Mar

12

2010

Objective Journalism – take 1,456,435,789

by Skip

From NewsBusters:

It was the MSM version of "win one for the Gipper."  A manifestly moved Andrea Mitchell told a Dem congressman that with Pres. Obama having put so much on the line for health care reform, "you’ve got to get this for him."

Mitchell, ostensibly a "correspondent," her voice brimming with emotion, made her heart-felt plea to Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) during her 1 PM MNSBC show today.

ANDREA MITCHELL: Bottom line, what happens if you don’t get health care for this president is, this is really all-or-nothing for the sense of his power, his legacy, he’s invested so much in this, in this first year. You’ve got to get this for him.

Yeah, that’s certainly an objective viewpoint from a stalwart of the MainStream Media – "we report…and tell you what to think too!" Let us translate for this highly esteemed (at least on the Left) report (and cheerleader for) on the aspect of Obamacare. 

Poor President Obama, he so certainly deserves this – why, he’s golfed worked so hard on this – all 11 pages and 411 speeches.  And let’s not forget all those frequent flier miles in Air Force One for all those speeches!  His Presidency is at stake!  And it is all because of those rotten, selfish Republicans who won’t vote for him and his sterling oratory!

Right!  Those self same Republicans can’t hold ANYTHING up – but since many journalists can’t do even simple math, the numbers just don’t add for them (including the unemployment stats for their industry either).

Look, I have no problem with those that opine – that’s what Fox News does most nights.  But that’s what they do – they make NO claims to be objective (as opposed to the actual news story folks). 

Andrea Mitchell IS supposed to be objective – will she be the next to jump the line and just go work for Obama (like a larger and larger number have already done)?

Speaking of downslope number (journalism unemployment) – haven’t they figured out that it is this kind of reporting (good thing that all 5 of her viewers were just starting to tune in) that is causing their dismal rating – and for Fox’s to continue to climb?

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by Skip Murphy

Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom (and how Government is taking that away from us). My fight, from a Conservative (with small "L" libertarian leanings) and evangelical Christian perspective, is with the Progressives that are forcing a collectivized and secular humanistic future upon us. As TEA Party activist, citizen journalist (and pundit!), my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture again.

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