warning! avoid cnn lou dobbs tonite -

[laruemtt]

"no hope for clark" - really downplaying his chances. say he's trailing kerry in OK polls. do not watch!!!!

[jenk]

1. enough already

stop screaming at the media. it's not there fault if a candidate is bad.

[laruemtt]

4. ooooh jenk! you know you're

gonna have to retract that RIGHT NOW! a simple apology and we can go on from here....

[jenk]

8. we've all seen our candidates hammered by the media

what they're saying about clark is what they said about dean, kerry, lieberman etc.

ultimately, it's in the hands of the people, and they're not as dumb as you think

[laruemtt]

14. gotta take issue with that

"it's in the hands of the people, and they're not as dumb as you think"

look at how many were convinced until very recently that saddam was linked to 9/11! don't get me started on "the people".... (no not all but too many!)

[xultar]

5. Attention Clark, Dean, Kucinich, Sharpton, Kerry, Supporters..

Please read the post I'm responding to and ask why I go Nuclear...
When Clark supporters have been very respectful.

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[lastknowngood]

18. I'm a Deaniac but don't blame me

when I look up in the sky at night some people see stars, I see assholes the universe is full of them.

[liberalhistorian]

25. I agree with you,

I don't think that was a very helpful comment. If that had been the poster's candidate being so blatantly downplayed and disrespected, I don't think he would have said that.

[Blitz]

6. Amen!

It's not as if Dobbs (or anyone else on his show) took or doctored the polls. If Clark doesn't do well enough tonite (win Oklahoma; have respectable showings elsewhere), he's done, regardless of what the media says.

[Nashyra]

11. It's not doctored polls

It is the fact that they have given no coverage and they are starting today with negative coverage. When he won 3rd in NH it was all about Edwards. Edwards should have surged he was on a bounce from Iowa and half the tiem they showed Clark in 4th in NH and that was a blatant lie. And of course they will give the results of the east coast votes so that the folks out here in the west can feel like Clark is out of the running. Go ahead root for your media chosen candidate and then wait and see what they do to him in the GE

[maryallen]

26. Allowing that the polls are STILL OPEN in OK,

I would say that Dobbs' comments are unconsionable and definitely targeted at attempting to influence any voters who have not yet gone to vote.

The same criticism could be made of MSNBC and FOX who have intimated that Clark is in trouble in OK, and hinted that Edwards would problably win 2 primaries tonight.

The whole process is a farce.

[Nashyra]

7. This is not a bad candidate

Anyone who gives 35 years of their life for their country and then abandons a cushy retirement where could have made millions to jump into the world of disgusting politics deserves a hell of alot more respect. Kerry had his millions and married into money. Edwards made his money first then went into politics. Clark has more character than the whole of them.

[BootinUp]

10. thanks for your advice

So your in favor of punditry instead of more coverage of the candidates themselves. I see plenty of things wrong with the media coverage of politics.

I look forward to Wes Clarks book recounting this campaign and how the media works with campaigns.

[jpgpenn]

17. bad

as in how? bad as in not being a high precentage trial lawyer lacking any experience at anything in the focus of leading a nation?

This is a bad thing?

[HFishbine]

19. Do you mean as in a bald faced liar?

Like Mr. "I know I'm lying but I'm going to tell you that I don't accept money from lobbyists" Edwards?

[krkaufman]

21. It's the media, stupid

Please. Your statements belie reality and common knowledge.

Polls and media coverage have a huge effect on voter perception. Or are you going to say that the multi-billion dollar advertising industry has no effect on consumer product selection?

Kerry, Dean and Edwards have garnered considerably more media attention than Clark and the other candidates, even though Clark was ahead in polling in a number of states. However, the media chose to focus on South Carolina and the Edwards/Kerry race, to the near exclusion of all others, causing voter perception to tend towards the South Carolina polling distribution.

General Clark and his supporters, including myself, will eventually be at the end of this nomination process, and, victorious or not, we will have been successful. The same cannot be said for some other campaigns and candidates.

[jpgpenn]

22. bingo

my vote will count and will be heard in the end. let those that like how their candidate all of a sudden rose in the polls because the media chose to pump up them up understand that not all Dems will vote for the nominee the GOP and Major Media has forced down our throats.

I will live with the decision that i didn't contribute to the further decline of our country by voting them in, let them live with the fact they did!

[xultar]

2. The Clark Campaign is Dead...

[Nashyra]

13. What are you doing?

This is a horrible and wasteful post.

[jpgpenn]

24. put yourself in check

[BootinUp]

3. too late - need a refill -hmmm dos equis sounds good.

That tumulty b*tch is pissing me off. Clark spent the most money in six states she says. OK is closer than expected.

[w13rd0]

9. I was under the impression...

...that Dobbs had "not a lot of love" for Clark. So his slamming on Clark isn't unexpected. And asking me to avoid CNN, in particular Lou Dobbs, is like asking me to avoid Dallas, which comes particularly easy since I don't go to Texas.

[SW FL Dem]

16. Dobbs has a poll asking if candidates

who don't win tonight should drop out. http://www.cnn.com/lou

[childslibrarian]

12. I'm sorry I'm a Clark supporter

But Lou Dobbs has had the most even handed coverage lately...What we should watch "Dan I'm only covering scuz trials" Abrams?

[leetrisck]

15. He was really bad tonight

and I don't normally watch him - hope people do not hear all this bad mouthing before they go vote - maybe if they go straight from work, they won't know the pundits have written him off - actually they're writing him off even if he wins. Gads

[NV1962]

20. See? Ordering bombing of that Serbian TV station looks better now...

Doesn't it?

:evilgrin:

[BeatleBoot]

23. He's downplaying Bush, too

Pointing out all of his screw ups and stuff...