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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
"Why do they obsess over the "bitter" gaffe by Obama while passing so lightly over the confusion of Sunni and Shia groups by McCain, supposed master of foreign policy?"
Because Clinton wouldn't stop talking about the former. Just as she played along with ABC on tendentious trivialities like "Is Jeremiah Wright a patriot?"(??) and the Weather Underground.
The media aren't going to change their ways if we Dems become complicit in their nonsense.
Stand tall and stand firm, don't flinch and don't squirm.
I suspect the question most media figures are burning to ask of McCain goes something like this, "Dear friend, maverick and war hero Sen. McCain, once you've finished your doughnut perhaps you'd be kind enough to tell me whether you prefer to be kissed on the right or the left buttock? Bush and Cheney both prefered the right but I don't want to make assumptions."
Will they ask him about his adulterous affair with his current wife? Will they ask his children how he handled that? Will they press him about his wife's fortune as they did Sen. Kerry? Will they question his bravery and honor as they did Sen. Kerry? The list could go on but what's the use. Media figures will present McCain with doughnuts, cross themselves, kiss his ring - or his butt, whichever he presents and then ask him why he thinks Obama doesn't wear a flag pin.
The American press makes me sick.
You are so right, Joe. I just wish you could get a position with the mainstream media. I didn't need to watch, because one of the "moderators", George Stephanopolis, is a campaign hack who jumped ship from Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky mess. How is he credible? Our press today is the same as when W.R. Hearst owned all the newspapers. That is why ownership of media was regulated, so that reporting would be honest and not propaganda. Personally, I'm tired of one group shamelessly manipulating and hiding the truth to gain their dispicable ends. These people should be exposed. Then voters would have the sense not to believe anything they see on our mainstream news outlets, and elect leaders who have the public interest at heart. Proud to support
I am waiting for the flood of Obama supporters who will tell us that the disparities in Glenn's column are somehow all Hillary Clinton's fault. I can see that I won't have to wait very long because the very first comment here says exactly that.
JOE: WE MISS THE HELL OUT OF YOU ON FRANKEN AND MISS HIM TOO!
PLEASE GO ON MSNBC WITH THE BRILLIANT MS.WALSH PERHAPS ON THE ONLY FAIR MSNBC SHOWS MORNING JOE I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT HE IS A VOICE OF REASON (AS A LIBERAL DEM WHICH I AM)
I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT YOU,JOAN,JOE AND DAN ABRAMS, TAYLOR MARSH NO QUARTER ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO TELL IT LIKE IT IS REGARDING MY CANDIDATE HILARY AND THE CLINTONS.
ALL MY FORMER HEROES (THOUGH BRILLIANT) KEITH AND RACHEL AND ON RADIO RANDI RHODES AND ON THE BLOGS TPM HUFFINGTON AND KOS AND ATRIOS HAVE GONE DEEP INTO MIRROR IMAGES OF RUSH AND O'REILLY. HOW IRONIC! FORGIVE THEM DOUBT IT!
PLEASE SAVE US FROM THIS MADNESS. I WILL VOTE FOR OBAMA WHEN HE GROWS UP AND ONLY AFTER 8 YEARS OF HILARY BUT NOT IF JOHN MCCAIN HAS HIS FOUR YEARS
I was a snarling, clawing, hissing and biting tiger when the the Swift Boat phonies were taking potshots at John Kerry back in 2004. If the Republican Party (aka G.O.P. which I render as Goosestepping Ossified Partei) and their media munchkins want a rematch, then I am ready for them. All I need are a couple gallons of A-1 Steak Sauce so that I can eat their scrawny asses RAW!
Instead of answering their insipid, puerile line of questioning, why not put the onus back on them? When faced with something like this that is based on personality-driven issues, why not ask something like, "Why should I answer this question? What does it have to do with policy? I find this line of questioning to be quite offensive, and superfluous to the job I intend to do, in the office I am running for?"
Then calmly sit there and wait for an answer from the moderator(s). It will only be through a thorough public embarassment of these types of media figures, asking these petty questions, that it will it ever begin to cease.
Personally I think Obama and Clinton are just the two candidates to start this process.
Another defense to this is to anticipate these types of questions, and bring up examples of press behavior with the Republican party that has been in complete opposition to their modus operandi with the Democratic party.
And then again, put the ball back in their court by asking, "What does this have to do with the job I intend to perform if elected?" Or "I think that if Republicans aren't expected to answer, or even to be asked in the first place, then these types of questions have no place in our public discourse."
It isn't until someone confronts their subtle mendacity head on, that anything will likely happen to make it change.
So true.
The press adopts these ridiculous narratives for democrats and then keeps playing them.
We shouldn't elect Al Gore because he is stiff, and boring. Whaaat?
We shouldn't elect Kerry because he windsurfs and is elitist. Whaat?
We shouldn't elect Clinton because she is a liar, and a bitch. Whaat?
We shouldn't elect Obama because he is anti-american and a muslim. Whaat?
I am glad people are finally crying "Enough!".
It's unbelievable that these are the candidates we have to choose from. Could we find anyone worse? We have a choice between an old white guy, an inexperienced black guy and a women. Sheesh, no wonder this country is going to hell in a hand basket.
...and everyone is racist anyway.
When Obama loses the General Election -- that will be Clinton's fault too.
Stop the kool-aid Godbama and his cult need to chill.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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