The MSM is getting ridiculous

[Proud liberal 80]

Obama leads OH 50-46 in a CNN poll and they say its a tie

He leads in a PA poll 49-43 and they say he is under 50%

He leads in a VA poll 51-47 and he is clinging on

But any poll showing Romney ahead by even 1 point and they say he is winning

[LisaL]

1. ITA. WTF is wrong with MSM?

[EmeraldCityGrl]

8. In 2008 Bain Capital was involved

in a multi-billion dollar leverage buyout with Clear Channel ( they own something like 850 radio
stations, billboard companies) and Time Warner was also involved. I tried unraveling some of it
this afternoon and it's so convoluted the average person can't make heads or tails out of it. Willard
is their guy. Obama has the people that's why we have to GOTV and be his media machine.

CNN is on par with faux news. Ted Turner must be tearing his hair out.

[Maximumnegro]

10. Bingo. Bain has a lot of fingers

in a lot of media pies and is in a lot of people's pockets. This is why the media is even more out of control than usual. Romney has been leveraging the media through Bain. Not hard given there are only a few media companies to begin with. They're all buddy buddy at the top.

[xtraxritical]

26. Murdoch and the right wingers own lot's of media. It's all bullshit.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. "Getting?"

[RomneyLies]

3. They were hoping for the 1980 Carter narrative this year

They're so sad it isn;t happening.

All of these lilly white talking heads figured there was no way in hell a black man could be re-elected with the economy not fully recovered from the Bush Crash of '08.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

34. Some idiots out there are claiming Obama caused the crash.

[Cha]

4. Can't Point this Enough! Thanks Proud liberal 80.. It's meant to demoralize

if you buy it and Horse Race for the Corporate Media Coffers.

[Webster Green]

5. Some of the networks and pollsters will lose all credibility after this election.

I guess Rove and the Kochs have paid them enough that they don't give a shit anymore.

Fuck 'em!

I can't wait for the election results, so I can start ruthlessly tormenting wing-nuts.

[lobodons]

15. Not Nate

Nate Silver's integrity cannot be bought. Tonights chances for an Obama victory is over 74%.

[Webster Green]

39. That's right. Not Nate, and quite a few others.

I'm referring to the ones who are quite obviously bought and paid for.

Fuck them.

[Tutonic]

6. He's winning retroactively...

and from behind...on a sinking ship called Romtanic.


He should keep on eye on Sharkeyes.

[Proud liberal 80]

7. Another thing

In September when Obama was winning by a decent margin in the National polls and winning by a huge margin in the electoral map the MSM constantly claimed the race was close.

Now that Mitt is leading by a small margin in the National polls, while Obama is winning the electoral vote by a small margin the MSM is claiming Mitt is winning. WTF

[LukeFL]

28. When was it that Benghazi broke?

When did it happen? Iam starting tp think these a- holes had something to do with it to bring down Obamas lead.

[Faith9326]

9. Ugh

I just hate how they're literally injecting themselves into this election. They need to back up, for sure.

[pnwmom]

11. I keep noticing that, too. nt

[CaliGal]

12. My Dad and I were talking about this just the other day

I asked him if it was 'just me?', that the 'networks' seem to have already predicted that Romney is going to win the election because he is 1 point ahead of Obama in the national polls. Where, when Obama was up by 7 points, it was 'oh, he has a narrow lead', etc.
WTF????
I surmise that the Koch Bros., Rove, and their minions have been giving them millions to sway the commentary.
I know, I know, nothing new, but it does seem to be out of control the last couple of months.

[NRaleighLiberal]

13. "getting"? been that way for a long, long time.

[stopbush]

14. Yep. And the SF Giants are clinging to a 3-0 lead in the World Series, after shutting out Detroit

in the last two games.

Detroit has the momentum!!! And Rmoney's from Detroit, so he will win!!

[Webster Green]

40. +1

Go Giants/Obama!

[anAustralianobserver]

16. The MSM = The Mainly Superseded Media

haha I just made that up

[Rosa Luxemburg]

17. The more they say it's getting close the harder we Dems work!

[SunSeeker]

18. Aint that the fucking truth!

[MrModerate]

19. Money money money money money . . .

Ad spends, viewership (which feeds into the rate structure even after the election), raising the profile of individual journalists/talking heads . . . it's all about money.

The US MSM only gets this orgy of attention every 4 years and they are going to milk it until the cow runs dry. Making hay while the sun shines is an irreducible concept from Business 101.

No horse race = no big end-of-year bonuses. And struggling news organizations have been facing lean times and intense competition from each other for years.

And this applies whether the individual outlet is left-leaning, right-leaning, centrist or genuinely apolitical.

[LenaBaby61]

20. The MSM is losing their minds....

I just saw on Realclearpolitics where Howard Fineman--who usually is pretty decent on all things politics---Tweeted that because the Des Moines Register endorsed Mitt Rob-me, that means that--although unscientific like the work Nate Silver does--- President Obama may LOSE the election to Mitt Rob-me ...

I thought it was satire, but it wasn't...just wow .....

****************************************************
Follow
@howardfineman on October 27, 2012 @9:43 pm EDT Retweet

It's not scientific or quantifiable by Nate Silver but Des Moines Register endorsement of Mitt first time it's' clear O may lose the race.
Retweeted by

Howard Fineman has 53308 followers & is following 260 friends

[merrily]

32. Pundits are desperate to remain relevant.

[D23MIURG23]

21. I'm going to laught the day after the election when the headlines say "Obama nearly defeated". n/t

[DarleenMB]

22. Gets Obama voters

out and moving, doncha' think?

[riqster]

23. The MSM is owned by uber-rich mofos

And they love them some Romney. The only way we can win is turn the fucking fuck OUT, and drag everybody else to the polls with us.

[Populist_Prole]

24. Just read a blurb in a local NC rag: Pure spin

Title of article says number of early voters in NC top 1 million, then says republicans see big gains. Then the text of the article explains and gives the numbers who voted from each party. Democratic was 500K+, Republicans in the high 200K range, Independents in the high 100K range. It went on to say that even though democratic voters far outnumbered republicans, it explicity stated that the rate of republican early voting increased was the highest since 2008. It then ended with some chest beating quote from a republican hack.

Anybody could see this was nothing but horse race bullshit. Made me angry.

[NYC Liberal]

25. Yep. I notice the language too. Any close lead for Obama is a "tie",

any close lead for Romney is "an x-point lead for Romney"

[brooklynite]

27. So CNN is the entire Media now?

Why not blame CNN for what CNN does?

[merrily]

31. Most larger media outlets do similar things.

[fingrinn]

29. There is no such thing as MSM

They are ALL owned by 6 corporations, you know the ones that are people.
They want you to know what they think you should know, so you can be controlled and vote the way they want you too.

[merrily]

30. Good point.

I knew five or six corporations own most media outlets, but I never put it together with what MSM stands for.

We should call it CSM, for corporate stream media, or MSM for money stream media, orr WSM, for Wall Street media.

[SoapBox]

33. Kicked.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

35. We're supposed to write off NC and Fla based on 1-point Romney leads, but Pa is "in play"

as well as Ohio and Wisconsin

[MisterJones]

36. The MSM has a major financial interest in the perception of a close race.

Close Race=more eyeballs

more eyeballs=higher ratings

higher ratings=more ad revenue...

It is in their best financial interest to milk this narrative for all it is worth.

Sad but true

[dchill]

37. At CNN, an Obama landslide would be...

"Eked out a win" - everything else is Romentum.

[davidn3600]

38. They cherry pick polls to fit their narrative...just like everyone does

We want Obama to win, so we tend to favor polls that show that.
Freeps want Romney to win, so they favor their polls.
The media wants a close race. So everything is a "dead heat."

Those pundits and "journalists" would have an orgasm on live TV if it was electoral tie.

[ncav53]

41. There's going to be a lot of eggs on faces come election night.

[carolinayellowdog]

42. Mara Liasson has made ATC unlistenable, beyond ridiculous

She just said it was impossible to underestimate the effect of the Denver debate on the race. I turned it off at that point; her slant has long been ridiculous but now it's downright disgusting.