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Whisp

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12. This is what calmed me down - this thread by John Lucas.
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 10:57 AM
Nov 2012

I stumbled upon it long after it was originally posted - a few days before election. And it was like a heavy stone removed from my chest. It was wonderful to hear logic. Why is logic such a rare commodity to those clowns on the tv?

so you are right, it was DU that made more sense that those over paid jokers at MSNBC.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251130631

I generally know better than to fully believe anyone whose mouth opens and closes with alphabets coming out of them if they are on tv - but stressful times make you weakened and I did get sucked in to it. Before all this I really liked and trusted some on MSNBC.

I don't think it should be 'listener beware' all the time. Something has to be done, we can't all be their prey all the time.

I wish one of them would have the integrity to address this but I put those odds at 1 to 100 they won't because to them, it's just the nature of the beast. It's fun, it's ad revenue.

and it's Sick.

I couldn't agree more. 99Forever Nov 2012 #1
Ratings trump reality every time. ScreamingMeemie Nov 2012 #2
the media is shameless. spanone Nov 2012 #3
Relax. Not everyone was duped. randome Nov 2012 #4
The penalty for pundit malpractice and election information fraud is . . . nothing. leveymg Nov 2012 #5
This is why we have DU aaaaaa5a Nov 2012 #6
This is what calmed me down - this thread by John Lucas. Whisp Nov 2012 #12
Nate Silver, Princeton, et al. helped me to sleep well on Monday night deutsey Nov 2012 #17
Went exactly as predicted. There were a few of us that tried to calm people down Egalitarian Thug Nov 2012 #7
Every time that music kicked in on MSNBC early election night Greybnk48 Nov 2012 #8
The fact is that all that $ that gets spent on the presidential campaigns ends up stopbush Nov 2012 #9
But I have to ask sandyshoes17 Nov 2012 #10
Last week's shiny new media object was "what if Obama wins the EC but Rmoney wins the PV?" stopbush Nov 2012 #11
Somebody posted yesterday that something like 58% of Democrats trust the mainstream media TheKentuckian Nov 2012 #13
sometimes Secretariat wins by 31 lengths Johonny Nov 2012 #14
Proving once again that hindsight is 20/20 William Seger Nov 2012 #15
msnbc wanted the ad revenue right to the finish Whisp Nov 2012 #16
"Yes, they knew. All of them." William Seger Nov 2012 #27
she knew too Whisp Nov 2012 #28
These days, it's hard to be too cynical William Seger Nov 2012 #29
that's the way media rolls, man Whisp Nov 2012 #30
I'm not going to complain nobodyspecial Nov 2012 #18
I think the GOP voter suppression threats were the motivators Whisp Nov 2012 #19
The least they could've did was to simply give us the polling Jamaal510 Nov 2012 #20
the first debate: that's what tipped me off that they are all Hacks. Whisp Nov 2012 #25
Those media charlatans really pushed the national polling-"very close!" theme Arugula Latte Nov 2012 #21
I totally agree, they were all doing it including Rachel flamingdem Nov 2012 #22
It was not terror and fear in my case, but my wife and I were considering coalition_unwilling Nov 2012 #23
We weren't all duped NNN0LHI Nov 2012 #24
I wasn't duped MrScorpio Nov 2012 #26
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