Are you tired of hearing about the Liberal Media?

Question

Why are some people who call themselves conservative always playing the victims of the liberal media? It appears to be the same media that got our current leader elected. Our current leader also claims to be a conservative. Is it that to be conservative you only have to satisfy a few criteria, and if you subscribe to any of the other criteria, you must be a liberal?

Does this mean that our current leader is really a liberal who doesn't support stem cell research, abortion, or process of law, but a liberal none the less.

Despite the liberal media huh? So the media didn't make Bush a popular candidate? It must have been the fact that everyone involved in voting for him had met the man or listened to one of his speeches in public and fell in love, right? Pretty far-fetched there, media victims.

Diegobass13: Is testifying before congress that he "knew" their were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (a charge which he now claims was wrong) perjury? He did say he "knew" and now admits he didn't. Would that lie be against the law? In my opinion lying about a BJ in court is perjury, so lying about something like WMDs in Iraq shoule be against the law too. (and an impeachable offense). Oh and thanks, I will try and start thinking for myself instead of as a liberal would.

Answer 1

The media is not liberal or conservative, its whatever the most clever politicians want to manipulate it for. The media is playing right into what the conservatives want at the moment. This is changing though.

Answer 2

The notion that the media, as a whole, leans to the left is absolutely groundless. Truth is the vast majority of the media does not lean to the left or the right. The news outlets only have one obvious bias, and it is not based no either side of the political spectrum. Instead it is a bias of sensationalism and profit. The media is attracted to anything that is salacious, that can garner high ratings. High ratings translate into more advertising, which in turn results in higher profits.

As much as the right laments how the media skewers Bush concerning the foibles of the Iraq war and domestic misdealing, one needs to notice that they lambasted Clinton for his sexual indiscretions without mercy, and his administration’s blunders with the Branch Davidians and Eilen Gonzalez. If the media truly had a liberal inclination, wouldn’t they have ignored the sexual scandal like the rest of the world, or condoned Janet Reno’s actions with respect to the Branch David incident and Eilen Gonzalez? No, instead Clinton’s infidelity made front-page news, the Branch Davidians catastrophe and Eilen Gonzalez deportation were portrayed by the media as egregious violations of civil rights. All this negative publicity towards Clinton’s administration tainted the chances of Al Gore winning the 2000 Presidential election by a clear margin.

So how can anyone portray the media as being a liberal stronghold? Nothing can be further from the truth. If any thing the media conglomerates in this country are quite in step with the right wing on philosophical grounds. How is that? Well, they both sacrifice truth and misplace priorities for the sake of profits. You can’t get any more right wing than putting money over humanity’s welfare. The idea that the media is just spewing left wing propaganda is a myth propagated by the right so as to discredit the news organizations that are underscoring the right’s incompetence and immorality in its international and domestic machinations.

Answer 3

The media wasnt happy with the current leaders election.
Im not a conservative at all - Gay marriage should never have been an issue. But the media is very slanted and doesnt represent the interests or opinions of the masses very well.

Names like "conservative" and "liberal" are kinda silly anyway.
You can be a Liberal and disagree with abortion.
You can be a conservative and want stricter gun laws.

Answer 4

NO, I'm tired of being constantly lied to BY the LIBERAL MEDIA. So there's a simple solution - I tune them out in favor of less biased sources.

You're wrong about the claim the media got our President elected. In fact they played a willing part in trying to throw the 2000 election by false reporting and set the stage for Gore to try and steal the election in the courts. Statistical analysis and recounts show that whatever voter fraud there was in Florida was all done by Democrats, that the media nearly convinced the strong Republican areas in the next time zone that voting was futile, which almost threw the election, and even to this day there are still those who try and support the fiction that Gore could have won the election. They even went so far as to say that if the rules in effect at the time of the election in Florida had been changed this way and that way Gore would have won. The problem is the rules WERE NOT changed, and by the rules that were in effect BUSH WON.

Bush also has some strong tendencies that are not necessarily conservative. Make no mistake, he's made some big ones himself. He's too willing to compromise in order to get things done and like his father this in some ways has been his downfall.

I like the liberal way your arguments are false. Bush supports stem cell research, he does not support EMBRYONIC stem cell research. There are other sources of stem cells, you know, and to date there is NOT ONE shred of evidence embryonic stem cells are critical to anything. Even if that turns out to be true, Bush backed using existing embryonic stem cell lines.

Abortion, particularly partial birth abortion, is really just murder. There are no two ways about that.

As for process of law (apparently you mean DUE PROCESS OF LAW), the fact you're hiding is that Clinton & Carter did the same things "liberals" are whining about and nobody whined then. What's the difference? If Bush actually violated some law you know the left would have already impeached and convicted him. The simple fact is you've fallen for the loony lying lefty loser's version of things, the very liberal media lies that you are asking about. You're nothing more than a puppet spouting the party lies. One hopes you will mature and wise up. Stop regurgitating and start thinking for yourself.

Answer 5

The "liberal media" is just a propaganda term that conservatives use to win elections. In reality, the media is moderately to the right and is more or less the tool of the administration -- I don't recall the media saying that there were no WMDs in Iraq or that Bush broke the law on several occasions.

Answer 6

IT IS PROSPECTIVE. I did not see that the Pres. got any help from the media the opposite if any thing. I was in the military and saw how accurate they can be. They left off facts shaded what information they did give out and they posed as though they were the hero's of the piece. It was interesting cause I was there and no media mouth pieces were there. Many of those people who pontificate on their expertise have never been in harms way. I find it interesting but you can not get the info out cause the media does not like to let it out. Tired of hearing I just would like to hear that they are punished maybe those two missing fox news people will begin to understand.

Answer 7

Bush is about as conservative as Clinton.

Bigger government, more control over public schools (no child gets ahead program), socialist global policy, support for the corporate founded UN, sustainable development, refusal to eliminate Roe v. Wade (by handing it back to the states where it belongs), etc.

So anyone who claims that the media has supported Bush - at least at times - you are correct. And anyone who claims that the media has been against Bush - you are also correct. Both parties use the media to play a ballet act in order to influence public opinion. Sometimes the Bush Administration is painted as the bad guy, but the goal of both parties on most issues is shared.

Bush may quote scripture and he may get the support of propaganda tools like Pat Robertson, but his actions clearly show nothing of conservatism. He tramples the Constitution, he lies to the American citizens, his hypocritical administration honors despots who submit to US policy, and he is aligned with the most powerful group of corporate leaders in the world.

Bush is a global socialist. Profit for the elites is king, and socializing populations is the way to control it. The media has been bought and paid for by the corporations seeking a single global economy and most of the information they present us with is meant to keep us off balance, unfocused, and unaware that both parties are corporatists who share the same agenda of bringing us into a single global system.

Answer 8

I love the liberal media! When I hear it I know exactly what to believe. The opposite!!

I agree the media helped get Bush elected. They knew they would make more money off of someone they could do negative reports about and catering to the leftist nutjobs.

Answer 9

I would never call Bush a liberal - never!

I think the media is full of sex and violence so people consider it liberal. So it becomes an easy target for conservatives to focus on their "family values".
However the NEWS content of our networks is not liberal, it has a conservative spin, but is misinformation regardless (watch interational news sometime, its VERY different!)

I think each party will continue to attack the other, regardless of anything that is done. There will always be name calling, dirty campaigns, and corrupt leaders because we are too ignorant to expect more from our politicians.

Answer 10

Just because the media doesn't put a conservative slant on the news doesn't mean that its liberal.
I guess its part of that "you're either with us or against us" attitude
How liberal was the media during the Clinton years?