college kid bemoans the liberal media

[sniffa]

for making the Republican party look close minded and foolish.... and for burying Fred Thompson, the only true conservative, and the only one that can stop Hillary.

I'm stunned this kid got into college.
:rofl:

If recent events and trends are any indication, the mainstream media have become saboteurs in the 2008 election. The media are actively seeking to manipulate the flow of information in order to create the ideal electoral situation for what is decidedly a liberal establishment in America.

Recently, the media has seemingly revved up their old templates to apply to this particular race, and they are sabotaging the Republicans, no holds barred. Consider the joke of last week’s CNN/YouTube debate. Anderson Cooper and company defended this unusual debate (and the corresponding Democratic one) as a method by which more “regular Americans” could get their questions answered by the candidates, and, based on the result, it should have occurred to most of the TV audience why debate questions aren’t usually left up to regular Americans. Nevertheless, CNN and Cooper did actually have the ultimate power in choosing the questions from the pool of over 5,000, and what was actually asked should indicate CNN had the intention of defining the issues of debate with a narrow aim to make Republicans look closed-minded and backward.

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The media’s template for the Republicans is clear: Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, two very electable (to use the irritating jargon) candidates, fight it out while no-name Huckabee rises above the fray for his few weeks of glory. Ron Paul is the weirdo with all that support from the pesky Internets, and Fred Thompson, as the most solidly conservative candidate, is trounced by a media that unfairly characterizes him as lazy and constantly sets him up to fail their own impossible standards. Huckabee will falter and fall by the wayside, having fulfilled his role as the distracter. Voters that flocked to Huckabee will be left to support either Giuliani or Romney only half-heartedly (when they should be supporting Thompson all along), and Republicans will go on to nominate whomever without the gusto needed to defeat the Democratic juggernaut of Hillary Clinton. Every major newspaper editorial, cable news commentator and nightly news anchor will present the situation in the same eerie formula, with comments about Republicans being “disillusioned” or some other buzzword permeating through the industry.

http://www.insidevandy.com/drupal/node/5855

did Vandy lower their standards?

[crikkett]

1. Hey the kid can complete a sentence at least.

That's more than I've seen out of some graduate students...

[Bitwit1234]

2. He has a right to support Thompson but

any body that does not know what kind of media we have now is downright stupid. College graduate beside.

[Buzz Clik]

3. The kid's half right -- the media suck. He's also half wrong; they're not biased against the right.

Like the politicians in Congress, the media like having access to power. So, they put their finger in the wind, judge the direction of the political wind, and run the sails up the mast. Or simply do nothing.

Bush got a spanking over Iran's lack of nukes because that was the prevailing political wind. Next week, if Bush manages to regain his footing, they'll be reporting that Iran has missiles aimed at LA, NYC, and Wash DC.

So, let's give the kid credit for a) being interested and b) getting part of it correct.

[tanyev]

4. The only thing you have to do to make Republicans look closed-minded and backward

is turn a camera on them and give them a microphone.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

5. If it bothers him so much he should enlist and head over to Iraq.

Volunteer for the most dangerous missions so he wouldn't have to be confronted by that awful liberal media that he bemoans.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. Every time I hear someone talk about the "liberal" media I tell them

that if the media truly were liberal, Bush would not have been nominated for the presidency, much less been placed in office for 8 years.

[zbdent]

7. The Republican party would be a mere footnote in history after Nixon's

resignation ...