Difficult decisions
Bookworm on Sep 17 2008 at 10:46 am | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters, Sarah Palin
The media is struggling with difficult decisions. On the one hand, media members have to ask themselves if they should report about Sarah Palin’s tanning bed, the fact that she was interested in seeing her ex-brother-in-law lose his job after issuing death threats to her father and tasering her nephew, or her question about controversial books (a question that never went anywhere, mind you). On the other hand, they’re wondering whether they should report that Barack Obama has had tight relationships for decades with known America-haters, who advanced Communism, race hatred and sexual deviance; that he played a money/political back-scratching game with a felon (that would be Rezko); that he spent twenty years listening to a pastor spouting race and America hatred; that he tried to keep American troops in Iraq, despite his claim that they their presence their was dangerous and unnecessary, simply to advance his own political ascendency; and myriad other little details that keep popping up about Barack Obama’s past and politics. Decisions, decisions….
Okay, you got me. The above was a total lie. It was complete satire. The media has never faced down this decision. For the media, it’s always been a no-brainer. Their patriotic duty, as they see it, is to ensure that Obama wins and McCain loses. Media members have no interest in being the public’s eyes and ears, dutifully reporting all available information to the American people so that the latter can draw their own opinion. The stories revolving around this election and the way in which media members choose stories and attack and defend the candidates make it plain that the media has abandoned its role as an investigative organization, and has become, for the most part, a highly partisan branch of the Democratic party.
By the way, for those with short historic memories, there was a party organ like that in the former Soviet Union, with the ironic name of Pravda (truth).
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Greetings:
Media question of the day: What’s Black and white and Red all over?
Heh heh heh….
Obama!
AP. American Pravda.
From Power Line ( http://www.powerlineblog.com )
THE MOST HATEFUL AD EVER?
Barack Obama’s thuggish campaign has exceeded itself with a Spanish-language ad that is dishonest at several levels. ABC’s Jake Tapper blows the whistle:
Sen. Barack Obama has launched a new Spanish-language TV ad that seeks to paint Sen. John McCain as anti-immigrant, even tying the Republican to his longtime conservative talk-radio nemesis Rush Limbaugh.
As first reported by the Washington Post, Obama’s ad features a narrator saying: “They want us to forget the insults we’ve put up with…the intolerance…they made us feel marginalized in this country we love so much.”
The screen then shows these two quotes from Limbaugh:
“…stupid and unskilled Mexicans.”
–Rush Limbaugh
“You shut your mouth or you get out!”
–Rush Limbaugh
[...]
Limbaugh and McCain were opponents on the subject of immigration.
McCain’s stance on immigration, more than anything else, alienated him from his party’s conservative base, precisely because he put the interests of illegal immigrants ahead of a commitment to enforce our laws. [...]
In the mainstream media, the last week has been consumed by tut-tutting over the supposed “lies” perpetrated by two McCain ads–which, however, were inconveniently true. It will be interesting to see how liberal pundits react to what must be the most dishonest, racist and hateful campaign ad published in many years.
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Kudos to Jake Tapper at ABC! But you have to fear for him; he’s going to be marginalized the way John Stossel has been, for not toeing the required line.
It’s the double standard applied differently to McCain/Palin and Obama, that is always the most deeply troubling. There’s no possible innocent explanation.
Come’on, all you TV and print journalists, with all your so-called claims of objectivity. Prove your objectivity! Prove me wrong! Please, I’d love to be wrong.
We can find innumerable examples.
Can you imagine the widespread glee among MSM television and print “journalists” if Sarah Palin did *this* :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omHUsRTYFAU
(Were either of those the famed incident when the teleprompter broke?)
If it had been Palin: What a thorough backwoods rube she would be! Clearly lacking experience and readiness to be anywhere near a national office! There wouldn’t be just a tingle running up their collective legs; their entire bodies would be vibrating with more emotion than a fan at a teeny-bopper concert.
Double standards, double standards.
Ran across something this morning. I’d always thought of Pat Oliphant, the political cartoonist, as witty. _This_, however, is not.
http://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/client/wpc/po/2008/09/09/
I’d like to see something similarly as unfunny and vicious directed at Obama/Biden.