RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events Barack Hussein Obama in '08?

Okay, let's assume your opinion of Fox and CNN are correct, but ABC, NBC and CBS are all center-liberal and, because they are broadcast networks, each one of them alone has more viewers than either Fox or CNN. And, of course, you have MSNBC which is openly trying to be the liberal new channel, with Olbermann, Matthews and Maddow.

So Pappas is correct. The liberal to conservative ratio in the media is way tilted to the Democrat Party.

gOp party of whiners tilted so far to the right outright hate talk radio right wingers "liberal media"

...that' he's best friends with Bill Ayers.. Stuff like that that right wingers KNOW is true but the "liberal media" just won't report! Because of "bias" of course....

But, don't try to pass them off as facts just because you agree with them...

I just thought you were being PJP. I couldn't tell what you were trying to say, except that I think you meant that you didn't agree with the [b]facts[/] pointed out in the article

Since when? According to whom? How so?

the media, as a whole, leans to the left because liberal perspectives are, as a whole, more compelling / more dramatic. it is a business based decision, and an obvious one. newspapers and news broadcasts aren't out to report the news, they're out for sales and ratings.

its not a political conspiracy, and i don't think its some anti-right wing attack, it's simply smarter business.

If that's the case then why does FOX get higher ratings than CBS, NBC, and CNN all the time?

Obama's faith is widely mistaken in Kentucky

RANKFORT — Public misconception is widespread in Kentucky about Barack Obama's faith, a Herald-Leader/WKYT Kentucky Poll shows.

Despite heavy national media attention about Obama's faith, more than half of likely Republican voters — 54 percent — and one of every four Democrats in the state do not know that the Democratic presidential nominee is a Christian, the poll found.

The poll showed that 14 percent of likely Kentucky voters — 28 percent of Republicans, 4 percent of Democrats and 11 percent of independents — think Obama adheres to the Muslim faith.

"With all the media attention to the fact that Obama is a Christian, it is shocking and sad to hear that any Kentuckian or anyone thinks he is a Muslim," said Mahmoud Shalash, imam of the Islamic Center of Lexington.

"I am concerned that some people are spreading this rumor for political purposes, trying to exploit the anti-Islamic sentiment in this country that ties Muslims with terrorists," Shalash said. "I don't blame the ignorant bigots as much as the educated people who try to perpetrate this."

"Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is no. That's not America. Is there something wrong with a seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing he or she could be president? Yet I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion that [Obama] is a Muslim and might have an association with terrorists. This is not the way we should be doing it in America."

If he was open about his Muslim faith i wouldnt have any problem with it, bit why the need to hide it?

your other favourite Obama topic conflicting smears you guys are striking out frantic make Obama look better

you broke him so bad this time he's spelling things in an unAmerican way!!!

http://www.rkmbs.com/...t/1#Post1020830

Commonsense.

Choosing to handicap your own argument by pleading ignorance is the way of the dark side.

If that's the case then why does FOX get higher ratings than CBS, NBC, and CNN all the time?

Common sense is a subjective term, not universal (save 'fire-is-hot', of course).

Because fictional entertainment on the level of professional wrestling is always more fun than the actual news. Thus, FOX gets more ratings...

Since when? According to whom? How so?

First of all, it's called UBB Code. Look into it...

So tell me how Jeremiah Wright, your other favourite Obama topic is secretly Obama's Muslim cleric.

With all the conflicting smears, it must be hell trying to keep both narratives going. On one hand, Obama is a secret Muslim, on the other hand, he's attended a militant Baptist church for 20 years.

A records clerk in the Toledo police investigative services bureau will face departmental charges of gross misconduct because a state database was used to access information about the Springfield Township man known worldwide as "Joe the Plumber."

The clerk, Julie McConnell, will be the subject of a disciplinary hearing, likely to be scheduled next week, Chief Mike Navarre said yesterday.

Ms. McConnell was hired by the police department in April, 1995, and is a member of Local 7, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees.

An internal investigation began when Toledo police received a call from the Ohio Highway Patrol, asking why information on Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher was pulled. The chief said Ms. McConnell looked up the information at the request of a local television reporter to confirm Mr. Wurzelbacher's address.

The reporter was interviewed as part of the investigation.

Such information, though found on public records, was accessed through the Law Enforcement Automated Data System, often called LEADS.

"You can't use that database unless it was for law enforcement purposes," Chief Navarre said. "If a crime was committed and she was looking up the address or the name of a victim or witness, that would be OK."

And she should be fired, no doubt. She was wrong to do what she did...