Posted by
Gamecock on Sunday, October 29, 2006 9:27:37 AM
WaPo Still Trails Grey Lady in MSM Lie-Fest '06 Despite Cardin Ad-"Poll"
Given the Washington Post's front page Sunday wake-up poll showing Democrat Ben Cardin surging to a double digit lead in the Maryland U.S. Senate race against Republican nominee Michael Steele, despite Cardin's cancellation of a debate following on the heels of a shellacking at Steele's hands in a debate the night before, one can only conclude that all Cardin needs do to bury Steele would be for Cardin to run naked at Annapolis shouting anti-Naval epithets.
The MSM mass insult to the intelligence continues. A host of Red State all stars, citing poll internals skewed to Democrats and away from Independents, have deconstructed the poll's credibility quite nicely in comments to the below blog entry last night:
New Wash Post poll has Cardin beating Steele 54-43%
This morning, Hugh Hewitt rips the poll to shreds with some interesting additional evidence that the poll is little more than a desperate October surprise ad for Cardin, with the Post acting like what The American Spectator's Jed Babbin calls, the 527-Media.
Link to Babbin's August 2006 column when he first coined the "527 Media" phrase and suggested that the RNC treat the MSM as such in ads.
Hewitt, in his Town hall blog, cites pollster Charlie Cook as declaring the race a toss-up as late as Friday. WaPo didn't deem Cook's move "fit to print". Hugh suggests the Post may have crossed a line with Maryland's Black voters with this bending over backwards grotesque advocacy for Cardin who beat former NAACP hear Kweisi Mfume in a bitter Democrat Party primary for the right to face Steele, also Black, in the general election.
Read the whole Hugh Hewitt piece.
Thus continues the print MSM Prevaricating March to the Sea (read Chesapeake Bay) of eventual weekly legal organ status. Let's let the Doctor of Democracy review recent history as we close:
The media in this country lied about hurricane Katrina and the aftermath -- and they gave themselves Pulitzer Prizes for doing so. They lie constantly about the status of the Iraq war. They lied about Karl Rove in the Valerie Plame matter. They not only lied about Bush's National Guard records, they engaged in a conspiracy to create forged documents to further what they knew was a lie.
The Drive-By Media lies constantly about the economy. They lie about our judicial nominees. They lie about John Bolton. They lie about Donald Rumsfeld. They lie about Condoleezza Rice. They lie about Dick Cheney. They will lie about anybody who gets in their way. They lie about Halliburton. They lie about oil profits. They lie about tax cuts and how they are effective. They lie about practically everything. They carry the water for the Democrat Party. They carry the water for liberal elites, for anti-capitalists in the environmentalist movement and elsewhere. They carry the water for the appeasement crowd, the socialist elites in Western Europe. When someone stands up to them and questions them in their tactics, they try to intimidate and destroy.
Just think. Think about the last three days. There are literally hundreds of stories over the last three days about me. They're not focused on the phony science involving embryos. They're not focused on any aspect of the issue that the ad that Michael J. Fox produced attempts to persuade people about. They're not focusing on it. I wonder why? Because they know it's not a winning issue. The only way it's a winning issue is if nobody stands up to the ad. The only way it's a winning issue if nobody challenges the lie and the misrepresentation that they put forth in the ad. For three days, we've had news stories about me. No focus on the phony science involving the embryos." - Rush Limbaugh
This column was originally posted at Red State.
DeVine-Gamecock is also a contributing writer for www.race42008.com.
"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan