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Median Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-08 07:23 PM
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The MSM Spin Is Becoming More and More Apparent
Edited on Thu Jul-24-08 07:28 PM by Median Democrat
The first step before the trip was the liberal media bias theme that was spun through every major network as if on cue. You simply could not avoid it. Media diversity? How is it that every network covered the liberal media bias story at the same time, and without critical analysis? Perhaps its because there is no diversity in media, and the only dissenting voices were found in alternative publications and the internet.

The second step was to lob softballs at John McCain, and when he screwed up, the media portrayed it as cute senior mements, rather than repeated examples of dishonesty. The height of the cover-up was CBS actually editting McCain's answer to cover up his mistakes. Even DUers were taken in by making reference to McCain's age, rather than calling him on his repeated lies. Only a few stories actually noted that most of McCain's mistakes appeared to be in foreign affairs, his perceived strength.

The third step was to have major network anchors aggressively try to get gotch moments out Obama, as well as aggressively go after him in interviews with Charlie Gibson showing a complete lack of respect to Obama by referring to him as a rookie.

The fourth step was to ruthlessly spin a very beautiful and powerful speech into a negative, as though Americans want to be hated, and assert that they will distrust any American leader who is not burned in effigy abroad.
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-08 07:26 PM
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1. Not One Word About McCain's Speech in Canada
no, we get snarky remarks like "That's a speech John McCain could have given" Well, not so fast, here's a sample of McCain's speech in Canada and I beg to differ.

http://blogsforjohnmccain.com/john-mccain-speech-economic-club-canada-full-video-62008
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World Citizen Donating Member (363 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-08 07:35 PM
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2. see Goebbels, on Fear and Hatred
its the same strategy used by the corporate banking cabal on us for the past 8 years
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