Posted on 11/18/2011 6:19:28 AM PST by Kaslin
It is open season for the liberal media on any GOP presidential candidate who displays the audacity to surge in the polls, the latest targets being Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich. A reasonable case can be made for some of these criticisms, and conservatives often concede the weaknesses, but there is no justification for this same media's ongoing cover-up for the current White House occupant.
Can you imagine how differently our political climate would be if the mainstream media had the slightest inclination toward fairness and balance? The liberal media have never, to my knowledge, shined the spotlight on Obama's many embarrassing gaffes. They have rarely called attention to his deceit, broken promises and policy failures.
Part of the reason is their presupposition that because he's a credentialed left-winger, he is brilliant, and any departure from that is a mere aberration, an exception that couldn't possibly detract from his presumptive brilliance. And as a bona fide "progressive," he is imbued with superior moral standards, and his misdeeds must be excused in exchange for his dedication to policies the liberal media deem are ethically unassailable.
From the mainstream media's perspective, conservatives, on the other hand, are presumptively dimwitted or morally bankrupt, because you can't be intelligent and conservative unless you're morally depraved. Ronald Reagan was an amiable dunce, despite his unparalleled ability to communicate; Dan Quayle was irredeemably simple because he misspelled "potato." George W. Bush was too stupid to tie his shoes (but inexplicably cunning enough to con erudite liberal congressmen into supporting him in his devious plot to depose Saddam Hussein).
GOP candidates magically become less competent or more corrupt the instant they show any signs of electability. Meanwhile, the MSM continue to ignore, defend and lie about Obama's abundant gaffes, policy failures, deceptions, divisiveness and extremism.
Think how different our discussions of electability would be if the liberal media were to:
--Dan-Quayle Obama for his "57 states" and Navy "corpse-man" gaffes.
--Play a video loop of his brain freezes and verbal stutter-steps.
--Showcase his shoutout to Dr. Joe Medicine Crow during what was expected to be a solemn expression of sorrow for the victims of the Fort Hood murderer.
--Air a montage of his bellicose attacks against Republicans, followed by clips in which he bitterly complained of their partisanship.
--Remind him of his immodest pledge to be a post-racial president while having ushered in an acutely race-conscious climate.
--Call him out for wasting $868 billion on a "stimulus" that Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf admitted would have "a net negative effect on the growth of GDP over 10 years."
--Refuse to ignore his cynical admission that he hadn't been altogether honest in claiming there were abundant "shovel-ready" jobs waiting in the wings.
--Point out that he promised to improve America's international image but has turned out to be even less popular in the Muslim world than President George W. Bush and has repeatedly offended our allies and their leaders, the most recent being Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
--Highlight that Obama expressed solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protesters, many of whom have been arrested for criminality, but demonized law-abiding tea partyers.
--Challenge Obama on his disingenuous commitment to make abortion "safe, legal and rare" while his administration has actively promoted the proliferation of abortion domestically, through its unswerving support for Planned Parenthood and its 900 abortions per day and through its taxpayer-funded lobbying for pro-abortion policies in Kenya and other nations.
--Report that Obama crammed through Obamacare on the false representation, aided by fraudulent accounting, that it would bend the health care cost curve down, even though it actually will greatly increase costs.
--Provide even the most rudimentary scrutiny of the twin scandals of Solyndra -- and its many green cousins -- and "Fast and Furious."
--Tell even part of the sordid tale of Obama's symbiotic relationship with ACORN and the Service Employees International Union.
--Ask Obama how he can be so high and mighty in condemning enhanced interrogation techniques on moral grounds despite knowing that with the implementation of those techniques in just three instances, many American lives were actually saved.
--Press him to explain his shaming Hillary Clinton during the 2008 Democratic primary race for proposing a health care insurance mandate and then brazenly making such a mandate a foundational component of Obamacare.
--Underscore his phony, though tepid and "evolving," opposition to same-sex marriage while he unleashes a full-frontal assault on traditional marriage through his extraconstitutional refusal to enforce it in court and his active effort to repeal it legislatively.
I speak of an imaginary world, but imagining it should serve to illustrate the extent to which the liberal media conspire to perpetuate a lingering illusion, to the immeasurable detriment of the nation.
Thanks for posting.
The gaffes and missteps by the combined GOP candidates do not equal Obama’s foibles.
The truth will emerge.
Mainstream Media is not the only means to get info to the voters.
I sent an email to friends with this info.
It is my opinion (for what it is worth) that if the news media were unbiased, Democrats could not win a national election. There are enclaves (such as San Francisco or Ann Arbor) where they could win locally, but not nationally.
Let's get one thing straight: The MSM is only interested in a GOP candidate that is "unelectable".
FUBO GTFO! 429 Days until Noon Jan 20, 2013
I think this is absolutely the truth. VD Hanson had a great article about the unreal world of Barack Obama, where Obama is allowed to say one thing and do exactly the opposite, without comment, and in fact is even allowed to do exactly the same as or even worse than what he criticized Bush or some other Republican for doing, such as drone assassinations, also with no comment from the press.
But like it or not, that’s the way it is, and anybody who runs for President from the GOP side had best be prepared for this. Nobody is ever going to be squeaky clean enough to escape their press’ inconsistent charges, but the candidate should be prepared, have an honest answer, not attack the messenger, and quit screaming that it’s unfair. If you can’t take the heat, etc....
“Nobody is ever going to be squeaky clean enough to escape their press’ inconsistent charges, ... “
I think the intense scrutiny of GOP candidates by Pravda will ultimately have an unintended consequence, (like all things that communists do).
People will become numb to the constant charges. The public becomes more and more willing to accept imperfect candidates.
*** Obama’s multiple social security numbers.
*** Obama’s blatant and crudely made forgeries
*** No one remembers Obama on the Columbia University campus.
*** His refusal to polite requests from military officers to prove his natural born citizenship.
MULTIPLE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS??? ( Yeah I am shouting.) Can you imagine if this were a Republican?
As soon as republicans select a candidate (or even before) the media will start digging through the nominee’s kindergarten performance evaluation, high school and college grades, medical records, and military records, if any.
They will flood us with quotes from the nominee’s enemies, the next door neighbors, first grade classmates, prom dates, teachers and anyone who wants to step up and accuse them of torturing baby cats.
Meanwhile, we still don’t know for certain who the man in the White House really is, have never seen the first scholastic or medical record and no explanation of the mismatched, phoney, or missing documentation that the rest of us are required to produce to get a job, open a bank account or get a drivers license.
But the media assures that Obama is the smartest president to ever hold office and the closest thing to a savior to trod the earth in 2,000 years. But they have no more of an idea of his true identity or real history than we do and they aren’t interested in filling in the blanks.
They are too busy looking for dirt on republicans and trying to convince people it is really the Tea Party, not the “Occupy” people, who have been defecating on the nation’s sidewalks and raping each other.
I do not believe that the problem is ignorance; most of the voters know the facts sufficiently to chose well. The media has been infiltrated and is now controlled by Marxist sympathizers, they are engaged not in an information war, but a psychological war. That is why it is far more important who Leno is ridiculing than what is on the cover of the NY Times. It takes boldness to resist the onslaught of psychological, often subliminal, communication to think on the basis of principle and facts. Compare the tone and moral approval/outrage towards: Pelosi/Palin, Barney Frank/Sandusky, Joe Biden/a rutabaga, Coby Bryant/Tim Tebow and the list could on for pages. The media is the tool of the enemy, they are traitors to truth liberty and godly morality.
Even with that list, he barely scratches the surface too. The MSM in this country is shameful.
“*** Obama’s multiple social security numbers.”
i heard someone in NH was actually looking into this.
have you heard anything?
bump
Agree. The entertainment culture is worse than the news media because their impact is subtle - the public doesn’t even realize how they are brainwashed.
Every time the MSM opens its mouth to criticize a GOP candidate, it should be challenged to shine the same light on Obama. It won’t.
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