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| "Little People" rise against media |
| 2008-09-06 |
| It's a start. Hopefully, this revolt will grow until the networks and press get hit hard in the pocketbook. Hundreds of angry people in this small town outside Milwaukee taunted reporters and TV crews traveling with Sen. John McCain on Friday, chanting "Be fair!" and pointing fingers at a pack of journalists as they booed loudly. On the first leg of the "McCain Street USA" tour 30 or so reporters and crew were walking back to their buses to join the McCain motorcade when hundreds of townspeople started yelling. "Stop lying! You are all liars! Tell the truth!" one woman yelled from the front of the pack. The crowd was not menacing or threatening, but was clearly angry. "You're telling lies! Stop the lies!" one man yelled. Asked why the crowd was so angry, Linda J. Green of Mequon, Wisc., said: "I'm thinking the press is very biased." "I think the press is very liberal and very slanted against the McCain-Palin ticket. Would you ask a man if his kids were being taken care of while he's out campaigning?" She said the coverage of Mrs. Palin is flat-out sexist. "The media has called her a sexy librarian look. Would you say that Obama is a sexy Will Smith look? They called her Tina Fey's sister, only sexier. I think you're being very sexist." Another woman questioned local television coverage, which differed for the Republican and Democratic party conventions, she said. "Why did the networks not carry the Republican convention, when they carried the Democratic convention?" she asked. "They do it because they're liberal," a man chimed in. The scene was reminiscent of one that occurred spontaneously at the RNC, when Mrs. Palin accused political pundits and columnists of misinformation. With thousands of red-meat Republicans in the huge Xcel Center in Minneapolis, the crowd turned ugly. Hundreds began pointing at a group of reporters and booing -- some chanted "CNN!" while others yelled "MSNBC!" |
| Posted by:GK |
| #9 P2K's election principle No.1 - to insure Americans go to the polls, make them angry. Just don't be the target of their anger.* *The Trunks learned this two years ago. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-09-06 20:30 |
| #8 The MSM and its far left agenda have been mentioned many times at Rantburg. However, the MSM lefties have exposed their agenda big time with their trying to get BO elected with their demonizing of Sarah Palin. The election gets interesting. Saw where New Jersey rocker Bon Jovi had a small gathering of people the other night at his home to support BO ~ about 100 people who had to pay $31,000 for their blue plate special. I guess it's legal but it shouldn't be. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-09-06 14:09 |
| #7 " Fixed that for ya', Betty. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-09-06 13:04 |
| #6 Sure, Jon Stewart and Maureen Dowd, and quite frankly Fred and everyone else will probably see a rise in traffic over this issue. But in the end, Fred will keep doing what he is doing and his audience will just get bigger as he picks up some new folks who discover and like his site. When the hoopla dies down, the number of regulars will just be the same or slightly larger. As for the cable media and people like Jon Steward or Oprah, they will have made a percentage of their regular viewers annoyed and angry and they will go away. So like the true whores that they are - they have to get even more outrageous next time to keep the eyes on them. As they get more outrageous, they offend more of their regulars, so they have to get even MORE outrageous to get the numbers back up. Eventually, they are just another Jerry Springer episode. There are plenty of freaks and people willing to stop by the freak show tent from time to time, but as for regular people, like you and me, who enjoy watching news, we will long since have found another source that provides the kind of information we came for in the first place. |
| Posted by: Betty Grating2215 2008-09-06 12:21 |
| #5 The irony, along with all the other finger traps, is the more the networks cover it the more coverage this topic gets. I saw jon stewart had an extra squirt of silver in his hair and pat of blush for his joke lines this morning. Gotta remember it was Craig Kilborn who made jon stewart's job. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-09-06 11:48 |
| #4 Yet nobody mobbed them or threw urine bags at them. Just scream "We're going to go Union on your pointy little heads". That's make them run for cover. It's a terminology they'll understand. /irony off |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-09-06 09:48 |
| #3 Git a rope. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-09-06 09:38 |
| #2 oooooh, the crowd "turned ugly". Didn't the delegates know they should stay classy like Andy Sullivan at the Atlantic and maintain an evenhanded objectivity like Andrea Mitchell? |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-09-06 08:59 |
| #1 They are pissed off at the reporters. Yet nobody mobbed them or threw urine bags at them. That's the difference right there people. |
| Posted by: Captain Jeger1671 2008-09-06 08:41 |