As Bachmann's Star Rises, So Do The Media Attacks

[Jake46184]

Leading the Anti-Bachmann Army - Yahoo! News

Just as with Palin, the liberal media is hellbent on manufacturing and then sensationalizing propaganda in an attempt to plant the seeds of doubt about Michelle Bachmann. It's a strategy that has served them well many times in the past.

I'm curious, however....have you ever seen a news story from the liberal media that was negative regarding The Messiah? Even one?

 

[RichardR]

I'm curious, however....have you ever seen a news story from the liberal media that was negative regarding The Messiah? Even one?

Nope, he'll go down in history as "the greatest President" ever.

 

[Pocketman]

Leading the Anti-Bachmann Army - Yahoo! News

Just as with Palin, the liberal media is hellbent on manufacturing and then sensationalizing propaganda in an attempt to plant the seeds of doubt about Michelle Bachmann. It's a strategy that has served them well many times in the past.

I'm curious, however....have you ever seen a news story from the liberal media that was negative regarding The Messiah? Even one?

And, just like Palin, Ms. Bachman is in no way responsible for the unflattering press she gets.

 

[LEaSH]

First, you have to watch or read MSM on occasion. Then you'll know that the president is getting plenty of criticism and negative reviews. And rightfully so.

Probably more criticism would be nice, and I'm sure it will be going that way.

As far as Bachmann and Palin go, they're two completely different people with complete different hindrances. But both sound bat****crazy to me.

And they don't need the media to make them look bad when they really are that mashugana.

 

[Jake46184]

First, you have to watch or read MSM on occasion. Then you'll know that the president is getting plenty of criticism and negative reviews. And rightfully so.

You must have a different definition of what constitutes the MSM than do the rest of us. You must also have an unusual definition of what equates to criticism. Or, perhaps, you are one of the few supporters that Barack Hussein has left.

Either way, your assertion is flawed.

 

[dross]

First, you have to watch or read MSM on occasion. Then you'll know that the president is getting plenty of criticism and negative reviews. And rightfully so.

Probably more criticism would be nice, and I'm sure it will be going that way.

As far as Bachmann and Palin go, they're two completely different people with complete different hindrances. But both sound bat****crazy to me.

And they don't need the media to make them look bad when they really are that mashugana.

First, the MSM criticizes the president from the left. Second, Obama has plenty of Bachman-like or Palin-like nuggets in his background, but you'll never read about it in the MSM.

Finally, if you follow the MSM, they portray every charismatic Republican, but especially the women or minority Republicans, as having something really, really wrong with them.

I can match you quote for quote and bat**** remark for bat**** remark with any prominent democrat. You think you're immune from the constant attack coverage, but you're not.

I've felt it myself arguing with folks who more or less agree with me. It goes like this, "Come on Dan, really? Palin? You're serious?" When I make my case I can see I've made them think, but they've already put themselves in the "too sophisticated to not think Palin is an idiot" crowd.

According to the MSM over the years:

Reagan was stupid, didn't work hard, and was practically senile.
Bush was stupid, with his Harvard MBA and fighter pilot qualification.
McCain was a maverick until he ran for President, then we found out he was really a fundamentalist social conservative all along.
Ford, maybe our most athletic president, was clumsy.
Bush Sr, a war hero in WWII, was a wimp. Also, he was so out of touch he didn't know what a grocery scanner was.
Gingrich hated poor people and was the Grinch who stole Christmas because he shut down the government, when it is a fact beyond dispute that it was Clinton who shut down the government.
Republican voters have a type of mental illness.
Barry Goldwater was a psychopath who wanted to blow up the World.
Clarence Thomas is the poster child for sexual harassment when even if he did everything he was accused of, he barely met any standard of harassment, while Bill Clinton not only got a pass, but was defended tooth and nail.

These aren't things said by their political opponents, these were said by the MSM.

 

[Blind Squirrel]

First, you have to watch or read MSM on occasion. Then you'll know that the president is getting plenty of criticism and negative reviews. And rightfully so.

Probably more criticism would be nice, and I'm sure it will be going that way.

As far as Bachmann and Palin go, they're two completely different people with complete different hindrances. But both sound bat****crazy to me.

And they don't need the media to make them look bad when they really are that mashugana.

 

[LEaSH]

Thanks a lot!

I don't really see how not supporting Bachmann equates to supporting barrack hussein.

It's not a football game out there. But you can shake your pom poms for the other side if it makes you feel better.

I've listened to anderson cooper among others express their discontent over the president and his position on gay marriage as just one example. It's not like I tune in cnn or msnbc every chance I get, just flip through the dial and you'll find some liberal with a high level of disappointment for the president.

 

[LEaSH]

Dross, everything you said is more or less correct and while I don't accept the bias we see, it really doesn't change the facts of what is known and unknown by thoughtful voters.

The president does say stupid things - and it isn't high lighted. His actions and results are. His inabilities and failures will be seen for what they are.

Even cnn will hold him to the flames soon. Sure, there will always be the vehemently defensive libs, there is no shortage of them. But also on the other end those that will insist GW had found WMD's but just didn't feel the need for proof.

 

[Pocketman]

Most politicians get themselves into trouble from their own inaccurate statements or words taken out of context. While Bachman is responsible for her own gaffes, I guess the OP makes a point about her perhaps getting more bad press than Obama. This does not remove responsibility from her, nor do her extremist comments make the average voter comfortable with her positions. Michelle is in the big leagues now and she's going to get vetted from virtually everyone.

 

[Jake46184]

....and she's going to get vetted from virtually everyone.

Exactly. Where was this vetting in 2008 from the MSM for The Messiah? A 9th grade HS journalism student could have destroyed his credibility. There was nothing. Not one time.

Part of the reason is in the preceived notion that it would have been "racist" to examine the qualifications of a black man. Just being black was enough. Nonsense. No such gesture will be made for a GOP candidate, regardless of what minority group they populate.

 

[Pocketman]

Exactly. Where was this vetting in 2008 from the MSM for The Messiah? A 9th grade HS journalism student could have destroyed his credibility. There was nothing. Not one time.

Part of the reason is in the preceived notion that it would have been "racist" to examine the qualifications of a black man. Just being black was enough. Nonsense. No such gesture will be made for a GOP candidate, regardless of what minority group they populate.

Making Obama or any other politician look bad doesn't eliminate Bachman's issues. It is not an excuse for her just because you feel someone else didn't fall under the same scrutiny.

 

[dross]

Making Obama or any other politician look bad doesn't eliminate Bachman's issues. It is not an excuse for her just because you feel someone else didn't fall under the same scrutiny.

The point is that EVERY politician has issues. EVERY politician has said things that hurt them, that have associates that reflect badly on them, that made verbal mistakes, that have business dealings that are shady or can be made to look shady.

When the press goes crazy and magnifies one side, while refusing to report things that are even more inflammatory on the other side, makes a huge difference.

This creates an environment where a conservative candidate - and especially a minority or a woman conservative - are held to a level of scrutiny that almost cannot be survived. Again, look at what they did to McCain - and for the record, I can't stand McCain - but they turned him into a social conservative, which he is not, in the space of a few months. He had been the pet Republican on the left until the general election and then suddenly he was having an affair (for which there was zero evidence) he was associating with radical preachers and many other sins. They even brought up a twenty-five year old financial scandal that didn't taint him at the time.

If the press had gone after Obama the way they went after Palin, Hillary Clinton would be President right now. And BTW, we know a lot about Hillary, but that's only because the conservative press had twenty years to get the word out, which served as immunization for her.

I have a problem with Bachman's social conservatism, and her statements surrounding that issue are certainly fair game. Just as Obama's record as an ideological socialist where fair game, but the press portrays that as just silly.

The attacks on Palin, on the other hand, have been ruthless, personal, out of bounds and lots of other things you can say. Most people actually believe she said that she could see Russia from her house as a response to a question about foreign policy.

 

[Pocketman]

As usual, it is difficult finding fault with dross' post. While the mainstream press does seem to cut Obama some slack, the "fair and balanced" network tries to make up for it. My point is, Bachman has to own her issues regardless of what's attributed to or said about Obama (or anyone, for that matter). Politicians should all be held to the same standards? Reality however, is people and news corporations will do what they can to further their own agendas. Perhaps the real issue here is the manner in which candidates in general are scrutinized. We would likely have more, better qualified candidates interested in public office if they didn't fear having themselves and their families placed under a microscope.

While we're on the subject, people such as the birthers, don't help by focusing attention on what are really a non-issues. We seem to be obsessed with what's sexy and controversial rather than what really matters. Real, honest and to the facts discussions on what's important for the country don't seem to exist. (Accept on INGO.)

 

[goinggreyfast]

Bill Maher over the top. What a loser.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1064367320001/did-bill-maher-finally-cross-the-line/

 

[2A_Tom]

Quoting Anderson Cooper as an obama detractor is about the same as quoting Rhsh Limbaugh as a bush criticizer.

Cooper is upset becauce 0 is not liberal enough.
I agree he has been criticized by the left. He didn't close Gitmo. He didn't pull all of the troops ouy of Iraq. He hasnkt lowered the seas yet. He has not yet brought about world peace. He hasn't taken the guns away from those right wing nuts.

There is some criticism of him on the left, but even that gains no traction in the msm. Let alone any gaf he might make, I understand that the schools have actually been told by the DED to begin teaching there are 57 states, no problem because they don't teach geography.

You believe everything Tass and Pravda feed you. Republicans bad.
I would rather have anyone even Palin Bachman I actually voted for McCain.

 

[2A_Tom]

Quoting Anderson Cooper as an obama detractor is about the same as quoting Rhsh Limbaugh as a bush criticizer.

Cooper is upset becauce 0 is not liberal enough.
I agree he has been criticized by the left. He didn't close Gitmo. He didn't pull all of the troops ouy of Iraq. He hasnkt lowered the seas yet. He has not yet brought about world peace. He hasn't taken the guns away from those right wing nuts.

There is some criticism of him on the left, but even that gains no traction in the msm. Let alone any gaf he might make, I understand that the schools have actually been told by the DED to begin teaching there are 57 states, no problem because they don't teach geography.

You believe everything Tass and Pravda feed you. Republicans bad.
I would rather have anyone even Palin Bachman I actually voted for McCain.

 

[theweakerbrother]

First, you have to watch or read MSM on occasion. Then you'll know that the president is getting plenty of criticism and negative reviews. And rightfully so.

Probably more criticism would be nice, and I'm sure it will be going that way.

As far as Bachmann and Palin go, they're two completely different people with complete different hindrances. But both sound bat****crazy to me.

And they don't need the media to make them look bad when they really are that mashugana.

Yes. You know guys know that Bachmann voted for the Patriot Act extension again, right? IT'S TO KEEP YOUR CHILDREN SAVE FROM TERRORISTS!!!

 

[rambone]

Bachmann already has a record of squashing the constitution. She votes for more federal control of law enforcement, more checkpoints, more warrantless searches, more people on secret watch lists, more pissing money away into the Middle East, more bombs, more wars, more support of war profiteers, more civil liberties destroyed, more Police State. Feeding the "Global War on Terror" only serves to destroy this once great nation.

Then there's her support of the Drug War, Federal intrusion on more social issues, her history with the IRS, and all the rest of her social conservative control-freak ideas.

I'm not sold on a person who likes this much government... Not by a long shot.

Fortunately in this upcoming GOP primary, there will be a non-statist alternative to the usual Establishment losers. Ron Paul gets my vote.

 

[Jake46184]

Bachmann already has a record of squashing the constitution. She votes for more federal control of law enforcement, more checkpoints, more warrantless searches, more people on secret watch lists, more pissing money away into the Middle East, more bombs, more wars, more support of war profiteers, more civil liberties destroyed, more Police State. Feeding the "Global War on Terror" only serves to destroy this once great nation.

Then there's her support of the Drug War, Federal intrusion on more social issues, her history with the IRS, and all the rest of her social conservative control-freak ideas.

I'm not sold on a person who likes this much government... Not by a long shot.

Fortunately in this upcoming GOP primary, there will be a non-statist alternative to the usual Establishment losers. Ron Paul gets my vote.

That's all really interesting, rambone. Can you provide any factual evidence (links to voting records, etc.) that substantiates anything in your rant? If not....it's just an Internet rant. Are you sure that it's not just you who has a problem?