The Schizo MSM... You're best to ignore their Dual Personality. They do it for themselves.

[berni_mccoy]

Many here are surprised when one minute the MSM is for Obama and the next they are knocking him down. Even Fox has partaken in this schizoidal behavior (O'Liely was very complimentary, sort of, to Obama after Obama came on his show).

I've been monitoring their behavior and they are extremely consistent: When a candidate is leading in the polls, they attack or show unfavorably that candidate and they show more good for the current loser in the polls.

Why? So they can keep this a close race. If the polls for Obama stay high for too long, then viewership of the MSM will start to drop off because the race settles into a 'steady-state'. They have to then highlight something negative to bring viewers back, and they usually do it on the leader.

Also, the MSM controls the polls to a certain extent... they reveal the numbers that are interesting to them. They don't talk about every poll and they certainly won't talk about Electoral Votes. The only time they did talk about EV's was when Obama was at his weakest in the EV polls. Now that Obama has over an 83% chance of winning (based on www.fivethirthyeight.com ev scenario analysis) and Obama is now winning enough states with greater than a 5% margin that it will be no contest, the MSM won't talk about it. If they did, the momentum would continue to build for Obama and it would become a landslide too quickly.

And I'm not so certain that this is a bad thing. It may be good after all. The last thing we need is to presume we are going to win and then people become complacent and voter turnout is underwhelming. If people believe this is a close race, then it's probably better for Obama. His entire campaign is about registering more voters and keeping them involved in the campaign. And even though we all know by the numbers that Obama would have to do something seriously wrong to lose at this point, it's good that we keep our new voters engaged.

So with my blessings, the MSM can call this a close race. :evilgrin:

[niyad]

1. of course, the other reason they need to keep the numbers close is so that, when THIS election is

stolen, it might look slightly credible.