DOJ coordinates with Media Matters

#4
#4
Did you bother to read the emails? Or did you just read the Daily Caller's characterization of them?

I did. Looks like sending back and forth a lot of publicly available transcripts, copies of other articles, etc. Not exactly "coordinating."

But hey, don't let the facts get in the way.
 
#5
#5
Did you bother to read the emails? Or did you just read the Daily Caller's characterization of them?

I did. Looks like sending back and forth a lot of publicly available transcripts, copies of other articles, etc. Not exactly "coordinating."

But hey, don't let the facts get in the way.

No liberal can crack the fact joke.
 
#6
#6
Are you sure you read them, LG? Asking for "smithing." Are you kidding?

You don't find this relationship problematic?
 
#7
#7
Are you sure you read them, LG? Asking for "smithing." Are you kidding?

You don't find this relationship problematic?

Only if a GOP administration did it.

Don't forget this is the most transparent administration in history.

On a serious note, I do hope that historians look back at this time and document how "unprecedented" it was for the media to turn a blind eye to this administration - it's really astonishing.
 
#8
#8
Only if a GOP administration did it.

Don't forget this is the most transparent administration in history.

On a serious note, I do hope that historians look back at this time and document how "unprecedented" it was for the media to turn a blind eye to this administration - it's really astonishing.

No. They'll just perpetuate the myth that this is a transparent administration because that's what Obama keeps saying over and over again. Kinda like FDR kept calling Hoover a do-nothing POTUS, even though it couldn't be farther from the truth. That's how history works.
 
#9
#9
Only if a GOP administration did it.

Don't forget this is the most transparent administration in history.

On a serious note, I do hope that historians look back at this time and document how "unprecedented" it was for the media to turn a blind eye to this administration - it's really astonishing.


Failure to report on near-hysterical screams and rants from guys like Breitbart or his ilk, based on manipulated facts, or flat out fabricated ones, is not "turning a blind eye." Its good journalism.

I am defending against a lawsuit right now by a lady who claims that her criminal court judge put her in jail and then sent men over to rape her there. She claims now that deputies from another county routinely park outside her condo and randomly strip search her. She's 70 years old and spent the end of that sentence in a state mental institution.

Is the local paper turning a blind eye by not reporting her story? No, they are parsing through fact and fiction.

Just because you'd love it if part of the fiction were true is no reason to insist that the media cover it, when it isn't. Indeed, I'd say perhaps the biggest problem that the far right has with their incessant attacks on Obama is the boy who cried wolf syndrome. When your blogs are 24/7 about birth certificates and bowing to terrorists, its not all that hard to see why Solyndra would get reported but not focused upon.

Its because the far right loons, like Beck, and Breitbart and others, make such complete asses out of themselves in touting these "stories" that they become the news.
 
#10
#10
Failure to report on near-hysterical screams and rants from guys like Breitbart or his ilk, based on manipulated facts, or flat out fabricated ones, is not "turning a blind eye." Its good journalism.

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I wasn't referring only to Breitbart stuff. I'm referring to the larger manner in which the press (admittedly) didn't vet Obama prior to the election and has gone soft on him since.
 
#11
#11
Did you bother to read the emails? Or did you just read the Daily Caller's characterization of them?

I did. Looks like sending back and forth a lot of publicly available transcripts, copies of other articles, etc. Not exactly "coordinating."

But hey, don't let the facts get in the way.


this is the most tranparent administration i've ever seen, clear as mud
 
#12
#12
So when the left twists facts it's good journalism, but when the right twists facts they are loons?

Just want to make sure I understand your argument.
 
#13
#13
So when the left twists facts it's good journalism, but when the right twists facts they are loons?

Just want to make sure I understand your argument.


No, no, not at all. There are many instances where "the left" in the media have twisted facts to suit an agenda. I daresay I've agreed with the GOP faithful on a number of those, right here in this very forum.

But when Obama got elected there was an explosion of amateur "journalists," really just blogs, that were and remain dedicated to unseating the man. In their haste to do so, they have cut way too many corners, in some cases simply made things up, and otherwise repeatedly simply printed their own take and their own agenda as though it were fact.

Not surprisingly, the ones that have done this most viciously, and who have persevered, are the ones who feel their need to express outrage that Obama is president more so than do others.

To a largedgree, I think what we are seeing right now in the grand scheme of media coverage, and which is identified by conservatives as a left leaning bias, is the natural tendency of the media as an institution to balance out the shrill, irrational voices on the far right that put these messages out there, painting an unfair portrait of the Obama presidency, and self-justified with the mantra of "we simply must stop him!"


When something like Solyndra happens-- which can be squarely linked to campaign contributors getting tax breaks and loans -- it just gets overwhelmed by the constant noise from the extreme, that just never seems to take a moment to shut up and breathe.
 
#14
#14
No, no, not at all. There are many instances where "the left" in the media have twisted facts to suit an agenda. I daresay I've agreed with the GOP faithful on a number of those, right here in this very forum.

But when Obama got elected there was an explosion of amateur "journalists," really just blogs, that were and remain dedicated to unseating the man. In their haste to do so, they have cut way too many corners, in some cases simply made things up, and otherwise repeatedly simply printed their own take and their own agenda as though it were fact.

Not surprisingly, the ones that have done this most viciously, and who have persevered, are the ones who feel their need to express outrage that Obama is president more so than do others.

To a largedgree, I think what we are seeing right now in the grand scheme of media coverage, and which is identified by conservatives as a left leaning bias, is the natural tendency of the media as an institution to balance out the shrill, irrational voices on the far right that put these messages out there, painting an unfair portrait of the Obama presidency, and self-justified with the mantra of "we simply must stop him!"


When something like Solyndra happens-- which can be squarely linked to campaign contributors getting tax breaks and loans -- it just gets overwhelmed by the constant noise from the extreme, that just never seems to take a moment to shut up and breathe.

First, I would not consider "blogs" to be the media.

Second, do you remember the Bush years, there were just as many boggers with the same agenda, un-seat Bush.

I think you can expect bias from an individuals blog, what is maddning is the bias in the so-called main stream media.
 

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