THO of portland, ME Reverb - just out of curiosity, where did you get that info on Obama? He was raised Christian, though not devoutly so. Went to a private, secular high school in Hawaii, attended Occidental, Columbia and Harvard after high school. When were those four years at the madrassah? I suspect that you got some misinformation at one of those objective, fair and balanced sources you must use and are now passing it off as fact. Your trained eye is jaundiced, Reverb. Ludicrously so.

By the way, the mainstream media doesn't crow about Obama's success despite his race. That in itself would be racist, don't you think? What they talk about, as with Hilary Clinton and Mitt Romney, is the novelty of the candidacies.report abuse

Reverb of Haverhill, MA Talk radio doesn't claim to be neutral, network news (Dan Rather) does. The liberal bias is subtle, hard to spot to the untrained eye. It is as much in what they don't report vs. what they do. Consider how the media has this love affair with Barack Obama, then compare how they treat him vs. Mitt Romney. With Obama it is always a positive story about his upbringing, his charisma, his speaking ability, his success despite his race, etc. With Mitt its mostly, well he's a Mormom, they aren't very popular with the Christain right, and then they show some poll about how a certain % of people are reluctant to vote for a Mormon. So then where is the coverage about Obama and his Muslim roots? Where is the poll about people's feelings about voting for someone was raised Muslim? The big story about how he attended a Madrassa for 4 years? Why is Mitt's Mormonism a story, but not Obama's affiliation with Islam? I'll tell you why, to the media Mitt is just another rich, conservative religious white guy, and Obama is a young, liberal politician of color who speaks well. And the media loves diversity (by skin color only though), so they fawn all over him. If you think the mainstream press gives Mitt the same treatment that they give Obama, then you just aren't paying attention.
Another example, I was reading the PPH back in Dec. In the front page section they had those short little news stories about events in the USA. In one there was this story about some politician who was in some trouble in Ohio, in a separate story there was one about some pol. from Nevada who did something bad. In the former, it was prominently mentioned that the guy was a Republican. In the latter, there was no mention of party affiliation. I had to look it up on the web that the guy in Nevada was a Dem. Those kind of things happen all the time, you just have to look for them. Though if you agree with the liberal point of view, you don't notice it because it seems normal to you.report abuse

THO of portland, ME Reverb, I don't need your blithering compare-and-contrast tome on newscasts and talk radio. It's your fellow dimwit, the one who calls himself derek taxpayer, who brought up right-wing talk radio as an alternative to mainstream news sources. Not only is his argument FUBAR (show me all this bias that exists in the mainstream news reporting or shut up about it), but he (and really, Reverb, we know he's not alone on these pages) seems to use right-wing talk radio as his news source. Mike Savage, whoever that Nazi might be, is his Dan Rather, Re. Check out his dopey post and see for yourself.report abuse

Leon Richard of Farmington, ME Typical Liberal... "It's not FAIR! It's not FAIR! It's not FAIR!"

Obstetricians and Nurse-Midwives should wear surgical caps... embroidered with the following credo...

"Young men and women, LIFE IS NOT FAIR! GET USED TO IT!"

It's not fair... what the hell? I suppose it's offensive too. Right?

Well, show me in the constitution where you've got some inalienable right to go through life unoffended. And that everything will be fair... ROTFLMAO gimme a break... you're killing me.

Fair is equal opportunity. Get some radio station to provide you with a microphone and shoot your mouth off too, if you think you can get anyone to listen to you. I'm pretty sure the unemployed liberal welfare mongers out there will tune right in to hear how they're deprived and put upon... pump out some more babies and we'll take some more money from those conservative running dog capitalist pigs and give it to you and your brood. Conservative republicans all have jobs and work... I have no idea when they would ever have time to listen to a radio show...report abuse