MAINSTREAM MEDIA’S BIAS

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By Susan Stamper Brown

Apparently, integrity and critical thinking are not qualities found in today’s mainstream media.

We know this after watching the CNBC-hosted Republican debate billed as one which would focus on “the key issues that matter to all voters—job growth, taxes, technology, retirement and the health of our national economy.”

Obviously, that did not happen.

Instead, Americans watched moderators with the seeming intellectual prowess of June bugs disrespectfully hurl boneheaded attacks and stupid questions at GOP presidential hopefuls, offering millions of viewers a front row seat to observe proof positive they are nothing more than extensions of, and left-wing propagandists for, the Democratic Party.

For this gift we should be thankful.

Americans needed to see this irrefutable idiocy for themselves. CNBC promised candidates an opening question on financial or economic issues but instead were lowballed with: “Tell us your biggest weakness in 30 seconds.” Later, one moderator went so far as to ask a ridiculous question about fantasy football.

It was almost as if moderators didn’t want crucial matters discussed, circumventing any possibility of intelligent debate with off-the-wall questions and personal attacks. In fact, a Media Research Center analysis found that 65 percent of the “questions” posed by moderators John Harwood, Carl Quintanilla and Becky Quick “hit the candidates with negative spin, personal insults or ad hominem attacks.” Ad hominem attacks like asking if one of the candidates was running “a comic book version of a presidential campaign” or disparagingly asking the world-renowned neurosurgeon, Dr. Ben Carson, if he could do math.

At that point I was rather thankful a baseball bat was not in arm’s reach, or my living room would be minus one flat screen. I was not alone. Public outcry shows it backfired. Presidential debates are intended to field the tough questions so voters can gain a window into each candidate’s vision for how he or she would lead America.

Senator Ted Cruz was right when during the debate he defended fellow GOP contenders saying, “The men and women on this stage have more ideas, more experience, more common sense than every participant in the Democratic debate,” which reflected “a debate between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks.” And I would add the “Bull-shi-viks” but I wasn’t onstage.

Truth is, the left-stream media have no interest in allowing Americans to think for themselves and form their own opinions. The world burns, rogue nations toy with nuclear weapons, the world’s economy teeters on the brink of collapse — and the left-stream media are preoccupied with “gotcha” questions. And protecting Hillary Clinton.

“Comes with the job,” said moderator John Harwood after The Blaze News asked him to respond to the overwhelming outcry from critics after the debate. Comes with the job? Apparently, asking Democrat Party contenders similar questions with the same condescending tone doesn’t come with the job. Nor does questioning Hillary about Benghazi or about Her Highness’s metastasizing email scandal presently under FBI investigation.

Senator Marco Rubio nailed it during the debate when he said the Democrats’ “ultimate SuperPAC” is the mainstream media. “Last week,” Rubio said, “Hillary Clinton went before a committee. She admitted she had sent emails to her family saying, ‘Hey, this attack at Benghazi was caused by al-Qaeda-like elements.’ She spent over a week telling families of those victims and the American people that it was because of a video. And yet the mainstream media is going around saying it was the greatest week in Hillary Clinton’s campaign. It was the week she got exposed as a liar…”

And the mainstream media will continue to remain silent to ensure her coronation.

After the debate, CNN reported that some CNBC employees were heard saying “they were proud that the moderators had pointedly challenged the GOP candidates and potentially changed the course of the presidential race.” That’s all they cared about and that’s the reason why people trust the left-stream media about as much as they trust Hillary Clinton.

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12 COMMENTS

  1. In the first paragraph the author is hurling attacks and calling the moderator names and then she has the gall to talk about the moderators not being professional. Sound like SOUR GRAPES to me. The past says a lot about the future path of people. So questioning the past of these canidates if fair game. If they want only softball questions that make them look good then they should hold all the GOP debates on the GOP supported and run Fox Noise Network with Roger Ales as the Moderator and Rupert Murdock as the other GOP moderator. Gosh Republicans are the biggest Babies and get their panties in a wad so easily. Waaaaaah Waaah. He asked me a gotcha question. Oh Woohh is me!

    • Gotcha questions do not give those watching the debate a chance to determine each candidates stance on substantive issues. There is no place for that behavior in democrat or republican debate forums. The dems don’t debate on FOX which is a shame. Are they crybabies because of that? The party affiliation of the moderator shouldn’t affect their performance on either side..

      • You and I both don’t like Gotcha Questions but you know as well as I that they are a part of life if you are running for a political office. All is fair in love and politics. Politics actually is taking the place of physical battles on the Battle Fields. And yes I think that most Democrats would not be treated with kid gloves if they went on Fox for a debate or even a talk show. I’ve seen O’Reilly bulley many people on his show. A few guys will stand up to Bill but they do it with human more than Braun.

  2. Interesting. Wall street is supposed to be all Republicans. Remember occupy Wall Street? No dems there. CNBC is a “Wall Street Network”. The CNBC “reporters” were openly anti-Republican. Could it be, dems, you’ve been lied to?

  3. FROM RUSH LIMBAUGH yesterday (Tuesday):
    They’re saying the GOP Candidates can’t handle a bunch of CNBC moderators at a debate!
    They’re saying, if you can’t handle — if you can’t handle those Debate Moderators, you know, then I don’t think the Chinese and the Russians are gonna be too worried about you!
    So here’s what we need:
    1. They want control over the moderators!
    2. They want some control over questions!
    3. They want some limits on opening, closing statements, do away with limits.
    3. They want some control over the thermostat! Folks, that is one of the meanest tricks is to keep the air-conditioning high. To keep room temperature high!
    4. I mean, the absolutely worst thing that could happen to anybody in politics when they’re appearing in public is to sweat.

    DOES ANYONE ELSE HERE THINK the author of this piece of trash column…….AND the GOP Presidential candidates are a bunch of babies? They’re making demands like children.
    THEY ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE TEMPERATURE IN THE ROOM….and are publicly making a demand of it?
    It is hilarious.

    • Don. How comforting to know you listen to Rush daily and you are here to remind us of what he said on his program. Here’s what you missed. “Can’t handle the moderators? The candidates destroyed the moderators and exposed them for the biased Democrat operators they are.” And that, Don, is the rest of the story.

    • So that’s where you get your talking points? No wonder you are like you are! I feel sorry for those people that listen to Rush as if he were the know all to end all. Sadly he is not. Rush is nothing more than a Clown and not a very good one at that.

  4. Translation: if we don’t get softball questions that only make us look good, you’re biased “liberal media.”

  5. Here we go with DB trying to convince people he has a clue what he is rambling on about. I am pretty sure the statements you make are all false. i do not believe Mr. Limbaugh said those exact words. I am pretty sure you embellished what was said and completely twisted it around to match your feeble little brains delusions (if you listened to him at all).

    Weiney/Shem, whatever split personality you are this week, you are such a RINO, it isn’t even funny. You are on here cheerleading for Winnie and the supposed Republicans here in town. When in fact Winniekie is not a Republican, but a Democrat by policy, who happened to win under the R label. That is the only explanation there can be, since you slobber over Rep. here but yet trash talk the candidates running for President. You are a RINO who has lib beliefs and are all for taxing and spending. You are threatened by conservatives, which explains your extreme hatred for the mention of “Tea Party. It threatens your little existence.

    Another point, off subject, but the same attacks you make on the Bandana dude, about being irate and pissed off etc…apply to you and your insane reactions to folks associating with the tea party. You are a hypocrite and an idiot. The fact is proven on here daily.

    • Ha! Good post Brandon.
      You got me pegged. I will vote for the winner of the GOP Primary….who WILL BE either Jeb Bush, Chris Christie or John Kasich. Real Republicans.
      You don’t like that? You need a new political party: The Tea Party.
      Time for you people to leave the GOP.
      (We’ve left you…..)
      Good note though kid.

  6. Bobby boy, put your tinfoil hat back on and go sit in the basement. You are delirious again. You wanna claim the candidates want softball question. They want questions where they can present real information that can help the nation. They are looking to speak about the economy, the immigration crisis, foreign relations, debt etc…You consider those softball questions? Stacked against the shite the Democraps get on their debate. Inmate Clinton and Comrade Sanders haven’t answered a question any tougher than what’s your favorite cheese?

    I am hoping your a*s gets out of the country with LKB so that way there are 2 less loons in the country.

    God Bless America

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