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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 14, 2012 10 Comments
It would be very easy to let slide the false meme that Dick Morris "admitted" that his election projections were made only for the purpose of helping Mitt Romney. We're not happy with Morris and other Republican pundits who predicted a win based on a turnout model which did not happen. It would be easy to say "who cares" if the left maligns them. The meme that Morris admitted to a deliberate deception has spread far and wide, but it is not true, as I demonstrated in my prior post, Before you jump on the bandwagon accusing Dick Morris and others of being dishonest. In fact, Morris denied a deliberate deception and defended his conduct as ultimately wrong but made in good faith at the time. The false meme was started by a MoveOn.org related the Fox NewsHounds website, which twisted Morris' statement on Fox News, and then made even worse when Taegan Goddard at Political Wire cut off Morris' statement mid-sentence.  At least the MoveOn.org related Fox NewsHounds folks quoted the full statement, as did HuffPo in its misleading article. Political then linked to Political Wire this morning, as follows (via Mark Finkelstein at Newsbusters):
DICK MORRIS, who has not been taken seriously by serious people for a very long time, confessed on Fox News yesterday that he deliberately misled viewers: “I think that there was a period of time when the Romney campaign was falling apart, people were not optimistic, nobody thought there was a chance of victory and I felt that it was my duty at that point to go out and say what I said.” http://goo.gl/6YbLh
Political Wire and Politico are the only outlets I have seen which cut off Morris' statement mid-sentence. There was no confession by Morris that "he deliberately misled viewers" as described by Politco based on the Political Wire report.  None.  In fact, Morris said just the opposite. I emailed and tweeted both Goddard at Political Wire and James Hohmann at Politco pointing out the inaccuracy and requesting a correction.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 01, 2012 36 Comments

Don't expect it, even though there is good polling news today for Romney-Ryan, as detailed at Hot Air: Welcome to October! Today must be Poll Day, as media groups try to determine the lay of the land ahead of the first debate on Wednesday.  The new...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2012 112 Comments

It's very difficult in Ithaca or Rhode Island to get a sense of how the presidential contest is playing out. Because both New York and Rhode Island are sure winners for Obama, there is virtually no advertising on television in these markets for the presidential race. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 20, 2012 16 Comments

Obama attended an anti-Israel conference with Rashid Khalidi.  The L.A. Times will not release the video. Obama was caught on an open mic calling federal employees "slugs."  CBS News will not release the tape. Obama was caught on an open mic promising the Russians to be more flexible if re-elected, and CBS...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 18, 2012 76 Comments

What will the media do?  It has invested everything in the tape. But there is a pretty fierce counterpunch being delivered on talk radio, on Twitter, in the blogosphere, and even on television when allowed. There is good reason to believe that Obama's post-convention bounce already is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2012 82 Comments

An American Ambassador and three American security guards were butchered, anti-American riots broke out across the Middle East, a U.S. Embassy both before and after being stormed issued apologies for the exercise of our constitutional rights, our Secretary of State practically prostrated herself, the President had...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 13, 2012 29 Comments

And who knows, maybe it was: "A former very senior Republican insider, who requested anonymity so that he could speak freely, told us that he has serious doubts as to Mitt Romney's precipitous decision to criticize the President, and that Romney's actions were his 'Lehman moment'...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 10, 2012 24 Comments

So is the panic over yet? It shoud be, because there never was a reason for panic to begin with.  Operation Demoralize went viral at the urging of the mainstream media, some Republicans and conservatives caught the fever, and for a weekend people lost their minds. Remember...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 09, 2012 68 Comments

It's November 7.  Barack Obama has won.  The Republican presidential strategy has failed.  The media is jubilant.  The right-blogosphere is going through a serious introspection.  The left-blogosphere is dancing on our graves and shoving it down our throats.  Four years of fighting the Obama agenda...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 01, 2012 48 Comments

The impossibility of changing the liberal bias in the mainstream media is almost a daily topic here. Reader Brian sent this email with some pertinent thoughts on the topic, which I thought I'd pass along: I've had your blog in my RSS feed for awhile and find...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2012 62 Comments

If you have been following the internets, you can see an anaphylactic reaction among supposed "fact checkers" over Paul Ryan's brilliantly effective speech last night. The section about the closing of a GM plant in Janesville during the Obama administration has been a particular area of attention...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 29, 2012 54 Comments

The title isn't about the Middle East, although it could be. It's John Nolte's persuasive analysis of the mainstream media in light of the hot mic comment initially thought to come from an ABC News staff member that the Romneys are "happy to party while black...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 20, 2012 44 Comments

whether a Republican congressman one year ago jumped in Lake Kinneret, also known as the Sea of Galilee, without his swim trunks on. A year ago. An f-in year ago.  Skinny dipping.  One person.  And some others who -- wait for it -- got drunk. Actually the subject...

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