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Mark Penn, Clinton strategist, warns Obama -- and the media
LA Times ^ | 9/13/2008 | Andrew Malcom

Posted on 09/13/2008 5:55:36 AM PDT by markomalley

A veteran Democratic political strategist has some advice for what appears to many to be a Barack Obama campaign rattled by the explosive entrance into the campaign of John McCain's vice presFormer Hillary Clinton presidential campaign strategist Mark Pennident pick, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Mark Penn, the high-priced strategist who did such a good early job of launching Hillary Clinton's Democratic presidential campaign to doom at the hands of Obama, tells CBS.com he's worried that the Windy City gang will repeat the mistakes of the last two losing Democratic presidential campaigns by returning to the base after their convention instead of staying more on the convention message of centrism.

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Penn also has a strong warning for the media, caught unawares by the Palin selection and now eagerly pursuing virtually anything to do with her.

"I think here the media is on very dangerous ground," Penn tells CBS.com. "I think that when you see them going through every single expense report that Gov. Palin ever filed, if they don't do that for all four of the candidates, they're on very dangerous ground.

"I think the media so far has been the biggest loser in this race. And they continue to have growing credibility problems.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: credibility; feedingfrenzy; hillary; markpenn; mediabias; obamabiden
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Interesting observations. Which, of course, will not be heeded.
1 posted on 09/13/2008 5:55:36 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Sorry! toooooooooooo late!!!


2 posted on 09/13/2008 5:57:02 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (IF YOU ARE NOT CONSERVATIVE BY 35 YOU HAVE NO BRAIN. W CHURCHILL)
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To: markomalley
Of course. But they're too far gone and blinded by PDS to listen to his advice.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

3 posted on 09/13/2008 5:58:10 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Interesting observations. Which, of course, will not be heeded.

Yep, when the 'reporter' insertes snark into the second paragraph, you know the advice is going in one ear and right out the other. The ol' liberal wind tunnel effect.

4 posted on 09/13/2008 5:58:20 AM PDT by dirtboy
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And folks ? what does that tell you that even a Democrat strategist even has to warn Obama ?
5 posted on 09/13/2008 5:59:36 AM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: markomalley

People aren’t stupid. They know that McCain, Biden, nor Obama has ever been subjected to one on one questions that were asked of Palin.

I’ve noticed in the last couple of days that journalists are trying to warn Obama, but it doesn’t seem to be working.

Sort of feel sorry for Obama (not really, LOL) but his quandry is the liberal moonbats are saying, “Attack!” and the political journalists are saying, “You’d better back off.” What’s a body to do?

All I’ve got to say is “the chickens are coming home to roost!”


6 posted on 09/13/2008 6:05:19 AM PDT by Dawn531
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To: markomalley

“the Windy City gang” = Chicago radical 1960-70’s commie left traitors (Ayers, Dohrn, Wright, Klonsky, Farrakhan, etc, etc...)


7 posted on 09/13/2008 6:05:41 AM PDT by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home page)
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To: markomalley

Interesting choice of photos, LA Slimes.

8 posted on 09/13/2008 6:06:01 AM PDT by workerbee (Sarah Palin's very existence is a threat to the Left.)
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“I think the media so far has been the biggest loser in this race. And they continue to have growing credibility problems.”
*****

Sorry. They NEVER HAD credibility in the first place so that was an illogical statement.


9 posted on 09/13/2008 6:07:42 AM PDT by reaganixonbush
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To: Dawn531

The Media WOLVES are out to DESTROY Sarah......if we do not let them know, by our SPENDING DOLAARS, how we detest this, then they will succeed.


10 posted on 09/13/2008 6:08:00 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: markomalley
The media cannot be honest with itself.

Hillary, who I can't stand, won the Dem primary popular vote. She dominated Obama in the blue states.

Obama received 90% of the black vote against Hillary.

Obama won red states with large black populations but small Democrat populations. In other words states Obama can't win in the general election.

Obama used his support among blacks and college kids to beat Hillary in caucuses.

The states that matter to Dems most like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio wanted Clinton and feel they were cheated.

In other words, Hillary was really the Democrats choice. The media pushed Obama and got him. The Dem party could be finished.

Combine all this with the medias branding of McCain as a Maverick centrist for the last 8 years and their trashing of Sarah Palin which rallies the Republicans base and it should be no contest.

11 posted on 09/13/2008 6:08:16 AM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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"... all of the media is now being viewed as partisan in one way or another. And that is a unfortunate FORTUNATE development."

Rings true and factual now!

12 posted on 09/13/2008 6:09:16 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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Oh, like when ABC edits out dozens of answers (”in the interests of time, you know..”) in Palin’s Gibson interview.

Bias is one thing. We can’t control the tone of someone’s voice (like that witch who does the Fox radio reports, for instance) when they disparage everything Republican, and sound bright and chipper at the very mention of the word Democrat - but out and out manipulating an interview to make the candidate look bad is beyond the pale.

Just goes to show we’re at war against the media, as much as we are against the Obamatards.


13 posted on 09/13/2008 6:10:26 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: markomalley

Sean Hannity: 2008 is the year journalism died in America.


14 posted on 09/13/2008 6:15:44 AM PDT by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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The flat-out hate and bias they have for Sarah is psychotic.

Like the cover story of US mag. the title for August was centered on Obama. They showed him & Michelle, embracing and smiling. The headline read; “Why he loves her.” Then went on and on to swoon over his noble and righteous quest for “Change”.

Then in September, it was about Sarah. It read; “Babies, Lies and Scandal.” It was completely centered on “Troopergate, her new son, which she lacked the courage to be “responsible” and forced him to be born anyway, (Not to mention the cover-up.) so-called Alaskans who said she was a horrible Governor, etc,,,.

Then there was the recent Babwa Wa Wa melt down, shouting at and heckling McCain on the “View”, when they had Michelle on and they laughed and giggled together over “First Lady” things.

It’s all very sickening and I hope they lose. These are evil, ugly people who do not deserve to be rewarded for their pathological dishonesty.


15 posted on 09/13/2008 6:16:01 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Sara Palin; The Orca in a bay of Democrat Belugas!)
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To: ETL

Obie would’nt be a senator if Jack Ryan’s divorce records had remained private. I wonder who had a hand in making them public?


16 posted on 09/13/2008 6:16:09 AM PDT by conservativemusician
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To: markomalley
the high-priced strategist who did such a good early job of launching Hillary Clinton's Democratic presidential campaign

Let's see, so that would have been his stellar advice that let his benefactor sashay around, hubristically looking forward to her coronation. It was his and her not allowing substantive media questions that ultimately saddled us all with the never-vetted, never-held-to-account, emptiest of suits.

*snort*

HF

17 posted on 09/13/2008 6:17:02 AM PDT by holden
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To: markomalley
They're stuck on stupid. Stuck on stupid.

Stuck on stupid.

Stuck on stupid.

Stuck on stupid.

Stuck on stupid.

Stuck on stupid.

18 posted on 09/13/2008 6:18:04 AM PDT by polymuser (Taxpayers voting for Obama are like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders.)
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To: normy

This is exactly right. Obama’s high number of states in the primaries are not necessarily where the overall votes will go.

If a majority of blacks are democrats, and 90% of the black vote went to Obama, then he would do well in the primaries. But in the general, the black vote isn’t going to help in an overall victory.

He saw himself a MLK Jr. and didn’t realize that there are alot of people in this country.

And I think Palin is right, I think he is regretting not picking Hillary as VP.


19 posted on 09/13/2008 6:22:33 AM PDT by autumnraine (McCain/Palin 08)
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To: workerbee

Interesting photo indeed. If cornered, I’m sure the MSM would feign innocence. They remind me of juvenile delinquents spray painting graffiti.


20 posted on 09/13/2008 6:23:53 AM PDT by 6SJ7 (Welcome PUMAs!)
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