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But First the polls on Media Bias from Pew Research
A poll Big Media doesn't want you to know about. Notice this has been a consistent complaint for awhile but just is more plain this year then ever before.
By Nearly 8-to-1, Voters Say Journalists Want Obama to Win-"Voters overwhelmingly believe that the media wants Barack Obama to win the presidential election," a Pew Research Center for the People and the Press survey released Wednesday discovered. Specifically: "By a margin of 70%-9%, Americans say most journalists want to see Obama, not John McCain, win on Nov. 4. Another 8% say journalists don't favor either candidate, and 13% say they don't know which candidate most reporters support." The question: "Who do you think most newspaper reporters and TV journalists want to see win the presidential election -- Barack Obama or John McCain?" Unsurprisingly, 90 percent of Republicans recognized how journalists hope Obama is victorious, yet so did 62 percent of Democrats and independents.
Pew noted how "in recent presidential campaigns, voters repeatedly have said they thought journalists favored the Democratic candidate over the Republican," but "this year's margin is particularly wide." By comparison: "At this stage of the 2004 campaign, 50% of voters said most journalists wanted to see John Kerry win the election, while 22% said most journalists favored George Bush. In October 2000, 47% of voters said journalists wanted to see Al Gore win and 23% said most journalists wanted Bush to win. In 1996, 59% said journalists were pulling for Bill Clinton."
This year, by party affiliation: "In the current campaign, Republicans, Democrats and independents all feel that the media wants to see Obama win the election. Republicans are almost unanimous in their opinion: 90% of GOP voters say most journalists are pulling for Obama. More than six-in-ten Democratic and independent voters (62% each) say the same."...
Analyst: Network news paying price for liberal bias-"Media analyst Robert Knight believes the consistent drop in viewership of the mainstream media news programs shows that Americans are on to the media's liberal bias, most notably their glowing coverage of Democrat Barack Obama's presidential run.
A study by Nielsen Media Research shows that the Big Three network news programs experienced a sharp drop in viewers last week during the height of the presidential campaign. CBS Evening News with Katie Couric lost a half-million viewers, as did World News with Charlie Gibson on ABC. Ratings leader NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams dropped from 8.2 million viewers to 7.8 million. Robert Knight is director of the Culture and Media Institute (CMI), a division of the Media Research Center. He believes the ratings decline indicates that Americans have a healthy skepticism of the three evening news shows."
Who is smearing who??
As you try to decide who to believe one important fact that most that the media will not tell you is that the very organizations that argue that Same-Sex Marriage will have no effect on public school education are the very organizations that argued the opposite in Massachusettes!!! See below... This will effect how educators educate it is rediculous to think otherwise!!! Letter sent from www.Protectmarriage.com to California superintendent and board stating factually there case that same-sex marriage will effect public education in California-http://www.protectmarriage.com/files/protectmarriage_letter_to_education_leaders_with_exhibits_1.pdf
Yes on 8 Campaign Slams New No Ad with Jack OConnell-""There is no foundation for O’Connell’s untruthful statements that nothing in California law requires teaching about marriage," said Andrew Pugno, general counsel for Yes on 8. "The voters deserve to hear the truth. While O’Connell may personally favor gay marriage, as a public official it is his obligation to tell the truth about California’s education laws."
The Yes on 8 campaign sent a letter to O’Connell yesterday demanding that he retract his misstatements. The letter, which is attached, identifies Education Code sections that demonstrate public schools do teach about marriage, at a rate of 96%.
"Perhaps if O’Connell spent less time making false statements in TV ads," said White, "he’d have more time to read his own website."...FACT SHEET
Superintendent O’Connell:“Prop 8 has nothing to do with schools…Our schools aren’t required to teach anything about marriage…”
FACT:
CaliforniaEducation Code (EC) 51933 specifies that school districts are not required to provide comprehensive sexual health education, but if they choose to do so, they shall comply with all of the requirements listed below.
…Instruction shall encourage communication between students and their
families and shall teach respect for marriageand committed
relationships.(http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/he/se/sexeducation.asp)
FACT: According to a study posted on the California Department of Education’s (CDE’s) website, 96% of California school districts voluntarily provide classroom instruction under the California Comprehensive Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention Act (Education Code,§§51930et seq). That study states:
HIV/AIDS prevention education and sex education are nearly universally taught in Californiatoday. Ninety-four percent of surveyed schools
provide HIV/AIDS prevention education, as is mandated by law, and an
even larger number, 96%, provide sex education despite having no
requirement to do so.
ACLU/PB Consulting report,“Sex Education in California Public Schools,”August 2003, page 5.
Superintendent O’Connell:“Using kids to lie about that is shameful…”
FACT: O’Connell seems content to accuse supporters of Prop 8 of“lying”while deliberately ignoring the rules and researchof his own department."
In email I sent to friends and family concering Prop 8 in California over the issue of same sex marriage...
"Well documented!!! The very groups that are saying that this new ruling by the Supreme Court legalizing same-sex marriage will not effect the lessons imposed on children in public schools are the very groups that argued in Massachusettes that children should not be able to opt out of lessons teaching about same sex marriage. The evidence is below as these groups are documented and quoted as arguing the opposite of their smear campaign of the Yes on Prop 8. Note that the ACLU is included and so let us see what the ACLU argued in the courts of Massachusettes concerning this subject and see whether or not it is consistent either with the Yes on Prop 8 campaign or the No on Prop 8 campaign. The lack of Big Media coverage when one side is getting away with smearing the other side only aides one side. Just another example of how Big Media is no different then the ACLU, Planned Parenthood or the others on this side. So I don't see how one can not equate Big Media to these groups that are wasting away Traditional American Values. Big Media is a Big Problem and are ingoring Big Issues that would probabily otherwise be interesting to millions if it weren't for the fact that they are never reported on. Makes wonder how many people voting out there are really voting with enough information to make a vote that is truely their own. Makes you wonder how many voters are out there voting with only enough information to make a vote that is really not their own being influenced by the Biggest Profiteering Lobby from the left to the American people, Big Media."
Not to mention if you haven't been listening to news from the internet you probabily wouldn't know that same sex marriage has now been legalized in Connecticut by a 4-3 decision, also!!!!
Here is the article documented on www.protectmarriage.com against the smears on the left!!!
Proposition 8: Who’s Really Lying?-"Public Records Show Proposition 8 Opponents Want Gay Marriage To Be Taught In Public Schools – ‘The earlier the better.’
The top issue that has emerged in the Proposition 8 campaign is whether same-sex marriage will be taught in California public schools if the initiative is not enacted. Opponents of Proposition 8 are spending millions of dollars on television commercials telling voters that the Yes on 8 campaign’s claim that gay marriage will be taught in public schools is a lie. Yet a review of public records filed with the First District Court of Appeal in Boston shows these same organizations who claim our statement is a lie fought to make it true in Massachusetts. Specifically, they fought to ensure that gay marriage be taught in Massachusetts public schools, even over the objection of parents who sought an “opt out” for their children.
Gay marriage was legalized by Massachusetts courts in 2003.
Further, their assurance that parents can always “opt-out” of such instruction when it is taught is belied by the fact that in Massachusetts, they argued successfully that Massachusetts’ parental opt-out provision should not be permitted.
“These damning public records show that it is in fact the organizations leading and financing the No on 8 campaign who are lying to California voters,” said Yes on 8 campaign manager Frank Schubert. “On one coast of the country they tell judges that gay marriage should be taught to children in school at the youngest possible age. But, on the opposite coast, here in California, they have the audacity to tell voters that gay marriage has nothing to do with public schools.”
Lying…who’s really lying?
The Yes on 8 campaign has been airing television and radio commercials factually presenting what happened in Massachusetts where second graders were taught in class about gay marriage using the book, “King and King.” This book is about a prince who married another prince, and includes an illustrated scene of the two men kissing. In response, the No on 8 campaign has purchased at least $1.25 million in television time to run an ad that says, “They’re using lies to persuade you…[Prop. 8] will not affect teaching in schools. Another lie.” (Source: No on Prop. 8 Ad available at www.noonprop8.com)
In the greatest irony, of course, just two days after the No on 8 “Lies” television commercial began airing, a first grade public school class in San Francisco was taken on a field trip to a lesbian wedding at City Hall, officiated by Mayor Gavin Newsom. School officials said they wished to provide their five and six year old students a “teachable moment.”
It should also be noted that the day after the first Yes on 8 ads began running, the Los Angeles Times reported that "Newsom called the (Yes on 8) ad 'classic distraction' and misleading." Ten days later, he officiated at the above-mentioned and now infamous field trip.
“Not only do the organizations leading the No on 8 campaign want gay marriage, under the guise of ‘diversity,’ taught in public schools, they believe it is important to teach it at the earliest possible age,” Schubert said. Massachusetts begins its “diversity education” to five year old children in kindergarten.
According to legal records on file with the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, Massachusetts in the case Parker v. Hurley (514 F.3d 87 (1st Cir.2008)), some of the very organizations who are funding and driving the No on 8 campaign have argued vociferously that gay marriage should be taught in the public schools under the guise of “diversity,” and any attempt to prohibit such instruction – or to permit parents to opt their children out of it – must be stopped.
The following are statements filed in amicus curiae briefs in Parker v. Hurley. The statements show how organizations leading the No on 8 campaign are lying to California voters when they say gay marriage will not be taught in California public schools.
From the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Amicus Curiae Brief:
“In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where the right of same-sex couples to marry is protected under the state constitution, it is particularly important to teach children about families with gay parents.” [p 5]
“Diversity education is most effective when it begins during the students’ formative years. The earlier diversity education occurs, the more likely it is that students will be able to educate their peers, thereby compounding the benefits of this instruction.” [p 3]
(Note: The ADL is a leading member of the No on 8 campaign, and publicly announced they had joined the campaign opposing Proposition 8 on September 9, 2008.)
From the Human Rights Campaign Amicus Curiae Brief:
“There is no constitutional principle grounded in either the First Amendment’s free exercise clause or the right to direct the upbringing of one’s children, which requires defendants to either remove the books now in issue – or to treat them as suspect by imposing an opt-out system.” [pp1-2]
“In short, there can be no serious dispute that the books in issue are both age-appropriate and reflect the growing diversity of American families.” [p 9]
“Lexington’s selection of the [three] books…for inclusion in its curriculum is firmly rooted in the long-recognized tradition of public schools as a place for disseminating the knowledge and information that helps to foster understanding between diverse groups and individuals for the overall benefit of society.” [p 13]
(Note: The Human Rights Campaign has organized one of the largest recipient committees to oppose Proposition 8. The committee, Human Rights Campaign CA Marriage PAC (ID# 1307246) has received more than $2.2 million in contributions (as of 10/8/08), including over $100,000 from the Human Rights Campaign itself in non-monetary contributions. The committee has funneled over $2 million of its funds to No on 8, Equality for All (ID# 1259396), the main No on Proposition 8 campaign committee.)
From the ACLU Amicus Curiae Brief:
“Specifically, the parents in this case do not have a constitutional right to override the professional pedagogical judgment of the school with respect to the inclusion within the curriculum of the age-appropriate children’s book…King and King.” [p 9]
“This court has astutely recognized that a broad right of a parent to opt a child out of a lesson would fatally compromise the ability of a school to provide a meaningful education, a conclusion that holds true regardless of the age of the child or the nature of the belief.” [p 18]
“First, a broad right of a parent to opt a child out of a lesson would subject a school to a staggering administrative burden…Second, in contravention of the axiom that ‘the classroom is peculiarly the ‘marketplace of ideas’’ [citations], a broad right of a parent to opt a child out of a lesson would chill discussion in the classroom…Third, the coming and goings of those children who have been opted out of lessons would be highly disruptive to the learning environment. Moreover, such comings and goings would fatally undermine the lessons that schools teach the other students.” [pp 22-23]
(Note: The Northern California Chapter of the ACLU has also formed a Proposition 8 opposition committee: No on Prop 8, Campaign for Marriage Equality, a project of the ACLU of Northern California (ID# 1308178). This committee has collected $1.6 million in contributions (as of 10/8/08), including more than $70,000 from the ACLU of northern California, as well as $8,000 from the ACLU Foundation. This committee has contributed $1,250,000 to No on 8, Equality for All (ID# 1259396), the main No on Proposition 8 campaign committee.)
These are the facts. This is the truth about the calculated efforts to deliver gay marriage into our public school classrooms, against the wishes of the people of our state. Voters may differ about how they feel about gay marriage, but there is no disputing that the organizations funding and leading the No on Proposition 8 campaign have already revealed, in their own words, their desire to impose this subject on children in the public schools – ‘whether you like it or not.’"
Top Cal. public schools official makes war on marriage-"NoonProp8 carries this post that begins: “Today, the NO on Prop 8 campaign released a tough new television ad featuring California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell, who voiced his strong opposition to Prop 8 and the lies about the public education system.” The ad can be viewed at this YouTube link. The ad declares: “it is wrong to eliminate fundamental rights.”
The PR Newswire carries this report: Yes on 8 Campaign Slams New ‘No’ Ad with Jack O’Connell. It indicates:
. . . The real fact, as stated clearly in the “Yes on 8″ ads, are that, whether it is technically “required” or not, that virtually all schools in California do teach marriage now, and if gay marriage is legal, they will be REQUIRED to teach about gay marriage as well, because that will be the definition of marriage.
“O’Connell’s cleverly worded denials try to trick voters into thinking schools do not teach about marriage,” said Chip White, press secretary for Yes on 8. “But for the 96% of public schools that teach sex education, state law requires them to teach about marriage.”
Visit: ProtectMarriage.com"
If Gay Marriage Is Allowed, Will Schools Promote It?-NPR.
San Diego Public School Board and Teachers Oppose the CTA and State Board of Education
Top African American Religious Leaders Join Apostle Frederick K.C. Price In Endorsing YES on Prop 8
Rick Warren endorses Prop. 8-"The well-known Christian author says people in California need to vote "yes" on Proposition 8 because for "5,000 years, every culture and every religion...not just Christianity...has defined marriage as a contract between men and women."
And Warren says "there is no need to change the universal, historical defintion of marriage to appease two percent of our population." As Warren puts it: "This is not a political issue -- it is a moral issue that God has spoken clearly about."
He urges people to vote "yes" on Proposition 8 on November 4 to preserve the biblical definition of marriage."
First Graders Taken To San Francisco City Hall For Gay Wedding
WSJ: Teacher’s unions are opposing marriage, funding the homosexual lobby and other leftist causes-"The Wall Street Journal has this commentary, ”Big Labor Does Gay Marriage: Because a teachers’ union has other priorities besides education“, discussing last week’s $1 million donation by the California teacher’s association to opposition the Cal. marriage amendment, Proposition 8. It concludes:
In addition to vigorously fighting school choice and other reforms that benefit underprivileged children but threaten the public education monopoly, the NEA has directly (or via state affiliates) bankrolled Acorn, the Democratic Leadership Council, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and, naturally, the Human Rights Campaign, which lobbies for “lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equal rights.”
Public school teachers of America, take note. This is your dues money at work.
Visit: ProtectMarriage.com"
Apple donates $100,000 to fight California marriage amendment-"MacUser.com reports: “Not only is Apple opposing Prop 8, it’s also putting its money where its mouth is, donating $100,000 to the “No on 8” campaign, and citing its history as one of the first California companies to offer equal benefits to its employees’ same-sex partners.”Apple Contact pageApple Feedback pageVisit: ProtectMarriage.com"
Massachusetts and Florida relating to California
What same-sex "marriage" has done to Massachusetts-An absolute must read from the other coast that backs up with clarity the above concerns that children will be taught that homosexuality is normal in public schools but much more that the otherside doesn't want you to know about.
MA Parents Warn Floridians of Effects of Same-Sex “Marriage” on Public Education-"With large images of the homosexualist books “King and King,” and “Heather has Two Mommies” in the background, Massachusetts’s parents Robb and Robin Wirthlin warned Floridians about the detrimental effects of same sex marriage on public education and religious liberty at the Florida Press Center in Tallahassee yesterday.
Florida is one of three states in the upcoming election that are considering marriage amendments that would protect true marriage."
Protect Marriage – Yes on Prop. 8 Launches Campaign Theme for Latinos
US Bishops Develop Plan to Defend Marriage-"Recognizing the societal implications of legislative and judicial efforts to redefine marriage, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) last week announced that it has joined efforts with the Knights of Columbus to develop a national plan of action in defense of marriage."
