Kucinich Gets Ron Paul'd by ABC?

JaJae · 08-24-2007, 12:47 AM

dennis4president.com - Kucinich campaign is awaiting ABC News explanations for its actions
These are the claims:

Among the "outrages" that have energized tens of thousands of Kucinich supporters - and even non-supporters - thousands of whom have flooded the ABC News website and other online news sites with comments of protest:

* Congressman Kucinich was apparently deliberately cropped out of a "Politics Page" photo of the candidates.

* Sometime Monday afternoon, after Congressman Kucinich took a commanding lead in ABC's own on-line "Who won the Democratic debate" survey, the survey was dropped from prominence on the website.

* ABC News has not officially reported the results of its online survey.

* After the results of that survey showed Congressman Kucinich winning handily, ABC News, sometime Monday afternoon, replaced the original survey with a second survey asking "Who is winning the Democratic debate?"

* During the early voting Monday afternoon and evening, U.S. Senator Barack Obama was in the lead. By sometime late Monday or early Tuesday morning, Congressman Kucinich regained the lead by a wide margin in this second survey.

* Sometime Tuesday morning, ABC News apparently dropped the second survey from prominence or killed it entirely.

* AND, as every viewer of the nationally televised Sunday Presidential forum is aware, Congressman Kucinich was not given an opportunity to answer a question from moderator George Stephanopoulos until 28 minutes into the program.

The campaign submitted objections and inquiries to ABC News representatives on Monday and Tuesday. ABC News representatives have failed to respond - or even acknowledge - those objections and inquiries.

Stayed tuned for further details.

The claims come from his camp, but I would have to agree that all the media outlets haven't been very fair to some of the lower tier candidates especially when they break ground on the Big Threes. It seems the media wants to push Hillary, Obama and Edwards from the Democratic camp and if a third tier candidate picks up ground they're going to censor it from America. This is despicable.

Dumpy Dooby · 08-24-2007, 12:58 AM

They did this to two Republicans as well. It was Paul and ... I think Tancredo?

Fucked up, imo.

JaJae · 08-24-2007, 01:13 AM

Originally Posted by Dumpy Dooby

They did this to two Republicans as well. It was Paul and ... I think Tancredo?

Fucked up, imo.

The photo itself speaks volumes, Obama on the left, Hillary on the right. Anyone who isn't between them gets the crop.

jimeigh · 08-24-2007, 01:19 AM

rob paul

lol

jimeigh · 08-24-2007, 01:20 AM

look at how fat hillary looks

DosEquis · 08-24-2007, 12:06 PM

That is pretty fucked up. I wish they would give them all equal time and equal exposure so we could actually get a chance to absorb what they all have to offer before making a decision on who to vote for.

Linzyhop · 08-24-2007, 12:16 PM

if this is true, it's definitely fucked up....

got to love the media and it's reporting "skills"

Dumpy Dooby · 08-24-2007, 12:59 PM

Originally Posted by Linzyhop

if this is true, it's definitely fucked up....

got to love the media and it's reporting "skills"

I know that the Paul one is definitely true. The Ron Paul crew got ahold of the original source photo, and they showed exactly where Paul and someone else (again, I think it was Tancredo) were cropped out.

That one was bullshit.

Rouger2 · 08-24-2007, 01:22 PM

That is just plain sick, if it is true, especially the part about the polls being manipulated. Most of us have no way of checking news stories for truth we have to depend on them to give the truth to us. What they are doing should be criminal and people should be sent to jail for it. Democracy depends on a reliable news source.

RMNIXON · 08-24-2007, 04:14 PM

If only Fox did this and we could have real outrage!

Ardentfrost · 08-24-2007, 04:22 PM

Ron Pwnd?

JaJae · 08-24-2007, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by Rouger2

That is just plain sick, if it is true, especially the part about the polls being manipulated. Most of us have no way of checking news stories for truth we have to depend on them to give the truth to us. What they are doing should be criminal and people should be sent to jail for it. Democracy depends on a reliable news source.

They do that regarding Ron Paul polls all the time.

motivez · 08-24-2007, 07:23 PM

More proof of the media's liberal bias, amirite?

Scrum · 08-25-2007, 12:09 AM

He's in that photo.

He's just hidden by Richardson's left leg. Dennis is a wee little man.

kinggovernor · 08-25-2007, 08:47 AM

I hate when they do shit like thhis, let the man speak for himself

garbagemanlb · 08-27-2007, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by RMNIXON

If only Fox did this and we could have real outrage!

I wonder why ABC is doing this? I thought they were part of the liberal media conspiracy you guys scream about all the time.

JaJae · 08-27-2007, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by garbagemanlb

I wonder why ABC is doing this? I thought they were part of the liberal media conspiracy you guys scream about all the time.

Because they're front-running Obama/Clinton/Edwards. Same reason Fox does it to Ron Paul. By this logic Fox News isn't conservative...

Nonphixion · 08-27-2007, 05:48 PM

I am no conspiracy theorist -- but this is great, like we needed another reason not to trust corporate media

AVengeance · 09-05-2007, 11:07 AM

Just more evidence of what I've already said numerous times. The media has picked (or been told) their favorites. DK isn't the favorite, so if he's leading polls or looking too good somewhere, they're going to scrub him, just as they've done with RP. Edwards/Clinton will be the Dem ticket. Notice how they're in the foreground, but not TOO close?