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“Mad about The One. The US media have been captivated by Obama, at the expense of their curiosity and scepticism.”
This is the title of an article by Harold Evans in The Guardian on November 1, 2008. He resorts to the bias he decries in his one-sided column. I have reproduced it below in its entirety, along with my annotations {…} . Phrases that I comment upon are in boldface.
It's fitting that the cynicism "vote early and vote often" is commonly attributed to Chicago's Democratic boss, mayor Richard Daley, who famously voted the graveyards in 1960 to help put John Kennedy in the White House. In this 2008 race, it's the American media that have voted very early and often. They long ago elected the star graduate of Chicago's Democratic machine, Barack Obama. {Obama is a hardly a “graduate“ of the machine. What about Harvard Law, Columbia, etc.?}
I am not talking of editorials in newspapers, though Obama has the preponderance of the endorsements over John McCain. Obama certainly deserves the credit for recruiting impressive advisers and running a more efficient campaign machine than any one in the US's political history.
What's troubling to anyone old-fashioned enough to care about standards in journalism is the news coverage in mainstream media. Forget the old notions of objectivity, fairness, thoroughness, and so on. The nastiest rumours on both sides haven't been published, but the coverage has been slavishly on the side of "the one". {“Slavish”? Evans’s description.}
Get ready for a deluge of Wright rantings.
The National Republican Trust PAC, which has been airing an ad attacking Barack Obama's association with Reverend Wright in three battleground states, has now put down for a national buy on five networks that will last from now through election day, a consultant with the group confirms to me.
The ad will run nationally on Fox, CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC for the next five days, the consultant, Rick Wilson, says -- "all the way until election day."
The ad, which you can watch here, features the now-infamous footage of Wright's livelier sermons, and intones that Obama "never complained" about Wright "until he ran for President," adding that Obama is "too radical, too risky."
Previously, the ad was only running in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, as Ben Smith reported the other day.
Now, however, the ad will run nationally, Wilson says, adding that the group just got through getting the spot vetted with network lawyers and is good to go.
Late Update: Wilson tells me that the PAC will have spent $2 million on this national buy by the end of tomorrow.
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THIS IS MY FIRST SOURCE ON THIS. LET'S KEEP AN EYE ON THIS. GOP GETS DESPERATE AND DANGEROUS! FIB
Well, I see while I’ve been attending to some personal matters the market has tanked and so has the McCain campaign. I would like to offer President Obama a strategic advantage at the next debate. Have Mr. Ayers attend the debate. Have Mr. Ayers discuss the efforts and objectives of the board you both shared. Have a prominent Republican do likewise. Do this prior to the debate. Sen. McCain will be out maneuvered and utterly dismissed when he attempts to debate the issue. This should be done just prior to the debate.
Further, when Sen. McCain attempts to bypass Ayers to move to Rev. Wright I recommend the following. Forcefully affirm (in reference to Rev Wright) - “Sen. McCain you may not love this country enough to respect her citizens, but I do. I will not waste their time discussing a closed issue when the current issue is the economy – as in the word of Mr. Carvel ‘It’s the economy, stupid’. And, you will determine if ‘stupid’ applies to the quote or your actions or words. Enough!” Of course, the exact verbiage is up to you, but I’m partial to these words!
Finally, remember President Obama you are the President and this is your senator. Make it clear whose holds which position. There is no need for tic-for-tac.
KC
I listened to a radio broadcast this morning on the way to work that was discussing what the McCain campaign should do to prepare for the debate, as well as what tactics they should use. The host suggested they should use the names Ayers and Wright only once or twice. Here's an idea, why doesn't the McCain campaign stick to the issues, like the economy? Another caller suggested that McCain look at Senator Obama so that he appeared more confident. Confident? Why didn't he look at him during the first debate? Surely you can't say John McCain is not sure of himself. Why does he think his opponent is not his equal? The bottom line is, that John McCain sees himself as being better then not just his opponent, but the majority of Americans. Is he out of touch? Of course he is, he is not going to be affected by the Wall Street woes, nor was he worried about the increasing cost of gas or wether or not he would have a job to support his family as the economy takes a dive. John McCain can never understand the American people, he is one of the Washington elite that Sarah Palin likes to reference in her incoherent babblings. I am excited to see Barack Obama in his debate tonight with John McCain and I am hopeful that he will display the strong character that sets him and his opponent so far apart.
Wright was wrong, and now we have the Ayers (who was a terrorist when Obama was eight years old!) non-issue.
On the other hand, McCain's history of association with unsavory individuals and organizations has often been, at best, ill-chosen.
And sometimes it isn’t, i.e. McCain’s membership on the “US Council for World Freedom”
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Well, we knew the Reverend Wright gloves would come off, eventually. And, believe or not, that’s good. Because now, the McCain campaign has to explain, why Mitt Romney has been a key spokesperson for their campaign? Romney, who was a heartbeat away from becoming a Vice Presidential candidate is from the Mormon Church.
The Mormon Church continued its segregated policies, even after the civil rights movement. In fact, at one time, it even believed that African Americans were the angels cast out of heaven, by God.
I guess every church and campaign has its controversies…
In addition, Obama needs to prepare an add campaign with persons he assisted of different ethnic backgrounds, during his years as a Community Organizer. This will offset the argument that he will only be for “them.”
Back in January when I decided to endorse Barack Obama on this site and, more importantly, vote for him in the California primary- I was thrilled about Obama’s message but I also had some pride and some of my natural cynicism was lessened by the thought that this country had matured enough that it might have been able to bridge the racial divide and actually elect an African American for President. Beyond the policy issues and Obama’s positions with which I agree and the innate desire that Obama has to bring people together which I find compelling; there was the possibility that the United States had made great progress towards healing our great national birth defect- racism. Now I wonder if that is possible.
Between “Bitter-gate” and “Wright-gate”, Obama’s campaign is reeling. In my pieces: Pandering v. Nuance aka Clinton v. Obama and Obama Elitist? Not! McCain and Clinton are the essence of the Power Elite I have made it clear that my belief about the genesis of both of these campaign issues.
Fine piece by Darryl Pinckney in "The New York Review of Books"
"To see Obama in Philadelphia, reasoning with the American public, was to be struck yet again by what a different atmosphere he would bring to the White House."Full text: http://tinyurl.com/6fr7cp
Henry M
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So, let's have another little reality check here. At most blog sites you have the ability to create any username you wish. If I wanted to call myself Mata Hari or Britney Spears or the Queen of Sheba, I could do so with the web site's blessings.Just for grins and giggles, who might this particular Bill Cosby be?Perhaps...he is the infamous William J Cosby, head honcho of the Clay County Klu Klux Klan. Or, maybe...he is Wilhelm V Cosby, eldest son of the dock worker in Brindlesmire, Scotland. Does either of these individuals exist? Not to my knowledge. Is there a Brindlesmire, Scotland? I doubt it...I just made it all up.Perhaps...it is even the illustrious current President, George Bush, giggling in that demented little way he has, as he sets up an account under the name of Bill Cosby to wreak havoc on the election. Could it be? I don't know. And that's my point. You just don't know. Could it be true? Yes. Is it true? I doubt it.
The following was written by activist Tim Wise. It is not for the weak at heart or racially biased. I'm posting Tim's work in objection to an earlier post "Israel & Obama", by an HRC supporter Danielle from Austin, TX.
May 27, 2008 America's Racial Litmus Test: Farrakhan is not the Problem By TIM WISE The more things change, the more they stay the same. Thirteen years ago, when I first started out on the lecture circuit, speaking about the issue of racism, it seemed as though everywhere I went, someone wanted to know my opinion of Louis Farrakhan. To some extent, this was to be expected, I suppose. It was 1995, after all, and Farrakhan had just put together the Million Man March in DC. So when race came up, that, and sadly, the OJ Simpson trial and verdict seemed to be the two templates onto which white folks in particular would graft their racial anxieties. Though OJ has long since faded as a matter of conversation among most, discussion of Farrakhan never seems to end. As controversy has erupted regarding comments made by Barack Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Wright's occasional words of praise for Farrakhan have caused many to suggest that he, and by extension, Obama, are somehow tainted. Wright, we are to believe, is forever compromised as a legitimate commentator on issues of race and even as aman of God. And why?
I just have to get this off my chest: I LOVED Rev. Jeremiah Wright!!
Yes, he's inappropriate in this hyper-sensitive context, but he's so obviously a highly intelligent man with a lot of love in his heart that in balance I kind of wish I knew him personally.
I happened to catch his entire speech live at the NAACP and caught most of his Q&A at the National Press Club....and completely enjoyed his "performances" both times. His way with language is a delight, and I'm totally down with in your face attitude.
I read today a blog posted by a man who said, this campaign had forced him to confront his own ethnic Identity.
I think its a lot more common for our generation and a lot more people are growing up facing questions about their own ethnic identity. One of the things that came out of the Rev. Wright news cycle was a conversation about race. Barack Obama's speech, A more perfect Union, was an impressive step towards an understanding about race. A subject that has been carefully avoided going back to the assassination of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Those who watched or read the speech, got one step closer to brotherhood instead of separation. For that alone, I have a strong respect for Senator Obama.My Wife is African American. I am a white man who grew up in a poor black neighborhood. My Wife grew up in a middle class white neighborhood. The thing we shared most was that we understood each other's cultures. In some ways, better than the other. I am only now getting to understand and sympathize with upper class white people who I grew up sneering at. My Wife has understood black culture from an intellectual standpoint as she has spent her entire life delving into the problems of the black community and how to approach a solution to the systemic racism that is at the root of those problems.For these reasons, I was not at all offended by Rev. Wright. I went to churches that talked like that and I was well aware of the deep resentments harbored by people who had been forced into one neighborhood and had the door out slammed in their faces. When I first heard about the Rev. Wright and how "controversial" his statements had been, I asked "why are they blasting him for tellin' it like it is?" He's right! I watched the whole sermon and didn't find one portion I didn't agree with!The I watched Barack Obama's speech and understood the deeper message he was going for. Rev Wright made a sermon that made ya feel good if you felt put down. Barack Obama made a speech that made you feel human and look for the connectedness between people instead of the divisions. I think both speeches have made grown the understanding between people even if not all people choose to see that. I think that the conversation had to happen and I'm grateful to Rev Wright for bringing it up. I'm even more glad to have a candidate who can take a moment of division like that and transform it into the conversation we all needed to have.I was also angry when the media started trying to turn Pastor Pfleiger into another Rev. Wright scandal. Pfleiger was even more on point than Wright! Not only was he absolutely correct in everything he said about white privilege and how it had infused this campaign, but he was Hilarious!My best friend, Bruce, has a black father and a white mother and everyone thinks he looks Asian. He has straight black hair, slightly yellow skin and the epicanthic fold at the eyes. No one ever believes that he's half African American. I think it shows more than ever how close all of our genes are. We really are all the same just below the surface. This generation and the next are going to really have that highlighted as more and more multi-ethnic babies are born.
Here is something the media is not saying about that incredibly nasty remark Hitlery Clinton made about assasinations, even if her claim that it was a "Freudian slip" is to be believed:
Does anyone want a person capable of such veiled threats in a position of sensitive negotiations or confrontations on a global level?
And we certainly don't want someone like that involved in the first nonwhite presidency in this country's history. We want to finally move beyond race, and the Clinton faction of the Democratic party will not allow that to happen.
There are those who have claimed that extremists like Wright in Obama's background mean that he, too, is racist, but I, as a "typical white person", beg to differ. The self-protective remarks made by preachers or leaders like Wright can be understood by every working-class white person as being the same kind of remarks our own leaders make at times of anger and frustration. Obama's claim that he was not paying close attention to the level of Wright's extremism rang true and authentic with me because I can easily think of lots of things my own Catholic priests have said over the years that most of their listeners chose to ignore. And when he stopped to take a close look, Obama did the right thing and everyone respects him for that.
We "typical white people" can count, too. All the brouhaha over that crazy radical former "weatherman" caused only one question in my mind: what about all the OTHER members of those boards on which both Obama and the old radical served? Hmm? What about the fact that it was briefly big news when that old radical and his wife, Bernadette Dorn, were exposed back in the nineties and no one seemed to care that they were on the same boards? (and there was that other WTC bombing around that time, remember?)
Working-class white folks are standing in the same food pantry lines as black folks, and we live in a lot of the same neighborhoods, and we recognize each other as neighbors. We survived Vietnam, some like me were there in the demonstrations, and we remember the leaflets from all the political factions, and some of us are embarrassed that we never believed the filth coming out of the genocidal factions, the hate-propelled splinter groups, would finally take root and bloom the way it has in the Clinton branch of the Democratic Party.
It is the yuppie suburban white folks, thosee Clintonites who are the arrogant college social-workers talking down to young mothers and the white teachers patronizing American-born students into dropping out of high-school rather than tolerate any more sexual political exploitation and disgusting bigotted psychobabble: it is they who support Hitlery Clinton, not us. They are the crazed left-fascist genocidal maniacs who are preparing to light the match on a "long hot summer" of violence that the Clintons think they will control and direct to their own ends. We are the working men and women who remember the diginity that won integration battles and the solidarity on the factory floor that prevencted slave-wage traditions from moving North with our Afro-American brothers and sisters. We are the victims of Hitlery Clinton's vicious political movement.
We look forward to Obama helping us take back the Democratic Party from the edge of the social-fascist abyss to which the Clintons and their delusional supporters have led us. Many of us have long memories and we will not allow that filthy Clinton-fascist faction of the Democratic party to highjack America into their own ends.
If only Obama would pre-empt Hitlery Clinton's delusions by announcing Edwards as his running mate, then we could look forward to peacefully winning the next election with a landslide that would leave the Republicans no ammo for challenge and the Clintonites' desire for violence would play itself out in a few isolated riotous demonstations and no real harm done. And plenty of room for good solid female leadership in his cabinet that will result in a future woman president, unrelated to the Clinton faction in any way.
Whoever Obama picks, DON'T let it be Clinton!!!!
Sat in a racist church for over twenty years full of blame the whites for everything, throws it and his "spiritual advisors" under the bus when the truth comes out.
Surrounded by sleaze.
Never served in the military.
I was not a supporter of Senator Clinton until I woke up to the reality of what this man is.
Dare you to post this
