Will Powerful Media Re-Elect Obama, Subverting Will of the People

 

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Media Bias: The major media in past elections have veiled their pro-Democrat bias. But in this race they've become so militant there's a real risk the election may be rigged for President Obama.

NBC launched its coverage of the GOP convention by essentially accusing Mitt Romney and the GOP of having a racist agenda to oust a black president.

Sitting in the Tampa arena next to NBC veteran Tom Brokaw, MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Monday came unglued while "interviewing" Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.

The hateful invective spewing from his lips was shocking. At times he looked as if he would leap out of his chair and grab Priebus by the neck.

Matthews charged that by pointing out that more Americans than ever now have to resort to food stamps under Obamanomics, Romney was "playing the race card." "You can play your games and giggle about it, but the fact is your side is playing that card," Matthews fumed. "When you start talking about work requirements (for welfare), we know what game you're playing, and everybody knows what game you're playing — it's a race card."

Matthews, whose wife, Kathleen, gave $4,600 to Obama's 2008 campaign, then lectured Priebus that it's the Republicans who are "running a negative campaign." He called RNC ads "garbage."

Then he leaned forward and glowered at the GOP official, who was taken aback by the assault: "You can chuckle about it, Mr. Chairman, because you have to flack this issue, but the fact is you know what's going on."

Astoundingly, Brokaw, the veteran "newsman," did not try to restrain his rabid colleague. Clapping could be heard off-camera.

This was not a Democrat venue. NBC dropped this stink bomb on GOP turf during an official GOP celebration. Never before have we witnessed such palpable bias exhibited by a major media personality in such an official setting.

Such advocacy journalism is also on display in the major print media. The departing New York Times ombudsman, writing last week in his final column, admitted Times staffers are so in the tank for Obama and Democrats that their leftist advocacy "bleeds through" into their coverage.

Times public editor Arthur Brisbane called the paper's newsroom "a culture of like minds." The same could be said for the entire old media still controlling campaign coverage.

They say this race is Romney's to lose. Yet the elite are not only rooting for him to lose, they are actively sabotaging his campaign. Big media polls have been caught oversampling Democratic voters. And all three presidential debates will be hosted by like-minded liberals, including known GOP-hater Candy Crowley of CNN. Fox was snubbed.

If the major media won't give a Republican presidential candidate a fair shot, what does that say about our democratic process? Are voters really participating in a free election if the media elite are rigging it for their candidate?