Media Malpractice.

[TheTman]

I was cleaning and oiling some of my handguns up this evening and decided to watch or actually mostly listen to a documentary about the 2008 election. It's on the Netflix instant watch list, and is called Media Mapractice. It gave a great account of how the National New Media ramrodded Obama into the Whitehouse, ignoring anything remotely harmful to him, while focusing instead on such major issues as how much Sarah Palin spent on clothes, and that her daughter was unmarried and pregnant and other hit pieces on the McCain-Palin camp. I suggest if you have Netflix instant view that you give this documentary a view, and see how our "unbaised" major media news outlets suceeded in putting their candidate of choice into the Whitehouse. I thought this was worth mentioning because of that same media turning the attack dog loose on the Tea Party, and going to great lengths to demonize these patriotic, 2nd admendment supporting, freedom loving Americans. The same "sonsabitches" that Jimmy Hoffa wants to take out so bad, and Maxine Waters wants to send to hell. I think we all knew what was happening during the election, but this documentary really puts the spotlight on just how unfair and unethical they really were. Might want to have a trash can handy incase it makes you as sick to your stomach as it did me.
I'm not sure I understand this, but if you are a union member, I think that you can't be a Tea Party supporter? It seems that is getting pretty far into your personal life to tell you who and what you can and cannot support.

[Jeremiah/Az]

I am a retired union member with a substantial pension from same & a staunch supporter of the Tea Party. As long as the liberals control the media & Hollywood, this pattern will not change.

[wyntrout]

The media did a lot to influence the selection of "maverick" McCain as the Republican presidential nominee... then dropped him like a hot potato and carried Obama all the way to the White House... with their blinders firmly in place.

I'm sure they will use the same tactic in the next campaign... "help" the Republicans with their choice of candidate and then throw their usual enthusiastic support fully behind Obama.

Wynn

[crazymailman]

Thanks thetmanski. I either had not heard of that documentary or had forgotten it.

[Dietrich]

The mainstream media will operate the same way in 2012 that they did in 2008. It will be the same song as before: "Obama is the new Savior",he can do no wrong,if you disagree with him you are a racist,yada,yada,yada.Standard Operating Procedure.
The sad truth is that if the Republican Party doesn`t get off its` ass and find itself a good, solid, candidate,we`ll be saddled with Hussein and his pals for another four years.

[bigmacque]

I've been on a kick about the media since the 2000 election, when that turned into a circus because of the media. That election never had to be carried out the way it was, but in everyone's rush to be able to say, "you heard it here first", the media created a junk pile of irresponsible reporting. That's been over a decade ago and I'm still full of P&V when it comes to how the public was manhandled by the media in that election.

I believe Scripture teaches us that with great freedom comes great responsibility; I don't think anyone in the media has ever learned that lesson. And the truly unfortunate side-effect of the media's gamesmanship is that we, the people, have no opportunity to really gain the truth in any given situation any more.

[Longitude Zero]

Hoffa needs to join his POS daddy with a matched pair of concrete galoshes. Sadly the media is SOOOO liberal that equal/fair/factual reporting is NOT going to happen on a regular basis. If it does happen it will be by accident.

[slowpoke]

It's amazing. And the man doesn't even have the management skills to manage a hamburger joint, much less cash for clunkers.

[O'Dell]

Wasn't it Chris Matthews, ultra-liberal on MSNBC, that described Obama as "sort of a God" and said he had to step down to accept the presidency. I don't use the word 'hate' often or without a lot of thought, but I think it applies to the media.

[hotpig]

The Tea Party alienating a large amount of their base with the attacks on the middle class such as WI and several other States.

Locally they have run their coarse but the spin off 9-12 seems to be hanging on. Some of the die hards still post comments to the local paper every time Emergency workers are in the news. They love to refer to Firefighters as welfare recipients living off of the sweat of the working man.

I see the TP as a rabid dog. They run around attacking with no real plan or forethought. Being a working class person Union or not and taking part in this misguided movement is like owning a gun shop and actively supporting the Brady bunch.

[O'Dell]

The Tea Party alienating a large amount of their base with the attacks on the middle class such as WI and several other States.

Locally they have run their coarse but the spin off 9-12 seems to be hanging on. Some of the die hards still post comments to the local paper every time Emergency workers are in the news. They love to refer to Firefighters as welfare recipients living off of the sweat of the working man.

I see the TP as a rabid dog. They run around attacking with no real plan or forethought. Being a working class person Union or not and taking part in this misguided movement is like owning a gun shop and actively supporting the Brady bunch.

Totally disagree, but I've given my reason before and it obviously does no good.

[crazymailman]

Spot on, O'Dell

[TheTman]

Hotpig, I've never heard that kind of rhetoric from any Tea Party members. I understand Wisconsin is going through some heated debate over workers rights, but that sounds more like someone posing as Tea Party just to try and give them a black eye. I've never heard of anything but respect for Police, Fire and other Emergancy personel from real Tea Party people. There are a lot of posers and plants that say things to try and make the Tea Party look like a bunch of dimwits and nut jobs.
By the way, your reaction is exactly what the big mainstream media are trying to accomplish when people hear "Tea Party". Looks like their doing a good job in Wisconsin. Also when you say "middle class" don't you mean middle class UNION workers? Not everyone in the middle class belongs to a union.

[Jeremiah/Az]

Right on, Tman! Some people are buying into the media spin on the Tea Party!

[TheTman]

Those statements by Jimmy Hoffa and Maxine Waters really got my goat. If you've ever seen a Tea Party rally, you'll notice that probably half look to be retirement age or older, and first Maxine tells them to go to hell, and now Hoffa wants to "take the sonsabitches out". Real tough talk from asswads that have their own personal goon squads. Then you have the young talking heads like Jon Stewart and others taking pot shots at them just because many of them are senior citizens, a lot of whom fought for their right to say such idiot things on the air. The little bas tards otta have some repect, common sense, and some decency, knocked into them.