russ (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} goulo) wrote,@ 2008-07-01 06:44:00 |
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the so-called liberal media bias, and different treatments of Obama and McCain
How many times will supposedly competent reporters do the "Osama, uh, I mean Obama" schtick?
A FOX reporter started to talk about the idea of an "Osama" assassination, then corrected herself, and actually joked about killing both: "Osama, Obama — well, both, if we could."
http://gawker.com/5011014/fox-news-want
"In a report on the failure to capture Osama bin Laden on the Today Show at 7:10 a.m, Matt Lauer was asking NBC's Pentagon reporter Jim Miklaszewski, a question. Lauer began "The reports says that, uh, Obama....excuse me, Osama bin Laden...'"
http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/mond
This is such a transparent attempt to make people think "Ooooh, Obama is different and scary and dangerous and Not One Of Us." Right wing talk show hosts like saying "Barack Hussein Obama" and making false claims, like that Obama's a Muslim. That one is particularly interesting since people who only get their news from FOX are used to cognitive dissonance and believing 6 impossible things before breakfast, apparently able to simultaneously believe that Obama is Muslim yet also knowing that Obama is Christian because of all the media attention about the manufactured scandal with Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright...
Imagine if some prominent figure opined that Obama's background doesn't necessarily qualify him to be president. Wait, that actually happens all the time... But if it happens to McCain, then it is called "a provocation; an insult." Pundits rise up to defend McCain.
http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/pund
General Wesley Clarke simply said
Why is that "a provocation; an insult", but the media is happy to print far worse criticisms of Obama without displaying any outrage over them?
Imagine how the McCain campaign and the media would be continually mentioning it if Obama's wife had been addicted to prescription drugs and stolen drugs from a charitable organization she headed. McCain's wife did this, and the media barely mentions it.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1
Imagine the scandal if Obama had said he never really loved America until he was 31. McCain said this, more than once, and the media barely mentions it. Yet Obama's wife (not even Obama himself) said she wasn't proud of America until recently, and it was a media feeding frenzy.
http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/w
Imagine if Obama had made a propaganda tape for the enemy as a POW. McCain did this, and the media barely mentions it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/us/po
Imagine if the Obamas owned many houses and illegally didn't pay taxes on one of them. The media would make a bigger deal of it than they did when the McCains actually did do this.
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/nod
http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/w
Meanwhile the White House is yet again "warning that terrorists could test the new president with an attack next year."
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/whi
Oh no! Vote Republican, or the terrorists will kill us all!
How many times will supposedly competent reporters do the "Osama, uh, I mean Obama" schtick?
A FOX reporter started to talk about the idea of an "Osama" assassination, then corrected herself, and actually joked about killing both: "Osama, Obama — well, both, if we could."
http://gawker.com/5011014/fox-news-want
"In a report on the failure to capture Osama bin Laden on the Today Show at 7:10 a.m, Matt Lauer was asking NBC's Pentagon reporter Jim Miklaszewski, a question. Lauer began "The reports says that, uh, Obama....excuse me, Osama bin Laden...'"
http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/mond
This is such a transparent attempt to make people think "Ooooh, Obama is different and scary and dangerous and Not One Of Us." Right wing talk show hosts like saying "Barack Hussein Obama" and making false claims, like that Obama's a Muslim. That one is particularly interesting since people who only get their news from FOX are used to cognitive dissonance and believing 6 impossible things before breakfast, apparently able to simultaneously believe that Obama is Muslim yet also knowing that Obama is Christian because of all the media attention about the manufactured scandal with Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright...
Imagine if some prominent figure opined that Obama's background doesn't necessarily qualify him to be president. Wait, that actually happens all the time... But if it happens to McCain, then it is called "a provocation; an insult." Pundits rise up to defend McCain.
http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/pund
General Wesley Clarke simply said
John McCain is running his campaign on his experience and how his experience would benefit him and our nation as President. That experience shows courage and commitment to our country - but it doesn't include executive experience wrestling with national policy or go-to-war decisions. And in this area his judgment has been flawed - he not only supported going into a war we didn't have to fight in Iraq, but has time and again undervalued other, non-military elements of national power that must be used effectively to protect America But as an American and former military officer I will not back down if I believe someone doesn't have sound judgment when it comes to our nation's most critical issues.
Why is that "a provocation; an insult", but the media is happy to print far worse criticisms of Obama without displaying any outrage over them?
Imagine how the McCain campaign and the media would be continually mentioning it if Obama's wife had been addicted to prescription drugs and stolen drugs from a charitable organization she headed. McCain's wife did this, and the media barely mentions it.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1
Imagine the scandal if Obama had said he never really loved America until he was 31. McCain said this, more than once, and the media barely mentions it. Yet Obama's wife (not even Obama himself) said she wasn't proud of America until recently, and it was a media feeding frenzy.
http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/w
Imagine if Obama had made a propaganda tape for the enemy as a POW. McCain did this, and the media barely mentions it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/us/po
Imagine if the Obamas owned many houses and illegally didn't pay taxes on one of them. The media would make a bigger deal of it than they did when the McCains actually did do this.
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/nod
Now ask yourself why McCain himself can criticize Obama for not having served in the military ("Sparring between McCain and Obama over the GI Bill got personal last week when McCain said he would not be lectured from someone 'who did not feel it was his responsibility to serve our country in uniform.'"), but when anyone not even related to the Obama campaign asks legitimate questions about things that actually happened during McCain's military service, such as the propaganda tapes, the McCain campaign, and the media in tow, treats such questions as out of bounds and "fringe" and "Swift Boating." That's my favorite, the Swift Boating charge. Yes, the media that quite literally hand fed you the Swift Boat story for a good year, pretty much putting the nail in the coffin of John Kerry's presidency, now suddenly cares about our vets and negative campaigning. (Had Obama done propaganda videos for the enemy, the video would be on an endless 24 hour loop on CNN and FOX...)The mainstream media literally serves McCain coffee and donuts with sprinkles, just the way he likes them:
http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/w
Meanwhile the White House is yet again "warning that terrorists could test the new president with an attack next year."
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/whi
Oh no! Vote Republican, or the terrorists will kill us all!
