Media bias... against whom exactly?
The Clinton campaign has been complaining for a couple of weeks that the media is biased in favour of Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton herself vocalised the complaint at last week's televised debate in Cleveland when, about 20 minutes in, she took umbrage at always getting the first question from the two NBC journalists acting as moderators.
Strangely, though, the media has done nothing but echo those complaints, raising questions about just which way the bias runs.
Arguably, Hillary has had the biggest helping hand away from the mainstream news shows - she has a lot of friends in the entertainment industry and they are clearly pulling out the stops for her. Saturday Night Live performed skits on the media-hates-Hillary theme not one but two weeks running, including last Saturday when Mrs Clinton herself made a surprise appearance wearing the exact same outfit as Amy Poehler, the comedian imitating her. SNL's guest host the week before, Tina Fey, made a thinly veiled endorsement of Hillary on the show.
Then last night, on the eve of the all-important primaries in Texas and Ohio, Clinton was invited on to The Daily Show, the cult satirical news programme hosted by Jon Stewart (lately of Oscars MC-ing fame). She couldn't have asked for a better entree to the youth vote, which has gone heavily for Obama in the primary contests so far. And Stewart himself made an interesting lapsus as he introduced her. He called her "the Democratic presidential candidate".

If Barack Obama is elected to be the next president of the United States of America, I hope he will have the courage no other president has shown in standing up to the depiscable Jewish lobby and recognise Israel's vile and outrageous treatment of the Palestinians, which has long been recognised by the International community, the United Nations and anyone who has any knowledge of the true history of this infamous land.
Posted by: Jean Harvey | 09 May 2008 at 04:45 PM
The media coverage story in this campaign is coverage of the media coverage.
The depth of editorial coverage runs about as thin as a dyslexic spell checker.
Stories (and blog posts) on media bias mention SNL, The Daily Show, and links them to bloggers with clear personal agendas.
For the worst of a bad example consider CNN's Situation Room. 25 pundits, 10 touch sensitive digital panels and hours of Blitzer reporting 5 words at a time: "We go now to Podunk."
Fox has Karl Rove with a whiteboard in their endless quest to be cheesier than CNN.
How, in this morass of chipped and scrawled pundit poop can anyone determine a measurable bias toward one candidate or another?
Oblivious to the lack of the medias ability to ask a solid question of any of the candidates Democratic and indepedent voters are turning out in droves, asking their own questions and coming up with thier own answers.
Personally I think the media is just in huff at being largely ignored. So it whips up a story or two about itself to prove its still there and there's some justification in investing millions of dollars in technology so we can watch Wolf run a sweaty finger down a touch-sensitive map of the US in primary colors.
Posted by: Rustyschwinn | 09 March 2008 at 10:42 AM
In the end, what does she expects for ?
It’s more than safe, that she can’t win the pledged delegates in the remaining race!!!
So, why she didn’t leave the race yet ?
There is no plausible, realistic scenario by which Hillary can win, even with Florida and Michigan. Yet she continues to lie to herself, lie to her supporters, and drag us all down with her.
It is very clear that she wants to make dirty and unfair tricks with the Super Delegates in order to win the nomination !
But then, she knows very well that she is 100% lost by McCain and GOP !
She doesn’t care !!
What a mess….. It is just so hard to see how they (the Clintons) care about anything other than themselves. I don't get it.
I will never vote for that woman
We get bored with Clinton’s political machinations !!
Posted by: George | 06 March 2008 at 09:03 AM
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Posted by: Acting Auditions | 06 March 2008 at 07:07 AM
Hillary! Uncensored- the documentary including home videos of Hillary violating campaign finance laws to win the US Senate seat- must be viewed by everyone.(www.youperview.com and www.hillcap.org) Hillary will be forced to testify in August in Paul v Clinton the civil fraud trial of Bill Clinton being hidden by the media.
Posted by: dan mason | 06 March 2008 at 01:00 AM
Hillary's frauds were featured in the viral internet video Hillary! Uncensored which was #1 in the UK for 2 months in Oct- Dec 07. She will be a witness in the fraud trial pending in LA against Bill and two of their friends- for defrauding the businessman they illegally obtained $1.2 million from for Hillary's Senate campaign- see the record at www.hillcap.org and the documentary on www.youperview.com. The media in the US refuses to report the landmark civil fraud suit against a President and Senator for defrauding their largest donor and destroying his Hollywood public internet company with Spider Man creator Stan Lee.
Posted by: dan mason | 06 March 2008 at 12:58 AM
Hillary won the states we need to win? No, she won a Democratic primary, not a presidential election. There is no logic in saying that she won a Democrat party state primary therefore in a general election she will beat John McCain. He won Ohio too, you know! The truth is that Obama increases the interest from the middle in the Democratic ticket and Clinton decreases it. At this point Clinton will not be able to get more delegates then Obama unless she gets 80% of the vote in the rest of the primaries. So she is willing to make the Democratic convention a bloody, honorless knife fight which will make the eventual winner much weaker against McCain. I want to see a woman as president, someone with conviction and presence and please, the candor and dignity not to allow the Democratic party to engage in race versus gender propaganda. The old guard of feminism has lost my respect, in the clouds of their own unethical, racist, white entitlement. I think its time to take the reigns of power away from you baby boomers. Your ambitious grabs for power at any cost have made those of us under 40 sick!
Posted by: Stuff Daddy | 05 March 2008 at 08:04 PM
Debby you're a brainwashed moron, she would have to win 65% in all remaining states to get more delegates. She HAD to win 65% in Texas AND Ohio just to get more delegates and she didn't do this. Your candidate is being the moron and dragging it out with her scorched earth policy leaving Obama with less time to campaign against McCain.
Posted by: Ro | 05 March 2008 at 04:08 PM
Hillary has won ALL of the states you have to win in the GE. NOW it is time for B.Obama to step down so we can get on with the GE. He will not be able to win Florida because they say from the lovely state they won't vote for him because he is fighting them to let there vote count. A lot of dem's will vote McCain if it is Obama vs McCain. Hillary will be the democratic nominee, lets not drag this out any more.
Posted by: Debby | 05 March 2008 at 02:04 PM
I think that it's fair to say that Clinton has probably shown herself to be the better for - the more compliant with - Zionist wishes. This may have quite a lot to do with the media's relative promotion of her over her rival, who, while he has made the minimum price-of-entry pro-Israel statements required, is probably percieved as less trustworthy in this respect.
Posted by: R Bishop | 05 March 2008 at 11:29 AM
What happened to our democracy? Ohio was called by the media for Hillary when only 55% of the votes were in. GOP voters listened to Rush Limbaugh and DID vote for Hillary.
The media has given Hillary a completely free pass which won't last if we have a contest between her and a republican.
The media will orchestrate another coup.
Oh, I thought after 7-8 long years, we would get change, but it looks like Bush, Bush, Bush - Clinton Clinton, Bush Bush, Clinton...
Time to pack up and move to another country. Got democracy? No wars? Healthcare?
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Posted by: vicky | 05 March 2008 at 06:03 AM
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The answer is empirical.
Posted by: Jamal | 05 March 2008 at 04:48 AM