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"Spare change? C'mon... help a brother out"
Over at Investors Business Daily which is the Wall Street Journal for people who need Marmaduke explained to them, William Tate is pointing out media bias by the buttload:
The New York Times' refusal to publish John McCain's rebuttal to Barack Obama's Iraq op-ed may be the most glaring example of liberal media bias this journalist has ever seen. But true proof of widespread media bias requires one to follow an old journalism maxim: Follow the money.
Even the Associated Press — no bastion of conservatism — has considered, at least superficially, the media's favoritism for Barack Obama. It's time to revisit media bias.
True to form, journalists are defending their bias by saying that one candidate, Obama, is more newsworthy than the other. In other words, there is no media bias. It is we, the hoi polloi, who reveal our bias by questioning the neutrality of these learned professionals in their ivory-towered newsrooms.
Which is Tate's way of telling IBD that they are not an elite media institution headquartered in an ivory tower but, instead, are more like the PennySaver published out of a one-room apartment that smells like masturbation and ass.
But never mind that... let's follow the money!
Hmmmmm.
Well it certainly looks like the good folks at Fox are hedging their bets and not exactly throwing their Mighty Murdoch Bucks at eighty eight year-old John McCain.
¿Dónde está Hannity? Doocy? Kilmeade? Why are they not rendering unto McCaesar the things which are McCaesar’s? I mean, at least O'Reilly has an excuse for being a little short on cash until payday.
The only fair and balanced conclusion we can arrive at is that nobody at Fox wants to place a bet on a horse that has a date with the glue factory....
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I’m not sure Mr. Tate had this in mind calling for more media press bias toward Krusty:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....14659.html
These kind of accounting tricks have been around for a long time, they add up the contributions of the copy boys and office staffs of he news organizations, and conveniently leave out the large contributions of the board members and other corporate officers. Yes, the low level office staffers contribute to Democrats, as do most of the researchers and other salaried employees.
Reporters rarely make political contributions of any stripe, and besides, the total amounts here are miniscule for organizations as large as these. The microscopic amount from Fox News probably means that the office staff is probably so underpaid that they can’t afford to make any contributions at all.
TBogg, your humor is too subtle for me. I kept looking for the part about the guy begging for spare change and couldn’t find it. Then I looked back at the picture. D’OH!
(P.S. You are pretty funny sometimes . . . )
…a one-room apartment that smells like masturbation and ass.
Great, now I’m going to be laughing all day. And when people ask why, I’m going to have to try to make something up on the spot.
Tate:
Aren’t these the same people who are always going on about the unfairness of the Fairness Doctrine?
SCENE: Two “newsmen” standing at the rail at Churchhill Downs. Large, powerful black stallion parades by, then old, speckled gray swayback.
Sean H: Who da ya like?
Bill R: You’re kidding right?
Sean H: But this gray one, “Bomb Bomb Johnny” looks like a decent price at 90-1.
Bill R looks at racing form:
Bill R: Maybe, but it says here that last race he changed direction four times before finishing dead last.
Sean H: But the stallion is 2-5. You can’t make any money off of him.
Bill R: Maybe you’re right. I’ll just put $2 bucks on him and save the rest of my cash for a new loofah.