Pew: Media Channeling Obama Campaign Attacks on Romney

Some in the liberal media are starting to admit what most Americans know: the media is in the tank for liberal presidents/candidates.

From NewAmerican:

A study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has concluded that the mainstream media are smearing GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney. The Center’s analysis of the media’s “narrative” on Romney found that the reporting has portrayed him as a “vulture capitalist,” as a super PAC campaign ad says, who grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth and cannot understand what it’s like to pay bills.

The media, channeling the Obama campaign meme, Pew reported, have presented Romney as a man who sent American jobs overseas, put Americans out of work, and laughed all the way to the bank.

The Data

According to Pew, the largest single segment of media coverage, 14 percent, “raised doubts about Romney’s career at the Bain Capital private investment firm…. And the data show that much of this negative narrative came from citing the Obama campaign and its ads.”

After that, Pew reported, comes the idea that Romney is out of touch: “a more personal narrative (13%) that Romney is a wealthy elitist, some of which came from the Obama camp, but which also came from journalists and outside experts.”

And these two themes were closely followed by the narrative that Romney was an awkward campaigner (11 percent).

Pew also reported that the “vulture capitalist” theme lasted more than two months:

The idea that Romney was a hard-hearted capitalist and that Bain Capital was more about destroying jobs and making money for investors than building up the general economy was a persistent one over these 10 weeks.

That theme ranked as either the No. 1 or No. 2 narrative about Romney in seven of the 10 weeks studied.

In the coverage, journalists often noted that this was coming from the Obama camp. In mid-July, CBS News political director John Dickerson put it bluntly: “[Obama] wants to make Bain a four-letter word.”

And some of this theme came directly from the president. In late-June remarks in Florida, Obama said that the Romney campaign “argue[s] that if you help corporations and wealthy investors maximize their profits by whatever means necessary, whether it be layoffs or outsourcing, union busting or whatever means available, that will automatically translate in jobs and prosperity to benefit everybody.”

Another theme pushed for more than two months is the Romney-as-elitist idea. That “showed up consistently over the 10 weeks,”Pew reported. “Often these were sparked by stories about his personal wealth, whether they related to his expensive homes or the show horse owned by his wife.”

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Pew Poll: Liberals Most Intolerant Online…More Likely to Unfriend Those With Different Political Opinions

As we all know, Liberals are only tolerant with those who share their opinions and political ideology.

From IBD:

Not exactly shocking news for those exposed to them for years, but the respected Pew Research Center has determined that political liberals are far less tolerant of opposing views than regular Americans.

In a new study, the Pew Center for the Internet and American Life Project confirmed what most intelligent Americans had long sensed. That is, whenever they are challenged or confronted on the hollow falsity of their orthodoxy  — such as, say, uniting diverse Americans — liberals tend to respond defensively with anger, even trying to shut off or silence critics. (i.e. photo above of President Obama reacting to Boston hecklers.)

The new research found that instead of engaging in civil discourse or debate, fully 16% of liberals admitted to blocking, unfriending or overtly hiding someone on a social networking site because that person expressed views they disagreed with. That’s double the percentage of conservatives and more than twice the percentage of political moderates who behaved like that.

The proportion jumps even higher when someone on a social site disagrees with a liberal’s post.

Only 1% of moderates would block or shut out someone who dared to disagree with them, compared to 11% of liberals, whose rate was nearly three times that of conservatives.

The same 11% of liberals would block or unfriend people who offended them by daring to argue about political issues, vs 6% and 7% for other political views.

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Thanks to Obama, Fewer Young Voters See Themselves as Democrats

That hope sure did change fast. I’d like to thank all the liberals, and few Republicans, who were filled with white guilt and voted for a man they knew nothing about. In a 20 month time span, Obama has everyone running away from the Democratic party, their ideologies and his hope-change mantra.

The New York Times reports:

The college vote is up for grabs this year — to an extent that would have seemed unlikely two years ago, when a generation of young people seemed to swoon over Barack Obama.

Though many students are liberals on social issues, the economic reality of a weak job market has taken a toll on their loyalties: far fewer 18- to 29-year-olds now identify themselves as Democrats compared with 2008.

“Is the recession, which is hitting young people very hard, doing lasting or permanent damage to what looked like a good Democratic advantage with this age group?” asked Scott Keeter, the director of survey research at the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan group. “The jury is still out.”

How and whether millions of college students vote will help determine if Republicans win enough seats to retake the House or Senate, overturning the balance of power on Capitol Hill, and with it, Mr. Obama’s agenda. If students tune out and stay home it will also carry a profound message for American society about a generation that seemed so ready, so recently, to grab national politics by the lapels and shake.

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