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Democrats Enjoy More Positive Media Coverage than McCain

Despite the idea that the media fawned over Obama, coverage of him and Clinton was equally positive

Posted June 3, 2008

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practical reality

Any fact can be obfuscated by somebody with consensual reality to defend, just money and power. Evolutionary dead ends are not pretty, no matter how easily deluded a commission could be. Evolution, for example, can simply be equalized by the great second millennium faith based enlightenment, money and power.

This would only be a continuation of the substitution of this equality of coverage. A commission could be appointed to assure that , which I will personally gladly pay for, in order to win. After all, I didn't see a monkey dug up against a candidate who supplies more delusion.

"ergo quid suscitat rebellum papae" applies here.

Fair and Balanced

Perhaps this equality of coverage should not be left to chance. A commission could be appointed to assure that for each negative for one candidate, and certainly for each scandal, something negative or scandalous could be dug up and expanded for the alternative candidate. This would only be a continuation of the substitution of verbal tennis matches for researched and historically contextualized news. Any fact can be obfuscated by somebody with an economic interest in doing so, so there is no consensual reality to defend, just money and power. Evolution, for example, can simply be equalized with cloud pictures. "I didn't see a monkey; I saw God." And tobacco related illness and global warming can be interesting theories, but countered by alternative theories, easily bought and sold on the open market and given equal time and weight for fair and balanced coverage. After all, we have an alternative to reality now that we have had the great second millennium faith based enlightenment, courtesy of the Republican coalition. Evolutionary dead ends are not pretty, thus the proliferation of armageddon fantasies and elevation of those who promise control over what they don't even understand. But this is a democracy, so no matter how easily deluded the base to which the candidate must pander in order to win, it's not fair for reporters to have a visceral reaction against a candidate who supplies more delusion.

republican

I WAS a Republican (now Republicrat).....

Now..........

http://www.constitutionparty.com/

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