RedHatBlueHat Podcast: Episode 17 - There’s No Media Bias

By Tim_Jones On October 24, 2008 Under Podcasts, politics

Welcome back!

This week’s episode of the RedHatBlueHat Podcast featured the normal cast of Mike Allen, Shawn Collins, and myself. If anyone wearing a blue hat would be interested in joining the cast of RedHatBlueHat, please let us know. You could become one of the minority on the show and give us the left’s perspective on the national and local political issues affecting us, today.

This week, we discussed Palin’s wardrobe, the accuracy (or inaccuracy of the polls), and McCain’s POW video.

We also had more protracted discussions about the media bias and their lack of coverage of many McCain issues, including a campaign volunteer that was attacked (prior to the most recent one), the complete lack of coverage of Obama’s associations with the likes of Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, Jeremiah Wright, and so on, as well as my own local radio news (through a listener’s comments) portrayed Michelle Obama as “positive” and “joyful.” If she’s positive and joyful, I’d hate to see her angry.

Our discussion of the polls included thoughts on their accuracy due to poor sampling (you never poll people that only use cell phones, of which there are many), people’s honesty in exit polls, and how the media leaks of election results could sway the true results. Will we have another election where exit polls sway this election’s results?

We tied it up with a great conversation about the economics policies of the two candidates, including some very good talks about socialism versus capitalism.

Here are some links from the show notes: