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News Flash: The Media Back Obama (Real Americans need to wipe the smirk off the media's face)
wall street journal ^ | 10/11/2008 | DOROTHY RABINOWITZ

Posted on 10/11/2008 7:12:22 AM PDT by tobyhill

Both time and events have dimmed those defining moments that early on revealed the difference between the two presidential aspirants. Not only did the financial crisis arrive but so, in her uproarious way, did Sarah Palin. Tuesday's debate between two candidates paralyzed by caution altered nothing. It was a relief, of course, not to hear about Sen. McCain's record as a "maverick" --a word that would, in a merciful world, be banned from public discourse for the next decade. It was too much to expect Barack Obama to spare us further recitals of the McCain-Bush connection.

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.

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1 posted on 10/11/2008 7:12:22 AM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill
The Media backs Obama? Who would have known? [/sarcasm]

I'll tell you this. IMHO, Obama's rising poll numberts are, IMHO, manufactured and represent push polls (for the most part when you look at sampling data) from the MSM.

Obama and his cronies in ACORN, the DNC, and the MSM are wholly corrupt and desperate to steal the election if they cannot win it through intimidation and tomfoolery.

Obama has been directly tied and involved with ACORN, for a long time, and through his instrumentality we are seeing our free market and our voting process subverted and deconstructed before our very eyes.

But there is hope, despite what the push polls are saying, and Obama and his campaign and the MSM all know it, and fear it.






I'M VOTING FOR SARAH

2 posted on 10/11/2008 7:14:11 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: tobyhill
'News Flash: The Media Back Obama'


3 posted on 10/11/2008 7:18:28 AM PDT by Condor51 (The only difference between Bill Ayers and Timothy McVeigh is the body count!)
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To: tobyhill

This is a full frontal assault to suppress the conservative vote!

Tell everyone to IGNORE the polls and VOTE!!


4 posted on 10/11/2008 7:19:06 AM PDT by Islander7 (This Atlas is shrugging!)
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To: tobyhill
Barry is coming across as a poseur, Marxist radical, liar, and official dismantler of traditional American values. But, John McCain needs to stop running for “Miss Congeniality” in the Presidential race. He's running for PRESIDENT, not having a gentlemanly debate with a fellow Senator. Where's the rumble?
5 posted on 10/11/2008 7:19:51 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: tobyhill
TALK ABOUT SCARY?

This is long, but very important, please take the time to read it. This election has me very worried. So many things to consider. About a year ago I would have voted for Obama. I have changed my mind three times since than. I watch all the news channels, jumping from one to another. I must say this drives my husband crazy. But, I feel if you view MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, you might get some middle ground to work with. About six months ago, I started thinking ‘where did the money come from for Obama’? I have four daughters who went to College, and we were middle class, and money was tight. We (including my girls) worked hard and there were lots of student loans. I started looking into Obama’s life. Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California. He is very open about his two years at Occidental, he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies. ‘Barry’ (that was the name he used all his life) during this time had two roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan. During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a ‘round the world’ trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia, next Hyderabad in India, three weeks in Karachi, Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate's family, then off to Africa to visit his father's family. My question - Where did he get the money for this trip? Nether I, nor any one of my children would have had money for a trip like this when they where in college. When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York. It is at this time he wants everyone to call him Barack - not Barry. Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia? It's not cheap!.. to say the least. Where did he get money for tuition? Student Loans? Maybe. After Columbia, he went to Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000. a year. Why Chicago? Why not New York? He was already living in New York. By ‘chance’ he met Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko, born in Aleppo Syria, and a real estate developer in Chicago. Rezko has been convicted of fraud and bribery this year. Rezko, was named ‘Entrepreneur of the Decade’ by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association’. About two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law School. Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School? Where did he get the money for Law School? More student loans? After Law school, he went back to Chicago. Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down. But, he did take a job with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Guess what? They represented ‘Rezar’ which was Rezko’s firm. Rezko was one of Obama’s first major financial contributors when he ran for office in Chicago. In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with ‘seed money’ for his U.S. Senate race. In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (less than asking price). With ALL those Student Loans - Where did he get the money for the property? On the same day Rezko’s wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot for full price. The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama’s new home was purchased. Obama met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko. Now, we have Obama running for President. Valerie Jarrett was Michele Obama’s boss. She is now Obama’s chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without talking to her first. Where was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz, Iran! Do we see a pattern here? Or am I going crazy? On May 10, 2008, The Times reported, Robert Malley advisor to Obama was ‘sacked’ after the press found out he was having regular contacts with ‘Hamas’, which controls Gaza and is connected with Iran. This past week, buried in the back part of the papers, Iraqi newspapers reported that during Obama’s visit to Iraq, he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will ‘Take care of things’. Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that where born in Pakistan? They are in charge of all those ‘small’ Internet campaign contributions for Obama. Where is that money coming from? The poor and middle class in this country? Or could it be from the Middle East? And the final bit of news. On September 7, 2008, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on ‘This Week’ with George Stephanapoulos. Obama on talking about his religion said, ‘My Muslim faith’. When questioned, ‘he made a mistake’. Some mistake! All of the above information I got on line. If you would like to check it - Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Barack Obama; Tony Rezko; Valerie Jarrett: Daily Times - Obama visited Pakistan in 1981; The Washington Times - September 7, 2008; The Times May 10, 2008. Now the BIG question - If I found out all this information on my own, why haven't all of our ‘intelligent’ members of the press been reporting this? A phrase that keeps ringing in my ear - ‘Beware of the enemy from within!!!’

6 posted on 10/11/2008 7:22:02 AM PDT by PLD
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To: tobyhill

Obama is lying about Ayers and his backing as a terrorist hugging socialist does the country great harm. He said he didn’t know about Ayer’s past. Then said he thought Ayers was reformed. He sat on a board with him for 5 years and improperly passed out a $100 Million Educational grant to radical anti American groups. A full investigation is mandatory.


7 posted on 10/11/2008 7:24:03 AM PDT by aclusux.com (visit my site at http://www.aclusux.com)
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To: tobyhill

That is an excellent, thoughtful piece that should be required reading for all “journalists” and Americans.


8 posted on 10/11/2008 7:24:12 AM PDT by astounded (The democrat party is a clear and present danger to America)
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To: tobyhill

So we now have the media running this country. Not just our government.

Republicans would have had huge landslides against Gore and Kerry.


9 posted on 10/11/2008 7:25:50 AM PDT by sazerac
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To: PLD

Hey dude, paragraphs are your friend...


10 posted on 10/11/2008 7:25:59 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: tobyhill

Yes, Obama is relying on winning this election on two fronts: vote suppression and election fraud. I don’t think he and his pet media pimps will succeed with the first, but he may succeed with the second.

We have a real fight on our hands, and if we win the election, this time we have to clean out the election fraud that supplies tens of millions of votes to the Democrats: motor voter, instant registration, registration without proper ID, registration rolls filled with illegal aliens, the dead, and invented people.

Bush allowed this to happen, by neglecting during his years in office to use the bully pulpit to clean up our election system. He let himself be scared off by the usual charges of “racism.”

If the Dems get into power again, they will never leave, because they will be in charge of voting across the country. We can’t allow that to happen.

As for this article, yes, Obama’s hatred of America is a major issue, but we don’t have to choose our major issues. He is also a baby killer, a destroyer of normal families, and a Marxist killer of what’s left of our economy.


11 posted on 10/11/2008 7:29:08 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Islander7; All

CALLING OBAMA A RESPECTABLE FAMILY MAN THAT WE NEED NOT FEAR IS OUTRAGEOUS!

McCAIN TAKING THE ABUSE AND INSULTS FROM OBAMA AND REFUSING TO FIGHT BACK IS OUTRAGEOUS!

WE’RE NOT TURNING THE WHITE HOUSE KEYS OVER TO BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA- NOT IF WE ON FR, RUSH, HANNITY AND FOX HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT!

FReep McCAIN/ MSM OUT.

HOW LONG CAN THEY IGNORE A MILLION EMAILS??

.

McCain is losing this campaign because he refuses to fight Obama and his lies, and dirty tactics such as ACORN voter fraud. He’s just been rolling over (or bending over, I should say) and accepting the abuse heaped upon him- and expecially Sarah Palin.
The anemic attempts by the McCain camp to fight back within the last few days just ain’t gonna get it.
He should have been hitting Obama back hard months ago.
He needs to get out there every day and FIGHT BACK.
Email Republican headquarters/McCain.

FReep ‘EM OUT!

CAN THEY IGNORE A MILLION EMAILS?

REMIND McCAIN THAT HE HAS AN OBLIGATION AS OUR CANDIDATE TO FIGHT BACK!
To h*ll with bipartisian BS!
To h*ll with PC!
To h*ll with ‘conducting a respectful campaign’as McCain has said, and vowed to do.

RESPECTFUL CAMPAIGNING WENT STRAIGHT OUT THE WINDOW WITH OBAMA’S NASTY, BRUTAL COMMENTS SUCH AS;
‘lipstick on a pig’ and ‘You can wrap AN OLD FISH in a piece of paper called change. It’s still going to stink after eight years.’

Take off the gloves, McCain!

Hit the Marxist/Muslim hard with Ayers, Acorn, Violation of Logan Act, abortion, 2nd admendment, Campaigning for Odinga!!
Get off the d*mned economy issue. State that Obama/Democrats/ACORN caused this meltdown. State McCain offered a proposal to avert the meltdown and GET OFF IT.
Obama is counting on keeping this going to take the spotlight off his sordid past and dirty dealings!
NOTHING is more important than waking America up to this Marxist/Muslim!! DO IT. EXPOSE HIM!

FReep ‘EM!!!!

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SEND THEM DAMAGING INFO ON OBAMA. DEMAND THEY DO THEIR JOB AND INVESTIGATE.

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Obama connection with ACORNhttp://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDZiMjkwMDczZWI5ODdjOWYxZTIzZGIyNzEyMjE0ODI=

Obama goes to Kenya on the tax payer’s dollar to campaign for the murderous Islam-backed Odinga!
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12 posted on 10/11/2008 7:30:00 AM PDT by patriot08
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To: tobyhill

The way I see it, the socialists have outed themselves.

Now we can see clearly who the socialists in out government and our media are. And it’s time to weed them out. Use our vote to clean the socialist leaning dems out and boycott the socialist leaning media. Clean house!


13 posted on 10/11/2008 7:30:28 AM PDT by GloriaJane (http://www.download.com/gloriajane)
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To: Islander7

how about the polls during the primaries?
those were pretty accurate.


14 posted on 10/11/2008 7:32:17 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

Hey dude, I just copied and pasted this from an email I recieved.. and this is the way it came out there were seperate paragraphs on that..


15 posted on 10/11/2008 7:36:55 AM PDT by PLD
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To: PLD

That’s why we have editors. Hit the “Enter” button twice where you want a paragraph to appear: it works a treat!

Nobody is going to take the time and effort to read a wall of text. They just won’t.


16 posted on 10/11/2008 7:40:00 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: longtermmemmory; All

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103035/posts

http://wewillnotbesilenced2008.com/video/index.htm

We Will Not Be Silenced!

Republicans and centrist Democrats are joined together on this effort to get the truth out about Obama before the November election. We firmly believe in McCain’s victory and do not believe it hinges on any developments with RICO. The polls, in our opinon, are wrong, and the internal numbers we see coming out of NC, VA, PA, OH, IN and FL show McCain wins in all of those states (there is no mathematical possibility for Obama to win without taking PA, OH, or FL). We believe after McCain’s win there will be a continued prosecution of Obama and members of the Democratic party for voter fraud under RICO statutes in the months and years ahead. ACORN and leftist Democrats have gone too far this time — for years ACORN has engineered deliberate election fraud using taxpayer dollars funneled to it by Democrats. This time, with both Democrats and Republicans joined against them, ACORN Is going down…and we believe it will ultimately take Obama, Axelrod, and most of today’s Democratic leadership down with it.

Please pass these links to all your contacts.

Email them to everyone you know.


17 posted on 10/11/2008 7:45:40 AM PDT by Islander7 (This Atlas is shrugging!)
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To: tobyhill
News Flash: The Media Back Obama

News Flash: The Sun Rose in the East This Morning.

18 posted on 10/11/2008 7:47:08 AM PDT by Allegra ( One bad ACORN DOES spoil the whole bunch.)
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To: sazerac
Of course they run it. They picked the empty suit and is molding the body in the suit the way they want. Any imperfections within the body will merely be camouflaged with cosmetics. Obama is the truest form of a molded candidate as they come and because of the media he will be the next President. The masses will not forget the media's role in this election and in two years when all is screwed up, the media will be held accountable. There will be violence and there will be tragedy but one thing will be for sure, the media will be held accountable.
19 posted on 10/11/2008 7:50:10 AM PDT by tobyhill (If you don't give to the ghetto, the ghetto will take from you.)
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To: tobyhill

My motivation for voting is to defeat the MSM. I think it would only help McCain if he rightly linked them with Obama and Democrats.......”My fellow Americans what has become clear through this campaign and financial crisis is that the MSM can no longer be trusted. The best interests of the American people are no longer being served by honest reporting. Study after study show their overwhelming bias towards liberal politicians and liberal policies. Where is the investigation into our current economic crisis? There aren’t any. If there were it would show that it was the Democrats who caused this nightmare that haunts us today. Let us make Nov. 4 the day we reject the liberal/Democrat machine and its fawning manipulative allies in the MSM.”


20 posted on 10/11/2008 7:51:48 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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