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'It Was Extreme Bias, Extreme Pro-Obama Coverage'
JammieWearingFool — You know the media is hopelessly biased when a liberal from Time magazine admits how bad it's gotten . Media bias was more intense in the 2008 election than in any other national campaign in recent history, Time magazine's Mark Halperin said Friday at the Politico/USC conference on the 2008 election. "It's the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war," Halperin said at a panel of media analysts. "It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage." Halperin, who maintains Time's political site "The Page," cited two New York Times articles as examples ...

Excellent Source
Balloon Juice — This is pretty rich: Media bias was more intense in the 2008 election than in any other national campaign in recent history, Time magazine’s Mark Halperin said Friday at the Politico/USC conference on the 2008 election. “It’s the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war,” Halperin said at a panel of media analysts. “It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage.” If there was a journalist out there who you wanted to talk to about media bias, would you start ...

Quotes of the day
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... buried evidence concerning their hero’s most (more?) alarming associations. Their machinations ensured that the electorate backed a man for whom not only they, but a couple of prominent journalists as well, know little about. Already, the press covers Obama’s flank. Manufactured stories about the alleged anger of ‘right-wingers’ and polls documenting the president-elect’s soaring favorability ratings have appeared, even though he has yet to complete a day of work.” *“It’s the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war.”

Bias! The Home Game
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... ” Halperin’s idiotic complaints about pro-Obama media bias not only don’t elicit sympathy, but truly make you wonder what this man has ever done to deserve a paycheck.  Halperin’s complaint isn’t that the media was biased towards Obama; it’s that Obama refused to be a worse person and run a worse campaign than John McCain.  To put it bluntly, Barack Obama fucked campaigning’s shit up for the better part of a year - he did virtually everything right, he did it in a way that largely refused to bow to the normal narrative of ...

Time's Halperin Scolds Press for 'Extreme Pro-Obama Bias'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... The Politico reported on November 22 that Time Magazine's Mark Halperin scolded the media for it's sycophantic treatment of Barack Obama during this election cycle calling the favorable treatment "the most disgusting failure" of the press he's seen for years. "It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage," Halperin said at a Politico/USC conference held on Friday. ...

How About That Completely And Utterly Non-Biased Media?
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — Link : Media bias was more intense in the 2008 election than in any other national campaign in recent history, Time magazine's Mark Halperin said Friday at the Politico/USC conference on the 2008 election. "It's the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war," Halperin said at a panel of media analysts. "It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage." Halperin, who maintains Time's political site "The Page," cited two New York Times articles as examples of the divergent coverage of the two candidates. "The example that I use, at the end of the ...

YOU THINK? Mark Halperin: “Extreme Pro-Obama Coverage” in the Press….
Instapundit — YOU THINK? Mark Halperin: “Extreme Pro-Obama Coverage” in the Press.

How About That Completely And Utterly Non-Biased Media?
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Link: Media bias was more intense in the 2008 election than in any other national campaign in recent history, Time magazine's Mark Halperin said Friday at the Politico/USC conference on the 2008 election. "It's the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war," Halperin said at a panel of media analysts. "It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage." Halperin, who maintains Time's political site "The Page," cited two New York Times articles as examples of the divergent coverage of the two candidates. "The ...

Breaking! Media Was Pro-Obama
TalkLeft — From the No Kidding File, though Halperin must have been asleep during the 2000 election: Media bias was more intense in the 2008 election than in any other national campaign in recent history, Time magazine's Mark Halperin said Friday at the Politico/USC conference on the 2008 election. No one can doubt that Obama was the Media Darling. But for Halperin to pretend that he and his cohorts were not disgustingly bad, indeed they turned in the worst political journalistic performance in history (see Somerby, Bob), during the 2000 ...

Pro-Obama Media Bias?
The New Editor — ABC News' Mark Helprin states the obvious at a recent conference. My favorite part of the Politico article? A quote from New York magazine's John Heilemann, who disagreed with Helprin's assessment: "The biggest bias in the press is towards effectiveness," said Heilemann, who is authoring a book on the 2008 race along with Halperin. "We love things that are smart." What nonsense. Most of the people who comprise what we call the media in this country wouldn't know smart if it came up and bit them on the ...

Time’s Halperin Scolds Press for ‘Extreme Pro-Obama Bias’
Stop The ACLU — -By Warner Todd Huston [image] The Politico reported on November 22 that Time Magazine’s Mark Halperin scolded the media for it’s sycophantic treatment of Barack Obama during this election cycle calling the favorable treatment “the most disgusting failure” of the press he’s seen for years. “It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage,” Halperin said at a Politico/USC conference held on Friday. It’s all pretty amusing, though, to see Mark Helprin complain that his fellow journalists didn’t do a good job reporting on Obama’s record because back in March, ...

Time's Mark Halperin: 'Extreme Pro-Obama Bias' In the Press
Hyscience — Apparently Time magazine's Mark Halperin is as disgusted as almost half the country is (those that didn't fall for Obama's and the MSM's spin) in stating the obvious about the way the media covered the presidential campaign. From the Politico. Media bias was more intense in the 2008 election than in any other national campaign in recent history, Time magazine's Mark Halperin said Friday at the Politico/USC conference on the 2008 election. "It's the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war," ...

Time mag’s Halperin admits bias, failure
Rathergate.com — Mark Halperin of TIME magazine had this to say about the U.S. media at the Politico/USC conference on the 2008 election:“It’s the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war,” Halperin said at a panel of media analysts. “It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage.” Thank you for the admission, Mark, but you are a little late. Some of us were pointing out this bias as it was being evinced. You, Halperin, were part of the media effort to throw the election into Obama’s lap with misreporting, lack of reporting, and lies. Realizing that he is part ...

MARK HALPERIN CRITICIZED THE MEDIA for being in the tank for Obama. But Rich Hailey says they did a…
Instapundit — MARK HALPERIN CRITICIZED THE MEDIA for being in the tank for Obama. But Rich Hailey says they did a good job: “I think the media performed flawlessly during the two year election cycle. They managed the story, shielded their candidate, attacked the opposition, sat on damaging stories, and in short did everything a good state run media should do during an election cycle.” Ouch. The comedians are in the tank, too, according to this transcript from Howard Kurtz’s Reliable Sources: KURTZ: All right. The word on ...

Halperin Discovers Moral Outrage
TPMCafe — Time's Mark Halperin has found his moral compass. According to Alexander Burns at Politico, he's decided that "media bias was more intense in the 2008 election than in any other national campaign in recent history." "It's the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war," Halperin said at a panel of media analysts. "It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage." If the quote is accurate, Halperin overlooks the Swift Boat coverage of 2004 and the Bill Ayers-fest. According to Burns' piece, the ...

Mark Halperin Throws Media Under Rush Limbaugh's Bus
Daily Kos — ... Mark Halperin is now calling coverage of the 2008 campaign "the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war," saying that it was "extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage": ...

Post-election MSM mea culpas continue
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Now that the election has safely gone to Barack Obama, the mainstream media can finally admit what most of us knew all along.  Mark Halperin at Time Magazine put it in perhaps the strongest terms at a media conference last Friday, calling it “disgusting” and the worst coverage he’d ever seen in his career — by far: Media bias was more intense in the 2008 election than in any other national campaign in recent history, Time magazine’s Mark Halperin said Friday at the Politico/USC conference on the 2008 election.“It’s the most disgusting failure of people in our business since ...

Success!
Cold Fury — As everybody and his brother noted last week, Mark Halperin finally came out and admitted , specifically, just how in the tank the Obamedia was. This, of course, led to some predictably ludicrous squalling from the Nutrooters about the “right-wing media.” One reason I didn’t bother mentioning the Halperin piece was that my take all along was ...

Happy Hour Links
Weekly Standard Blog — The boss encourages some fresh thinking. Halperin says the media suffers from extreme pro-Obama bias. Politico finally gets around to vetting Obama's advisers. Jodi Kantor is pleased with herself for trolling facebook...her editors are unimpressed (at least in public). How did our friends on the left miss this? Lauren Collins catches Huckabee being petty, again. ...

Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos — ... "It's the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war," Halperin said at a panel of media analysts. "It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage." ...

Campbell Brown to Barry Oh: What’s up with you making light of serious questions?
Sister Toldjah — ... While I certainly enjoyed that spot-on righteous rant, the first question that popped into my mind was where the hell was all this outrage over Obama’s clever manipulation of the press during the primaries and the general election campaign? Time’s Mark Halperin has gone on record recently talking about how the “extreme pro-Obama press bias” displayed since Obama began his historic run for president. The ...

Things are tough all over
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Mr. Fox admits that GM has made it’s mistakes, but he thinks its unfair for the media to act as a PR firm for Toyota. I can understand his anger. As a political animal and a conservative, I’m angry that the media acted as an Obama PR firm during the recent presidential campaign. And it does so in the same hypocritical manner that it shills for Toyota. The media is not anti-GM, Mr. Fox, it is pro-UAW. And this hypocrisy is evident in the fact that the workers in the southern states who build Toyotas, the same ones that Thomas Friedman ...

AP: President-elect Barack Obama - 'relatively young and inexperienced'
Hyscience — Now they think it's time to tell us this? Why not "before" the elections? > Related: Lacking the character and judgement to be president, I .... ...

Odds and Ends: Obama Mediagasms
Pundit Review — ... (Reuters) - President Barack Obama’s inauguration generated an unprecedented 35,000 stories in the world’s major newspapers, television and radio broadcasts over the past day — about 35 times more than the last presidential swearing-in — a monitoring group said on Wednesday. Is that all? I would have taken the over. Immediately after the election in November there was a spate of handwringing from the MSM about the campaign coverage. Most notably, Time Magazine political editor Mark Halperin said , It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage. Rob, my producer at WRKO coined ...

These Times Demand The Times
JustOneMinute — ... ) that Information Czar Obama was informing Republicans that they can't be effective if they listen to Rush, yet now we learn that Team Obama is in thrall to the reliably ...

Deep thought
Balloon Juice — The extreme pro-Obama media bias is disgusting.