Well I'll be darned - CNN is reporting on the Rezko / Obama ties.

[jillan]

Saying O's relationship with Rezko could cause some people to question his judgement.

[rinsd]

1. MSM giveth and they taketh away.

[avrdream]

34. Maybe a bit late to change our nominee though.

Just in time for the Repubs to use. How lovely. Dems get screwed again by the media.

[rinsd]

36. They were coming for the Dem nominee regardless.

"Dems get screwed again by the media."

Bingo!

[jlake]

2. Yeah, I am surprised.

I wish that all of the mystery and coyness would end.
Just the facts on the table... if there is nothing there it will be over and done with.

[rateyes]

3. Two words:

Norman Hsu.

[jillan]

4. Well you probably should contact CNN because they are reporting on Rezko - not Hsu.

[rateyes]

6. Probably should.

[Lucinda]

19. A few more words:

The judge on the Rezko case worked for Ken Starr on Whitewater.
Even if Obama is squeaky clean, we still have to be careful.

[blocker]

5. Thank god!!!!!

Finally the clintonites will stop crying!

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. Since you've wrapped yourself in the bullshitr of the "free pass" whine

It's not surprising that you're surprised.

For those of us in the real world, none of this is particularly surprising.

[jillan]

8. Thanks for insulting me - it's so hopeful of new politics.

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. Oooo, ouch, contradiction, oooh!

You mistake me for one of the hope people. I like Obama because he can win, and Clinton can't.

I don't give a fuck about hope, except to the extent that it will get Obama elected.

[Vinca]

10. Maybe if Hillary would release their tax returns they might report

on Bill and the uranium mining deal or Burkle and the funds run through the Cayman Islands to avoid U.S. taxes.

[thevoiceofreason]

11. Again?

It truly has been the Clinton News Network for the last 4 days.

Unbelievable.

[MoonRiver]

12. I was very pleasantly surprised!

Walked in from work and saw back to back CNN coverage of NAFTAgate and Rezko trial.

Better late than never. :thumbsup: CNN

[denem]

13. CNN? What a surpize!

Very Obama friendly folks.

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. They have to pretend to be surprised because it's part of their argument

that Obama is receiving a free pass from the press.

So, they have to pretend to be indignant half the time, and surprised the other half.

It's just role playing. They don't really believe it.

[Bullet1987]

16. MSNBC has been talking about it too...not just CNN

The MSM as a whole has been building Clinton up all weekend. They want a dogfight...

[jenmito]

24. At LEAST MSNBC showed video of the Canadian Parliament arguing about the NAFTA thing.

CNN isn't even aknowledging this happened.

[DJ13]

14. Why is that a surprise? CNN spent the entire weekend being Clinton cheerleaders

Its pretty obvious who they support.

But unlike the Clinton supporters Im capable of changing channels, so I wont call for anyone to be fired, nor am I in favor of a boycot.

They'll change their tune when they have no choice after Tuesday.

[alcibiades_mystery]

18. Because OBAMA GETS A FREE PASS (tm)

("Obama Gets a Free Pass" is a registered argument of Mark Penn and Associates).

;-)

[CaliforniaDemocrat]

17. What? A Balanced Media? :-P

[jillan]

20. Welcome to DU!!

And I'm very jealous that you live in California.

[CaliforniaDemocrat]

23. Want to come live with me? Depends on if you're a Clinton supporter :)

[jillan]

26. I am now.

Actually I'm a Biden supporter :(

After Iowa, I was very undecided (and heartbroken) - but very open to the remaining 3.
I caught Hillary on C-Span and I felt like she was speaking to me. Been supporting her ever since.

[jenmito]

21. They started the show with the debunked Canada story, then the Rezko story,

and soon will have a Hillary supporter on to discuss it. :eyes:

[LSK]

22. CNN reporting something like that? no never!!!!!!!

:rofl:

[1776Forever]

25. I am pissed - Why isn't the media talking about the Vin Gupta Clinton Connection!!!!!!!!

Here is an article on the Clinton's Resko - Why isn't the media talking about Vin Gupta: The man the Clintons love - last paragraph says that he gave Bill $3 million bonus and flew both Hillary and Bill on free trips and let them both use his private jet!!!!!!!

http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/may/30vin.htm

Vin Gupta: The man the Clintons love

Aziz Haniffa in Washington, DC | May 30, 2007 13:53 IST


Vinod 'Vin' Gupta, 60, founder, chairman and CEO of infoUSA -- one of America's largest consumers of information with millions of clients -- is probably the single biggest contributor to the Democratic Party over the years.

He is a longtime Clinton benefactor, who has suddenly found himself thrust into the public domain in the wake of major articles in the New York Times and the Washington Post regarding his use of his company's private jet to fly the former President and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on personal, business and campaign trips.

Some shareholders in infoUSA have filed a lawsuit alleging that all of this was 'a waste of corporate assets', and an effort by Gupta to 'ingratiate himself', with these high-profile guests.

Gupta, in an exclusive interview with rediff.com, has said all of these stories being thrown up now was a "smear campaign" to embarrass Mrs Clinton's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination and accused the New York Times of "just doing a hatchet job on Hillary and me both because we are friends".

He has also alleged that the New York Times is doing so because it is supporting Illinois Democratic Senator Barack Obama -- who is also vying for the party's Presidential nomination -- "and they are trying to hurt Hillary anyway they can".

The multi-millionaire entrepreneur, who started his company in 1972 with an initial investment of $100 and says infoUSA's revenues will exceed $650 million, first got involved in Democratic Party politics over two decades ago when the leading Indian American Democratic fundraiser at the time, Ramesh Kapur of Boston, introduced him to erstwhile Democratic Presidential candidate, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, whom Kapur was exhorting Indian Americans to support.

But following Dukakis's disastrous showing it was not until Bill Clinton came on the scene, that Gupta also came into his own as a major donor to the Democrats, especially to Clinton's campaign and consequently established a close friendship with the Clintons.

In 1995, when Clinton was running for re-election, Kapur, organised on behalf of the Democratic National Committee, the first major fund-raiser among Indian Americans for the Clinton re-election campaign, which raised over $500,000.

Gupta, besides being one of the single biggest individual contributors -- whom Kapur by now had coveted and cultivated -- was afforded the honour of introducing Clinton, which he did with rousing gusto.

From then on, Gupta courted the Clintons and in turn, was afforded the opportunity of spending a night in the White House Lincoln Bedroom -- the first Indian American to do so.

As his sustained contributions to the Democrats continued to flow, Clinton offered him the post of first Counsel General to Bermuda and then the Ambassadorship to Fiji, both of which Gupta declined. While he maintained this was for business reasons, it was rumored to be because there were doubts his nomination would be confirmed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee due to alleged violations of Securities and Exchange Commission rules.

Just before his second term ended, Clinton appointed Gupta as a member to the prestigious Board of Trustees of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. But even with Clinton out of the White House, Gupta's friendship with the now former President grew, and he brought him on as a consultant to infoUSA and, according to the lawsuit, beyond nearly $3 million in consulting fees, had flown the Clintons and himself to Acapulco, Mexico, on a vacation in 2002 and also to Switzerland, Hawaii and Jamaica. He was also said to have provided corporate jets for Mrs. Clinton at least seven times since 2002, although it was unclear whether he had done so after she began her Presidential campaign.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

And the Clinton's say the media is hard on them!!!!!! ROTFL - Bull Crap!!!!!!!!!

:grr: :wow: :grr:

[jillan]

28. Is he on trial? Rezko is. Maybe that's why?

[1776Forever]

30. He was on trial - the investor of his company wanted to know why Gupta was giving Bill so much money

:rant:

[jillan]

32. I should have added "today".

[Occam Bandage]

27. If Clinton wins Ohio and Texas, CNN gets literally months' worth of free stories. No way in hell

they want this race over tomorrow.

[carlotta]

29. The story has been out there for a year...

so now.....finally CNN is getting around to reporting it. If they had done the story earlier, this could have been an entirely different ballgame.

Too little, too late.

The media has held its fire on Obama since the get-go. They're only reporting on it now because the trial is starting and they can't ignore it.

[jenmito]

31. And the false NAFTA story, then reported on the "pressure on Black SDs" and then

how he's running on judgement but all this could put that into question, blah blah blah.

[RBInMaine]

33. What do you expect from the corporate media whores??

[Rosa Luxemburg]

35. how much is CNN being paid to say that?

[Hoof Hearted]

37. I thought for sure they would wait until the crown was firmly placed on his annointed head.

[unc70]

38. This is as I predicted some weeks ago

This "little" problem has been sitting out there for a year now. I predicted that coverage would be skimpy until the trial actually started. I first thought it would start in January and it was recently pushed from last week into this one.

The Chicago papers and a couple of UK sources had been about the only ones covering this at all. There had been a significant uptick in their coverage over the last couple of weeks, but it was not picked up by other outlets. Friday, Chris Matthews made a comment that caused me to post that something might be coming out that would hurt Obama amoung delegates. Court documents released Friday had a few tidbits that shed a bit more light on the transactions involving the house and lot.

Then late Saturday, the NYT article summarizing Rezko was posted and I commented that it would now be picked up by AP and would start appearing everywhere and everyone would be asking questions. I will be checking The Daily Show, Letterman, and Leno tonight to see if they have picked up on it. When they start making fun at his expense, Obama could easily drop 5-10 percent in the polls. Leno and Letterman need for their audiences to be aware of a topic before they can joke about it.

I posted a bunch of questions that should be asked and data examined to resolve the Rezko / house problems for Obama. No answers yet.