Film Discusses 'How Obama Got Elected and Palin Got Targeted'

No matter how angry the media’s biased coverage of last year’s presidential election made you, expect to get even angrier after watching the new film from radio talk show host John Ziegler.

“Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Got Targeted,” now available on DVD, assembles virtually every unfair and imbalanced news report from the last year and weaves them together into one jaw-dropping narrative.

The lies. The spin. The cover ups. Media outlets working in veritable lockstep to ensure the election of Sen. Barack Obama.

If mainstream reporters had an ounce of shame they’d watch “Media Malpractice” and shake their heads.

Ziegler doesn’t fall back on any talking heads to buttress his thesis. He doesn’t have to. The parade of sound bytes, news clips and interviews tell the story better than any journalism expert might.

Ziegler starts at the beginning of the 2008 presidential race, when it seemed a fait accompli that Sen. Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic party’s best chance to retake the White House.

But young, charismatic Sen. Barack Obama from Illinois represented a great storyline to spice up Clinton’s inevitable ascent. It’s only when Obama started making inroads into his party’s presidential plans that the media rolled up its collective sleeves and got to work.

Reporters fell, and fell hard, for the charming junior Senator. Once that happened, it became paramount than any news that could derail Obama’s presidential hopes be squashed.

So the press did its best to ignore the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s many outrageous statements, Obama’s ties to Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers and anything Obama said which could distract voters from pulling the lever for him.

When Ayers rose up as a possibly poisonous connection to Obama, the media couldn’t muster the strength to investigate. CNN even contradicted its own reporting about Obama's ties to Ayers within the same day, but no other outlet followed up on their more alarming findings.

Compare that to how press outlets dug up every scrap of news concerning Joe the Plumber during his 15 minutes of fame.

As for Rev. Wright, that story bubbled under the MSM surface for weeks before reporters had no choice but to cover it. They did so without much passion, with one CNN reporter prefacing an interview with Obama by saying it would be a “Rev. Wright free” chat - if the senator would be OK with those parameters.

Time after time after time, the media deflected attacks on Obama, renewed assaults on the GOP ticket and failed to treat the candidates the same way.

And when Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP's vice presidential candidate, tried to bring up some of the aforementioned issues, the media transformed the negative news into fresh attacks on Palin and McCain.

Ziegler gets exclusive interview footage with Palin for the movie, but her commentary isn’t nearly as biting as the assembled news bits. She’s too much of a politician to fully unload on the media, so her segments feel like a tug of war between her true feelings and what she probably should say so as not to appear like a petulant loser.

Palin does get to correct the record on some of the more shocking journalistic attacks.

What's fascinating about media bias is how tone can be just as damning as incorrect reportage. It isn't just that ABC’s Charlie Gibson asked tougher questions to Palin than he did to Obama, it’s also how he asked those questions.

Gibson comes across as condescending to Palin, peering down at her from behind his spectacles. Gibson even misquotes Palin, and then nails her for the misquote like a teacher scolding an errant student.

That’s hardly the tone Gibson or his colleagues use when Obama is under the microscope.

"Media Malpractice" isn’t a complete success. The film should have done a better job of separating the liberal pundits like Keith Olbermann from the allegedly unbiased reporters. And when the film bemoans how crazy rumors concerning Gov. Palin leaked into the mainstream press coverage, the film doesn’t follow up on which outlets danced to the tune the Daily Kos and other far left outlets sung.

Perhaps the most damning assault on Sen. John McCain's campaign arrived in the final weeks, as the media claimed his rallies were becoming veritable hate fests. Their proof? A few reckless attendees shouted a few ugly comments, and the most demonizing comment was later proven to be false.

The saddest part of “Media Malpractice” comes in the film’s waning moments. The election is over. History has been made, in some part thanks to the media. Only then does the media start reporting the stories it did its best to avoid just weeks earlier.

Suddenly, unrepentant terrorist Ayers is all chatty about his ties to the president-elect. And Obama’s Muslim roots, which no one was allowed to so much as bring up during the campaign lest the media attack them, began appearing in news stories as a positive note.

“Media Malpractice” should be required viewing for anyone planning to review the 2012 elections. It’s a shame the chances of that happening are about the same as the media admitting its mistakes and giving the American public responsible coverage next time around.

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Christian Toto is a freelance entertainment writer and contributing film critic for The Washington Times. His work has appeared in People magazine, MovieMaker Magazine, The Denver Post, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and Scripps Howard News Service. He also provides movie radio commentary to three stations as well as the nationally syndicated Dennis Miller Show and runs the blog What Would Toto Watch?

“on the verge of bankruptcy”-—
how sure are you of that?
the fact that they’re still around might answer in part the
question as to where some of that hundreds of billions in original stimulus money went.....

Until they seduce the government into being a nationalized whore instrument of daily punishment of the masses into guilts and dumbing down disinformation.

We are losing the freedom of speech and balance of information power thanks to the cults and gods of stupidity getting tax payer funding in violation of church state separation.

Another reason how he won was his very effective internet communication that targeted individuals and groups to “spread the word” and donate.

I ahve discussed this with a charitable organization and they are so fascinated by the way this was done they are trying to duplicate in order to access the most amount of individuals for donations.

obama receive donations from all around the world, with their credit card checker on people’s location turned off. This sort of illegal practice is ignored by the media

Congratulations America!

Through this you elected the most AMORAL,thats right, AMORAL man you have ever had as president, soon to be dictator!

Try:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lrf8DbrJH0

Through this you could have had a Sarah who espouses good, sound family and christian values and who is capable of making good decisions.

Thanks for the link. I just watched that video. (shudder)

I need to get off the internet. I can’t take anymore of this right now.

This is the video to show your friends and family:

How Obama Got Elected... Interviews With Obama Voters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1KOBMg1Y8

THE REAL DEAL:

Willard "I am Myth" Brutus Romney THREW Election2008

"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

I heard John on Sirius radio. This guy is good. Link to video and trailers: http://www.mediamalpracticemovie.com/

Okay - you watch this...what in the h-ell do you do? We are surrounded by idiots!!!!!

How did it come to this?

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