AP REPORTS IMAGINARY CROWD AS 'LARGEST YET OF THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN'

[Casino67]

Breitbart.com:

 

 

 

The mainstream media is faking every number is can get away with to save President Barack Obama. Not content with weighting poll samples with absurd Democrat margins, orspinning high unemployment rates, the media is now faking crowd numbers for Obama's events. The Associated Press is the latest offender, calling a Milwaukee, Wisconsin crowd that did not exist "the largest yet of Obama's reelection campaign."

Tom Blumer of NewsBusters caught the AP in the lie, building on an article at Breitbart News that showed that both Politico and the Wall Street Journal had reported turnout for Obama at the Sep. 21 event as 18,000--at an arena that only held 5,000 people.

Though the arena was nearly full--and local media reported that more were outside the arena--there is no evidence whatsoever that the 13,000 people needed to make up the difference actually showed up. No images of that crowd have yet been produced.

The AP's take: "The crowd of about 18,000 in a steady drizzle was the largest yet of Obama's reelection campaign." And yet the AP did not count the audience. Nor did theWall Street Journal. Nor did Politico.

So where did the official-sounding number come from? The Obama campaign, according to Politico--which was the only one of the three that had the minimal integrity to report the source of the estimate (though not to challenge it).

When the mainstream media calls a crowd is "the largest yet," but overestimates it by a factor of three or even four, you have a pretty good idea of how far they are willing to go to re-elect their patron saint.

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[Pepper]

@Casino67 The mainstream media should be renamed the Media Brotherhood. They scream like harpies when they perceive their beloved Obama to suffer the slightest of insults or even worse, be exposed to the truth when unhelpful entities such as Fox news, conservative talk shows and blogs bring up unemployment statistics and a foreign policy of appeasement.

[logicnreason]

Of the many benefits and joys of living in our free democratic United States of America, is the strength, honesty, and objectivity of our main stream media.

 

<sarcasm off>

[Draggingtree]

Breitbart.com:

 

 

 

The mainstream media is faking every number is can get away with to save President Barack Obama. Not content with weighting poll samples with absurd Democrat margins, orspinning high unemployment rates, the media is now faking crowd numbers for Obama's events. The Associated Press is the latest offender, calling a Milwaukee, Wisconsin crowd that did not exist "the largest yet of Obama's reelection campaign."

 

Tom Blumer of NewsBusters caught the AP in the lie, building on an article at Breitbart News that showed that both Politico and the Wall Street Journal had reported turnout for Obama at the Sep. 21 event as 18,000--at an arena that only held 5,000 people.

Though the arena was nearly full--and local media reported that more were outside the arena--there is no evidence whatsoever that the 13,000 people needed to make up the difference actually showed up. No images of that crowd have yet been produced.

The AP's take: "The crowd of about 18,000 in a steady drizzle was the largest yet of Obama's reelection campaign." And yet the AP did not count the audience. Nor did theWall Street Journal. Nor did Politico.

So where did the official-sounding number come from? The Obama campaign, according to Politico--which was the only one of the three that had the minimal integrity to report the source of the estimate (though not to challenge it).

When the mainstream media calls a crowd is "the largest yet," but overestimates it by a factor of three or even four, you have a pretty good idea of how far they are willing to go to re-elect their patron saint.

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The Obama Press Votes Early

 

 

By Mona Charen · September 25, 2012

 

 

"Stop it. This is hard. You want to try it? Get in the ring." --Ann Romney

 

Mrs. Romney's exasperation with conservative critics is understandable. The mainstream press has been like a school of piranhas swarming around her husband. To receive fire from her own side as well -- even constructive advice -- may seem too much to bear.

 

Mitt Romney is facing perhaps the most corrupt and tendentious coverage in presidential history, as members of the fourth estate eschew any semblance of integrity in their attempt to skew interpretations in favor of their pinup, Mr. Obama.

 

The examples would fill volumes. Consider Mr. Romney's July trip to Britain, Israel and Poland. Roundly written off as a gaffe-fest by the media (Jon Stewart showed a graphic with Romney's face on a magazine called "National Geogaffic."), Romney actually gave an excellent and well-received speech in Israel where he was embraced literally and figuratively by the prime minister and other leaders.

 

Though he made one comment about security plans in London that could fairly be described as undiplomatic, it was a footnote. http://patriotpost.us/opinion/14858

[Casino67]

@Casino67 The mainstream media should be renamed the Media Brotherhood. They scream like harpies when they perceive their beloved Obama to suffer the slightest of insults or even worse, be exposed to the truth when unhelpful entities such as Fox news, conservative talk shows and blogs bring up unemployment statistics and a foreign policy of appeasement.

 

Very true. But I still like mine better. The Obama Media Protection Service.