This election will go down as a historic event in many ways.  The turnout at the polls, the selection of an African-American for president and the manipulation of the news by the mainstream media.  Everyone would have to agree that Obama got a pass on any difficult questions from mainstream TV and print.  He was shown on US magazine in a positive light and Sara Palin a negative one.  Even Bill O’Reilly seemed to take it easy on him, certainly not the same type of interview that he had with Barney Frank.

On Election day twelve Obama voters were interviewed after they voted to learn how the news media impacted their knowledge of what occurred during the campaign. The video below shows how the media controlled the flow of information to the general public and the impact that it had on their voting decision.

This wasn’t a particularly scientific survey so the Zogby people were commissioned to conduct a telephone poll to ask a greater number of Obama supporters the very same questions asked of the people in the video. Oh and one other thing to keep in mind. The people were given multiple choice answers to these questions. Even with multiple choices, here were some of the results.

• 94% of Obama voters correctly identified Sarah Palin as the candidate with a pregnant teenage daughter.
• 86% of Obama voters identified Palin as the candidate who spent $150,000 on a campaign wardrobe.
• 86.9 % of Obama voters though that Palin said that she could see Russia from her “house,” even though the quote actually came from Saturday Night Live.

Now for some news about the candidate they were supporting ….

• 57.4% of Obama voters could not correctly say which party controls congress.
• 82.6% of Obama voters could not correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot
• 88.4% of Obama voters could not correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket
• 56.1% of Obama voters didn’t know that Obama started his political career at the home of Bill Ayers, an unrepentant terrorist.

Why don’t you hear more bad news coming from Iraq from the mainstream media, is that because the news isn’t bad.  Could the news never been as bad as they presented it.  We all heard stories from servicemen on the ground that what was being shown on televisions in the US wasn’t accurately presenting the story.

Is it possible that the current economic crisis wouldn’t be so bad if the mainstream media didn’t continually preach gloom and doom…only time will tell.