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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (344588)	1/20/2010 6:57:40 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793876

It hurts him in the south

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (344588)	1/20/2010 7:18:07 PM
From: Whitebeard	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793876

Yes, big time, to the point that this election exhibited out of control buyer's remorse and the big loser is the antique media. They sold the middle class a radical leftist as a post-racial healer and centrist. MSM became in your face, left wing propaganda machine. I especially want to thank Jeff Imelt at GE. I hope NBC has a dozen Conans.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (344588)	1/20/2010 10:21:02 PM
From: Justin C	Respond to of 793876

I agree, mostly because I've had that same thought after a year of Obama. :) Next cycle, executive experience may look better than it did last cycle.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (344588)	1/21/2010 9:17:39 AM
From: Bill	11 Recommendations Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793876

Unfortunately, the MSM shapes the news. They can ignore a rape accusation against a President or a love child by a Presidential candidate, while promoting stories about a different party's VP candidate's refusal to name what newspapers she reads. They can send 50 investigators to Alaska to research a VP candidate and none to Hawaii to research a Presidential candidate. They can make a Republican look like a troglodyte if he's against gay marriage, while never mentioning the Democrat President has the exact same position. The MSM is a beast. While they can't necessarily kill a movement, they can kill off individual pols. If they turn on a pol with incessant negative stories, right or wrong, it's a real uphill battle. Some pols can never overcome the impression the MSM has painted. I think Palin is in that category. I guess time will tell on that. As for Scott Brown, his viability sneaked up on the MSM. They had only a week to kill him off but, by that time, most voters had made up their minds. I believe if the election had another month to go, the MSM might have succeeded in getting their candidate elected.