The Politico Has Become The New AP

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The Politico has become a joke, a farce.  The Politico ran a story prior to the Iowa Caucus that implied Fred was going to drop out if he didn’t do well, they were wrong.  They ran a story about a silly hat and how downtrodden the whole affair was, they were lying and video of the event proved it.  Now they run another story about the rally last night after the votes were in:

But the chants of “Fred, Fred, Fred” seemed forced. Supporters cheered
weakly during Iowa Rep. Steve King’s long introduction of the
candidate. And during the party, Thompson’s staffers paced in the back
of the room, talking grimly into their cell phones.

In fact, considering the small, low-energy crowds like this one that
have greeted Thompson’s Iowa bus tour recently, it seems remarkable
that he finished as well as he did.

Video again shows they are lying and spinning these stories in such a way we can no longer ignore. 


They have become another AP or CNN who obviously has an agenda, and they don’t hide it.

Michael van der Galien notes the same thing:

I’ve seldom seen anything as obviously slanted as that. I’m not sure what problem the Politico has with the former Senator, but it’s clear that the guys there want to make him look as bad as possible.

This was one hell of speech, in front of very passionate supporters. Nothing like what the Politico wants to make you believe. In fact, I’m convinced that if more people saw this video, support for Thompson would increase significantly.

Note that this isn’t the first time that the Politico has gone after Thompson either. As RedState points out, they published an article yesterday saying that he would drop out if he didn’t win 15% of the vote, but that’s not true (as we can say today).

Again, watch the video, he speaks in a very different tone than Politico would have you to believe and the crowd is far more enthusiastic as well.

Don’t these yahoo’s understand that everything is taped nowadays?  That bloggers will be on you quickly if you misrepresent an event?  But they do it anyway.

Incredible.

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Politico has about as much effect on this country as my blog and I don’t have a blog. 99% of the conservative republicans know when they smell BS and call it what they smell. He may snow the liberals (aka-the kindergarden students that failed recess) but that’s the limit of his influence. Why is he under your skin so much? I read the blog once in a while for comic relief, but I don’t know one other person that reads him.

Politico has zero direct effect. Nevertheless, they are big enough for major news organizations to pick up their anti-Fred rumors and amplify them. This cannot be denied now: there is a de facto media conspiracy that includes Fox and CNN and a lot of smaller players to deny Fred any chance for success by ignoring and smearing him, and making unduly positive predictions about his opponents.

Fox is the worst offender because it’s the only primarily (and supposedly) conservative channel. With O’Reilly declaring Fred dead multiple times and omitting him from his online poll that included McCain when Fred was ahead, with them predicting McCain to be third during the panel discussion on Fox and Friends, hardly ever mentioning his name when it would be totally appropriate while shilling for Rudy, Huck, McCain or whatever other flavor of the week, inviting and not challenging the devious Dick Morris who declares Fred dead all the time, asking him when he’d drop out on the eve of the caucus, etc, etc, they don’t want this man to win. Neither does Politico. Neither does CNN, ABC, CBS, or NBC. Fred will have to do without any media support.

Great headline. I couldn’t agree more. I spent an hour researching the political donations these buffoons have made. Either the press is protected from campaign disclosure laws, they use assumed names to donate, or they don’t donate.

I won’t buy a or c, so I’ll go with their being frauds.

http://www.stickittopolitico.com

Filter donations through here to send a message to Politico. Or just to pee in their Cheerios a little. Whatever.

By the way, Fred(!)’s on a new fundraising drive. Looking for 50,000 new Friends and $540,000. We’re already over $100,000. Now’s the time to donate.

And we will remember this piss poor excuse the day after:

“ALSO: A final note on the story Mike Allen and I wrote on Wednesday saying many in Thompson’s orbit thought he’d drop out after a poor Iowa finish. This was a heavily reported piece that made very specific points based on the information and insights of a variety of sources. It was not a prediction, but a reported story detailing the dim views held for Thompson’s prospects by individuals within his circle of views that have not changed much post-Iowa.”……….Jonathan Martin

But remember, the headline read: Thompson may drop out, back McCain

Scrapiron said:
“Politico has about as much effect on this country as my blog and I don’t have a blog.”

While I wish you were right on this Scrappy, the fact is some major media folks did pick up this story and it went national to a great extent. If Thompson even lost two percentage points because of Politico’s bias, the media could not ignore that Thompson came in at a solid third with 15%, while McCain would be at 13%.

I’m just sayin’ the deck has been stacked against Thompson already when the man ties the presumptive frontrunner in NH and receives not only zero press, he gets Politico to “speculate” on their un-clarified sources of information from their hacks on the day of the caucus!?

My question to Jonathan Martin and Mike Allen: “Did you notify anyone in Fred Thompson’s headquarters that you were going to run such a damaging story? Did you give Fred the opportunity to deny it?” Did Jamil Hussein supply Politico with this “sourced” information?

Welcome to the world of “Rathergate” Martin and Allen, or should I say BURNS AND ALLEN, ’cause you guys are a joke.

These people are no better than common criminals. Their evil deed should not be forgotten.