Saturday, October 11, 2008
Posted by:
Faith Ammen
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9:51 PM
As Baldwin & McCullough are talking on
BMX Radio about Obama's associations with Ayers and Rev. Wright, I wonder why the media doesn't use the same descriptive language it recently used to discuss Palin's position when reporting on Obama:
"In preparation for a report on the investigation into whether Sarah Palin fired Alaska’s public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, for personal reasons, on Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez declared: "Palin on the hot seat. Alaska lawmakers set to release a report today on the Troopergate investigation. We'll go live to Alaska for the latest details on the potentially explosive report." Co-host Julie Chen later introduced the segment by explaining: "The McCain-Palin ticket is bracing for what could be an embarrassing report."
Has any reporter called the Obama-Ayers association a "potentially explosive report"? Have they told the American people that this information might be "embaressing"? No.
Recently, Evan Thomas, Editor at Large with Newsweek, charged:
“If he loses the election because of that, it's a disgrace.” Totenberg alleged Sarah Palin's anti-Obama rhetoric is “pretty ugly and a little scary."
The Obama-friendly media filter strikes again...
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...while you freaks on the Right are grasping at all straws of connections, why don't you scream hysterically about Mr. Palin's associaton with the separatists and Gov. Palin's address to their convention just last year?
Are you trying to tell us that a 2007 husband/wife connection is less strong than that of an 8-year-old boy living 5,000 miles and one ocean away forty years ago?
You probably are, which is why your candidate is going down. |
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Well, maybe the media is giving people too much credit. Some people will read the headlines about Obama "associating with terrorists" and stop there, which is too bad, because they'd probably be REALLY surprised to find that a TERRORIST is a professor at the University of Illinois.
Wow, really? Isn't he a member of Al Queda? Uh, no, he's a former arsonist who did some property damage but never killed anyone and was never convicted. Oh, AND there's the little fact, stated above, that Obama was EIGHT YEARS OLD when all of these "terrorist" activities were taking place. Read that sentence again and let it swish around in your head a while if you still actually think that Obama is associating with terrorists.
The fact that ANYONE is reporting on this non-story is a clear indication of a CONSERVATIVE media bias, because these reports are less than worthless. The only people who would go around repeating this bologna are either:
1. Too ignorant to read about what actually happened
2. Smart enough to know that this is irrelevant nonsense but cynical enough to continue going around repeating it because they know they can manipulate ignorant idiots into believing that Obama is a terrorist with the old "where there's smoke there's fire..."
What's really amazing is that the media isn't talking more about McCain's "association" with Charles Keating, which is one hell of a lot more relevant nowadays... |
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