MEDIA BASH: 86% of Romney coverage NEGATIVE...

[Will E Worm]

MEDIA BASH: 86% of Romney coverage NEGATIVE...

Mitt Romney's week-long international trip resulted in unrelentingly negative coverage from the big three broadcast networks, a stark change from the glowing press awarded to then-candidate Barack Obama's world tour in 2008. While Obama was treated like a rock star (from the Associated Press: "It's not only Obama's youth, eloquence and energy that have stolen hearts across the Atlantic...."), Romney endured a focus on gaffes and the trivial.


MRC analysts examined all 21 ABC, CBS and NBC evening news stories about Romney's trip to London, Israel and Poland between July 25 and July 31. Virtually all of these stories (18, or 86%) emphasized Romney's "diplomatic blunders," from his "golden gaffe" at the Olympic games to "missteps" that offended the Palestinians.

The first of these "gaffes" was the former GOP governor asserting that security problems in London are not "encouraging." (This unsurprising point had previously been made by many in the media.)

Journalists pounced. On July 26, guest World News guest anchor Josh Elliott mocked, "Now to the war of words underway tonight in London, what's being called Mitt Romney's golden gaffe."

The comments came from an interview with NBC anchor Brian Williams. Initially, Nightly News didn't report the relatively innocuous remark, excluding it from a taped interview that ran on July 25.* However, by July 26, Williams had caught up with a British tabloid press angry at "Mitt the Twit." The anchor opened the show by trumpeting, "[Romney's statement] erupted today in public and now the question is, how did a Romney campaign overseas trip end up offending so many people here in London?"

That same night, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley also led with Romney's comments about the Olympic games. He insisted, after just one day of a week-long tour, that the trip was getting attention "for all the wrong reasons" and deemed the former governor's remarks "a diplomatic blunder."


As the trip continued, so did the negative spin from the evening newscasts. Despite pressing economic and foreign policy problems facing the world, both ABC and CBS on July 27 highlighted trifling details such as Romney's motorcade in London getting stuck in traffic. (A snafu that partially validated the candidate's warning about the Olympics.) On CBS, Mark Phillips cast this as "another bad moment."

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Liberla media bias.

 

[TheSpokenWheel]

This told me every thing I needed to know

 

[Mayhem]

Liberla media bias.

Not this time. It's not bias this time at all. The guy keeps sticking it to himself, over and over. You're going to have to face it, he's a bullshit candidate and he'd be a bullshit President. He's bringing the negativity down on himself and it shows how obtuse he is that he didn't see it coming.

 

[StanScratch]

The guy is running is run for Presidency like W ran his Presidency - reckless incompetence sprinkled with a whole lotta financial elitism.

 

[Will E Worm]

This told me every thing I needed to know

Yes, that you are reading the truth. Much more than mainstream media. :hatsoff:

 

[Rattrap]

86% of Romney coverage NEGATIVE...

Not this time. It's not bias this time at all. The guy keeps sticking it to himself, over and over. You're going to have to face it, he's a bullshit candidate and he'd be a bullshit President. He's bringing the negativity down on himself and it shows how obtuse he is that he didn't see it coming.

I was about to say...maybe 86% of his coverage is negative because he's an awful candidate? I mean, just sayin'.

 

[TheSpokenWheel]

Yes, that you are reading the truth. Much more than mainstream media. :hatsoff:

No, it told me not to bother to read the article for the same reason I don't pick up dog shit and put it in my mouth when I accidentally step in it.

 

[lurkingdirk]

No, it told me not to bother to read the article for the same reason I don't pick up dog shit and put it in my mouth when I accidentally step in it.

You're missing out.

 

[TheSpokenWheel]

You're missing out.

Nope. Cat shit, on the other hand...

 

[Rey C.]

When the extreme right wingers were busting his balls during the primaries and even Fox News carried negative stories about him, what was that, liberal bias disguised as... conservative bias? Want to avoid any (perceived) media bias against Mitt Romney? Then watch CNBC. If Larry Kudlow, Joe Kernen, Maria Bartiromo or Michelle Caruso-Cabrera express their love for Romney any more than they already are, I think they'll have a duel to see who can be the one to have Romney's love-child.

My guess is, Kudlow will get the nod. At least with him, Romney will know for sure that he banged another man. With Caruso-Cabrera and Bartiromo, there will always be that annoying twinge of doubt in his mind about what he fucked. As for Joe Kernen... even his wife won't admit to banging him.

Bottom line: if Mitt wants to pull this election out of the fire, he needs to start telling people what his specific economic plans are, and not just what the Obama Administration has done wrong. And release those tax returns already! Unlike the Obama birth certificate brouhaha that the wingnuts and moonbats foolishly hung their hats on, this tax return deal is real. If he hasn't broken any laws, he should be a man about it and just explain that he's paid a lower effective tax rate than the average secretary because the tax system allowed him too. The longer he goes on trying to be slick & sly, the more people will think that he's got a guilty conscience about something. Another Nixon we do not want or need. And that's how Mitt is beginning to come off. Some say that Obama is like Carter. OK. And that's fine. But the one guy who is still even less popular than Carter... is Nixon.

 

[bobjustbob]

Maybe it is some sort of strategy put together by the RNC. Say as little as you can and wait till we get our ads together after the convention. Visit the factories with your jacket and tie off and shake some hands but keep your mouth shut. Mitt will be the product and the RNC will do the marketing. They will be watching the polls. They will tell him what to say and when to say it. Voters don't make their decisions till just a couple of weeks before election day.

 

[Will E Worm]

No, it told me not to bother to read the article for the same reason I don't pick up dog shit and put it in my mouth when I accidentally step in it.

You don't like the truth.

 

[lurkingdirk]

You don't like the truth.

No substance, no truth, no citations. Completely useless post that does nothing but try to push the poster's own ridiculous perspective.

 

[TheSpokenWheel]

You don't like the truth.

The President of The United States is a black, pro marriage-equality democrat. I think you're the one having trouble coping with the truth, will.

 

[mah1407]

When you say that if you can't afford schooling, you shouldn't be able to go made me lose interest with Rob-A-Knee

 

[Sam Fisher]

The President of The United States is a black, pro marriage-equality democrat. I think you're the one having trouble coping with the truth, will.

Shut up for once, and get your head out of your ass.

From Wiki:

Mulatto is a term used to refer to a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent, or more broadly, a person of mixed black and white ancestry.[1] Contemporary usage of the designation is generally confined to situations in which the term is considered relevant in an historical context, as now most people of mixed white and black ancestry rarely choose to self-identify as mulatto.[2] The term is not commonly used anymore and is generally considered archaic because of its association with slavery and colonial and racial oppression; accepted modern terms include "mixed" and "biracial." Mulattos may also be an admixture of Native American, South American native and African Americans[3] according to Henings Statutes of Virginia 1705, which reads as follows: "And for clearing all manner of doubts which hereafter may happen to arise upon the construction of this act, or any other act, who shall be accounted a mulatto, Be it enacted and declared, and it is hereby enacted and declared, That the child of an Indigenous and the child, grand child, or great grand child, of a negro shall be deemed, accounted, held and taken to be a mulatto."[4] In colonial Latin America, mulato could also denote an individual of mixed African and Native American ancestry.[5] However, today those who are mixtures of Indigenous peoples of the Americas and Black Africans are called Zambos while those who are mixtures of African American and Native American are called Black Indians and sometimes are solely classified or identify as African American.[3] To further complicate matters, in early American history the term mulatto is also seen regarding Native American and European mixed offspring, and certain tribes of Indians of the Inocoplo family referred to themselves as mulato as well.[6][7]

 

[TheSpokenWheel]

Shut up for once, and get your head out of your ass.

hmmmmmm.....

Shoot the messenger. A perfect example of a Liberal. Skirt the issue, and cast stones at the one bringing the message.

 

[mah1407]

Here's another reason why Romney SUCKS!!!! http://news.yahoo.com/romney-no-more-federal-stimulus-114155703.html

 

[StanScratch]

Shut up for once, and get your head out of your ass.

From Wiki:

Mulatto is a term used to refer to a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent, or more broadly, a person of mixed black and white ancestry.[1] Contemporary usage of the designation is generally confined to situations in which the term is considered relevant in an historical context, as now most people of mixed white and black ancestry rarely choose to self-identify as mulatto.[2] The term is not commonly used anymore and is generally considered archaic because of its association with slavery and colonial and racial oppression; accepted modern terms include "mixed" and "biracial." Mulattos may also be an admixture of Native American, South American native and African Americans[3] according to Henings Statutes of Virginia 1705, which reads as follows: "And for clearing all manner of doubts which hereafter may happen to arise upon the construction of this act, or any other act, who shall be accounted a mulatto, Be it enacted and declared, and it is hereby enacted and declared, That the child of an Indigenous and the child, grand child, or great grand child, of a negro shall be deemed, accounted, held and taken to be a mulatto."[4] In colonial Latin America, mulato could also denote an individual of mixed African and Native American ancestry.[5] However, today those who are mixtures of Indigenous peoples of the Americas and Black Africans are called Zambos while those who are mixtures of African American and Native American are called Black Indians and sometimes are solely classified or identify as African American.[3] To further complicate matters, in early American history the term mulatto is also seen regarding Native American and European mixed offspring, and certain tribes of Indians of the Inocoplo family referred to themselves as mulato as well.[6][7]

Another irrelevant post by an irrelevant poster.-
Watching you and Will attempt to come up with ideas is entertaining at least to those of us with brain cells. The two of you are complete fakes and failures in every way possible, not only on this board, but in life.

 

[Will E Worm]

The President of The United States is a black, pro marriage-equality democrat. I think you're the one having trouble coping with the truth, will.

Shut up for once, and get your head out of your ass.

From Wiki:

Mulatto is a term used to refer to a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent, or more broadly, a person of mixed black and white ancestry.[1] Contemporary usage of the designation is generally confined to situations in which the term is considered relevant in an historical context, as now most people of mixed white and black ancestry rarely choose to self-identify as mulatto.[2] The term is not commonly used anymore and is generally considered archaic because of its association with slavery and colonial and racial oppression; accepted modern terms include "mixed" and "biracial." Mulattos may also be an admixture of Native American, South American native and African Americans[3] according to Henings Statutes of Virginia 1705, which reads as follows: "And for clearing all manner of doubts which hereafter may happen to arise upon the construction of this act, or any other act, who shall be accounted a mulatto, Be it enacted and declared, and it is hereby enacted and declared, That the child of an Indigenous and the child, grand child, or great grand child, of a negro shall be deemed, accounted, held and taken to be a mulatto."[4] In colonial Latin America, mulato could also denote an individual of mixed African and Native American ancestry.[5] However, today those who are mixtures of Indigenous peoples of the Americas and Black Africans are called Zambos while those who are mixtures of African American and Native American are called Black Indians and sometimes are solely classified or identify as African American.[3] To further complicate matters, in early American history the term mulatto is also seen regarding Native American and European mixed offspring, and certain tribes of Indians of the Inocoplo family referred to themselves as mulato as well.[6][7]

You tell him.

Crossbreed, Mongrel