I don't understand. If Fox News' coverage and grafics were so dull, then why did more Americans tune in to their network?
After months of coverage, how did TV do on the big night?
I don't understand. If Fox News' coverage and grafics were so dull, then why did more Americans tune in to their network?
For Today Dicussing the Networks are forgetting He is Bi-RAcial, Not just First Black Afraican President.
He is the First Bi-Racial President, All Net Works Should be putting BI-RAcial, not First Black American....
He will bring change but now people have alrady brought this out as a race issue.
For your education, there is a law made way back in the prejudice day that 1/6th of black blood makes you black. See how people need to get educated. The white people made this law. Go look it up uninformed.
FYI: When one of the parents of a bi-racial child is African American, Bi-racial IS Black. That's how America sees black people. Halle Berry, Tiger Woods, etc...they are black, just like Barack Obama! (YES WE DID!)
FYI: Biracial IS black when black is part of the makeup; look at Halle Berry, Tiger Woods and a whole lot of other "black" role models/leaders!
I am so disappointed in how the networks (Katie Couric in particular) showed their bias during the election. I thought once you accepted the job of a news anchor, (or station representative of any kind that is visible and reporting information), you should also accept the job of NOT showing any bias in things like politics. This also translates into not showing bias if involved in public appearances. Just like athletes, Miss America (and others), and the president of the U.S. are all figures that people, especially children, look up to and are subject to having their behavior monitored. Since that is the job or activity they chose, they need to also remember the responsibility that goes with it. They are role models to a lot of children and their behavior should reflect that. Actors also need to realize the paparazzo is a part of that profession if they choose to be an actor. More young people were tuned into the election prcess than ever before and I feel the fact that so many campaigns chose to be so negative gave children the wrong impression, that if you are negative and mean or if you have more money to spend than others, you can still win in life. Is that really what we want our kids to learn? I did not vote, or not vote, for a candidate because of race, my vote was for the candidate that I felt held the same beliefs and values that I want my children to learn. I was very disappointed in network stations that accepted Obama's money for a 30 minute message last Wed. night. The fact that he flip-flopped on his choice to not stick to party donations only also shows kids that if you do not hold to your promises and if you have more money you can "buy your way" into a job or other activities. I just hope that America can truly stay One Nation UNDER GOD like Obama finally said in his acceptance speech, "thank you, God bless you and God bless America". I hope that he will finally show children that he respects the Flag, God, and our National Anthem. Our children do this, and our soldiers do this, so I hope our President will do this and never say that our Flag is a sign of Oppression again. What message is this sending to our soldiers (and their families) who are fighting a some giving their lives representing our country? I want every soldier to feel proud and supported by our country just like I want us and our children to be. I do hope that this is a time of renewed love for our country because I feel it has been missing that love during the campaign. I hope the veterans and our men and women currently serving in the military feel love and supported, as they should, for their service protecting our rights; to vote, and to live in a free country full of wonderful opportunities.
Well, we see your problem. First of all, parents should be role models for their children not people you don't know. Secondly, we intelligent people are glad that woman was exposed. She really would have done well dealing with two wars, economy, etc.... and McCain. THey did not care it was all about their egos as we see now and for you to defend that you are definitely PREJUDICE and do not want to see the country suceeed. I suggest all Republicans find an island and go live there by yourselves.
You sound like a patriot, someone who has the good old traditional values. Unfortunately, the media has brainwashed people to lose these values. They tried to fix the things that were broken in the past and at the same time for every one thing that they fixed they broke ten others. Unless you are someone that has traditional patriotic values, you will not understand what the media is doing and what I just stated.
The media is little more than talk show caliber, with an underlying entertainment factor. Intelligent people wouldn't cosider anything 100 % factual from any network. Last nights coverage was as good as could be expected; some cheerleading, some somberness, and some schmoozing.The one premise that stuck out as I continuosly flipped through the various networks is that Keith Olbermann is a dickhead!!!
Yeah I'm sure you want him to go away. He exposed how dumb you guys are. Really you are DUMB.
AMEN on Olbermann, he needs to go away.....
Fox News is the only place to get the true facts. Should anyone be able to get the cost of all the give-away programs in Washington they would be amazed. Start with FHA 235 Program--Section 8 Housing--Medicade-SSI-Earned Income Credit(Should be Unearned Income Credit) --WIC Program --Food Stamps--This is a few-----Take the total population of the USA--break it down into Black--White--Other--then apply the percentage to the cost of each program----These are all welfare programs that do not benefit the working class. Thats why everyone wants to be here. The Government will take care of you. Citizens have been taught NOT to work.
hopefully you won't go down, but you probably will and there will be nobody there to help you. I wish a rep would have been elected so as to take down the rest of you. That would have been fun. SELFISH people ignorant people.
Of course its MSNBC that conducted this poll, or shall we say, thier own opinion, about how well the networks did..All networks(except for fox) were bias toward the demecrat party and gave the rebublican party an unfair shake..Fox was the only network that was fair and balanced..CNN AND MSNBC only reported the good with Oboma and only the bad and ugly toward McCain..Thier were stories about Oboma that didnt even make it to the audience..How friggan unfair is that???if I wanted a straight forward approch to a story with no frills attached, I needed to be watching Fox! In the story above, MSNBC also stated that the personalities were less exciting than other networks and that it seemed they were only speaking to eachother..Are you kidding???...Friggan Liberal networks will say anything to boost thier own ego..
You're about as dumb as your Governor. Now we know how she got elected.
Thank you US Nazi propaganda media machine for buying the election for Barack Hussein Obama,a terrorist sympathizer and a far-left socialist .....just can't wait for the welfare check and spreading the wealth around to start !!
Take your crap and stay in Canadian we don't want that crap here. Better yet, find an island for all you racists to go live on we will all be happy. And Canada, stay there don't visit.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! God it feels good to be an American this morning!
With a name like Kaj, you probably are a pagan. By the sounds of it, an unemployed one.
With a name like Kaj, you probably are a Pagan. God help us all
Shut up commie
While all think MSNBC was in the tank, I am astonished to see the Republicans who dogged out Obama still think they have it going on. If it was not for Olbermann and MSNBC, some of them we would not have known how inept the McCain/Palin ticket was.
I think it is so unpatriotic of all of you for that ticket to have wanted to put American in the position of almost having them run the country. This is sad and where would we have been if we did not have more smart people than the dummies and still dummies.
Oh, by the way, dumb people, there will be more educated people by 2012 so tell Palin go retire and the whole party. We don't want that kind of divisiveness anymore. GET IT, because I don't think you do.
I think we Republicans can never recover as a party until we come to the realization that all woes that have befallen us have been imposed on us by Democrats and their rad-lib media minions.
We must only believe the true facts supplied to us by anonymous emails.
We have to kick out all pseudo-Rs who feign to be moderates, and only admit right wing true believers.
Until we commit to these truths, we are doomed as a party.
A 40 year republican
CSPAN did it with NO SPIN
''The Republicans lost the second battle of Gettysburg as they did the first''
Remarks,Chris Matthews,Nov.04,2008 MSNBC Election coverage,on McCain losing Pennsylvania.
Uhh...Chris. Gettysburg was a Union victory under a Republican president and no fewer than five Republican divisional and corps commanders including Gen.Dan Sickles,Gen.Gouvernor K. Warren,Gen.George G.Meade,Gen. Oliver O.Howard [founder of Howard University],and Gen. George A. Custer.
MiamiU - You have NEVER seen a network more in bed with a party??? Are you kidding? When a FOX news anchor leaves and becomes a mouthpiece for Bush? Come on... You don't think that FOX = the Republicans the same that MSNBC 0 Democrats? I will at least admit when a network leans one side, even if it is the side that I believe in.
MSNBC is truly the most on sided news (and i use the term loosely) station on air. Olberman, Mathews and Madow are so far to the left they make all the liberals look conservative. Seems they are only on air to knock Fox and O'Reilly. Sad
MSNBC was happy because their guy won. I have never seen a network more in bed with a party as they are with the Democrats. Olberman and Madow ought be off the air with their lopsided reporting, if that is what you want to call it.
bt4u, Do you really think republicans would allow the identified enemy the press kept them from voting?
Are you kidding? It wasn't election night, it was the night of Obama's coronation. The press was out in front of things from the start. Simply by saying "McCain has lost PA, the road gets incereasingly difficult" has the power to imact votes. People hear those things & either they may shift their vote [because everyone loves a winner] or they may stay home entirely [why bother]. This was the lowest GOP turnout in a long time. "What a surprise!" After the media mishandled FL in 2000, they said "never again." Since then they have said it again & again & again...never really chastened just interested in staying employed. when Jews say "never again" it is meant. When the media says it they mean "until tomorrow!" Who is going to to review the coverage in this year's election from the sexist primaries to the end. Don't say the media. don't make me lauugh!
The media did not cover the campaigns fairly. Obama had won the Presidency way before election day. Look at all the reports about the campaign. Everything was biased and in Obama's favor. I hope the media including MSN and MSNBC are the first to be ill affected by their new President. Be careful what you wish for because sometimes you get it and then find out you really didn't want it at all , that it was a huge mistake.
Change is needed, but not Obama's kind of change. Too bad foresight is not as clear as hindsight.
That was a very well thought out statement. Unfortunately, many people in this country do not get what you just stated. The media did have a love fest for Sen. Obama. I cannot believe that some people can question Gov. Palin's experience and in the same sentence praise Sen. Obama's plan for change in America. This guy has less experience in a lesser position than Gov. Palin. She runs a whole state and besides, she was only running for vice president. He was running for president. I venture to quess that Sen. Obama was considered to have more leadership qualities because of him being a young, fit man with a powerful voice and a catchy slogan (you know, "yes we can"). Unfortunately, anyone who has experience with politics knows that will only get you so far. Now it is time to put up or shut up. Hopefully, Sen. Obama makes a positive change, but if he sticks to his current political beliefs, well then we may have so serious problems developing in this country over the next four years. Time will tell.
Obama bought his way into this election and also into the Presidency. The media helped him manipulate the process. I truely fear for our country and our children under his Presidency. He did not keep his word about accepting public funding only and I have no reason to believe he will be any different with any other issues. Shame on the media for their part in manipulating this election. I am sure now there is no chance that my kids will stand before a flag as I did in school and place their hand across their heart and say the Pledge of Allegiance every morning before the bell rings, let alone have the right to prayer in school. Good parenting is now more important than ever because we have to count on ourselves only and cannot trust what our children see and hear in the media to help teach them. Again, shame on the media for not doing their job as unbiased reporting parties and feeling the need to sensationalize this election.
So, when was the "media" ever supposed to teach our children? Moron. YOU ARE supposed to teach your children. I fear for my children because of people like you who are so ignorant that they believe anything they hear on Fox news. Obama is not a socialist. Obama is not going to weaken the military. So, Obama opted out of public financing. Nothing illegal. In fact it was the smart thing to do. I see that as a positive thing. It proves that the man is thinking, not just following. That money came from voters. Those same voters who elected him president. Apparently 64 million people feel safe having that one as president. Including millions of "white" people. Mccain lost because he was bumbling, his staff was incompetent, and Sarah Palin couldn't even answer simple questions. The blame for their loss is squarely on their own shoulders. Get over it.
I do teach my children, but if you believe that children do not also learn from what they see on TV or read in the paper, and believe the media has no part of infulencing them then it is YOU that are the MORON. I never stated that Obama was a socialist, that he would weaken our military, or that by him not keeping his word to use public financing meant that he did anything illegal, again, your interpretation or misinterpretation, which ever that case may be. YOU clearly have doubts of your own to be so defensive about someone's remarks about a man. YOU are the one that feels the need to defend him.
Thank you vk911. Very well said! May God help us all.
Well, Obama was leading in the polls for weeks. What was the media suppose to do? Lie as if the race was close? I am so happy and excited that now Republicans have to experiece what we've been through the last 8 years. Not so fun when your guy doesn't win, huh? Not so fun to have policies crammed down your throat, huh? The only difference is that we were RIGHT in our opposition to President Bush. He was one of the worst presidents in U.S. history! And you voted for him. So, I guess we should start listening to conservatives yelling about the sky falling now that a Democrat won? I don't think so. CHill out, take it like a man or a woman.
Not once in my posts have I stated I was Republican or that I voted for Bush. Just another sign of the true ignorance of the people that voted for Obama. My commemts are about how the media manipulated the election, how Obama bought this election, and my fear for my country and my children. Your interpretation of my comments is just another point to show true ignorance and how YOU let the media manipulate you in this election and your inability to think for yourself and join the bandwagon instead. I will remember you in my prayers as well.
Does anyone else know how twenty ???terrorists??? on CIA and FBI watchlists managed to take unimpeded flying lessons in Wackenhut and Jeb Bush???s Florida, and then evade the son of a former director of CIA, three Texass oilmen, two SECDEFs, a four-star general who was the nation???s top diplomat and whose son was chairman of the FCC, and an NSA who was on the Stanford faculty with Rummy, Mark B. McClellan, and no-bid-contract-winner Bechtel???s George Shulz (yep ??? THAT George Shulz)? Not to mention SECLABOR Elaine ???Mrs. Mitch McConnell??? Chao, whose Daddy went to naval college with the premier of China and is one of the largest shipping magnates in the world. And not to mention the SECTREAS who was CEO of Alcoa Aluminum. Clever guys, those ummm ???terrorists???. Too bad they picked a day when Shrub was in Florida, Condo-lezzbo was at Paul Wolfowitz???s SAIS and Powell was in Peru, or they coulda really lopped the head off???n the ol??? snake!
Lest we forget that most of the planning and training came under the Clinton watch.
I wonder how long it will take Obama to take this country down? Two months six months or less. My vote is for less.
Took GW the first 4 years to bury the country and the second 4 years to start to seal the coffin -- and OBAMA and his team began to breather LIFE into America on Election Day - hasn't even taken office yet. When's the last time the country celebrated on ELECTION DAY like what we say last night?
Actually it took almost 3 years to recover from the Clinton recession then we had a couple of pretty good years til the Liberals got control of Congress and the economy has been in free fall ever since. As I understand it very little legislation has come out of the congress the last couple of years that has had any non-liberal input.
You said the key words, "hasn't even taken office yet." Do you not find this interesting that people are praising him like a rock star and he hasn't even done anything yet except win an election with catchy slogans and inspiring speeches? I don't think you fully understand yet, but I am confident you will get there very soon.
Yeah,well. This is the new meme being cooked up by Cooper at CNN ,Olbermann of MSNBC and his smugly butch counterpart on the same station. That the ''rightwing''accused the ''media''of losing the presidency for McCain. The problem is that,in offering only one prominant example,[Limbaugh] they ignore completely those on the right who blamed themselves and their own party. You will not be seeing any of these guys ever on COUNTDOWN or SOFTBALL as they would muck up Keith or Rachels or Chris' well-timed snark with brilliant riposte and intelligent insight. These are in no certain order,
Prof. Victor Davis Hanson[quoted approvingly by a NEWSWEAK scribbler in a article on Tuesday]
Richard Fermandez
Roger Simon[Hollywood director of ''Hannah and Her Three Sisters'']
Michael Yon [The greatesr living war correspondant NEWSWEAK and the MSM do not want you to know about,currently in Afghanistan]
Bobby Jindhal[ Governor of Louisiana]
Hugh Hewitt
Ed Morrissey
Mike Huckabee
and many others who are probing their own ideology,party and policies for their failures. This is not to say that they do not believe that the media was for Obama. This was a blatant given as expressed by a non-partisan PEW poll two weeks ago that clocked even Democrats and Independants at 65% in believing that the media was pro-Obama biased[90% for Republican respondants], and the study by the non-partisan Columbia School of Journalism [Center for Journalistic Excellence] that found precisely the same thing in a scientific study of the top networks and newspapers. What becomes ridiculous is that the talking heads are refusing the label even as it is being branded on their foreheads.Their fortunes will continue to decline in tandem with those of the GOP.
It's nice that blacks can be racist and only vote for a candidate becuase of his color, yet if whites tried that there would be hell to pay. Apparently the blacks do not care that Obama is a Muslim sympathizer and will and will alienate our only ally in the Middle East.
facts: Barack Obama vote percentages 61% white voters, Barack Obama would NEVER have been the nominee, let alone president, without that vote. Grow up and move on.....
What's wrong with being a Muslim "sympathizer?" Obama is a Christian but you peg him to be in league with terrorists? Or are you saying that Americans in the Muslim religion don't deserve to breathe the same American air as Christians? You are showing what a scary, knee-jerk ugly American you are.
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