Pew study: On graphics, Obama got Leftist blue, but Romney got yuck green

Obama data is shown in blue, the color normally associated with the Left. Romney data is shown in yuck green. (Snip: Pew)Recently results of a Pew study on media coverage of the 2012 presidential campaigns reflected what most of us already knew—media were kinder to President Barack Obama than they were to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

A couple of things stood out when I looked at the Pew analysis. For one thing, the colors used to depict data on each candidate raised a question.

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Biden opts for “chains”, West gets attacked and MSNBC’s Touré fires up the race cannon

For unknowable reasons, the Left seems to not understand that both sides want to win an election and maybe that’s why there are so many irrational attacks on Republican candidates.

The latest assault came from an MSNBC host named Touré. I never heard of him or, for that matter, many of the other pundits who appear on cable news 24/7. One thing America has is an oversupply of punditry.

Touré was talking about presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s challenge to President Barack Obama—to “take [his] campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago.”

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MSNBC aired another fake story, but that’s not the point

Graphic: U.S. GovernmentOn Thursday MSNBC took talking points from a story originally published at the Leftist blog directory Daily Kos. Turned out the story was a satire on the politics of gay marriage, and none of it was true. The tale of a self-sought boycott by Apple and Microsoft was republished at The Huffington Post. Just think about all the miss-the-boat types who didn’t catch the retraction.

That’s not the first time an MSNBC pundit got caught with his pants down after grabbing talking points from a Leftist blog, and it probably won’t be the last.  The Daily Caller brought the MSNBC gaffe to the attention of the blogosphere.

The false news story isn’t really my point, though.

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Rockefeller wants Fox News, MSNBC ‘Off’; also supported DISCLOSE Act

Updated on Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 11:25AM by Kay B. Day, Editor

Some politicians just can’t stand it when media get in the way of their business. If you’ve been in Washington for almost half a century, you might just come to view the United States sort of like a big old plantation where the serfs toil and labor on your behalf. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) appears to be caught up in that mentality because he thinks the Federal Communications Commission should nix Fox News and MSNBC.

Ryan G. Murphy, Digital Media Editor for the Radio Television Digital News Association reported Rockefeller’s remarks. Rockefeller  said, "There's a little bug inside of me which wants to get the FCC to say to FOX and to MSNBC: 'Out. Off. End. Goodbye.' It would be a big favor to political discourse; our ability to do our work here in Congress, and to the American people, to be able to talk with each other and have some faith in their government and more importantly, in their future."

If Rockefeller stopped there, it'd be bad enough. But he just kept talking.

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Olbermann complaint points to all white MSNBC lineup

This video created by the Dallas Tea Party shows MSNBC leftwinger Keith Olbermann chastising Tea Partiers about their lack of diversity. He starts with skin color. I'm not aware whether Tea Party groups have ever run a statistical analysis on the racial background of participants. I mean you'd ordinarily have less minority members since they're in the minority, right?

Of course, even if you have all those white people, anyone who can process a real thought as opposed to retrogressive dogma (excluding most at MSNBC) would realize there is an astounding amount of diversity regardless of skin color. Isn't that what America is all about?

Sidenote to Olbermann: even white people have their differences.

The Texas Tea Party came up with their own assessment. Enjoy the commentary on MSNBC's all white-skinned (are they all Northeastern Democrats?) lineup. I'm betting there's not a Republican in that crowd. I don't see any handicapped people. Or extremely old people (although Matthews looks kind of old). And gosh, I don't see anyone wearing clothing that would suggest she is Muslim. What faiths are represented by the MSNBC lineup?

And personally speaking, we prefer our commentary from Rachel Maddow. She not only manages to display intelligence, she doesn't get those googly eyes Olbermann and Chris Matthews get when they have those Freudian hysteria moments.

This video is likely to give you one of those Chris Matthews leg tingles--it's that good.

Hat tip to Brad Bashem, one of my Facebook buddies, who linked us to Atlas Shrugs where Pamela Geller writes and where we found this perfectly delightful video.