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Let's Talk Politics
By Jim Odom
I watched with considerable interest the election returns for the Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for decades in Mass. To say that a Republican being elected to that Senate seat was newsworthy is like saying that the Presidential election was newsworthy. Of course all the major news outlets carried the election returns. I flipped back and forth between the various cable news outlets. One of the things that struck me was the difference in coverage between the different outlets. Foe example: during Scott Brown's acceptance speech (victory speech), I flipped to MSNBC to see what the pundits were saying about the election. To my surprise, they had stopped carrying live coverage and were already discussing the "spin" aspect of the election. As I looked further for coverage of his speech, I found it to be covered only on FOX News. From time to time you can hear that FOX News is biased towards the Conservative or Republican side of various issues. I have found though that FOX News most of the time carries BOTH sides of the issue. They carried the entire speech by Martha Coakley when she ceded the election to Mr. Brown and they carried Mr. Brown's entire acceptance speech without commercial interruption. The "spin" they put on the results of the election seemed to make sense. Now the question arises as to why Brown won the election as a Republican in a state that elected Obama by 26%. Look at the spin from the other media outlets. The headline at the bottom of the MSNBC screen said, "Anti-Incumbent Outrage". There pundits kept mentioning how bad it was going to be for the incumbents in the 2010 mid-term election. Let's examine who the incumbent was in this Senate election. Ted Kennedy who had passed away was the incumbent and neither Coakley nor Brown had ever held National office. It seemed clear to me, and to the reporters at FOX News, that this election was a repudiation of the democrat controlled Congress and President Obama's policies of the last 12 months. Brown ran specifically as the 41st vote against the health care reform bill currently before Congress. George Stephanopolis interviewed Obama the next day and got his "take" on the election. Obama stated,"The same fear and outrage that swept me into office is the same outrage that swept Brown into office. Not an outrage over the policies of the past year, but an outrage over what has happened over the past 8 years." (This quote is somewhat paraphrased from memory). The take I got from what Obama had just said was that outrage over the policies during the George Bush years, caused a Republican to be elected to the Senate seat in Mass. In other words, It's George Bush's fault that a Republican beat a Democrat for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat; a Senate seat last held by a Republican by the name of Henry Cabot Lodge in 1952. One fact lost in that statement by Obama is that George Stephanopolis did not challenge him on the answer. Almost any reporter who was not extremely biased would realize that it was policies of the last 12 months that had Mass voters so outraged. They turned out in record numbers to vote in a special election to replace Ted Kennedy in the Senate. Why was Obama's statement not challenged? Why was there no follow-up question? I don't think there will be a time in the near future when we can get our news unbiased from ANY of the news outlets. I also think that if you are getting your news only from one source, it should be from FOX News. They come much closer to fair and balanced than either of the other news outlets. Even so, I still watch Keith Olbermann every once in a while just to make sure there isn't something FOX News isn't telling me.
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Contributor's Note
How biased is the National News media??
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Martha Coakley
Scott Brown
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I don't really care about bias anymore, but Fox sure do have the best looking anchors. And they're articulate, too! 
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If I didn't know better, I would swear they hire solely on LOOKS!!
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