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10/22/2008 5:21:29 PM

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[Edited on October 22, 2008 at 5:21 PM. Reason : hfds]

10/22/2008 5:21:29 PM

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"^^and obama is the best candidate ever...keep believing all the shit you hear on the news and thinking its not contrived"

I never said that.

but if I were republican I would honestly be insulted by the VP pick of Sarah Palin.

She has so much fucking baggage.

10/22/2008 5:23:11 PM

i wish we knew what baggage biden and obama have, but the media refuses to investigate

i know more about Joe the Plumber than I do about Joe Biden

10/22/2008 5:24:18 PM

its not even the baggage thing...to me i just think like "out of ANYONE, they picked her???" i mean theres got to be SOMEONE thats better than her

[Edited on October 22, 2008 at 5:24 PM. Reason : ^haha...your excuse for everything is "the media"]

10/22/2008 5:24:27 PM

^that too. It's just fucking ridiculous that he picked the governor of Alaska. out of everyone else.

10/22/2008 5:26:20 PM

hell, the media refuses to even look at solid leads they are given about Obama and Biden.

But really, this is pretty much a non-issue, assuming it's not a common thing. 21k really isn't that much, especially for that army of kids she has. I wish I could say I'm surprised that this kind of shit even came up, but I'm not.

10/22/2008 5:26:21 PM

Joe biden says that if nobama is elected then there will be another cuban missle crisis.


and yet obamas sheeople will still blindly support him.

10/22/2008 5:26:50 PM

OMG, PEOPLE TALKING SHIT ABOUT THEIR FUTURE RUNNING MATES?

THIS NEW DEVELOPMENT APPALLS ME.

























http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8XeEZW-9g4

10/22/2008 5:29:59 PM

i wonder to myself, like how fucked up does this country have to get for republican diehards to finally see the light...like what does it take for someone to finally come to their senses...how long until they stop blaming the media or whatever...it just amazes me

10/22/2008 5:34:52 PM

explain?

10/22/2008 5:35:31 PM

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"Study: Coverage of McCain Much More Negative Than That of Obama By Howard Kurtz Media coverage of John McCain has been heavily unfavorable since the political conventions, more than three times as negative as the portrayal of Barack Obama, a new study says. 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. McCain has struggled during this period and slipped in the polls, which is one of the reasons for the more negative assessments by the 48 news outlets studied by the Washington-based group. But the imbalance is striking nonetheless. Sarah Palin's coverage ricocheted from quite positive to very negative to more mixed, the study says. Overall, 39 percent of the Palin stories were negative, 28 percent were positive and 33 percent neutral. Only 5 percent of the coverage was about her personal life. But McCain's running mate remains a media magnet, drawing three times as much coverage as the Democrats' VP nominee, Joe Biden. He was "nearly the invisible man," the group says, and his coverage was far more negative than Palin's. That may be because Biden tends to make news primarily when he commits gaffes. The project says McCain's coverage started out positive after the GOP convention but nosedived with his frequently changing reaction to the financial crisis. McCain's character attacks against Obama hurt the Democrat but yielded even more negative coverage for the senator from Arizona. Obama's coverage since the conventions represents a fall to earth from the early primaries of 2008, when the project found that, horse-race stories aside, positive narratives about Obama were twice as frequent as negative ones, 69 percent to 31 percent. The Wall Street meltdown appears to have been a turning point for both candidates. Thirty-four percent of the stories about Obama's reaction to the crisis were positive, while 18 percent were negative. McCain's coverage, though, went into a free fall after he initially declared that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong." By the following week, more than half the stories about McCain were negative and only 11 percent positive, just as Obama's coverage was turning positive by a margin of more than 5 to 1. The most negative element of the Palin coverage involved scrutiny of her record as Alaska governor, with 64 percent of the stories carrying a negative tone and just 7 percent positive. The coverage of her interview with ABC's Charlie Gibson was a wash, but stories about her subsequent sitdown with CBS's Katie Couric were 57 percent negative and 14 percent positive. While some will seize on these findings as evidence that the media are pro-Obama, the study says they actually contain "a strong suggestion that winning in politics begets winning coverage, thanks in part to the relentless tendency of the press to frame its coverage of national elections as running narratives about the relative position of the candidates in the polls ... Obama's numbers are similar to what we saw for John Kerry four years ago, and McCain's numbers are almost identical to what we saw eight years ago for Democrat Al Gore.""

10/22/2008 5:36:44 PM

^^its kinda self explainatory in my opinion

10/22/2008 5:37:11 PM

IT AMAZES ME THAT AN ALASKAN GOVERNOR WHO IS UNDER INVESTIGATION AND HAS A KID THAT IS PREGNANT GETS MORE NEGATIVE MEDIA COVERAGE THAN A GUY NAMED JOE BIDEN.

[Edited on October 22, 2008 at 5:39 PM. Reason : fds]

10/22/2008 5:39:14 PM

this election is in "God's hands" guys, don't worry about it..

10/22/2008 5:40:03 PM

its like they totally ignore every reason NOT to vote for mccain/palin

10/22/2008 5:42:11 PM

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"i wish we knew what baggage biden and obama have, but the media refuses to investigate"

Because you know exactly what the media is doing behind the scenes.

It couldn't be that Palin actually has more baggage can it??

I mean geez...I hate the way the media went after Bill Clinton...they never did that with Bush Sr.

10/22/2008 5:43:03 PM

^^oh definitely.

It's many of the same people who still love bush to this day after he lied numerous times and made public displays of idiocy on a regular basis.

[Edited on October 22, 2008 at 5:43 PM. Reason : hfsd]

10/22/2008 5:43:46 PM

why anyone would want to keep the incumbent party in the whitehouse is beyond me

unless they like the way things are going i guess

10/22/2008 5:44:12 PM

because obviously the incompetent fuck in the whitehouse represents the entire party or, obviously every single decision that guy made was wrong. every single one.

dnl, you have the brain of a lead pipe, so seriously, stop trying to think, because you aren't even going to generate any smoke by doing it

10/22/2008 6:10:43 PM

facepalm @ this thread

10/22/2008 6:30:43 PM

Hmmm...so Im guesssing Palin does not consider Asheville, Greenville, Raleigh, Chapel Hill/Carrborro, Greensboro, Winston Salem, Elizabeth City, Fayetteville, Charlotte patriotic b/c apparently we are nothing like the folks of Western, Pennsylvania....


yes the folks of Western, PA naturally must salute the flag more then us here in NC...b/c let me guess they have more of those 'support our troop stickers on their trucks'-dont they?

10/23/2008 11:27:08 AM

this "thread a day" OBAMA RULZ bullshit is getting old. if people haven't decided yet, they don't deserve the right to vote.

10/23/2008 11:28:24 AM

WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THE RETARD WHO FUCKED UP PAGE 1?!

10/23/2008 11:29:03 AM

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"we already know you're for LAWD OBAMA"

10/23/2008 11:34:05 AM

yeah, the first page is tw;dr

10/23/2008 11:35:44 AM

Michelle Obama was ordering lobster and caviar in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel last week. That shit aint cheap.

For relating to the common man, that doesn't relate to me at all.

10/23/2008 11:42:18 AM

i like how when people actually link news stories to prove that this campaign has been completely skewed by the media (much more negative press about mccain/palin, more investigations into joe the plumber than joe biden), the obama supporters turn on their caps locks and act dumb

10/23/2008 11:46:52 AM

fail

http://michelleobamawatch.com/michelle-in-fact-did-not-order-lobster

10/23/2008 11:49:01 AM