Here’s a bit of good news: the American people distrust the mainstream media…
The majority of Americans still do not have confidence in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. The 44% of Americans who have a great deal or fair amount of trust and the 55% who have little or no trust remain among the most negative views Gallup has measured
…and largely believe it to be biased to the left:
Here’s the part I think is dispositive – check out the numbers broken out by self-reported political category”:
For all of the extreme left’s caterwauling about the “conservatism” of the mainstream media, Democrats are three times as likely to say the news is “just about right” as Republicans – and almost twice as likely as “Independents”.
So while the mainstream media may not be “liberal” (although they are twice as likely to be OK with the status quo as conservatives), the Democrat mainstream certainly seems to be comfortable with the way things are.
I see Barry Obama mentioned the building of the “intercontinental railroad” again. Now, perhaps he thinks that in 1869 we built a RR to England, vs across the US to California.
Really, this mistake, however stupid, isn’t a big deal. But imagine if Michelle Bachmann had said this?
It’s really funny how the moron in chief and his minions get away with constant gaffes, while their sycophants still attribute Tina Fey’s parody of Sarah Palin about seeing Russia from her house to Sarah!
These numbers come as no surprise. Conservatives don’t have a Media Matters equivalent to feed them the approved opinions.
Birds of a feather. Extreme liberals never seem extremely liberal to other extreme liberals.