Pass the Tissues: The Slobbering Love Affair Between Obama and the Press
Anyone who doesn’t believe the media fix was in for Barack Obama during the last presidential campaign doesn’t need a book by Bernard Goldberg to convince them.
They need an honesty transplant.
But Goldberg is back all the same with a new tome encapsulating the media love-in that cushioned Obama’s ascent to the Oval Office.
Goldberg, the former CBS newsman turned media bias detector, gives us A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media.
The slim volume (173 pages) serves as a compilation of everything conservatives have gleaned over the last six months from Newsbusters.org and other top-shelf blogs. Goldberg leans on the conservative Media Research Center and a few recent surveys to underline his points. But putting it all together in one highly readable package provides a service all the same, especially for those who don’t necessarily trust a right-leaning blog for the skinny on media bias.
The bestselling author isn’t Ann Coulter, nor should he be dismissed by those on the left who would gleefully lump him in with that mini-skirted maiden. He’s a news man first, and he doesn’t go out of his way to score ideological points like books written by more openly right wing authors.
Goldberg often inserts corny jokes into the text for levity, but underneath it all is a sadness, a sense that a profession he once was proud to call his own is less than a shell of its old self.
And he’s not just bemoaning an industry’s self-induced collapse. He’s afraid of what an ineffective press means for the country. What if President Obama turns out to be a fumbler in chief? Will the media tell us about his miscues? And at this point would the public even believe it, given how reporters have sullied the image of journalism in recent years?
The book’s introduction tells you all you really need to know about the sorry state of the media today. Goldberg recalls speaking to a journalism class at American University and getting little but derision from the students forced to read his first book, Bias.
The professor offered his two cents into the debate:
“Isn’t it the role of the media to effect change in society?” he asked innocently.
Goldberg shot back — “Your change or mine?”
Silence.
Slobbering quickly gets to the heart of the matter, recalling the outrageously positive spin put on Sen. Obama’s campaign, the dirt thrown at Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain and just how differently each was treated.
I enjoyed reading this, but I feel that it being published here is preaching to the choir.
As I’m writing this, an advertisement for Joe the Plumber’s new book is on the sidebar. As much as I like him, a book?
Remember when conservatives read things like “The Conservative Mind?” Even not that long ago, John Simon was reviewing movies for National Review.
I just wonder – those of us more independent minded have an important message, are we getting it to the correct audience? And are we alienating the more thoughtful members of that audience through cheap populism?
The problem with the press is indeed the bias.
I was struck by Barney Frank blasting banking CEOs for their stupidity etc. for letting the banking crisis get out of hand. But where was the press when Frank sent Fannie Mae and Freddy Mack to their deaths? Not a word about how incompetent he is. Have to wonder what they smoke in Massachusetts to keep electing him and Ted Kennedy time and time again.
Our irresponsible and agenda-driver press is indeed he biggest evil facing the American people today.
“Goldberg shot back — “Your change or mine?””
Succinct and brilliant. A perfect comeback to a liberal stuck on stupid.
…”What if President Obama turns out to be a fumbler in chief? Will the media tell us about his miscues? And at this point would the public even believe it, given how reporters have sullied the image of journalism in recent years?”…
Hey, did you ever stop to think that the MSM would not even bother to report on whatever dilemmas this President will face? Why should the media report on that? After all, isn’t the media part of the reason we have those dilemmas in the first place?
Believe me, the thought won’t be lost on them, and as a result they will have every reason to suppress the truth of future stories related to American problems facing the Obama administration. After all, if they report the problems they will be digging their own graves… “We know we’ve been in the tank for this guy but here’s what you’ve been missing…”
No. The MSM will never go there. It appears fortunate that most Americans already know how the MSM sold out its faith with the public in order to stroke its collective (and admitted! Just ask Helen Thomas) Liberal ego with a “Happy Days” episode for -all gasp! joy! rapture! – racial equality in elections.
Want the truth? It’s already happening. The MSM runs “All Stimulus, All The Time” and glosses over the embarassment of our country at the hands of Iran, Russia, Venezuela, Europe, etc.
Four years is a long time. BHO’s administration has plenty of space and time to blame everything bad that happens on the Bush administration. It’s already worked. Barney Frank, Harry Reid,Nancy Pelosi’s failures get a pass by the press. Imagine the scenarios they are cooking up to be fed to the press. Imagine if the Dems had been left out of the Stimulus deliberations if the Repubs were in the majority in Congress and in the presidency. The press would be howling!
Bernard Goldberg is an astute and intelligent observer. One of the few good men left standing.
I share his sense of sadness and, more omninously, his sense of entrenched media abandoning its function in a free society.
Howell and Halperin admitted to open bias, but they did not admit to the greater felonies.
Anyone denying the obvious leftism in Western journalism today, is a tool. What people, even very bright people who decry the unfairness, do not realize…is the danger behind it all.
It is not merely that “journalists” have a “tendency” to “favor” one side of a political debate and that it “seeps out” into their writings. This is the canard passed along as conventional wisdom of those who give the wink and the nod at the behavior and give it the “well, boys will be boys” brush of their very incurious shoulders. Always with the “and Rush, Hannity and Fox News do it too!”, for good measure. What a load of mindless tripe.
The issue is NOT that the entrenched media failed to properly vet President Obama, nor even that they swept Wright, Pfleger, Frank Marshall Davis, Ayers & Dohrn, Sam Graham Felsen, Carl Davidson, Mike Klonsky and other under the rug.
It was not even that they sat on their hands and averted their gaze when the credit card authorization firewalls were shut off, or that campaign rules, promises and laws may have been broken…intentionally. Or that foreign money may have infiltrated our elections in a fairly large way.
It wasn’t that they did a hit piece on Cindy McCain or shielded Michelle from her own toxic statements. It wasn’t that they intentionally demonized Sen. McCain on a magazine cover, making him look worse by scheming to change his appearance.
It wasn’t the failure to ask any tough questions of the Obama/Biden ticket and the “gotcha” treatment of McCain and especially Palin.
All of that…is bias.
It was the continuing gang rape of our FACTS on every major issue of the day that we are served with heaping portions of distortion, half-truth, outright lies, photoshopped pictures, staged scenes. For years the Communist handlers for United for Peace and Justice took out virtually EVERY permit for a march or staged protest, their speakers would get up and rant…and NOT ONCE did the entrenched media expose who was behind the curtain, nor did they ONCE show the speeches or unveil the truth behind the “movement”.
Not ONCE did Peter Jennings utter the word “terrorist”, but he did give a speech at Columbia University where he said that his mother was a virulent anti-American and her blood coursed through his veins.
Rampant and virulent anti-Americanism…the lifeblood of metastasizing leftism, is spread throughout our entrenched media and, more to the point…in every major outlet where we obtain our information and formulate our opinions. Hollywood and academia are aimed at our youth, trying to brand in them early…as sense of self-loathing and a demonization of patriotism, military, free market capitalism and Judeo-Christian faith based morals.
This assault is relentless and organized, intentional and does not consist of “bias”. A cult does not have a “bias”, they have a plan. Brainwashing is not an accident.
Distortion of facts and the omnipresent attempt to build loathing and demonization of “non-cultists” is not a happenstance.
It is high time that we stop using THEIR language, THEIR framing of issues, THEIR brainwashing techniques…and adopting them into our lexicon, our thinking, our framing of issues. Deprogramming a country to not hate itself starts first with identifying the tactics and strategies of those who mean to destroy it. Secondly, you will find the trolls here as perfect examples of the brainwashed (or their handlers), who don’t recognize their own affliction…or are intent on secreting it and advancing it.
The media is NOT “mainstream”, if that is the main stream, I don’t want to drink from it.
The distortions, lies, half-truths are not BIAS…they are intentional. They are dangerous and they are part of a plan.
Unless and until we take back the language and recognize the dangers…we are helpless to do anything more but succumb to them.
Ashok … I agree there’s a preaching to the choir effect here … although Goldberg does his best to reach out, to make his argument more constructive and less ideological.
The problem is the press. It continually astounds me how closed they are, collectively, to criticism. If I file a story, I wanna get feedback. It makes me a better writer, a better reporter. Too many scribes, apparently, don’t feel the same way.
During the hearing yesterday in the House, one congressman ranted to the CEOs that no one trusted or believed them any longer. Isn’t that exactly the feeling we all have towards Congress?
#5 JCinOBX:
“No. The MSM will never go there. It appears fortunate that most Americans already know how the MSM sold out its faith with the public in order to stroke its collective (and admitted! Just ask Helen Thomas) Liberal ego with a “Happy Days” episode for -all gasp! joy! rapture! – racial equality in elections.”
Not all of them will, but enough them might.
I remember how even the media finally had enough of Jimmeh Cawtuh, (of course it took a “bottom-up” groundswell to make them see the error of their ways.
And not all of them did. Those that didn’t have never forgiven the American public for it’s “Malaise Fatigue” of 1979-1980.
You could track their attitudes through the ’80s and on into the Bush 41 Presidency.
That “Common Americans as dumb-ass racist yahoos suckered by eeeeevil rethuglikkkans” is its modern day incarnation
I was appalled by the media’s biases to the point that I turn the TV off. I refuse to bite. Even the most innocuous story these days is used to further an agenda, whether it be conservative or liberal. Frankly, it’s a bore, and I think for myself.
Isn’t that exactly the feeling we all have towards Congress?
The CEO’s seem so compliant and wuss like, raising their hands to the “how many of you own corporate jets ?” question.
Scary stuff, especially when idiots like Barney Frank who aided and abetted the Fannie & Freddie debacle and were insisting right up until the meltdown on the “soundness” of those agencies and was instrumental in maneuvering to get all these banks to make those bad loans…is sitting there casting aspersions on the financial CEO’S.
What’s the message to the CEO’s ? now that you’ve got TARP money to bail out of the mess that we Congresscritters helped create, we own you ?
Bernard Goldberg is factually-challenged.
Case in point, this quote from his latest book: “Finally, in the last month of the campaign, the [New York] Times returned to the Obama-Ayers story, but only after McCain and (mostly) Palin began making it an issue on the campaign trail.”
The truth was the first time Gov. Sarah Palin raised Obama’s connection to William Ayers, was when Palin actually cited the October 4, 2008, New York Times story to which Goldberg refers.
Also in his book Goldberg criticized CBS’s the Early Show airing a segment called “Five Things You Know About Barack Obama” while ignoring the fact that days later, the show ran a segment called “Five Things You Should Know About Sen. John McCain.” How convenient.
Ih he’s “one of the few good men left standing,” why was his book an inspiration for Knoxville chuch shooter James Adkisson? In this murderer’s own words: “Who I wanted to kill was every Democrat in the Senate & House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg’s book. I’d like to kill everyone in the mainstream media.”
Read the rest here.
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2009/02/know-this-if-nothing-else-this-was-hate.html
The era of “THINK FOR YOURSELF and come to your OWN CONCLUSIONS” is obviously a thing of the past. The main-stream-media have come to know their own power and wield it willy-nilly without a conscience as their blighted, soulless power plays show us just how STUPID and GULLIBLE people can be.
The sheeple are a plenty and it’s frightening to even engage them in conversation because they have no logic at ALL but rather, they rely on emotionally falsified conjecture responses. It’s like playing, “I am rubber you are glue” with a 5 year old. Tiresome, saddening and…well, SCARY.
Damn. I’m in a bad mood today. Our family cat of fourteen years had to be euthanized yesterday and I’m all sideways about it.
ANYWAY. Murphy’s law seems to have run off the rails with the 0bama administration. I’d pop some popcorn and watch the horror unfold but I kinda need to survive too. :\
So with all our disgust how many letters to the editor do we write, how many calls to news program directors do we make.
How many advertisers and sponsors do we tell that we won’t be buying their products because of what they are supporting.
The question I have is how do we communicate this problem to those friends of ours who just cannot comprehend what has been happening for the last forty years
15. Delia:
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Sorry to hear about your cat. That’s like losing a member of the family.
#14 PatJ:
“Bernard Goldberg is factually-challenged.”
Shouldn’t you be busy looking up cites to support your allegation that the USA sold Sadaam Hussein the Chemical Agents he used against the Kurds?
As the campain process ran it’s course over the last two years, my peception that the MSM’s attempt to make the Obama Presidency happen no matter the ethical costs to journalism and the public trust became clear.
The MSM prevailed. In their view they MADE Obama and he owes them big time. It will be interesting to observe this very public relationship mature into it’s inevitable dominant/subordinate format.
Pat J:
Typical left wing drivel and the usual bizarre logic, copy/pasted from the totally objective, right-down-the-middle Media Matters, brought to you by the billions of George Soros, known throughout the world as saintly and non-partisan:
“OK look, we’ve found two things that Goldberg said in his 173 page book that we disagree with. He got the month wrong in one, and he forgot to mention one of the few times our allies in the mainstream media said something reasonably innocuous about McCain, before they want right back to slandering him, his wife and everything about Palin. Therefore, ipso facto, you can ignore everything else in his book because everything else he says must all be lies too, since we don’t see it that way in this dimension of alternate reality we live in.”
Perhaps Goldberg saw a pattern of MSM drool over Obama epitomized by this “Five Things…” BS that he was unable to document towards McCain/Palin? Gosh, wherever could he have gotten that from? He must have made it up!Of course, your BDS won’t allow them or you to see any such thing, because all conservatives are EVIL like BUSHITLER, right?
By the way, what the NYT actually wrote about the Obama-Ayers relationship was a bald-faced coverup about how close that relationship was for a very long time, and how closely aligned their political world-views really were. Even Ayers has since admitted that they were a LOT closer than the NYT objective, totally unbiased, and well researched puff piece said it was.
OK, your team won, albeit unfair and unsquare. But you don’t get to keep twisting truth into nightmarish pretzels without rebuttal.
Will we ever be rid of Obama trolls here? They ban anyone with opinions even slightly to the right of Che and Julio on Kos, HuffPo, MM, DU and every other left wing site, and then they send their crazies here and all the other sites that disagree with them to leave their smelly little droppings.
* REVIEW & OUTLOOK
* FEBRUARY 11, 2009
Obama’s Press List
Membership shall have its privileges.
About half-way through President Obama’s press conference Monday night, he had an unscripted question of his own. “All, Chuck Todd,” the President said, referring to NBC’s White House correspondent. “Where’s Chuck?” He had the same strange question about Fox News’s Major Garrett: “Where’s Major?”
The problem wasn’t the lighting in the East Room. The President was running down a list of reporters preselected to ask questions. The White House had decided in advance who would be allowed to question the President and who was left out.
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Presidents are free to conduct press conferences however they like, but the decision to preselect questioners is an odd one, especially for a White House famously pledged to openness. We doubt that President Bush, who was notorious for being parsimonious with follow-ups, would have gotten away with prescreening his interlocutors. Mr. Obama can more than handle his own, so our guess is that this is an attempt to discipline reporters who aren’t White House favorites.
Few accounts of Monday night’s event even mentioned the curious fact that the White House had picked its speakers in advance. We hope that omission wasn’t out of fear of being left off the list the next time.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123431418276770899.html
Ih he’s “one of the few good men left standing,” why was his book an inspiration for Knoxville chuch shooter James Adkisson? In this murderer’s own words: “Who I wanted to kill was every Democrat in the Senate & House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg’s book. I’d like to kill everyone in the mainstream media.”
That is a lame attempt to discredit Bernard Goldberg.
Charles Manson claims he was “inspired” by the lyrics to the Beatles’song, Helter Skelter.
And your point is ?
Shouldn’t you be busy looking up cites to support your allegation that the USA sold Sadaam Hussein the Chemical Agents he used against the Kurds?
That became a popular, and false, mantra in the Leftoid blogosphere.
Saddam’s & Chemical Ali’s Kurdish cocktail (mustard gas, sarin, tabun, VX) was concocted from chemicals & precursors Iraq was domestically producing & imports from (largely) Europe, most notably the Netherlands & West Germany. The only guy convicted of knowingly selling Saddam this junque is a Dutchman.
Pat J:
Thank you for mentioning James Adkisson. Obviously, Goldberg is responsible for these murders. I haven’t read this latest book, but I am sure that he concludes by telling his readers that the only solution to this problem is to kill liberals. Obviously, Adkisson was sitting at home, peaceful and happy, when he read Goldberg’s book and realized that people had to die.
Get real. Using a tragedy like a church shooting to demonize your adversaries and score political points is just nauseating. On the other hand, if you really believe that Goldberg was responsible for these shootings, then get help because you are as paranoid and deluded as Adkisson.
What I really appreciate about the left wing media bias during this election is that it is impossible to pretent otherwise. It was over the top! As democrats seek to kill talk radio, in the Owellian name of “fairness doctrine”, this undeniable spectical of media bias shows them for the facists they are. Fidel has nothing on the American Left.
Ofcourse, killing their opposition voices does not say it all in Obama’s effort to place him and his party into permanent power. We have Obama moving the Census Bureau to the White house and the porkulas bill funding election fraud party supporters receiving billions.
People need a stark image to understand and the “media” has given them what they need to understand. I still beleive in the American people…they will connect the dots.
attn: PatJ, local Mediamatters troll…
If you had read Goldberg’s book and not fallen hook line and sinker for the Mediamatters propaganda, you’d know that Goldberg deals with the fact that on June 18, CBS has a segment on Obama, and on June 23 they feature a segment on McCain.
In the Obama segment featuring a reporter named Jeff Glor we learn among the five things we didn’t know that “In addition to enjoying basketball and cycling during down time, Obama loves to play Scrabble. Obama’s job as a teenager was at a Baskin-Robbins, and to this day he does not like ice cream….This is a man who plays to win. No matter what it is, whether it’s the woman he wants to date or elected office or board games, there is an ambition there. There is a determination.”
Good to know whether a Presidential Candidate likes ice cream. No mention of his polygamous African Muslim father. No mention of his wastrel white mother. No mention of his radical upbringing or his communist associations or his friendships with terrorists, terror apologists, or his radical “Black Church” ideology.
Five days later, how’d they treat Mccain?
This is a partial transcript of that show — Jeff Glor and other CBS corresponants pile on, and here are the five things we didn’t know about McCain according to CBS:
JEFF GLOR: “Number five: McCain was not born in any of the 50 United States.”
WALTER SHAPIRO, Washington Bureau Chief, Salon.com: “John McCain is the first presidential candidate to be born in–wait for the beat–the Panama Canal Zone.”
JEFF GLOR: In fact, McCain lived there almost the whole first year of his life. His father had been stationed there by the Navy, creating an eventual source of controversy.
WALTER SHAPIRO: The Constitution says a president has to be a natural-born citizen.
GLOR: Number four: A maverick even back in high school, John McCain was nicknamed “The Punk.”
Offscreen Voice #1: There was always the cigarette in the corner of his mouth.
JEFF GLOR: A reputation that followed him to the Naval Academy.
WALTER SHAPIRO: John McCain graduated five slots from the bottom of the Annapolis class of 1958.
JEFF GLOR: Number three: When McCain was shot down in Vietnam, it was not his first, it was not his second, but his third plane crash as a pilot.
GLOR: Number two: McCain’s North Vietnamese captors called him “The Crown Prince.”
(Excerpt from Vietnam era footage)
Offscreen Voice #2: Who is your father?
MCCAIN: His name is Admiral John McCain.
(End of excerpt)
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JEFF GLOR: And the number one thing you might not know about John McCain? When he first ran for Congress, he was charged with being a carpetbagger.
WALTER SHAPIRO: John McCain decided to move to the state of Arizona, a state in which he never lived, and run for the US House in 1982. The Republicans running against him shouted ‘Carpetbagger! Carpetbagger!’
SHAPIRO: Game, set and match.
As Christian Toto says, “any journalist who won’t cop to the media’s role in Obama’s election is clearly beyond reach.” That goes for idiots who parrot the leftist propaganda filth flowing from the Mediamatters sewer. YOU certainly could use an “honesty transplant”.
with apologies to other readers for misplaced italics…
Yeah. The MSM doesnt even care if that Obama – our Commander in Chief – knows nothing about military protocol…
http://susankatzkeating.blogspot.com/2009/02/american-media-again-ignores.html
27. Susan Katz Keating,
Yep! Spot on. He’s like a little kid playing “dress up”.
He might as well be saluting himself [as surely it would make more sense to the man-girl in the mirror].
Pride goeth before a fall…
I’m sure we’re in for plenty of them…
~gag~
His fall from ‘grace’ will be a sight to behold.
18. Bilgeman:
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Like this one?
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0908-08.htm
“THE US and Britain sold Saddam Hussein the technology and materials Iraq needed to develop nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction.
Reports by the US Senate’s committee on banking, housing and urban affairs — which oversees American exports policy — reveal that the US, under the successive administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr, sold materials including anthrax, VX nerve gas, West Nile fever germs and botulism to Iraq right up until March 1992, as well as germs similar to tuberculosis and pneumonia. Other bacteria sold included brucella melitensis, which damages major organs, and clostridium perfringens, which causes gas gangrene.
Classified US Defense Department documents also seen by the Sunday Herald show that Britain sold Iraq the drug pralidoxine, an antidote to nerve gas, in March 1992, after the end of the Gulf war. Pralidoxine can be reverse engineered to create nerve gas.”
@25 Morton Doodslag
Great, great, great post. It really puts it all in perspective, and it put me in good humor. That dichotomy is priceless.
25. Morton Doodslag, You forgot this from the same transcript:
GLOR: “I would say with John McCain’s it’s a commitment to country, the idea of service. I mean, this is a man who’s done everything, been everywhere all over the world and still there’s this desire, I’m not done yet.”
High praise for a very honorable man.
The thing that get’s you righties bowel’s in an uproar is the word “verbatim.” Media Matters repeats back word-for-word what people like Goldberg utter. And then people like O’Reilly get all upset when they claim they’re taken out of context? Get real.
I thought the topic, Pat J, was chemical agents used against the Kurds in Halabja/Anfal campaign.
Of your list, only one substance qualifies as a chemical agent used against the Kurds, VX. Most of the list you copied and pasted are biological agents.
You could learn more about this topic overall, without just parroting what you read on ideologically bent websites like mediamatters and commondreams.
Iraq Profile
Here’s a story about the Dutch guy convicted of war crimes for selling chemical agents to Saddam…
Man who supplied Saddam’s chemicals guilty of war crime
No use trying to reason with right wing scum Pat J. The only cure for them will be another civil war. Then they will learn how much the 2nd amendment means to liberals.
PatJ — It’s a little difficult to get from the transcript exactly which 5 things Glor and CBS thought salient in these two sections, but it doesn’t require “context” to understand the deep bias exhibited for Obama and against McCain. And the weak fact that Jeff Glor attempted to appear even handed by tossing in some rhetorical strokes in favor of McCain at the end of his presentation does NOTHING to mitigate his bald exhibitionism as a highly biased “reporter”.
Since you seem either congenitally dedicated to the far left smear machine, or else simply stupendously thick, I’ll sum up for you.
According to CBS, 5 things you didn’t know about Obama:
1. He loves to play basketball
2. He rides bikes during “down time”.
3. He worked at Baskin Robbins as a teenager.
4. He hates ice cream.
5. He is ambitious.
5 things you didn’t know about McCain:
1. He was not born in the US. (Slate editor helps you slopes with talking points by underscoring the significance of the Constitutional restrictions on Presidential eligibility…)
2. John McCain’s high school nickname was “The Punk”. (offscreen voice helps the slopes by underscoring “There was always the cigarette in the corner of his mouth.”..)
3. John McCain graduated five slots from the bottom of the Annapolis class of 1958.
4. When McCain was shot down in Vietnam, it was not his first, it was not his second, but his third plane crash as a pilot.
5. When he first ran for Congress, he was charged with being a carpetbagger.
Given the evidence, and despite the “context” you lamely attempt to put forward — it’s clear that CBS is highly biased, and that Bernard Goldberg dealt with this issue handily in his book. As if you needed any more shooting down — the pertinent and intact transcripts of both shows is included in his book, including the supposedly exculpatory section you glom onto and harp about. Get a clue, clueless wonder.
TO ANSWER SAF’S QUESTION ABOUT REELECTING KENNEDY & BARNEY FRANK THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE.
LOTS OF MONEY THE UNIONS FOR THE FIRST ONE
MOVING THE VOTING DISTRICT CLOSER TO P TOWN
LOTS OF US DIDN’T GET A CHANCE TO VOTE THAT’S FOR THE SECOND ONE.
Delia, I’m also sorry about your kitty. I will be way beyond sideways when mine goes.
Ah, yes, the slobbering media. I used to be a news junkie and am from a long-line of people who thought prime time TV shows were “filler” between the evening and nightly newscasts. The election of 2008 turned out to be everything my dad used to rant about and more.
What has made everyone so gullible? So unwilling to ask the same questions of every candidate? I have fewer answers than questions about how someone with BHO’s experience was elected President. I am delighted to hear that he worked at Baskin Robbins, I wasn’t sure he ever had a job that required results before this one.
Sadly, there are individuals out there that are fantasizing about having sex with the “Campaigner in Chief”. It looks like they are going to get their wish, since “His Emptiness” is going to screw every tax payer in the United States. Yea; He’ll call.
We are on the eve the passage of the largest spending bill in our history, nobody in Congress has read it yet, and the mainstream media isn’t reporting it.
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/02/12/stimulus-vote-delayed-loyalty-oath-demanded/
Bias is no longer debatable.
Fist bump, cybergeezer.
tanstaafl, thank you for responding to Pat J regarding the Kurds. Though I will give him credit for responding, albeit with expected BS.
These Obama questions have me thinking about Brokaw’s smoking question to Obama:
Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program, interviewer Tom Brokaw told Obama he had ducked answering the question during an interview last month with ABC’s Barbara Walters.
Noting that the White House was a no-smoking zone, Brokaw asked Obama, “Have you stopped smoking?”
“I have,” Obama replied, smiling broadly. “What I said was that there are times where I have fallen off the wagon.”
“Wait a minute,” Brokaw interjected, “that means you haven’t stopped.”
“Fair enough,” Obama said. “What I would say is that I have done a terrific job under the circumstances of making myself much healthier.
He tried to lie about this matter as well. Geesh. I acn only imagine the response if someone asked him the color of the sky.
Fist bump, cybergeezer.
tanstaafl, thank you for responding to Pat J regarding the Kurds. Though I will give him credit for responding, albeit with expected BS.
These Obama questions have me thinking about Brokaw’s smoking question to Obama:
Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program, interviewer Tom Brokaw told Obama he had ducked answering the question during an interview last month with ABC’s Barbara Walters.
Noting that the White House was a no-smoking zone, Brokaw asked Obama, “Have you stopped smoking?”
“I have,” Obama replied, smiling broadly. “What I said was that there are times where I have fallen off the wagon.”
“Wait a minute,” Brokaw interjected, “that means you haven’t stopped.”
“Fair enough,” Obama said. “What I would say is that I have done a terrific job under the circumstances of making myself much healthier.
He tried to lie about this matter as well. Geesh. I can only imagine the response if someone asked him the color of the sky.
Lastly, Obama is nearing 50, and this is the FIRST job he’ll have held for 4 continuous years..?? This doesn’t worry his supporters/ admirers? Riiiight.
The media religiously avoids reporting on Obama’s only executive experience. It was significant – distributing about $150,000,000 for the Annenberg Foundation to ‘community groups’ for the purpose of improving education for schoolkids in Chicago.
The Annenberg Foundation evaluated the program at its end, and found no improvement whatever. So that $150,000,000 undoubtedly fattened up a lot of ‘community groups’, at the expense of the kids. Curious that this has been swept into a bubble of vacuum – unless the media was so determined to push Obama to a ‘triumph’ that no counter-evidence could be examined.
Thank you for your condolences regarding my 14 year old fur baby, Pat J and LeighB.
Honest to gosh I’ve paid more in pet health care than for my own and thank goodness *knocks on wood* I don’t hardly need a doc much for anything. Maybe us folks without health care insurance are healthier because we can’t afford NOT to be?
The 0bama health-care thing is another “UGH”. I go to the dentist maybe once every 5-7 years and you know what? -Well, they always assume my last dental cleaning was a few months ago because I take vigilant care of my teeth. I’m a FLOSS NAZI, I tell ya!
Anyhoodle… The MSM will have their comeuppance when Dear Leader’s cracks can no longer be saved by the Little Dutch Boy’s limited digits.
PatJ:
You cite a Common Dreams piece which is a precis of a Scottish “Sunday Herald” (established 1999), article?
Hmmmm. That’s pretty deep, fella.
Let’s look at this Sunday Herald article:
“Reports by the US Senate’s committee on banking, housing and urban affairs — which oversees American exports policy — reveal that the US, under the successive administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr, sold materials including anthrax, VX nerve gas, West Nile fever germs and botulism to Iraq right up until March 1992, ”
We were supposedly selling Sadaam nerve agent and bio-weapon samples even as we were bombing him and he was shooting SCUDS at us. huh?
Well, if you can get past the absurdity of that first sentence, then I reckon you’ll believe just about anything.
“Classified US Defense Department documents also seen by the Sunday Herald show that Britain sold Iraq the drug pralidoxine, an antidote to nerve gas, in March 1992, after the end of the Gulf war.”
And you place any credence in this? Since when does the US military make classified documents available to reporters from a foreign newspaper?
” Pralidoxine can be reverse engineered to create nerve gas”
Oh my! But…there ARE legitimate uses for nerve agent antidote…in the chemical industry.
“The Senate committee’s reports on ‘US Chemical and Biological Warfare-Related Dual-Use Exports to Iraq’, undertaken in 1992 in the wake of the Gulf war, give the date and destination of all US exports. The reports show, for example, that on May 2, 1986, two batches of bacillus anthracis — the micro-organism that causes anthrax — were shipped to the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education, along with two batches of the bacterium clostridium botulinum, the agent that causes deadly botulism poisoning.”
What they’re referring to, lad, is known as The Riegle Report. And while it did find that there were shipments of biological samples like the one mentioned above, it DID NOT find that the US had sold VX, Tabun or Sarin to the Iraqis.
You can swallow anything you’d care to that the Sunday Herald puts inyour mouth regarding dual-use materials, but they ARE “dual use”.
In fcat, you’ve likely got some dual-use materials under the sink or in your garage right this moment.
BTW, here’s some other gems that the Sunday Herald , (established 1999), saw fit to print:
“CND: a quiet voice of sanity for 50 years 10:19pm Saturday 16th February 2008
Ian Bell on nuclear weapons”
CND stands for Committee on Nuclear Disarmament…the original Moscow=sponsored Atomic Quislings.
“The Pictures That Lost The War 10:19am Sunday 2nd May 2004
Grim images of American and British soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners have not only caused disgust and revulsion in the West, but could have forever lost Bush and Blair the moral high ground that they claimed to justify the invasion of Iraq”
(We all heard about the US, but the Limeys tortured the Moojies too? What’d they do? Make ‘em listen to The Spice Girls?)
“Iraq: troops out? 10:32pm Saturday 24th February 2007
Tony Blair plans a withdrawal from Iraq, then sends more troops to Afghanistan … so who, apart from Bush’s White House, benefits from Blair’s policies?”
What happenned to “Iraq=Bad War! Afghanistan=Good War meme?
tell me PatJ, do you read these things with your eyes open, or do you like, use “The Force”?
THIS is the basis you used to accuse the US of selling Sadaam Hussein the chemicals weapons he used to gas the Kurds?
You’re a joke.
The first point omits that since his parents were US Citizens, one a serving Naval Officer, and the Canal Zone was U.S. territory till the 70s if not later. Yes his academic record wasn’t great, if he was at the point, we’d call him a mustang, Then they throw in the Punk, he’s not the easiest person to deal with. Fighter pilots, have a very tough job, read the first chapter of the Right Stuff which takes place in that era, to see how dangerous the job is.
Whereas with Obama, no examination of his achievements, including college transcripts,
accomplishments as community organizer, his stewardship of the CAC with Bill Ayers, the way he disqualified all his challengers in his first race. The way he lost in 2000, but helped
redraw his district, the following year. How all of his opponents were forced out of the 2004
race, except for the token opposition of Alan Keyes, through the unsealing of divorce records.
Any real perspective on his views on a dozen subjects, nothing that would cast any shadow upon him. And let’s not go into the cavalcade
of lies, distortions, et al; directed against
Governor Palin. That would take four more paragraphs.
As for the whole we armed Iraq, doubtful, notice how they used Russian MIGs T-72 tanks, French Mirages, Roland missiles, ammunition from Belgium; all part of findings of the the SEPRI.So yet another talking point demolished
report
If the media is so liberal and can get presidents elected, what the hell happened with Bush. He got in twice. I wouldn’t rely on them to influence an election, they’re obviously not very good at it.
I haven’t ready Goldberg’s books. I spent my money on flyfishing books. But I put a large share of the blame for the death of genuine journalism on journalism schools. In the early 1960s j-schools began to teach students to advocate for “social justice” and “change.” Nowadays they’re all bad, but one of the most egregiously bad (in my experience) is the University of Texas j-school at Austin. I’m sure many others equal it.
43. Bilgeman:
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Bilgewater. The Sunday Herald was quoting from a “primary source.” That would be the U.S. Senate’s committee on banking, housing and urban affairs.
“Moojies” – Your racism is showing.
PatJ:
“That would be the U.S. Senate’s committee on banking, housing and urban affairs.”
Riiiiight. It’s known as the Riegle Report, it was an investigation into the claims of Gulf War Syndrome among those of us who returned,
Guess what, numbskull? I read it. The .jpg photocopies.
Nowhere does it say that the USA sold the Iraqis the VX, Sarin or Tabun nerve agents used at Halabja. And the mustard gas blister agent they used was of their own domestic manufacture,(they CAN “cook” for themselves, y’know).
““Moojies” – Your racism is showing.”
God, you’re a pathetic joke.
What “race” would i be offending by my use of the slang term for Iraqi terrorsit insurgent unlawful combatants. oh genius one?