Family Told Obama NOT To Wear Soldier Son's Bracelet... Where is Media?

Newsbusters ^ | September 28, 2008 | Warner Todd Huston

[Tom_Busch]

Barack Obama played the "me too" game during the Friday debates on September 26 after Senator John McCain mentioned that he was wearing a bracelet with the name of Cpl. Matthew Stanley, a resident of New Hampshire and a soldier that lost his life in Iraq in 2006. Obama said that he too had a bracelet. After fumbling and straining to remember the name, he revealed that his had the name of Sergeant Ryan David Jopek of Merrill, Wisconsin.

Shockingly, however, Madison resident Brian Jopek, the father of Ryan Jopek, the young soldier who tragically lost his life to a roadside bomb in 2006, recently said on a Wisconsin Public Radio show that his family had asked Barack Obama to stop wearing the bracelet with his son's name on it. Yet Obama continues to do so despite the wishes of the family

[230FMJ]

“Should the US consider adopting the European style where people already know what kind of perspective they would find when they read a newspaper or a magazine?”

There’s a paper in Dover, New Hampshire called the “Daily Democrat”.....OK, at least you know what you’re getting.

It’s not the agenda that bothers me, it’s the vehement denial by the media that they have an agenda.

“Fake but accurate” My Butt!

[Yorlik803]

Yeppers, and with his control of the media, he is Mussolini like in his personality.
And after he starts the fairness doctrine, it will be the end of free speech. And when it goes, it will go with a wimper from the left.
I dont know how this jerkoff got this far, maybe Satan. He isnt Godsent that for sure.

[BooksForTheRight.com]

“Where is Media?”
The media is aware of this. It’s just they have anointed Barry-O as the Messiah, so they can’t criticize Him.

[A. Morgan]

Obama will use anything, stoop to the lowest level, nothing is
out of bounds for Obama and buddies at the MSM.

[mmichaels1970]

Obama has twisted this around, and is putting the Jopek family through the ringer with this.

I agree. If I remember correctly, Obama said that the "mother" asked him to promise to make sure that no other mothers would have to go through what she had to go through. On hearing that, I thought, that nobody can promise something like that and be qualified to be President.

[nclaurel]

Apparently to Obama no rights are sacred even a parents to protect their child’s memory!

[RonDog]

From the original article posted on newsbusters.org:

...Radio host Glenn Moberg of the show "Route 51" asked Mr. Jopek, a man who believes in the efforts in Iraq and is not in favor of Obama's positions on the war, what he and his ex-wife think of Obama continually using their son's name on the campaign trail.

Jopek began by saying that his ex-wife was taken aback, even upset, that Obama has made the death of her son a campaign issue. Jopek says his wife gave Obama the bracelet because "she just wanted Mr. Obama to know Ryan's name." Jopek went on to say that "she wasn't looking to turn it into a big media event" and "just wanted it to be something between Barack Obama and herself." Apparently, they were all shocked it became such a big deal.

But, he also said that his ex-wife has refused further interviews on the matter and that she wanted Obama to stop wearing the reminder of her son's sacrifice that he keeps turning into a campaign soundbyte. This begins at about 10 minutes into the radio program. (Download radio show HERE)

TRANSCRIPT

Brian Jopek: Because of some of the negative feedback she's gotten on the Internet, you know Internet blogs, you know people accusing her of... or accusing Obama of trying to get votes doing it... and that sort of thing.

Radio Host Moberg: Yeah

Jopek: She has turned down any subsequent interviews with the media because she just didn't want it to get turned into something that it wasn't. She had told me in an email that she had asked, actually asked Mr. Obama to not wear the bracelet any more at any of his public appearances. Which I don't think he's...

Moberg: It has been a while since he's brought it up.

Jopek: Right. But, the other night I was watching the news and he was on, uh, speaking somewhere and he was still wearing it on his right wrist. I could see it on his right wrist. So, that's his own choice. I mean that's something Barack Obama, that's a choice that he continues to wear it despite Tracy asking him not to... Because she is a Barack Obama supporter and she didn't want to do anything to sabotage his campaign, so, if he's still wearing the bracelet then, uh, that of course is entirely up to him.

Moberg: Maybe there's a difference between wearing it and making a point to bring it up in your speeches?

Even the snow job that the radio host tried to pull off to cover for Barack's refusing the wishes of the family of the KIA soldier who's bracelet he wears doesn't pass the smell test. After all, now that Obama has made it a big point in the debates, I guess the silent observance of Sgt. Jopek is no longer so silent and Obama is back to exploiting the death of a soldier even when he was asked NOT to do so by that soldier's parents.

To pile insult onto injury here, the Mother doesn't even want to force the issue of telling Obama to stop exploiting her son because she wants to see him win the election. Obama is not only taking advantage of this brave soldier's death, he is taking advantage of the good wishes of the man's Mother who doesn't want to hurt the campaign.

This all makes Obama look pretty calculating and blood chillingly callous, doesn't it?

And, why is the media not playing this story? The radio show on which this interview is heard happened all the way back in March. How is it the media missed this? Is it because they are also don't want to hurt Obama's campaign?

I can only say that if the parents of the soldier whose bracelet John McCain is wearing had said in public that they want him to stop wearing their son's bracelet the news would have been coast to coast, and wall to wall, not just ignored in Madison, Wisconsin.

Obama's use of this soldier that fell in the line of duty is tainted by his ambition and callousness. And the media is letting him get away with it.

(H/T D. Keith Howington of www.dehavelle.com)

[Miss Didi]

Well, the Friends on Fox reported the bracelet story yesterday morning. Steve Doocy called that moment—CRINGE WORTHY. Keep the story in “Breaking” and Rush and Sean will see it.

[Osage Orange]

....(snip).....On hearing that, I thought, that nobody can promise something like that and be qualified to be President.

It's classic symbolism before substance.....

Something the MarxistSocicalistLiberal Left are masters of.....

[TruthWillWin]

And, why is the media not playing this story? The radio show on which this interview is heard happened all the way back in March. How is it the media missed this? Is it because they are also don't want to hurt Obama's campaign?

The media would be all over this if it was done by a Republican.

[television is just wrong]

I’ve read he’s the third antichrist, preceded by Napoleon and Hitler.

[Cacique]

btt

[ballplayer]

Well if you go back to What the Obombo actually said was I Have A bracelet too,from the Mother of this Man Jopek but he did not say she asked him to wear it but said she did not want someone else to go through what she has gone through.
If nothing else it goes right in line with ObOmBos MO, Just like CHANGE ,everyone projects onto him what they are thinking but that does not necessarily jibe with what the DECEIVER is thinking and in this case Obombo got the exact impression he was looking for ,that Mrs Jopek had asked him to WEAR the bracelet when she had not . This really demonstrates How Insidious this man is .

[manc]

thanks for that

[NavyCanDo]

I just e-mailed the story to EVERYONE in my address book. If the media is not going to expose Barry, we will have to.

[RonDog]

And, from www.wpr.org:

March 20, 2008 - "The Iraq War: 5th Anniversary"

Route 51 marks the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War. Guests will be two local men who served in the conflict and had their lives changed by it. Brian Jopek of Merrill is a Staff Sergeant and Public Affairs Officer with the Wisconsin Army Guard who spent a year in Mosul and is scheduled to be deployed next week to Guantanamo. In August of 2006, he lost his 20 year old son Ryan to a roadside bomb.

Steve Horvath also served in the Iraq War, after a three year stint in the Peace Corps. He is currently an Assistant Professor and Youth Development Agent for UW Extension Wood County. Listen

[manc]

If the media would have been doing their job in the first place obama would not be the nominee

Now he got the nomination he should not be this close and if the media actually did their job then obama’s campaign would have took a nose dive.

but no they don’t do their job, they don’t ask him questions, and instead they just try and get him elected

I saw obama giving a press conference about a week ago and the camera showed the reporters sitting there.
I swear there were some young women reporters at the front who were google eyed when look at obama.

it really is cringworthy to see and especially seeing reporters flock to the man while nearly on their knees

[HollyB]

I feel the same way.

[manc]

Doocy is the only one on that show who is alright .

The show took a dive when E.D. left

Alyson and Gretchen are useless. Kilemade is sometimes in cloud 9 when it concrens obama

When I saw that Alyson be all rude to the man form Tampa about the large rebel flag and only give time to the NAACP then I went right off her

[adorno]

Never before in an election cycle has the media been this biased. It’s frankly, scary.

It's scary, but more importantly, it's dangerous.

When the press or media is so blatantly biased towards one side, and that side stands to gain so tremendously from the effect of the bias, then, we no longer have a free press and we no longer get government by the people, but by the biased press.