The MSM Can't Handle Obama

[berni_mccoy]

You know what they are NOT talking about on this mornings news? The latest manufactured issue for Obama. Every time the MSM tries to create one of these non-issues that are suppose to Divide us, Obama comes out and Extinguishes it, reuniting the people even stronger than before. It has now happened at least seven times that I know of. Black enough, Muslim, Rev. Wright (part 1), Elitism, Flag-pins, Rev. Wright (part 2). Every time they try to do this, Obama simply shuts it down, with grace and composure, and always staying on message. He is able to shut down every single one of their insane made-up attacks and focus people back on the issue while showing them, ever so gently, that the media is trying to distract them from the things that really matter to them.

Clinton on the other hand, is one that would use the power of the MSM. Whenever one of these made-up issues arises, she goes on the MSM in an attempt to wield it's power against Obama (for example "He's not a Muslim, as far as I know."). She hunkers down like a corrupted creature waiting for the moment to strike and fearful for the MSM's eye falling on her. And when it does, she hides from it until forced out in the daylight exposed and with no other option to admit she told the truth. She has done this over and over again, most notably with Ferraro's racially divisive comments, taking 10 days to denounce and repudiate her and it took her over a week to admit to her lies in Snipergate.

Yes, the MSM is powerful. But their power is limited when a candidate confronts them directly and honestly and does not try to wield their power for their own gain. The MSM has not seen someone like Obama before. But politicians like Clinton they deal with everyday. Quite plainly, the MSM can't handle Obama. He is a breath of fresh air for America and is changing how not only Americans perceive the MSM, but how they perceive the outlook on their future. It's not the picture of fear that has been painted for them for so long. People are waking up and are not afraid. And they are ready for President Obama.

[YEM]

1. Did the Mainstream media force Wright to speak? No.

This "it's the media's fault" is pure bullshit. Ask Chris Rock.

[berni_mccoy]

3. Did the MSM force Clinton to Lie? No. But both of these are not issues important to Americans

But the MSM spins them into issues bigger than they really are.

Granted, Clinton's lie goes to her character and she admits any topic is fair game.

However, the point is how the candidate DEALS with the MSM. The MSM doesn't know how to handle Obama.

[stillcool]

5. ummm...playing selected 'excerpts'...

24/7 for at least 3 weeks might have something to do with Wright's need to speak. I want to know when we get to hear selected 'excerpts' from Hillary's prayer group played 24/7 for 3 weeks. Don't you? I think it is imperative that we learn what she sat there and listened to.

Hillary's Prayer: Hillary Clinton's Religion and Politics
Clinton's prayer group was part of the Fellowship (or "the Family"), a network of sex-segregated cells of political, business, and military leaders dedicated to "spiritual war" on behalf of Christ, many of them recruited at the Fellowship's only public event, the annual National Prayer Breakfast. (Aside from the breakfast, the group has "made a fetish of being invisible," former Republican Senator William Armstrong has said.) The Fellowship believes that the elite win power by the will of God, who uses them for his purposes. Its mission is to help the powerful understand their role in God's plan.

Coe's friends include former Attorney General John Ashcroft, Reaganite Edwin Meese III, and ultraconservative Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.). Under Coe's guidance, Meese has hosted weekly prayer breakfasts for politicians, businesspeople, and diplomats, and Pitts rose from obscurity to head the House Values Action Team, an off-the-record network of religious right groups and members of Congress created by Tom DeLay. The corresponding Senate Values Action Team is guided by another Coe protégé, Brownback, who also claims to have recruited King Abdullah of Jordan into a regular study of Jesus' teachings.

The Fellowship's long-term goal is "a leadership led by God—leaders of all levels of society who direct projects as they are led by the spirit." According to the Fellowship's archives, the spirit has in the past led its members in Congress to increase U.S. support for the Duvalier regime in Haiti and the Park dictatorship in South Korea. The Fellowship's God-led men have also included General Suharto of Indonesia; Honduran general and death squad organizer Gustavo Alvarez Martinez; a Deutsche Bank official disgraced by financial ties to Hitler; and dictator Siad Barre of Somalia, plus a list of other generals and dictators. Clinton, says Schenck, has become a regular visitor to Coe's Arlington, Virginia, headquarters, a former convent where Coe provides members of Congress with sex-segregated housing and spiritual guidance.
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These days, Clinton has graduated from the political wives' group into what may be Coe's most elite cell, the weekly Senate Prayer Breakfast. Though weighted Republican, the breakfast—regularly attended by about 40 members—is a bipartisan opportunity for politicians to burnish their reputations, giving Clinton the chance to profess her faith with men such as Brownback as well as the twin terrors of Oklahoma, James Inhofe and Tom Coburn, and, until recently, former Senator George Allen (R-Va.). Democrats in the group include Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor, who told us that the separation of church and state has gone too far; Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is also a regular.

Unlikely partnerships have become a Clinton trademark. Some are symbolic, such as her support for a ban on flag burning with Senator Bob Bennett (R-Utah) and funding for research on the dangers of video games with Brownback and Santorum. But Clinton has also joined the gop on legislation that redefines social justice issues in terms of conservative morality, such as an anti-human-trafficking law that withheld funding from groups working on the sex trade if they didn't condemn prostitution in the proper terms. With Santorum, Clinton co-sponsored the Workplace Religious Freedom Act; she didn't back off even after Republican senators such as Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter pulled their names from the bill citing concerns that the measure would protect those refusing to perform key aspects of their jobs—say, pharmacists who won't fill birth control prescriptions, or police officers who won't guard abortion clinics.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/hillarys-prayer-3.html

[CJCRANE]

17. The Fellowship's ideas seem Straussian.

Just a religious facade for neocon elitism.

[harun]

22. Wright wasn't publicly saying anything and they were talking about

him every day.

[Avalux]

2. There are, to put it simply, speechless.

I turned on MSNBC this morning to hear Joe Scarborough exclaim "I predict there will be sunny days ahead for Obama now that he's handled Wright" and that was the extent of it. The issue has been effectively put to rest (at least for the primary); there's no way Hillary's camp will try to resurrect it either - would be a bad move.

On a side note; I have no doubt Wright will counter what Obama said yesterday; however I don't think he will enjoy the media coverage he's had. MSNBC received a large volume of emails complaining about it; people just didn't want to hear it.

Obama took control and showed his humanity; he might actually get a boost from it.

[berni_mccoy]

9. Thanks for that report.

I hadn't seen that show this morning.

[Cosmocat]

20. No, it hasn't ...

I don't know what Joe said, but the afternoon has been ALL negative on BO, on all three networks ...

They VERY effectively have him in a now win situation with this ...

Same interview with some news bimbo she managed to knock him for both turning on a friend and taking too long to do it !!!

Other than that, if I heard 7 different pieces on it, everyone of them said it was still a problem for some innane reason or another ...

I have been very confident for BO from about late January until this point ... I think they know they got him in a bad way right now, they are like piranhas right now ...

Think Pig Russert isn't going to spend 20 of 40 air time minutes tearting at BO over this Sunday, followed by 10 minutes of Flag Pin and Ayers, followed by 10 minutes of how he can't seem to seal the deal against the wife of a former president, who has basically been running for this race for 16 years and was the presumptive nominee up until four months ago ???

[high density]

4. Obama's campaign learned from the errors of John Kerry

Kerry/Edwards 04 just didn't know how to play the media. People on DU bemoan how Kerry responded to the Swifties but it just wasn't broadcast. Sorry, but it's not a response if it's not packaged up easily for the media. Obama did exactly what was needed. For Wright Part 1 he gave a speech that shut everybody up. That probably would've been sufficient indefinitely had Wright avoided the National Press Club. Now for part two Obama made about seven minutes worth of clear comments that were very easy for the media to disseminate. The National Review, et al will now attack Obama for trying to mend fences with the speech in Philadelphia and then having no choice yesterday, through no fault of his own, to make the statements about Wright to end this once and for all.

[BigDDem]

6. The "MSM" is out to get you!!!!

:tinfoilhat:

[TragedyandHope]

7. MSM, welcome to the underside of the bus

:kick:

[wowimthere]

8. Obama Obliterates MSM! When they go negative on O, turn them off! They get the signals. Digital

and HD tvs, cable networks are able to denote when you turn from one channel to next or turn it off altogether. When you hear people trying to rip this country away from you, by distracting us from Obama's message and feeding sideshow controversy, turn the channel or turn the tv off. It does work.

[CJCRANE]

21. Yes, vote with your remote.

I simply stopped watching the political pundits when the first Wright marathon went into its second week.

I switched on again a couple of days ago when I heard about the latest Wright kerfuffle but could only take about 2 mins of F** News before switching off again.

What's even worse is that after the ABC debacle you can't even trust the MSM to run a proper debate.

If it isn't even worth watching the debates there isn't really any reason left to rely on the MSM. Speeches and primary results can be viewed online.

[Cha]

24. That what my son told me last night..he's on Kauai

and he just shut it off for the last week.

[nebula]

10. This is how its going to be, get used to it

when or if Obama makes it to the WH.

MSM will be ready to pounce on his every move while he is in the oval office. And I bet even then they will still be ranting and raving about Jeremiah Wright, 24/7.

It will be the 90s all over again.

[knixphan]

11. Kick for WE ARE STRONGER THAN MSM!

We will form a more perfect union!

[jenmito]

12. Andrea Mitchell KEEPS asking EVERY guest if Obama did enough to distance himself from Wright. They

all answer, "What more do you want him to say?" Jeez!

[Cosmocat]

23. Andrea is freakin unhinged ...

she was on Chris Mathews yesterday, and they noted that she is covering the Clinton campaign, and her lack of objectivity could not possibly be any more blatent ... Her head almost blows off when she talks about Obama ...

[jenmito]

25. I know! All day she's been "pointing out" that Obama didn't "get serious" about this 'til a day or

two after the comments by Wright were made and his polls started showing weakness, that at first he just kind of brushed off the comments on the tarmac, etc. (something like that, implying his whole press conference was not authentic).

[Life Long Dem]

13. Sounds like MSM is all confused and they don't know which way to go.

[ClayZ]

14. Let the MSM trip over their tongues!

:evilgrin:

[knixphan]

16. seconded.

[Renaissance Man]

15. MSM

I decided after the first manufactured controversy not to watch CNN, MSNBC, or FOX (unless, of course, if there is a live feed from an Obama campaign rally).

It's much smarter to spend my time donating and making calls for the campaign than looking at the latest manufactured controversy. I'll let the champion take on the idiots.

[barack the house]

18. As I have said Obama is a politcal genius and if he stays stead fast his reverence could almostt

almost equal that of Gore

[knixphan]

19. absolutely.

and it will, most assuredly.