Last week, ThinkProgress released a report showing that, in the debate over the House economic recovery bill on the five cable news networks, Republican members of Congress outnumbered their Democratic counterparts by a ratio of 2 to 1.
The analysis tallied interview segments about the stimulus on CNBC, Fox Business, Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC during a three-day period, finding that the networks had hosted Republican lawmakers 51 times and Democratic lawmakers only 26 times.
The economic recovery package passed the House last week with zero Republican votes, shifting the focus to the Senate. Though the venue has changed, the debate on cable has not improved much.
In a new analysis, ThinkProgress has found that Republican lawmakers outnumbered Democratic lawmakers 75 to 41 on cable news interviews by members of Congress (from 6am on Monday 2/2 through 11pm on Thursday 2/5).
But...but...the conservatives scream their throats bloody that it's a LIBRUL media, even when statistics show they're wrong. Wrong. But don't intrude on their delusions, that makes them angry. And you know, when they're angry, they whine and say it's all the LIBRUL'S fault. And Pres. Obama's a Marxist, Commie, Kumbaya singing, empty shirt, and...and...
Why do we pay any attention to them? When they're wrong about such an easily disproved issue like the one illustrated above, why do these people have any credibility? Because Limbaugh says they do?
When will they wise up????
2 comments:
Interesting. Looks like CNN was the most balanced in this post, but everybody favored the GOP.
Except MSNBC, which is the network we conservatives are convinced have the Obama hard-on (begun with the Chris Matthews tingle.
And before you jump on it, Fox news seems to be the most slanted toward the GOP this time.
And one last thing, CNBC is still on the air?
Patrick M: Yes, CNBC is still on the air, and they play it at my gym all the time. Wall St. still loves CNBC.
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