"Left Turn" A Report Card

“Left Turn”- A Report Card

In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Without doubt this book is a classic. This is the first in a series of letters on Left Turn – “How the Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind” by Tim Groseclose – St. Martin Press – N.Y., 2011

It is an informational vaccine for the Evangelicals, Tea Party Associates, Orthodox Catholic Advocates and others. The Liberals plan massive smears and lies against them. It is a badge of honor for Patriots.

I bought the book yesterday from Barnes and Noble. It was not displayed. It costs $26.99 and with tax $27.46. Save your money and check out this blog. Read the red cover of the book and realize that this is a most serious study of how media and politics interact and how false public opinions are formed.

Preface (Excerpts)

“In at least one important way journalists are very different from the rest of us – they are more liberal. For instance, according to surveys, in a typical presidential election Washington correspondents vote about 93-7 for the Democrat, while the rest of America votes 50-50. What happens when our view of the world is filtered through eyes, ears, and minds of such a liberal group?

As I demonstrate, using objective, social-scientific methods, the filtering prevents us from seeing the world as it actually is. Instead we see only a distorted version of it. It is as if we see the world through a glass – a glass that magnifies the facts the liberals want us to see and shrinks the facts that conservative want us to see. The metaphoric glass affects not just what we see, but how we think. THAT IS, THE MEDIA BIAS REALLY DOES MAKE US MORE LIBERAL.

Perhaps worst of all, media bias feeds on itself. That is the bias makes us more liberal, which makes us less able to detect the bias, which allows the media to get away with more bias, which makes us more liberal, and so on. All of this means that the political views that we currently see in America are not their natural views. We see only an artificial, distorted version of those views. …

Construction of the Book’s Argument To some people, these conclusions will sound shocking. However, they are supported by: (i) eight years of research; (ii) some state of the art statistical and social-scientific methods, and (iii) recent, little-noticed, yet brilliant, research by some rising-star professors of economics and political science…

According to these slant quotients, every mainstream national new outlet in the U.S. has a liberal bias… The effect of media bias are real and significant. My results suggest that media bias aids Democratic candidates by about 8 to 10 percentage points in a typical election. I find for instance, that if media bias didn’t exist, then John McCain would have defeated Barack Obama 56-42 instead of losing 53-46…”

George H. Kubeck – There are 22 chapters in this fascinating book. Most of the report cards will be posted on this blog and not e-mailed to you.