All This Spin Is Making Me Dizzy
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I just dropped Media Matters from my news reader, thanks to this ridiculously insulting post-primary propaganda: Fox News’ Cameron misrepresented election returns to argue that Lieberman had support among “blue-collar” voters. I thought Media Matters was a media watchdog blog that pointed out instances of conservative bias, but as I’ve grown to suspect and as that post clearly shows, it’s really a media watchdog blog that highlights failures to promote liberal bias.
Obviously, if Lieberman was predicted to lose the blue-collar districts by double digits, but in fact lost one district 48-52 and won another district 52-48, then that’s what I’d call “doing well.” And that’s exactly what Fox News said. There’s no bias of any kind in the full quoted Fox News transcript, but Media Matters chose to highlight one little sentence out of context and spin it to make us think that Fox News reported Lieberman winning a landslide in the blue-collar areas, when in fact they didn’t do anything of the kind. Also, Media Matters, with their title, is trying to trump up Lamont support by suggesting that Lieberman has no support among blue-collar voters, when they themselves go on to point out that Lieberman won 48 and 52 percent of blue collar votes.
Yuck. The Media Matters folks are obviously annoyed that someone had the unmitigated audacity to publicly… um… not trash Joe Lieberman.
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