Poll: Voters agree that MSM’s propping up Obama
After constant exposure to Obamessiah imagery, happy dances, hagiographic profiles, tingling, weeping, and ogling, voters conclude that yes, yes, mainstream journalists are in the tank for Obama.
Rasmussen via Allahpundit:
Voters have little doubt as to who is benefitting from the media coverage this year—Barack Obama. Fifty-four percent (54%) say Obama has gotten the best coverage so far. Twenty-two percent (22%) say McCain has received the most favorable coverage while 14% say that Hillary got the best treatment…
Looking ahead to the fall campaign, 44% believe most reporters will try to help Obama while only 13% believe that most will try to help McCain. Twenty-four percent (24%) are optimistic enough to believe that most reporters will try to offer unbiased coverage.
Even Democrats tend to believe their candidate will receive better treatment—27% of those in Obama’s party believe most reporters will try to help him win while only 16% believe they will help McCain. A plurality of Democrats—34%–believe most reporters will be unbiased.
Among unaffiliated voters, 44% believe reporters will try to help Obama and 14% believe they will try to help McCain.
Well, duh.
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lol, duh.
It’s definitely not news that media bias exists. But I am surprised that the general public is waking up enough to realize it.
They’ll stop at nothing to get this guy elected.
I guess President Lincoln was right about not being able to fool all of the people all of the time, but this is still too big a percentage that trust our biased media to do what is right for me.
Propping-up BO with the one hand, and tearing down McCain with the other.
Not only are some using the military DI to disparage JMcC, now this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html
MSM = Brainwashing. This Obama worship is getting to be very cultish. I think most of the women and a large majority of the men in the msm would literaly drop to thier knees for obama.
This is not news to most of us. Duh is the only comment that can be made.
Of course they are. But it doesn’t stop there. They are propping up the democrat party. Especially the left wing environmental wackos. Al Gore’s global warming crusade has caused gasoline prices to rise more in the last year than they had in the previous 40 years combined.
When the republicans asked me for a donation last week; I told them the moneys in my gas tank.
OK, so John, and Jane Q. Public know the “msm” is just a propaganda machine for democrats, and Obama. My question is, if they are savvy enough to see the lie, then why do they still buy this slanted baloney which is essentially bent on destroying their culture, their economy, and their country?
Poll: Voters have firm grasp of the obvious
I guess common sense is not all that common anymore.
I’m reading a book by a leading liberal columnist/professor/Democrat Eric Alterman Why We’re Liberals. He makes the incredible claim that the MSM is biased – against liberals! He then goes on to cite Fox news and WSJ fifty times over to prove his point (as if each citation counted as a different outlet), and several sydicated columnists. Oh, and studies by Media Matters to clear up the matter.
I wonder how he would explain the Obasms that have become so common among reporters. Probably just fair and balanced coverage. But any mention of his questionable associates would be character assasination by right wing zealots in his world view.
There are other polls out today, just in case anyone needs to know the stats.
The NYT displayed a poll taken over the weekend, which had the following data:
98% of people believe water is wet.
97% of people believe the sky is blue. The other 3% were Poll results from the Obama School of the Blind, and were thrown out.
100% of people polled stated that ice was, in fact, cold.
99% of those polled stated that the price of gas was too high. The 1% was a sample polling of Amish farmers, who were seen laughing at people in cars as they rode their horse and buggy past them.
/sarc off
The biggest joke has to be the claim the press makes that he is a great orator. Put him in a press conference and he hems and haws, and says “you know”, “ahh”, “duh”, then flashes his teeth at the questioner. That stuttering, stammering Obama is the real Obama. There are thousands of actors who can memorize scripts and “sound” like orators.
Number 5-singlemalt_18–I saw the same article and was steamed!.
For what it was worth, I sent it to McCain. Did you know poor Obama grew up on food stamps and that McCain was a lousy playboy who dropped his first wife because she gained weight? That article was unbelievable. I left a comment, doubt if they’ll publish it. But how dare that Brit or wherever she came from write like that for that British paper–such rubbish.
Its obvious to me a suppressed sexual thing… (but then, I’m Freudian trained…)
– martin.musculus
Obama
The MSM is doing little more than the Obama’s themselves have done.
Indeed, when this
is included in his speech, it’s nothing short of secular messianism. Obama thinks he’s a god and that – upon his election – he’ll magically cure all our ills.
That this comes with incredibly high taxes and liberal facism (including thought policing and a loss of personal freedoms) is hidden. For the most part.
Obama is a facade. We really need to keep hammering this home, and push Obama to defeat in November.
Most of the Dems believe the media will be unbiased because the media supports their world view and they believe they (Dems) are middle of the road. Its group-think because they all reinforce each other. If they ever interacted with anyone outside their elitist circles once in awhile they would see how far apart they are from the common man.
Now, there’s an understatement!
Pushing.
That’s a little more accurate but still probably not the best description but its as close as I can muster at the moment.
The press has ceased to function as objective. The press can elect someone or destroy someone.
I think back to Jon Cary and how, after being exposed for the fraud he was, was elected a senator by being made a victim.
BHO may win, we will have to wait and see how bad the VP pick is by McCain.
Obama was a nobody even in his home state of Illinois whose senatorial primary opponents self-destructed, followed by his potential senate opponent, Jack Ryan, getting a dime dropped on him by a vindictive ex, followed by the 2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address which so mesmerized the lib media who had been hungering for a black man to worship and market ever since the vacuum left by the departure of the welfare queen Carole Mosely Braun from the political mainstream.
I’ve been saying that for yeats and it’s true common sense is not common, I alway’s use liberals for an example.
should be years
I expect that the 54% number will rise between now and November, as the msm do a poor job of concealing their biases.
The only thing “common” about it, BM, is how uncommon it is.
Them Dem’s sure is smart folks, huh. They can spot the truth when its given to them.
(sar)
I get the impression that they aren’t too worried about going to great lengths to conceal it. Call me skeptical, I guess.
This isn’t the first time in our history that the press has tried to elect a President. Many times, it succeeded. It won’t be the last time either. It started with the Adams-Jefferson election, and has been important in politics since. I can only hope, this time, they fail. However, many people don’t think; they just go with whatever is on the “news” or in the papers.
But this realizationisnot going to stop the MSM from continuing their support nor is it going to keep people from voting for the new messiah. This country is in serious trouble.
I think he should choose Mitt Romney. Then you get the side of the Conservative arena you need to have a chance of taking on Barack. I think Barack will choose John Edwards if he is smart. The media loves Barack Obama.
I’m wondering if the equal opportunity provision of the Communications Act was applied to newscasts that are not opinion based shows, wouldn’t that stop this summer love affair?
This doesn’t make the MSM biased. Take the speeches on Tuesday. Obama gave a great speech in front of twenty thousand enthusiastic supporters. McCain could barely read the teleprompter in front of a hundred paid bystanders. Even Fox admitted McCain was worse that day.
Take the gas tax holiday: people who know about the economy don’t think it would lower the price of gas more than a few pennies/gal. That was McCain being bad and the MSM reporting correctly.
Take the balanced budget. McCain says he can balance the budget by the 2012 even with more tax cuts, by cutting pork. The MSM looks at the amount of pork and the budget deficit and concludes that’s impossible (even now, the deficit is larger than pork spending). It’s not their fault.
The MSM reports that hispanics like McCain because of his immigration policies (what you call shamnesty), then reports that he’s flopped into the hard right “kick `em all out” position. Again, not the MSM fault.
Bottom line: McCain looks bad on MSM TV because he is bad.
Honestly….i….have to agree
Wow! I’m getting this tingling feeling up my leg every time I see Obama.
LGM,
If you can’t see the biased reporting at this point then there is little hope for you to escape the cult like propoganda before it is too late. I have never seen such outright pandering to one politician. It even has sexual overtones. MSNBC some mornings might as well have Obama at the end of it saying, “I approve this message”.
LGM,
You haven’t disproven the assertion that the media is favoring Obama. You’ve only pointed out McCain’s flaws.
I don’t dispute the fact that McCain is not a good public speaker, even after all of his years in the Senate, where all they get done is bloviate, besides wasting our hard earned money. But, that is where I have to part ways with lgm after that.
lgm is a staunch believer in how unbiased the MSM is, because they believe what he does, not because they actually are unbiased.
But when he had to answer questions in front of the national press he looked awful. There was no great oratory, there was only, “duh”, “well ah”, “I mean”, “you know”. His way with words leave him quickly when he gets out of spin mode. Those supporters expect no details, just platitudes.
People, the biggest bias is FOR the two parties. Any third party candidate has no shot from any of the media. No independant candidate gets any press. I personally am tired of the democrats and the republicans and the obsession the press has with the two parties who persist in selling this country down the river.
LGM
Bart Simpson has something to say about that.
good one aj
ajmontana, very funny, thank you.
Agreed. It’s why i pasted only that part of the statement.
Do i think Obama is getting the free pass from the MSM. Of course. And he’ll use that to his every advantage, while they continue to demonize anyone like MM, or conservative bloggers and followers in general, on the issues.
On June 9th, 2008 at 10:29 am, Byantine said:
EXACTLY, Bynatine!
And lgm danced over ONE of McCain’s biggest strengths: Impromptu speaking.
McCain will eat B. Hussein Obama’s lunch when they meet at the debates and town hall meetings, where McCain’s natural people skills and ability to identify with regular folks will expose the Lightworker for the out-of-touch, elitist liberal he is at heart.
Count on it, lgm!
I have my doubts about how the MSM defines pork. The liberals have too many sacred cows they’re used to spending money on.
ROFLMAO
One question – WHY????????
Agreed. Obama’s oratory skills end with his canned stump speeches in front of fawning supporters.
Again, agreed. Obama is awful with speeches that aren’t canned and he has to think off-the-cuff.
I disagree.
When Obama and McCain appeared at a luncheon of AP editors, only one of them got a standing ovation, and it wasn’t Obama.
The most glaring difference in coverage being biased in favor of McCain is in the ad nauseum broadcasting of Jeremiah Wright, as opposed to the blackout of Hagee and Parsley. Apparently it’s news when a liberal black preacher condems the government, but not when a conservative white preacher calls Catholicism the “great whore.”
The press has had more to say about Obama not wearing a lapel pin than anything about McCain’s lack of basic knowledge about the conflict in the middle east (said three times that Iran was training Al Quaeda, said troop presence down to pre-surge levels, said Waziristan part of Afghanistan). When you add in the repeated references to McCain as the “straight-talking maverick” and near-complete ignoring of McCain’s flip flops on immigration, taxes, executive powers, interrogation, troop presence, and — well, everything, you really have to question who has gotten the most preferential treatment this election season. Most conservatives said that the media favored McCain most in the 2000 and 2008 primaries because he was the most liberal Republican running, and that once he won the nomination, the press would be all over him. I don’t see it.
I understand it’s an article of faith among conservatives that the mainstream media have a liberal bias, but I really believe this election cycle calls that into serious question.
Yep, here’s the great orator, watch the second clip….
c’mon Odumbo you can get it out.
rofl.
Red State, please get a clue. McCain didn’t sit in Hagee’s church for 20 years and he’s denounced that plug Hagee gave him. Obummer, your messiah sat in a hate filled church for 20 years, he’s left the church for political reasons, feeding into Jeremiah Wright’s own statements that Obummer will do what is politically expedient.
I think you need to re look at your final statement. I guess you missed Chrissy Mathews and the tingle in his leg? Or perhaps you’re so consumed with hatred for those of us in Red States that you cannot see the distortion. The reason the press hasn’t been on McCain is because until Saturday the dims had their little party going on and had to pounce on Hillary. Now the party is over and McCain will get his due. He tries to be friendly with the likes of the msm but it will come back to bite him. Please be more skeptical of your own blue state self.
MSNBC leans strongly left. The basic 3 networks plus CNN leans slightly left. FoxNews leans strongly to the right, while laughably putting on claims of fair and balanced.
The smart move is to watch all of them, read the paper, read blogs on line, and come to your on conclusions.
I think it is safe to say that LGM fits into that group.
On June 9th, 2008 at 10:26 am, Yiddish Steel said:
Better get that rash checked out by your dermatologist.
The media must cover for him lest he crumble. I’ve watched and listened to him speak and when he loses his teleprompter or crib notes he stutters and stammers and completely loses it. The man simply doesn’t appear very bright. McCain needs to get him in a one-on-one debate where Obama will surely have his credibility and intellect crushed.
And we see that Red state belongs to this group.
not according to independent studies, but don’t let that sway you.
On June 9th, 2008 at 10:37 am, Mister P said:
There… you forgot that.
BHO generally under polls. So there’s no real way for the dems to know where he stands. The Dems are also banking on the women to get over HRC dropping out and to fall in line line good doobees. The elite dems would rather be perceived as misogynists than racists, which should keep that female voter block irate. Can’t wait for the conventions!
McCain denounced Hagee’s endorsement only after it came out that Hagee had said that the Holocaust was God’s wish, in order to have Jews return to the Holy Land. In fact, McCain actively sought Hagee’s endorsement, and said he was “glad to have it” even after everyone learned of his anti-Catholic remarks. Most people have no idea about that, because, well, it’s not on the news!
I share the misgivings of Obama for being a member of a church led by someone who appears to be a complete crackpot — for twenty damn years.
I think it is equally important to question someone who makes the endorsement of such a raging bigot part of his quest to become president — eight years after calling people similar to Hagee “agents of intolerance.”
englishqueen01 quoted the Obamessiah (PBUH) saying:
This is exactly what I thought of too when I thought of Obama this morning. This is a remarkable quote. This wasn’t some off the cuff, throwaway speech. This was the day he clinched the Dem nomination. Read that paragraph again. It’s nutty. Obama is in la-la land. It’s like he has no idea what the presidency entails.
These so called JOURNALISTS all desire to be EDWARD R. MURROW. Yeah, right, could anyone out there imagine ERM being blatantly in favor of one candidate??? If he was, he never showed it ON AIR… All the years of listening to ERM, I could not tell you if he was REPUBLICAN or a DEMOCRAT. All he ever did was report the NEWS with no BIAS SLANT whatsoever… Amazing, huh???
McCain’s the goat here – he’s set up to lose, and he will. The mainstream media really should be renamed to the State Media. The elites want Obama as president, and their cowardly, easily-controlled propaganda machine media, will pimp for him as long as they are told.
Still laughing even though lgm will complain that the privacy of his medical records has been violated.
For example, the Center for Media and Public Affairs study based on scientific content analysis.
Fox was found to be heavier on content but not favor. The percentage of good to bad coverage on candidates was within a one to two percentage point difference on Fox.
Yeah, no kidding.
#65
Anyone who supports state run medicine has no room to talk about medical privacy. (yes i know its a cartoon…)
#57.
Seriously, what independent studies. I’d like to see and study this study you speak of. How about the flagship shows. Let’s look at B.O.R and H and C. O’Reilly is definitely right leaning. Hannity is an unapologetically conservative right-winger. What about Colmes? His name comes second, and he doesn’t set the agenda for the show. He also doesn’t get his own show like Holmes’ America. Why do H and C and BOR put left wing loons on the show like Code Pink and the New Black Panther Party. They never showcase right wing loons like Hal Turner, ever.
Watch the scroll at the bottom of the screen on election or debate night FoxNews shows. They went out of the way to show negative aspects of Obama and pro-Hillary points. Now Hillary will be replaced with McCain.
I will give FoxNews props for having smart liberal pundits like Kirsten Powers and Marc Lamont Hill. But, MSNBC has Pat Buchanan and Joe Scarborough. These pundits don’t set the tone or agenda for the shows. The “independent” study you mention is probably taking the left and far left pundits into account, which isn’t accurate analysis in my opinion. Again, I have the intellectual honesty to say the MSNBC is liberal, and the MSM leans liberal. Read or watch something called “OUTFOXED” and you will witness first-hand accounts from former Foxnews employees who confirm the conservative bias.
I’m not complaining or bitchin about it, but FoxNews is absolutely the Republican network. I just find it very SNL like how they try to claim that they aren’t.
mistressjustice said:
The weirdo nanny stater has spoken. All must heed the words of the angry left-wing sexually deprived facists.
Yeh no kidding Just-ice I think we know this. derrrr.
lgm said:
Yeh that’s fine and dandy lgm however you yourself are terribly biased so why should anyone believe anything you say?
more accurate.
Barry F.
As I suspected the study takes the PUNDITS into account and quotes from them. Having a liberal pundit on to say liberal talking points doesn’t make a network(itself) balanced. I think you have to look at the theme of the shows, the politics of the hosts, the agenda, and the scroll running at the bottom of the screen. That’s just my take. Also, look at the more topical shows like O’Reilly and Hannity and you’ll see that the crazy, wacked out guests are always the liberal ones, as opposed to the ones on the far right. Name a liberal on FoxNews with his/her own show.
P.S., Geraldo doesn’t count because he supported Bush and now McCain.
If Obummer’s supporters had to spell his name correctly in order to vote for the “Boy Blunder”, he’d lose at least half of his base.
I’ve cruised Oblama websites, blogs etc., and I’ve NEVER come across a dumber base than his. I can’t tell how many different ways they spell Barack.
Then the fact that they think he has new ideas just boggles the mind. ALL his ideas are recycled liberal policy failures.
After everything Obummer says they should just footnote the comment, with the guy who failed previously.
Windfall profits tax (see Jimmy Carter)
Cap and Trade (see Jimmy Carter and BJ Clinton)
And so on
And so on
And so on
Oh. So, it was a waste of time to point you to one of studies. You just wanted to foment the anti-Fox News argument.
mistressjustice said:
I know it’s real hard to leave the ebonics behind. That Florida court must be a joke.
Just-ice said
Ok, that does it, this woman is crazy. She must not have enough iron in her diet.
mistressjustice. Hannity and orielly are clearly labeled OPINION shows, so you get opinions. DUH. MSNBC shows are labeled news shows but are mainly OPINION. Get the difference?
If we’re going to be intellectually honest, you might want to inject a disclaimer about the source of this “Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism” documentary by Robert Greenwald to which you are directing people.
Greenwald is a noted liberal and the film was distributed and promoted by MoveOn.org. It wasn’t even released theatrically but, rather, was pushed out across Amazon.com via DVD.
Not that Robert Greenwald is a left-leaning political activist with an axe to grind or anything. Even the review by David Rooney in Variety that Greenwald sports on “Outfoxed” on his website says “appears unlikely to reach beyond a liberal audience with an already vehement aversion to Fox News’ partisan coverage.”
Eighteen pennies per gallon, to be exact. About double the typical profit taken by the oil companies.
If DC were serious, they’d repeal the damned gas tax outright.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
The MSM disregards the increase in receipts that comes along with tax cuts. Cut the socialism and you’ll have your balanced budget even faster.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
What the heck is this? At least spam on a related thread. *sigh*
They reported wrong. He’s still about shamnesty, and has even moved further in that direction. This, despite its foolishness, is not what the MSM is reporting. Not the MSM’s fault? You’re a fool to believe that.
On that same note, as a “hard right” kind of guy, you are misrepresenting our side of the issue. We WANT foreigners in our country. WE DON’T WANT people disrespecting our laws and traditions by sneaking in illegally. If you can’t see the problem with that, then you are just as screwed up as the illegal alien offenders.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
What the heck are you talking about?
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Cut the socialism, make the welfare scum get jobs and you’ll have your balanced budget even faster.
Had to augment that a little.
Why not name Geraldo? If he’s supporting liberal Republicans like Bush and McCain, that doesn’t count as conservative, you know!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
HAHA … yeah, but I didn’t want to be redundant.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Red State, that’s been my take as well. I think most folks give the corporate media way too much credit with respect to the so-called bias issue. They cover stories in a manner they believe will result in increased ad revenues. Obama sells…simple as that. Obama attending a church led by a religious nutjob sells even more. Clinton getting serviced in his office by an intern really sells. It’s about green, not blue or red.
seige, you’ve now fully revealed yourself to be a flaming bigot. BTW, the late, great Sen. Goldwater is rolling over in his grave that a full fledged tool like you is using his name.
# 14, you saved me the trouble of pointing out what a poor orator Obama is. The man is an inarticulate doofus.
Are you kidding? Left wing “documentaries” are a growth industry. Left wingers will go out and pay to be brainwashed these days.
Barry F, instead of questioning the messanger of Outfoxed, take a look at the content. The meat of Outfoxed is the leaked Fox memos, which are more revealing of the network’s bias than any Hannity show.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200407140002
Sorry. I saw the post on fuel prices and didn’t realize you had extracted it from lgm’s bloviations.
I couldn’t figure how we were about to get off onto fuel prices on a thread about MSM bias for the Obamessiah.
Barry F.
I’m not saying your posting was a waste of time. Don’t be so sensitive. I just don’t think having liberal pundits say liberal stuff, makes a network itself fair and balanced. I repeat, that I would focus on the agenda, theme, and politics of the host.
If a talkshow has guests on talking about incest or necrophillia, does that mean that mean such a show (Springer/Sally Jesse has a fair and balanced viewpoint on the perversion?
I agree that B.O.R. and Hannity are opinion shows, but where are the liberal opinion shows on the Fox News Channel? Again, I haven’t seen a right wing loon guest such as Hal Turner to counter Shabazz or Code Pink. They don’t put right wing loons on these shows as much as the left wing loons, because they want the left to look bad. That’s their right, but I just wish they were honest about it.
There’ no doubt that Outfoxed was produced by a liberal, so does that mean that the former FoxNews employees were lying about their experiences with the conservative bias? Where’s the proof that they were lying, and where are the lawsuits for slander?
Look, I believe in the free-market, and I don’t care that FoxNews are shills for republicans any more than I care that MSNBC shills for the Dems. I’m just stating what I believe to be plainly obvious.
MSNBC topples over to the left.
CNN oscillates both ways, having Dobbs and Beck.
Fox is hardly right wing as they seemed very much to favor Hillary and McCain, hardly conservatives.
You had me for a second, RSS, until you threw the Media Matters link up there.
You can’t inject Media Matters as an unbiased evaluator, when it, and David Brock, its founder, have such strong ties to John Podesta, Center for American Progress, Peter Lewis, George Soros, et al.
That’s a rather disingenuous approach, don’t you think?