Filed under: Foreign Policy, Iraq, Media Bias, News, Politics | Tags: ABC News, Debunking Liberal Lies, Democrats, Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Liberal Propaganda, Media Corruption, Media Lies, Military, Obama, Support the Troops!
Taking a page directly from Barack Obama’s campaign playbook, ABC “News” traveled to Iraq and was able to find five soldiers who endorse Democrat candidates for president — three for Obama and two for Hillary — which they attempted in a piece called, “Surprising Political Endorsements By U.S. Troops,” to portray as the general consensus among America’s fighting men and women.
Riiiiiight! John McCain leads both Democrats in national polls, but the military, which has a long history of being much more conservative than the general public, and which backed Bush by approximately 73% to 18% over Kerry in 2004, is suddenly gangbusters for the candidates that want to surrender Iraq to terrorists and Iranian-backed militias. Forgive me if I don’t buy it.
One of the first rules of journalism is that anecdotes prove nothing. One of the first rules of propaganda is to use anecdotes to portray what the facts don’t.
No wonder an overwhelming 58% majority of Americans don’t trust journalists to tell them the truth and only a paltry 38% do! A reputation well earned!
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In any group there will always be those who don’t ascribe to the views of the majority. Of course there are military personnel who support the Democrats. Big deal! Move along, folks!
Thanks for pointing out this malpractice of journalism.
Comment by renaissanceguy April 11, 2008 @ 10:42 amThanks much. As you may have noticed, few things boil my blood like the misleading propaganda and downright lies the MSM intentionally pumps out and propogates.
Differnt think tanks and media watch dogs have published studies that almost uniformly conclude that the MSM has a “slight” left-leaning bias. They usally come to these conclusions by counting the number of “positive” and “negative” stories about the different parties/candidates.
But I think their findings are skewed because they don’t take into account the overall honesty of the stories they count.
For example, CBS’ stories about Bush’s military service based on forgeries would count as a negative story about Bush. This story implying the soldiers are overwhelmingly supporting Democrats would count as a positive story about Democrats. And there are countless other examples.
The problem is that both stories are false or misleading in favor of Democrata. The studies of liberal media bias, I am fairly certain, don’t take this into account. If they did, I’m sure the results of their studies would show a much more dramatic left-leaning bias, more consistent with what conservatives have long known to be true.
Until then, all we can do is continue to point it out as much as possible.
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Comment by American Elephant April 16, 2008 @ 3:57 pmi’m sorry, i wasn’t aware i was on faux news…. all you guys do is cry…
Comment by john June 16, 2008 @ 2:35 pm