Posted on 09/15/2008 10:49:14 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
This is so frustrating!
Why is the Media/New Media completely ignoring The Obama/Iraq troop withdrawl story?
Barely a 30 second mention from Foxnews. I haven't seen Rush say anything about it either.
McCain should be getting an ad ready! Fight! Fight! Fight! Go! Go! Go!
If President Bush would come out and make a statement the media would be FORCED to cover it.
I understand there’s balance and the media wants to cover the Mortgage/Bailouts.
But they don’t need to go wall to wall with it!!
ping!
Who do we call?
It’s front page on Drudge.
Fox news covered it briefly earlier.
Drudge kind of buried it.
I heard Foxnews mentioned it on Fox and Friends this morning.
The Live Desk gave about 30 seconds to it. Tossed to Major Garrett. Major Garrett said the Obama camp denied. And Fox moved on.
I don’t know why he isn’t mentioning it.
Hannity might pick the story up.
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It’s still there, underneath the Market news.
Rush and Fox etc. may be holding back because it’s hard to confirm this. Taheri is trustworthy and I can’t imagine he would have gone public with this unless he had some assurance that the Iraqi foreign minister would back him up, but . . . . If O’Reilly, Rush etc. went wall-to-wall with this and then the Iraqi’s come out with a stone-cold denial, it would only help Obama.
The only way the Iraqi’s will back this and confirm it and give it legs is if they think there’s some advantage to having McCain rather than Obama win. They might well prefer McCain, I don’t know. But even if they do, they’re playing a poker game too. Until they have some strong confidence that McCain can win, they don’t really want to be in the position of stabbing Nobama in the back, do they?
Until there’s some way to confirm the story and some assurance that the Iraqi’s at least won’t deny it, I can understand why Rush and others are treating it with kid gloves.
He’s probably trying to verify it before going on air with it. Once he’s fully vetted it, I’m sure he’s going to hit it heavy and hard and FORCE the MSM to acknowledge it.
Originally it was buried very low.
Then after a couple hours it moved higher.
I wish Palin or somebody would make a statement about this.
must you really ask why? if you think you fustrated and disgusted now, wait unti Obie’s beeen in office for a month. Then the MSMholes will be all abuzz about victory in Iraq and how Obie turned it all around
They could at least mention it.
I’m not asking for wall to wall coverage.
Fox and Friends covered it this morning.
If the story is false, and right-wing media goes wall-to-wall with it, the left will reveal the truth and the right (and talk radio) will have egg on their face. Obama will get control of the news cycle back, and have a week of fawning coverage during which he can publicly feel sorry for himself.
Stay cool. If this is real, it’ll come out. But Obama is so desperate he’ll try anything, and the “venus flytrap” strategy worked well for the Clintons when the were up against the wall.
The MSM will do their best to bury this and not cover it.
If Obama really did this.. this is a big deal.
I’m listening to Rush & was surprised that he hasn’t mentioned it. I would expect FOX & other MSM-types to be trying to confirm the story before airing it. A confirmation from the Iraqi FM would be terrific. Otherwise, it’s just a rumor.
That’s what I said on the other thread. I’m shocked he’s not going after Barry for the email story either. Still Rush seems off today.
Sorry, but unlike dems unless this story can be proven then the right will not go with it and the press never will.
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