Thursday, October 23, 2008

Media bias?

Drew Griffin of CNN interviewed Governor Sarah Palin the other day. Yesterday on CNN, Griffin misrepresented a piece by Byron York, who writes for the National Review. Griffin told Palin that conservatives in NR were calling the Governor ignorant, stupid, etc. What York did say was that "if you watched or listened to the media, you were not sure if Palin was ignorant, stupid, etc." In other words, the media has come down hard on Palin. In fact, in a new Pew Study released yesterday, coverage of Palin during "the six week period breakdown showed 28% positive, 39% negative, and 33% neutral". CNN has yet to apologize to its viewers or the Governor for this unprofessional conduct...According to the same Pew Study, Senator McCain is receiving more media coverage than Senator Obama. The bad news is that coverage is overwhelmingly negative...Three thousand educators have signed a petition supporting Bill Ayers...Ayers was named Chicago's Citizen of the Year back in 1996...A new AP poll has Senator Obama leading Senator McCain by only one point, 44%-43%...Moreover, an internal Obama poll, that was inadvertently leaked yesterday, had the Illinois Senator ONLY leading Senator McCain by two points in Pennsylvania. This would explain why the McCain campaign is spending so much time in the Keystone state...In the Evans and Novack report, "Republicans can take some solace in the knowledge that polling is an art, and not a science. In producing their final numbers, pollsters make assumptions about turnout among certain demographics, including blacks and young voters. If, as happened in 2000 and 2004, youth turnout is much lower than the media expect, Obama's vote totals could be considerably lower than polls would suggest"...Today in Iraq, the province of Babil was turned over to Iraqi control.

There are only 12 days until the presidential election. There are 88 days left in the Bush presidency. And, it's been 7 years, 1 month, and 12 days since there's been a terrorist attack on US soil. Good day and God bless!

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