Comments on: Media up to its tricks?

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:42:04 +0000

Getting them to change is not the strategy to victory here. Getting Republican politicians and talking heads to blacklist CNN is the strategy to victory.

It is not as if we need CNN to get the message out when the message is theirs.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:40:27 +0000

Well the Republicans are just getting walked over because the media, just like the Ayrabs, actually will use Machiavelli tactics on you. Just cause the Republicans refuse to, doesn’t mean they won’t get hammered by others.

By: Tap

Tap — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:30:55 +0000

Allen’s right. The entire thing was a joke. But I don’t think this is anything new. As Rush said, the questions as a whole represented a viewpoint that is almost a parody of the lefts view of conservatives.

The difference now is that they get caught (today’s technology makes it a lot easier to look some of these people up) AND the other difference is word gets out when they get caught (again, today’s tech. (internet) together with talk radio).

Will being caught out like this force change? I don’t know. Various MSM outlets have been caught perpetrating outrages such as this for a few years now. I don’t see a big change so far. I hear lots of denial, but the newsrooms are so insular (groupthink) that they don’t even realize how obviously biased they are.

When they get embarrassed like this, they may institute a few changes intended to catch stuff like this, but I think that they’ll just repeatedly fall into the same traps as long as they don’t bring in some alternative voices who can see the obvious (to us) and question what they are doing from within..

By: Allen L.

Allen L. — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:46:09 +0000

I thought the whole thing was hysterical. When I heard some of the questions i immediately said to myself plant. Oh yeah, that one over there is a plant. Darn it another weed over there.

It was so amateurish it was funny. The best part of it was that the people who came up with it thought they would get away with it. The good thing about it is that it might actually force some of these news organizations to be honest brokers of information, not shills for agendas.

By: jj

jj — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:30:02 +0000

If that was “sloppy” work by CNN then it was SO “sloppy” CNN should be removed from everyone’s dial. General Kerr was a damn GUEST on CNN fewer than ten years ago - they didn’t know who he was? Forgive me if I require a couple of tons of salt to choke that one down.

Though you know, come to think of it I take that back: they are so damn dumb they could well not have known who he was.

But of course it was the wrong forum: if “don’t ask don’t tell” bothers Keith Kerr so much he just has to spput off about it, then he should be spouting at Mrs. Clinton: it ewas her husband’s (and, by implication, given her years and years of “experience” - her own) policy - not the policy of any Republican.

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Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:41:38 +0000

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By: Ellie

Ellie — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:18:47 +0000

I don’t think the Clinton operative was a CNN plant, just sloppy work by Cooper’s producers. (It was actually a Clinton plant.)

One of the “undecided Republicans” in the focus group is favoring Edwards! Obviously the screening for the focus group was a little sloppy too.