[OFB Cafe] John McCain might actually win this thing. Here's how

[Fred Smith]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Timothy Butler <tbutler at ofb.biz> wrote:

>        I don't have time to respond to the accusations themselves, but
> Fred... do you seriously expect people to believe that NBC News is
> conservative? Most of their on air personalities willingly root for
> Obama. Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, etc. -- MSNBC is becoming
> infamous for its left leaning HARD NEWS (not even commentary) since
> they put their commentators in the anchor chair.

Calling Matthews and Olbermann liberal is like saying that Italy was a
great place to live during WWII because, well, at least it wasn't
Germany. I wouldn't say Matthews or Olbermann are left leaning as much
as they were just honest and not reading from the GOP supplied talking
points.  MSNBC also removed Olbermann and Matthews from the air about
3 weeks ago for not supporting McCain, and they haven't returned last
I checked.

>
>        Most people I know, Democrats included, would also admit that CNN is
> not conservative. It is far more well balanced than NBC, but it isn't
> conservative by any stretch of the imagination.

I'm sorry, are you talking about the same CNN that excluded the
liberal candidates such as Kucinich from the Democratic primary
debates?  The one that labeled primary results for Ron Paul as "other"
in their reports, despite him getting more votes than Huckabee and
Giuliani combined in several states?   CNN used their influence to
remove liberal candidates from the election early on, and so today we
have a conservative facing off against an ultra-neo-conservative.
Neither candidate supports the rights of people to do what they choose
in their own homes, neither supports our rights to be free from
illegal searches or wiretaps, neither support a small government
answerable to it's people. On basic liberal/libertarian issues, both
candidates fail miserably.  I'm supporting Obama, not because he's all
that great, but because McCain is a (bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb iran)
psychopath.

-Fred