These Men (and Women) They Call “Journalists” Part 1

I apologize for today’s posting coming so late in the day.  I had some personal matters that had to be attended to which prevented me from finishing the post and getting it up on time.

We have a serious problem with the media today that well-known pundits have touched on repeatedly as we run up to the month prior to the election.  And that problem is that we now have a “media” full of “journalists” that is basically no more than the strong arm of the Democratic Party.

Look, it’s no secret that at least since Barack Obama became the Democratic nominee for the presidency during the summer of 2008 that the media has been strongly pro-Obama and anti-Republican.  It has been clear that the main stream media (MSM) wants to advance the Obama agenda and as such you rarely see a bad word said about Obama or his policies unless it is a truly egregious story.  The evidence is everywhere and I’ll be frank on this one: If you don’t see it, you are just kidding yourself.  The following are two scenarios the media likes to ignore and distort, while taking the chance to slander Mitt Romney and Republicans in the process if the chance arises:

Obama/Media Claim: Since taking office, Barack Obama’s administration has created 4.6 million jobs, “saved or created” 3 million jobs with the “stimulus” and lowered the unemployment rate.

Reality: By the time Obama took office, national payrolls had basically hit rock bottom and there was nowhere to go but up.  Regardless of who was in the White House, there was a good chance these jobs were going to be added anyway.  Additionally, the 4.6 million jobs that have come back are not the same ones that have been lost and hiring saw a major boost in 2010 due to all the temporary jobs for the census.  Surprisingly, CNN actually fact-checked Obama about his jobs numbers.  That report can be seen here.  Further, leading economists have said that just to keep up with the expanding labor force, the U.S. needs to add at least 150,000 jobs per month and that only anything over that is recovery.  Anything less is WORSE and a step back.

The claim that the stimulus saved or created 3 million jobs is incredibly hard to prove, as it has been found that many jobs Obama claimed were saved were never in jeopardy anyway.  Yet journalists go right on reporting that number.  Additionally, Obama claimed that by this point in 2012, unemployment would be at 5 percent thanks to his stimulus.  Well, it’s not!  Where’s the media on that one?  Silent.

The main reason the unemployment rate has done down under Obama’s watch is because people are leaving the labor force in record numbers.  While the “official” rate is 8.1 percent, real unemployment, the U6 number, is still hovering at 15 percent.  Yet the media won’t report that, it will only jump all over the 8.1 percent number.

Obama/Media Claim: Obama is way up in the polls, doing better than ever.  Romney doesn’t stand a chance and the race is essentially over.

Reality: The MSM is skewing the polling data so bad that is a joke.  Well, maybe it’s more of a scary problem because what they report, the general population seems to believe.  Even some Romney supporters have started to adopt a so-called “defeatist” attitude.  Let me assure you that any polling data being reported by a MSM outlet is simply false!  These polls are oversampling Democrats by as many as 10 percentage points, assuming a record turnout of Democrats while Republicans stay home.  That’s not going to happen, yet the media says this is so.

So-called “Unskewed” polling data reveals a far different reality.  When polling data is controlled and adjusted for more realistic samples, Mitt Romney is leading Barack Obama by an average of 7.8 points!  And not only that, but Obama’s “unskewed” disapproval spread stands at an average of 8.8 points!

For all of this “War on Women” talk being put out by the Obama campaign, a recent ABC/WaPo poll showed that more women favor Romney than favor Obama.  And just this week, this Bloomberg National Poll indicates that Romney now has a huge 6 point lead in who would be tougher on terrorism, a massive change from just last month.

Next week I will continue revealing more issues that show huge Democratic media bias, on topics ranging from the economy to the recent terror strikes in Libya to Afghanistan, etc. so be sure to stay tuned and check back this Tuesday, October 2^nd!