MSM Bias Moment of the Day
John on February 22, 2008 at 11:42 am
Back on August 27th, Time magazine reported on the death of an officer who had hit an obstruction while escorting President Bush as part of a motorcade. I wrote about their outrageous headline here. The story itself is expired over at Time, but you can still see the headline here. Plus, I screencaped it for posterity. Here it is:
Today, Time reports on the death of an officer in Hillary Clinton’s motorcade. Here’s the headline from that story.
Both incidents involved motorcycle officers. The Bush incident took place in Albuquerque. Today’s incident happened in Dallas. In short, these are very similar stories. Why such dramatically different headlines? Perhaps someone from Time would care to explain.
Category: MSM & Bias |
Simply put, Time, CNN and the rest of the left wing press hate Bush, and love liberals. Doesn’t everyone know that?
February 22, 2008 @ 12:15 pmWhy dont you know the Evil Bush wanted the officer to die while the saintly Hillary only wants the best for the officer and his family.
Thier stripes have been showing for some time now.
February 22, 2008 @ 12:19 pmYou know, of course, The Times will not explain. How do you go about confessing your own bias? Thankfully, the communistic slant of the New York Times has been exposed, and is now clear to Millions of on-lookers.
Just keep up the good work, and keep on exposing the evil that is the New York Times, and we will all hope that one-day soon they will either go out business, or be taken over by someone who believes in fairness and truth.
February 22, 2008 @ 12:25 pmOf course over at Democrat Underground, they’re following up on the frame established for them by the Mainstream Media. i..e, Bush caused the deaths, and then moved on casually, perhaps while laughing. Hillary has shown the immensity of her character by mentioning the death at the foot of her second rally appearance of the day. And, predictably, that this is a dry run of a hit job on Hilldog or Obama.
It is an irony that men such as the Dalas police office who passed today are sometimes duty-bound to protect the lives of fundamentally indecent scum such as are progressives.
Quotes/Links:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102×3193146
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4715114&mesg_id=4715114
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4714289&mesg_id=4714746
Bonus!! A DUmmy commenting on Mccain’s charp words about Castro:
“You’d think after spending years in prison for illegally bombing one country, he’d develop a bit of perspective.”
February 22, 2008 @ 1:01 pmHave you considered that they learned a lesson?
February 22, 2008 @ 1:10 pmWere two cops killed escorting Bush? I lived at Hickam AFB at the time the motorcycle cop was killed in President Bush’s motorcade and I distinctly remember that it happened at the main gate of the base.
February 22, 2008 @ 1:12 pmHonestly, if you are obsessing over petty details like this you really need to find something better to do with your life.
February 22, 2008 @ 1:18 pm[...] enough title? I tried to make it as least biasand bland as possible. Apparently this would make it the third time in the last 18 months that an [...]
February 22, 2008 @ 2:38 pm“the communistic slant of the New York Times has been exposed…..”
Jerry, do you actually know what communism is? Because it’s a real thing, a belief system that people in various parts of the world have tried to implement, never with any success. But, and this is an important point, you don’t have any of it in the United States. None. The Democrat party is as far from Communism as the Republican Party is from fascism (and by that I mean a very long way, incidentally).
For all propoganda is a charactersitic of all ‘communist’ governments, it is not their exclusive preserve, nor the preserve of extremists, nor the left or the right. Oh, and the article is about Time Magazine, which even I know is different from the New York times.
February 22, 2008 @ 3:26 pmwhat is missing from this story is a recounting of the fact that the officer was distracted by the string of slurs, invective and expletives Hillary was shouting at him at the time.
February 22, 2008 @ 4:16 pmAnybody who dont see the bias leftwing dribble in the msm has already lost to the commies,islamic terror,facisim and is just a victim of war .
February 22, 2008 @ 4:41 pmI really don’t know how an excerpt from my blog post ended up as a comment on here… #8 to be exact…
February 22, 2008 @ 5:02 pm“Honestly, if you are obsessing over petty details like this you really need to find something better to do with your life.”
The Democratic Party took 16 words, changed one from “sought” to “bought” with the connivance of the media, and then proceeded to make it the common wisdom that the President of the United States lied in a State of the Union address. Not one Democrat… almost all of them, including all the leaders! Is that a petty detail? It is the kind that media liars perpetrate every day in this country, while they moan about “partisan” politics.
I’ll remember that the next time I hear a Democrat claiming that “Words matter.” Are we at war with Oceania or EastAsia?
February 22, 2008 @ 5:39 pmPresidenToor,
#8 is a trackback. You created it when you linked to my post.
February 22, 2008 @ 5:45 pmThe Bush headline makes it sound as if Bush’s motorcade did something to deliberately kill a cop — perhaps running down some poor guy who was just trying to direct traffic when the cruel and heartless minions of Bush callously ran him down.
The Clinton headline makes it sound as if somebody outside the Clinton camp — one of her many heartless critics, perhaps — deliberately killed one of our brave boys in blue as he was trying to protect the former First Lady from her insidious enemies.
You can’t tell me that was accidental.
February 22, 2008 @ 5:48 pm[...] For a screen shot of the two headlines side by side, visit Verum Serum. [...]
February 23, 2008 @ 12:08 amJohn, I should have added that this is a great post. Seriously good blogging that manages to say so much in so few words. I’m impressed.
February 23, 2008 @ 2:41 am[...] For a screen shot of the two headlines side by side, visit Verum Serum. [...]
February 23, 2008 @ 4:01 amWhat Media Bias…
Verum Serum brings us the MSM Bias Moment of the Day:Back on August 27th, Time magazine reported on the death of an officer who had hit an obstruction while escorting President Bush as part of a motorcade. I wrote about…
February 23, 2008 @ 9:06 am[...] Verum Serum brings us the MSM Bias Moment of the Day: Back on August 27th, Time magazine reported on the death of an officer who had hit an obstruction while escorting President Bush as part of a motorcade. I wrote about their outrageous headline here. The story itself is expired over at Time, but you can still see the headline here. Plus, I screencaped it for posterity. Here it is: [...]
February 23, 2008 @ 9:49 amI’m a Motor Officer in Las Vegas, and had the duty of escorting Bush when he was here a few weeks ago. Prior to his visit, we trained on dignitary escort. As part of the training, we reviewed the incident in Hawaii. Interestingly, when the motors (there were four that went down) crashed in Hawaii, Bush had his medical team stop and see if they could render aid. I’m not a big conspiracy theory guy, but I never saw that reported. I wonder if Hillary did the same thing in Dallas…
February 23, 2008 @ 12:14 pmI heard something yesterday about one of Reagan’s motorcades, where an officer went down on his motorcycle (was not killed) but his gun flew out of his holster and Reagan actually open the door to his car, jumped out and ran to the loose gun to secure it, causing all of his secret service men have to jump onto him…
I wonder what those headlines read? I can only imagine.
Great post John.
February 23, 2008 @ 1:17 pmWhat Media Bias?…
Here is how Time describes the deaths of two police officers.
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February 23, 2008 @ 1:31 pm[...] bias for one thing. Check this [...]
February 23, 2008 @ 5:05 pmNo liberal media bias?…
Two officers killed in two different motorcade processions, protecting two different politicians. Check out Time magazine headlined each story.
February 23, 2008 @ 5:17 pmBut liberal media bias doesn’t exist – or so I’ve been told.
Move along here. Nothing to see….
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February 26, 2008 @ 10:29 amOnce again, you pour the Verum Serum all over those who need it most.
February 26, 2008 @ 11:17 amThanks, Matthew, we try.
BTW, I did contact Time about this asking for some explanation. Apparently they aren’t concerned that 10K people have seen this post since Friday.
February 26, 2008 @ 2:27 pmWhat a pile of crap. The headlines say the same thing. You could argue the second was biased against the democrats, as it says Man died escorting Clinton. As if it was sexual joke You see bias when it is not there. You are right wing extrtemists. Utterly mad
February 27, 2008 @ 10:25 amObviously English is not your first language.
February 27, 2008 @ 11:02 amDear “Shut Up,”
This isn’t rocket science! If you look at the two side by side, the difference in what is implied can’t be missed. Let’s try it again:
1st Headline: “Bush Motorcade Kills Cop”
2nd Headline: “Officer Killed Escorting Clinton”
In the first headline, the obvious implication is that the motorcade had a direct hand in KILLING the cop. The verb KILL means to perform an act which takes the life of someone. The cop is the object of the verb KILL which is performed by the motorcade. Thus, they are saying that the motorcade actually KILLED the cop.
In the second headline, the implication is that the officer was killed during the process of escorting Clinton, in the line of duty. Clinton and her motorcade aren’t in the position of taking the KILLING action. The action took place apart from the actions of the Clinton motorcade.
Again, Mr/Ms “Shut Up,” this isn’t that difficult. Let me know if you need some further explanation. I’m sure my 1st grader can help you out.
February 27, 2008 @ 11:09 am[...] first saw this article at Verum Serum this past weekend, when I came across the link at Brutally Honest. I didn’t have anything to [...]
February 28, 2008 @ 8:01 amI hope Shut Up Right Wing Extremists isn’t actually Kevin Maguire of the Daily Mirror, since he seems, otherwise, to be a relatively intelligent bloke. I’m a Guardian reading leftie, and I can see the bias. If you can’t, then you shouldn’t be a journalist.
March 2, 2008 @ 3:36 pmThe IP does trace back to Great Britain but I couldn’t find a specific company.
March 2, 2008 @ 4:55 pmI don’t understand why people considering themselves ‘liberals’ have a problem admitting this is indeed an example of bias.
July 28, 2008 @ 1:56 am