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Was CNBC Biased?

Was CNBC Bias towards Republican in GOP Debate?

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pbrauer said:
That is a flat out lie, you said and I quote "CNBC, like the rest of NBC is a liberal cesspool" There is no backing out of that ocean, I think you should admit you were wrong. But I really don't expect one from a conservative.
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LOL.

So there is no misunderstanding. CNBC, like the rest of NBC, is a liberal cesspool. I have not claimed, in any words, that all their programing is liberal. Perhaps you could explain to me how you are finding a way to connect the two.

For example, Jay Leno's Garage, a new reality program related to cars and car culture, is certainly not liberal. If it were liberal, like so much of NBC, and CNBC's programing, a car show would be about how the filthy rich are destroying the universe with their fancy cars, and how they should be jailed and made homeless paupers on the street.

Hope that clears things up for you Pete, since you seem to be getting a bit exercised over the issue.
 
Fearandloathing said:
I had a conversation the other day with a British ex-patriot who claimed all of North American news was biased to the corporate elite. He then bragged that he was a socialist only because communism wasn't available.
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I think this article below, while a few years old now, exposes Hollywood, and the well known bias in the MSM, pretty well.

TV Executives Admit in Taped Interviews That Hollywood Pushes a Liberal Agenda (Exclusive Video) - Hollywood Reporter


In clips that will hit the Internet to promote a new book, producers including "Friends" co-creator Marta Kauffman and "House" creator David Shore say Hollywood discriminates against and belittles conservatives.

Kauffman also acknowledges she “put together a staff of mostly liberal people,” which is another major point of Shapiro’s book: that conservatives aren’t welcome in Hollywood.

Maybe that’s because they’re “idiots” and have “medieval minds.” At least that’s what Soap and Golden Girls creator Susan Harris thinks of TV’s conservative critics.

However, the ranks of dumb right-wingers has dwindled, according to Harris, whose video has her saying: “At least, you know, we put Obama in office, and so people, I think, are getting – have gotten – a little bit smarter.”​
 
mmi said:
Well, that limb isn't even a twig. I have no difficulty whatsoever recognizing any sort of bias. I'm able to separate my own views and opinions from established or credible facts.

"Liberal MSNBC, Conservative CNBC Are TV’s Jekyll and Hyde," U.S. News & World Report, Oct 5, 2010

The Right hates Harwood because he insists that cutting taxes on wealthy households by trillions of dollars over ten years will not pay for itself through dramatic increases in economic growth. This has been proven twice now, under both the Reagan and Bush43 tax policies. That's where all this debt the Right complains about came from.

They hate him because he calls out right-wing Republicans who say they're going to defund the ACA … when they don't have the votes to get that done.

They hate him because he notes that their hysteria over the nuclear deal with Iran is not connected to any realistic approach to stopping that country's weapons development plans other than a military strike that would likely be ineffective at best.

The GOP is now heavily influenced by its RWNJ fringe. This is political reality. At the recent debate, Scruz was cheered for saying:

the Democratic debate. That debate reflected a debate between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks.​

This is McCarthyism. He's saying that Clinton and Sanders are communists. He's a RWNJ.

Allow me to repeat:

I'm still waiting for some of the critics of the debate who say the moderators were obviously biased and that the Democratic candidates weren't treated the same way to stop making vague statements and deal with specifics.​
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Gee, a 5 year old article is your hill to die on?

Everyone knows nothing changes in Hollywood.

Too funny.

Allow me to repeat, "I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest you wouldn't recognize liberal bias if it were gold plated, and delivered by armored truck."
 
ocean515 said:
Gee, a 5 year old article is your hill to die on?
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I see it as more like a way to dismiss yer unsupported argument.

>>Everyone knows nothing changes in Hollywood.

??

>>Too funny.

For what?

>>Allow me to repeat, "I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest you wouldn't recognize liberal bias if it were gold plated, and delivered by armored truck."

I hope you don't get hurt falling.

Where's the credible source that agrees with you that CNBC has a liberal bias?

More to the pint perhaps, competent, professional politicians don't whine about the media. I give Christie and Fiorina credit on this.

"Kasich Not Upset About CNBC Debate: Questions Weren't 'Below The Belt'," TPM, Oct 31, 2015
 
ocean515 said:
LOL.

So there is no misunderstanding. CNBC, like the rest of NBC, is a liberal cesspool. I have not claimed, in any words, that all their programing is liberal. Perhaps you could explain to me how you are finding a way to connect the two.

For example, Jay Leno's Garage, a new reality program related to cars and car culture, is certainly not liberal. If it were liberal, like so much of NBC, and CNBC's programing, a car show would be about how the filthy rich are destroying the universe with their fancy cars, and how they should be jailed and made homeless paupers on the street.

Hope that clears things up for you Pete, since you seem to be getting a bit exercised over the issue.
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No, it doesn't clear anything up for me. The word "cesspool" is pretty encompassing and extreme at that. Everything is covered by ****. Of course this issuse boils down to what the context the person is using when they are using the word "liberal." Of course most of programing on NBC/CNBC is liberal, but not in a political context.
 
mmi said:
I see it as more like a way to dismiss yer unsupported argument.

>>Everyone knows nothing changes in Hollywood.

??

>>Too funny.

For what?

>>Allow me to repeat, "I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest you wouldn't recognize liberal bias if it were gold plated, and delivered by armored truck."

I hope you don't get hurt falling.

Where's the credible source that agrees with you that CNBC has a liberal bias?

More to the pint perhaps, competent, professional politicians don't whine about the media. I give Christie and Fiorina credit on this.

"Kasich Not Upset About CNBC Debate: Questions Weren't 'Below The Belt'," TPM, Oct 31, 2015
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You see it as a way to dismiss? Ok, if that works for you.

I defer to the crapstorm that reigned down on CNBC from all corners after the debate for all the evidence needed to assign an appropriate label to them. Perhaps you'd like to take all those people on, from inside their network and out.
 
ocean515 said:
the crapstorm that reigned down on CNBC from all corners after the debate for all the evidence needed to assign an appropriate label to them. Perhaps you'd like to take all those people on, from inside their network and out.
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I keep hearing from the Right that the mods were universally condemned. I don't see that. Questioned perhaps, but it's difficult work. Besides, would they even notice a "crapstorm," given that the network is a cesspool of liberalism?

If we can call a very temporary political truce, let me say that reign, rein, and rain are often confused. In my view, it doesn't help that some "experts" defend "reigned down." I'm adamant in my stance that crap can only "rain down" on people.

Townshend may have contributed to the dispute in recent years with his "Love, Reign O'er Me" and its imagery connected to precipitation. He was correct, of course — only love can make it rain. That works for me.
 
mmi said:
I keep hearing from the Right that the mods were universally condemned. I don't see that. Questioned perhaps, but it's difficult work. Besides, would they even notice a "crapstorm," given that the network is a cesspool of liberalism?

If we can call a very temporary political truce, let me say that reign, rein, and rain are often confused. In my view, it doesn't help that some "experts" defend "reigned down." I'm adamant in my stance that crap can only "rain down" on people.

Townshend may have contributed to the dispute in recent years with his "Love, Reign O'er Me" and its imagery connected to precipitation. He was correct, of course — only love can make it rain. That works for me.
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Uh huh. Great post. :roll:
 
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