Media bias was more intense in the 2008 election than in any other national campaign in recent history, Time magazine's Mark Halperin said Friday at the Politico/USC conference on the 2008 election.
"It's the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war," Halperin said at a panel of media analysts. "It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage."
reply #3 from Pennsykid2000:
So the media did a better job in the 2004 campaign, in highlighting Bush's failures? going public with the warrantless wire-tapping? calling out the Swiftboat Liars smears of Kerry? following up on the truthfulness of Bush's dubious record in the Texas Guard (rather than on the narrow authenticity of a letter about Bush) in avoiding service in Vietnam? in evaluating the economic impact of Bush's tax cuts for the rich and his exploding deficits? in pressing Bush on who authorized torture at Abu Ghraib? on communicating to the public the total failure of Bush to plan for the occupation of Iraq? If it had done even a half-assed job on any of those, Bush would have lost in 2004. So, don't tell me the "bias in the 2008 campaign was worse than any other in living memory". That's crap.
Mark Halperin's sad little crusade for right-wing blessings
Mark Halperin the prognosticator:
In the run-up to the 2006 Congressional elections, Halperin predicted that George W. Bush would be "back over 53% any day now" and warned "If I were them [Democrats], I'd be scared to death about November's elections". In fact, the Democrats regained control of both houses of Congress and George W. Bush's approval rating remained in the 30s.
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