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Paul Ryan Hasn’t Lost Yet, But Blames the Media for Getting Obama Reelected
While speaking to Fox News Sunday, Paul Ryan started laying the groundwork for his excuse if Obama gets reelected by claiming that the media is biased and wants Obama to win.
Here is the video:
Transcript from Fox News Sunday,
WALLACE: Do you think the mainstream media is carrying water for Barack Obama?
(LAUGHTER)
RYAN: I think it kind of goes without saying that there’s definitely a media bias. We’ve — look, I’m a conservative person, I’m used to media bias. We expected media bias going into this. That’s why we’re trying to cut through and go straight to people. That’s why when you hear people in Washington complain about media bias, come out into these states with us and attend out town hall meetings.
WALLACE: But where have you seen it? Where have you seen it in this campaign where you feel they’re judging you and Romney by one standard and Obama and Biden by another?
RYAN: I don’t think — I’m not going to go into a tit-for-tat or litigate this thing. But as a conservative, I’ve long believed and long felt that there is inherit media bias. And I think anybody with objectivity would believe that that’s the case.
WALLACE: Do you think mainstream media wants Barack Obama to win?
RYAN: You’ll have to ask mainstream that.
WALLACE: No, what do you think?
RYAN: I think most people in the mainstream media are left of center and therefore, they want a very left of center president than they want a conservative president like Mitt Romney.
Earlier in the interview said all the right things about the race not being over and there still being time left, but it was his willingness to blame the media that really stood out. With more than a month to go before the election, Paul Ryan was building his excuse for defeat. Ryan is getting set to follow in the footsteps of Sarah Palin and blame the media if he loses.
The media has shown a particular bias that has worked against Romney and Ryan so far in this election. The media has been biased against lying. The mainstream press has been active in their fact checking of both campaigns, but it is the Republican ticket that has been especially damaged by the the media’s new found willingness to search for truth. Ryan has seen his lies about Medicare, the plant closing in Janesville, and especially the laundry list of half truths and falsehoods that passed for his acceptance speech at the Republican convention hit hard by the fact checkers.
It is always a bad sign for a Republicans when they start complaining about media bias. When a Republican running for office starts crying liberal media bias, it means they are losing, and in many cases losing badly.
Paul Ryan was engaging in preemptive damage control. Just like Sarah Palin in 2008, Ryan is trying to protect his brand. The obvious irony is that Ryan went on Fox News, the most politically biased network on all of television, to complain about media bias.
Republicans love media bias in some forms (Fox News), but will claim bias if a media outlet tries to report facts (In varying degrees, all other non-right wing media.)
It is only when they lose an election that conservatives scream media bias. (Usually, right after they howl voter fraud, and Obama is a Muslim.)
In Paul Ryan’s mind, it isn’t that Mitt Romney is a terrible candidate or that voters hate his ideas for the budget, Social Security, and Medicare. To Paul Ryan, the reason why he is losing is because the liberals in the media want him to lose.
Ryan may talk a good game, but to the horror of many the truth is starting to slip out.
Paul Ryan is a lot more like Sarah Palin than anybody in the Republican Party wants to believe, and 2012 Boy Palin is getting ready to sulk, pout, and throw a tantrum if Obama wins a second term.
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23 Responses to Paul Ryan Hasn’t Lost Yet, But Blames the Media for Getting Obama Reelected
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AFM
Sep. 30th, 2012 at 7:44 pm
If that is the case then why was such a terrible conservate like G.W. Bush elected? I’m so sick and tired of hearing the MSM bias. Just because they keep that lie up doesn’t make it so.
Joe
Oct. 1st, 2012 at 10:03 am
Media bias?
FUX News is called, THE REPUBLICAN CHANNEL.
If that is not bias, I don’t know what is.
I dislike every interview this guy has, he is so cocky and arrogant and SOOOOO insincere of how he delivers his message.
If you don’t see through his body language and eye movements, YOU ARE DUMB and clueless.
Sandra
Oct. 1st, 2012 at 12:09 pm
I note he went on Faux Noise to bawl about how MSM is in the bag for Obama. Could we send him David Gregory from NBC’s MTP? Of course it has nothing to do with his Medicare Vouchers and the mojority of Americans now wanting ACA. Then there his top ticket, Romney’s flip flops, lies, manipulation and distortions and disregard for 47% of the population that Romney says he won’t bother with, he’ll just ignore them and their situation.
Gordon Soderberg
Sep. 30th, 2012 at 7:52 pm
it is not just the media. Reality has a liberal bias too., Anyone faced with this choice would vote for Obama. Ryan has never worked a day in his life and is a liar while Romney is a 4 time daft deferring coward, a self confessed tax cheat, and economic harvester. Neither Romney nor Ryan have the capacity to lead. They are sycophants leaching on ignorance, fear and hatred. It is in fact sad to see the republican party reduce itself to this level of a rotten barrel.
Keith
Sep. 30th, 2012 at 8:11 pm
Heck AFM, I voted for Bush in 2000, but his policies combined with the policies of conservatives and especially the policies of the Tea Party have practically shoved me and many other Eisenhower Republicans into Obama’s camp. What we hate are the lies conservatives tell and the harm they have done to America because we know who they truly are, they were once called Dixiecrats and they invaded our party and now control it.
majii
Sep. 30th, 2012 at 8:27 pm
The elephant in the room that Romney/Ryan and their supporters are refusing to see is the habitual lying that both candidates do. They lie about their policies, they lie about their backgrounds, they lie about what they think about us, etc. Chris Christie said today that the president lied about Romney’s economic plan when every credible economist has said the plan will raise taxes on the middle class. IMO, Christie should stay out of national politics and worry about New Jersey since Standard and Poor’s warned of a credit downgrade last week if Christie’s promised “New Jersey Comeback” doesn’t happen soon. There will be no “New Jersey Comeback,” and Christie knows it because his economic policy is very similar to the one Romney/Ryan is offering to the American people.
Rob Hunt
Sep. 30th, 2012 at 8:33 pm
No Mr. Ryan, while since the days of Spiro Agnew it’s been a GOP to blame the media, in this election it isn’t the media, or you or Romney, it’s the tired campaign tactics. Boehner’s tactic of doing nothing but blocking the President’s agenda for the political purpose of saying the President has accomplished nothing hasn’t worked. In this time of a more informed public, with Twitter, Facebook, and fact checkers, the old, tired techniques don’t work. Blocking government backfired on Gingrich, and it won’t work on as adept a politician as Obama. It is the equivalent of fiddling and allowing the city to burn so you can rebuild to suit you, then naming a scapegoat. It didn’t work then, and won’t now.
Romney’s most marketable accomplishment in Mass. was healthcare, but to run on that, he’d have to virtually embrace the President’s national plan. Yours was an austerity budget, but you can’t run on that, as it calls for sacrifices that voters don’t want to make. You can’t convert Medicare to vouchers and dump a system that not only address healthcare costs, but insures the country. The ER isn’t an answer in anyone rational’s eyes, and it’s more costly.
When the GOP gets more interested in the betterment of the country than it is of enhancing profits for it’s donors, it will elect a President.
Gordon Hilgers
Sep. 30th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
Hey, Lyin’ Ryan! Maybe you’re losing because the American people think your policies stink! Ever think of that? While you’re doing all this bad math in your Randian calculations to destroy both Medicare and Social Security, most of us have the sense to know that if we need to raise revenue to save the programs we should raise revenue.
In other words, you don’t want to do the common sensical thing because your objective is to really destroy Medicare and Social Security. And people are smart enough to know that.
zumpie
Sep. 30th, 2012 at 8:46 pm
Jason, you left Eddie’s even better placing of blame: when Wallace pressed him on whether they were losing because of themselves or the voters, Ryan replied, “it’s Obama’s fault”.
Now I suppose one COULD theoretically argue that yes, because Obama/Biden are better candidates, with stronger likability (and more likable spouses), better strategy, more relatable, offer a better choice for the people of this country, etc—that yes, it is thusly thier “fault” that Thurston/Munster are losing.
But most of us would call that the better team winning. Fair and Square.
sugapea
Sep. 30th, 2012 at 10:42 pm
On the net…So many remarks re: Paul Ryan being ‘HOT’. There’s even a current comment on ‘Post Secret’.
Yet, Ryan won’t be sexy for long…
Two important features grow larger as we age: The Nose and Ears. Ryan’s already got a big start on that.
We can only hope Ryan’s ‘Ayn Randian Cold-Heart’ of enriching the already Rich while ignoring the rest…might be mellowed with time.
miss_caliente
Oct. 1st, 2012 at 2:48 pm
I totally don’t get the “he’s so hot” thing about Ryan. He’s got a Bassett hound face and beaver pelt hair. His “dreamy” eyes will end up red and rheumy when he’s old (along with the large ears and nose). I’m usually loathe to think ill of someone’s looks, but they’re trying to sell him as a dreamboat, and it ain’t working, especially with all the lying thrown in the mix.
PMom_GA
Sep. 30th, 2012 at 10:50 pm
Boy Palin is getting ready to sulk, pout,and throw a tantrum if Obama wins a second term.
Wonder what reaction Ryan will have after not only losing WH, but also his House seat!
stenc
Sep. 30th, 2012 at 11:07 pm
The debate:
Romney: ” Barack, how come you haven’t created any jobs?”
Barack: “Because Congressional Republicans have upheld their committment. They committed to fighting me every step of the way, so as to attempt to insure I was a one term President. That was their number one priority, and they said so, CLEARLY. They fought against every economic stimulus bill Dems have introduced, they even voted down a blll to create jobs for Vets, one they even HELPED TO WRITE!
And c’mon Ryan! don’t you know that the 47 percent of us, which actually includes 99 percent of the population, will not vote for a young punk like you who himself used to be one of the “47 %”, and has forgotten where he came from, not unlike most of your misguided support.
No one’s to blame in the media. No one but you, smirking young punk, and your four time draft dodging boss.
zumpie
Oct. 1st, 2012 at 3:49 pm
Ryan is actually part of the 1%. His stories of mommy riding the bus 99,000 miles in the snow to better herself are just that, stories. While he DID receive SSI, he simply used them to pay for his college.
His family is quite wealthy, from a company that is a government contracts. His wife is also from a wealthy family—they recently inheirited around $5 million from her side and a couple million from his.
Between his wife’s past as a lobbyist and her inheiritance, I strongly suspect this is why they never used her as the original “secret weapon” she was supposed to be. That or Marie Ann-Romnette didn’t like her or something.
Deborah
Sep. 30th, 2012 at 11:14 pm
But wait a minute, Ryan (and almost all GOPers) …
If Faux is number one most popular perfect news media outlet, THEY by YOUR LOGIC ARE the mainstream media!
Rummy.
Annette Dixon-Brown
Sep. 30th, 2012 at 11:47 pm
May be they can add that to their concession speech.
Shane
Oct. 1st, 2012 at 12:30 am
Funny a republican calling media bias… Has he ever seen fox news?
Anon
Oct. 1st, 2012 at 1:25 am
This statement from Ryan is very revealing ” I don’t think — I’m not going to go into a tit-for-tat or litigate this thing. But as a conservative, I’ve long believed and long felt that there is inherit media bias. And I think anybody with objectivity would believe that that’s the case.”
It’s all about perception and not about truth. They portray what they think Obama is and expect people to believe it and when we don’t fall for it, it’s the medias fault.
Obama 2012
Oct. 1st, 2012 at 2:35 am
Sounds to me like he’s just trying to work the refs… which is what the conservatives have always been doing with this “media bias” BS … they get the media to treat their lies like just another point of view.
James Threadgill
Oct. 1st, 2012 at 11:31 am
Since Reagan eliminated the equal times statutes, the only media bias has been in their favor as they own most of the media.
Fact is no one is ready for e redux of the second or for that matter even the first Bush administration. The inept campaign and the recycling of W’s foreign policy advisors have hurt their chances. But the callous cruelness, the avarice, and the richy rich elitist behavior have hurt more. The plutocrats can take their candidate and their greed and shove it!
regressivewatch.org
Tim
Oct. 1st, 2012 at 12:06 pm
Of course it’s the media’s fault, those six guys that own 80% of our media and donate heavily to the GOP.
Could be Mr Ryan,, that your ideas are broken and your “mentor” was teenage reading.
Sandra
Oct. 1st, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Rethugs like to play the victim. They will never admit their radical, rich only policies turn off most Americans. It’s always someone’s fault or some other entity like MSM that defeated them not their selfish, unpatriotic, unamerican agenda. They are still determined to follow tru on Reagan’s failed economics, which Bush2 continued to near disaster ie the financial and economic meltdown of the country which affected the very people who did not created the mess in the frist place, the middle class and working poor. They have no new ideas to offer Americans and the continuation of their current policies will this time destroy the nation.
Michael Lassell
Oct. 1st, 2012 at 3:22 pm
Conservative pundits do not really believe there is a leftist media bias, because there isn’t. How can there be a leftist media bias when miscreants like Sarah Palin and the whole right-wing freak show are covered ad nauseum despite their total irrelevance. Conservative poo-bahs SAY they believe there’s a media bias for the same reason they say every other lunatic thing they say: to whip up the undereducated, underemployed, overentitled base to which they stoop. And if the BS doesn’t work for them, there’s always canoodling with the voter registration process and, if all else fails, the voting machines themselves.