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CNN Concerned Anti-Obama Book 'Might Catch on With Some Voters'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 08/13/2008 7:10:23 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Never Again! Not the Holocaust. We're talking about the MSM's determination not to let Barack Obama be "Swiftboated." In successive segments today, CNN provided a perfect example of the phenomenon. First, a one-sided trashing of Obama Nation, the anti-Barack book by Jerome Corsi, who co-authored Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry. In the succeeding segment, anchor Suzanne Malveaux worried out loud to Paul Begala that Barack Obama might not be responding fast enough to attacks against him, thereby "falling into the same trap as John Kerry."

Introducing the first segment, Situation Room anchor Malveaux didn't hesitate to make unequivocal claims as to the Corsi book's inaccuracy.

SUZANNE MALVEAUX: There's a new book out about Barack Obama, and it is not flattering. The facts are mixed with accusations about Obama that are misleading or just flat-out wrong. Yet despite all of this, there is concern that author's claims might catch on with some voters. Our CNN's Jessica Yellin joining me now, and Jessica, the author even admits that there is an agenda here behind this book.

View video here.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; barackobama; bookreview; corsi; jeromecorsi; johnkerry; obamanation; propagandawingofdnc; swiftboating
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To: The Worthless Miracle

You’re right about that. It’s one of so many reasons his glow is fading.
People think it’s a little odd to write a book about yourself when you are young and inexperienced. Writing two books about yourself when you are still inexperienced, if not young, lights up the BS meter.
I see so many reasons Senator Obama is slipping in the polls and losing the middle. The reasons come out day after day to the point it’s becoming expected and boring. For so-called moderates and independents, one straw finally breaks Obama’s back.
People who still say they don’t know what Obama stands for are either not paying attention or they can’t handle the truth. After months of accumulating evidence that he does not embrace mainstream values much less notions of American exceptionalism, many are coming to realize what we all know:
Obama is an inexperienced autocrat who wants government to help us.
But, his biggest blunder is strategic. His move to the center has been about as clumsy an endeavor as I’ve seen. It reeks of a naivete and inexperience unbecoming of a citizen of the world.
Remember HRC’s skill in moving almost seamlessly to the center in the late primaries? Of course, her trip to the center was a lot shorter than Obama’s.


41 posted on 08/13/2008 8:04:12 PM PDT by BIV (typical white person)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
We're talking about the MSM's determination not to let Barack Obama be "Swiftboated."

Yes, heaven forbid that the truth about that crack-smoking homosexual, B. Hussein Obama, should ever reach the voters.

42 posted on 08/13/2008 8:05:39 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: silent_jonny
>>>Swiftboated: telling the truth about a public figure.<<<

Please - someone create an opportunity to expose the truth behind Obama that was as crystal clear as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth....and I will dig even deeper into my bank balance this time.

43 posted on 08/13/2008 8:10:38 PM PDT by HardStarboard (Take No Prisoners - We're Out O)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Ya think, CNN?

CHOOSING THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES




NOBAMA MOVEMENT SPREADS ACROSS THE NATION

44 posted on 08/13/2008 8:12:56 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"ning me are CNN political contributor, Democratic strategist Paul Begala, and Republican strategist Kevin Madden, a former spokesman for Mitt Romney. Good to see you guys; thanks for joining us."

So what did Madden say? Would it be wrong to guess that he was smiling and dancing on a fence, all mealy-mouthed and lame, trying to "get along", and afraid to engage in smashmouth politics? Or did he actually call out Obama for being a Muslim-appeasing Marxist just like the book accurately describes?

45 posted on 08/13/2008 8:13:10 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: potlatch

Is that one in 3D if you look at it with the red/blue glasses?


46 posted on 08/13/2008 8:14:58 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

By the way, as always, thanks for the pings. Not many people have the stomach to do what you do, monitoring channels like CNN and other Democrat channels that nobody here would ever see.


47 posted on 08/13/2008 8:15:14 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Yardstick

Lol, not that I know of but I don’t have any red and blue glasses!

Just finished making it so my eyes may be red and blue....


48 posted on 08/13/2008 8:19:14 PM PDT by potlatch ("Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter")
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To: Shermy
“anchor Suzanne Malveaux worried out loud to Paul Begala that Barack Obama might not be responding fast enough to attacks against him, thereby “falling into the same trap as John Kerry.”

Obama is falling into the same trap that Bill Clinton fell into when confronted with DNA evidence on a blue dress. It's the same trap that John Edwards fell into when The National Enquirer caught his late-night liasion with his mistress.

You see, Suzanne (who doesn't even know how to pronounce her own name; it comes out like "Suzon") it's very difficult for lying democrats to respond to FACTS which prove that they are lying. Bill Clinton actually did have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. And John Kerry really wasn't sent to Cambodia by Nixon (because he was never in Cambodia, and because LBJ was the president at the time) despite declaring on multiple occasions that this fact was "seared, seared" in his memory. And now, The Messiah has to explain, among other things, how he managed to listen to the racist rantings of Rev. Wright for over 20 years while he, Obama, espouses a view of the United States that is diametrically opposed to Wright's. He can't "respond fast enough" because he can't make up a lie that is good enough to make a square out of a circle.

49 posted on 08/13/2008 8:23:51 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
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To: Yardstick

I know it sounds crazy, but I’m 90% certain that that image was designed for 3D glasses. See how the stars rather than being a single white dot are each a pair of dots, one red and one blue? They do that to create a stereoscopic image when one eye sees red and the other blue.

Just think — you may have unknowingly made the leap into 3D .gif animation!


50 posted on 08/13/2008 8:28:07 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: potlatch

I know it sounds crazy, but I’m 90% certain that that image was designed for 3D glasses. See how the stars rather than being a single white dot are each a pair of dots, one red and one blue? They do that to create a stereoscopic image when one eye sees red and the other blue.

Just think — you may have unknowingly made the leap into 3D .gif animation!


51 posted on 08/13/2008 8:32:48 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
and Jessica, the author even admits that there is an agenda here behind this book

Well duh. What a stupid thing to say.

52 posted on 08/13/2008 8:40:22 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Yardstick

Can’t remember his name, but yesterday there was a thread about an artist who had just designed a number of new ‘portraits’ of Obama.

I went to the site, think they were a slideshow format or something and I did screen captures to get a couple of them.
Had to enlarge and do a lot of work on that one, then do the animation.

They were just ‘flat’ .jpg graphics, no 3-D or animation.


53 posted on 08/13/2008 8:42:09 PM PDT by potlatch ("Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter")
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To: potlatch

Well, you’re getting good at those gif’s. I see your creations from time to time on various threads and always get a kick out of them. Keep up the good work!


54 posted on 08/13/2008 8:50:24 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: hole_n_one
Anderson Cooper is a homosexual.

Larry King is as irrelevant as Bill O'Reilly.

The only ones worth listening to are (in no particular order):

Charles Krauthammer, Brit Hume, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin.

The rest of the media people are totally ridiculous.

55 posted on 08/13/2008 8:52:52 PM PDT by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: Yardstick

Thanks so much Yardstick!


56 posted on 08/13/2008 8:53:14 PM PDT by potlatch ("Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The more publicity the better. {{snickersnort}}


57 posted on 08/13/2008 8:55:23 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

If Bambi loses, the RATS will sit around for the next four years whining that his advocates should not have responded so quickly and forcefully to the Corsi book.


58 posted on 08/13/2008 8:56:41 PM PDT by freespirited (Honk if you miss Licorice.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
"MSM's determination not to let Barack Obama be "Swiftboated."

So...MSM is opposed to the TRUTH about Obama being revealed?

I'm SHOCKED!.......not.

59 posted on 08/13/2008 8:59:11 PM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
No worries. Most of the folks purchasing the book weren't planning to vote for Obama anyway. They do plan to become better informed and spread the love far and wide. Most of the buyers don't waste time on CNN either.
60 posted on 08/13/2008 9:42:23 PM PDT by Myrddin
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