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The news media's odd obsession with diverting attention away from the wildly popular message of the Tea Parties and onto their motives and backgrounds instead (something they never do to liberal groups) has accidentally produced more evidence that the left has been lying from the beginning.
A recent NY Times/CBS poll comparing the educational and income backgrounds of Tea Partiers vs. the general public found that Tea Partiers are more likely to have succeeded in life and more likely to have graduated college.
But, aren't Tea Partiers supposed to be ignorant, bigoted, trailer trash? Funny how the facts always seem to be at odds with what we're being told.
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Hint: If this all seems crazy and upside down with everything you've been shown, then I invite you to change the channel from CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC for just a moment and try experiencing actual journalism for once:
www.newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2010/01/26/study-only-fox-news-offered-obama-historically-normal-scrutiny-2009
Robert - Your selective quotation continues to amaze me. Check out the full poll results:
www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/poll_tea_party_who_they_are_041410.pdf
www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/poll_tea_party_041410.pdf
Some interesting things in there that both support some of your general positions and prove others false.
Secondly, from the NewsBusters story, you seem to have failed to follow through to the actual CMPA story. Here's an interesting nugget:
"However, President Obama’s overall balance in good and bad press masks a sharp downturn after an early “honeymoon” period. Presidential evaluations from January through April were 59% positive (v. 41% negative), but they dropped to 46% positive from May through July and only 39% positive from August through December."
So the high numbers of early positive stories brought up the average. Is there any reason that this President might have had such early favorable press? Let's think about that for a second...
I also like the part about the majority of Tea Partiers saying they're taxed at a fair level. Y'know, Robert, you actually do yourself a disservice by linking to these reports. If you want to distort and cherry-pick bits and pieces out, you'd be better off just giving everyone unverifiable assertions.
Ryan H.,
Um...They were talking about the taxes they paid BEFORE Obama's tax hikes, genius (the ones he swore repeatedly that he wouldn't raise).
Epic fail, as usual.
Tom: "Some interesting things in there that both support some of your general positions and prove others false."
"Selective quotation" is Liberalspeak for posting information that makes sense with what is being claimed.
As in, I point out that Fox continues to rank the most balanced in studies and you respond by breathlessly announcing that the same study says the post-journalism Obama-worshiping coverage was less than 100% pro-Obama.
What a scandal. You got me. I didn't mention an irrelevant piece of outlyer data.
Weak, as always.
And please don't lecture people about backing up their points by posting links with no claims and just assuring everyone that if they sift through it long enough, they'll eventually find some liberal "counterpoint."
Kind of a self-defeating logic there, Socrates.
More proof:
"Democrats, overall, got more coverage — and more positive ink and airtime — than Republicans"
www.news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1683&dat=20071029&id=AeMqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uEUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4026,5909715
"Our results support the charge of [liberal] media bias."
www.ideas.repec.org/a/kap/pubcho/v118y2004i1_2p53-59.html
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113455/
www.query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E5D71530F931A2575AC0A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
www.washingtonexaminer.com/topics/tags/?keywords=%20msm
www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2008/cyb20080506.asp#2
...I can do this all day. Next BS smokescreen, please.
You crack me up, Robert. It makes me laugh whenever you start in with your attempts to make yourself feel important/smart by thrashing out at others. Like when my little 4 year old gets all mad and frustrated because he wants to be as knowledgeable/fast/strong as the older kids. You feel bad for him, but his anger is just so simplistic and misplaced that it's funny.
Fantastic article, Robert. Keep them coming.
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