Study: Media Coverage of McCain Much More Negative Than That of Obama
Washington Post: Fifty-seven percent of the print and broadcast stories about the Republican nominee were decidedly negative, the Project for Excellence in Journalism says in a report out today, while 14 percent were positive. The McCain campaign has repeatedly complained that the mainstream media are biased toward the senator from Illinois.
Obama's coverage was more balanced during the six-week period from Sept. 8 through last Thursday, with 36 percent of the stories clearly positive, 35 percent neutral or mixed and 29 percent negative.
And the award for “understatement of decade” goes to Fox News…
Eileen for McCain/PalinOctober 23rd, 2008 - 4:17 pm
Well at least they are now telling it like it is and what we in the heartland have known all along…the left wing biased media is in the tank with the “Messiah of Islam”!
Thank goodness that we have Fox News where we can get news fair and balanced…like the networks used to provide in years past.
This I can tell you left wing supporters in the biased media…there will be a a new President in January and his name will be President Elect McCain…you can count on it!
There will be egg all over your “pasty” faces!
GOD BLESS AMERICA THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE…MAY OUR GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS THIS GREAT COUNTRY AS WE SEEK HIS GUIDANCE!
VOTER REVOLUTION HERE AND NOW!
markOctober 23rd, 2008 - 4:25 pm
John if you quit wearing Hillary’s pantsuits the press will like ya better…just saying
markOctober 23rd, 2008 - 4:29 pm
btw. Can we bring up the TIVO of the 2 months of discussions of flag pins, whether Michelle was REALLY REALLY REALLY proud of her country, and a week of Jerimiah Wright 24/7, and Britney and Paris Hilton WEEK, and 3 days of lipstick on a pig.
McCain folks are POOR LOSERS…in EVERY sense
markOctober 23rd, 2008 - 4:30 pm
How was Sept 8th selected as the beginning date for this media study?
GO BACK the entire 2 years of this election cycle and judge the entirety
El CapitanOctober 23rd, 2008 - 4:32 pm
Mark must be really desperate to post 5+ times on every video on this site. What’s the matter? Feel drowned out?
HarryOctober 23rd, 2008 - 4:35 pm
I got rid of my television set in 2002. Liberal media bias was the main reason.
MissyOctober 23rd, 2008 - 4:37 pm
Hey Mark, you’re an idiot for supporting Barack Obama. Never in the history of the United States has a presidential candidate had so much negative baggage. It’s a disgrace. We deserve better. By the way, Obama says there will be tax cuts for 95% of Americans. He’s a liar since 40% of Americans pay no tax at all. He is also going to roll back the Bush tax cuts so that means a tax increase for everyone who pays taxes. Everyone with a functioning brain can see the media bias for Obama. We, the people of the United States, who believe in freedom and liberty, will prove to the media they cannot elect a socialst on November 4th. There are some things money can’t buy. Too bad Obama fans, you’re all losers.
Arjuna9October 23rd, 2008 - 4:42 pm
Bull. There is just a lot more to be negative about, with John McCain. So the media is simply reporting the truth.
And that “liberal media” thing is crap. I know, because during the time that I was opposing the invasion of Iraq—before it took place—all the media were kissing Bush’s butt and refusing to print anything in opposition to the Republican administration’s propaganda.
stuuOctober 23rd, 2008 - 4:49 pm
the mainstream media is biased? what a revalation. the mainstream media has no credibility. they suck.
and bho is going to lose. down with marxism
Lady libertyOctober 23rd, 2008 - 4:54 pm
McCain staffer says she was mugged, had ‘B’ cut into face
Thursday, October 23, 2008
By Michael A. Fuoco, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Police are investigating a report by a campaign staffer for John McCain that she was mugged and the letter B was cut into her face following a robbery in Bloomfield last night.
Police say the 20-year-old woman, who is from Texas, reported that the attack occurred after she withdrew money from an ATM at Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street.
She said a man armed with a knife demanded her money. She gave it to him and began walking toward her car, which has McCain stickers.
Although the robber had moved away from her, he became agitated when he saw her car, punched her in the back of the head, pushed her to the ground and carved a B into her face, she reported.
Police said the woman declined medical treatment at the scene.
More details in tomorrow’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
First published on October 23, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Party of compasion my azzzzzz!If this is the type of people OBama attracts…No one should want any part of him or his ilk!
RealityOctober 23rd, 2008 - 4:55 pm
The media IS NOT BIASED. Just ask any democrat, they’ll tell you that is soooo fair.
MissyOctober 23rd, 2008 - 4:58 pm
Arjuna9, you represent the typical Obamba supporter unable to analyze facts as they are. The Dems can’t find much on McCain so they terrorize Sarah Palin. You and your ilk are the people trying to destroy everything good about this country. Shame on you.
Lady libertyOctober 23rd, 2008 - 5:04 pm
PITTSBURGH — A 20-year-old woman who was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield was also maimed by her attacker, police said.
Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard tells Channel 4 Action News that the victim was robbed at knifepoint on Wednesday night outside of a Citizens Bank near Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street just before 9 p.m.
Richard said the robber took $60 from the woman, then became angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim’s car. The attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife to scratch the letter “B” into her face, Richard said.
Richard said the woman refused medical treatment after the assault, which happened outside the view of the bank’s surveillance cameras.
The robber is described as a dark-skinned black man, 6 feet 4 inches tall, 200 pounds with a medium build, short black hair and brown eyes. The man was wearing dark colored jeans, a black undershirt and black shoes.
Watch Channel 4 Action News at 5 p.m. for updates on this story
Lady Liberty you are a racist and hatemonger. Obama cares about me. He was only getting his money back from the oppressors.
Min HeadroomOctober 23rd, 2008 - 5:35 pm
El Capitan
Mark has finished his homework early today and is allowed to be on the computer spewing.
Lady Liberty
“Those people” are 6 times more likely to commit a crime than anyone else and have IQ scores of 85 on average. Foolish to use an ATM on the street in that environment.
Lady libertyOctober 23rd, 2008 - 5:37 pm
lets see which part of me is racist my white part or my black part…….OH wait racist has nothing to do with color…..
PROctober 23rd, 2008 - 5:41 pm
Gosh, that’s a shame… Maybe if the Republicans had a good candidate people would not have so many bad things to say.
JimboOctober 23rd, 2008 - 5:49 pm
Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican:
Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards. He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised.
All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. Joe’s bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
Joe takes his morning shower reaching for his shampoo; His bottle is properly labeled with every ingredient and the amount of its contents because some liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained. Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some tree hugging liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He walks to the subway station for his government subsidized ride to work; it saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees. You see, some liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Joe begins his work day; he has a good job with excellent pay, medicals benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe’s employer pays these standards because Joe’s employer doesn’t want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed he’ll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some liberal didn’t think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.
Its noon time, Joe needs to make a Bank Deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe’s deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some liberal wanted to protect Joe’s money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the depression.
Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae underwritten Mortgage and his below market federal student loan because some stupid liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his life-time.
Joe is home from work, he plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive to dads; his car is among the safest in the world because some liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood home. He was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers Home Administration because bankers didn’t want to make rural loans. The house didn’t have electric until some big government liberal stuck his nose where it didn’t belong and demanded rural electrification. (Those rural Republicans would still be sitting in the dark)
He is happy to see his dad who is now retired. His dad lives on Social Security and his union pension because some liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn’t have to. After his visit with dad he gets back in his car for the ride home.
He turns on a radio talk show, the host’s keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. (He doesn’t tell Joe that his beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day) Joe agrees, “We don’t need those big government liberals ruining our lives; after all, I’m a self made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have”.
BennyOctober 23rd, 2008 - 5:59 pm
Would not matter PR, God himself would get negative media if he ran as a Republican. What’s really a shame is the Democrats are running the biggest sham politician ever, and the media gleefully ignores dozens of his negatives.
markOctober 23rd, 2008 - 7:20 pm
Min Headroom
hate to disappoint you but I haven’t had homework since 1975 when I graduated from college
DontTaseMeBroOctober 23rd, 2008 - 8:03 pm
Jimbo
Shut the hell up you dumb fool. Do you actually believe what you just wrote. This is why we can’t allow dems and liberals to run this country. Your statement is a glaring example of why not to let this happen. What a damn liberal freak you are … off the chart!
“The goal of socialism is communism” Bill Ayers and Karl Marx are both quoted as saying.
Looks like the slime job the liberal MSM and the McCain haters on here is just not doing the trick.
Wait until the Phil J Berg lawsuit gets around. It was on Rush today; plus Berg was on the Michael Savage show tonight. Uhmmm, wonder why Obama is in Hawaii tonight?
Popular former Republican Gov. Arne Carlson endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama today, saying Obama represented the best hope for an America facing an economic crisis and criticizing Republicans for waging a mean-spirited campaign that has “been going down all these side roads.”
( http://www.startribune.com/politics/32973804.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr )
And so did Scott McClellen, someone who goes back years with GWB. And of course Powell. And allthese people:
Lincoln Chafee, former United States Senator of Rhode Island
Donald Capoccia Vice Chair, US Commission of Fine Arts
Douglas W. Kmiec, Head of the Office of Legal Counsel to Presidents Reagan & Bush (41)
Jackson M. Andrews, Republican Counsel to the U.S.
Senate. Republican nominee, U.S. Senate from Kentucky
Jim Leach, former Congressman from Iowa
Rita E. Hauser, New York City, international lawyer and former member of President Bush’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
Robert A.G. Monks, Attorney
Todd Garrett, retired Senior VP and CIO of the Procter & Gamble Company
Richard B. Stewart, Assistant Attorney General for Environment and Natural Resources
Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr., Executive Chairman of Thorium Power Ltd.
What is wrong with their positions? Why are intelligent Republicans endorsing Obama? Are they abandoning the party to the Joe Six-Packs. Is the Party finally getting rid of its elites?
dswilliOctober 23rd, 2008 - 9:17 pm
Any Republican who endorses Obama is not a true Republican. My advice to them is “don’t let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out. Go away, don’t look back and don’t come back.”
carljrOctober 23rd, 2008 - 9:29 pm
Something tells me this study will not be widely covered on ALL news networks.
jkpolmanOctober 23rd, 2008 - 9:32 pm
Thank God the Republican Party is getting rid of itself of the elites, we can run the party better than they can, they are defeatest’s. William Buckeys son is a loser and so is that other guy, they must of been switched with minority babie’s at birth, too bad. Colon Powell already was one, he was never a Republican only a cut and run looser.
The uppity-muck phoneys have no place in a party that is meant for Joe 6pak, Joe The Plummer, Sara the Hokey Mom, and all of you wonderful Breitbart Posters, especially George, jkpolman, Frankie B and Unka 2.
markOctober 23rd, 2008 - 10:31 pm
.Scott McClellan endorsed Obama today
another queer 4 Obama
markOctober 23rd, 2008 - 10:41 pm
jkpolman
Yeah, get rid of the last vestiges of intellect the Conservatives have left. Let the Christian Reich bat sh*t crazies like Perkins and Dobson and the war mongers like Pearle and Wolfowitz have complete free run of the Party…and you’ll stay a Party of 23% FOREVER…….MORON
LarseOctober 23rd, 2008 - 10:56 pm
The Main Stream Media is simply reflecting Main Stream America. If you don’t like it, you will have to go to the Lunatic Fringe Media. They are 100% against Obama, but they rarely say anything good about McCain either…
Oh!! Welcome aboard Scott McClellan!!! Another person that cares more about America than the hopelessly failed Republicon political machine!
Karl Rove is suggesting that the lunatics call Obama a terrorist n***** more. But McCain is resisting since he hates Karl’s guts…
Maybe you fools should have run Limbaugh/Savage! :D
And don’t forget Republicans!!! Liquor stores are closed on election day, so get a bunch of bottles of like Jack Daniels early for a very long election night! Also earmuffs since all your neighbors will be partying all night while you are sitting there in front of the toob whimpering like babies…
And the award for “understatement of decade” goes to Fox News…