A Hard Look at the President

New York Times ^ | April 22, 2012 | By ARTHUR S. BRISBANE

[Oldeconomybuyer]

... Eight years ago, The Times offered comparably scant campaign coverage of the incumbent, George W. Bush, even as it blanketed readers with articles about Senator John Kerry and others competing for the Democratic nomination.

Now, though, the general election season is on, and The Times needs to offer an aggressive look at the president’s record, policy promises and campaign operation to answer the question: Who is the real Barack Obama?

Many critics view The Times as constitutionally unable to address the election in an unbiased fashion. Like a lot of America, it basked a bit in the warm glow of Mr. Obama’s election in 2008. The company published a book about the country’s first African-American president, “Obama: The Historic Journey.” The Times also published a lengthy portrait of him in its Times Topics section on NYTimes.com, yet there’s nothing of the kind about George W. Bush or his father.

Readers deserve to know: Who is the real Barack Obama? And The Times needs to show that it can address the question in a hard-nosed, unbiased way.

[GlockThe Vote]

I actually spend more time posting on leftist boards since it’s more fun getting leftists to melt down than being in a ME. TOO situation.

[neverdem]

“Who is the real Barack Obama? And The Times needs to show that it can address the question in a hard-nosed, unbiased way.”

I won’t try to hold my breath.

[hoosiermama]

Way iver 150 comments....COuldn’t read them faster then they were coming in.

Would like to have seen the variation of the Nancy P certification of elegibility,

I think if we concentrate on how things were manipulated to allow his candidacy....Fraud

OTOH have recently completed a circle of dots that could be developed into a story:
BO
Michelle Robinson Obama
Jesse Robinson Jackson ( ancenstor same area. Michelle spent enough time in home to be call Sis by the JJ kids)
Noah Robinson (his half bro not his biological dad. Doing life for murder member of:)
el-rukn (Chicago gang specializing in drugs and murder)
whose community corresponded to the area BO “organized”.

[hoosiermama]

They cut the comment off at 210. Guess they’d heard enough. Even some of the libs were giving it to them.

[ml/nj]

I just discovered that my comment at #39 which I posted to the NYT before I posted it here at April 22, 2012 1:12:52 PM now appears on the Times site. They say it was posted at April 24, 2012 at 12:01 p.m. (My other comment copied to #10 on this thread is apparently still deemed unsuitable.)

ML/NJ

[hoosiermama]

Was on another page and they had over 900 comments. When I went to see if I could find any freeper comments they were coming in so fast I couldn't keep up. Loved the ones by the Libs putting down B...Had intended on submitting one but by then they had closed to all comments.

Sure sounds like they hit a nerve.

There are so many areas that a good researcher could touch on beside the BC. NYT is just lazy and negligent besides being bias. The Chicago Crime thread has almost 700 posts. Most of them links to articles. So many angles that could have/should have been covered related to BO and CHI friends and family.

Just doing a story of who lives in his hood and their connections to unsavory people would be of "interest"

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2876243/posts

[Jay Santos CP]

That’s an awesome photo. Cheney knew what this man is.