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Is Hillary Being Swiftboated By Liberals using the MSM?

Check out the Drudge Report today. DRUDGE REPORT 2008®

Looks like Hillary is getting the full treatment.


There are a ton of stories about how Hillary did this and Hillary did that. Obama doubled her in fund-raising....on and on.

This is pure magic........

What are we gonna do about the MSM. It is plain to see that the MSM has too much power. Nobody can get elected unless the MSM backs them. Why is this? Because if they don't have any dirt on you they'll just make up enough to bury you.
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Re: Is Hillary Being Swiftboated By Liberals using the MSM?

What really amazing is the MSM doesn't have to make anything up to torpedo Hillary. They've got plenty of ammunition.

This is so good...............
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Re: Is Hillary Being Swiftboated By Liberals using the MSM?

The MSM's steamrolling of Clinton is so bad that it has actually forced me to defend her on many occasions. The media acts more and more egregiously each cycle, I literally shake my head daily in disbelief if I turn on coverage. I pretty much turned the tide on the parity of distaste I had for both more against Obama.
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The MSM's steamrolling of Clinton is so bad that it has actually forced me to defend her on many occasions. The media acts more and more egregiously each cycle, I literally shake my head daily in disbelief if I turn on coverage. I pretty much turned the tide on the parity of distaste I had for both more against Obama.

It's a case of living by the sword and dying by the sword.

Hillary is a media invention and consequently she can easily be destroyed by the media.

Obama is the same.

The media has been covering for both their asses for quite some time, Hillary much longer then Obama.
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Re: Is Hillary Being Swiftboated By Liberals using the MSM?

I think she is no longer the darling of what once was her fiefdom. Her ability to manipulate the media has been hamstrung, so what may appear as harsh treatment may be just an evening out of the playing field. She has opened herself up to this derision ala Bosnia etc.

Today she was letting some tears roll while talking her meeting King when she was a child. Frankly I find it hard to believe she met king, I think she has earned that doubt to an extent.
Obama has been the darling from 2004 on by and large and it’s growing not dissipating.

I think the slant is evident. And we all suffer for it.
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Check out the Drudge Report today. DRUDGE REPORT 2008®

What are we gonna do about the MSM. It is plain to see that the MSM has too much power. Nobody can get elected unless the MSM backs them. Why is this? Because if they don't have any dirt on you they'll just make up enough to bury you.

You can always call,write, or e-mail your displeasure to them. Or you can do what most people do when something they don't like comes on TV and change the channel.
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yea well you gotta go somewhere for news, and not everyone has fox...
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You can always call,write, or e-mail your displeasure to them. Or you can do what most people do when something they don't like comes on TV and change the channel.
I'm not so concerned about myself. It's the average joe that doesn't take the time to find out for themselves that concerns me. Slanted coverage doesn't appear to be slanted when you don't know what the real deal is.
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Re: Is Hillary Being Swiftboated By Liberals using the MSM?

I remember the number they did on Howard Dean when the powers that be decided he was not their candidate.

Hillary is getting it now. I thought this would never happen..........but Hell has frozen over.
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I remember the number they did on Howard Dean when the powers that be decided he was not their candidate.

Hillary is getting it now. I thought this would never happen..........but Hell has frozen over.
The way you feel about the evil dems. I'd think you'd be happy to see them attacking each other.
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Re: Is Hillary Being Swiftboated By Liberals using the MSM?

Couple things
Hilary's campaign was absolutely terrible...just awful...she swiftboated herself.
I don't know if it was fear of being seen as racist or what - but she only recently began to campaign against O'Bama with ANY teeth whatsoever.
When speaking - she is a shriller, her sense of humor is stiff and transparent, and her delivery is at best - unremarkable.

Secondly - I don't think there is anyone who can say she has not been treated VERY different than O'bama by the media, particularity NBC and MSNBC.
This election - AS IMPORTANT AS IT IS - is one of the worst covered elections, perhaps ever. The "debates" were mostly disasters - I can appreciate the desire to include the internet - but folks the whole "YouTube debates" - were truly lousy.
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I'm not so concerned about myself. It's the average joe that doesn't take the time to find out for themselves that concerns me. Slanted coverage doesn't appear to be slanted when you don't know what the real deal is.
What makes you think you need to hold someones hand and guide them one way or the other? Maybe most people that watch MSM do so by thier own choice, just like some people chose to watch other shows. I don't know about you, but I've never had anyone come to my house and tell me what to watch.

Don't take this the wrong way, but how do you know that your slant is the correct slant? Whats the real deal to you may not be the real deal to someone else.
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What makes you think you need to hold someones hand and guide them one way or the other? Maybe most people that watch MSM do so by thier own choice, just like some people chose to watch other shows. I don't know about you, but I've never had anyone come to my house and tell me what to watch.

Don't take this the wrong way, but how do you know that your slant is the correct slant? Whats the real deal to you may not be the real deal to someone else.
Good point but I think that a org. that purports to be a journalistic venture has a responsibility to at least attempt to be unbiased. Murrow would be disgusted with the TV news as it stands now.

If they want to fill the air with their own slants etc. then they should drop all pretense of being “news’ and just advertise themselves for what they are, op ed’s.
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Good point but I think that a org. that purports to be a journalistic venture has a responsibility to at least attempt to be unbiased. Murrow would be disgusted with the TV news as it stands now.

I agree, all the networks should be totally unbiased, however they all have their own bias/slant. Thats just a fact of life that we live with. I don't watch news on tv except for local news. I have 15 newspapers from around the world bookmarked, when I'm having my morning coffee I glance at them, read the stories that catch my attention and take both sides of the stories and figure the truth is somewhere in the middle. theres so much BS, hate and finger pointing it's beyond commical

If they want to fill the air with their own slants etc. then they should drop all pretense of being “news’ and just advertise themselves for what they are, op ed’s.
Again this goes back to what slant people chose to believe, what might be true to me may not be true to you. You may be correct about MSM but at the same time somone might feel the same way about another news show. People are going to believe what they want. I don't know how many times I've seen people just on this site that spend hours and even days arguing with each other and never realise they are actually agreeing with each other just using diff. words. But thats what makes the world go around
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The way you feel about the evil dems. I'd think you'd be happy to see them attacking each other.


Humm. Seems the lunatics are in charge. It would be poetic justice because they've been doing it to us for so long. But..........

.........I don't like any of this. It should be troubling to anyone who's rational.

The MSM is a huge threat to democracy in this country and it's out there for everyone to see now.

Sorry if you are disappointed.
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