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Journalists Believed Bush Would Not Win Reelection...

December 20, 2004 1:04:27 PM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums
I think Drudge got the headline right for this one (his was: Journalists Believed Bush Would Not Win Reelection...)

NewsWeek used the following (linked): Bush: 'Some Kind of Night'
Dec. 27 / Jan. 3 issue - In the campaign's final days, a nasty cold had been stalking its way through President George W. Bush's press plane, preying on the weakened immune systems of exhausted reporters. One stood at the front of the plane and begged photographers to stop taking pictures; the press corps was tired of getting calls from family members telling them how bad they looked.
     The journalists were convinced Bush would lose. Backstage at rallies, reporters plugged the latest poll numbers into electoral math calculators on the Web. Kerry came out ahead every time. They gossiped about Bush's performance on the stump. "Doesn't he seem a little off?" a newspaper reporter asked me as we stood watching one of Bush's final rallies in Albuquerque, N.M. On Election Day the early exit polls seemed to bear out the correspondents' predictions: Bush was losing Florida and Ohio and was getting demolished in Pennsylvania.


... more at linked article

So, those journalists that were out breaking their journalistic ethics, trying to manipulate the news and news cycles (example: NY Times and CBS News and others), had high hopes that the end was near for Bush, and that they wouldn't have to wait through 4 more years?!

It's a great post-mortem on the lot of them. I still am glowing over the results, and am made even happier because the media got it all so wrong (much as they did in the last election). They're all still so convinced that it was part of a vast right wing conspiracy, that voting machines and results were rigged and that those stupid early exit polls had to be right.

To bad they missed polling so many of the real voters, and too bad many of them may have just out right lied in their responses. Many of them may have just had an attack of conscience when they voted.

Either way, the results are what they are, and Katy Couric and her friends will continue to have to suffer through the blackest days for the country while President Bush continues to shine on, reforming Social Security (which is going to happen!!!), reducing taxes, and spreading democracy throughout the world.
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Reply #1 December 20, 2004 1:36:23 PM
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Its in Drudge so it must be true. However, from what you post here, it doesn't say that it reflected in the way they reported. Neither does the article linked, so perhaps the only one manipulating the facts is...you.
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Reply #2 December 20, 2004 2:21:01 PM
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Isnt' it ironic that the press seems to think they are what fuels the thoughts and opinions of Americans, but when we don't fall for their manipulations, they call us Rednecks, and uneducated and unenlightened. Apparently their idea of a "sheep" is anyone who doesn't look to them as a sheepherder. ;~D
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Reply #3 December 21, 2004 1:48:37 PM
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Reply By: whoman69Posted: Monday, December 20, 2004Its in Drudge so it must be true. However, from what you post here, it doesn't say that it reflected in the way they reported. Neither does the article linked, so perhaps the only one manipulating the facts is...you.


There are any of tens or hundreds of reports that verify that the media very clearly was working to influence the election, and that they carried an anti-Bush bias in their reporting, for example:

Media Admit Anti-Bush Bias

Accuracy In Media - AIM Report: Pro-Kerry Media Spin Could Sink Bush - October B - Cliff's Notes

And plenty of other articles. Do a little searching on Google or other search engines and then start some logical thinking. Pro-Kerry media spin was not reflected in the way they reported?!?! How could that not be true.

To not see the attempts by the Bush-bashers in the media to influence the election and the obvious slant in the way the news was being reported -- for example the NY Times and CBS News major critical stories that hit during the end of the election cycle -- is to walk through life with some nasty blinders on.
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Reply #4 December 21, 2004 7:31:43 PM
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Its in Drudge so it must be true. However, from what you post here, it doesn't say that it reflected in the way they reported. Neither does the article linked, so perhaps the only one manipulating the facts is...you.


Ooh maybe the fact that every major news outlet made no secets about who they wanted in the White House. Or maybe is was the fact that not one major news organization chose to question much that came out of Kerry's mouth. I mean, look at the facts, if it wasn't for the internet, the now infamous "National Guard" memos would have gone unquestioned. The major media was even willing to accept Kerry's senate record without so much as actually reading any of it. ;~D
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