Hamas Endorse Barack Obama and who cares?

Hamas endorses Obama on WABC Radio.

On Sunday, Aaron Klein and John Batchelor interviewed Ahmed Yousef, chief political adviser to the Prime Minister of Hamas, on WABC radio.
The interview produced a scoop which, for some reason, has not been widely publicized: Hamas has endorsed Barack Obama for President.


Yousef said, “We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election.” Why? “He has a vision to change America.” Maybe Yousef has some insight into what Obama means by all these vague references to “change.”


Of course, Hamas’s taste in American presidents is suspect

SO the question is WHO cares? Obviously not the mainstream media who wouldn't touch this with a TEN FOOT CATTLE PROD>

Isn't it curious that the left is so careful to put just the right slant on this. Speaking about it they say that Yousef is being diplomatic. If only these same sane and balanced folks were half as balanced when it comes to those they disagree with.

Pew: Five Times More Journalists Are
Liberal Than Conservative

Journalists at national media outlets are more liberal and less conservative than nine years ago, and while in 1995 they were upset that the media were too critical of President Clinton, they are now disturbed that the media are going too easy on President Bush, a just-released survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found. Five times more national outlet journalists identify themselves as liberal, 34 percent, than conservative, a mere 7 percent. The poll also discovered that while the reporters, editors, producers and executives have a great deal of trouble naming a “liberal” news outlet, they had no problem seeing a “conservative” outlet, with an incredible 69 percent readily naming the Fox News Channel.

Pew compared this year’s poll of 547 journalists around the nation, 247 of them at national-level outlets, to the results of a similar survey conducted by the group, then-known as the Times Mirror Center for the People and the Press, in 1995. This year they discovered 54% of national journalists described themselves as “moderates,” down from 64 percent in 1995, as “the percentage identifying themselves as liberal has increased from 1995: 34% of national journalists describe themselves as liberals, compared with 22% nine years ago....More striking is the relatively small minority of journalists who think of themselves as politically conservative” at just 7 percent amongst national journalists, but that’s a surge from an even more piddling 4 percent in 1995. “As the case a decade ago,” Pew noted, “the journalists as a group are much less conservative than the general public (33% conservative).”

And those in the pipeline for national jobs are trending liberal too, with 23 percent of local journalists identifying themselves as liberal, “up from 14% in 1995,” and only 12 percent calling themselves conservative.

Since those surveyed must realize how the left-wing tilt of their profession would be used by conservative media critics, it’s a safe bet to assume that a significant number of actual liberals called themselves moderates.

A mere 8 percent of the national press believe the media are being “too critical” of President Bush, compared to nearly seven times as many, 55 percent, who think the media are “not critical enough.” Back in 1995, as recounted in the MRC’s June, 1995 edition of MediaWatch, Times Mirror determined that just two percent thought the press had given "too much" coverage to Clinton administration achievements, compared to 48 percent to saw “too little” on Clinton’s achievements. The remaining 49 percent called coverage "about right."

Given the anti-Bush attitudes so many in the media, it’s no surprise that “they express considerably less confidence in the political judgment of the American public than they did five years ago. Since 1999, the percentage saying they have a great deal of confidence in the public's election choices has fallen from 52% to 31% in the national sample of journalists.”

The journalists did see ideology at one outlet: FNC. Pew explained: “The single news outlet that strikes most journalists as taking a particular ideological stance -- either liberal or conservative -- is Fox News Channel. Among national journalists, more than twice as many could identify a daily news organization that they think is 'especially conservative in its coverage’ than one they believe is 'especially liberal’ (82% vs. 38%). And Fox has by far the highest profile as a conservative news organization; it was cited unprompted by 69% of national journalists. The New York Times was most often mentioned as the national daily news organization that takes a decidedly liberal point of view, but only by 20% of the national sample.”

Asked, “Can you think of any news organizations that are especially liberal?” only two percent each listed CNN or ABC or CBS or NPR. One percent named NBC. On the conservative side, after FNC, 9 percent listed the Washington Times and 8 percent the Wall Street Journal.

The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press survey, conducted as part of a joint project with the Project for Excellence in Journalism, was “based on interviews with 547 journalists and news media executives by telephone and online. The same questionnaire was used for both modes. The interviews were completed from March 10, 2004 through April 20, 2004.”

The “media organizations sampled” for the 247 people interviewed in the “national media” component:

-- Television Networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, C-SPAN, CNBC, MSNBC, FOX Cable News, Telemundo, Univision.

-- Chains with Washington, D.C. Bureaus: Gannett, Cox, Hearst.

-- Radio: Associated Press Radio, ABC Radio Networks, CBS Radio Networks, Westwood One, Black Radio Network, National Public Radio.

-- Newspapers: Arizona Republic, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Houston Chronicle, Long Island Newsday, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, New York Daily News, New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post.

-- Magazines: Newsweek, Time, U.S. News & World Report.

-- Wire Services: Associated Press, Bloomberg News Service, Reuters.

-- News Services: Copley, Cox Newspapers, Gannett, Hearst, Knight-Ridder, Newhouse, Scripps-Howard.

For the full report titled, “Bottom-Line Pressures Now Hurting Coverage, Say Journalists; Press Going Too Easy on Bush,” with links to more detailed sub-sections and a PDF of the questionnaire, go to: people-press.org

Some excerpts from the Pew report released on Sunday:

Fox's Outsized Impact

Most national and local journalists do not believe any national daily news organization is "especially liberal" in its news coverage. Roughly six-in-ten in both groups (62% national/59% local) say no national daily news organization strikes them as particularly liberal in its coverage. Among the minority that names a specific news organization as being especially liberal, the New York Times was mentioned most frequently (20% national/17% local).

By contrast, solid majorities of both national and local journalists say there is an organization that they think is especially conservative -- and for most the organization that comes to mind is Fox News Channel. Fully 69% of national journalists cited Fox News Channel as especially conservative in its coverage. Fewer local journalists (42%) mentioned Fox; still, a much higher percentage of local journalists named Fox than any other single news organization, conservative or liberal.

Roughly two-thirds of self-described conservatives (68%) could identify a specific news organization that is especially liberal, and the same number (68%) could name a news organization that is "especially conservative." But moderates and liberals could identify conservative news organizations far more often than liberal ones. Roughly three-quarters of liberals (74%) and a majority of moderates (56%) say they couldn't think of any news organization that is especially liberal.

END of Excerpt

For that section: people-press.org

Liberal bias in the ivory tower
Boston Globe
By Cathy Young | April 11, 2005

A study has come out documenting what most conservatives consider to be blindingly obvious: the leftward tilt of the American professoriate. The latest report, by political scientist Stanley Rothman of Smith College, communications professor S. Robert Lichter of George Mason University, and Canadian polling expert Neil Nevitte, published in the online journal Forum, paints a stark picture of a politically skewed academy. Nearly three quarters of the professors in a 1999 survey of college faculty identified themselves as left/liberal, only 15 percent as right/conservative; 50 percent were Democrats and 11 percent Republicans.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. Cannon argued about this for hours last night with DM and the Avenger. Looks like he didn't like the implication that their choice might be the preference of those who could be assumed to NOT have our best interests at heart.

Naturally, Cannon's approach was to discount the whole thing as being either overinflated or fabrication because it wasn't on the national news.
I wonder if that is because 75% of the mainline news organizations staff are admitted democrats? That implies a built in bias against reporting such news might that have something to wo with it.

Most people who need to think they're intelligent, tend to want to know what the intelligent view is suppose to be before they commit.