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 Posted July 23rd, 2008 at 10:10AM
Media’s guilt plays well for Obama and McCain
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McCain is now cast as the crabby uncle who visits and shrieks there’s no gin in your house. He grabs the TV remote control, turns off the cartoons and forces the kids to watch the ancient Mesopotamia special on The History Channel.
Just hope the kids don’t dare tell uncle that Iraq doesn’t border Pakistan. He’ll nuke them.
Meanwhile, the Democrat Obama is treated quite differently. He’s the Mr. Tumnus of American politics, the gentle forest faun of Narnia, with throngs of reporters trembling to sit with him at tea and cakes, like the little girl in the C.S. Lewis story, as he plays the flute, chanting “We Are The Change We’ve Been Waiting For.” And nobody laughs.
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John Kass of the Chicago Tribune. Sure, the entire article just reiterates the old, tired “liberal media” schtick for the zillionth time. But at least Johnny boy makes it entertaining.
(Guess we had a conservative media eight years ago when McCain was the media darling.)
I flipped through the comments accompanying the article, and the first one’s a gem…
Is it really ‘Liberal’ bias, or just bias towards what they think provides the more compelling story? If the complaint is that style and a consistent Narrative are obscuring more critical analysis, perhaps the distinction doesn’t make much difference. But I don’t think it’s really a conscious attempt to push a particular poltical agenda, rather the tendency of the media to stoke up a story that they can not just report upon but help create. Ask liberal John Kerry whether he found that tendency helpful four years ago.
Ian Barton, Chicago, IL
Posted February 21st, 2008 at 3:54PM
“Nobody’s suffering more than the Palestinian people.”
– Barack Obama in Iowa, March 11th, 2007
Last week, when Barack Obama became the first major candidate to break the silence on the situation in Gaza, he didn’t criticize Israel, whose blockade of a civilian population has been roundly condemned by human rights organizations, nor did he call for restraint from the United States’ top ally in the Mideast. Instead, he fired off a letter to U.N. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad with a resounding message—one that could have been mistaken for words straight from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) website. “The Security Council should clearly and unequivocally condemn the rocket attacks against Israel.… If it cannot…I urge you to ensure that it does not speak at all,” Obama wrote, adding he understood why Israel was “forced” to shut down Gaza’s border crossings.
– Obama’s Israel Shuffle by Justin Elliot, Feburary 1st, 2008
If Obama does become the next president of the United States, we need to start demanding the “change” that his entire campaign has run on. Unilateral support of Israel will get votes, but it is not change in any shape or form.
Posted May 28th, 2007 at 5:46PM
I was assigned a story to write after graduating, with the college magazine. No contact info. Finally I get a phone number for the person’s parents. Call up, try to explain the situation, shot down within 30 seconds and hung up on. WTF?
What a prick.
I hate cold calling.
Posted April 21st, 2005 at 11:37AM
I had a few lines in today’s Ithacan. They sort of fugged up my blog’s name, but at least my own name was spelled right. It was enough to inflate my ego a bit. Otherwise, this week is almost over. Today I’ve been running back and forth, trying to get the library to remove its figurative head from its ass and stop billing me for late fees on DVDs that I returned on time.
Anyone who comes here because of The Ithacan article will probably be sorely disappointed. Ah well.
Posted December 4th, 2004 at 2:15PM
As usual, the Democratic leadership is trying to pin the blame on someone else, rather than their own putrid efforts. Today it’s (surprise, surprise) Michael Moore. Here’s an interesting article on Commondreams.com. An excerpt:
No More Moore: The DLC Joins the Witch-Hunt
According to the last data I could find, Moore recently made a movie that was seen by tens of millions of people around the world and has grossed nearly $120 million in the U.S. alone. Furthermore, it was, according to exit polls, a much better demographic success than the actual Democratic party. A Harris poll conducted in July found that 89 percent of Democrats agreed with Fahrenheit 9/11, along with 70 percent of independents. That means Moore outperformed John Kerry among independents by about 19 points, if we are to go just by the data presented by bum-licking power-worshipper Ron Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times at the DLC roundtable.
Moore’s revenues come from millions of ordinary people paying 10 bucks a pop to see his film. In contrast, only about 200 people a year visit the DLC at the box office—only they pay thousands of dollars per ticket, and they all have names you’d recognize: Eli Lilly, Coca-Cola, Union Carbide, Occidental Petroleum, BP and so on.
The article takes digs at a one “Will Marshall” who is the president of the”Progressive Policy Institute” – thinktank for the DLC.
In addition to his duties as the president of the PPI, Marshall kept himself busy in the last few years. Among other things, he served on the board of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, an organization co-chaired by Joe Lieberman and John McCain whose aim was to build bipartisan support for the invasion of Iraq.
Marshall also signed, at the outset of the war, a letter issued by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) expressing support for the invasion. Marshall signed a similar letter sent to President Bush put out by the conservative Social Democrats/USA group on Feb. 25, 2003, just before the invasion. The SD/USA letter urged Bush to commit to “maintaining substantial U.S. military forces in Iraq for as long as may be required to ensure a stable, representative regime is in place and functioning.”
How much more conservative can the Democratic Party move, for chrissakes?
:sigh:
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