Chris Matthews and Andrea Mitchel have given up all pretense of objectivity

[StevieM]

They are so clearly slanting all their reporting in favor of Obama and belittling Hillary. Matthews is putting on people to trash Hillary, without response, and sometimes he just trashes her himself, and misrepresents her action. Andrea Mitchel's reporting tonight on NBC news, on the current fight over MLB and LBJ and the fairy tale comment, was blatantly slanted and misleading. The national network news is usually more objective then the cable shows.

And sometimes they just outright lie. On Primary Night in New Hampshire they were talking to each other at 7:20 or so, when they thought they knew the results, and they had their best game faces on, pretending to provide serious journalistic analysis. They talked about how Hillary had campaigned in NH like a Hollywood celebrity, not meeting with the voters. But, of course, that was a blatant falsehood. If you don't like Hillary, then fine. If you thought her campaign was badly run, then that's fine too. But let's keep the facts straight: Hillary, in New Hampshire, was going door-to-door, doing Town Hall meetings, trying to win votes one at a time.

Andrea and Chris outright lied to their audiences in an effort to send a message to voters in the other 48 states. They were telling these people, who didn't see what happened in Iowa and NH, that Hillary went into these states and refused to meet people and try to sway their votes with her words and efforts, but instead acted like she was better then them and entitled to their votes. That isn't what happened, and the people in Iowa and NH, whether they voted for her or against her, knew that. But many in the other 48 states did not. So Andrea and Chris filled in the blanks with false information in order to try to sway the election in their preferred direction. And, of course, history is written by the winners. So if Hillary's people try to contradict that statement then how can we believe their words over other people's words, especially the "neutral" media? Not to mention that it seems whiny, and has them talking about the campaign instead of issues in voters' lives.

The media shouldn't be trying to put candidates in that position. That isn't their job, even if they are going to show a bias. This isn't bias, it's outright manipulation. And in the case of Andrea Mitchell and Chris Matthews it's outright deception.

Steve

[ruggerson]

1. They should both be fired

n/t

[Cha]

2. Is poor little hillary

getting ganged up on again? Thank the Universe she won't get the whitehouse cause she'd really have to handle something.

[michaz]

6. It appears that you may have missed the point!

The media has no right to manipulate their viewing audience. And by the way, I am no Hillary fan.

[Bethany Rockafella]

3. Clinton hate at it's finest.

I read a lot and the day of the NH primary, a poster wrote how his day went and he had the opportunity to meet Mrs. Clinton and Chelsea. He intended on voting for Edwards, I think but after meeting those two, he decided to vote for Clinton. What what Matthews and Mitchell said today was a lot of bunk.

[DJ13]

4. GOOD!

Im sick of political shows that refuse to take a stand, so they end up not appealing to anyone.

The GOP doesnt run Fox Noise like that, we shouldnt either.

[Sparkly]

5. Is LYING "taking a stand?"

:shrug:

[Thrill]

7. YAWN.......Poor little Hillary

She can do her attacking but when its coming back at her. Its poor Hillary

[BeatleBoot]

8. They work for General Electric, that's why.

Plus, Tweety has his $ 4million cottage on Martha's Vineyard

And the skank has to go to bed next to Alan Greenspan every night while in the Hamptons.


Out of touch.