You Don’t Say

Job prospects unclear for the ousted Blagojevich By DEANNA BELLAND

Filed under: What Liberal Media?

The Cult of Obama: Who’s Going to Win the Superbowl, Barack?

Obama Likely To Root For Steelers by Jon Delano

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, What Liberal Media?

The Opium of the Asses, Barack Obama

Obama is the Heroin of the Masses by Warner Todd Huston

Let us hope that the withdraw symptoms from Obama addiction won’t hurt our country too badly.

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, Crazy liberals, What Liberal Media?

The Puff Piece/Biased Headline of the Day. Thank you Liz Sidoti, ASSociated Press!

Obama breaks from Bush, avoids divisive stands By LIZ SIDOTI

Barack Obama opened his presidency by breaking sharply from George W. Bush’s unpopular [Editorialize much, Ms. Sidoti? -- Ed.] administration, but he mostly avoided divisive partisan and ideological stands. [Because Obama is not ideological. Naw. Never. -- Ed.] He focused instead on fixing the economy [which was ruined with the Democrat interference with the housing market -- Ed.] , repairing a battered world image [Being popular is always more important than doing what is right. -- Ed.] and cleaning up government [How does he plan on doing that? -- Ed.].

[...]

The flurry of activity was intended ["Intended" is right. --  Ed.] to show that Obama was making good on his promise to bring change. Yet domestic and international challenges continue to pile up, and it’s doubtful that life will be dramatically different for much of the ailing country anytime soon. [Now that Obama is safely elected, we wouldn't want people to think Obama was SERIOUS about all that "hope" and "change" shit, would we? -- Ed.] Obama’s biggest agenda items — stabilizing the economy and ending the Iraq war — are complex tasks with results not expected soon. [Right. But if Bush was in charge, then results were expected pronto. In fact, we were told that we needed TRILLIONS (with a T) of dollars to spread around to banks, corporations, and other whores. If not, the global economy would collapse and we'd all DIE! WIth Obama in charge, however, we ought not expect, you know, any results! -- Ed.]

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, What Liberal Media?

The Cult of Obama: The Newsmedia’s Groupie-Like Coverage of Inauguration

I think I should merge my “Barack Obama” and “What Liberal Media?” categories since they both cover the same stories 99% of the time.

Reuters: Obama inauguration got unprecedented news coverage

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The Cult of Obama: Like OMG! Check Out Barack’s New Limo!

What McClatchy considers news.

McClatchy: Secret Service unveils Obama’s new limo by Greg Gordon

It’s another shiny, slightly stretched black Cadillac, this one appearing to have thicker steel and glass than ever. Not much else is being revealed.

“Although many of the vehicle’s security enhancements cannot be discussed, it is safe to say that this car’s security and coded communications systems make it the most technologically advanced protection vehicle in the world,” said Nicholas Trotta, assistant Secret Service director for the Office of Protective Operations.

This sort of reporting is actually quite mild compared to some of the other unstable, cult-like worship directed at The Incredible Super Obama Man.

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, What Liberal Media? , Barack Obama / The Messiah, limosine, What Liberal Media?

The Cult of Obama Quotes

“Pride goes before destruction,a haughty spirit before a fall.” – Proverbs 16:18

“It’s perverse. It’s sending the wrong signal.It’s a combination of political opportunism and political naiveté.”– George Hoffer

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Obama Conversion Stories

“”No one saw him coming, and Christians believe God comes at us from strange angles and places we don’t expect, like Jesus being born in a manger.” — Lawrence Carter

“Many even see in Obama a messiah-like figure, a great soul, and some affectionately call him Mahatma Obama.” — Dinesh Sharma

“We just like to say his name. We are considering taking it as a mantra.” — Chicago Sun-Times

“A Lightworker — An Attuned Being with Powerful Luminosity and High-Vibration Integrity who will actually help usher in a New Way of Being” — Mark Morford

“What Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nation’s political history” — Jesse Jackson, Jr.

“This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” — Barack Obama

“Does it not feel as if some special hand is guiding Obama on his journey, I mean, as he has said, the utter improbability of it all?” — Daily Kos

“He communicates God-like energy…” — Steve Davis (Charleston, SC)

“Not just an ordinary human being but indeed an Advanced Soul” — Commentator @ Chicago Sun Times

“I’ll do whatever he says to do. I’ll collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway clear.” — Halle Berry

“A quantum leap in American consciousness” — Deepak Chopra

“He is not operating on the same plane as ordinary politicians. . . . the agent of transformation in an age of revolution, as a figure uniquely qualified to open the door to the 21st century.” – Gary Hart

“Barack Obama is our collective representation of our purest hopes, our highest visions and our deepest knowings . . . He’s our product out of the all-knowing quantum field of intelligence.” — Eve Konstantine

“This is bigger than Kennedy. . . . This is the New Testament.” | “I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often. No, seriously. It’s a dramatic event.” — Chris Matthews

“[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.” — Toni Morrison

“Obama’s finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don’t even really inspire. They elevate. . . . He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh . . . Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves.” — Ezra Klein

“Obama has the capacity to summon heroic forces from the spiritual depths of ordinary citizens and to unleash therefrom a symphonic chorus of unique creative acts whose common purpose is to tame the soul and alleviate the great challenges facing mankind.” — Gerald Campbell

“We’re here to evolve to a higher plane . . . he is an evolved leader . . . [he] has an ear for eloquence and a Tongue dipped in the Unvarnished Truth.” — Oprah Winfrey

“I would characterize the Senate race as being a race where Obama was, let’s say, blessed and highly favored. That’s not routine. There’s something else going on. I think that Obama, his election to the Senate, was divinely ordered. . . . I know that that was God’s plan.” — Bill Rush

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“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.

“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat. “We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”

– Lewis Carroll

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, Crazy liberals, What Liberal Media?

“What Liberal Media?” — Eric Alterman

While the story below is hearsay, but some forms of hearsay are much more credible than other forms.

What I Saw At McCain Headquarters On Election Night 2008 by Austin Hill

Later that night, when the clock struck 9pm on the West Coast, and California was “called” for Obama, and Obama was thus declared the winner of the election, several American journalists began cheering, “high-fiving” each other, and dancing about in the McCain media center. A shot of staffers jumping and hugging on the set at CNN in Atlanta appeared on our big screen monitors, as well. “Oh dear God,” Ian exclaimed in his thick Irish brogue. “You weren’t jokin about the bias.”

“Pardon me” I replied, not quite understanding his point.

“I said you weren’t jokin about bias in American media” he said. “What’s with all this celebration for one candidate over the other?”

“It’s real” I told him. “You’re seeing some American media professionals in a rare moment of candor. Usually the bias is more subtle, but it’s always present. That’s why you can’t believe all the wonderful things told to you by the American press about Obama and other liberal politicians, nor can you believe everything terrible told to you about Bush and other conservatives.”

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, Crazy liberals, What Liberal Media? , Barack Obama / The Messiah, Crazy liberals, John McCain, What Liberal Media?

As Bush Leaves Office, New York Times Accidentally Publishes Positive News

Apparently, George W. Bush, also known as “Satan” to the junk-bond New York Times, isn’t such a bad guy after all!

NY Times: Expansion of Clinics Shapes Bush Legacy

Although the number of uninsured and the cost of coverage have ballooned under his watch, President Bush leaves office with a health care legacy in bricks and mortar: he has doubled federal financing for community health centers, enabling the creation or expansion of 1,297 clinics in medically underserved areas.

For those in poor urban neighborhoods and isolated rural areas, including Indian reservations, the clinics are often the only dependable providers of basic services like prenatal care, childhood immunizations, asthma treatments, cancer screenings and tests for sexually transmitted diseases.

As a crucial component of the health safety net, they are lauded as a cost-effective alternative to hospital emergency rooms, where the uninsured and underinsured often seek care.

Filed under: What Liberal Media?

Priorities 101 Among Jews, the Associated Press

Regarding the recent scandal involving Wall Street adviser Bernard Madoff, who defrauded investors from $50 billion, the A.P. wrote an entire story on Jews and how frightened they are that the recent Madoff scandal might inspire people with already bigoted opinions against Jews. In the words of the A.P., it’s “particularly wrenching for Jews.”

Wow, what a great sense of priorities! Fortunately those frightened Jews and the Marxists at the Associated Press aren’t too concerned with other matters like sympathizing with, you know, the people who Madoff defrauded, many of whom were Jewish.

Associated Press: Some Jews fear Madoff case stokes anti-Semitism — Madoff scandal fits profile of `affinity fraud,’ proves particularly wrenching for Jews By Jennifer Peltz

Filed under: Crazy liberals, What Liberal Media? , Bernard Madoff, Crazy liberals, Jews, priorities, Thierry de la Villehuchet, What Liberal Media?

Our Stalinist Media and Caroline Kennedy’s (Lack of) Political Experience

IBD: Caroline Palin By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY

As the Kennedy du jour tours New York seeking Hillary’s seat, will she be asked tough questions by Couric, Gibson, et al.?

Kennedy’s interest in New York politics has been minimal. As the Daily News has reported, she skipped about half the 38 contested elections held since she registered to vote in New York in 1988, including four Democratic primaries in mayoral elections won three times by Republicans.

She also missed voting in the race for the Senate seat she now seeks. Seems she was doing something else in 1994, when Daniel Patrick Moynihan was running for re-election.

The New York Times described her qualifications thus: “Ms. Kennedy has much going for her. As a public figure, she carries the glamour and poignancy of her family.” Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post gushes that our “tragic national princess,” the “Cinderella Kennedy” is “finally rewarded” for “her years of quiet dignity.” First a pony, now a Senate seat.

Contrast such swooning over Caroline with the full-court press the media put on Sarah Palin. The Alaska governor’s experience, interest in her state and political involvement make Caroline look like a Chihuahua next to Palin’s pit bull, with or without lipstick. We doubt if Katie Couric will ask Camelot’s heiress how much she spends on her wardrobe. [Or what newspapers she reads -- Ed.]

As we have noted, Caroline’s chief accomplishments seem to have been organizing a rock concert in Central Park to raise private money for New York City public schools, serving on the board of a ballet company and heading up Barack Obama’s vice presidential selection committee, a panel that labored mightily and produced a Joe Biden.

Palin, by contrast, is a former small-town mayor and the governor of a major energy-rich state. She can hunt, kill and cook. Not many working moms can handle an automatic rifle, run a state and bake cookies too.

She runs a government of 24,000 employees, oversees 14 statewide Cabinet agencies and manages a $10 billion budget. She set in motion a $40 billion pipeline to bring Alaskan natural gas to the lower 48 states. And she squeezed the oil companies to give every Alaskan a $1,200 share in her state’s energy wealth.

Sarah not only voted in Alaskan elections, but also won a few, starting with her home town of Wasilla. She defeated a sitting Republican governor in the primary and a two-term former Democratic governor in the general election. No one had to appoint her.

No wonder people are cynical about politics. Merit counts less than one’s bloodline. What’s in a name? Everything, it seems .

Filed under: What Liberal Media? , arrogance, Caroline Kennedy, Charles Gibson, experience, Katie Couric, What Liberal Media?

Liberal Media Continues to Joke About Attack on Bush

Imagine if some malcontent threw his shoes at Barack Obama.

The New York Times would surely be in a state of rage, demanding to know why the Secret Service failed protect Obama. It would direct personal attacks at the man who throw his shoes at Obama. In short, the media would display a self-righteous fury not seen Governor Sarah Palin mocked the intentionally nebulous concept of “community organizer.”

If that President attacked was Barack Obama, The New York Times would never publish stories noting the style of the shoe, or that there has been an increased demand for the shoe. We’d never be informed of name of the shoe, Ducati Model 271. Nor would we be told about those irony-deaf shoe companies which, while increasing production of the shoe due to increased demand, would be printing “five thousand posters advertising the shoes, on their way to the Middle East and Turkey, proclaim ‘Goodbye Bush, Welcome Democracy’ in Turkish, English and Arabic.” The entire culture would be derided as having some bizarre foot or shoe fetish.

But the President attacked was not Obama; the President was a Republican. All abuse of George W. Bush has been welcome, celebrated, defended as “patriotic.” Since 2000, it has been the only standard for the Stalinists who control the American media.

NY Times: ‘Bush Shoe’ Gives Firm a Footing in the Market By SEBNEM ARSU

Filed under: What Liberal Media? , foot fetish, George W. Bush, New York Times, shoe fetish, shoes, What Liberal Media?

What Liberal Media: If Caroline’s Last Name Was Palin

Fox: If Caroline’s Last Name Was Palin By Andrea Tantaros

What has she done in her career? Does she have the experience to govern? Isn’t she just a name and a pretty face in expensive clothes? All questions asked by Democrats (I’m being nice) regarding Sarah Palin as McCain’s pick for Vice President.

But Caroline Kennedy -– similarly an intriguing, attractive outsider decked in designer duds and a thin resume — isn’t put under the same kind of scrutiny. Apparently, qualifications don’t matter to the left as long as you don’t hunt moose.

The left is just plain giddy with excitement over a return to Camelot and the New York press corps, the most selectively tough in the business, is following suit. One this is certain: if Kennedy’s last name were Palin she wouldn’t be anointed.

I would add that Palin also had to deal with regional bigotry.

I guess if you go to certain schools, come from a certain state, and have a certain last name, you’re not subject to scrutiny.

Filed under: John McCain/Sarah Palin, What Liberal Media? , Caroline Kennedy, New York, Sarah Palin, Senate, What Liberal Media?

Time’s Disgraceful Coverage of Obama Continues

A few years ago, under the politicized leadership of some fool named Richard Stengel (1), Time morphed from a reputable news magazine into the Official Newsletter of Barack Obama (O.N.B.O.).

Over the last 12 months, Time’s transformation of its cover into Obama’s personal ad space borders on the frightening. This is the sort of thing liberals criticized totalitarians for doing. You know, when libs were not behaving like totalitarians themselves. As compiled in several other glorious posts of mine:

Since November 19, 2007 to November 24, 2008, Time’s cover featured the following politicians:

Barack Obama, the predominant/shared image: 13 times.

Barack Obama, smaller photo: 6 times.

John McCain, predominant image: 3.

Sarah Palin, predominant image: 1.

Joe Biden: zero.

It’s understandably bizarre and scary when the Chinese Communists plaster Mao’s face all over creation, but the people at Time, who merely control one newsmagazine, see it fitting to throw all journalistic standards aside, flip conservative America a big “fuck you,” plaster Obama’s face all over creation.  The situation was so blatant that Reuters wrote an entire article on the topic back in August.

So knowing all this, when Time announced it’s self-important award of “Person of the Year” for 2008, you can hardly imagine who they selected! (Note that the title was “Man of the Year” for decades. In 1986, Corazon Aquino was declared “Woman of the Year.” Ever since, Time has renamed it “Person of the Year” lest the concept of sex enter your mind. Eventually, the title will change again to “Singular Homo Sapiens of the Annual Four Seasons.”)

In selecting Barack Obama as their Socialist “Person of the Year” the objective “journalists” at Time wrote:

In one of the craziest elections in American history, he overcame a lack of experience, a funny name, two candidates who are political institutions and the racial divide to become the 44th President of the United States.

First of all, the election was hardly “crazy.”  Strange at times, but not nearly as crazy as the media’s irrational adoration of Obama and mission to destroy Sarah Palin at any cost.

Secondly, notice that with Obama safely elected, Time suddenly realizes that Obama had a “lack of experience.” You don’t say?

And with Obama safely elected, Time also awakens to the mystery that Obama has “a funny name.”  Conservatives were crucified (by Michelle Obama, among others) for simply mentioning Barack’s middle Hussein name, but Time finds it appropriate to insult Obama’s entire name.

I’ve noted in other posts here that the mainstream newsmedia in America is hemorrhaging money, to say nothing of the trust it has from the public.  While the violinists playing on the sinking Titanic did so out of bravery and not obliviousness, the journalists and reporters who form our newsmedia arrogantly fiddle, pretending that all is well, while the ship plummets.

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(1). And I do mean “fool.”

The April 21st issue of Time was entitled How to Win the War on Global Warming, and depicted the Marines raising a Sequoia tree, instead of the American flag. Donald Mates, an Iwo Jima veteran, told the Business & Media Institute on April 17 that using that photograph for that cause was a “disgrace.” Stengel supported the use of the image and exposed his point of view on journalism. “I think since I’ve been back at the magazine, I have felt that one of the things that’s needed in journalism is that you have to have a point of view about things,” Stengel said. “You can’t always just say ‘on the one hand, on the other’ and you decide. People trust us to make decisions. We’re experts in what we do. So I thought, you know what, if we really feel strongly about something let’s just say so.”

Translation? “Journalism should include the personal opinions of journalists. One can’t always be objective. People depend on us to do their thinking for them because we’re so intelligent and superior. So if we have an opinion about something, we should foist it on the public disregarding the entire purpose of true journalism.”

Richard Stengel should not be trusted to run a grade school newsletter.

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, What Liberal Media? , cover, liberal bias, media bias, Person of the Year, Sarah Palin, time, What Liberal Media?

Top 10 Worst Economic Myths of 2008

Business and Media Institute: The Media’s Top 10 Worst Economic Myths of 2008 — BMI’s collection of outrageous economic bias for the entire year: From the salmonella outbreak to the media’s call for a new, New Deal.

Filed under: What Liberal Media? , bias, economy, myths, New Deal, What Liberal Media?

The Wrecking Blogs

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More Mainstream Media Victims: NPR to Direct 65 to Unemployment Line

What a pity.

Media Bistro: NPR Layoffs Looming?

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With Obama Safely Elected, Tom Brokaw (and Reuters) Suddenly Interested in Obama’s Smoking Habit

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama failed to give a straight answer when asked on a U.S. talkshow on Sunday whether he had managed to quit smoking

In a country where cigarettes are responsible for one in five deaths and smoking costs tens of billions of dollars in health care, Obama has been under pressure to set an example by giving up his reported two-decade-old habit.

Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program, interviewer Tom Brokaw told Obama he had ducked answering the question during an interview last month with ABC’s Barbara Walters.

Noting that the White House was a no-smoking zone, Brokaw asked Obama, “Have you stopped smoking?”

“I have,” Obama replied, smiling broadly. “What I said was that there are times where I have fallen off the wagon.”

“Wait a minute,” Brokaw interjected, “that means you haven’t stopped.”

“Fair enough,” Obama said. “What I would say is that I have done a terrific job under the circumstances of making myself much healthier. You will not see any violations of these rules in the White House.”

Perhaps these questions might have been good to ask in, say, OCTOBER?

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, What Liberal Media? , Barack Obama / The Messiah, obfuscation, Reuters, smoking, Tom Brokaw, What Liberal Media?

Democrats Behaving Badly: Charles Rangel Still Gets Away With his Crimes

NRO: Parallel Lives by Victor Davis Hanson

Remember why most Republicans, other than Colin Powell, abandoned the soon-to-be convicted Ted Stevens. And the names of Mark Foley and Larry Craig are now understandably infamous. It is altogether fine and proper that Republicans turned on their own miscreants, who needed to be turned on for their various misdeeds.

But why in the world is Rep. Charles Rangel still the Chairman of the House Ways and Means committee which oversees U.S. tax policy — especially at this critical juncture in our nation’s financial history?

I say “Why?” not out of sarcasm, but out of real bewilderment: Rangel’s record of financial and ethical improprieties is no longer a matter of hypocrisy, but rather one of probable criminality.
Let us count the ways: (1) Rangel paid no federal income tax on some $75,000 in rental income from his Caribbean villa — that lapse would result in a felony tax-evasion charge for the rest of us who dared to try that year in and year out. (2) Something called Nabobs Industries gave $1 million to something called the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College of New York — and, apparently in exchange, got tens of millions of dollars in tax waivers from Rangel’s committee. [...] (3) Rangel seems to be claiming his New York campaign office as his home in order to continue to garner rent-control exemptions, improperly saving him thousands of dollars through aggregate subsidies. That someone who oversees the drafting of American tax policies and regulation cannot follow them himself is now a statement of fact, not baseless slander.

Filed under: Crazy liberals, Democrats Behaving Badly, What Liberal Media? , Charles Rangel, Larry Craig, Mark Foley, tax evasion, Ted Stevens

Media Bias is Costly

Yes, the economy is partly to blame for the financial troubles of mainstream newsmedia, but the American public doesn’t exactly the libs with microphones either.

Associated Press: US newspaper ad sales fall a record $2B in 3QBy

U.S. newspaper advertising revenue collapsed by nearly $2 billion, or 18 percent, in the third quarter, according to the Newspaper Association of America, an industry group. Even online ad revenue made a small U-turn for the second quarter in a row.

NBCU To Cut 500 Jobs, Layoffs Begin at NBC News Bureaus

Filed under: What Liberal Media?

Objective and Unbiased Headline of the Year

ABC: Is Bush the Worst President in the Last 50 Years? — In Debate Over Bush Legacy, Karl Rove Defends Old Boss but Contradicts Him on WMD By RUSSELL GOLDMAN

Filed under: What Liberal Media? , ABC, Karl Rove, President George W. Bush, What Liberal Media?

Blatant Anti-Palin Bias in the Liberal Media: A Collection

“What liberal media?” — Eric Alterman

Blatant Anti-Palin Bias in the Liberal Media: A Collection (140 Cases) by Scott Thong

Filed under: Crazy liberals, John McCain/Sarah Palin, What Liberal Media? , Sarah Palin, Scott Thong, What Liberal Media?

What a Pity: Associated (de)Press(ed) to Cut Jobs

Associated Press to cut 10 pct jobs in ‘09: sources

Filed under: What Liberal Media? , 10%, Associated Press, jobs

UK’s Telegraph Cites Global Warming Doubts as a “Conspiracy Theory”

In a list of the 30 “Greatest Conspiracy Theories,” the UK’s Telegraph lists doubters of global warming (“global warning is a hoax”) among a list that includes “Pearl Harbor was allowed to happen,” “Shakespeare was somebody else,” “Elvis Presley faked his own death,” and “The Illuminati and the New World Order.”

29. Global warming is a hoax — Some climate change doubters believe that man-made global warming is a conspiracy designed to soften up the world’s population to higher taxation, controls on lifestyle and more authoritarian government. These sceptics [sic] cite a fall in global temperatures since last year and a levelling [sic] off in the rise in temperature since 1998 as evidence.

Picture: BLOOMBERG

Actually, there is plenty more evidence against man-made global warming.

E-mail: telegrapheditorial@telegraph.co.uk

Letters for publication in The Daily Telegraph can be sent to dtletters@telegraph.co.uk
Letters for publication in The Sunday Telegraph can be sent to stletters@telegraph.co.uk

Filed under: Environmentalism, What Liberal Media?

Newsmedia Not So Interested in Child Porn When a Democrat is Involved

“This is the second incident in twelve months of a Boxer aide being involved with child pornography. Yet, for the most part, we hear crickets from the press.”

Barbara Boxer (D-CA, Abortion) Aide Arrested for Distributing Child Porn, Media Mostly Mum By Noel Sheppard

Filed under: Crazy liberals, What Liberal Media? , Barbara Boxer, child porn, What Liberal Media?

L.A. Times Suddenly Realizes Obama Spent Most of His Time in Senate Running for Pres

American Thinker: Obama resigns from the Senate by Ethel C. Fenig

The headline at the Los Angeles Times blog says it all:

“Obama Quits Senate after 46 months — 21 of them seeking another job”

Hmmm, a little math is in order: 46 months in the Senate minus 21 months formally running for president equals 25 months, or a little over two years,  of actually serving in the Senate where, frankly, he didn’t do much.  That, plus time spent serving as an Illinois state legislator where he mostly voted present, a part time gig as a law instructor and his signature stint as a community organizer comprise the experience he brings to the presidency.  The presidency of the United States of America that is, not student council president (maybe the latter is more complex).

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, What Liberal Media? , Barack Obama/The Messiah, L.A. Times, What Liberal Media?

Washington Post Suddenly Realizes Palin was an Asset to McCain

Naturally, these “discoveries” occur well after Obama’s election.

Washington Post Shocker: Palin Helped McCain Avoid Far Worse Loss By Noel Sheppard

As media outlets across the fruited plain float the notion that Sarah Palin hurt John McCain’s chances of winning the White House, the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza will break with the herd on Sunday to dispel this nonsense.

Imagine that.

As the last of his “5 Myths About an Election of  Mythic Proportions” slated for Sunday’s print edition but already available at the paper’s website, Cillizza parted with his fellow journalists who believe “McCain made a huge mistake in picking Sarah Palin”:

From the Cillizza article, some interesting notes:

Exit polling suggests that there was no statistically significant increase in voting among either group. Black voters made up 11 percent of the electorate in 2004 and 13 percent in 2008, while young voters comprised 17 percent of all voters in 2004 and 18 percent four years later.

[...]

For skittish conservatives looking for more evidence that McCain understood their needs and concerns, Palin did the trick. It’s hard to imagine conservatives rallying to McCain — even to the relatively limited extent that they did — without Palin on the ticket. And without the base, McCain’s loss could have been far worse.

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, What Liberal Media? , Chris Cillizza, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Washington Post, White House

Obamasploitation on Time’s Cover — Again

Barack as FDR

Since November 19, 2007, the number of Time issues that featured the following politicians:

Barack Obama, the predominant/shared image: 13 times.

Barack Obama, smaller photo: 6 times.

John McCain: 3.

Sarah Palin: 1.

Joe Biden: 0.

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, Crazy liberals, What Liberal Media? , Barack Obama/The Messiah, cover, FDR, time, What Liberal Media?

With Obama Safely Elected, Our Stalinist Media Discovers Bill Ayers

Recall Bill Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist who’d just love to murder the capitalist system and the U.S. Constitution.

Apart from Obama’s denials and obfuscations regarding his connection to Ayers, the media showed little or no interest in Ayers.

Well, now that Obama is safely elected…

Suddenly Media Interested in Bill Ayers By John Stephenson

Perhaps the unrepentant domestic terrorist friend of Barack Obama did his part avoiding the media, but most of the media certainly lacked in pursuing him. Suddenly, now that that Barack Obama has been elected, the media are interested in extending this America hater’s fifteen minutes of fame. Good Morning America is promoting their exclusive interview with Bill Ayers, which will most likely be a puff-piece interview touting how he is really a harmless professor who lives in Obama’s neighborhood.

[...]

The fact the media are only showing interest in this man after the Obama is safely on his way to the White House speaks volumes.

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, What Liberal Media? , Barack Obama/The Messiah, Bernadine Dohrn, egomaniacs, man child, Northwestern University, professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, What Liberal Media?, William Ayers

With Obama Safely Elected, Stalinist Media Begins Asking for Details

Time: The Obama Transition: What Will Change Look Like By KAREN TUMULTY

Filed under: Barack Obama / The Messiah, What Liberal Media? , Barack Obama, time, What Liberal Media?