Well after a years worth of debating and clashed. On the politics circuit . The voters spoke yesterday. The democrats have won the majority in the house by a few seats and as we speek the Senate is still undecided. Looks like it leaning more towards a democratic congress then a split one.

Anyway the reason behind this post is to point out even though there was a Democratic win. I consider this a win for Conservatives. For the las year the news has been filled with anti republican commentary and reporting from the left wing media. ABC news did a study and figured that 77% of all news stories favored democrats. And 12% favored republicans. Which is a startling number.

But even with all of these biased news story's saturating the people of america. The democrats where only able to squeeze out a house victory and really squeeze out a senate win if they get it. So i was wondering the other day what would the face of U.S. politcs look like if the story's reported in the media where 77% rep and 12 democratic. Would we ever have any democrat in office again. Or even if the reporting was 50/50 would we have democrats in office again.

And please lets keep the We won you lost post to a minimum. This thread is about the clear disparity in news reporting and the effects it has on our country and it's people. Weather it's good or bad.

"And please lets keep the We won you lost post to a minimum. This thread is about the clear disparity in news reporting and the effects it has on our country and it's people. Weather it's good or bad."

>>>Ahhh, that old, familiar, time-worn Republican whipping boy - the media. Tell me, Gix, did the media send the troops to Iraq? Did the media create Abu Ghraib? Did the media authorize Bush to tap your phone and e-mails?

The American people spoke and now we get to see if the Dems can do anything more orginal than raise min wage and fund entitlements.

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Im not even going there. I concede that the dems one and that is that. Im not going to cry about it and as easy as it maybee to take a cheap shot at your above post i wont. So do you think the results would of been the same if the republican favoring story's dominated 77% of the news coverage

Yes, I think there would be. First I believe that most people in both parties believe that the media is biased. We tend to watch what we agree with most of the time, so as to solidify our opinions. However, we also watch the shows we don't agree with, so that we have something to argue against.

Second, there will always be differences of opinions, feelings, emotions, and things that we are passionate about. Thats why there will should always be at least 2 parties, if not more, in the United States. The democrats would not lay down and play dead simply if the statistics were reversed, no more than the repubs did.

Third, statistics, while they honest, may not always be accurate. Ask yourself what those news stories were. I am sure during Clintons admin. that those same statistics would not have looked favorably for the dems because of the actions in the white house.

As much as i would like to chime in lets keep this thread on topic. What do you say about the news coverage being 77% vavorable towards the democrats

Have you ever notices that the media stories are always (1) The Democrats are winning or (2) What do the Democrats have to do to win. Its obvious to me that to the media the Democrats are the natural rulers of this country and the Republicans are the invaders trying to take over the country.

Of the entitlements, are we speaking of helping the poor, disabled, veterans, schools, health care?

How about million dollar tax breaks for big corporations, or farm subsidies, most of which go to large corporations. These are entitlements.

The media does have a bias. You admitted yourself just yesterday that you had no idea about rendition in the 90's. Why do you think that was? The media DID know about it then. There is proof of that. The media picks and chooses what they want to make an issue. They didn't choose that and it was a big issue, you even said it was. I will quit saying the media doesn't have a bias when you can come up with a good explanation for them not covering items such as this. If not then it would seem to be a clear case of bias.

With that being said, I don't think the media was necessarily the reason teh Republicans lost. I think they lost because of their connection with Bush who is not popular. I also think that there are going to be some pissed off Democrats and independents when they found out they were voting for far left leadership. Kind of like those western Democrats. huh George? I don't think they have much in common with Pelosi and Rangel. Now these dipshits will be speaking ALL the time and I say the more the better. Americans will get to see what they voted for and they can really make a decision then.

Very true in my state. Our local major paper on a very regular basis prints for the left and will not deny being partial to democrats.

This is still a small portion as to why republicans lost; a griping point at best. We don't need them to win elections and never have. The RNC has millions and should know better then to rely on main stream media and wasted an opportunity to smash them again