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Post-Election Day 2009 spin and bias from The Usual Suspects
First, sorry for the light blogging today. Was hectic at the 8-5 and I’ve got a bit of a headache coming on this evening.
Ok on to the media bias and lefty spin post-Election Day (but I repeat myself …)
—– In light of the big GOP wins last night in VA and NJ, you’d think even a paper as solidly liberal as the LA Times would have no choice but to make those wins their top headline, right? Wrong. Patterico has the screencap from the LAT’s website from this morning where the top headline was …. “Democrats win Congressional victories in California, N.Y.” The smaller subheadline read, “The GOP fares better in Virginia and New Jersey as both states elect Republican Governors.”
As of this writing, the direct link to the article sports the same headline and subheadline.
Think there were a few sour grapes in the LAT’s newsroom overnight last night? Yup – me, too.
—–Obama-loving journo and MSDNC commentator Andrea Mitchell was feeling and showing some major love for Obama’s senior advisor David Axelturf this morning during an interview in which she invoked the classic movie Casablanca in discussing both HBO’s loving Obadocumentary (which aired last night) and the NY-23 race. The money quote? “Well, we loved you in the HBO documentary, and we’ll always have the New York 23rd.” Nudge nudge, wink wink! Watch the laughable exchange here.
—– And speaking of MSDNC, OlbermannWatch writes about how MSDNC’s election coverage was inadequate, even for MSDNC, and noted that liberal icon Keith Olbermann was not around to do the “special live 10:00 PM edition of Countdown.” Come to find out, KO was visiting his dad in the hospital, which is understandable but still doesn’t explain why MSDNC chose not to have someone else fill that timeslot on a big election night. Show of hands how many of you think they would have had last night been huge for the Dems? (Looks around) Yep, that’s all of you.
—– A “senior administration official” told Jake Tapper that last night’s Dem victory over Doug Hoffman meant that Democrats were “2-0″ versus Sarah Palin. Huh? Even if that could be called a “victory” against Sarah Palin, wouldn’t that make it 1-0? Well, considering this administration can’t count worth a crap when it comes to – for example – how much money their healthcare plan will “save” over a several year period (in reality, there will be no “savings”) and how much it will add to the deficit (in reality, it is definitely not “deficit neutral”), I guess I shouldn’t be so surprised.
—– Jonah Goldberg calls out multiple media outlets and pundits on their declarations that last night’s elections were more “anti-incumbent” than anti-anything else. As Goldberg correctly notes, it was Democrat incubments who lost in VA and NJ. Duh.
—– William Jacobson tackles the lefty spinsanity that yesterday’s elections were allegedly “good” for Democrats, especially on the healthcare issue, because they picked up an additional seat in the House. Some lefty bloggers were actually suggesting that the Dems picked up two seats last night, but the CA-10 race was one which stayed in Democrat hands.
There they go with that counting problem again.
—– And finally …. and surprisingly without spin, the NYT reported today on some surprising Republican gains in some local races in NY. Wonders never will cease …
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Nancy Pelosi – “We won last night!”
In other news, Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia, Oceania has never been at war with Eastasia.
No, by that logic it would be 2-0, the first such loss being the 2008 Presidential election. So to the extent NY-23 was about Sarah Palin (!), the 2 figure is right, but query where the 0 comes from. It’s not as though she’s never run for any other office and, like, won. Oh wait, I almost forgot that gubernatorial races don’t count. Never mind.
X – maybe he meant 2-0 in the “Age of Axelbama”?
I had forgotten about her losing in last year’s election. I’ve been trying to forget that election for months now. Looks like I succeeded, at least temporarily
I love my hometown paper, only you got the name wrong: it’s “The Los Angeles Bird-Cage Liner.”
Once again the DNC slips up and admits that the person they really fear is Sarah Palin.
“I’ve been trying to forget that election for months now.”
Lord, haven’t we all.
Whatever the results, the WH will give it a “new spin” and we will all be happy with BO. Since when do you spend your way out of debt? When is a loss, a victory? Since when is the new nationalism actually contempt for your own country? How do people reconcile this guy? And how can you blame Bush when you are the C in C who cannot make a decision? Yet, many American citizens who I talk to still think this guy is the new Messiah!
Nothing like an old, tired Dem, that Andrea Mitchell. She’s about as disgusting as Keithe Ober-the-top-for-Obama-man.
You obviously are unmutual and not a follower of AMSOC. You are doubleplusungood and obviously a follower of Goldstein, don’t you know that weakness is strength, ignorance is strength, failure is success?
I do believe we should have a great indie film made based on Orwell’s 1984….it would prove interesting to see how the libs foam at the mouth to decry the inference made about their political correctness and diversity bull-tinky.
RE the spin, this is just about what I expected…the follow up polls tend to say that Obama’s personal popularity had nothing to do with why people voted the way they did. That only makes me wonder, are these same people still expecting Obama to do some work while he’s in office beside stumping for losing candidates?
This video seems fitting for the occasion.
Thank you Anthony – I needed a little levity!
Anthony that was priceless!
Whoever would have thought that Rand, Orwell, and Huxley would turn out to be optimists?
That’s a work of genius, Anthony – thanks!!
(except for the “most of NJ is fat” line… )