Quote from dethkultur:
An example - I lived in Texas when I was in the Army from 93-97. During that time, GWB debated and ran against Ann Taylor, about the smoothest talker in the Democratic party, and beat her straight up in 94. He was governor until 2000. During that time, I never recall him being described as a buffoon, idiot, retard, stupid, or anything similar. In fact, he was widely regarded in Texas by most as being highly successful, with the state doing very well, and his initiatives around education and treatment of juvenile crime getting a ton of credit.
Quote from Kicking:
Why is it that republican representatives invariably come across as a$$holes and their democratic counterparts usually come across as nice, good people ?
Quote from bigdavediode:
Can you cite two of them? And if the press is so pro-Democrat, why were over 75% of the articles about Obama negative, versus something like 58% for McCain.
Quote from dethkultur:
Here's two:
Some scholarly stuff from the President's Press Corp (more recent stuff toward the bottom):
http://www.mediaresearch.org/biasbasics/biasbasics3.asp
Quote from bigdavediode:
Wow, that is just shocking that you would believe that. First off, this isn't scholarly research -- it starts from the conclusion that it wants to reach and selects the group that it thinks will fit. Don't believe me? Here's the specific goal of the group you just cited as "scholarly:"
"Leaders of America's conservative movement have long believed that within the national news media a strident liberal bias existed that influenced the public's understanding of critical issues. On October 1, 1987, a group of young determined conservatives set out to not only prove - through sound scientific research - that liberal bias in the media does exist"
That's not even close to scholarly, or science for that matter.
Look, I appreciate that you believe that the film critic for the New Yorker magazine is biased for the Democrats, as is the New Yorker's book reviewer, as is Newsweek's personal correspondent on health and fitness (apparently all those articles she wrote on fitness were liberal) and I'm laughing as I read the list, but then I get down to the Wall Street Journal which apparently has ZERO employees who donate to the Republican cause.
Now, as shocking as this may sound to you (and my wife) I am not actually retarded.
Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
I don't believe you are retarded. Just unusually well indoctricated.
As for the media bias study, you seem to be under the impression it was an MRC study. The article clearly states it was done by some university professors. How anyone could find its conclusions surprising or quibble with them is beyond me. Of course, you think Obama has gotten negative coverage form the press too. I hate to think what you consider positive coverage.