Has the Democratic Media Really Swayed the Public in Voting for a Democratic President in 2008?

Question

This is by far the most polarized election I have seen. The Democratic Media has come out full force in deluging the American public about however everything Republican is negative... How much do you really believe?

Answer 1

No need to - Geo. W. Bush has done a wonderful job, thank you !!

Answer 2

You can believe the media is liberal or Democratic or whatever makes you feel better about how this country feels about the Republicans right now. But I don't need the media to tell me what I already know is true.

When the media reports how many died in Iraq each day, or how Cheney thinks he's above the law, or shows a speech from George Bush that reeks of rhetoric, talking points and b.s., I don't need the media to tell me a damn thing. My President made a huge mistake in lying to me when he gave that yellow cake intel as legit in his 2003 SOTU Address. Come to find out he knew it was bogus. They all knew it, the CIA had told them repeatedly it was b.s. But use it they did, and the disgust I feel over that is boundless.

When the President pardons someone convicted of a crime solely because he's afraid he'll talk when that jail door slams shut on him I don't need the media to see the forest AND the trees. The examples of what Bush and Cheney and his scandal ridden Administration have done are almost too many to list here.

The media doesn't need to push for a Democratic win in '08. Fully 2/3's of the country has had enough of this war. They may be mad at the Congress for not doing enough to stop it but they still know who's to blame for this mess - The Decider and his rubber stamp Congress who kissed his behind until the Democrats took over this January. They remain obstructionists to anything the Democrats try to do about the war and they're going to pay for it by being soundly defeated in '08.

Answer 3

I'm unclear,

Let's review from a media perspective, we have "on the left", there's PBS/NPR, the NYTimes, LA Times, and occasionally CNN, and Keith Olberman is allowed to speak on MSNBC for the time being and the Daily Show. Occasionally, these media outlets put out NON-BIASED news, so lets just lump that together with the Liberal media stuff too, arguably the Economist and Foreign Affairs Quarterly are pretty consistently unbiased. so let's include them too.

And there is exactly one explicity democratic radio program, with a listerer base about 1/3 of Rush Limbaugh's daily show.

VS.

The WSJ, The Daily News, The Post, The Washington Post, The Chronicle, The Weekly Standard, the AEI, The Conservative Caucus, The Heritage Foundation, the 700 club, Nearly every AM radio station and lest we forget the most popular "news" program on TV, Fox News, which is directly and indirectly influenced or controlled by- whom again - exactly.

From a political perspective until the last election, both houses of Congress, the Judiciary and the Presidency were under single party/Republican control.

It was only when corruption, child endangerment and cronyism became SO rampant coupled with the shrill fear-cries for more unwarranted war coming from the neoconservatives became ever moreso, that Republicans turned on each other.

It's not that the Republican's "ran out of ideas" it's that they hit the wall of hipocracy pretty freaking hard, the Neocons hit so hard they're still trying to figure out who's employed at the American Enterprise Institute.

The Democrats for their part got power out of disgust and haven't really "done" anything with it. Coupled with a president so seems ever more out of touch with reality and particularly incapable of empathy, it must be very cold comfort in deed that soliders returning injured or traumatized still hear the same rhetoric instead of concern for their wellbeing, and those of their fellow soliders.

Furthermore , there is a profound incapacity to even consider the atrocity of destruction that we bequeathed to the Iraqi people.

To my mind, considering the tremendous number of dead in such a short period of time, to say nothing of the impact of injury or economic destruction, the term "War crimes" doesn't seem quite to do justice to what chaos WE set loose in Iraq, this will of course spread throughout the middle east and cause more trauma and more death and distruction, so at the end of the day what has been done, we destablized an entire region of the globe upon which we depend for a vital national interest.

How could anyone vote Republican after the last 8 years of incomptence, corruption, delusion and death.

Answer 4

So when Bush was elected twice, were the media all owned by Republicans? Did they all switch parties or have the media all been sold since then?

The truth is that most Americans are disgusted with our government. The faithful few are trying hard to find some sort of conspiracy to blame, but people are not so easily deceived. The media reflect the feelings of the public, not the other way around.

Answer 5

They haven't swayed me. Simply because I have yet to hear what any of them stand for. That counts for those from both parties. However, I do have a fear about a Democrat in the White House and that party maintaining a majority in both Houses of the Congress. The party is not the one I could recognize from my youth. Even its leaders have fallen under the sway of the group which first accomplished its "coup d'etat" at the Democratic convention of 1972. The delegates to its convention in these times are an overwhelming majority from government civil service and non-profit agencies. Gone are the members of organized labor and the "mom and pop" business operators.
The Republicans have come under the sway of those who, to call it correctly, are members of the Christian Falange. Their political stances are quite similar to the Falangists who once held office in places like Spain, Portugal, and many nations in Central and South America.
Fortunately, I do not rely on the media to let me know who to vote for. Never have done that. And I haven't missed voting in any general, primary, or special election since first being eligible to vote in 1960.

Answer 6

sigh..It's all perspective.

Unless you were speaking ironically I assume you meant "media controlled by Democrats"

There's only one network that constantly spouts the party line, and that's Fox cable...

I don't think Rupert Murdoch is really a conservative ideologue as much as just a Greedy old Aussie. While he's selling "family values" and "victory" on Fox cable he's selling jiggle and wiggle weather girls on Fox to panting beer drinking twenty year olds. While he's selling the Immigration crisis on Fox Cable he's selling soap to Latinos on "Fox en Espanol"

My Liberal friends say that the media is controlled by the right..I just say the majority of media is controlled by angry anti-intellectuals who believe what they hear on AM radio.

Isn't is just possible that people have looked around and don't like things the way they are?

Answer 7

It is not a polarized election. Most folks just happen to realize that Bush and Cheney have done a horrible job and some horrible things. It is absolutely amazing that some folks still support him. Just what does he have to do to open your eyes? Anyway, what Democratic media? The media was on his side until it became obvious that his side was against this country's best interests--not just with the war and the lying that went on, but in every single area of his administration. Awaken!!!!

Answer 8

You mean the same Democratic Media that endorsed Bush in 2000?
This soap box is really worn out and noone buys it - give up on it.

Answer 9

I think what you mean to say is that Americans are not listening to Fox and Rush anymore and have been getting their info from Europe.

I think the citizens got tired of those fake elevated terror alerts last election and don't want to hear anymore 9/11 'be afraid' tactics to get their votes.

Answer 10

Actully, I really hate to mention this. But it's sad but true that the repubicans are the ones doing that. So they turn it around by saying that liberals are doing exactly that and not them. But either side has their own tactics to hammer each other.

And you know, people just do not know how to just get along and working together to achieve common goals, yet they live and work next door to each other. Good enough, yes?

Answer 11

This is for everyone still complaining about GW Bush; he is not running for president anymore. It is a waste of time to complain about him concerning the election of 2008. It also demonstrates to me that you all are not thinking about this country but your loathsome hate instead. How long will it take for reality to intrude on your hate?