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Posted at 11:23am on Jun. 4, 2008 And They Sang a New Song*

Seriously, there's literally no evidence that the media is in the tank for Obama. Stop being paranoid.

By Leon H Wolf

Ladies and gentlemen, according to the AP, the world has welcomed an Obama win.

The world.

What's the basis for this? Well, uh, for one thing, he is black and has childhood friends in Asia. For another he, he, well, he puts sentences together into paragraphs! And he, he, he was an average third grade student (a man of the people!). And he's, he's, like a mixture of MLK and JFK (who were like Christ, only cooler and had more women)! And how do we know these things? Because an AP reporter has found an assortment of random foreigners saying these things, that's how.

If you can make it through this entire piece without getting physically ill, you're a better person than I am. And don't even suspect that this is the worst piece of hagiography we'll see from a major news media outlet this election season: we're in for a long, hard slog over the next five months, and it's going to fall to us to try and inject some objectivity in our communities and workplaces. Get ready, and brace yourselves.

*For the benefit of our lefties, I'm quoting Rev. 5:9.

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Posted at 5:38pm on May 31, 2008 Newsweek reporters and editors flunk Journalism 101

By Soren Dayton

Newsweek's Mark Hosenball and his editors should get their journalism degrees revoked. Today, Hosenball published a story about John McCain, Phil Gramm, and UBS.

For weeks now, John McCain's presidential campaign has faced awkward questions about the outside activities of several top advisers. Add one more name to the list: former Texas senator Phil Gramm, McCain's longtime friend and one of his five campaign co-chairs. ... Gramm is not a paid McCain adviser, but his day job—vice chairman of a U.S. division of Zurich-based financial giant UBS—could pose new tests for a candidate who has promised high ethics standards and ditched advisers who failed to meet them.

Sounds like a big deal right? Well maybe. The big deal is that Hosenball was either so incompetent (I will not assume dishonest, which would be the other explanation) to not notice that the CEO and Chairman of UBS USA is a bundler for Barack Obama. According to Obama's website, Robert Wolf has promised to raise "Over $200,000" for the Obama campaign.

We hope that Newsweek does the decent thing and puts Hosenball and his editors on paid leave while they renew their journalism degrees.

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Posted at 9:27am on May 22, 2008 Is the New York Times attempting to extort access from the McCain campaign?

By Jeff Emanuel

As Soren posted on yesterday, and as California Yankee mentioned elsewhere last night, the New York Times, which has taken after John McCain with a white-hot fury since the man who was once their favorite Republican -- and whom they endorsed in the GOP race -- locked up the nomination a few months ago. This latest episode, related to the release of McCain's medical records, which the Times has been harping on for some time now, appears to be more of the same.

Ed Morrissey, now of Hot Air, has the details. Basically, the Times -- whose ethics policy states "We do not threaten to damage uncooperative sources, nor do we promise favorable coverage in return for cooperation" -- has sent a message to the McCain camp that failure to invite the NYT to the May 23 unveiling of Mr. McCain's medical records will result in far less favorable coverage of that release, and of those records, than McCain will receive if the Times is credentialed and invited to the presser.

Pardón? (Read on)

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Posted at 9:45am on May 16, 2008 Can WaPo editors read?

By Soren Dayton

The Washington Post should either fire their editors or send them to remedial education. They should be ashamed that they let this garbage get printed.

Despite his reputation in the media as a charming maverick, McCain has shown that he is also happy to use Nixon-style dirty campaign tactics. By charging recently that Hamas is rooting for an Obama victory,

McCain isn't "charging". A senior Hamas leader said that "actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election [...] and he has a vision to change America." Why isn't that the story, rather than a distortion of McCain's statement?

This clown James Rubin continues:

I asked: "Do you think that American diplomats should be operating the way they have in the past, working with the Palestinian government if Hamas is now in charge?"

McCain answered: "They're the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice, so . . . but it's a new reality in the Middle East. I think the lesson is people want security and a decent life and decent future, that they want democracy. Fatah was not giving them that."

"Deal with" is not the same as "unconditional" talks at the level of heads of state. The President of Iran says that Israel should be destroyed and their weapons are being used to kill American soldiers. Indeed, yesterday on the blogger call McCain pointed out that Ryan Crocker regularly interacts with Iranians in Baghdad.

How could the Washington Post's editors let this garbage get printed in their paper? Are they illiterate or just biased beyond belief?

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Posted at 1:35pm on Apr. 15, 2008 The Press Will Now Drown Obama to Save the Democrats

By Erick

It sounds like Obama is the one who is bitter. Dana Milbank, assisting in the liberal meme creation that the media loves McCain so they can then textually rape him in October, has this delightful piece that makes for fun reading today.

John McCain and Barack Obama both appeared before the nation's newspaper editors yesterday. The putative Republican presidential nominee was given a box of doughnuts and a standing ovation. The likely Democratic nominee was likened to a terrorist.

At a luncheon for the editors hosted by the Associated Press, AP Chairman Dean Singleton quizzed Obama about whether he would send more troops to Afghanistan, where "Obama bin Laden is still at large?"

"I think that was Osama bin Laden," the candidate answered.

"If I did that, I'm so sorry!" Singleton said.

"This," Obama told the editors, is "part of the exercise that I've been going through over the last 15 months."

Bitter, are we?

What's so funny about this is the contrast in the two men. McCain relishes getting a box of Dunkin' Donuts as a gift. "With Sprinkles!" he said. Obama made the editors go through metal detectors to see him -- something McCain doesn't do. And instead of Dunkin' Donuts, it's wine and roses -- so much for being a man of the people. Of course, we tossed that lie last week when he echoed Karl Marx to a group of millionaire trust-funders in a ritzy section of San Francisco.

Obama can't smile when punched. His inexperience is showing. For a week he's been trying to change the message by talking about what he said. Big mistake. He's only perpetuating the story and the headlines. It makes for great press for everyone else.

The humorous bit of this is that the press, who love Obama, now realize they have to drown him with ink -- like cutting off a leg to save a body. It's the only way now, they see, to save their party. They are going to have to sacrifice Obama for the Democrats to take the White House. Their hopes for change are gone. Obama has made himself no longer viable a contender for the elusive middle class independent voters who both sides need. Already on the decline in Pennsylvania, look for North Carolina to shift too.

Hillary Clinton is smart to hang in there.

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Posted at 9:10pm on Mar. 7, 2008 McCain 5, Elisabeth Bumiller 0

Putting The NY Times In Its Place

By Dan McLaughlin

We've had a bunch of people weigh in on this in the diaries and around the blogosphere and I don't have much to add except to say that if you actually watch the video of Senator McCain's exchange with NY Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller it's pretty clear that McCain is doing exactly what he should be doing when confronted with a "gotcha" question about an old story on which there are no new facts and the reporter is just trying to pick a fight:

The Times and Ms. Bumiller are not on John McCain's side, and there's every indication by this point that he is well aware of that fact, and is now dealing with them accordingly. (Unlike the Obama camp, McCain is no stranger to the national spotlight - he was quoted on the front page of the Times as far back as 1967). Not to point out the obvious, but John McCain has been tested by strains far worse than Ms. Bumiller's questioning here. Sure, it's well-known that the man has a temper. Many successful presidents have. But there's a time and a place for getting your Irish up - righteous indignation is no sin - and this seems like one of them. I can't even imagine a single voter who would watch this video and be somehow distressed by the man's judgment.

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Posted at 1:08pm on Feb. 28, 2008 Saint Gore and what might have been

By Kevin Holtsberry

Is anyone else sick and tired of the way liberals blame everything on Bush? The way the mere election of Al Gore would have changed the world to its core?

In Tuesday's debate Hillary dodged a question about her ridiculous promises of millions of new jobs by proclaiming that they would have materialized had Gore been elected.

Now comes Margaret Carlson, in a column on Hillary, making the same old argument:

Al Gore was as awkward and stiff as they come. Yet had he been elected, we wouldn't have become the first Christians to invade a Muslim country since the Crusades, have oil over $100 a barrel or be waiting for more studies to see if greenhouse gases are melting the polar ice cap.

See how easy things could have been? If the Supreme Court hadn't stolen the election all of our problems would have been solved by the all powerful Gorical! No problems in Iraq, no high energy prices, and no global warming.

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Posted at 8:10pm on Feb. 20, 2008 CNN's Pro-Castro Talking Points

By Dan McLaughlin

Ace has the story. Gotta read it to believe it. What liberal media?

Posted at 10:43am on Feb. 13, 2008 The Incredible Lightness Of Being...Man-Smitten Journalists

Suffering fools is one thing...are we expected to take them seriously too?

By haystack

So, I JUST finished bemoaning this weird cult-like enthusiasm for a Presidential wannabe in his pretty empty suits standing alongside his Ghandi equivalent among women, and NOW I have to be subjected toTHIS, via Newsbusters:

During MSNBC's live coverage of Tuesday's presidential primary elections, after the speeches of Barack Obama and John McCain had aired, Chris Matthews expressed his latest over the top admiration for Obama's speaking skills as the MSNBC anchor admitted that Obama's speech created a "thrill" in his leg: "It's part of reporting this case, this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama's speech. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often."

Umm, PLEASE tell me he didn't say that...PLEASE!

Apparently, Olbermann (another unbiased and neutral "journalist") was in on this little love tryst as well. Of course, we'll never know where Obama tingles him, but it's pretty clear they are both smitten with the Presidential hopeful from Illinois. The whole thing makes me tingle too...in the pit of my overturned stomach, thank you very much. Have a little context with that regurgitation? Then, go below the fold for the "objective assessment" from Matthews and the banter between him, Olbermann, and Brian Williams...if your stomach is empty of course...

Read On...

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Posted at 11:15am on Nov. 19, 2007 Radio News Director starts tossing the ad-hominems... but only at conservatives?

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

WKZO News Director John McNeill thinks anyone questioning Jon Stryker's connection with medicare fraud is "dumb."  Libs questioning conservatives over flimsier claims?  Well, apparently they're libs, no big deal.  But the MSM isn't biased.

And they wonder why we accuse them of having a liberal bias?  I've been itching to share this one with everyone for a few days now but I decided to have patience.  Sadly, it's starting to look like no amount of waiting will make a difference.

Last week Right Michigan detailed the United States Justice Department's settlement with the Stryker Corporation, the family business and cash cow of radical-lib money man and gay-special-rights vigilante Jon Stryker.  Turned out his company had stolen tens of millions of dollars from American seniors at the same time Styker's profits were shooting through the roof and the man was personally purchasing the Michigan House of Representatives with unprecedented amounts of campaign cash.

Lets review the facts, shall we?  For instance: