Fox News, conservative media lied to party faithful

You almost make it sound like anything "anti-Romney" (as you call it) would be considered slanted by you.

You can reconstruct your alternate-reality any way you like...

Karl Rove was back on Fox News Thursday, where he alleged that Obama 'succeeded by suppressing the vote.' He rattled off a bunch of statistics, arguing that Obama's victory this time was less significant than in 2008.

That's when Megyn Kelly said, 'You keep saying that, but he won, Karl, he won... and that's what the Republicans care about, what the Democrats care about."

Romney advisers are telling CBS News that there wasn't one person on the Romney campaign who saw the loss coming, and the GOP presidential candidate was "shellshocked" by the results. Here's what they have to say:

"We went into the evening confident we had a good path to victory...I don't think there was one person who saw this coming."

"There's nothing worse than when you think you're going to win, and you don't...It was like a sucker punch."

Romney "was shellshocked."

The CBS story indicated that the Romney team even bought into the "unskewed polls" theory, believing that the polls dramatically underestimated Republican turnout and overestimated Democratic enthusiasm.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-575 ... 1&tag=page

So your title is a lie? It does really sound like Mitt and his campaign believed the polls were underrepresenting GOP turnout. And this belief might even have helped make the election even more one sided. Ryan & Romney campaigned in States they had no chance in like Minnesota instead of locking down Ohio Virginia and Florida.

No,my title is not a lie. Read the original post and link. The Republican machine (Fox News and pundits) all refused to report the reality of what was going on and led everyone to believe that Romney was a going to win, even when the MSM media was reporting Obama ahead.

The GOP's media cocoon

“What Republicans did so successfully, starting with critiquing the media and then creating our own outlets, became a bubble onto itself,” said Ross Douthat, the 32-year-old New York Times columnist. “The right is suffering from an era of on-demand reality,” is how 30-year-old old think tanker and writer Ben Domenech put it.

Citing Kael, one of the most prominent Republicans in the George W. Bush era complained: “We have become what the left was in the ’70s — insular.” In this reassuring conservative pocket universe, Rasmussen polls are gospel, the Benghazi controversy is worse than Watergate, “Fair and Balanced” isn’t just marketing and Dick Morris is a political seer.

Even this past weekend, days after a convincing Obama win, it wasn’t hard to find fringes of the right who are convinced he did so only because of mass voter fraud and mysteriously missing military ballots. Like a political version of “Thelma and Louise,” some far-right conservatives are in such denial that they’d just as soon keep on driving off the cliff than face up to a reality they’d rather not confront.

But if the Fox News-talk radio-Drudge Report axis is the most powerful force in the conservative cocoon, technology has rendered even those outlets as merely the most popular destinations in the choose-your-own-adventure news world in which consumers are more empowered than ever.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83704.html#ixzz2C28nvDet

I like the new phrase being used, the "conservative media entertainment complex" for Fox/Rush/O'Reilly/Drudge/etc. It looks like the "lamestream" media were the ones actually on point.

Actually the Fox polls showed Obama winning the electoral vote with around 300. So how is that a lie?

FredHayek wrote: Actually the Fox polls showed Obama winning the electoral vote with around 300. So how is that a lie?

Link please.

A conservative joked on here before the election about getting called by a pollster and telling them they were voting for Obama. They did that to try and rationalize why Obama was rebounding in many of the polls. Those polls were discounted in favor of Rasmussen, the odd Gallup and Pew Research results that flew in the face of the other polls.

The Republican Party is now the minority party; fewer identified with it in the polls than they did with Democrats and Independents*. But that's because many former Republicans now consider themselves Independents, I think. As Rush put it, "We're outnumbered."

Gone is the sanctimonious blather from the Right that their ideas are so much better than anyone elses and the country was coming around to them even more than in the 2010 elections.

It's a whole new world out there to the Republicans. They found out that the nation really is a melting pot of races. I was a big wake-up call for them. I think before the Republicans can try and attract new friends they are going to have to make friends within their own party and not let the radical whims of one faction take them away from a more moderate platform. If they can't do that, they are doomed.

What this means for America, IMO, is a renewed look at third parties before 2016. The Republicans and Democrats weren't always around and there's nothing to say one or both will be around in the future.

* The poll of 705 other polls shows party identification as 29 percent Republican; 36 percent Democrat; and 31 percent Independent. http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com ... -rest.html