The Swift-Boating of Graeme Frost (October, 2007)

TIME Magazine ^ | October 10, 2007 | Karen Tumulty

[an amused spectator]

**snip**

...Since then, [Graeme] Frost and his family have been introduced firsthand to something else that most kids his age haven't: the reality of how brutal partisan politics can be in the Internet age.

**snip**

[an amused spectator]

Graeme Frost's dad, Halsey Frost, is NOT Joe the Plumber. He's Halsey the Mooch.

Interesting how when the Right side of the InterWeb gets the facts out on someone, it's called "swiftboating", but when the Obama media start dumpster-diving for dirt on an Obama enemy [read Sarah Palin or Joe the Plumber], it's called "investigative journalism".

What a crew of frauds!

If Obama's media steals the election for him, we can start calling what they really will be:

The government media.

[ketsu]

The media has always been in bed with the government. Liberal or conservative. As an institution the MSM can't help it. They need access to politicians and that means they kissing up to the most powerful groups.

This year the republicans look like the also rans so they're kissing demobuttocks.

[CyberSpartacus]

That is not true. The filthy media have always taken the side of the jealous populists who have always infected the Republic. Just take a look at the news during the Civil War. Most of it is filled with contemptuous bashing of Lincoln. There is a reason why Gen. Billy Sherman said “If you killed all the reporters there would be news from H_LL by morning”!

[ketsu]

That is not true. The filthy media have always taken the side of the jealous populists who have always infected the Republic. Just take a look at the news during the Civil War. Most of it is filled with contemptuous bashing of Lincoln. There is a reason why Gen. Billy Sherman said “If you killed all the reporters there would be news from H_LL by morning”!

If you look at the history, everybody thought lincoln was a pansy. Only after he was dead and the war was won was he vindicated. You could make the analogy that he was the GWB of his era.

The media will only suck up if you have power and use it. Watch Obama and his team play the game. They're masters. Conservatives should be very afraid.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

If you look at the history, everybody thought lincoln was a pansy.

What history have you been reading?