. >> i think it is pretty clear that bernard obama wouldn't have been done nominee in 2008 without the internet. it was a very close race and the internet was very important in obama's success. some of this is well-known the notion that he raised a lot of money online. some parts of the story are less well known. it's a difficult to imagine obama winning the democratic race without winning a iowa and in some place like aucilla tools like facebook proved important. the the the for an organizer to roll into a small town in iowa and already have half a dozen or a dozen volunteers makes a huge difference for the on the ground organization. many operatives will tell you that it's much harder to get the first dozen volunteers and to get the next hundred, so in that sense we do see pretty good evidence of the internal matters and i would even go further to say that this is not quite so well known but john mccain what almost not likely have been the republican nominee, not for the internet. in the summer of 2007 when things were looking pretty bleak for the mccain candidacy everyone was expect

barack obama is running on the george bernard shaw school of philosophy if you rob peter. any government who robs peter to pay paul can always count on the support of paul. and since there are more pauls in this country than there are peters, barack obama may be on to something but you know what? even paul is getting tired of this act. >> new study by the media research center, conservative group. huge disparity in the mainstream media using the words conservative and liberal as descriptions. >> what is the point of the study? >> the the study found that journalists at abc, nbc, and cbs identified conservatives in their stories 20 times more often than they identified liberals. joe blow, a conservative, but 20 times more often they said joe smith a liberal. this is like when the government puts warning labels on cigarettes that say cigarettes cause cancer. this is a media warning label that says conservatives are dangerous to your mental health. it's the same thing. this happened before,bill in american journalism really up until about the 1960's. it involved race and crim

barack obama is running on the george bernard shaw of philosophy.f you rob peter any government am that rob peter to pay paul can always count on the support of paul. since there are more pauls in this country than there are peters barack obama may be on to something. i think even paul is getting tired by this act. >> huge disparity in the mainstream media using the term liberal and conservative as a desz skrimgs. >> the study found that journalists at abc, cbs, cnn they might say joe blow a conservative but 20 times more often than they is joe smith a liberal. this is like when the government puts warning labels on cigarettes they say cigarettes cause cancer this is a media warning labor that says conservatives are dangerous to your mental health. it's the same thing. this happened before, bill, in american journalism up until really about 1960s. it involved race and crime. the only time journalists would identify race in a crime story is if the criminal was black. they would say johnny smith a blackman was arrested last night or whatever. if johnn

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