I am confused; or does the media have no problem printing lies.

[zert]

This article caught my attention today. It seems like an obvious plug for Herman Cain, but some of the facts they use are false.

hxxp://www.bendbulletin.com/article/20110605/NEWS0107/106050405/


And [Herman Cain] won the straw polls at the Tea Party Patriots convention in February and the Conservative Values Conference in Iowa in March.

I don't think anyone knew who he was in February; how could he have beaten Ron Paul. Searching for another article with the results from the Tea Party convention I find this one. Which says Cain won in the title, but later in the article admits that Ron Paul really won.

hxxp://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/27/herman-cain-wins-tea-party-presidential-live-straw-poll-at-phoenix-summit/

This article for Hermain Cain appears on several other websites across the internet:

hxxp://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=799247&f=77
hxxp://senatorteaparty.com/a-gop-hopeful-gathers-momentum-as-more-voters-like-what-they-hear/
hxxp://www.sustainabilitank.info/2011/06/is-mr-herman-cain-an-outspoken-logical-black-man-of-pizza-fortune-a-tea-party-obama-who-can-gain-more-popularity-then-the-gop-media-front-runners-the-news-from-new-hampshire-and-iowa-say-he-has/

there are actually a bunch more, all coping the same incorrect facts. It seems the media has a slobbering love affair with Herman Cain.

[asurfaholic]

To me, one of the most obvious cases of media bias towards Cain was directly following the Fox news debate earlier this year. Not 2 minutes after the debate ended, the scene changed to a room full of people, and they ALL are entirely too enthusiastic about how they thought Cain won. To me, this had to be a deliberate preplanned event designed to sway people into thinking that cain won completely. In fact, Cain didn't answer hardly any questions directly, and most polls (even fox news had a hard time snuffing out RP votes) showed RP clearly won. Even still, if the true split is 40/40/x/x/x/x/x in who won, shouldn't there have been at least half of the people in that room who thought someone else won? Not understanding the fact that this one interview, in a closed area, is the only thing that indicates who actually "won" the debate.

Personally, I think its outrageous. Im not one of those "conspiracy" nuts, but media bias is so obvious, and yet so protected....

How do you "win" a debate like this anyways?

[zert]

The host of the debate needs to be neutral, and i don't think there is a news channel which is. I was totally baffled when i asked people who they thought won the debate, and they would say Herman Cain. Then I realized something. None of the people who said Herman Cain had seen the full campaign; they had only seen the tale end of the debate and the FOX highlights.

[obsid]

I believe ron paul won the "online" poll, it was herman cain that won the "straw poll" which only includes people physicaly there in person. I believe they count it this way because of how much easier to fake online polls are (by voting multiple times on diffrent computers).