Indy Politics has a post entitled Mourdock Camp Blames “Media Bias” for Loss. Would be Chrysler killer, Richard Mourdock, who caught attention for revealing God’s will with respect to children conceived through rape has sent out an e-mail to supporters. The e-mail was a fundraiser, seeking to retire campaign debt.
In our case, we found our campaign caught in the liberal media cross hairs. Never has Indiana seen a more obvious example of media bias by reporters more interested in defeating conservatives than reporting the news.
It’s hard to tell if this bit of self-pity is borne of true belief or an effort to stoke the base into parting with a few extra bucks. It’s the Nate Silver conundrum in a nutshell – are they getting it wrong because they’re in a groupthink bubble, or is it a bit of calculated hyperbole designed to motivate supporters?
The media has biases to be sure – sometimes different ones depending on the medium in question. But, often times political reporting is biased by a lack of institutional memory, faux objectivity in the form of “he said/she said” narratives, fixation on horse race narratives instead of substantive policy reporting, and general limitations associated with being a commercial undertaking.
But, “reporters more interested in defeating conservatives than reporting the news?” That’s just petulant.
Mourdock just continues to win over hearts and minds.
I would like to help mourdock retire his debt. Well, really just retire. I think that I will send his campaign a one-dollar bill to apply to his debt. Just think of the administrative expenses he will incur speaking with a single. Or maybe a Susan B.
If we send him enough cash, we might just drive the campaign into bankruptcy.
As much as I would like to do this, I won’t. But it did set up a good closing line.
It’s like the Marx brothers line about selling items for 100% off. “If we don’t sell to many of these, we just might break even.”
Did the letter have a postage paid return envelope included? I really like those…pack them full of junk and let someone pay to ship a pile of someone else’s junk mail to themselves.
I got the e mail.
And I responded appropriately citing those exact 2 sentences.
I first ask how Romney and Pence did so well in Indiana. And I asked if they thought I was stupid or what.
And made it quite that not one dime was coming from me.
By the end of his campaign, even supporters were holding their nose to vote for him. He lost despite the a massive amount of out-of-state spending against his opponent … in a REPUBLICAN state.
Maybe the state of Indiana should invest in his campaign debt and hope for a bailout.
Joe has a good point. The GOP PACs firebombed Indiana with pro-Mourdock ads, sometimes running 10-12 TV ads an hour. This claim that his message was being hidden by the non-existent liberal media is silly and sad.
You lost pal. Time to move on.
The ads were relentless up here. This is yellow dog republican country, yet they were four-walling everything. And Mourdock yard signs sprouted like Washington State marijuanna plants everywhere.
In the 2010 “redistricting,” Donnelly was gerrymandered out of his district when Michigan City was taken out and Elhkart put into the district. That got the Republicans Jackie Walorski by one percent. And lost the Republicans a cinch seat in the senate.
Craig: it takes a special kind of awful to lose as a Republican in Indiana.
At least Tony Bennett can fall back on making teachers angry as he tried to push through reforms. At least he can say that and have a little bit of credibility.
Richard Mourdock lost because he’s a fool. If he wants to blame the liberal media for reporting all the stupid things he said, he should start with Fox News, where he walked out and said (paraphrased) that he was looking forward to going to Washington to inflict his opinion on others.
Agreement. Well said everyone.
It’s just a successful narrative for conservatives to employ when fundraising. If he really believes it, it’s a boatload of willful ignorance.
Perhaps Mourdock could post his fund raising efforts on FAUX News, a hilarious website. “The Biggest Smell in News.”
The fool got an object lesson in just how far you can push Hoosier voters before they abandon you…