Posted on 03/07/2008 9:57:28 AM PST by Jim Robinson
The mainstream media have just committed one of the most disgraceful acts of journalistic malfeasance and nonfeasance in the history of America. By glorifying, deifying and canonizing Sen. Barack Obama and failing to examine his record, the mainstream media helped assure his nomination. Some experts say it is already in the bag, even if Hillary Clinton completes her astounding comeback by winning Pennsylvania on April 22.
The second act in that journalistic disgrace is that after the outcome of the nomination process was almost over, suddenly the mainstream media came to its senses and started half-heartedly covering the whole Obama story, which if told, in my view, would make it apparent that he is unfit for the presidency. For more on that conclusion, see my columns in the box accompanying this story.
Newsweek magazine, one of the worst offenders, is the publication that did a cover story on the senator and then on his wife, in which the two were painted as paragons of perfection, apparently without flaws. The first of the cover stories on the senator moved the great columnist Charles Krauthammer to observe that Newsweek had used up all its adjectives of praise and glory and will have nothing left for the Second Coming. Stories like that led to the Center for Media and Public Affairs finding that from mid-December through mid-February, Sen. Obama had coverage that was positive 84 percent of the time (while Hillary Clinton had positive coverage 53 percent of the time).
That same Newsweek, part of that paragon of biased and dishonest journalism family of the Washington Post organization...
(Excerpt) Read more at thebulletin.us ...
"If you want to know what is going on in the world, you have to give up on the mainstream media (such as the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, Fox Cable News, Reuters, Associated Press, etc.) and try some alternatives. Just to name a few, there is the Weekly Standard, National Review, Newsmax, U.S. News & World Report, the New York Sun, the Washington Times, The Bulletin, townhall.com, frontpage.com, heritage.org, freerepublic.com, drudgereport.com and many more. And, of course, there is the voice of conservative talk radio with such notables as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt, Mike Gallagher, Michael Savage, Bill Bennett, Laura Ingraham and many others. With the Internet it is much easier to get a full range of opinion and avoid the mainstream media."
Woo hoo!
Fifth column. Media traitors.
-—amen—
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What my question is ... what do / did these traitors in the media get for this ... what is their motivation ?
LOL. Poor Hillary. When is she going to release her tax returns or WH records? If anyone has benefitted from kid gloves treatment by the media, it is the Clintons.
The left media may be making the news for the near future. If Obama doesn’t get nominated, the media may see race riots on the level of Watts. This will make the news for the media. They are our worst enemies.
It probably isn’t quite as bad as the MSM’s coverage of the Tet Offensive, but it’s up there.
This weeks National Enquirer stares every housewife in the face as she buys groceries.
The headlines, in case you can't read them, are as follow:
"HIS CLOSE FRIENDSHIP WITH TERRORIST"
"BIG MONEY DEALS WITH ACCUSED FELON"
"SCREAMING MATCHES WITH WIFE OVER OTHER WOMEN"
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The mainstream media is fiction and poorly done.
The author says the whole story, if told, would make Obama unfit for the presidency. Then he goes on to... NOT tell that story.
Hm.
It's a mindset more than anything. They all became journalists "to change the world" and besides everyone they know is liberal and certainly all their editors are liberal. So they see a story how they see it and they aren't going to let facts confuse them from the REAL facts which they'll happily speculate on or if need be just make up if there's a looming deadline they have to meet.
What is the motivation of a sheep?
They are just sheep with keyboards.
Well given how they saw the power in old Bill Clinton’s pants they should be perfected in the power to white wash. Now who was it that gave them that power to pick our elected officials????
The MSM’s glorifying Obama is nothing compared to their imperializing Hillary.
I always thought Herb was a liberal. Guess I was wrong.
Nice to see FR get mentioned as a good site for news. Congrats. The MSM is always late and often wrong at first these days.
Eventually they may discover that there has been ONE military death reported in Iraq since February 25, and that death was cuased by a non-combat incident.
I believe this is the longest period without a combat death in Iraq since the invasion.
All right, good article!
If this country is STUPID enough to put a Marxist socialist in the White House, the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE will become law, and the First Amendment will be dead.
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