Earlier today I posted about the new AP/Yahoo and Gallup polls, which have the Presidential race in pretty much a statistical dead heat. This comes after the American public has been bombarded for the last couple of weeks with news that polls were indicating an increasing lead by Obama over McCain. So imagine the surprise we all received this morning when Gallup released their newest poll showing Obama only 2-points over McCain, and then the AP/Yahoo poll came out showing the same 2-point lead. Both leads, it is worth noting, are well within the margin of error for the polls.
But for the AP this sudden tightening of the race, it seems, is not the most important feature of the poll. In fact, it is not even worth mentioning. Instead, they write a 1,088 word article titled, “Poll: Voters souring on McCain, Obama stays steady,” that delves deep into McCain’s falling favorability ratings and how all of America is fed up with the negative ads from McCain’s campaign. Not one mention — NOT ONE — is made of the slim 2-point margin Obama has over McCain. As a matter of fact, only one mention is made of head-to-head polling, and they actually refer to other polls.
Less than three weeks from Election Day, Obama has taken a solid lead over McCain in most national and swing-state polls. The AP-Yahoo News survey underscores the morale problem McCain faces.
That is true in some polls, but it is certainly not true in their own poll. Obama’s lead, in fact, has all but evaporated. But the AP does not want to dwell on such esoteric polling data such as head-to-head match-ups. They prefer instead to tell the American people what percentage of voters are “excited” about their candidate and what percentage are not, and if they prefer boxers or briefs.
They are not being biased, they are just telling the American people the important news.
The American media is not “biased”!
I will repeat this.
The American media is NOT “biased”!
Here is the defenition of “bias“: “a particular tendency or inclination”
No! The American media not “biased”. This characterization has lost its value and meaning in defining the American media. The American media now RIVALS the efforts and accomplishments of the graduates of Havana University and the presentations of Mesa Redonda.
The American media has graduated from the levels of “bias” to being “propagandistic” in the core sense of the word “Propaganda“: The presentation of “information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.”
However, I would replace the word “rumors” with “outright lies”!
They have become a suffocating ideological and conspiratorial communications enterprise ready to “…harm, a person, group, movement, institution, and nation”!
LaConchita,
They are much worse than that. They are the ACCOMPLICES of Barrack Obama and the Democrats. Perhaps with the exception of Fox News, every other news media is in the tank for Obama. It’s no wonder the Messiah was whining about it to “Times Sunday Magazine.” Here’s what he had to say:
“I am convinced that if there were no Fox News, I might be two or three points higher in the polls…. If I were watching Fox News, I wouldn’t vote for me, right? … Because the way I’m portrayed 24/7 is as a freak. I am the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant liberal. Who wants somebody like that?”
And here is MRC President and Newsbusters.org Publisher L. Brent Bozell, III response:
“Okay, Sen. Obama, we will cede you the point that the Fox News Channel, by accurately portraying you and your record, has brought you down 2-3% in the polls. Now it’s time for you to concede that were it not for NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, etc., etc., etc. Sen. John McCain would be up by 20%.”
The MSM made Obama into what he is. He didn’t do it by his own merits (he has none that I can tell).
They have the morals of Joseph Goebbels.