative. Consistently point out that this desire proves a lack of trust in the judgement of the American people. Although I would love an RNC commercial with contrasting a (R) scandal followed by a resignation then a (D) scandal followed by reelection over and over and over.

38 In other WaPo news, "Palin Family Shocker: Wasted Food In Wasilla Trash Collection"

39
Every member of teh faith must make the pilgrimage to Macaca at least once during his lifetime.

40

The examples are endless. The most obvious one now of course is the coverage of the President regard Katrina vs BP oil spill. 

Bush acted unconscionably during and after Katrina.

I saw it on TV. When Brian Griffin summoned him to do something, Bush just stayed in his treehouse. His explanation was that he was reading Superfudge.

President Obama is going to address the American people tonight. Notice how it took him less than two months to do so. That's true leadership, or something.

41 35
If he would have grabbed my arm and neck like that - police would have been called.

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at June 15, 2010 11:03 AM (0fzsA)

If he would have grabbed my right hand with his right hand like that, I would have hit him with so many left hooks to the right side of his head he would have been begging me for just one a fucking right.

42 We could start spreading the rumor that the kid interviewing was either gay or muslim and then it would get traction. You CAN not do wrong to a white male conservative.

43 #28 - Everything is relative.

44 President Obama is going to address the American people tonight. Notice how it took him less than two months to do so.

You know what would happen to his approval rating if he pre-empted the finale of Lost...c'mon, think about his priorities here.

45 Firehorse- where is the media trying to ask the President what mistakes he has made and why won't he admit he has made them?

46 Did they report on Sarah Palin's boobs?

47 I want to know wtf the Washington Examiner is smoking in defending what Weigel wrote.

You can comment on that article.  Just sayin'.

One wonders if these idiots even have a damn clue as to why they are going bankrupt?  Yes they blame it on the inter-tubes but do they even begin to realize why people go to the tubes to get info??

I hope they aren't still wondering why I canceled the subscriptions to the three papers I used to get here. Especially after I sent a letter in with my notice saying that if I wanted a Dem PR rag I would contribute to the Dem party.

48 Congressman Bob Etheridge?

Never heard of him.

49

_{Posted by: ontherocks at June 15, 2010 11:09 AM (HBqDo)}

You punch like Vishnu.

50 The Conspiracy on my Right is Vast.

51

'Maccaca' happened during a tight Senate race, from a future presidential candidate.

Note that this justification is actually an admission of the exact motives many of us attribute to the media!

I do not wish to have "news" organizations decide how, and how much, to cover stories based on their assessment of the liklihood that the subject will be a future Republican Presidential candidate.  My use of the word "Republican" is deliberate here: no such standard was ever applied to the Obama candidacy, nor to that of any other Democrat that I can recall.

That is the Post's understanding of its job - protecting Democrats and trashing Republicans using blatantly different standards of what is newsworthy and how it is reported.  The fact that it is used here to "explain" what was going on just shows how the practice is accepted - it's like expecting a fish to be surprised by the wetness of water.

52

You punch like Vishnu.

Posted by: Bob Etheridge at June 15, 2010 11:15 AM (amoGc)

Well not that good Bobby, but when you're that drunk it probably seems that way. Vish has a couple of different types of left hooks though.

53

Speaking of Vishnu:

"Behold!  I am become Pravda - destroyer of Republicans." - WAPO

54 If he would have grabbed my arm and neck like that - police would have been called.

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at June 15, 2010 11:03 AM (0fzsA)

And Amber Lamps.

55 OT - Behold, the future of our healthcare!

Woman died after being given smoker's lungs

The Government's "transplant czar" insisted today that organ transplants were carried out on the basis of whether they would work - after it emerged that a cystic fibrosis sufferer died after receiving the lungs of a long-term smoker.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at June 15, 2010 11:00 AM (9hSKh)

So you'd rather she had fallen off a cliff?

56 atroll@44 Fine. I'll consider your comments in that spirit as well.

57 Behold, the future of our healthcare!

I'm envisioning more of a Chinese system.  Only party apparatchiks get expensive procedures like organ transplants...harvested from carefully selected political prisoners.

58 #28 - Everything is relative.

Posted by: Atrollpassinthru

so one man's vanilla ice cream is another man's cow manure? No? Then your pathetic attempt at deflection is cow manure. Have a double scoop.

59 Follow the link to the WaPo ombudsman and click on the story about how the WaPo isn't really disappearing.  Yes, the newsroom is being gutted, and yes the subscriptions are way down, but the online viewers is up, so it all works out.  Except that the online viewership doesn't pay for itself, so the organization is losing money hand over fist.  But no worries!  These people as clueless as they were when I canceled my subscription 2 years ago.  Nothing has been learned.  Buh-bye.

60 Yes, the newsroom is being gutted, and yes the subscriptions are way down, but the online viewers is up, so it all works out.


But they'll make up for it in volume......

61

I do not wish to have "news" organizations decide how, and how much, to cover stories based on their assessment of the liklihood that the subject will be a future Republican Presidential candidate. 

Whether you wish it or not, a would-be presidential candidate, in a tight Senate race, will get more attention than a little-known House member walking down the street. And I don't think Allen's ambitions were merely "their assessment." I think it was widely known within the GOP.

You can argue that that they used the wrong news judement if you want. But don't argue that they should not use any news judgment.

There are major flaws with Maccaca v. Who R U. This does not justify the virtual Post blackout on Etheridge, it's just reality.

62 Prediction:  The ombudsman will say, George Allen was running in Virginia, which we cover, not North Carolina, which we don't.  Oh, and the fact that it happened in Washington, which we also cover, that's doesn't matter.

63

_{Or whatever the hell it is he does to fill his day.}

Dear Diary,

 Yesterday was amazing!  Shrimp, Crab Cakes, and White Folk all treating me like a King...we went for a long walk on the Beach and took TONS of photos.

  Off to play Golf and maybe do a little Jet-Skiing.  Have a BIG speach to make tonight.  Hopefully there will be some Arugula with my Crab and Wagyu tonight. 

I hope that hole never gets filled.  I love it down here with these racist Tea-Baggers.  So much more fun than the White House.  So glad Michelle is at home with the kids...nothing like a little 'Guys Time'. IYKWIMAIKTYD.

  C-U L8R!!!

-Princess Barky

-Barky

64 I tell you what is news and what is not news. Remember that.

65 Speaking of "news" why is Fox covering the Jug-Eared asshole's latest speech now? Him giving a speech which is nothing more than one lie strung after another is not "news".

The sorry SOB has been on TV more than Bush was his entire 8 years.

66 Related:

WaPo Asks 'Who Cares' if President Golfs During Crisis, Forgets They Did in 2002

67 #11 Heather Radish. SUPER-DUPER SUPERMEN!

68

Him giving a speech which is nothing more than one lie strung after another is not "news".

What, you don't like drinking games? Can't wait for tonight's speech.

69 Does anyone here support a newspaper, any newpaper, with a subscription?  If so, why?  Kill them off.

70

Firehorse- where is the media trying to ask the President what mistakes he has made and why won't he admit he has made them?

Instead of addressing your question, I'll just go after you directly, Locus Ceruleus. Let's start by pointing out that you probably prefer yellow mustard to dijon. I'll bet you also read tabloid rags like The New York Post and you're not cool enough to get your rave on at Club 1600.

 

71

Trouble with this analysis is, that until the maccaca moment, it wasn't that close of a race.

Yeah, not very close, but competitive in a year when GOP poll numbers in general were steadily going down. But that leaves: Senator v. Congressman; In a campaign v. Not in a campaign; Future presidential candidate v. Not future presidential candidate; Racial angle v. No racial angle
Just too many variables for a valid comparison.
Obviously, MFM treats Democrats and Republicans differently. We all know the drill (belatedly cover the “controversy” surrounding an embarrassing political incident rather than the incident itself…) This comparison just doesn’t make the point very well.

72 You know if those "students" swear out a warrant on me, I'll bet the Post will cover it. 

Thank God those kind boys have a good soul and aren't going to put me and my family through the embarrassment of being perp walked by the DC police.

Thanks boys.

73

Does anyone here support a newspaper, any newpaper, with a subscription? 

The local rag. I let it lapse last year, but Mrs. FireHorse likes it so we renewed it.

I find it totally useless. I once folded it up to swat a fly and nailed him right on the head. He flew up to my ear and said, "That all you got, tough guy?"

Mrs. FireHorse also subsribes to O: The Oprah Magazine. I rolled one of those up, and the fly changed his tune. I wound up for a two-handed forearm smash and said, "Lower." The fly buzzed around the floor for awhile so my cat could play with it. She swatted at him, tortured him, and ate him. I haven't seen a fly in the house since.

(Spiders take note.)

74

Figures that nothing would be made of this.

No, I have not supported a newspaper for the last 15 years; haven't supported a magazine in 10 (and those were horsemen's publications).  They just aren't worth it to add on the budget imio.

75

http://tinyurl.com/363lhhh

We've always been at war with Eurasia the maccaccas.

http://tinyurl.com/22snfo2

http://tinyurl.com/54ce23

 

76 Does anyone here support a newspaper, any newpaper, with a subscription?  If so, why?  Kill them off.

Posted by: Louis Tully at June 15, 2010 12:03 PM (jat5l)

I used to subscribe to Time Magazine, the local paper , and a Denver paper.  I no longer subscribe to any.  They are more expensive and less trustworthy than they were back in the day.

I was a dishwasher at a French ski resort back in 1976.  There was a small town, Meribel, Les Allures, two or three miles down the mountain.  My command of the French language was challenged at best.  Every week on the day that the new issue came out (I think it came out on Thursdays) I would walk three miles down the mountain to get a copy of International Time and three miles back up the mountain to read it.  It was so nice to have something I could read without having to resort to a dictionary every  few sentences.  I read it cover to cover and felt informed.  I was a loyal Time subscriber.  It took a lot for them to finally drive me away. 

77

Does anyone here support a newspaper, any newpaper, with a subscription?

I don't. But I wonder what will happen when all newspapers end their free online offerings.

The impact on blogs will be significant. Conservative blogs need to access liberal newspapers to pick them apart. That will be harder with a subscription fee. I first got into political blogs because they would pick apart liberal media, fact by fact. Wonder what will happen now.

Even the best conservative sites usually link, at some point, to a news outlet for the basic information in a story. That will all be ending soon.

78

You can argue that that they used the wrong news judement if you want.

Thanks for your kind instruction concerning what I may argue, but I decline to argue that it was wrong news judgement.  To say it was wrong judgement would imply that it was made in error.  It is not in any way an error. It is part of a finely calculated and repeated pattern of deception.

In the minds of the lapdog sycophants that run the WAPO, it is not only not wrong, it is right.

79 Is he related to MILITIA ETHERIDGE.   She's purdy.

80

http://tinyurl.com/363lhhh

We've always been at war with Eurasia the maccaccas.

http://tinyurl.com/22snfo2

http://tinyurl.com/54ce23

 

Posted by: Entropy at June 15, 2010 12:24 PM (IsLT6)

"We shall fight sanction them if we pass the global test on the beaches, we shall fight sanction them if we pass the global test on the landing grounds, we shall fight sanction them if we pass the global test in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight sanction them if we pass the global test in the hills; we shall never surrender seek the off ramp that makes us look like sanctimonious peace protesters."

81

sherlock at June 15, 2010 12:27 PM (thr9V)

Alls I'm sayin's is you can't possibly expect a little-known House member to be given the same coverage as a Senator/future presidential candidate.

82 73 Does anyone here support a newspaper, any newpaper, with a subscription?  If so, why?  Kill them off.     We used to subscribe to our local Seattle paper.  Then during the 2008 election, that paper was linking all kinds of articles from NYT which were ridiculous, redundant, relentless attacks on Sarah Palin.  I cancelled our subscription and told the man I spoke to the reason why.  We started subscribing to Wall Street Journal instead.  I do buy the local paper on Sunday so I can get all the ads and coupons.  The only thing I miss during the week is the local news but mostly the local sports.  A few months after we cancelled our subscription, I received a phone call from someone at the paper asking me if I wanted to subscribe to the paper.  I told him no, and he got kind of huffy.  He asked me if I was subscribing to another paper.  When I told him we were getting the WSJ, he became unhinged.  He started yelling at me telling me that the WSJ was talking points for Fox News and it wasn't reporting the news accurately.  I ended up hanging up on him.  I called the subscriptions office and requested to speak to a manager.  I told the manager about the phone call I had received, gave him  the person's name, and requested that they put me on their "do not call list".  I also told him I didn't appreciate the unprofessional harrasment that his employee unleashed on me.  The manager was very apologetic and told me I would not be contacted again, and he would deal with the offending person. 

83 So WAPO goes from taking  down Watergate bullies to protecting Democrat bullies who beat up students.

Poor, pitiful Krauthammer, his butt-sucking ombudsmen colleagues have made him a massive asshole  for government bullies.

And because WAPO is just a butt-sucking ombudsmen assholes NOTHING  will happen to the Democrat politician who assaults anyone who asks a simple 'do you support Obama's agenda?'

84 Well I wish the WaPo fuckers would tell my local newspaper, the Raleigh News and Observer, a good democrat paper, to stop ragging my ass.

Same with the Durham Herald. 

What's with it boys? You didn't get that check I sent you all last year?  Does this mean you bastards are going to up the take like those damn Black preachers did last year?

Shit, this isn't fun anymore.  I can hardly steal enough pork to cover my expenses.

85 86 I support the Washington Times. It is competition for the Post so by not subscribing to the post and subscribing to the times I hope to hurt the Post as much as possible. BTW, if you call the post they all sound like Alvin Greene. They don't have the first clue who the paper supports because they've never read anything but the style and sports sections. Maybe the article on M'chelle's toned "mother's arms" on mother's day last year-barf.

86 WaPo, the new improved Pravda

87 In the pre-web days, I subscribed to 3 daily papers.  but that was 20 years or so ago.  Today, I subscribed to none, and buy none on the street.  Why? because their primary reason for being is to control information and thus the political dialogue.  And I can find less heavily filtered and manipulated information on the web and (to a far lesser extent) on the tube.  Our political culture will be far better off without them, and I look forward to the day when they are all kaput.

88 I'm surprised the Durham Herald hasn't tried to make up things about the "students" like they did durning the lax scandal. They make the libtards at the post look ethical.

89 75 Yeah, and they never covered the plethora of stories proving that JIM WEBB IS A LOON.

90 Posted by: runningrn at June 15, 2010 12:34 PM (CfmlF)

WAY TO GO

91 85

sherlock at June 15, 2010 12:27 PM (thr9V)

Alls I'm sayin's is you can't possibly expect a little-known House member to be given the same coverage as a Senator/future presidential candidate.

Posted by: CJ at June 15, 2010 12:34 PM (9KqcB)

Cynthia McKinney.  Any Republican caught in a similar circumstance

92 well, I've found that here in a small town the only real way to keep up on local news is to get the local paper - they have a "website" but it's updated maybe 1 week after the paper runs, if then (not terribly professional), plus it doesn't even have all the articles from the paper on it so you miss a bunch of stuff anyway.

93 The WaPo stunningly superb record of non-bias reporting makes me so happy I want to pass ou....

94 It's my nature.

95 Alls I'm sayin's is you can't possibly expect a little-known House member to be given the same coverage as a Senator/future presidential candidate.

It's called a SCANDAL.  Remember Don Sherwood?  Yeah he was the R Rep. in Pennsylvania who knocked around his mistress.  Scumbag? Yes. Gets prominent mention in WaPo.  He wasn't going to be running for president.  But that's "news", while a D Rep who knocks around students gets a pass.

96 Oh, man. The Posties are so deep in the piss tank for the Dems, even I am amazed. Dave "Hugs" Weigel ain't got a thing on Chris Cillizzzzzza LINK:

Excerpt:

Also, even Republicans acknowledge that Ellmers is entirely unformed as a candidate -- nowhere near as developed as even Miller or Tinklenberg, who both had some campaign infrastructure to take advantage of the incumbent's slip.

The simple fact is that there are far more occasions when a gaffe slowed but did not stop an incumbent's march to re-election than those where the gaffe caused a loss. (The one notable example in the latter category is Sen. George Allen's "macaca" comment that led to a fundamental re-examining of the incumbent by the state's voters.)

It's far more likely -- at least today -- that Etheridge will fall into the bent but not broken category of political gaffesmanship.

97

Lets all talk about Mark Foley for several weeks during elections time.

NO, lets MANUFACTURE some military records to smear George Bush.

Nah, lets chat for a few months about Larry Craig.

 

Nah the Media would never do that. 

And Katie Couric wouldn't have a picture of Margaret Sanger on her wall. in her palatial CBS office.

 

98

It's called a SCANDAL.  Remember Don Sherwood?  Yeah he was the R Rep. in Pennsylvania who knocked around his mistress. 

A married legislator beating his mistress is the same as a Congressman grabbing a college kid by the neck? Come on....

99 CJ it wasn't merely "grabbing a college kid by the neck", Etheridge assaulted the kid, slapping at his camera and holding his wrist without letting go.  They are both instances of Congressmen behaving badly yet only one gets prominent mention.  Hmm...

100 And let's not remember, these people (reporters) are the ones who insist they are "speaking truth to power" and all that, they are the ones who hold themselves to high standards about reporting and ethics, and now we see what those "high standards" are really all about.

101 Per Chris Matthews:  asking a question = being ambushed... Oh those hilarious folks at MSNBC.   

102

chemjeff ,

I agree there are obvious double-standards. I just think we're getting a little carried away with the Etheridge thing.

103 If those students told the drunk democrat congressman that they, too were democrats, the drunk would have given them a kiss after his hug.

104 It was just a hug, people. You know, "hug"? Just a prelude to a ticklefight, that's all.

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