I don't think that Palin will take part in any presidential debates moderated by the lame insanestreamites.

I figure it is only a matter of time before they qualify themselves for the orange jumpsuits.

At what point do these attempts by the media to alter the outcome of elections become criminal? At what point do they become evidence of a criminal conspiracy?

RICO anyone?

I thought Dan Rather should have been prosecuted for electoral fraud with his faked doc drop against GWB ...
He clearly was trying to steal the election ...

I won't endorse any remedies involving the use of state force against political speech, however flawed. I'd just like more in the MSM to admit they're shills for the Democrats as opposed to being "objective journalists" as they generally claim.

Until that happens, we'll just have to point it out for them.

There is absolutely no reason to believe a single word published, spoken or shown by the MSM today. None. Even when they manage to tell the truth, it's only in service to their political ends. They even lie by omission when it suits them.

I'm done.

A point I try to make relentlessly. The media is made up (almost entirely) of Liberal Democrat Union members, (so is Hollywood) and they intentionally influence the public mind by what they insist on focusing on, and by what they refuse to report.

In our anger at this kind of bias and corruption in the MSM, we must remember that it is all part of the Left's larger Gramscian "long march through the culture" strategy to discredit and undermine a major cultural institution that is critical for the functioning of a successful democracy.

Some in the MSM may just be "biased" ... but others in the Left's upper leadership want to destroy our faith and confidence in our sources of news and information because they know full well that this will lead to chaos and confusion at the polls and after the election.

They seek to foment the anarchy and violence that will result when we no longer trust the electoral process so that people will turn to THEM when they come riding like knights on white horses to re-establish order with their Statist authoritarianism.

Jeffersonian,

I think the lie by omission is the MSM's greatest tool. What they choose not to cover or talk about is often more important than the leftist bias present in stories they do cover. Notice, as an example the period of silence long after the Climate-gate scandal broke in England. I'm not even sure all the major news media have even run stories on this major story even up till today.

I hope that Christine's lawyers are filing not only a lawsuit against that station but formal complaints with the FEC and FCC (i know...fat lot that will do with a Obamaunists running them AT THE MOMENT).

Political ads are a very different kettle of fish then regular commercials-if they fail to run on the day and the time they were bought for the station is in a BIG heap of trouble. There are hefty fines and the possible loss of their license to broadcast.

An excuse like "the master tape/disk provided was unairable because of [insert reason here]and it was the weekend and we couldn't get another copy" does NOT wash in these situations. If it was on the log and the master control operator failed to air it that person in ANY TV station would have been fired within 5 minutes (seeing as it was a weekend), immediately if it were a weekday.

Crawdad and Jeffersonian,

Yes, the lie by omission became the media's S.O.P. after 2004, when the MSM found that actually reporting a thing and trying to spin it didn't work. By 2006 they just ignored what they didn't like and that worked much better for them.

Of course, as their audience continues to shrink and alternatives grow, this technique will diminish in utility, as well, and by 2012 or soon after they may have to go back to acknowledging things that are already all over the internet, and trying to spin.

Crawdad and Jeffersonian,

Yes, the lie by omission became the media's S.O.P. after 2004, when the MSM found that actually reporting a thing and trying to spin it didn't work. By 2006 they just ignored what they didn't like and that worked much better for them.

Of course, as their audience continues to shrink and alternatives grow, this technique will diminish in utility, as well, and by 2012 or soon after they may have to go back to acknowledging things that are already all over the internet, and trying to spin.

Vote with your feet.... don't watch, don't read and especially DON'T BUY any of their worthless crap. The future of all of them should be CNN - drowning beneath the waves of viewers tuning them out.

'lanched:

http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/108936/

what Christine needs to do immediately is show receipt and payment for the spots... no need for lawyers, because she needs to show to the VOTER that she spent the money... if she can't show that, well then things are murkier, and she might as well let it drop... because that is a cash business, fi they had the cash in hand, then the FEC might be interested but the electorate surely would be.

"if you wrote this kind of media bias into a script"

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

The Fountainhead

The Fourth estate is the Fifth Column.

I'd think that ABC was just being part of the lame, insanestream media who lie, cheat, make up, disavow, and do every imaginable corrupt thing ... as long as it allows them to maintain their socialist street cred.

Jeffersonian wrote, "There is absolutely no reason to believe a single word published, spoken or shown by the MSM today. None. Even when they manage to tell the truth, it's only in service to their political ends. They even lie by omission when it suits them."

Glad to see this update to Tom Jefferson's original words: "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle." --Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Norvell (June 11, 1807)

Nice quote, Nate. I may have to appropriate and promulgate.