Media support the true conservative, reject the wild-eyed radical

Discussion in 'Elections' started by ratdog, Oct 25, 2004.

  1. ratdog

    ratdog Member+

    Mar 22, 2004
    In the doghouse
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    Those liberal Bolshieviks at The financial times endorse Kerry, call Bush a radical

    http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041025/wl_uk_afp/us_vote_britain_media_041025151428

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    New York Times Endorses Kerry

    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&e=16&u=/nm/campaign_endorsements_dc

    "Kerry leads Bush in newspaper endorsements 42 to 22, the journal said on its Web site."

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    New Yorker magazine breaks with tradition, endorses Kerry

    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm..._alt_afp/us_vote_media_newyorker_041025164606
     
  2. skipshady

    skipshady New Member

    Apr 26, 2001
    Orchard St, NYC
    "A President Kerry would probably revert to the fiscal responsibility of the Clinton years... Coupled with the need for international economic policy cooperation... this could be a recipe for success," judged the financial daily.

    I'm glad I'm not the only one who misses that old Conservative. He looks and sounds really good - nice to see him out there.
    The Economist, on the other hand, I see them endorsing Bush, judging by the Election Special they put out a couple of weeks ago.
     
  3. manu1959

    manu1959 Red Card

    Jan 19, 2002
    california
    Kerry leads Bush in newspaper endorsements 42 to 22, the journal said on its Web site."

    what shocks me about this is that there are 22 news paper editors out there that obviously were not paying attention in journalisim class
     
  4. Samarkand

    Samarkand Member+

    May 28, 2001
    Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton ('92) are the only Democratic candidates who received more newspaper endorsements than their Republican opponents since 1940. Shame when facts get in the way of a good knee jerk? Huh? But then again Republicans are more about faith than facts, no?
     
  5. chad

    chad Member+

    Jun 24, 1999
    Manhattan Beach
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    Can you parse that without using rhetorical questions? I have no idea what you mean. Are you saying that it shows that Bush/Cheney is so bad that it led to another exception?
     
  6. manu1959

    manu1959 Red Card

    Jan 19, 2002
    california
    republicans are about runing the country like a business rather than a day care center
     
  7. Samarkand

    Samarkand Member+

    May 28, 2001
    Sigh........
     
  8. Samarkand

    Samarkand Member+

    May 28, 2001
    There isn't a single business in this world except either a Republican or a Soviet government that could spend money, go so far into debt and still survive. It wouldn't survive on Wall Street.
     
  9. manu1959

    manu1959 Red Card

    Jan 19, 2002
    california
    companies do it every day....plus the soviet govt. didn't survive
     
  10. Samarkand

    Samarkand Member+

    May 28, 2001
    Seeing the light, I see.............
     
  11. TheSlipperyOne

    TheSlipperyOne Member+

    Feb 29, 2000
    Denver
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    Yup. They live in a faith-based community while most everyone else in the world (except, ironically, radical Muslims) lives in a reality-based community.
     
  12. 1953 4-2-4

    1953 4-2-4 Red Card

    Jan 11, 2004
    Cleveland
    Wait---wait--!!! The NEW YORK TIMES is supporting Kerry?!?!?!?!?!?! ABSOLUTELY SHOCKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
  13. chad

    chad Member+

    Jun 24, 1999
    Manhattan Beach
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    United States
    Right back at ya. I still don't get your "point".
     
  14. bungadiri

    bungadiri Super Moderator
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    Jan 25, 2002
    Acnestia
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    The truth-deprived kneejerk reaction in question is Manu1959's: In the sentence highlighted by Samarkand, Manu1959 invoked the "liberal media" canard and implied that journalists are indoctrinated to lean left in Journalism class.

    Samarkand pointed out that history indicates otherwise, citing as evidence the fact that Democratic candidates who get a majority of newspaper endorsements have been a distinct minority since 1940.

    That's how I read it, anyway.
     
  15. skipshady

    skipshady New Member

    Apr 26, 2001
    Orchard St, NYC
    That's what I got too.

    If I'm reading it right, newspapers have, as a group, endorsed Dewey over FDR and Truman, Nixon over JFK, Ford over Carter, Dole over Clinton and GW Bush over Gore. Yeah, some liberal media.
     
  16. ratdog

    ratdog Member+

    Mar 22, 2004
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    Exactly the point of my thread title.

    Most of the mainstream media seem to understand that the old labels "radical", "conservative", etc. when applied to the Reeps and the Dems have changed. Unlike most Americans, the media have looked beyond the labels to what the candidates have actually done and are likely to do. The media want a conservative President and understand that Kerry is the real conservative here while Bush is a whacked out radical. The fact that he is a right-wing radical instead of a left-wing radical makes little difference. The folks who control most mass media outlets want a centrist conservative and not a devisive extremist, especially in these troubled times so they support Kerry. The Kool-aid Brigade will, of course, bleat about "the liberal media" but they're just blinded by obsolete labels and aren't sharp enough to have caught the changes happening in the American political scene over the past 30 years.
     
  17. Samarkand

    Samarkand Member+

    May 28, 2001
    Chad, the boys got it exactly; didn't think I was being obtuse, nor was I intending to be.
     

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