News Flash: The Media Back Obama

Wall Street Journal ^ | Oct. 9, 2008 | DOROTHY RABINOWITZ

[FocusNexus]

The single constant in the eternal election remains the media, whose activist role no one will seriously dispute. To point out the prevailing (with honorable exceptions) double standard of reporting so favorable to Mr. Obama by now feels superfluous -- much like talking about the weather. The same holds true for all those reports pointing to Mr. Obama's heroic status outside the United States -- not to mention the cascade of press analyses warning that if he fails to win election, the cause will surely be racism.

None of this means that the media's role will go unremembered -- who will forget MSNBC news, voice of the Obama campaign?

Sen. Obama is not responsible for the political culture, but he is in good part its product. Which is perhaps how it happened that in his 20 years in the church of Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- passionate proponent of the view of America as the world's leading agent of evil and injustice -- he found nothing strange or alienating.

[teletech]

Obama is the media’s whore.

[Eric Blair 2084]

Look, John McCentrist had his chance. He had every American voter hanging on his every word in the nationally televised debates.

No NY Times, ABC, NBC, CBS, Pravda, TASS...

Just him talking to the American voters. He blew it.

He could have explained how left wing policies got us on the brink of being a 3rd world socialist state.

He punted.

In fairness to Pravda, you can’t blame them for that.

[marron]

And they are his.

[Vicki]

If Obama wins, the media gets the credit. If we had real journalism he wouldn’t stand a chance.

[teletech]

And they are his.

Yeppers.

[wardaddy]

Look, John McCentrist had his chance. He had every American voter hanging on his every word in the nationally televised debates. No NY Times, ABC, NBC, CBS, Pravda, TASS... Just him talking to the American voters. He blew it. He could have explained how left wing policies got us on the brink of being a 3rd world socialist state. He punted. In fairness to Pravda, you can’t blame them for that.

Nail on head, to be totally candid, he does not deserve us. We are propping his ass up only becasue we fear the alternative so....and that sucks.

Like I said last nite

All you Mccain supporters here can kiss my ass for getting us into this crap situation. The only challenge to the most dangerous man to EVER run for president is some crotchety old modrut who despises the very folks who he has to have to win

God help us.....Palin...you're all we got baby.

God dangit I wish you were the nominee dear.

[teletech]

They will meet their maker in the not so distant future.

If you thought that was funny you were wrong.

[Wpin]

So, you seem to think that after months of pro Obama propaganda and anti-McCain/Palin campaign by the press that a couple of nights on tv negate that? Maybe you should rethink your position?

[Eric Blair 2084]

Well Carter had his 4 years before Reagan. Maybe Barack Fitzgerald Obama will have his 4 before Palin 2012.

Although in all honesty, I hope her populist schtick is just an act. I hope she is more Margaret Thatcher than Mike Huckabee.

[Eric Blair 2084]

There were no filters or MSM propaganda between the candidate and the voters. He could have said whatever he wanted to and the “press” couldn’t do a damn thing.

It’s called the bully pulpit for a reason.

[budwiesest]

Nail on head, to be totally candid, he does not deserve us.

Wrong. He's been ganged-up on by folks he thought were his friends. He probably thought he'd get a fair shake from the media.

Granted, he wasn't my first choice but the more I see, he's my only choice- even if he can't raise his arms over his shoulders. Who pulled Sarah from obscurity and put her on the national stage? John McCain. He dealt us an ace, and by doing so risked being overshadowed. So what.

America is about to judge Obama by the content of his character- and the friends he's associated with, not to mention his lack of experience. He's going down. The first person through the 'glass ceiling' will be a woman, not a minority. Her name is Sarah Palin.

[lentulusgracchus]

Obama is the media’s whore.

Other way around. But then, maybe they take turns, like Barney Frank and Steve Gobie.

[mvpel]

He could have explained how left wing policies got us on the brink of being a 3rd world socialist state.

Why would he critique the policies that he built his career upon, under the guise of "bipartisanship?"

[101voodoo]

I agree. Debates presidential or otherwise never won or lost an election, save an incidental gaffe of monumental proportions. We have seen nothing close to that.

[trampled]

How long did the MSM play those Wright tapes, like 4 weeks solid?

[Cindy]

NEWSMAX.com: "OBAMA CAMPAIGN RUNS AFOUL OF FINANCE RULES" by Kenneth R. Timmerman (October 8, 2008, 8:25 pm)

NY POST.com: "NUTS! How ACORN Got Me Into Vote Scam" by Jeane MacInTosh (Last updated October 9, 2008, 7:18 am)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "OBAMA's EARMARK FOR FR. PFLEGER" by Tom Fitton (October 9, 2008)

Video - "Obama's Friends" (July 2,2008)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "BIDEN'S SECRET DIPLOMACY" by Vladimir Bukovsky and Pavel Stroilov (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Of course, when people's reputations are at stake, a natural question is: how far can we believe a document written by a communist?") (October 9, 2008)

TOWNHALL.com: Washington - "PALIN vs. BIDEN" by Emmett Tyrrell (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "How is it that an attractive woman who has been involved in state and local government since the early 1990s without much controversy is passed off in the media now as an airhead? Yet her opponent -- long known as an airhead, a braggart and even a plagiarist -- now is passed off as a statesman? I have in mind Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska and Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware or Scranton, Pa., or wherever he now claims to hail from.") (October 9, 2008)

VoteNovember2008 - blog: "RULES BE DAMNED!" (October 8, 2008)

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Embeds - Blog - FoxNews.com: "McCain Camp Sends Out Statement from Ayers Victim: "OBAMA'S FRIEND TRIED TO KILL MY FAMILY."" (October 8, 2008, 2:21 pm (Eastern)

FOX NEWS.com: "CONNECT THE DOTS WITH BARACK OBAMA" by John Gibson (September 30, 2008)

FOX NEWS.com: "PALIN'S E-MAIL HACKER INDICTED Democratic state representative's son indicted by Tennessee grand jury" (October 8, 2008)

INDICTMENT (pdf)

US DOJ.gov/opa - Press Release: "TENNESSEE MAN INDICTED FOR ALLEGED HACK OF GOVERNOR SARA PALIN'S E-MAIL ACCOUNT" (October 8, 2008)

INDICTMENT (pdf)

HUMAN EVENTS.com (JIHAD WATCH.org): "OBAMA WAGES WAR ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH" by Robert Spencer (October 8, 2008)

CHRON.com - THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE (COX NEWS SERVICE): "SECRET SERVICE QUESTIONS LUFKIN WOMAN OVER ALLEGED OBAMA THREAT" by Jessica Savage (October 6, 2008)

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[Post no. 9] - ARCHIVES - Topic: BIDEN & OBAMA (aka B & O) (October 8, 2008 -- Click Here.)

[syriacus]

Marxists <3 Obama.

[Little Ray]

Wrong.
The “Media” is Obama’s whore.