VDH: MSM Unprofessional Lobbying For Obama Will, In A Decade Or Two, Become Case Study In Graduate Classes On Journalistic Ethics

The only thing that will prevent the use of this election as a ‘bad example’ to students of print journalism is… in ten years there my be no mass print journalism to be a student of.

Electoral Map 2008

Electoral Map 2004

Looking at the maps above made me think of the extent to which the American People has been swindled during this last electoral cycle. Note that the ‘redness’ of the map actually increased in 08. (Red=republicans Blue=Democrats amazingly)

The results of the elections do not reflect the ‘will of the people’, but amounts to a veritable ‘coup d’état’ perpetrated against the American people without firing a single shot and in plain sight. Three major aspects of the campaign come to mind to justify this statement.

1. The Democrats had close to 7 times more money available from donations than the Republicans. A lot of these moneys were collected from anonymous sources and even from outside of the US. ( $ 460,000,000.00 vs. 85,000,000.00 ?)
2. The so called ‘main stream media’ which is the major source of information for most of the populace exhibited an amazing level of bias in reporting and even engaged in actually ‘promoting’ the Democratic candidates while never showing any interest in the most salient questions relating to the background, experience and prior associations of the candidates. (Example: If it had surfaced the information that McCain had for 20 years participated in weekly meetings of the KKK this would have spelled doom for his candidacy. Not so for Obama and the Church of Rev. Wright.)
3. The ‘community organization’ type of movements assisted the Democrats in collecting or ‘bringing out the vote drives’. In a military type of disciplined effort they may have been able to gather perhaps a few million votes in key states and were instrumental to closing the deal.

Given these circumstances however, we still have the amazing fact that the Democrats never at any one time really pulled ahead in the polls which signifies that the election was won through the effects of unfair and illegal manipulation of factors exterior to the public opinion. (52 % to 46 % ?) Without any of the three factors mentioned above they would not have won.

Joe Blowe, I agree with you. I never believe that Obama won this election. I am sure it is all fraud especially with Acorn. And I read this on another blog and I agree with it:

“A few months ago I posted a comment made by a hard tech specialist. His concern was that because of the new voting machines and expert hacking techniques, our election process was at high risk and the votes could be manipulated without anyone being the wiser. If the chinese could hack into the Pentagon computers, I’m sure that anyone paid enough incentive money with good equipment can hack into any radio station or any website. Teenagers can do this for godssake. I believe that with Soros’s huge financial funding, this country HAS been fraudulently hacked and hijacked by the Obama/Soros camp and their accomplises in our own government. I don’t even believe the actual final count in the election.”

An Institution Dies
November 25, 2008 by texasdarlin

Now? The reporters are now lining up to confess failure. How pathetic. If they know now, they knew then. I’m not sure what is more pathetic: the indisputable fact of their failure, or their admission after the fact. As if writing a faux-intellectual Monday-morning critique of their industry’s gross negligence somehow excuses it, now that it’s water under society’s bridge.

We tried. We blasted out the word from our little anonymous corners of the blogosphere, over and over again. We tried to tell the world how fucked up the Media was, how irresponsibly biased in their coverage of the presidential candidates. We were laughed down, ignored, scolded for being bad sports.

We, the nobody bloggers, worked our fingers to the bone, many of us sacrificing whole chunks of our lives, because the paid professional media class — en masse — refused to be independent. They committed voluntary malpractice, regurgitating faxed or emailed campaign talking points as “news” instead of checking essential facts, much less pursuing an actual story.

History might mark the death of journalism as Americans knew it in the year 2008, who knows. Certainly it should. But I do know that had these over-paid hacks performed merely 25% of what they should have, the outcome of this election would likely have been quite different. Likely we would have had our first female president, or our first female vice-president. Had the sloths who call themselves “reporters” and their corporate employers actually cared about the role that a free and independent media should exercise in a democratic election, the candidate named Obama who has accomplished nothing but a series of personality-based milestones in his life would have been stopped at the door for lack of either a real resume or a real birth certificate. [And please, don't accuse me of clinging to the birth certificate issue. I refer to it figuratively, for all the missing records and documents of Barack Obama's life.]

And still, they — the Mainstream Media — don’t give a rat’s ass about their duty.

Still, they don’t.

Because as I write this, the United States Supreme Court has granted a full conference to a regular citizen named Leo Donofrio, on the issue of Barack Obama’s status as a natural-born citizen. I’m told that the US Supreme Court has not granted such a full conference for any matter in 3 decades.

Mind you, this is the US Supreme Court. Not an insignificant district court of the first instance. But the U.S. Supreme Court, charged with interpreting our nation’s Constitution, charged with explaining the meaning of “natural born citizen.” The buck stops with this Court and its authority. Regardless of whether they decide to let Mr. Donofrio’s case proceed — the very fact that a full conference has been granted — is newsworthy. Right? Even downright historic. Yes, it is, which is why we the bloggers are unsurprised that no one in the Mainstream Media, not one reputable journalist or organization, has reported the story.

I mourn the death of American Journalism, an institution I once proudly embraced.

@sigmundringeck:

Yes, sigmundringeck, he is one of many crooks from Chicago. He was my Senator and as disappointed as I’ve been with him as a Senator supposedly representing my state, I’d prefer that he was still my Senator, not President-elect.

Unfortunately, this country is about to experience Chicago style governance, eventually the country will get a clue, hopefully, not to late.

Here are some of the cronies he brought along with him. Sources are provided in the following article, but there’s still much more….out there on other local appointments if one was interested in doing the research our MSM doesn’t do. Am posting this because I’m sure you would recognize names and situations. You probably have a better understanding of the events mentioned in the article than we do.

Thumbs up to Bloomberg.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aNCFKvAMUQ6w&refer

When does the “impeach Obama” campaign start?

Mike Gray,

Everyone thinks their world view is the correct one or it wouldn’t be their world view. However, world views should not be reflected in by journalists in their reporting of the news.

Just as there has traditionally been with the print media, where there is a distinction between the editorial page and the front page, there are programs on news channels that are editorial in nature. Examples are Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman on MSNBC, who project an unabashed liberal/Democratic bias, and Fox and Friends and Sean Hannity on Fox who offer a clear conservative/Republican bias.

If you think the MSM gave Bill Clinton a pass we live in parallel universes.

Missy,

Excellent article from Bloomberg that you have linked in your comment #9. Like I always say: “Like attracts like”.

From the article:

“Take a good look at some of the 17 people our nation’s president-elect chose last week for his Transition Economic Advisory Board. And then try saying with a straight face that these are the leaders who should be advising him on how to navigate through the worst financial crisis

Robert Rubbin, Ann Mulcahy, Richard Parsons, William Daley, Laura Tyson, Penny Pritzker, Warren Buffet, William Donaldson, Rahm Emanuel, etc.
(Go to the article and find out how corrupted these people are)

Many of them should be getting subpoenas as material witnesses right about now, not places in Obama’s inner circle. Did Obama learn nothing from the ill-fated choice of James Johnson, the former Fannie Mae boss, to lead his vice- presidential search committee?”

Thus it is amazing to find such fair and balanced article such as you directed me to on Bloomberg.
Bloomberg has been fawning over Obama for months, IMHO.