Does Politico hide its bias? How many former journolist writers are on that site? I always thought it was pretty clear they are a left leaning website. Are they not?

Hilarious. Leftys don’t consider Politico a lefty website, eh? Go figure.  And Obama is a centrist

politico is most certainly NOT a “lefty” website

and yes, obama is definitely a centrist:

*extending egregious tax breaks

*continuing wars

*piling up huge deficits

*signing a huge private corporate giveaway (healthcare)

*gutting and/or bypassing hard-fought environmental legislation

*deporting more illegals than any other prez

*extending most controversial patriot act provisions

If Tommy does a twenty page post defending Politico…it’s pretty safe to assume they are a “Lefty Website”

donald trump asking how president obama got into college, and politico asking if rick perry is dumb are two totally different things tommy, but nice try

Is Steve Douchebag that freaking stupid or does he just read the piles of crap handed to him? 

Here at Mediaite, we are covering a story about a media outlet covering a story from another media outlet about whether Rick Perry is dumb. 

Now mind you, Mediaite is not carrying water for Obama and the DNC by spreading the smear that Rick Perry is dumb.  Mediaite is not even implying or hinting that Rick Perry is dumb. Mediaite is simply looking for every opportunity to cover stories that include Rick Perry is dumb is in the headline.   This is not mud-slinging or smearing, just a honest piece of journalism that happens to mention in the headline that Rick Perry is dumb.

So there’s no bias here or in any of Tommy Christopher’s stories. Does everyone understand it now?

Politico is a lefty website, the coordinated attack piece on Rick Perry just confirms it. (again)

Um Politico is most definately a liberal site.   But you libs keep denying that there is a liberal media bias.

If the Tea Party doesn’t like something, then it must be a lefty website, just like Chris Christie is a lefty RINO to some for not endorsing former-witch Christine O’Donnell.

If the Tea Party doesn’t like something, then it must be a lefty website, just like Chris Christie is a lefty RINO to some for not endorsing former-witch Christine O’Donnell.

So, when DICK Cheney was using Politico as his official press mouthpiece since he left office; that proves Politico is a “lefty” site too?

BAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

You answered your own question.Yes to both.

His name should be Steve Douchey

Yes.Rick perry is dumb.

Tommy is so far left he thinks extreme liberals are the norm and everyone else is a rightwing nutjob .

Politico has very slanted surveys ,and look at the stories they avoid . ( like the half-President’s illegal alien half- uncle’s arrest .)

Further evidence that the right is now off-a-cliff faaaaaaar-taliban-right

It’s chow time ,Wojejowicz . Get to the mess hall before the warden catches you in his office .

We damn sure know you never miss a meal .

Politico should read some of Obama’s early writings and then ask the same of him:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/early_obama_letter_confirms_inability_to_write.html

You have to laugh at the brouhaha at Mediaite whenever someone points out the liberal bias in a media outlet.  The same group of hardline liberals always jump into to counter the charges — with nary a conservative or moderate joining in.  Those on the far left are obviously a bit unclear on the concept of credibility.  In fact, if you had any doubts about the bias at places like CNN, CBS, NPR, etc. you simply need to look at the people who insist on their impartiality.  

I read Politico occasionally and am no expert on its ideological leanings, but it speaks volumes about that Tommy Christopher feels compelled to defend its impartiality. 

There’s a reason Politico staff only appear on MSNBC.

There’s a reason Politico staff only appear on MSNBC.

No. Especially if you look at some of their funding sources. They’re definitely not liberal in any modern sense. 

Doocey!

The DNC doesn’t like to talk about actual issues, so it only authorizes three different kinds of articles on Republican candidates.

(1)  [Fill in the name] is evil

(2)  [Fill in the name] is stupid

(3)  [Fill in the name] is racist

See if you can match the Mediaite article to the approved category.

On a partisan  scale of 1 to 10, where Tommy Christopher and Joan Walsh are both 10′s, I feel Politico comes in at about an 8.5.

Perhaps you missed it, but Dick Cheney published a book last week.  I didn’t notice any extracts from it showing up on Politico.  Perhaps you can share the link?

The Politico piece is about REPUBLICANS calling Rick Perry dumb, geniuses. And Fox News can’t seem to get a single conservative commentator to disagree, they just bitch because Politico put it in their headline. Why aren’t you all crying “Bias!” on Malkin and Ingraham?

If the douche-baggers over at Politico went any further left they will have come full circle and be on the right.

Too bad he doesn’t publish the letter on the site or show a picture of what’s he’s talking about.

We’re supposed to take THE WORD of some TeaBagger Traitor?

BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

I SEE THR SAME SUBJECT-PREDICATE ERRORS DAILY FROM THE BAGGER TRAITORS ON THIS SITE

Wow how 3rd grade of you

Michelle said, “compared to what, the economic genius we have now”. She wasn’t attacking Perry, she was pointing out, that although you liberal lapdogs think Obama is some kind of genius, he ain’t!  Politico IS a liberal website, period.  The fact that you libs continue to refuse  to acknowledge that there is a liberal bias in the media is precisely why you have NO credibility with the American people anymore.

So, do you think Politico is mainstream or Rightie?

Nah, Steve Doocey is a third grader.

You lost your credibility with me, Michelle, when you used the memory of your dead husband to try to win sympathy in an argument.

I like how Libs try to say Politico isn’t Liberal.  They don’t try to show a 50-50 coverage, or even an equal amount of reporting targeting Dems and Repubs.  These would be easy and quantifiable examples of bias or non-bias.

Instead they say things like “Obama is a Centrist” and “It is not Liberal in the modern sense” (whatever that is).

Good stuff.

Tammy and the rest of the radicals are just upset that President Downgrade is going to be President for only another 1 year, 4 months, 20 days, 23 hours and 40 minutes.

I don’t think it has a fixed agenda. If something is news or newsworthy, it tends to cover it.

I read the article “Is Rick Perry dumb?” 

Politico writer Jonathan Martin didn’t say Rick Perry was dumb. He just repeated the question that has been raised by numerous people. Some people think he’s smart, just not an intellectual kind of smart. That’s fine in my opinion.

please list all the republicans that called him dumb

Your strong declaration is convincing.  Do you have a newsletter I might subscribe to? 

One day, in the heat of the 2008 presidential election, the mainstream
media’s anointed candidate was strolling through a swing-state
neighborhood looking for a quick photo-op so he could be seen touching
the flesh of a few “bitter-clingers” — and then something amazing
happened. One of those “bitter clingers,” a man simply minding his own
business in his front yard, dared to ask the mainstream media’s anointed
candidate the kind of tough question the mainstream media never would.
The Anointed One, not used to tough, probing questions, revealed
something in his answer about his True Beliefs — the kind of thing
neither he nor his media pals ever wanted made public.

We all remember what happened next, a “spread the wealth”
YouTube moment was born, Sen. John McCain amplified it, and Obama faced
a few tough news cycles. And unfortunately for Obama, the moment itself
was so raw and revealing there was no way for him to squirm out of it.
And so there was only one solution: change the narrative by destroying the messenger.
Obviously Obama couldn’t be seen openly destroying private citizens
(he’d have to wait until he was elected and the tea party came to life
to do that), so the dirty work was left to his media minions, who were
all too happy to do whatever was necessary.

Desperate to change the subject from Obama’s default socialism,
Jonathan Martin at Politico stepped in and did something that can only
be described as morally obscene — he published oppo-research against this private citizen (who eventually came to be known as Joe the Plumber).

So what does this have to do with Politico’s Rick Perry hit-piece?

Well, the left-wing hitman who wrote the “Is Rick Perry Dumb?” piece
is the same Jonathan Martin who savaged that private citizen, and the
reason he wrote the Perry piece is for exactly the same reason. This is
all about protecting Barack Obama, all about creating a negative
narrative around any threat to Barack Obama; and if Politico and Martin
were willing to slime a private citizen to elect Barack Obama in 2008,
what do you think they’re willing to do to see their investment
re-elected in 2012?

http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2011/08/30/politicos-is-rick-perry-dumb-hit-piece-is-just-a-taste-of-whats-coming-in-2012/#more-216596

If you had any reading comprehensive ability, you’d know by reading the entire Politico article that it wasn’t a hit piece on Perry.

Your first name should be Kim.

I did no such thing.  But I couldn’t possibly care any less what you think of me. 

Someone is speaking out of their ass.  You do know that mediaite is a media news website, right?  Meaning when questions of bias, skewed reporting, or even media meta becomes news, its Mediaite’s job to cover them.  I guess I expect to much from someone who posts regularly.

Another copy/paste from our wonderful Michele-from-Utah.

She will copy/paste one for you!

That’s great, because I couldn’t think of you any less.

Any comment on the post or are you just content with shooting the messenger?

Tommy these two Politico headlines are the same?

Is Rick Perry Dumb?

Donald Trump: How did Barack Obama get into Ivies?

One is asking whether the subject is stupid, the other attributing a salacious quote to a controversial man.  You’re smarter than that.

Political was reporting what Republicans are saying about Rick Perry. 

Don’t shoot the messenger. 

Why don’t you just be honest.  The reason you don’t like me is because I pointed out that although you profess to be a Republican, the only people you ever attack are Conservatives?  That and you appear to have a problem with Mormon’s based on past statements.  But like I said, I don’t really care what you think. 

Biting.  How long did it take you to come up with that?

Is being a Republican and being a Conservative the same thing, you moron?

Politico is a lefty website but they are right to say Rick Perry is dumb.

great, because Kim was the name of the male Irish character in Kipling’s story ‘Kim.’

Get a life.

Well, the right-wing hitman who wrote the, “Politico’s ‘Is Rick Perry Dumb?’ Hit Piece Is Just a Taste of What’s Coming in 2012″ piece is the same John Nolte who savaged organized labor, progressive watchdogs, John Stewart, Forbes and Sesame Street and the reason he wrote the piece is for the exact same reason.  This is all about attacking Obama, all about creating a negative narrative around any support for Obama: and if Big Drew and Nolte are willing to slime Politico to attack Obama, what do you think they will do when they lose the election in 2012?

name them please…..what republicans called him dumb?

You’re an angry person.  More proof you are actually a liberal.  They are always seething with rage.

TC – You’ll have to type slower for Michelle.

Which Repubs said he is dumb?

Tommy doesn’t even think Chris Matthews is a liberal so its should be no shock to anyone that he thinks a biased site like Politico. Tommy is a blind partisan and it comes thru loud and clear in every column he writes.

I know you libs hate that the true motives of labor unions are seeing the light of day and people are waking up to who they really are. That angers you to know end, doesn’t it?

Tread carefully DarlaLoon, your opposition to Obama’s policies will surely get you branded as a racist.

At least Palin and Bachmann are getting a break from the smears.  The glass is half full.

Sounds to me that you think of her quite often.

Oh, no sweetie. Those were only evil right-wing things when Bush was doing them. They’re glorious now, so eat your peas.

LOL Steve Douchey is dumber than Rick Perry.

Of course there have been stupid Democrats, Jefferson Davis’s name comes to mind.  But in the last several years the difference between a dumb Democrat and a dumb Republican is that a dumb Democrat tries to hide his dumbness and hopes no one notices, whereas a dumb Republican actually showcases his stupidity as a campaign credential. 

It’s all marketing.  Give the people what they want.  If Ernest T Bass were around today, he’d be a slam dunk to get the Republican nomination. 

Just askin’ —–   What were Obama’s grade?   Anybody know?  I’ll bet they weren’t so good!

Politico is a leftist entity, though not quite as far left as Mediaite and MessNBC.

Perry, like him or not, knows how to lead, unlike President O’Bomber.

Oh, snap!

They are locked up tighter than Fort Knox.

I see you missed that blue word in the first sentence of that piece. That’s called a link, and if you click on it, it will take you somewhere. That one goes here: http://tinyurl.com/3f3y67g

BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

I will never understand why any political party would sneer at intelligence

Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln would be shocked at what their party has morphed into with it comes to this, Teddy may well have been one of the smartest individuals who ever lived in the white house, Lincoln was the epitome of a person who consistently worked to better himself starting from his childhood to all the way to the white house where he would read books on military strategy.

Todays republican candidates for some reason do try to demonize someone who is educated and i don’t get it.
The president is a person who is in charge of improving the nation and is the face of the nation to the world, why wouldn’t you want the smartest and the brightest in that position?

I don’t want someone whose just like me, I want someone MORE qualified than me in that job, I should not feel like i can out debate the candidates on topics.

I would also point out that one can’t blame the “liberal media” for this question on Perry’s intelligence, these were grumblings coming out of his own state and in conservative wings so the question seems to have merit.  

I would venture the reason no ones harped on Obama for his intelligence is not only his academic background, its that he in terms of his speaking and his interviews he really hasn’t given anyone a reason to doubt him in that regard. People confuse not agreeing with someone’s policies with them not being intellectually qualified.

I honestly didn’t start hearing alot of cracks about W’s intelligence until he started on quotes like these:

I didn’t grow up in the ocean —
as a matter of fact — near the ocean — I grew up in the desert.
Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I
particularly like it when I’m fishing.” –George W. Bush,
Washington, D.C., Sept. 26, 2008

“Anyone engaging in illegal
financial transactions will be caught and persecuted.” –George W.
Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2008

People will forgive if you make a bad comment once in awhile, Obama stating that america has 57 states is a prime example, the difference is Obama hasn’t made a terrible habit out of it like GWB or Bachmann with her many historical inaccuracies, and the worst part is they try to defend the historical stuff when there is no defense, I would be more understanding if they admitted that they goofed and moved on. Bachmann seems to have this strange notion that if you keep saying it enough times it will be true, thats the only explanation i have for someone constantly saying things like the founding fathers worked to end slavery, or John Quincy Adams was a founding father.

In short the only thing i can think of is that there are too many americans in this country who are insecure about their own intelligence and therefore want want someone who they see as on their intellectual level, never mind that that person’s intellectual level may not qualify them for running the country, its more important not to feel threatened evidently

It is also the name of one of the Kardashian sisters which you have much in common with.

Well, it’s a secret. So there. SHUT UP!!!

Footstool! Pickles!

lol

If Malkin and Ingraham didn’t rush to his defense… well, read into that what you will (and should lol). Perhaps that is why the GOP establishment wants to push him on us. Won’t do much thinking on his own… safe for them I guess.

OBVIOUSLY before the book.

Using Politico as his own Facebook page to issue pissy statements like:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/31054.html

I love your replies. You don’t have a leg to stand on and you try and make up for it by trying to be funny. What’s it like to fail miserably all the time?

It’s the opposite, Irish.

“Anti Intellectualism” targets pampered, privileged know-it-all’s who couldn’t achieve anything in the real world.  People who spend their whole lives in academia.  It’s not targeting the “educated.” 

We’re talking about type of people incapable of independent thought, who prefer to only hang around people who will reaffirm their preconceived notions.  Absolutely no diversity of thought.

This is how the lefts narrative works:

If a conservative is a policy wonk, or highly educated – they’re rich, greedy, or corrupted by “big corporations.”

If a conservative is a success in the private sector or from a rural area – they’re stupid.

It’s not only predictable, it’s intellectually lazy.

Politico was cleverly using unsourced banter in an attempt to create a negative meme for the express purpose of damaging one of Obama’s opponents, hence the “Is Rick Perry Dumb?” title/smear. 

I think Tommy Christopher knows this, but is playing dumb on purpose for the sake of protecting his JournOlist buddies at Politico.

Why don’t you ask Obama?

Yep.  Locked away from view in “all 57 states”!    I would have a lot more respect for his ‘education’ if he had gone to Howard U.   Columbia was a given.

Let me list the robots of the GOP, pretend conservative christian branch, who are actually dumber than Rick Perry.  steve douchbag, hannity the little frog, bachmann, cain, palin, and many many more. Ironic they take issue with perry’s personna, since they are more dumb than he is.

…….and any charge of “dumbness” from the network designed for the lower 3 “standard deviations” is humor in itself.

You are aware of the fact that the US outlawed the international slave trade in 1808 and that this was a compromise.  Many of the Founding Fathers did indeed work to end the slave trade.  Try reading the US Constitution.  As to President Obama saying stupid things, he does it all of the time.  The press just doesn’t report it very often.  I would say that declaring New Jersey to be a disaster area before Hurricane Irene reached New Jersey was a pretty stupid thing.

Let’s see…  The U.S. overall has lost 2 1/2 million jobs under President Obama.  Governor Perry in Texas has added almost 50% of the new jobs in the entire country to the economy and the tax rolls in his state.  Who’s dumb and who’s dumber?

I love how you libs think you are smarter than everyone else.  You really are legends in your own minds.

Hey, we have a left wing puppet now, a right wing puppet would be a nice, balanced, change.  I hope…

Hmmmm, unemployment is still over 8% in TX?!?!?!

FOX News is scripted, the same moronic subjects are discussed on every show except Shep Smith’s and
FOX has only one agenda…electing Republicans.

You DO know the US controls 56 states and territories, right?

Seeing how Politico writes hit pieces on Palin using anonymous sources I’d say they are a very left wing web site.

Wow that weak

Touche!!

Ingraham, she is to much on the pro life issue. If you don’t believe everything she does she will take a jab at you. Perry is a very reasonable man. He is smart! Obama is an English major basically. He should give seminars on speaking. He is dumb as a leader, the economy and almost every other common sense issue. If Ingraham thinks Perry is dumb then she is the stupid one! P.S Democrats win because they stick together, Republicans loose because they don’t!

I”m just curious, would you agree that ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, NYT, and 99% of every other media site has one agenda and it’s to elect Dem’s?

No such thing as “more dumb” unless you’re dumber than a box of rocks.

Mediate and Politico both have biases. Some of the writers are blatantly left, some aren’t, but the headline showed a complete bias, as did the whole concept of the story. Could you imagine an article entitled, “Is Obama an Idiot?”. Exactly how would the left react to that?

Laura, never said he was dumb. You’re buying into the the leftist premise than Tommy and Politico put forward. 

I’d rather have a dumb president than a president with no cajones.

LOL!  Left wingers dont think a left wing site is biased. Stop the presses! Feel free to share the “Is Obama dumb” story that Politico ran. How about a similar story about ANY Democrat! You cant find one, can you?

It’s ‘cojones’, and Obama killed bin Laden. 

I got rid of “Politico” over a year ago. Haven’t been back since.

We’re not ‘smarter than everyone else’.  We’re just smarter than you.  Big difference.

He also killed 22 Navy SEALS.  Congratulations Barry.

“Politico” is a limpo-lefty website. No question about it.

Tommy,why don’t we let Jeopardy determine all our presidents. My vote for Ken Jennings.

When you’re a reactionary, or on a reactionary (extreme right) channel of propaganda loke Fox, centrist, mainstream media like Politico seems as if it’s “a lefty website.”  

The same is true the other way around. When you’re a radical (Marxist), writing in a radical (extreme left) paper, centrist, mainstream media like Politico seems as if it’s “a conservative media outlet.”

So is Perry dumb?  I don’t think so, although he is a reactionary stupid enough to show up on Glenn Beck’s show twice.  He is ignorant about a good many things including his claim that creationism is taught in Tx (it’s not) and that if the Fed Chair Bernanke does his job with QE III, it even approaches “treason” (it doesn’t).  That’s just sheer ignorance of the Constitution, something we see a lot of on the far (reactionary) right with Beck, Palin, Bachmann, Limbaugh, Barton and Perry among others.

I’m claiming copyright infringement, I’ve been calling him Steve Douchey for years. 

Look,
I have no idea whether Rick Perry is the kind of guy who would get
confused if you invited him into the Oval Office and told him to sit in
the corner. I do know that he’s been a C-130 pilot, has made a fortune
in real estate, and has been elected governor of Texas three times. And
unless your name is Rick Perry, you haven’t done that — or at least all
of that. So if all of that stuff is so easy that a caveman could do it,
why haven’t you done it?

Eh, never mind, here comes Politico with the predictable meme:
 
Another Texas governor who drops his “g’s” and scorns elites is running for president and the whispers are the same: lightweight, incurious, instinctual.

Strip away the euphemisms and Rick Perry is confronting an unavoidable question: Is he dumb — or just “misunderestimated?”

Doubts about Perry’s intellect have hounded him since he was first
elected as a state legislator nearly three decades ago. In Austin, he’s
been derided as a right-place, right-time pol who looks the part but
isn’t so deep — “Gov. Goodhair.” Now, with the chatter picking back up among his enemies and taking flight in elite Republican circles, the rap threatens to follow him to the national stage.
“He’s like Bush only without the brains,” cracked one former Republican
governor who knows Perry, repeating a joke that has made the rounds.
 
The headline? “Is Rick Perry Dumb?”

“[Thirty-two] years ago, liberals asked the same question about Ronald Reagan,” cracks Don Surber.

The Lonely Conservative ties the Politico
story to the phenomenon discussed in the last item: “Blah, blah, blah.
Read what you want into it, at least Rick Perry has a pretty successful
record to run on, unlike the current president whose superior intellect
was, and is, taken as a given by an incurious press. We still haven’t
seen his college transcripts. Do you think that if he earned stellar
grades those records wouldn’t be on display for all to see?”     
 
At Pajamas Media, Bryan Preston writes:
 
On
the individual cases, Perry vs. Obama, there is a better case to be
made that Obama has benefited from luck, from others’ guilt, from social
promotion, and from his instinct to conceal what he really thinks, than
Rick Perry has. Perry learned to fly military aircraft, has built an
impressive undefeated election record in bona fide contests, and led
Texas as that state leads the nation in just about every economic
category. In a political blind taste test — cover their names and
political affiliations — Perry is by far the more impressive of the
two. The fact is, east coast elitists are prone to treating
anyone not from the east coast or Chicago, or who speaks with a flyover
country twang, as their inferiors. And a corollary fact is, East Coast
elites tend to treat anyone with Harvard on their resume as
automatically brilliant no matter how they actually got into Harvard
(unless they’re a Republican, in which case the insults fly). Bush was
dumb though he attended both Harvard and Yale and was a successful pro
baseball team owner and governor; Obama is smart despite his record of
failure in the presidency and his lack of real achievement prior to.
Reagan was dumb because he went to Eureka College. Perry is dumb because
he majored in animal science at Texas A&M.

Perry allowed the execution of a likely innocent man. He was told new evidence was found but he had the guy executed anyway and fired the forensic commissioner that discovered the evidence.
Perry wanted to secede from the Union but Texas Republicans said no.
Under Perry Texas has the worst health care services and he gutted child care.
Under Perry Texas is the most polluted state in the nation.
Perry represents the worst of corruption.
Texans are more knowledgeable of what Perry is against than what he is for. Somewhere along the line he will have to lay out the details of his plans as president.

Yes Politico leans left. With a headline “is Rick Perry dumb?” Where the h3ll are Obama’s school records?! He can,t even make a simple three minute introduction without 2 telepromters.

Slighty, but never have I read them call any candidate for president Dumb, or here infer it, I thought it was pretty bad.

Lol

They think he might be President so they don’t want to go on record. If he loses, People will start going on record. It’s just how it works. 

Perry would kick Obama’s ass in an election….and also physically…the big-eared beanpole.
Even if Perry is corrupt……..NOBODY IS AS ABSOLUTELY CORRUPT AS Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
(Nor as weak and pathetic)

We all know Tommy is a lib, and this only proves it, the libs stick up for each other and they can never admit their bias, come on Tommy , Martin at political try to hide his love of Obama but pleaseeee we are not dumb, show some respect for the conservatives that read you daily, you should be thanking us and at least call it like it is, that was a hit piece to Gov Perry , dumb? Yea he runs the second largest state for over 11 years and Texas has jobs, jobs, jobs, the word dumb should go to obama, Tommy

glorious?  says the “lefty” media, as you have admitted.
 

New conservatives are not near as smart as the paleo-conservatives. They were a silent minority in the GOP for a reason: STUPIDITY. Now the stupids are in control of the GOP (Bush, Palin, Perry, and Reagan) and all things smart — like a college education– or the word “elite” are now bad. Their reality is based on stupid and they despise all things smart. We have cocktail parties and hot hors d’oeuvres while they have tent revivals and Nascar. That’s not opinion that’s a fact — like the theory of evolution or global warming.

You opened a Disqus account for that?

Yes, you have copyright’s on douche, slut, scank and whore.  Those are the only words you use.

That would never happen.  He left it to the bitter Navy Seals, clinging to their guns.

No. Journalists tend to skew liberal — but that’s self-selection, i.e., liberal leaning students CHOOSING to go into journalism as a means of doing some societal good. Conservatives — who generally shun notions of “societal good” in favor of self-reliance and individualism. Conversely, most people who have MBAs skew conservative. Real journalism relies primarily on “objective” reporting. Conservatives see objective reporting as “liberal” — because its NOT from a self-described conservative outlet like FOX.  A real reporter can be both liberal in their politics and objective in their reporting. In fact they do it everyday. It’s partisans like Fox and the whole a.m. talk radio band that perpetuate the myth as means of manipulating, low information and low education voters–of which their are tens of millions.

Murdoch and Ailes–both well-known conservative operatives–were the first to introduce mainstream “partisan” journalism into the media stew today. More than opinion since I have a masters degree in journalism.

Hannity pulled that boner:

http://gawker.com/5835677/sean-hannity-on-obama-i-dont-think-hes-that-smart

“Reading comprehensive”?!?      Hahahahahah…..

Politico – a liberal, left-leaning site??? Please. Have you ever seen Mike Allen on Joe Scarborough’s show? Despite all his camera time to date, he’s still the cringe worthy, overly excited pundit getting those right wing talking points out there to the Morning Joe audience. 

This is an interesting idea, between Obama and Perry.  What kinds of categories would we see?  World History?  U.S. History?  Constitutional Law?  Foreign Relations?  Economic and Budgetary Issues?  Basic Geography, maybe?  Stuff like that.  Seems reasonable to me. 

Though I suspect that Republicans would demand the right to select at least 6 of the 6 categories themselves, in the interests of the American people, of course.  They’d probably go with categories that most real Americans can relate to.  Like Nascar, Bass Fishing, Confederate Lore, Alamo Trivia, the Gospel, and Country Western Music Awards.

Perry could win this.  No doubt about it.

When NO-PLAN OBOZO said in 2008 that he had campaigned “in all 57 states” a lot of people (outside of the socialist media, of course, who NEVER REPORTED IT) said that showed the true stupidity of TheOne. But I think there was more to it – those “extra” phantom states were the key to OBOZO’s “victory” – just imagine how many votes came in from those non-extent states thanks to ACORN !

How’d he do that?

Oh, I get it.  Pat Buchanan can call the President “boy.” Rush Limbaugh can call the President a “socialist”. Rush Limbaugh can attack the President’s wife. But POLITICO poses a question, and Fox News goes flippin’ nuts. In fact, it’s time that Fox News grew some nuts and sucked it up and stopped whining.  

You DO know that he didn’t say territories, nor did he visit 57 of them, right?

Leave it to a libtard to ask a conservative if he watches MSNBC.
Are you crazy or just absolutely stupid?
Joe Scarborough….ROFLMAO!!!

From Douchey’s standpoint, everything looks like it’s lefty.

Actually, most every news station I know of reported it.  It was quite well known.  It’s also fairly well known that it was a tired mistake (http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/57states.asp).  No votes came from phantom states, and do you really think that if 7 “phantom” states had voted, that no one would call someone on it?  Even if seven phantom states had voted, their votes would go to the electoral college.. which wouldn’t have worked for presidental elections.  Remember, we do NOT directly elect the president.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/57states.aspApparently it added my closing ) to the link in my reply

Time to give that canard a rest. It didn’t get any traction except in crazyland.

This is so predictable, Doocy, like most right wing shellers  assume that anything that disagrees with their preconceived ideas must be let wing babble.  They have the flexibility of month old bread and the same appeal.  This is the reason that conservative can’t agree on anything, they can’t concede that there are anther valid opinions out there.  I just hope the REAL GOP survives this circus.

That’s just stupid, even from the rightwing nutjobs who hang out here.

Politico is a lefty rag. I don’t see why Tommy has such a problem with this fact.

If you bother to watch anything other than PMSNBC and read anything other than Mediaite you would see that it has been disclosed by all at the Pentagon and intelligence department  that Barry had a deal with the Taliban that he would let them shoot down a helicopter of Navy SEALSs as payback if they would let them kill Bin Laden. Congratulations Barry.

Apparently to the radical right, the recession and unemployment began 1/20/09. Woeful ignorance of the facts is no excuse, even here.

I am not a George Bush fan, but President Obama has been an unmitigated disaster for the American economy.  He and his minions are blatantly anti-business, and like it or not it is businesses, not government, that create jobs.  Corporate America doesn’t trust him and is not confident enough that the playing field will remain level to take any risks, which means no new jobs.  And the fact that the Obama Administration is trying to get numerous new environmental and business regulations estimated to cost businesses additional hundreds of billions into place just exacerbates the situation

You forgot to mention that Obama is also a PUNK….Ilene K

Saying the same thing in a different way doesn’t make it any less stupid.

Get over it….Libtard Tree-hugging Punk
Racist……ROFLMAO!!!
Slap THIS!!!!

Democrats win because they lie and commit voter fraud….you moron.
Think “ACORN”…….that is….if you CAN think.

Well said Kromecom the conservative of yesteryear would not even recognize the “party” in it’s current form.

Note: Ironically one spell check option for doocy is “dunce.”

Name two environmental or business regulations that the President has propose that will cause irreparable harm to corporate America. Or name even one such regulation.

Uhhhhhh….. like they’re not? They are so in the tank for the libs and prez.

cocktail parties and hot hors d’oeuvres ????

Not Obama….He has beer….cocaine and queer sex parties with his disgusting….ghetto hip hop “neegas”(sic).

I wonder how many empty King Cobra 40s they will find under the bed when he is sent packing off to prison in 2012 (2013)
 

Interesting, since my impression of Politico (which I don’t think I’m alone in holding) is that they bend over backwards to cater to righties while pretending to be centrist.

The “Perry is dumb” meme strikes me as an attempt to reestablish their centrist bona fides given an obvious rightward tilt.

Funny, that.

 I figure you’re head must be lodged far up your own ass to think politico is anything but liberal.

Mathamatic writes “You do know that mediaite is a media news website, right?  Meaning when questions of bias, skewed reporting, or even media meta becomes news, its Mediaite’s job to cover them.”

If I understand you correctly, you are suggesting that Mediaite ought to start running stories on Tommy Christopher. 

 Ahhh yes, how refreshing. The republicans are stupid talking point. Can’t wait to hear this for another year. Or five years once Perry smokes Obama. BTW, I don’t know if Perry winning will change anything.

i’m asking you. why can’t i shave your poosey this weekend?

don’t forget, fox. they’re liberal because they refuse to talk about ron paul

MIchelle, why why WHY  can’t i shave your poosey this weekend?

michell is too stupid to emntion that anything that doesn’t fit her strict political points is left wing

So is politico left wing? or is michelle a far far far far far right wing extremist coward?

Topping the list: the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed changes
to ozone standards, which could cost as much as $90 billion a year. The
others, all from the EPA or the Department of Transportation, range
from $1 billion to $10 billion.

Richs

No credible historian has said the founding fathers worked “tirelessly to end slavery” like Bachmann did

Many founders were against slavery but they were not crusaders

Ben franklin was a former slave owner, albeit briefly, and while in later life he said he was against he didn’t crusade against it, George Washington didn’t free his slaves till his death, Thomas Jefferson called slavery an abomination but didn’t even do that. John Adams might have been one of the founding fathers never to own a slave but he never was a crusader, that honor belongs to his son John Quincy who only became outspoken in his post presidency, and was not a founding father contrary to Mrs. Bachmann’s belief of historical facts   

Here’s another one Audio:  After the congressional defeat of cap and trade, the EPA began
implementing the job-destroying scheme through regulations. The EPA
estimates this regulation will cost businesses $132 million the first
year and add EPA oversight to 10,000 new facilities.

Don’t hold back, Alive.  Tell me how you really feel.

I don’t watch TV news and I only browse Mediate so I can fuck with you teanderthals on the comment threads.  You guys are so easy to piss off.  It’s usually funny except when someone turns ugly like you did about the Navy Seals. 

And where in the hell do you get your news, ObamaSux?  A secret deal between the Pentagon and the Taliban to shoot down a copter full of American soldiers?  And you believe that shit?  Jesus, ObamaSux, you need to get off that crack pipe and get back on your psych meds. 

When you shake your head back and forth, doesn’t that rattling sound bother you?

Politico may not have the foil hat mentality of Dail Kos, but they are left of center. They may try to be straight down the middle, but it is humanly impossible for a lefty, or a righty, to be 100% objective 100% of the time. Clearly most, if not all, of Politico’s writers are leftists beneath their unbiased exteriors.

Haha, you’re so full of it. Do you like telling yourself imaginary tales?

cunt

44 is a centrist.  Look at his positions on most things.  He is far from being a progressive. I’d classify him as a Light Blue Dog

No they wouldn’t, as long as their not accompanied by a Curious George T-shirt or some sort of watermelon blast, like tea baggers have been none to do

Man, all that Obama-gargling must leave you short of breath! Ever come up for air ‘Crupt?

Is is true you DemoKKKrats are getting ready for jihad by having bombs surgically implanted up your tooter? LMFAO! heheheheheheheheh!

And did Fox News run hit peices about Bush and his record setting amount of vacations as they now run hit peices on Obama taking a single vacation?  Geezus Fox News, this is getting old….

Being righties themselves I think any site that posted or said something they did not like would be classified Lefty.

MSM: Deadliest Month for US Troops
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD40giBp78M&feature=player_profilepage
FOX News has actually asked. “Is Rick Perry dumb?” and then Sean Hannity
over at FOX tried to act like he was above it, but then he decided to
come back with this hard hitting question, “Is Obama smart?” Our
mainstream media has dumbed itself down to the extent that they think
asking if a presidential candidate is dumb is a mind blowing,
controversial; take no prisoners style of journalism. But what about
asking, why are we in Afghanistan? After ten years of war, after more
than a trillion dollars spent and thousands of lives lost, I think it’s
pretty legit.

No you didnt understand me right.  You were bawwwing about the coverage of “we are covering a story about a media outlet covering a story from another media outlet about whether Rick Perry is dumb.”

Yet you seem to fail to understand, thats what mediaite does.  Thats how you should be reading it.

Sounds like you get all your talking points from the job-killing Chamber of Commerce.

Unlike you, I like clean air and water no matter the cost. I don’t want to return to the days of fire on the Cayhoga River.

Nah.. he seems to be a far right guy.. yea right..

Before coming to Politico, Mr. Martin worked at National Journal’s The
Hotline and at National Review. Mr. Martin regularly appears on CNN,
MSNBC, CSPAN, NPR, ABC and CBS to discuss politics.

She said that the founding fathers worked tirelessly to end slavery, not the international slave trade. Somehow slavery lasted more than 50 years after the “tireless” founding fathers passed that amendment.

Chris Matthew is a clown, and most serious journalists on any part of the political spectrum do not take him seriously.