http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/msm/ en-us Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:26:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051318/posts He curled 32 kilo dumbbells next to me +++ Barack is top fit +++ He didn’t sweat at all As thousands waited at the Sieges Saule monument in Berlin to hear Obama’s sensational speech, a BILD reporter met Barack all alone – in the gym! Here's the incredible account of Judith Bonesky’s meeting… It's 16:02pm and I’ve been training in the gym of the Ritz Carlton hotel in Berlin. A man in a suit approaches me and says: "Barack Obama is about to come and train ...“ Shortly after half past four and he actually arrives! Barack Obama is wearing... Bild http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051318/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:26:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051242/posts If a reporter wanted to test the enthusiasm of College Republicans at a campus for John McCain, one might think that they would look up the officers of the chapter and arrange a few interviews. CNN apparently found that a little too difficult at USC yesterday, so they just stopped the first person who claimed to be a Republican. Andrew Malcolm reports on the aftermath: The president of the College Republicans at the University of Southern California is charging that CNN used a “fake College Republican” in its broadcast report today, claiming there was a lack of enthusiasm for the... hotair.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051242/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:17:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051193/posts (Second part of a three-part series) Here are more reasons to vote against Barack Obama. This part and the first part of the series, which ran on Thursday, can be found on The Bulletin's Web site at www.thebulletin.us. * This different kind of politician is different in still another way besides changing his mind on issues faster than any other politician in history. He doesn't want to be criticized, and doesn't respond to it. When criticized for associating with an anti-American, racist pastor or an unrepentant terrorist, he tries to fob that all off by saying that's the old politics.... The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051193/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:39:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051046/posts Joe Scarface just asked Mitchell if McCain's rebukes of the fawning press are valid and she said with a straight face that they "..have tried to balance their coverage". Morning Joe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051046/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:29:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051039/posts Fresh polls show that he has been unable to convert weeks of extensive media coverage into a widened lead. And some prominent Democrats whose support could boost his campaign are still not enthusiastic about his candidacy. Several new surveys show that Obama is in a tight race or even losing ground to Republican John McCain, both nationally and in two important swing states, Colorado and Minnesota. One new poll offered a possible explanation for his troubles: A minority of voters see Obama as a familiar figure with whom they can identify. Many voters still seem to be puzzling over who... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051039/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:37:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050937/posts As Barack Obama travels abroad, Americans seem to think most members of the media are in line with his message, according to the latest FOX News poll. Nearly 7/10 Americans (67%) say they believe most in the media want Obama to win the November election - while a scant 11 percent think the media are pulling for John McCain. ... When asked to rate the objectivity of media coverage of the campaigns, Americans feel Obama gets more of a positive spin by a better than 7-to-1 margin... FOX News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050937/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:04:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050843/posts RUSH: Cookie is working on a couple of audio sound bites and Drive-By Media reaction to the Messiah's speech in Germany. I have an idea what she's going to send. I never know what she's going to send unless I specifically asked for it. But Cookie is so good I seldom have to ask for it. I get what I want anyway. Now, one thing about this speech. I'll wait until we get the bites and see if what I'm expecting in these, citizen of the world stuff. When he started talking about that, that's when the red flags went... Rush Limbaugh.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050843/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:16:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050732/posts The first in a three part series on why to vote against Sen. Barack Obama and for Sen. John McCain. Will America elect an inexperienced Chicago machine politician, a radical, extremist, leftist, liberal, elitist, with no legislative or other accomplishments, who has demonstrated he is a world-class flip-flopping zigzagger? Will we go for someone with a painfully thin resume and body of experience, who has already demonstrated bad judgment by his selection of associates (racists, bigots, terrorists, and crooks) and by his output of ideas? This candidate is totally unfit to be our commander-in-chief and president in a time of... The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050732/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:04:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050478/posts Lots of speculation on the web, and in whispering circles, about why Obama's foreign trip--a slam-dunk success substantively and in photo-op terms (Obama laughing with Petraeus in the helicopter was the best)--hasn't resulted in a polling bump. The emerging conventional wisdom seems to be that the trip is a bit too grand, too...presumptuous and voters are wary of that. (And presumption, of course, always comes with the subterranean tinge of racism.) Maybe so. But I have another theory. People may be thinking, what on earth is Obama doing over there when we have so many problems back home? Why isn't... Time Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050478/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:08:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050475/posts During his days doing stand-up in the 1960s, Bill Cosby recorded a track for one of his comedy albums about the American Revolution. As only Cosby could tell it, he spun a hilarious version of “the rules” for how the war for American independence was to be fought. The British, Cosby said, had to wear pattred and march in slow, straight lines, making them targets for the colonists, who were allowed to wear drab clothing that blended into the landscape and who could hide behind hills, trees and rocks as they took aim. It is a bit like this year’s... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050475/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:55:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050457/posts The Wednesday CBS Evening News story on Barack Obama's day in Israel presumed Jewish concerns about his commitment to Israel are unreasonable as reporter Sheila MacVicar empathized with Obama's plight while she fretted about how an Israeli newspaper columnist “referred to him by his full name: Barack Hussein Obama.” After noting that Obama “did spend an hour with the Palestinian President, something John McCain did not do on his trip here,” MacVicar stressed the “the focus of the day was to try to reassure Jewish voters who are suspicious of him.” From Jerusalem, she then held up a copy of... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050457/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:21:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050447/posts If you want an efficient, capsule summary of why you haven't read anything in newspapers or seen anything on major network news about how John Edwards ran from National Enquirer reporters in a hotel parking garage, about how he hid in a bathroom for 15 minutes, and about how he was holed up overnight with his alleged mistress and love child — an awesome, amazing story — parse these three revealing sentences from Washington Post "gossip" columnist Roxanne Roberts, in response to one of many persistent questions about the scandal in an online chat yesterday: The Enquirer is not going... The Gawker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050447/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:47:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050291/posts The New York Times' refusal to publish John McCain's rebuttal to Barack Obama's Iraq op-ed may be the most glaring example of liberal media bias this journalist has ever seen. But true proof of widespread media bias requires one to follow an old journalism maxim: Follow the money. Even the Associated Press — no bastion of conservatism — has considered, at least superficially, the media's favoritism for Barack Obama. It's time to revisit media bias. True to form, journalists are defending their bias by saying that one candidate, Obama, is more newsworthy than the other. In other words, there is... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050291/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:40:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050166/posts BUT WILL THEY RESPECT HIM IN THE MORNING?July 23, 2008 Back before the Republican Party was saddled with John McCain as its nominee, The New York Times called him "the only Republican who promises to end the George Bush style of governing from and on behalf of a small, angry fringe." The paper praised him for "working across the aisle to develop sound bipartisan legislation" and predicted that he would appeal to "a broader range of Americans than the rest of the Republican field." At the same time, the Times denounced "the real" Rudy Giuliani as "a narrow, obsessively secretive,... AnnCoulter.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050166/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:58:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050149/posts Five months ago, I returned to Iraq as an embedded journalist, some 18 months after I had completed a combat tour there. It was a worthwhile trip. I returned to Iraq to cover the progress the U.S. military had been making on the ground since the surge had begun. Mainstream-media coverage of the war had largely ignored the counterinsurgency’s success, rehearsing outdated notions of the conditions there. You could say I made the long trip to the front to cover an exposed domestic flank of American public opinion. nationalreviewonline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050149/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:22:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050120/posts The difference between a politician and a statesman is the breadth of their horizons. But have we ever seen people with horizons as limited as our modern Congress? Of course their ratings are low – we return their judgment of us. They think we have no sense of deferred gratification; they think we are children – and not very bright, not very disciplined children at that. We return the compliment. Chicagoboyz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050120/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:14:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049880/posts Why did the MSM treat Barack Obama’s guided tour through the Middle East and Europe as a Major Event that required their nightly news anchors to fly to Jordan (CBS’ Katie Couric), Israel (ABC’s Charles Gibson) and Germany (NBC’s Brian Williams)? Believe it or not, John McCain talked them into it, reports The Associated Press: McCain raised the stakes for Obama's trip, "especially if he winds up going into two war zones,” said Paul Friedman, senior vice president of CBS News. “The question really needs to be posed: Is this type of coverage fair?” said Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va. “This... The Stiletto Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049880/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:24:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049846/posts As I suggested a few weeks ago, Sen. Barack H. Obama is not going to have an easy time of it. For one thing, Sen. John McCain is a much tougher candidate than has been suspected. Looking over his career, one will note that McCain learned politics before ever entering politics. As a young Navy liaison to the Senate in the 1970s, he worked effectively with Democratic and Republican hawks to reverse the post-Vietnam military decline. He, having managed the largest fighter squadron in the Navy, has management skills of which he can boast, as Sen. Obama cannot -- despite... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049846/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:03:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049808/posts At a reception for an emerging artist, a tipsy friend approached me to continue a private chat we had long ago. "So, you still want John McCain for president?" he said, in the neighborhood of 30,000 decibels above a whisper. Jaws dropped. Conversations stopped. I felt every cultural elitist eyeball in the gallery was on me. Awkward! The Kansas City Star via The Anniston Star, Anniston, Ala. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049808/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:16:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049605/posts Cannot post due to copyright issues: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/is-the-media-trying-to-elect-obama.html Vanity Fair http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049605/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:24:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049422/posts Obama's Magical Mystery Tour After a week of intense media foreplay, Obama has finally embarked on his magical mystery tour. As he boarded the plane that took him on the first leg of his anxiously awaited Middle East and European tour, a pair of uniformed Air Force officers saluted simultaneously, as they do each time President Bush boards Air Force One. As the media-anointed President in waiting, Obama is virtually guaranteed superstar non-stop media coverage as he makes his taxpayer financed 'fact finding' tour this week. Joining him on this excellent adventure are all three of the major network anchors... DBKP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049422/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:18:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049374/posts After eight years in the wilderness, the left expects a clean sweep in the 2008 election -- the presidency (and with it the federal bureaucracy) and larger majorities in both houses of Congress. Looking ahead, liberals are determined to derail potential opposition to their plans to accelerate the deconstruction of America. Consequently, they have targeted talk radio. Bringing back the Fairness Doctrine is just one facet of their scheme to eviscerate the only part of the media controlled by conservatives. Crucial to an understanding of the jihad against talk radio is this: The left will do anything to gag its... email:GrassTopsUSA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049374/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:51:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049230/posts One of the big topics of the day on the cable news channels is Drudge Report's story about the New York Times rejecting Sen. John McCain's proposed Op-Ed about Iraq. Fox News has Carl Cameron reporting the story, MSNBC's Chris Matthews talked about it on Hardball and Howard Kurtz gave his take last hour on CNN: "One irony of the internet age: the rejected piece will probably wind up getting far more attention by the controversy whipped up by Matt Drudge then if the New York Times had just gone ahead and published it," said Kurtz. We hear prime time... TVNEWSER http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049230/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:00:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049176/posts Maverick discovers that MSM libs are not his “friends” By Michelle Malkin • July 21, 2008 02:50 PM You know, there’s only one word that describes the proper reaction to the McCain camp feeling aggrieved about the NYTimes’ rejection of The Maverick’s op-ed piece: Snort. Now, now, now–after years of chumming it up with the lib journalists and basking in the “maverick” designation–does Sen. McCain finally realize that these people are not his “friends?” MichelleMalkin.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049176/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:21:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049132/posts The Op-Ed section of The New York Times has decided not to publish an opinion piece submitted by Senator John McCain in response to one published last week by his Democratic rival, Senator Barack Obama, on his plan for Iraq. Mr. Obama is on center stage today with his overseas trip to Afghanistan and Iraq, and Mr. McCain is hitting back from home with attacks that he has been right all along in achieving stability in the war zone through sustained support of President Bush’s troop buildup over this year. On Mr. McCain’s Op-Ed, Matt Drudge posted online what he... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049132/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:15:11 GMT