Posted on 02/05/2010 5:46:41 PM PST by The Conservative Camp
Navy "Corpse-men" everywhere ask: Where's the Mainstream Media?
Remember the 1992 Presidential campaign, when then-Vice President Dan Quayle was visiting a Trenton elementary school and was holding spelling flash cards as children were spelling the words on a blackboard in front of him? During this exercise, a 12-year old student wrote his given word, "potato" on the blackboard. As the Vice President checked the flash card containing the word, he informed the student that "he was close, but left a little something off; the "e" on the end." The student, who knew that he had, in fact, spelled the word correctly on the board, kept quiet and simply acquiesced the Vice President by placing the "e" on the end of the word, which was now spelled incorrectly as "potatoe." During this photo op, nothing further was mentioned.
At a news conference immediately following this visit, a reporter asked Quayle, "How do YOU spell potato?" Caught off guard by the reporter's question, Quayle displayed puzzlement in his face, at which all the journalists present laughed. Until that moment, the Vice President had not given a second thought to the incident at the blackboard, since all he had done was read off a flash card prepared by someone prior to his arrival. For the remainder of 1992, almost every single day until the election, the media networks and liberal press continually replayed this gaffe, omitting enough of the facts to make sure that Dan Quayle would be seen as a "dummy who cannot spell" and an "unintelligent, under-educated" man, not worthy of being only "one heartbeat away from the Oval Office." They did everything they could do to make sure that Quayle would become a "liability" to bring down the incumbent President, George H.W. Bush.
Remember when George W. Bush used the term "Grecian" instead of the proper noun, "Greek" as he was first running for President back in 2000? At that time, just about every far left elitist and practically everyone in the liberal mainstream media went into overdrive, mocking candidate Bush's gaffe by hurling invective statements about "W's" total lack of intelligence. From Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann to the "journalists" of the three major networks, the misnomer was "proof" that "W" was a "stupid idiot" who would not be able to ascend to the highest office in the land because he lacked the necessary, elitist-vetted "intellectualism" that can only be approved by liberals. Over the subsequent eight years, not to mention one year into Obama's term, the vitriolic, left-wing, "progressive" media never ceased putting every single verbal gaffe or mispronunciation made by Bush under a high-powered microscope. They made sure everyone knew about any misstatement President Bush made and then took most gaffes out of context in order to portray him as an "air-headed bumbling idiot."
Fast forward to the Presidential campaign in 2008, when then-presidential candidate Barack Obama was at an Oregon campaign rally. During his teleprompter speech, he said, "It is wonderful to be back in Oregon. Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it." The Los Angeles Times lead the way for the mainstream media to excuse their candidate's gaffe, by explaining;
But first the freshman senator had to go through all the.... ...obligatory delighted to see you, delighted to be here part of stump speeches that also require that you actually know where you are. Obama pulled that off O.K. But then he drifted away from the text a tad, as rookies are wont to do sometimes, forgetting how exhausting this primary process is and should be. And trusting in their instincts, their very tired instincts.
Two months into his new Presidency, Obama appeared on The Tonight Show and got into a discussion about how bowling is not really his greatest sport. When asked about his score in a recent game, the President mentioned that he had scored a 129.
"That's very good, Mr. President," Leno said sarcastically.
It's "like the Special Olympics or something," the president said.
The following morning, the pro-Obama mainstream media began to immediately run cover for their man, Barack Obama, essentially doing damage control for the President. On Good Morning America, Tim Shriver, Chairman of the Special Olympics, was invited to share the exchange that he had with President Obama, who had personally called to apologize for his remark the previous night.
"He expressed his disappointment and he apologized," Shriver said. "He expressed that he did not intend to humiliate this population, certainly didn't want to embarrass or give anybody any more reason for pain or just suffering I would say. He was very sincere, expressed an interest and an openness in being more engaged in the movement, and said he was a fan of the movement and I think importantly he said he was ready to have some of our athletes over to the White House to bowl or play basketball or help him improve his score." Soon after, the mainstream media either buried the story or dropped it altogether, confident that they had helped their guy in the White House dodge a public-relations disaster. Within a matter of weeks, no one at the three main networks nor their colleagues at MSNBC, CNN or The New York Times were referring to the incident at all. It was almost as though it had never happened.
One month later, when the comment to Leno had been "erased" from the public memory by the press, Obama was doing a news conference in Europe, and said, " It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There’s a lot of — I don’t know what the term is in Austrian — wheeling and dealing — and, you know, people are pursuing their interests, and everybody has their own particular issues and their own particular politics." Do you remember that?
Probably not, because other than Fox News and the independent and conservative blogosphere, not one other mainstream media network or paper made any reference to this gaffe, despite the fact that is was very comparable to Bush's "Grecian" misstatement. Of course, when Bush made that gaffe, the same pro-Obama press circled the "W" like vultures and milked the "Grecian" mistake for all it was worth. Had Sarah Plain, or for that matter, even newly-elected Scott Brown made such an error, the leftist mainstream media would make sure that their gaffes were the leading story of the day, to be followed by a flurry of "round-table discussions" about their ability to lead.
Which brings us to the latest gaffe by the big guy in the Oval Office.
On Thursday, President Obama spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast 2010. While addressing the audience, he made a reference to Navy corpsmen twice. However, he did not say "corpsmen" when he spoke. While there has been a brief mention of the gaffe on the mainsteam media networks, the story was buried under several other topics. This gaffe, which the left-wingers at the main press outlets such as NBC/MSNBC, CNN, Headline News, ABC, CBS, as well as the mainstream print press like the New York Times, chose to give scant attention to, has clearly shown just how much of a pro-liberal, pro-Obama, biased, nonobjective double-standard that today's "journalists" practice. Had this gaffe been made by George W. Bush, Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin or even Sen. Scott Brown, all Republicans and, for the most part, conservatives, there is no doubt that the mainstream media would have treated the American people to a daily barrage of the gaffe, whilst setting up the conservative in question to look either ill-informed, uneducated or just plain dumb in their attempt to humiliate the center-right.
The mainstream press finds itself in a crisis for its survival, as their audiences dwindle to just a few hundred thousand viewers per cable and news network, with the exception of Fox News. Only extreme, hard core, far left socialist-liberals really watch the or believe the vitriolic hate that spews from the talking heads at MSNBC anymore. While Fox News continues to grow their audience and increase their ratings at an exploding rate, the other three cable networks combined cannot pull together an audience to match that of Fox. That is because Fox News is showing both sides of a story, with differing political viewpoints. And they do that without using all the obscenities or personal insults during their broadcasts.
Of course, the other networks and liberals will then try to label Fox News as extreme right wing, but that is because the leftist media has gone so far left and have crossed over the ethical line of not being objective, have literally dropped all pretenses of not being biased. This extreme shift to the political left means that anything that tries to cover the news from a middle perspective are demonized by liberals as "right wing extremists." Hence the reason that MSNBC absolutely hates Fox News and its huge ratings success.
Americans are not stupid, regardless of the contempt that the likes of Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow hold for them. It is middle America that sees the double-standard that the left-leaning mainstream media play in order to favor liberals and Democrats while portraying conservatives, independents and Republicans in the worst light possible. Middle America, meaning the vast majority of everyday Americans, understand that when Olbermann directs his hate-filled, mean-spirited, angry vitriol by hurling obscenities or assigning downgrading labels at all conservatives, Republicans or anyone not in agreement with his agenda, it is they who he is attacking. That is why the vast majority of Americans, who are more center or conservative in their politics, are heading to Fox News, talk radio and the Internet for their news, and why the newspapers and mainstream electronic media are rapidly dying off. They totally understand that the self-proclaimed intellectual elitists sitting in their MSNBC anchor seats to pontificate their superiority do not actually respect normal America.
While it would be nice to see the mainstream media finally accept that it is they who are so out of touch with middle America and then come back to the center to deliver the news, it is highly unlikely to happen. They will continue their self-immolation and destruction by remaining radically to the left and out of touch with the majority of us.
Which brings us to an interesting question; will the mainstream media do its job and give Obama's gaffes the same type of scrutiny that they put former President Bush under? If I were a gambling man, I would fold because this is never going to happen. So I will not hold my breath to wait for sanity to return to mainstream journalism.
I would advise all Navy "Corpse-men" everywhere to not wait around for the mainstream media to come around. Because Hell will have frozen over by the time they do.
Sources: 1. http://www.capitalcentury.com/1992.html 2. http://usconservatives.about.com/b/2009/07/20/top-10-obama-gaffes.htm 3. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/barack-obama-wa.html 4. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/03/president-ob-15.html 5. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/04/06/if-obama-believes-austrian-language-so-will-ap
They are at the same place when Jack Squat Barry tried to walk through a locked door.....hypocrisy-land.
Hey I am an old Navy Corpsman, the Marines called me Doc when i was with them in 69-70. He (Obama) wouldn’t even no the term “Doc”.
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The MSM so called “journalists” are simply afraid of Obama and possible repercussions for speaking out or questioning him. They know the Internet and Conservative Radio will ask the tough questions. They simply do not have the stomach to question Obama because he supports their liberal agenda.
” On Thursday, President Obama spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast 2010. While addressing the audience, he made a reference to Navy corpsmen twice. However, he did not say “corpsmen” when he spoke.”
He also mispronounced corpsmen Oct 27, 2009 during an address at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville.
7:33 into clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNwdYwEZYWY
“ Navy Corpsemen on the ground in Afghanistan..”
The Commander in Chief is either an idiot or purposefully disrespecting the troops.
I vote for both.
Katie Couric didn’t bat an eye when Biden bilged out that comment about Roosevelt going on television in 1929 to talk about the crash of the stock market. That’s gotta be worth about 40 corpse men speaking Austrian.
Unfortunately, they STILL draw BILLIONS of people who get ALL their news and POV from them.
A very significant number when TSHTF!
I want to know what was on the TOTUS ?Did 0bama just read the words ?
May be it was spelled wrong on the TOTUS.
History will show that this era of the United States of America had the worst journalist ever.
Whitehouse Press Corpse
Americorpse
Peace Corpse
Obama Youth Corpse....The list goes on...
Yep...he is an idiot.
Part of ObamaCare for seniors. You get death panels, healthcare rationed but at leats you get a Obama t-shirt to be buried in.
I think we could fix healthcare if we had more Navy “corpsemen.”
What an evil ****ing idiot.
Author: Breaking Web News Source
Published: February 2, 2010
Ed Schultz on Visiting White House: ‘Almost a Shrine’ – to Obama
Agreed, this doesn’t come as much of a shock. What’s surprising is that Schultz said “almost”.
Here’s Schultz on his radio show Friday talking about meeting with Obama advisor David Axelrod at the White House the day before, along with fellow liberal radio host Bill Press and several other left-wing media types Schultz did not identify (click here for audio) –
SCHULTZ: First of all you walk into the White House, in the West Wing, and there are picture all over, I mean everywhere! Of President Obama! I mean, of his life in the first year as president of the United States. Now I don’t know if that’s the way it is with every president, but it was almost a shrine. I mean, well, here’s a picture of Obama the president with his kids over here. There he is getting on Air Force One. Here he is with some military people. Here he is on the line working the line at one of his campaign stops. I mean, just, it was just one picture after another! (laughs)
And so I got the message right away that there’s nothing but Obama fans in the White House which I think is a good thing. ‘Cause it’s always good to have the team together, right? (laughs)
Semper Fi, Doc! Us old Marines still luv ya!
This from the guy who told us there were
“57 States” and talked about “the bomb they dropped
in Pearl Harbor” among many other gaffes.
This from the guy who told us there were
“57 States” and talked about “the bomb they dropped
in Pearl Harbor” among many other gaffes.
Hmmmm... While I appreciate that this author is attempting to highlight inequities in the treatment of gaffes committed by conservative vs. liberal politicians, I think he'd best pay heed to his own prose, as well...
I hope they like us treating their President the way they treates ours.
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