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Noting the bit about LBJ.
'''Media bullying''' is aggressive [[bias]] often employed by the liberal [[media]] in the attempt to influence a candidate, a politician, an institution, or and even sports contestantsor private citizens. In some cases, the victim's opponents use the media in a calculated fashion to frame an issue in a light unfavorable to the victim.
Examples of '''media bullying''' include:
* an all-out media effort to force [[Indiana]] to repeal its religious liberty law, because the law might interfere with the [[homosexual agenda]]* causing Governor [[Jan Brewer]] to fly back to [[Arizona]] in order to appease the [[homosexual agenda]] by vetoing a bill that protects religious liberty* scaring a family saved by [[George Zimmerman]] from even saying thank you in public<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/US/family-rescued-george-zimmerman-fears-blow-back/story?id=19758908</ref><ref>http://www.mediaite.com/online/family-zimmerman-saved-wont-appear-with-him-in-public-dont-want-to-be-associated-with-george/</ref>* caused the Kansas board in charge of balloting to back down within 48 hours from its objection to the lack of proof of [[Obama]]'s citizenship* caused [[RINO]]s to cancel the first 36 hours of the [[Republican National Convention]] in August 2012, an unprecedented capitulation, lest the media blame Republicans for supposedly being indifferent to a hurricane's (relatively modest) forecasted effects* trying to force [[conservative]] [[Todd Akin]] to pull out of the key [[U.S. Senate]] race in [[Missouri]] in August 2012* trying to force [[Hillary Clinton]] to pull out of the [[Democratic]] primaryin 2008* consistently holding [[Sarah Palin]] to an unfairly high standard while giving a pass to liberal candidates
* forcing Queen Elizabeth to give a special public eulogy for the media favorite [[Princess Diana]], who had been estranged from the royal family
* imposing strict [[gun control]] in [[Britain]] and [[Australia]] by creating an hysteria from over-publicized killings and isolated incidents in the 1990s* forcing President [[Lyndon Baines Johnson]] to not pursue a second term by falsely reporting the [[Tet Offensive]] by implying the Vietcong won the offensive instead of the Americans* ridiculing Vice President [[Dan Quayle]] for his supposed gaffes, in contrast with downplaying gaffes by [[liberals]]
* forcing President [[Richard Nixon]] to resign for covering up a scandal, in contrast with defending President [[Bill Clinton]]'s covering up a scandal
* sex abuse in [[public schools]] is worse than in religious institutions, yet the media constantly bullies religious (especially [[Catholic]]) officials about it
* the media bullies the competitors of [[Tiger Woods]] in every major golf contest
* the media bullies portrays [[Paris Hilton]] as dumb, but she's no dumber than other [[Hollywood]] figures
* the media bullied airships into terminating service by creating an unjustified hysteria based on the [[Hindenburg]] accident
==References==<references/> [[categoryCategory:mediaMedia]][[Category:Bullying]]
