Spend five minutes in a room with a Republican and you are sure to hear an earful about how biased the media is. Stay another minute and you’ll hear how that bias lost the election for their favorite candidate. Of course, no one can explain how Ronald Reagan won (it was his sheer brilliance no doubt) or how George W. Bush managed to squeaked out two election victories (Karl Rove is one helluva a frickin’ genius, haven’t you heard?). Yep, that’s the pat response. If a Republican wins it’s because somebody somewhere with a GOP lapel pin and a gold cuff link was a mental giant. The GOP guy loses and the media ganged up on him. Republicans are such whiny crybabies!

Well, here’s a video of Shephard Smith defending the media - pretty cool, huh?

Oh, but it’s not just Republicans who claim media bias either. It’s the pollsters!

Evidently, there are a handful of really savvy researchers out there who have gone through the trouble of looking at news stories to see how many showed Barack Obama in a positive light versus how many were kind of John McCain. And if you listen to these jokers, they’ll tell you that the truth is in the facts. Only it isn’t. It’s more in how you interpret them, and I’m with these guys on that one.

Just remember: The next time some Republican or faux genius says that their guy lost because the media beat up on them, tell them that voters don’t vote for a guy just because newspapers and TV commentators say good things about them. Voters make up their minds based on what they see and in the Internet age when people are capable of looking for their own information at the drop of a hat, that’s not too hard to do. The media doesn’t lose elections. It reports the results of them.