I AM OUTRAGED (This is personal)

ME ^ | July17,2008 | ME

[Baynative]

Barack Obama is going on a five nation middle east tour accompanied by all three network news anchors, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Katie Kouric.

This is effectively an around the clock campaign commercial designed to play him in the best light to all of America on the 6:00 o'clock news.

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

[Baynative]

I have to ask, "WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?"

We should be writing, calling, faxing every network and every congressional representative to protest this blatant violation of fair campaigning.

If you google Barack Campaign tour you will find a lot of information on the website of that daily national paper that has all the color pictures and cartoons but, doesn't allow themselves to be quoted on this site.

[SECURE AMERICA]

(WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?)

Liberal/Socilaist political tactics as usually seen from the Democrat Party Major and theeir Lapdogs in the MSM...

[library user]

Doesn’t matter. Let the networks waste money. Obama will still lose.

[Always Right]

Barack Obama is going on a five nation middle east tour accompanied by all three network news anchors, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Katie Kouric.

The fairness doctrine at work.

[NewJerseyJoe]

Since he’s technically not a candidate until the Dem convention, I wonder if maybe the FEC will let him get away with this.

[Baynative]

I am pinging all my friends, because I am just screaming mad that this can be allowed and all three networks can be turned into a self promotion campaign tool for either candidate!

[HD1200]

As I said in an earlier post, this isn’t going to play well with the 160,000 troops over there that are putting their lives on the line every day of the week; Obama comes jetting into town making a campaign commercial at their expense. Obama should have quietly gone to Iraq, talked to people, and returned. This is going to look terrible to our military & their supporters. I would guess McCain knew this zoo would occur when he challenged him to go so get ready for an Obama moment in Iraq when he blows it.

[KansasGirl]

I’m outraged but hopeful that people will see through the media propaganda and there will be a backlash against Obama.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Seems that under the “fairness doctrine”McCain ought to be able to make another trip to the region with the same three big network three, otherwise the perception the Lame stream media is biased of Obama is really out there for all to see. And McCain can capitalize on that.

[AU72]

McCain could do the same trip to Isreal, Iraq, and Afghanistan not even get a soundbite.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

What's going on? The Liberal MSM wants Obama to win. This isn't exactly breaking news.

[sheik yerbouty]

An Obamination with our useful infidel, media mullahs as collaborators..

[KansasGirl]

You’re right. This may very well be Obama’s Wellstone Funeral moment.

[karnage]

What’s going on is the LSM’s desperate attempt to keep air in the sagging Messiah balloon. Which will explode like the Hindenberg when Nobama gaffes his way through the war zone.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

More MSM bullcrap...

[EggsAckley]

Trying to see something positive here; maybe it’ll pay off because whenever he stumbles, foot-in-mouth, or his insane bride steps over the line, at least there will be some media there to record it.

[paul51]

Consider the opposite perspective. The guy is a community organizer that may impress some home grown nitwits but odds are this novice will step in it big time overseas and it will be widely reported.

[library user]

McCain could do the same trip to Isreal, Iraq, and Afghanistan not even get a soundbite.

He'll go to war zones and reporters will ask him questions about birth control and Viagra.

[Names Ash Housewares]

Yep.
We knew it would happen.

They will treat his steps off the plane in each country like Christ himself has returned.

[horse_doc]

Relax - he's going to have to speak, isn't he?

The more he tries to act Presidential, the more he looks like a little boy, wearing his dad's oversized suit.

At this point, the more people see of Obama, the shorter his shelf life gets. Americans love fresh faces in politics, and every time the media overplays itself, Obama looks a little more stale.

[SE Mom]

In addition- there was no such organized media blitz when McCain went overseas.

It is outrageous, I agree. (I’ve passed my outraged quotient for the year- and it’s only July.)

[CedarDave]

Isn’t there a famous picture of dictator Lenin or Stalin in the same pose with red flags behind him?

[battlecry]

I agree HD. He’s not very good without his handlers.

[dmz]

Um, he was down in Columbia the day Betancourt and the rest were rescued. He was interviewed on every morning show.

Let’s try to stay a little this side of shrill. When McCain travels, he gets airtime.

[Mr. Mojo]

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

What is going on is that the MSM has now abandoned all pretense of objectivity. At this point they're just a cheerleading squad -- unabashed.

[kevkrom]

File a complaint with the FEC alleging improper in-kind contributions to Obama’s campaign being made by the networks. Request that they explain how this trip is any more newsworthy than McCain’s recent trip to South America, which the networks did not send their anchors to, and why simply sticking with the correspondents already traveling with the campaign is insufficient.

[Alamo-Girl]

Jeepers. Thanks for the ping!

[Coffee200am]

[colorado tanker]

Shhhhhh. The Obamessiah is on his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where he will reassure all Muslims, of whom he of course is not one!, that after the Coming, Americans will act like the Dhimmis we are. And for what we and those pesky Joos will receive after that, may we be truly grateful. Amen, brother.

[isthisnickcool]

I already know what they are going to be reporting:

OBAMA: Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.....

[TexasGunLover]

Obama will still lose.

Has McStupid dropped out? If McCain hasn't, then Hussein will win in a landslide.

[Miss Didi]

Wouldn't it be funny if after all that promotion he comes back and Mrs. Clinton swipes the nomination? Fear not...it's only July. ;) (I hear cackling...)

[bolobaby]

Maybe McCain can demand equal time.

Oh wait... is that like the Fairness Doctrine?

Let those hacks show their bias.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

A lot of Obama’s appeal is his novelty. I’m not sure that they’re doing him any real favors. To know him is to be disenchanted.

[Balding_Eagle]

McCain can capitalize on that.

He can

Of course he would have to apologise to the Obama campaign and to the networks for attacking them.

[pennboricua]

yeah right! if it is not deleted first between the MSM and the obamabots.

[Tennessee Nana]

Does this bother you ????

My immediate thought when I read your headline was this...

Remember when Jerry Rivers crouched down and drew maps of the movements of our troops in the sands of Iraq ???

Where was the outrage and the coralling of his further ability to compromise our troops and intelligence ???

If Jerry Rivers, a private American citizen was not hauled over the coals and charged with something along the lines of treason, why would you think Obma, a politician with the might and right of high level politicains to travel overseas accompanied by full blown media, even in war zones, Obama the Magnificant, Obama the Whatever, would be ???

We are still in the honeymoon phase of the Obama campaign.. Obama the Blushing Bride is allowed any extravagance his little heart desires...

And remember Obama has 400 years of specialized history working for him that no other presidential candiate has ever had before...who dares challenge his motives ????

[Red Steel]

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

That's easy, it's butt kissing on parade.

[kbennkc]

This will be a good time for the press to get him to expound on the 12th Imam .

[Grampa Dave]

Save yourself.

This is really no different than previous elections.

The MSM follows the rat candidates to give them free advertising.

The MSM takes potshots at our candidates like how to spell potatoe/potato to bring them down.

[HIDEK6]

Obama should have quietly gone to Iraq, talked to people, and returned.

He's probably planning an address in the largest stadium he can find there, complete with torchlight parade and review of the troops.

[Gator113]

So Mrs. Obama, other than that, how did you like the play?

[Miss Didi]

The Friends pointed out this morning that McCain has traveled to Iraq and back numerous times without the Drive-Bys tagging along.

Frankly, why this creep needs to be photographed with enormous American flags behind him every single time is so telling.




OBAMA: Well, you know, by getting on Larry King and telling everybody I'm a Christian and I wasn't raised in a Muslim home. And I Pledge of Allegiance to the flag and, you know, all the things that have been reported in these e-mails are completely untrue and have been debunked again and again and again. You know, this is actually an insult against Muslim Americans.

RUSH: Here we go.

OBAMA: It's something that we don't spend a lot of time talking about and sometimes I've been derelict in pointing that out. You know, there are wonderful Muslim Americans all across the country who are doing wonderful things, and -- and for this to be used as sort of an insult or to raise suspicions about me I think is unfortunate. That's not what America is all about.

RUSH: Bull. It is totally what America is all about. America is all about political satire, this is totally America. (laughter) I'll tell you what he's doing here, my good friends, Obama, with this latest comment saying it's an insult to Muslim Americans, he's trying to incite them. He's trying to incite Muslim Americans to also join the chorus of those complaining about this. And, of course, the irony here is, ladies and gentlemen, he thinks American Muslims ought to raise hell about a cartoon that is intended to lampoon us. This cartoon is intended to make fun of us conservatives. Are we out there whining about it? (crying) No. We're reveling in the fact that they didn't pull it off and everybody on their side is worried that the idiots that make up the majority of people in this country aren't going to have the sophistication to understand it. So he hopes that this will end up inciting Muslims if he can convince them that this is lampooning them.

Now, there have to be, in the Obama campaign, there have to be some really perverse minds at work in this campaign, constantly trying to manipulate the public based on emotions, such as race or religion, desperation, you name it. And the reason for that is when you lack a good record -- well, when you lack a record, period, 143 days, you're a community organizer in Chicago working for a corrupt voter registration unit called ACORN, when you have a record that insignificant and then you have to embark on a campaign to conceal the real you, such as your buds Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright, this is what you do. You try to divert attention with emotional appeals and rants, and that's what they're trying to do here. And it's just funny that this topic will not go away. Why do you think that the Drive-Bys are so obsessed with this and why do you think Obama is and why do you think nobody is really letting go of this? There is an answer to this, ladies and gentlemen. (cont.)

Inevitability is Crippling the Floundering Obama Campaign

[MediaMole]

Is someone running against President Obama?

[potlatch]

Thanks for the ping. What is the whole purpose of this trip anyway, the people over there can’t vote for him. Maybe he’s just going to solicit more donations from the middle east countries that are already sending him boodles of money.

Our corrupt media will do anything for ratings.

[pennboricua]

he will be apologizing because you freepers even brought it up.

[Night Hides Not]

He'll go to war zones and reporters will ask him questions about birth control and Viagra.

McCain also needs to dump the on-the-bus interviews. The sound is lousy, and it's hard for McCain to concentrate on his answer when the damn thing keeps running over bumps/potholes in the road.

McCain must not want to win. He needs to dump his campaign staff and bring in a bunch of Freepers to get him back on track. Rush, Laura, and the Great One would also be good for his campaign.

[Tax-chick]

Barack Obama is going on a five nation middle east tour accompanied by all three network news anchors, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Katie Kouric.

The World's Biggest Egos Tour? They all deserve each other.

[InvisibleChurch]

look at it as networks pouring more money down a toilet hole ... they’d report the same thing whether they go with him or stay home ... cheer for keith olberman to be the face of nbcnews

[Yo-Yo]

Wait a minute. Are you saying that Iraq is now safe enough for Katie, Brian, and Charlie to venture over? This is great news, and proof positive about the great improvements made in Iraq.

Although I doubt that will be the focus of the news stories...