Posted on 09/23/2008 9:11:42 PM PDT by pissant
The mainstream media have gone over the line and are now straight-out propagandists for the Obama campaign.
While they have been liberal and blinkered in their worldview for decades, in 2007-08, for the first time, the major media consciously are covering for one candidate for president and consciously are knifing the other. This is no longer journalism; it is simply propaganda. (The American left-wing version of the Volkischer Beobachter cannot be far behind.)
And as a result, we are less than seven weeks away from possibly electing a president who has not been thoroughly or even halfway honestly presented to the country by our watchdogs -- the press. The image of Obama that the press has presented to the public is not a fair approximation of the real man. They consciously have ignored whole years of his life and have shown a lack of curiosity about such gaps, which bespeaks a lack of journalistic instinct.
Thus, the public image of Obama is of a "man who never was."
I take that phrase from a 1956 movie about a real-life World War II British intelligence operation to trick the Germans into thinking the Allies were going to invade Greece rather than Sicily in 1943. Operation Mincemeat involved the acquisition of a human corpse dressed as "Major William Martin, R.M.," which was put into the sea near Spain. Attached to the corpse was a briefcase containing fake letters suggesting that the Allied attack would be against Sardinia and Greece.
To make the operation credible, British intelligence concocted a fictional life for the corpse, creating a letter from a lover and tickets to a London theater -- all the details of a life, but not the actual life of the dead young man whose corpse was being used. So, too, the man the media have presented to the nation as Obama is not the real man.
The mainstream media ruthlessly and endlessly repeat any McCain gaffes while ignoring Obama gaffes. You have to go to weird little Web sites to see all the stammering and stuttering that Obama needs before getting out a sentence fragment or two. But all you see on the networks is an eventually clear sentence from Obama. You don't see Obama's ludicrous gaffe that Iran is a tiny country and no threat to us. Nor his 57 American states gaffe. Nor his forgetting, if he ever knew, that Russia has a veto in the U.N. Nor his whining and puerile "come on" when he is being challenged. This is the kind of editing one would expect from Goebbels' disciples, not Cronkite's.
More appalling, a skit on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" last weekend suggested that Gov. Palin's husband had sex with his own daughters. That show was written with the assistance of Al Franken, Democratic Party candidate in Minnesota for the U.S. Senate. Talk about incest.
But worse than all the unfair and distorted reporting and image projecting are the shocking gaps in Obama's life that are not reported at all. The major media simply have not reported on Obama's two years at New York's Columbia University, where, among other things, he lived a mere quarter-mile from former terrorist Bill Ayers. Later, they both ended up as neighbors and associates in Chicago. Obama denies more than a passing relationship with Ayers. Should the media be curious? In only two weeks, the media have focused on all the colleges Gov. Palin has attended, her husband's driving habits 20 years ago, and the close criticism of the political opponents Gov. Palin had when she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. But in two years, they haven't bothered to see how close Obama was with the terrorist Ayers.
Nor have the media paid any serious attention to Obama's rise in Chicago politics. How did honest Obama rise in the famously sordid Chicago political machine with the full support of Boss Daley? Despite the great -- and unflattering -- details on Obama's Chicago years presented in David Freddoso's new book on Obama, the mainstream media continue to ignore both the facts and the book. It took a British publication, The Economist, to give Freddoso's book a review with fair comment.
The public image of Obama as an idealistic, post-race, post-partisan, well-spoken and honest young man with the wisdom and courage befitting a great national leader is a confection spun by a willing conspiracy of Obama, his publicist (David Axelrod) and most of the senior editors, producers and reporters of the national media.
Perhaps that is why the National Journal's respected correspondent Stuart Taylor wrote, "The media can no longer be trusted to provide accurate and fair campaign reporting and analysis."
That conspiracy not only has Photoshopped out all of Obama's imperfections (and dirtied up his opponent McCain's image) but also has put most of his questionable history down the memory hole.
The public will be voting based on the idealized image of the man who never was. If he wins, however, we will be governed by the sunken, cynical man Obama really is. One can only hope that the senior journalists will be judged as harshly for their professional misconduct as Wall Street's leaders currently are for their failings.
That conspiracy not only has Photoshopped out all of Obama’s imperfections (and dirtied up his opponent McCain’s image) but also has put most of his questionable history down the memory hole.
***He came just shy of saying what we all need folks to say about the photoshopped birth certificate.
The MSM is disgusting . I haven’t paid attention to their biased reporting in years. Even though the trend is against old newsprint and network TV, there are still too many sheeple out there who think it’s the truth. Sickening!
He’s almost ready to join our forces! LOL
If the media is dishonest with us, we owe them no respect. It’s simple common sense.
Wonderful article and frighteningly true. The hypocracy is staggering.
Tony’s on fire.
Other than that, he's really an OK bloke! /heavy sarcasm
I don’t pay attention to the Media anymore, it seems like every second another Palin smear comes out of the pipe for example. It also becomes harder to distinguish professional reports from sensational tabloid journalism. If they are going at it like that, why not address Obama’s Muslim faith gaffe, if it really was or just a Freudian slip.
Instead, as some people have said, it actually took Fox to break the report on the Rev. Wright. Before that we knew very little about him, which actually makes him worse as his Lost Weekends seem to be made out of nothing. But what we are really seeing is the impact of style over substance.
It is no secret that a few polls(and a symposium at my college) are about race and how it relates to modern politics. Hopefully one will examine how Black Racism isn’t acceptable anymore as a sense of grief if Obama loses. If they are giving Palin the Presidential treatment why not do the same to gender? Oh yes she is not really a woman or part of the Gloria Steinem “Patriarchy want a cracker!) fanclub.
Obama, and I will say this, has cruised to the top based on race. His only accomplishment in life that makes him unique was to be the first Black editor of the Harvard Law Review, yet he hardly did anything in that position. Say hello, Obama, the first Affirmative Action candidate who actually has more money than John McCain alone and Sarah Palin. According to Tony Morrison and Cornell West, that makes one white.
The public will be voting based on the idealized image of the man who never was. If he wins, however, we will be governed by the sunken, cynical man Obama really is. One can only hope that the senior journalists will be judged as harshly for their professional misconduct as Wall Street's leaders currently are for their failings.
I doubt our country will be in such a safe and free state to judge this mistake after he is done. We may not be around long enough to judge harshly with this man in charge. God help us defeat this man and the media that has quit being of service to its citizens.
He has had much help and prepping along the way, by very shady people. Must Read:
Obama’s Harvard Years: Questions Swirl
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 6:11 PM
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/obama_harvard_/2008/09/23/133199.html
I’ve told all of this to my liberal family members, and have nearly been excommunicated from the clan for my efforts.
The author nails it, when he says that you have to look to the web to find what should be plastered all over the front pages of our nation’s newspapers.
This is exactly why my family reacts with outrage when I challenge them on Obama, “The Man Who Never Was”. They’ve bought the stylized and carefully scripted Madison Avenue image, and haven’t bothered to examine his record or his past with any critical analysis.
From what I’m seeing, most Dems that have, are switching to McCain.
Understatement of the day.
Thus, the public image of Obama is of a "man who never was."
Most of his "history" comes from his auto-biography. I have no doubt what-so-ever that almost all of it is delusionally fabricated.
Obama’s candidacy is the biggest hoax since global warming, and he is on the verge of being “push-elected” by the insanely biased media. The election of this trojan horse will be the beginning of the end of American capitalism, after 8 years of reprieve. And in 20 years, Bush will be revered as the last great president before the socialist era.
This one breaks a windshield in the parking lot. Then glances off and knocks off a rear-view mirror.
Be sure to read the entire article in link 11 too.
Hey, I resent that! This is a weird BIG website!
Right out of the twilight zone.
Mailing it to my Dem mother, who only has access to the broadcast networks.
Not that it will change her mind, lol.
Just WOW!! Not much else to be said!
Fuddie, can I ping your list with this? It’s great!!
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