Posted on 10/24/2008 5:56:59 AM PDT by big black dog
"Perhaps the only institution in America whose approval rating is beneath that of Congress is the media.
Both have won their reputations the hard way. They earned them.
Consider the fawning indulgence shown insider Joe Biden with the dripping contempt visited on outsider Sarah Palin.
Twice last weekend, Biden grimly warned at closed-door meetings that a great crisis is coming early in the term of President Obama:
"Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. ... Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said … we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."
A "generated crisis"? By whom? Moscow? Beijing? Tehran?
This is an astonishing statement from a chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee who has access to the same intelligence as George Bush. Joe was warning of a crisis like the Berlin Wall of July 1961, where JFK called for a tripling of the draft and ordered a call-up of reserves, or the missile crisis where U.S. pilots like John McCain were minutes away from bombing nuclear missile sites in Cuba and killing the Russians manning them.
Is Russia about to move on the Crimea? Is Israel about to launch air strikes on Iran's nuclear sites? What is Joe talking about?
If one assumes Joe is a serious man, we have a right to know.
Instead, what we got was Obama's airy dismissal of Joe's words as a "rhetorical flourish" and a media – rather than demanding that Joe hold a press conference – acting as Obama surrogates parroting the talking points that Joe was just saying that new presidents always face tests.
Had John McCain made that hair-raising statement, he would have been accused of fear mongering about a new 9/11. The media would have run with the story rather than have smothered it.
Contrasting McCain with his hero, Joe declared a few weeks back, "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and ... said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"
Nice historical reference. Except when the market crashed in 1929, Hoover was president, and there was no television.
Can one imagine what the press would have done to Sarah Palin had she exhibited such ignorance of history. Or Dan Quayle?
Joe gets a pass because everybody likes Joe.
Fine. But Joe also has a record of 36 years in the Senate.
Has anyone ever asked Joe about his own and his party's role in cutting off aid to South Vietnam, leading to the greatest strategic defeat in U.S. history and the Cambodian holocaust? Has anyone ever asked Joe about the role he and his party played in working to block Reagan's deployment of Pershing missiles in Europe, and SDI, which Gorbachev concedes broke the Soviets and won the Cold War?
In the most crucial vote he ever cast – to give Bush a blank check for war in Iraq – Joe concedes he got it wrong.
Is Joe's record of having been wrong on Vietnam, wrong in the Cold War, wrong on the Iraq war, less important than whether Sarah Palin tried to get fired a rogue-cop brother-in-law who Tasered her 10-year-old nephew to "teach him a lesson"?
"I've forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know," says Joe humbly. Given his record, it is understandable Joe has forgotten so much of it.
Saturday, the New York Times did a takeout on Cindy McCain that delved back into her problem with prescription pills. Yet when Hillary's campaign manager, Mark Penn, brought up Obama's cocaine use on "Hardball," he was savaged by folks for whom the Times is the gold standard.
The people apparently had a "right to know" of Bush's old DUI arrest a week before the 2000 election, but no right to know about how and when Obama was engaged in the criminal use of cocaine.
The media cannot get enough of the "Saturday Night Live" impersonations of Palin as a bubblehead. News shows pick up the Tina Fey clips and run them and run them to the merriment of all.
Can one imagine "Saturday Night Live" doing weekly send-ups of Michelle Obama and her "I've never been proud" of my country, this "just downright mean" America, using a black comedienne to mimic and mock her voice and accent?
"Saturday Night Live" would be facing hate-crime charges.
How do we know? When the New Yorker ran a cartoon of Michelle in an Angela-Davis afro with an AK-47 slung over her shoulder, New Yorker editors had to go on national television to swear they were not mocking Michelle, but the conservatives who have so caricatured Michelle and the Messiah.
Is there a media double standard? You betcha."
The vast majority of the modern mainstream media's business is...entertainment. And politically correct entertainment at that. Can't poke fun at ugly Mrs. Obama because ugly...inside AND out...Mrs. Obama is a negro. Governor Palin is a beautiful white woman, and if it's one thing liberals cannot tolerate it's smart beautiful white women. Unless, of course, they happen to be air headed lefty actresses who think they're smart. Just have a look at the current crop of female politico's. On second thought, DON'T have a look, it'll make you ill. Sorta like staring too long at ugly Michelle.
News is news and everybody covers the same old news so the decision was made a long time ago to make the same old news entertaining. Doesn't matter if it is what liberals consider entertaining, since Conservative old Ma and Pa Kettle will watch anyways because where else can they get the local weather forecast along with a crop report and hog futures. How else can one explain dreadfully un-funny offerings such as The Daily Show. All Jon Stewart need do is yak away with a picture of Bush caricatured to resemble a chimp in the background and liberal sides are split all across the nation.
Now, one thing both sides of the aisle can agree upon is that Senator Joe Biden is entertaining, so Senator Joe Biden gets a lot of positive press. Lefties adore old Joe because he can act like he knows what he's talking about, and Conservatives think old Joe is funny as all hell. The man cannot string two coherent words together in the same sentence, but damn, he looks like he could if he really wanted to. Who cares if he's wrong most of the time; the guy just gives new meaning to how wrong should be handled.
“Perhaps the only institution in America whose approval rating is beneath that of Congress is the media. “
Don’t forget Congress.
They don’t have the guts. They always attack the ‘safe’ victim.
Obama will issue a writ of Lese Majiste if they do.
Really, I don’t think Mrs. O is ugly. But I think she is angry. But you know, anger usually plays well in a comedy skit.
But then, the SNL are probably all Democrats, so it’s as simple as that.
It’s always easier to make fun of your opponent.
However, Lorne Michaels had some really good things to say about Governor Palin after she made her appearance last week on SNL. That praise, from him, was a surprise.
If SNL had put on ANYTHING detrimental to Ms. Hussein, they would be smacked with a libel suit.
But Palin takes it- laughs it off.
AND McCAIN CALLING OBAMA A RESPECTABLE FAMILY MAN THAT WE NEED NOT FEAR IS OUTRAGEOUS!
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IS A MARXIST/MUSLIM WHO WILL DESTROY THIS COUNTRY!
McCAIN TAKING THE ABUSE AND INSULTS FROM OBAMA AND REFUSING TO FIGHT BACK IS OUTRAGEOUS!
RESPECTFUL CAMPAIGNING WENT STRAIGHT OUT THE D*MN 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.
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. NAME NAMES!
Email Republican headquarters/McCain. Flood ‘EM OUT WITH EMAIls!
REMIND McCAIN THAT HE HAS AN OBLIGATION AS OUR CANDIDATE TO FIGHT BACK!
Flood the Republican camp out with emails with videos, articles, documentation.
Flood the MSM out with emails with videos, articles, documentation. DEMAND they put the truth before the American voters!
Go to
http://www.protestthemedia.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=7
and pick up all the email addresses to the McCain camp and HUNDREDS of emails of MSM.
MCCAIN/REPUBLICAN PARTY
Fax: 202-228-2862
Send a fax FREE: https://faxzero.com/
.
Are you KIDDING?!?!?
There’s NO WAY they’d EVER parody Michelle-ma-belle!
If they happen to win the election, even obama will be portrayed like they did Bill Clinton - doing wrong stuff and winking at the camera inciting cheers from the audience.
Yes Joe Biden has so much foreign policy experience that he has been able to be wrong on Vietnam, wrong on the Cold War, and wrong on the War on Terror! That's what counts as foreign policy expertise for a Democrat!
Wow! I don't think I've agreed with anything Pat Buchanan has said in ten years, other than with respect to illegal immigration, but that is the ballsiest dead-on accurate statement from anyone in the punditocracy this election cycle!
As The Great One Mark Levin calls him: The Dumbest Man in the United States Senate.
Good to see Pat hitting one out of the park for a change.
America has FORGOTTEN ABOUT 9-11.
This really saddens and disappoints me.
NEVER FORGET!
News is news and everybody covers the same old news so the decision was made a long time ago to make the same old news entertaining. Doesn't matter if it is what liberals consider entertaining, since Conservative old Ma and Pa Kettle will watch anyways because where else can they get the local weather forecast along with a crop report and hog futures. How else can one explain dreadfully un-funny offerings such as The Daily Show. All Jon Stewart need do is yak away with a picture of Bush caricatured to resemble a chimp in the background and liberal sides are split all across the nation.
Now, one thing both sides of the aisle can agree upon is that Senator Joe Biden is entertaining, so Senator Joe Biden gets a lot of positive press. Lefties adore old Joe because he can act like he knows what he's talking about, and Conservatives think old Joe is funny as all hell. The man cannot string two coherent words together in the same sentence, but damn, he looks like he could if he really wanted to. Who cares if he's wrong most of the time; the guy just gives new meaning to how wrong should be handled.
Those last 3 paragraphs seemed a bit out of character for Pat (eg calling Michelle "ugly," -- even if it is true). Looking back at the blog, this appears to have been editorial comments added to Pat's column. Maybe the moderators will wish to change the posting such that something isn't attributed to Pat that he didn't write.
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