It is about 7:50AM as I type this.
We have had the Today Show on for the entire time.
My wife thinks they may have mentioned David Jolly\’s defeat of Alex Sink in yesterday\’s special election for Florida\’s 13th district. But if it was mentioned at all, it was in passing during the middle of the half hour…when they briefly mentioned NBC\’s new poll which shows President Obama\’s numbers tanking.
In other words, they buried the story – which is that Jolly, a virtual unknown, running in a district that voted for Obama in 2012, wildly outspent in TV advertising, whose opponent was a major Florida political figure, and had a libertarian candidate siphoning off votes he otherwise would likely have gotten….won anyway.
How could this have happened? The answer is simple, because there was one major issue in the campaign: ObamaCare.
Jolly advocated repeal; Sink advocated keeping it in place but improving it. Jolly won.
This is a huge defeat for Democrats, and will almost certainly inform the way dozens and dozens of them run in November…i.e. they will be running away from ObamaCare.
But at the Today Show, it is not worth mentioning.
If burying this story does not establish Today (and, more broadly, NBC News) as little more than a propaganda arm of Barack Obama and the Democrat Party, I don\’t know what could.
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UPDATE: Now, via Kyle Drennan\’s blog at newsbusters.org, I can give you specifics.
My wife was right about the Today Show mentioning David Jolly\’s win over Alex Sink in passing. It provided all of 23 seconds to the story…while starting it by mentioning that the district had been Republican for 42 years (the implication being there was no big deal about Jolly\’s win) – without mentioning that its demographics have changed dramatically, Barack Obama won it two years ago, Democrat Alex Sink way outspent Jolly in TV ads, and ObamaCare was the major issue.
That is not covering a news story, that is covering Democrats\’ backsides.
And the worst part? Today gave MORE coverage than either CBS\’s Early Moring (20 seconds) or ABC\’s Good Morning America (10 seconds).
These are not news organizations. These are Accomplice Media, with an objective of protecting and defending Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats.
They have no shame. And they certainly have no claim to being “journalists”.
