What’s this “Media leans a little to the left?”

Is that a black thing?

“leans left”? Is that a black thing?

Yeah…and Mt. Everest is just some hill.

Which way I lean depends on the pants I wear…..

The media shouldn’t lean at all.Instead it leans so much it should be walking with a cane.

I wonder if Matthews realizes that by admitting a left bias in the media he is also legitimizing the existence of a media presence like FNC?

And he is also telling us not to trust the media to deliver unbiased truth,to not expect honesty and to expect the news to be tilted to support an agenda.

Yes Chris and water is just a little wet.

Hilarious that Alex Alverez states “Now remember, Matthews is a guy who had been courted by Roger Ailes to join Fox News” Like we are to be suspicious of Chris Matthews really being a lefty. In fact Chris Matthews has gone far left the last few years in my opinion. When will the  media be completely honest and just admit what they are. There is no shame in it. The reason why Fox News is huge is because it’s a reaction to  the vast majority of mainstream outlets tilting left.  Even Mediaite who desperately want to be seen has down the middle can’t hide the fact that most of the editors and writers are left leaning. Mediaites founder Dan Abrams is clearly left of center. Fox News, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, and talk radio all go right. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post etc all go left. 

…and since you wear diapers most of the time it isn’t really an issue.

 Alex has been listening to way too much Rush Limbaugh lately-its skewered her objectivity on the issues of the day. That’s the price one -pays for “being entertained.”

It’s a truthiness thing .

As much as I am tempted to agree with Matthews in this, the truth is that I agree with Al Franken.  The chief bias in the mainstream media is laziness and stupidity.  To that I would add only corporatism.

You’re cute….

chris methews was asked to join fox news janitorital staff

Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

“In fact … in my opinion.”

See the problem there, Mike L? Right there, you just got a battlefield promotion from stupid to moron.

You need to go back and repeat those grade school grades where the teachers let you slide through.

You can’t write, Mike L. You can’t read. You’re done, son.

Seriously….who does not think that many in the media lean left?  Prime example….Both Obama and Sgt. Schultz were just named by GQ magazine as two of the least influential people on earth, yet there is no mention of it on this site.  I am surprised that Tommy Christopher hasn’t written a 20 page rebuttal.  I’m glad Mr. Tingles finally had the stones to admit the truth.  Now, if only the rest of the MSM a.k.a. Obama re-election committee could do the same.

Yup. 

And please, please, please foxpuppetry and tweety, you guys are perfect for each other. Just set the date, already. Foxpuppetry has needs someone to play the role of ‘loonyleftliberal’ even since Colmes got so bad even Hannitty couldn’t accept anyone was fooled by him, and liberals have been forced to keep saying again and again and again that tweety is NOT a liberal but instead an excitable human version of tweety the easily distracted cartoon bird, and want so, so, so, so much to have him become Roger Ailes’ problem at foxpuppetry.

Listen Rog, he’d be a great puppet for you: big yellow empty head, never lets guests get a word in edgwise, regular brain farts and freezes to lend an impression of suspense. 

Substitute ‘a little’ with ‘a lot’ and you’re spot on.

what was the name of the moron that promoted you

Have you ever read the senseless drivel that you write?

“when he noted that the American media tends to “lean a little to the left.””

Nothing 90% of Americans haven’t known for decades. The other 10% are so far left, they can’t see it or see it as “centrist”. Why do you think the left is so pissed about Fox? Someone actually  came in and broke up their monopoly on framing the news of the day. 

It’s a “Tingles” thing.

The media leans a little to the left, like the Titanic listed a little to port.

People tend to forget that MSNBC wasn’t always the loony left. They used to be a half way decent news organization and it was Turner and CNN that carried the torch for the left. I’ve watched Hardball all along and I agree, Matthews used to be much more rational. He went around the leftist bend with the rest of the network in 2003. 

Yes, Abrams is center left, but his delivery is clearly different. He talks about issues rather than spending hours denigrating people personally. Also a large difference between MSNBC and FNC.  If I had to bet, chances are Abrams is glad MSNBC and he parted ways. 

And they’re both heading in the same direction.

Typical lefty with the name calling right off. When they start in with the name calling… you know you’ve got them.  The supposedly compassionate tolerant liberals are the least tolerant of all. Yes I said it was my opinion that Chris Matthews has gone “far left” It is well established by Chris Mathews himself that he is a liberal. He has said it many times and has worked for Jimmy Carter.

I agree with you on Abrams.

“then there is no discussion to be had”
You were never interested in reality-based discussion.

Oo – oo – don’t want to be accused of editing. Here’s the FULL sentence:”And if you don’t believe the mainstream media is left of center then there is no discussion to be had”

See that word there: “believe”? That’s your word, and that’s the key to knowing the rest is drivel. 

Discussion has to do with an agreed-upon subject. You came here to promote your “belief” in something of a minor fantasy, not a discussion based on something that was actually said within a context of something that actually exists..

But even then, even without that word “believe”, the rest is drivel on it’s own: “the mainstream media is left of center”. Define your terms: what do you included in “the mainstream media”, and what do mean by “left of center”?

I fully expect you will not, either because you can not (that is, you lack the capacity to do that, based on the evidence of both your first reader comment and this comment to which I am replying now), or because if you were somehow able to do those things, you would find your ‘belief’ system is flawed, or worse, and that does not suit your agenda.

But to give you even LESS excuse here, I even off to go first: I offer that you can used the Pew Foundation CDI list of media outlets, which you can find on the Pew Foundation web site. 

Your turn; go ahead.

Ah, nice to see you and rex the wonder hog can only attack the messenger.

Who here reads GQ?

Who here CARES what blather GQ publishes?

(I imagine fuzzynuts would say he reads it for the nuanced articles, not to masturbate over the pictures of naked girls).Who else here even READS?

You’re just too young to have any clue of what you’re posting here. You’re referring to mythological memes fed to you by the Fuppets and Fat Boy. It was a winger meme then, and it still is. What’s worse though is the Overton Window effect. 

I don’t think ignorants such as yourself have any feel at all where this is all going, not just here but in Europe. It was like this before in the 1930s.  

how is chrise’s leg doing

europe is about to collapse rex the wonder dog

Actually I came here to agree with Chris Matthews. Apparently you don’t agree with him. Regarding a belief in media bias. All you have to do is google media bias and look at studies done that has proven that media bias exists. I am not going to go and paste all the links but they are readily available  If you’ve ever taken a journalism class in college you quickly find out where most professor stand politically (because they will tell you) You also will find that a majority of the students come with a certain worldview that is definitely not conservative and is usually  progressive or liberal. Those are facts. Just like it’s my belief that talk radio leans overwhelmingly right. And that belief is also rooted in fact. There are universal truths out there. Apparently you don’t like facing them.

 ”I admit it: the liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.”– Republican strategist and conservative pundit Bill Kristol

 ”The truth is, I’ve gotten fairer, more comprehensive coverage of my ideas than I ever imagined I would receive. I’ve gotten balanced coverage and broad coverage — all we could have asked… For heaven sakes, we kid about the liberal media, but every Republican on earth does that.”– Pat Buchanan

Yet you probably think Hannity’s “Stop _______ Express” bits are fair and balanced.

ed should torch GQ

you must think mslsd’s whacky opionions lean forward

Poor, poor, poor, old Chrissy ‘Tingles, Thrills & Spittle’ Matthews. He is so out of touch with reality it has become quite funny to most everyone but Matthews himself. In reality though, Chris is such a sad and pathetic figure on cable that I am like most and only click over to his little, low rated ‘Softball’ show when I need a good belly laugh. Otherwise I don’t bother anymore. Why doesn’t the old guy retire and maybe take a year long cruise rather than subject himself to the heckling he gets on every political blog and website on the internet. After all these years he still has not learned how to interview his guests. Kids in High School are much more professional than Chris. As to FOX News, he’d last a grand total of the first show before the millions of FOX News viewers would demand a change. No, Chris would never fit in with an World Class News organization like FOX.

Of course the media leans a little to the Left.
Do you really expect them to report that The Flintstones is a documentary like you lunatics believe?

THE TRUTH LEANS LEFT BECAUSE THE RIGHT WOULDN’T KNOW THE TRUTH IF YOU SHOVED IT UP THEIR BUTT.

an World Class s/b a World Class

Old enough to remember watching Brokaw, Cronkite and Jennings every night with no other options for news, sans PBS and the MacNeil/Leher News Hour. No cable and 3 news channels. That was before CNN. I’m not going to give my age away, but that was a while ago., 

As for Europe, most people with any logic whatsoever know exactly where Europe is headed. Just ask anyone in Greece, Italy or Spain. 

You’re right about one thing; you don’t think much. It wouldn’t be too much to ask you to stay home next November would it? ;)

No, the truth  would be to admit that it leans WAY left.  But it’s a start.

Hannity is a far right nut and I say that as a conservative.  I have always thought that Fox should have dumped him when Colmes left.  I’m sure that you won’t admit it but other than Hannity most of the others are pretty much right down the middle.  There are “leaners”  to both sides but Hannity is the extreme.    

You’ve ducked the question and asked a new one; but fine, for now. 

What are some of those “studies” to which you refer? I’m not asking for the full litany, I’m asking for as few as you wish to provide, even just one, and I will go look at that and come back here and we will proceed from there.

It looks like you have anticipated this by essentially saying, It’s so notorious, I don’t have to provide ANY links, not even one; it’s TRITE! Well then, where is this “trite” listing that you refer to?

See, to be as candid as possible here, I think you are a conscious fraud and a liar; I think you know if you go off and find and report here even one link, I, and others here, will descend on it like a host of locusts or sea worms and tear your position on it apart. That’s what I think, and I’ve been quite clear about that. That’s my challenge: cite one, start the thing going – cross the line in the sand, I’ve even put it right in front of you and marked it clearly for you. 

I’m calling you out Mike L: R U “man” enough to accept this challenge? I doubt it, I really do; I think you are a bully and a coward and just not very smart at all, or even worldly. But this is a perfect chance for you to respond Mike L, because you are free to call on the ENTIRE WINGOSPHERE to help you in this – it could be me against you and MILLIONS who think like you and BULLY like you.

Come on, tough guy, my chin is stuck right out here waiting for you to take the first shot.

The media leans corporate.

This is such nonsense, it’s not so much difficult to refute, it’s difficult to known where to start and when to stop. Please, make it tougher to deal with.

Your references to what Abrams has been or is up to is really presumptuous and pathetic. You don’t know him; you haven’t asked him. Abrams may or may not have done better in time on msnbc, but the fact is he just did not produce good TV, in ratings or otherwise. I had no problem with him, but to me it was all about bit underdone, a bit ‘centrist’, a reflection of the Beltway insider point of view.

And bear in mind it’s not as if Abrams did not get a fair shot there; his father, after all, is Floyd Abrams, the well-known media lawyer, one connected dude, with very very strong contacts in US media, and a great reason for why any msm outlet would give his son every chance he wanted. Maybe these new digs he’s at are just better suited to what he wants to do and how he sees himself these days. 

But center left, I don’t see it – hard center with some little bit of civilized attitude, maybe. He’s quite typical of the sort of person who goes on Morning Joe, the right wing to right center morning show on msnbc, but he wouldn’t provide enough contrast to be useful in that setting. I’m not sure Abrams has any strong views at all outside of the center. Perhaps he could come into this setting and tell us all I’m wrong and what his strong views outside the center might be.

YOU would.

I’m sure Ed does not know and DOES. NOT. CARE. 

No one cares about GQ except fanboys into shallow grade school trash, across the board.

You know something folks, I’m getting the distinct impression that there are quite a FEW GQ fanboys who post here. Come on, come boyos, ‘fess us, you little hairy-palmed remedial English class bullies.

“when he noted that the American media tends to “lean a little to the left.””
Not he didn’t; that’s not what Tweety said. He said “I could argue that …”.

When he said that, he was talking with David Corn, of Mother Jones. If Tweety had said that you say he said, or what the Mediaite ‘reporter’ put as what he said, David Corn would have said something in rebuttal. In fact, that is WHY Tweety would put it as “I could argue that …” so he concedes David Corn would not only disagree but go ahead and demolish Tweety on that point.

But that was NOT the point Tweety was communicating to Corn; it’s Tweety’s show, and Corn is on it a lot, and they’ve worked out how to make this work, so Corn known enough to ignore Tweety’s twittering and get on to the point of the segment.

Left? No way, Chris. Coincidence.

Next November, I & 72 million of my fellows will be pleased not to accommodate the Republican take- over of the US as agents for the 0.1% richest, Wall Street banksters and Big Corp America. 

2008: 69,456,897 votes for Barack H. Obama, 59,934,814 votes for John S. McCain. 

The Rs need to lie to independents, to suppress the vote turnout among the D base, to cage D voters, to get lucky on some fake third party candidate, and even then – it’s not going to work; not this time. But feel free to participate; go ahead and vote; Ds will only encourage you to vote, so knock yourself out.

Hey, Rex the Blunder Dog.  I bet it really hurts down deep to have people speak the truth about two of the people you most admire, huh?  Obama and Schultz.  Just admit it.  They are both abject failures.

Oh, if we everyone was as smart as you Blunder Dog.  I suspect you are the one with two hairy palms.  You probably wax your dolphin every time you watch Obama give a speech or when the lard ass Ed comes on nightly.  You are a funny little man child. 

Matthews, who never met a hyperbole he didn’t love, sheepishly admits a leftward lean in some isolated media pockets.  Don’t get too far out ahead on that Chris.

Fantasy land.  That is where your dumb ass is living.  Pull your head out of Obama’s ass and please take a look around to see what is happening to the country…..that is, if you care about the country.  People who think like you, or in your case, do not think at all, are hell bent on the destruction of the U.S.  The socialism that you cry for has never worked and will never work.  I think you will be a very sad socialist come next November.

I expect them to report that Al Gore is a scientist like you lunatics believe.

The sad part is that even if Obama was to steal another election and taxes on the top .1% was increased to 100% it would not help Rex the Dog..  He would still be a complete loser living a failed life filled with hatred of America and most especially of jews who he considers controlling Wall Street, Washington, the media, etc. 

You may need to stop buying those irregular pants.

A little “Tingles?”

You mean your side would be voting on a man that has taken more wall street money than anyone in the last twenty years.Reminds me of another Nationional Socialist that use to pick winners and losers in the 1930′s….His next term we will have a national car too. The Volt-wagon.

How about “such an opinion” coming from the late Peter Jennings?

“But most of the time, most of the time, I really think that responsible
journalists, which I hope I’m counted as one, leave our bias at the side
of the table. Now, it is true that historically in the media it has
been more of a liberal persuasion for many years. It has taken us a
long time, too long in my view, to have vigorous conservative voices
heard as widely in the media as they now are. So I think, yes, on
occasion there is a liberal instinct in the media which we need to keep
our eye on, if you will.”

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0204/10/lkl.00.html

wow finally a smart dialog in this page, we are improving,  it was refreshing to read some comments.
good for us

Alex – I found your comment regarding the fact that Matthews was once possibly offered a job by FNC to suggest that Matthews was right-leaning was interesting.  I would have figured you would have gotten that FNC is balanced, so it hires from both the left and the right.  matthews is solidly on the left and getting leftier by the day.

I’m actually shocked that a semi-truthful statement was uttered by Chris on MSNBC.  “A little” is clearly an understatement…

Are you suggesting that FNC does not spend hours denigrating people personally?

Democrat my whole life and no doubt the media leans left and some stories they go overboard with it. But its nowhere near the level the right wants to claim. But you have to be blind & completely biased not to see it.

Quite enough nonsense from Chris Matthews, butt-boy for the phony Kennedy myths, 

ah yes!!!! the man with the jumping leg says that the media leans left. as we get closer to the election next year watch how far tingles leans left!!!!!! when he starts mentioning obama and the reelection, he’ll be using “we” many times!!!!!

“WAY left” of what?  Hannity?  Certainly that’s true.  Even if you accept that there’s a “bias” in the media, the right can hardly take the moral high ground.  Fox News isn’t “fair and balanced.”  In fact, it’s not even just “biased.”  It’s full of outright distortions and, in terms of its opinion shows, full of lies.  Say what you want about MSNBC, but there’s a heck of a lot more integrity over at that channel– far fewer lies and much more accountability.  At Fox, not so much.

Boy, that tingles thing never gets old.

Who on Fox leans left?

What would you offer as evidence that would warrant such a claim?

Of course people who work for a living are to the right.  And people who don’t work and live off of the hard work of others (like B_F_D) are to the left.

Yes, there it is again.  I’m hoping to find at least a half dozen references to the “tingles” line.  So far: two.

We’re now up to three references to tingles.  Keep the coming.  They’re just so funny.

A fifth reference to tingles.  Awesome.  And as clever as the rest.  Still, not as gut-bustingly funny as referring to Fox as a “World Class News organization.” 

Yes!  There it is!  The sixth reference to “tingles.” 

Nice to see the wonder hog twisting six ways to sunday trying not to address slobber faces smack down of the librul media. :)

Shepard Smith. 

The absurdity of this is profound.

Chris Matthews’ views of the left are about as realistic as Fox’s. The Communist Party doesn’t own a network. Neither does the Socialist Party. Truth is, the furthest to the left commentators are on MSNBC, but they are basically centrists, about as close to the true left in the country as Hannity is to separatist, neo-nazis living in Idaho…

Our media is a parody of open and objective, entirely trimming the extremes out of representation at all, and talking among themselves within their own parodies of the full spectrum of political and economic thought – leaving most Americans with nothing but a centrist mish mosh.

When was the last time you had an anchor on any major network calling for government taking over abandoned factories in detroit, utility companies, agribusiness farms, mining, or banks. Never! It simply doesn’t happen because there is no significant lean to the left unless your sense of a normal curve is that it runs from one standard deviation below the mean to one standard deviation above the mean and there is nothing below or above the acknowledge region.

Nobody to the left of Chris Matthews is at all impressed with him as a representative of liberal, progressive, or radical thought.

Chris started it.

Did you win your little contest with yourself?

No, way left of the country as a whole, which is more Conservative than liberal. 

When the wingnut right has gone so far over the edge, everything appears to be a little to the left.

Depends on how you define those terms.  It’s certainly not majority Tea Party.

Folks at Media Research Center make a big deal about wanting news that fits with the majority of Americans’ opinions.  As though that’s the highest priority.  I guess I’d prefer it to be truthful.  Maybe even a bit prophetic– not in the sense of predictive.  But in the sense that it should speak truth to power. 

spin score of c-

Let’s face it: whenever that “tingles” reference comes up, we all win. 

What!!! get out of Town…The media leans left! Who would have ever known? 

It will be interesteting this election season if they act like last time where they put Michelle Obama on every magazine cover and ask Obama questions of his favorite color again

Chris is in denial. How about 80% left-leaning?  That is more accurate.

lol

” The left leaning media”, another prime example of the saying, if you repeat a lie often enough people will believe it.Actually Lenin said it first and I am amused that the conservatives have adopted his philosophy: ” A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” – Vladimir Lenin

Study done at UCLA  1. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664.aspx
Study done about politics and political affliation among the press 2.. http://www.journalism.org/node/2304

Also let me address some things you’ve said. The names you have called me in our exchange which include stupid, moron, fraud, bully, coward …not smart..not worldy etc.   And you say I am the bully?

I DARE anyone to read our exchange and tell me who the bully is.  I have not called you one name in our exchange.

I try to treat people with respect.. even those I disagree with.  You should give that a try instead of the name calling. You might find that we actually agree on some things politically. I am very libertarian on some  issues and conservative on others.

You say I am a fraud and liar.  No I am just someone who has come on a website to state his opinion… and what I think is a fact with regards to media bias. Apparently even Chris Matthews believes it and he is liberal. You can believe otherwise.. no one is stopping you.

If you look in Oxford’s unabridged dictionary for the meaning of the words fraud or phony, all you’ll find is a picture of Wilford Mitt Romney. During the debate, he couldn’t even admit his real first name.

About time to put this mene to rest. In what way is the majority of the country conservative? In poll after poll, the majority favor raising taxes on the wealthy, the majority voted in Barak Obama, the majority, The majority support Roe v. Wade.
Not exactly conservative positions.

Grunge, here are the FACTS.  40% of American’s consider themselves I’s, 40% consider themselves Conservatives and a mere 20% consider themselves loony libs. 

Hannity does politcal commentary, NOT hard news.  Their main hard news guy, Shep, is a liberal.

Anyone who denies there is a liberal media bias, is either stupid or lying.  Period.  It’s just a fact.  It can’t even be disputed. 

Chrissy is right, it leans a little over 180 degrees to the left.

Maddow = extreme
Shultz = extreme
Sharpton = extreme
Bashir = extreme
Brewer = Extreme

Want more?

Let me start by saying I like Chris Matthews, he’ enjoyable and fun to watch, but I disagree with him about the media leaning left. The only truly rightwing media outlet is FOX, but it’s an artificial construct more than any other major media organization in this country. By artificial I mean Fox is the mostly highly propagandized. If rightwing media/journalism were such a winning formula, you’d have many FOX imitators – there are no FOX imitators. It’s also why FOX viewers are without a doubt the least well informed of all TV watchers – they get more propaganda than non-FOX viewers.  The rest of MSM is composed of normal, corporate controlled  journalists who are fairly well-educated, and askance, as most Americans are, about the incredibly embarrassing Republican presidential contest where there’s an earnest competition to see who can be the meanest and most stupid candidate. Most FOX journalists have to take them seriously, the have no choice , they’re under ‘orders’ etc., while the rest of us just scratch our heads in wonderment. It would be great if we did  have media that’s a little bit further to the left than the pablum we now get. There is going to be a big push for more better informed and honest media as we get closer to the 2012  presidential race. Even the rightwingers , who can’t go any further to the right without dipping into total contradictions and insanity, will have to move a teeny bit to the left. It’s how history works. It’s known as evolution.

And now that Cronkite is dead we are allowed to learn of his left wing socialist leanings. Just like when the russians released the Verona papers showing how deeply entrenched  communist agents were in American government and Hollywood  and that the vilified Sen Joe McCarthy was right.

The press got loser McCain  placed as candidate and he blew the election as he was supposed to. Boy Obama has done his damage  and proven he should have stayed community organizer and ” Man’s Country” club member.

Everything leans to da “Left” of FOX News!

The mainstream media  in America is controlled by a handful of large corporations. Trust me, they do not have a liberal bias. If there was a liberal bias to the media why did the OWS movement get  largely ignored for the first month when it went not only nationwide, but worldwide. On the other hand a couple of  cranky, elderly tea party members could disrupt a town hall meeting in Podunk Maine and get national coverage during the heath care debates.

Chris Matthews is proof that that one can live without a brain.

Da Bilderberg Group leans to da “Left” of FOX News!

Centrist ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha. Rachel Maddow “Centrist” Larry self desribed “Socialist” O’donnel centrist? You have lost your freaking mind. Not even discusing whether they are smart or entertaining, but THEY would be insulted at you calling them centrist.

rex, the name he is currently using as it changes from hr to hr, is one of the biggest hypocrites and flat out delusional trolls you will encounter on the internet. It’s best to just point and laugh.

Yeah, thanks for the heads up. Took me awhile to realize it.

“A little?” That’s like saying a woman is a little bit pregnant.

I had Thanksgiving on Friday because I don’t like Thursdays.  All week I had over 29 wild turkeys eat in my and my neighbors yards, on Thursday none of them showed up.  I saw a gun once driving a car and doing a drive-by shooting.  People who aren’t careful about proper word usage are not careful about proper word usage.  Proper spelling of words is not important to people who can’t spell.  If you don’t study Jury Nullification you’re not concerned about freedom.  The person who turned in a Thompson Sub-Machine Gun in the gun buyback in Cleveland recently got robbed as he probably got up to $100.00 for it where there is one on line being sold for $31,000.00.  Jews vote for politicians who hate Israel and Jews.  If you’re a Jew and don’t believe in self-defense and possession of a weapon you’re not following the mandates in the Torah. The Bible says to sell your coat so you’ll have the money to buy a gun.  Many Christians are in name only as they don’t believe Jesus.  He said to go buy a gun. (A sword back then).  The word regulated, in a well-regulated militia, means well trained, not well controlled as gun-haters like to define the word.  Popcorn was invented by an Indian at the first Thanksgiving when he decided to cook an ear of corn on the charcoal grill.  (They didn’t have gas grills back then).  People who don’t vote shouldn’t complain about the results.  You always put yourself in more danger when you don’t listen to your inner voice.  The concept of inner voice can be learned at http://www.youarestupidif.com .  You are stupid if you drive your car on cruise control while the pavement is wet.  My Warriors are the last line of defense against gun confication which would lead to tyranny.  Sheeples cannot become Warriors because they are Sheeples.  Only true Patriots can become a Warrior.   http://www.secondamendmentwarrior.com .   Don’t answer to this Post as I just don’t care what you think.  If you have to do stupid things to prove to yourself that you are a man – you’re not.  Litterers are pigs.  If you’re a pig date and marry a pig.  If you’re not a pig then don’t date or marry a pig.  Life is simple, stupidity is complicated.  You don’t have to read anymore of my comment because this is the end of it.

Hannity calls himself a journalist.

and we do we hear that the media is liberal? From wall-to-wall rightwing commnetators on the so-called liberal media.
The idea that billion dollar media companies like GE, Disney and Viacom are going to advocate rabid leftwing populism is just absurd.
 

Nice if lazy try: in reality Matthews is and always has been biased toward whomever is in power or looks like they are about to be in power.  Did he work for Jimmy Carter & Tip O’Neill? Did he proclaim that Obama made a tingle run up his leg? Yup.   Did he brag about voting for George W. Bush, did he announce on camera during the day Bush did his landing on the carrier  stunt that he had “never been prouder of a Commander in Chief”; was he recorded off camera telling Tom Delay how much he admired him, how little he thought of the Clintons, and how many favors he owed him?  Yup.

Matthews sucks up to political power, left right or center.  When the GOP regains the White House or both houses of congress, you’ll hear him bray about how great and smart they are again….

Hands down, this is the funniest headline of the year.  At this rate, tomorrow’s headline will read:  “Chris Matthews: I Could Argue That The Sun Will Probably Rise Tomorrow.”  Way to go Mediaite, for covering these breaking news stories!

Most media would by its very nature be more liberal/left-leaning than right/conservative. ANYONE who argues otherwise seems to forget where the extremes of both sides end.. which is ANARCHY.. however, on the way through the most hardcore of LEFTIES, you get to places of extreme freedom and essentially open living that could border on insanity. Far on the left you find people wanting to make it legal to have multiple wives and being allowed to have sexual relations with whomever agrees. As you move farrr on the right, you get censorship, xenophobia, isolation of certain groups as “unworthy” and you get a crap-load of GOD. I’ll keep enjoying this happy middle ground where the left holds a lot of power in the media and the right holds a ton of power in commerce. ITS A DANCING HAPPY PLACE  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7fJ6jAOVU go herman, its ya birthday!

a little left?  His network and NBC and Politico and Mediate all lean left …..   be honest with yourselves lefties the media votes and reports left.   The only voice out there that doesnt is FOX and that is why there is this huge movement against it …… 

The US being “conservative” is a myth. Explain why conservative Presidents are almost never elected? Even Ronald Reagan by 2011 standards would be a RINO. Can you name me all the conservative US presidents of the past 80 years? 
Also…look at policies. A conservative country should not have things like medicare, medicaid, social security etc being “popular.” look at the link below and see what is named as the things most Americans don’t want to see face any cuts.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/145790/americans-oppose-cuts-education-social-security-defense.aspx
Guffaw! Is that conservative to you?
I would argue Americans like calling themselves conservatives rather than liberal because the word has almost become a pejorative. But…they love liberal/progressive policies. It’s a fact.

After a weekend or holiday when Matthews has spent time with his family (who are all rightwingers) or cocktailing with the Villagers (the Washinton/Virginia Political media in-crowd) he always leans right in his comments and commentary. Matthews is often oblivious to politics outside of the beltway and it take some flagrant conservative/right-wing insanity or comment for Matthews to rear up on his left-wing side and obliterate the offender or his stand-in.

That is quite dishonest. Let’s take Washington Post for example and rattle out some of their columnists or ex: Kathleen Parker, Charles Krauthammer, Marc Thiessen, Michael Gerson, George Will…yeah — quite the liberal cesspool! Also, when conservatives love complaining about them being out-shouted by liberals in the press, I like linking to this video. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sftB399jHXU

If the media leaned any more they’d be the horizontal esate. It’s like saying Jupiter is a little big.

I wonder if Moron Matthews thinks of himself, openly declaring he’s here to help elect Obama, as leaning a little?

Considering he’s doofier than Dagwood Bumstead I’d say he thinks of butterflies as electoral votes.

It’s not a question of whether Fox is balanced but of how outnumbered they are. Did you get past the 5th grade?

Prissy Chrissy is so far Left that if he tilted any more left he would fall over.

“A little left”? Who is he effing kidding?

Geraldo.

Larry O’Donnell, self described socialist = extreme. Seditionist Dylan Ratigan = extreme.

Is that the same Pat Buchanan who isn’t allowed to mention his book on MSLSD, his own frigging network?

Obama’s sitting in the big chair, dummy. All of our problems are his problems.

And from the New York Times.

“Is the New York Times a liberal newspaper? Of course it is.” http://tinyurl.com/cfp3gv

Bill Keller: New York Times Is ‘Socially Liberal’ http://tinyurl.com/cy552j4

I like how Olbermann debunks the liberal media theory in about 2 1/2 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-pIBkV2ZRw

Yeah I’m sure al sharpton agrees with you.

Like saying Hitler was a little Anti-Semitic.

Sooo “Fox” is beyond bias?

Four out of “Five”, “Frauds and Fiends”, Bill and half the others just not as radical! Want more?

You’ve already got that from your dark lord and masters,… “Fox”!

No, John, you’re wrong.  BR claims that the media leans “WAY left.”  Left is always relative.  I was simply raising the question of what would constitute a more centrist or balanced presentation of the news.  If you actually believe Fox News is “fair and balanced,” then, yes, of course, the rest of the networks are going to seem “WAY left.”  However, as your comment basically admits, Fox News is not centrist.  It leans right.  “WAY right.”  Being left (even WAY left) of that could still place you in the center of the political spectrum.

Yeah, I’m sure that’s irrelevant. 

Fox wanted Matthews because Fox presents both sides. That’s why their motto is “Fair and balanced”.

Fox wanting Chris Matthews ,kind of destroys your contention that Fox is biased, doesn’t it Tommy boy?

Olbermann debunks,.. is like saying,… Please, ignore me, I’m too far left to see how few people actually give him any credibility at all. Putting his rant “o’ rama style on anything just makes most folks roll their eyes at the circus clown he is.

Hannity is an “opinion” show, has never been labeled anything else, where as MSNBC routinely puts Chrissy and the rest of their leftwing ranters out as “journalists”.. as well as anchors… you have to be a special kind of rabid partisan to not see that.

FOX doesn’t mix opinion with their news content, which is why they goat stomp the rest in the ratings. MSNBC, ABC, CBS… take your pick… all,… ALL mix opinion, hard left opinion with their news.. as well as being highly selective in omitting stories that make the democrats look bad.. name the last time any of them named the party of a disgraced democrat.. while a republican one gets it mentioned a few hundred times..

Years the public has seen this,.. but only hard democrats never admit it happens that way… you’ve had crooked reff’s and liked it that way just fine… Guess fair is something democrats haven’t figured out yet.

Geraldo, Shepard Smith, Colmes…..

Two have their own shows.. and ask a conservative how little they like any of these three..

Seriously?

The media all but used blood sacrifices to get Obama elected,.. omitted all his dirty laundry that they could suppress… and coddled him for 2 and half years. His repeated petty grandstanding, while failing to give the left and the media what they wanted, single payer, ending the wars, closing gitmo, and on and on.. his manifold scandals bubbling up to the top of his swamp of a presidency… The negative stories?… please,.. they do ten minutes about how awesomely awesome he and Michelle are,.. they then quickly mention, oh yeah… he sold guns to Mexican cartels…

Turn the sound of during one of these “new2s” pie3ces, and they look like campaign commercials..

Anyone who thinks the media won’t hold their nose and wave the pompoms for him to win, hasn’t been paying attention. If you tune in MSNBC, you’d think we’d be not only in full recovery, but on our way to utopia, if only that conservative half of the country would just die or something.. Cons do watch news other than FOX,.. we get straight news from them,.. what the latest propaganda hit piece is being spread about the GOP frontrunner. They never quit…

Ron was no RINO, I was enlisted in 1980, and the media then portrayed him as the coming of a conservative Satan.. they’ll do the same this time too.. Whoever gets the nod will be smeared as a nutjob from the right.. the left, never changes.

Really?… two or three pundits on one station are “wall to wall”? AM radio hits maybe twenty million listeners… that’s “wall to wall”"

You grossly, wildly overstate the power of FOX and AM radio….

and ignore that every single other network is snidely liberal, all major papers are, as are almost all movies and TV shows.. I have to search hard to find a conservative speaker on the tube outside of FOX, becauswe your sidee doesn’t allow truly dissenting opinion, FOX will let on anybody,…. but ABC can’t air a show with Ann Coulter as a commentater, because the lefty’o'sphere went nuts.

Must be nice to just smother other folks opinion as easily as the media does.. but for cable.. they’d be a 100% ON tv.

Not to mention,.. the other major dailys..

PBS, NPR, as well as every facualty lounge from pre-school through college…. that our side gets a hearing at all,.. is nearly a miracle.

Hey Rex the wonder DOG. Why dont you just go back to licking your left nut.

Hey Rex the wonder DOG. Why dont you just go back to licking your left nut.     

Chris must be out of his MSNBC pills. He spoke the truth, oh shit somebody tackle him, kill the lights, nothing to see here move along

Nah….. everybody knows to be a real Sith..

http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/27/ed-schultz-a-pattern-of-angry-invective/

you have to work for the leftwing media…

Where hate has a summer home,… and distortions are an appetizer

he’s knows history liberals always fail

It’s a shame you have such an interest in the mans self description of his feelings (literally and figuratively)about listening to our Class Warrior in Chief speak during his last campaign. Do you have anything to add except for a rather pathetic tally of the number of times his own self description was used? Any thoughts you could expand upon?

Or like saying that Michael Moore is a a little overweight.

Granny, Nanny, GrannyNanny Mede, you are such a funny old lady. Glad to see some old 107 year old hag like you still has her sense of humor.

BTW, it is past the time of changing your depends…the smell is all over PMSnbc and even your boyfriend, Chrissy Tingles can smell it through his 87 year old nostrils. I’ll go get the male nurse to help you out.

Stating the Obvious.

The problem with your analysis is Obama took more Wall Street money in 08 than any presidential candidate ever, So you somehow think he is going to don his superman cape and take on his biggest donors after 2012?  We live in an oligarchy and no matter who is POTUS, wall street is going to pull their strings. That’s a fact. Basically, it’s play ball or don’t become President. 

As for suppressing the vote.. you need a valid ID to simply walk down the street in most states in this country so authorities can identify you, yet you shouldn’t need any ID to vote? Nonsense. The only people your idea protects is illegal aliens and people who have something to hide from not having an ID. These people shouldn’t be voting anyways. 

Lemings dash to the sea….the sun comes up in the East …. its cold in space …..the media leans left ….. I thought lemings went over cliffs ….who knew

Years ago, MANY years ago, Chris actually filled in for Rush! Then he drank the kool aid…….

Well said, and after reading your exchange, I completely agree with you.  Thanks for stating your opinion on this issue (which is mine as well) in a respectful and appropriate way!  We need a lot more of that.   

No shit sherlock..

Chris ‘Give Us Our Marching Orders’ Mathews wouldn’t last one week at FOX News.
At least ÜberLiberal Bob Beckel (of FOX’s ‘The Five’ – which I watch occasionally only for Perino, Gutfeld, and Bolling) has a self-deprecating sense of humor.
Miss Chrissy? … NOT
If anyone noticed, it seems to me that Mathews was more mellow when BillyJeff, the disbarred lawyer, was POTUS. As soon as GW Bush was elected, Mathews went full-on, hate-filled Leftist talking points. It must be easier now that King Barack the Growth Slayer rules the roost, Chrissy needs “orders”.
SOME things are just too obvious to ignore, eh Chrissy?
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There is no sound in the link, it’s a chart. You exemplify the mindset of the typical conservative, your mind is made up,  and all the facts in the world will not change your mind. As far as  MSNBC, goes, it must be the exception,I don’t watch it,. Every news source I have seen since August has been been negative on the economy with the Euro crisis. The market just had its worst Thanksgiving week since 1932 and you claim MNSBC is saying things are great? Whatever drugs you are on or whatever planet you hail from they must be good or it must be far away from the planet earth.

Is Mr. Matthews right?   Perhaps not.

At the beginning of this political campaign, the MSM did in fact state this time it was going to be all about the Republicans.  And it sure is!

“Daily caller”,.. the “daily caller”, that’s it? Maybe you Kool-Aiders” need to go to Moveon.org or progressive,dnc. Make sure and send me to “tea” land. Ask politico to list “Fox” lies or just google “Fox” lies! You kids need to view something other than “tea propaganda”! There’s another world out there, away from your dark masters!

Media covered a dozen RW fools with teabags on their hats from day one, but it took WEEKS of thousands of protesters to get Media attention for OWS.  Leans left? My foot!

Thank you!

most facts have a liberal bias

the media leans slightly left of a bolshevik

They will never admit that they have total contempt for the non-atheist view point. To the exclusion of Islam, which they share the hate of Jesus Christ. Period.

The left seems to have higher verbal I.Q.’s than the right.  That means they are better talkers and writers.
So they will probably end up with a disproportionate number of media jobs.
They can’t do math though.  Sometimes that’s obvious.  :-)
Then there are the social Marxist who deliberately bought up as much media as they could get hands on.