# No Liberal Bias Media, My Ass! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 21, 2006, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030 "2006-12-21T05:39:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030/21 "2006-12-21T07:03:02Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] Ah, here we go; [http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d90/shadeedge/bush\_halo5.jpg?t=1166680573](http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d90/shadeedge/bush_halo5.jpg?t=1166680573) And in searching for it I discovered that it, too, was an AP photo. Such disreputable parlour tricks. [/QUOTE] [I’ll see your halo, and raise you one more.](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v340/if6was9/halo.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030/22 "2006-12-21T09:09:38Z")
It would all make some kind of sense if ‘Liberal’ and ‘Conservative’ were distinguishably distant from each other. Little and big-enders is what it is. ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030/23 "2006-12-21T12:59:47Z")
What if we put an X on the AP? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030/24 "2006-12-21T13:05:40Z")
I get it- if you take a picture of Bush and he stands in front of the presidential seal, you obviously have a liberal bias. This is about the stupidest thing I’ve seen in a while. If Bush doesn’t want to look like he has bunny ears, then maybe he could think about leaving his bed without the presidential seal ever-present. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030/25 "2006-12-21T14:05:40Z")
The picture clearly shows a right wing bias, as those are obviously antennae, symbolizing how perceptive and aware Bush is to the problems facing America today. ---
**Author:** ![CapnPitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@CapnPitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CapnPitt)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030/26 "2006-12-21T14:30:44Z")
**Ruby** , hon…the President is probably the most photographed person on the planet. Depending on the photographer’s angle and the president’s spatial relationship to the ever-present Seal, you’re going to get weird photo effects sometimes; be it so-called horns or so-called halos. No bias here, just coincidence due to the very large number of pictures taken of the President. I would, however, suggest that if the President wasn’t pointing, you might say “damn liberal media just showing him standing there not forcefully making a point.” Of course that’s rank speculation on my part. Sue me if I’m wrong. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030/27 "2006-12-21T14:40:02Z")
Bush is horny? Where’s Monica when you need her? ---
**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030/28 "2006-12-21T14:59:18Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] Makes one want to sneak up with a squirt gun full of Holy Water, you know, just to see. Not worth being gunned down by the Secret Service, but still.. [/QUOTE] I think someone’s already thought of that plan! Tom Cruise was just the practice run. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030/29 "2006-12-21T15:14:41Z")
[QUOTE=CapnPitt] **Ruby** , hon…the President is probably the most photographed person on the planet. [/QUOTE] More than Britney Spears and Paris Hilton? Wow! ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030/30 "2006-12-21T15:51:13Z")
Ruby cannot be serious. Someone please tell me she’s not serious. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030/31 "2006-12-21T15:55:38Z")
[QUOTE=Ruby] I was just checking my e-mail tonight at [att.net](http://att.net) and found this lovely AP photograph of our 43rd President. [http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y279/Ruby\_Rubena/pic\_1S.jpg](http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y279/Ruby_Rubena/pic_1S.jpg) This photo was accompanying a story about increasing our military strength. The obvious “horns” on Dubya are most certainly not a boo-boo. While I know there is a heavy concentration of liberals here, certainly you cannot condone such parlor tricks no matter what your politics. I just hit the page again and lo and behold, the pic has been change to another file photo. \< sigh \> Whatever happened to just reporting the fucking news without all of this spin doctor shit? [/QUOTE] People, its obvious. We’re supposed to just step forward, not make direct eye-contact with the President, get our bowl of Freedom with a slice of Information, and step to the left with exact change. Don’t bother to argue, or its “No Freedom For You…Six Months…!” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030/32 "2006-12-21T16:02:32Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] Bush is horny? Where’s Monica when you need her? [/QUOTE] I’d rather see him do it with Linda Tripp. Actually, I don’t really want to _see_ it. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030/33 "2006-12-21T16:21:40Z")
If you’re serious, you’re an bleeming idiot. That’s the Presidential seal. The number of pictures of every President in front of it is astronomical. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030/34 "2006-12-21T16:55:31Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] I’d rather see him do it with Linda Tripp. [/QUOTE] That’s a _man_, baby! ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030/35 "2006-12-21T17:03:58Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Borgia] Obvious conservative media bias, subtly portraying Bush as a mighty ox, pulling America towards a new dawn. [/QUOTE] Now that’s funny. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030/36 "2006-12-21T17:20:27Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Borgia] Obvious conservative media bias, subtly portraying Bush as a mighty ox, pulling America towards a new dawn. [/QUOTE] There IS something about the Bush administration that makes me think of the Oregon Trail computer game. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030/37 "2006-12-21T17:25:02Z")
Well, those are technically wings, not horns… seems more evocative of [Hermes’ Petasus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes). Messenger of the Gods? **Ruby** , are you a Christian? Because it seems like the bias you are applying to this image is a liberally Christian-centric symbology. **Ruby** , When you see my screenname, what do you see? (Rohrschach was right.) ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030/38 "2006-12-21T17:25:46Z")
[QUOTE=Apos] That’s the Presidential seal. The number of pictures of every President in front of it is astronomical. [/QUOTE] He’s got the Presidential Seal. He’s up on the Presidential podium. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030/39 "2006-12-21T17:33:37Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] He’s got the Presidential Seal. He’s up on the Presidential podium. [/QUOTE] Well, if he can’t count on the liberal media, at least he knows his momma loves him. Like a rock. ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030/40 "2006-12-21T17:39:55Z")
The controversy over whether they’re wings or not can only mean one thing. Bush is a balrog! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-liberal-bias-media-my-ass/385030.md?page=3)