Media Gets a Red Card for Throwing the Game

NEWSWEEK SHOCK POLL: OBAMA OPENS UP 15-POINT LEAD OVER MCCAIN...

Early in the week Rush Limbaugh asked where Obama's, expected-by-the-media, jump in the poll numbers over McCain was, after Hillary dropped out?  McCain was leading him by 2 points.  If you heard it, you likely did what I did and muttered, "his big lead is being manufactured as we speak."  Here it is.  He's up by 15 in a heartbeat.   After news of ... what?  Weill La-di-da.  Here's your frigging lead.  It took ten minutes to fortify my memory on how shameless the media are when it comes to shilling for their own horse. Remember ... “ KERRY OPENS UP 8-POINT LEAD OVER BUSH IN SEPTEMBER POLL NEWSWEEK SHOCK POLL:  GORE OPENS UP 10-POINT LEAD IN SEPTEMBER POLL CLINTON LEADS DOLE 57 -29 IN SEPTEMBER (Clinton won by 8½ ) CLINTON LEADS BUSH  62% to 38% (Clinton won by 5½ after Perot took 19%) SHOCK! GALLUP:  DUKAKIS TAKES 17-POINT LEAD OVER GEORGE BUSH! GALLUP SHOCK - MONDALE LEADS REAGAN BY 50% TO 44% MARGIN GALLUP:  CARTER'S LEAD OVER REAGAN AT 23%,  56-33 FORD TRAILS CARTER BY 33-POINTS!  (Carter won by 2.1%) ” Compare the final margin in the three democrat wins with what the media was reporting late in the race. Obama's ersatz presidential seal is as tasteless as Bill Clinton calling President GHW Bush "Mr Bush"  during their televised debates.  It democrats had any class at all, they'd be lower-bottom class.