End of the Affair: Barack Obama and the Press Break Up

The New Republic ^ | 7/24/08 | Gabriel Sherman

[2nd amendment mama]

They're terrified of people poking around Obama's life," one reporter says.

I bet they are! They're terrified that the truth will come out. We should DEMAND that some of the rumors about his birth, etc. be proven as truth or complete lies. He's not running for president of rinky-dink sleezebucket company, he's running for the President of the US and who the hell is he to deny access to documents that prove whether or not he is who he says he is.

[Rome2000]

That whole freedom of the press thing is highly overrated.

That totalitarian Marxist crypto-muslim will show them how to toe the line, or else.

[Hildy]

Anyone see the movie, THE DEAD ZONE??

[chiller]

10 posts on this thread and each highlights a different vulnerability. Love it because they are all legit.

Here’s a theory which expains McCain’s apparent campaign timidness: Above all, Mac knows that the current partisanship in Congress has made the place a complete waste... evidenced by 9 per cent approval ratings. If it continues this country goes down. (It’s been so since the SCOTUS “stole” Gore’s election and Dem’s sole motivation has been nothing but payback.) It can not continue.

McCain thinks he can win without ruffling any feathers. I now think he is correct as we watch O make a fool of himself daily. End result is a relatively clean win from which Mac can preside, using his high moral ground when necessary to pummel the bastards...which they richly deserve.

Mac’s my senator but it’s a love/hate relationship. I pray he’s doing the right thing because this country would not recover from total Dem control...at least not in my lifetime.

Come on John...let’s see your right stuff!

[Prole]

I have been comparing Obama to Greg Stillson for a while now.

Obama also reminds me of Thulsa Doom from the film, "Conan The Barbarian."

If you are an Indiana Jones fan, you should be able to see some similarities between Mola Ram and Obama. This is especially true when Mola Ram's followers drink the Blood of Kali. It's just like Obama's followers consuming the poisoned Jim Jones' style "Flavor Aid."

[bethtopaz]

Anyone see the movie, THE DEAD ZONE??
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What is it about?

[princeofdarkness]

And the sh*ts just keep on comin’.

[fightinJAG]

bookmark

[kalee]

As tensions escalate, the risk to Obama, of course, is that reporters will be emboldened to challenge his campaign ever more aggressively.

Time’s a wasting. Please start doing your job and challenge him.

[dixjea]

“They attacked me [the reporter] like I’m a political opponent.”

When really I’m a lib advocate

[Enchante]

They attacked me like I'm a [REPUBLICAN].... when in reality everyone knows I'm a die-hard leftist propagandist......

There, fixed it!!

my, my, it must be so disconcerting to lib journalists to realize the degree of slavish devotion to Obamamessiah propaganda that is required to remain in good standing with the campaign. Obambi's team has an attitude toward the press that is positively ..... Nixonian. Oops, that's an insult to Nixon.

[Pinetop]

Axelrod promoted Obama as the prototype for the Jimmy Smits presidential candidate on “The West Wing.” Axelrod worked with the writers of the show. Obama as 2008 presidential nominee is a fabrication patterned after a character on a popular television show. God, I miss George Orwell.

[Heartland Mom]

This is a perfect example of how Democrats only care about their own individual rights and your rights as long as they are subordinate and don't conflict with their rights. Free speech only applies to them and then only when when the speaker is agreeing with their beliefs.

[Lou L]

Nah, the leftist pressholes will merely assume the role of “abused wife”.

And if that doesn't work, they'll happily be the mistress, or prison b*tch, if necessary.

[reformedliberal]

I wonder if somewhere, someone has a book in the works?

While the journos are 90% progressives, their industry is on life support and most jobs are fairly fragile. Even a modest payday and the resultant PR for a tell all could look attractive.

It may depend on who gets RIF’d in the next 6 weeks. That would provide incentive.

[beckysueb]

"We hope this does not presage a relationship with the Obama campaign that is not based on a mutual respect for the truth."

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!

[beckysueb]

This whole article is just to try to show the rubes that the press is not biased for Obama. They know they are beginning to come off as ridiculous to the American people so they are just trying to do a back pedal.

[beckysueb]

It looks like it is a long speech and I can’t bear to listen to that arrogant jerk that long.

[roses of sharon]

I know what you mean, but you can fast-foward to 1:33 to hear it.

[beckysueb]

ok thanks for that info. Maybe I can stomach that long.