Why Media Bias is Worth Fighting

A new documentary by filmmaker John Ziegler illustrates just how important it is to expose bias in the popular media.  Ziegler, supported by a poll he commissioned with Zogby International, shows how Barack Obama relied heavily on a misinformed and downright ignorant electorate to win.  See here for video of an interview of Ziegler on Hannity & Colmes.

A majority of Obama's supporters believe that the Republicans are the party in control of Congress.  Most of them are under the impression that it was Sarah Palin (instead of Tina Fey) who said that she could see Russia from her house.  A disconcerting number of the people who chose the next vice president didn't know that he had previously dropped out of the last presidential race he was in for plagiarizing the speeches of a leading a British socialist.  Fully 88% of them were unaware that Obama himself had stated his energy policies would bankrupt the coal industry (knowledge of which might have helped the McCain ticket in a few key states).  At the same time, a very high percentage of these people were immediately aware of many of the specious and irrelevant storylines about Sarah Palin that were peddled endlessly by nearly every mainstream media outlet.  Apparently some number of them for some reason believe it was Sarah Palin who claimed to have been to 57 states, instead of our president elect.

This is not about these voters' intelligence.  It's about the fact that they--along with all of their countrymen--were ill-served by a media blinded by their fealty and love for the Obama phenomenon, who ignored Obama's background and record in favor of endless coverage of imagined gaffes by Republicans.

It's up to all of us to point this out, loudly and often.  The only way conservatives can hope to keep the media even remotely honest is to embarrass them with incontrovertible evidence of their failures.  Not just right now, when the fawning over Obama we saw during the campaign is being surpassed in spades by the glowing adulation over The One's plans for his inauguration.  And not just when there is a presidential campaign underway.  We've got to keep the pressure on all the time.  In Virginia this is particularly important because the same narrative that was used to great effect for Obama and Mark Warner, and that has been repeated so often that the media allow it to be treated as conventional wisdom, will work against our candidates in 2009.  It's up to all of us to fight it.   

For more, see www.HowObamaGotElected.com.