allahpundit @ Hot Air:
Via Mediaite. I take it the defense here will be that they weren’t rooting for Obama, just grooving on a righteous zinger expertly dealt even though it was incorrect on the merits. But maybe I’m wrong; maybe there’ll be no defense. The media’s gotten more forthright about its biases and shortcomings over the past 10 years thanks to the endless watchdogging online, so there’s no sense grasping for excuses. Why bother? Everyone knows the score. This isn’t the first time reporters have been caught rooting publicly against a Republican, either. The Seattle Times gave bloggers a week of laughs five years ago when they admitted that some staff members had cheered Karl Rove’s resignation; the editor reprimanded them for showing partisanship in a place as “sacred and magical” as the newsroom. A few days later, Joe Scarborough revealed that people in the MSNBC “newsroom” had booed Bush consistently through one of his SOTUs. When he told MSNBC prez Phil Griffin about it, Griffin supposedly “turned red very quickly” and put a stop to it. And that’s how MSNBC became the sober, studiously nonpartisan investigative news team that you know today.
Color me not shocked. The left wing media wants socialism and he is the closest thing they’ve had as far as getting them there.
From what I’ve seen and heard, the LSM believes their mission is to convert people to being leftists.
As anyone knows who has actually been in warfare, even though the military still trains with bayonets, their use as an actual tool of was has decreased since the Korean War. Even though, bayonet charges have been conducted in rare situations—most noted, one each, by the British Armed forces in 2004, 2009, and 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayonet
@Liberal1 (Objectivity):
Their use as a tool of war I won’t address in depth. Like civilian use of firearms for defense, the mere presence of a fixed bayonet is often enough to convince troublemakers that they really, really don’t want to come any closer. The sidearm is not often used, as well, but both are still issued as last-resort, close-distance defensive weapons.
The use of the bayonet in the military, however is extensive. Digging, cooking, cutting and emplacing barbed wire, clearing minefields, shaving, even scraping accumulated dirt off of your skin.
And yes, I have done all of that and more, including shaving. Not fun, but it can be done. The bayonet is still a useful, even necessary soldier’s tool.
And Submarines are still boats, not ships.
I am curious as to what the Media expects will happen if we do get an Obama-style Worker’s Paradise?
Do they expect to be rewarded for their part with more than two choices?
“Repeat what you are told” or “Line up against that wall over there”.
The Socialists will certainly remember how effective the Media was in advancing political change, and will want to insure that it cannot happen again.
Useful Idiots, most of them.
OHIO
good tye, don’t stop there, we need you to a secure place mow,
THINK OF WHY THE SOLDIERS PUT THEIR LIFE ON THE LINES,
THAT’S MORE THAN HARD WORK, MORE THAN THE UNIONS, MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF,
THAT’S FOR AMERICA, YOU BENEFIT, BUT THEY DON’T
SOMEONE HAVE TO VOTE ON THEIR BEHALF,
best to you.
MITT ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT