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by  M. Stanton Evans
Human Events

To hear the major media tell it, this year’s election is already over, with Barack Obama the landslide winner.  

Given the economic meltdown unfolding since September, the unpopularity of the Bush White House and Obama’s huge financial edge over John McCain, some such result might be expected.  Even more to the point, it’s been relentlessly foretold by poll surveys appearing in the Washington Post, New York Times, and other media outlets with the same agenda.

Read full article here: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29285

By Andrew M. Seder aseder@timesleader.com
Staff Writer

SCRANTON – The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded.

The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The first story, written by reporter David Singleton, appeared with allegations that while congressional candidate Chris Hackett was addressing the crowd and mentioned Oabama’s name a man in the audience shouted “kill him.”

News organizations including ABC, The Associated Press, The Washington Monthly and MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann reported the claim, with most attributing the allegations to the Times-Tribune story.

http://www.timesleader.com/news/breakingnews/Secret_Service_says_Kill_him_allegation_unfounded_.html

Well-known conservative activist Richard Viguerie is bashing the Republican Party and the McCain campaign for agreeing to participate in debates moderated by “liberal establishment” journalists.

The choice of Gwen Ifill to moderate the vice-presidential debate sparked an uproar last week among some conservatives, who argued the PBS anchor should have recused herself from the debate because she is scheduled to release a book on Inauguration Day that praises Barack Obama. The final two presidential debates will be moderated by Tom Brokaw of NBC (tonight) and Bob Schieffer of CBS (October 15).

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=274770#

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Media Bias: It’s worth noting when someone as distinguished as actor Jon Voight directly warned media Saturday to quit lying in this election, if only for the sake of democracy. But lying is exactly what’s been stepped up.

The latest manifestation of media bias was a bizarre Associated Press “analysis” claiming racism in Sarah Palin’s warning over the weekend about Barack Obama’s long association with Bill Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground terror organization.

http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=308186242376305

While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper’s news pages are liberal, even more liberal than The New York Times. The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left. Coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media. Meanwhile, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left.

These are just a few of the surprising findings from a UCLA-led study, which is believed to be the first successful attempt at objectively quantifying bias in a range of media outlets and ranking them accordingly.

http://www.impactlab.com/2008/10/05/ucla-study-media-bias-is-real/

I have just about had it with the conservative punditry and their plaintive wailings about the unfairness of the self-proclaimed “mainstream media” (I think the designation “Big Media” would be more appropriate as applied to the information service of the leftist elites, which is anything but mainstream).

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/enough_already.html

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An expert on terrorism is warning the United States should be fighting Islamization, which she believes already is under way. And author Brigitte Gabriel should know: She watched it happen in her native Lebanon.

“Lebanon used to be the only majority Christian country in the Middle East,” Gabriel told radio talk show host Andrea Shea King in a recent hour-long interview “Most people today do not know that. We were the majority, the Muslims were the minority, but as the years went by, the Muslims became the majority because of their birth rate, but also because of our open-border policy.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=76936

The mainstream media have gone over the line and are now straight out propagandists for the Obama campaign. While they have been liberal and blinkered in their worldview for decades, in 2007-08 for the first time, the major media are consciously covering for one candidate for president and consciously knifing the other. This is no longer journalism — it is simply propaganda.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/24/media-chronicles/