lol. It's sad how biased they are. They think Obama, who has no experience, a spotty past, and is a flaming liberal, is practically a god.
Posted on 04/22/2008 11:41:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Nothing in the hysteria over last week's Democratic debate – including the unprecedented opprobrium press critics heaped on the ABC moderators – should have come as any surprise. That doesn't make it any less fascinating a guide to current strange notions of what is and is not a substantive issue in a presidential contest, or any less striking an indicator of the delicate treatment Mr. Obama's media following have come to consider his just due.
Moderators Charles Gibson's and George Stephanopoulos's offense was to ask questions Mr. Obama didn't want to address. Worse, they'd continued to press them even when the displeased candidate assured them these were old and tired questions.
- "Akin to a federal crime . . . new benchmarks of degradation," The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg declared, of the debate.
- "Despicable. . . . slanted against Obama," Washington Post critic Tom Shales charged.
- A "disgusting spectacle," the New York Times's David Carr opined.
- The questions had "disgraced democracy itself," according to columnist Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News.
The uproar is the latest confirmation of the special place Mr. Obama holds in the hearts of a good part of the media, a status ensured by their shared political sympathies and his star power. That status has in turn given rise to a tendency to provide generous explanations, and put the best possible gloss on missteps and utterances seriously embarrassing to Mr. Obama.
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lol. It's sad how biased they are. They think Obama, who has no experience, a spotty past, and is a flaming liberal, is practically a god.
They’ll get over it. I’d bet money that each of these folks in 2004 were moaning about the unfair treatment Howard Dean received when The Scream was played over and over.
“Akin to a federal crime...”
Someone must’ve slaughtered a sacred cow that night. Too bad I don’t watch tv. Or vote in Democrat primaries.
Meanwhile the anchor of one of the big 3 networks airs forged government documents “proving” the president of the united state was “AWOL” along with AP. Neither acknowledges ANY controversy about the authenticity of the documents for days. And the anchor later proclaims that the content is real even if the letters are fraudulent.
THAT is a federal crime. Has to be.
Howard Dean’s support as a candidate was the same as Ron Paul’s. Entirely an online block. There were people behind those clicks who believed in the candidate, but nowhere near the numbers they inflated online polls to suggest.
The Scream proved a convenient foil for Democrats to rush Howard Dean off the stage. And apparently they bought him off by handing him the keys to the party.
This time around the Democrats are saddled with two Marxists that are difficult to sell to the American public. Especially when faced with the liberal policies of John McCain (who they crossed over to vote for as they did in 2000).
I want to see whichever Marxist the Democrats select exposed as a leftist radical with the support of leftist radicals and in tight with the radical chic terrorists of the 1960s (both have their ties). We know who the Democrats are and who the liberals since 1967 have been. Communists. Commie loving, Commie hoping, Commie sympathizers.
No socialism for me, thank you. Karl Marx get back in your grave.
...the Democrats are saddled with two blatant Marxists that are difficult ?? to sell to the American public.
Difficult to sell? Well, let us hope so, although I daresay X millions of the American people will in fact buy anything if it's nice and shiny (and, of course, no payments are due until June 2009 or so, and no thought is required or even desirable).
You know what I'd like? I'd like someone, anyone, presumably someone who studies such things, to name for me a date when even thinking about voting for an outright Marxist in this nation became acceptable.
FReegards to you, sir.
Sorry to say that most people these days have accepted that government should provide them a “free” ride paid for by themselves and their fellow citizens. They no longer want the responsibility of freedom and independence. The attitude is “let Hillary handle it so I can watch TV”.
Don’t forget that, even though we have it constantly crammed down our throats, the (mainstream) media does NOT speak for the vast majority of grass-roots Americans, so take heart.
Right on. And that same anchor has a mega-million dollar lawsuit against the network and related others, but only because of the “principle of it”.
Very true and I’m glad they don’t.
I've argued for years that, just as one would have to be mad to seek my opinion on nuclear physics, playing the piano, driving a racing car, thousands of other perfectly worthwhile studies and activities, so also must one be mad to think that Joe Schwartz has either the interest in or the ability to elect/select competent officials of the goobermint.
An elitist attitude, you say? Really? Try this quote:
''The great majority of Mankind, left to its own Devices, is unfit to govern itself''.
Care to guess who said that? One of the most revered figures in American political history, I assure you.
Well, too late to change the notion of 'democracy'. We seem to be headed into a period where 10 goobermint wolves, 10 special-interest coyotes, and 10 citizens vote on what's for supper.
Sic transit gloria mundi.
You are exactly right. Too many Americans are human magpies, attracted to any new, shiny thing. They are too apathetic or too poorly educated even to recognize Marxism when it is staring them in the face, much less able to predict its inevitable consequences. If BHO or HRC were running under the flag of the Communist Party, people might buy a clue. But under the Democratic Party flag, the lemmings line up to pull the lever.
Hitlery can hardly be called 'shiny'. A bottle-blonde with well-worn chipmunk cheeks, delusions of adequacy, and a power-mad attitude.
Not terribly 'shiny', at all events. Dull black with flashes of scarlet sounds more the case, don't you think? Optional on the horns and the pointed tail.
Actually, there's two bits of good news. Osamabama is the single most beatable candidate, should he win the nomination, in America's history.
He will lose, if he runs, the non-urban vote, the gun emthusiasts, every small businessperson except the subsidy hogs, the racist portion of the 'Rat party (the 'Rats are and have been for at least 140 years the party of institutionalised racism, as you know quite well).
He will lose a sizeable portion of the Hispanics (legal and illegal) that would otherwise vote 'Rat, the whole of the 'pro-life' crowd (more than usual, too -- he voted 4 separate times in the IL Senate for a bill that would have given the right to a mother who, after having an unsuccessful abortion and thus a live birth, to kill the newborn infant), and numerous other constituencies.
Ask yourself: who ARE his constituents? Gays. The nutball leftist crowd. A certain portion of the one-worlders. Marxists. The usual 90-odd per cent of blacks. A portion -- but no more -- of the big-city liberal types. Anyone else? Can't think of them offhand.
I cannot name you, in all of American history, a candidate with such a small ''natural'' constituency. If he runs, he's toast, unless someone catches McQueeg in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.
Well said. Even the RNC and John ‘vote for me because I suck less’ McCain can beat either one of these two turkeys. The real battle needs to be for Congress.
Oh come on. All the man wants to do is to “eat his waffle” in peace. (end/sarc)
Obie’s doing amazingly well for a candidate with a tiny natural constituency, dontcha think? There are a lot of college kids and others who worship the guy. I have in-laws, lifelong Republicans, who think he’s the bomb and have switched parties. I have a thirty-something sister who has never voted before but is gaga over him. I work with professional corporate businesswomen who know Hillary’s a has-been shrew, and even though the she-devil’s one of their own, they can’t wait to punch a chad for Obie. None of the dirt that has surfaced fazes them. They are smitten. I don’t get it, but you would be surprised who his supporters are. Look how much $$$ he has in his war chest! An insignificant constituency? I wish.
You need to go back to the early 30's to find the roots of support in the US for communism. FDR strongly supported the inclusion of communists in his administration. This has been an issue with Democrats since the Russian revolution nearly a century ago.
Spot on indeed.
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Osamabama's political resume, even as thin as it is, hasn't really been explored yet. It's a pretty rotten one, too -- no surprise in that, after all, he's a Chicago machine pol.
All things in due time, m'friend.
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