I think people need to reexamine the MSM's role in Hillary's campaign

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I thought I would repost these threads so people would have a better insight into the media's treatment of Senator Clinton. The idea some people think Obama is the only candidate getting attacked by the media is mistaken. I believe the media is much more fair and balanced toward Obama then they are to Clinton. If people are really interested in educating themselves about the media and not having a preconceived notion that it's just about Obama I would suggest they read this wonderfully written document written in three parts by McCamy Taylor.

1)The PRESS v. Hillary Clinton: Part. 1 The Media Fatwa Begins

What I found when I began to accumulate data was so shocking---through 8 hours of internet research I was able to amass 40 pages of condensed hard core Hillary bashing, most of it consisting of lies and malicious innuendo and that was without the Chris Tweety Matthews links since they have already been well documented here

http://mediamatters.org/items/200801110014

I strongly advise everyone to read this excellent document, because Matthews leads the pack in their attack on Hillary. He emboldens the others. They see him getting praise from his own network---and a token wrist slap followed by the solidarity of his co-workers who have begun to attack Hillary even more in the wake of his forced apology---and they join in like a bunch of school yard bullies.

Media Matters is an invaluable resource. While it does not contain all the propaganda--which a skillful propaganda artist can weave from bad photos, unflattering sound bites and slanted versions of the truth ---it does contain many of the lies and distortions which have been used in the major media skirmishes against Hillary.

I. The Press on the Fatwa


(Dana Milbank) went on to characterize Clinton's relationship with the press as "poisonous" and "venomous," and said that journalists "dislike" her. (1)



( Craig Crawford ) "I think there's a tendency here -- I know what's going on. It's all about an old journalistic rule, which is we afflict the comfortable. And so I think that's why many times, many of us in the media tend to gang up on the Clintons. Because they're very comfortable, they're very powerful, and I think sometimes we're actually a little unfair to them, but maybe that's just how it goes." (2)


(In an La Times interview Chris Matthews) said he wanted to refine his comment but added that the Clinton campaign used the incident to score political points.

"They created the storm; I had to deal with it," he said. "I think any observant person would say what I said was true. It might have been said better, more felicitously." (3)



“Part of it is her campaign’s fault,” Andrea Mitchell, the longtime NBC political correspondent, said backstage at the MSNBC debate in Cleveland in Tuesday. “They started with this notion of inevitability. And they were very arrogant.” (4)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4957678


2)The PRESS v. Hillary Clinton: Pt 2. Let's Get Political

Hello Again! Last time I had gotten all the way up to late January 2007 in the right wing media conspiracy to make Hillary look like a lying, cheating Bitch and Obama look like a doping Black Muslim (who had been outed by Hillary, damn her already damned for all eternity soul!)

Before I get to that, there is one more flavor of bitchiness that I need to cover, the lying bitch . The corporate media, right, center and left has taken particular pains to tell the American public that Hillary is a great big fat liar. Lie, lie, lie. That is all she does from the moment she gets up until the moment she goes to sleep at night. There isn’t an authentic bone in her body.

And would the American news media lie to you about something as important as whether or not a Democratic presidential candidate is a liar?

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/McCamy%20Taylor/158

3)The PRESS v. Hillary Clinton Part III Leaping Lesbians

Here is some music to set the mood:
http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/samples/s/u/Sue_Fink_...

Just in case Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee after all, the right wing has been hard at work with a few smears designed to make her look scary in a general election. These are a little bit different from the previous Big Lies, since the values of general election voters differ from those of Democratic primary voters. After Denver, if Hillary is the One, we will be hearing less of Hillary’s War and Hillary is a racist bitch and more about family values----as in Hillary has no family values because she sprang to life, fully formed, on a woman’s collective somewhere in the radical left Northeast, clutching a copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves in one hand and SCUM: Manifesto in the other. (SCUM stands for Society for Cutting Up Men)

I. Hillary is a Lesbian Bitch

The Democrats would not care if she was, but for Independents and Republicans an alternative lifestyle might spell doom in the general election. So, the right wing has hauled out its all purpose Hillary is a Lesbian Big Lie.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4977117

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1. Considering the way she and her loyalists treated good Democrats in front of press?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk1k0nUWEQg

Let's not forget how they set up the heyjohn site in Oct2006 and pushed it with their friendly press to further smear Kerry.

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5. But all that doesn't count!!!

If it doesn't help Hillary it doesn't count, don't you see?

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2. K and R!

:hi:

[Bonobo]

3. The press made her. They felt entitled to destroy her as well.

She was declared the top contender, the front-runner, the presumptive favorite so long ago and for no reason, by the media.

They foisted her on us, unwanted, unasked for.

They made a compelling narrative, Black man/white woman!

Then they proceeded to take turns busting the shit out of both of them and egging them on to bust eachother up too! Like Bumfights!

That's as honest as I can be.

[McCamy Taylor]

11. She was front runner by name recognition and Bill's high approval. The Press HATES Hillary

and always has. I only did the last year for Edwards, Hillary and Obama because I am writing article for DU, not encyclopedias. Guys, the right wing and the press have been writing non stop media smears of Hillary since 1992. They hate her much more than Bill. She is a strong, in your face no apologies woman---the very model of the type of matriarch the Irish-American matriarchy breeds, which makes a lot of men angry and even upsets women who are not from matriarchal subcultures in the US.

She will always be beloved among Irish working class Democrats, because they actually like strong, fearless women. The Hillary type does not seem foreign to them. She does not scare them. In their own communities, women like her keep families stable. But other communities, where women are used to subjugating themselves to the men find her threatening to their status quo.

Sexism is so deeply ingrained in our culture that many people do not even recognize it. For instance, they would not even question the assumption that children should live with their biological mother unless she is unfit or that it is the mother's responsibility to care for children and that fathers are secondary and that a father who chooses to stay home with the kids is abnormal but a mother who does so is admirable. This kind of attitude dooms women to lower wages because it trivializes women's work even if they are the only bread winner.

Then there are reproductive and sexuality issues. Boys are all assumed to be desperate to score but girls must not be sluts. It was not that way in the 1970s when I was a teenager. We have actually regressed. And women under 18 have no reproductive rights but they have full responsibilities as parents----

We desperately need to solve are sexist problems, for the sake of our children, who grow up in poverty and violence, because their mothers live in poverty and violence---mothers of all races and ethnicities. There are more White women on SSI than any other group.

[UALRBSofL]

4. Will people pleaase copy and paste this post

And send it to the DNC because Howard Dean and the committee needs to know what is going on with the media and Senator Clinton.

This is the link: www.dnc.org I already did.

Also, kick and rec this thread to the greatest page.

Everyone needs to read this journal, not just DU. Also, if you have the time, send it to the MSM. Thanks. :)

[UALRBSofL]

6. K/R

Thank You

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10. done

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7. They Have To Focus On Hillary & Barack. They Will Stick To One, Come November

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8. K & R &

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9. K&R