News media must apologize to West Va.

[Stinker]

If anyone has followed what the news media has been saying since the beginning of the campaighn about the former 1st lady, they are shocked that the media would go as far as to slam an entire state because they voted for the rival of the news media's rival candidate.

The news media was claiming that the majority of the Democratic voters (Hillary's evidently) were all the uneducated poorer white people. So, evidently, these kinds of voters do not exist in, say, Mississippi where Obama won convincingly.

Therefore. The news media must cease this outlandish behavior and apologize to the State of West Virginia.

 

[Nathan45]

The news media was claiming that the majority of the Democratic voters (Hillary's evidently) were all the uneducated poorer white people.

No, that's what hillary clinton was saying, don't you remember that quote from her... lol. Of course she got it from the media herself.

Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”
“There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said

source

So, evidently, these kinds of voters do not exist in, say, Mississippi where Obama won convincingly.

70%+ of whites went for hillary in mississippi, according to exit polls. But Obama still won because around half the voters in the democratic primary were black. West virginia is like mississippi except there are hardly any black people.

...

Eitherway, you're right, it's all overblown, it's not like everyone from west virginia is racist illiterate, and it's not like all of hillary's supporters are voring for her because they're uneducated, hillary is a fine candidate ( but she's not my first choice ).

anyways, if you check exit polls in WV, 20% admit that race was a factor in deciding their vote ( similar to mississippi ), and 80%+ of those went for hillary...

but you shouldn't bash the whole state of west virginia just because some of them happen to be racists. If you take the racist illiterates out, hillary probably wins the state anyways, just not by as wide a margin... it favors her demographically in other ways and Obama hardly campaigned there, anyhow.

 

[Nathan45]

and despite my quibbles with your post i overall agree with you, the media has been trying to spin this to be about race and it's seriously annoying.

The problem is they stick the voters into neat little boxes saying "If you are this old, this color, this sex, this religion and this educated, you will probably vote for this candidate"

it really dehumanizes the electorate, i wish they would stop it and actually cover the election rather than the punditry.

 

[MacCoyle]

All elections aside, West Virginia is a very boring state.

 

[Verv]

I say: let the media run their mouth.

They have as much credit in their opinions as any idiots with college degrees that pretend they have been anointed to enlighten us.

As our great founding father Thomas Jefferson said: "A man who reads nothing is wiser than a man who reads only newspaper" (a great slam of the media of the time).

If there is one occupation that ought to be endlessly criticized first and foremost it is politicians, and a close second is the media that allegedly covers them.

The most insidious thing in the world is a journalist who wants to change the world. For in their reporting you will find only distortion and the skewering of the truth.

 

[MacCoyle]

The most insidious thing in the world is a journalist who wants to change the world. For in their reporting you will find only distortion and the skewering of the truth.

Please don't call tv news people journalists, that is an insult to real journalists.

 

[Verv]

Please don't call tv news people journalists, that is an insult to real journalists.

You havea good point -- some investigative journalists for magazines and newspapers have really done amazing work bringing us the honest-to-God truth.

Some incite people towards action and chance through revelations.

You cannot shake a stick at that.

I am just in a bad mood! I don't have enough Hope & Change in my life. I need 'The One.'

 

[_Zap_]

It annoys me that media folks call people racist simply for choosing Hillary over Obama. Somehow 70% of whites supporting Hillary is racist, but 90% of blacks supporting Obama isn't? Please. It's just identity politics at its worst.

This article in particular cracks me up with its talk of the confederacy:
http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/pg/08134/881318-153.stm

the sound we're most likely to hear when the polls close in Appalachia tonight is the Confederate rebel yell boiling up from the swamps of time.

and

While no Confederate battle flags will be visible, they will feel it in the air. Mrs. Clinton's greatest victory will be a triumph of the kind of identity politics that makes a nation smaller.

I find it hilarious, considering that West Virginia split off from Virginia solely because they DID NOT WANT TO JOIN THE CONFEDERACY. Oh well, expecting journalists to have a basic understanding of American history is too much to ask these days, sadly.