Obamedia Watch: Left-wing minority journalists show their true colors
“He touched me!”
So squealed a journalist attending Barack Obama’s speech yesterday to UNITY, the conglomerate of racial/ethnic identity-obsessed news associations for blacks, Asian-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans in the media, according to the Chicago Tribune’s Swamp blog.
The UNITY event organizers were so concerned about public displays of Obamedia affection that they issued several warnings to their news professional members that the speech would be broadcast live on CNN. “Professional decorum” was encouraged. One wire story even fretted: “Can minority journalists resist applauding Obama?”
Um, well, some of us can. But we don’t count.
Despite the cautionary messages, it appears many of the minority journalists in attendance couldn’t contain their decidedly un-objective adoration of Obama. Fresh from his World Tour de Farce, Obama was welcomed by the “journalists of color” conventioneers with standing ovation, cheers, and whistles–along with repeated applause during his remarks.
No word on whether anyone fainted, wept, ogled, or performed a “happy dance.” Also no word on whether any female journalists were assigned to monitor Obama’s sweat glands.
The WSJ did, however, report that there was at least one audience member wearing an Obama t-shirt” and the Trib’s Swamp blog notes in addition to the worshiper who swooned at Obama’s touch, another journalist was overheard wishing the candidate good luck.
The UNITY convention chairman downplayed Obama’s slavering rock-star reception, blaming locals for making all the noise.
But left-wing partisan minority journalists have already shown their true colors. In 2004, more than half of the 2,000 UNITY media professionals who attended failed Dem presidential nominee John Kerry’s address gave him a standing ovation (none for Bush), cheered his partisan jibes, and booed during President Bush’s remarks:
There was applause nearly 50 times during [Kerry’s] address. There was laughter when he took a shot at the Bush administration by noting that “just saying there are weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq) doesn’t make it so.” He got a standing ovation at the end.
What was true then is true now: UNITY and its minority journalism members are inherently politicized entities. They push for a left-leaning agenda of advocacy journalism, color-coded diversity, and open-borders sympathizing disguised as reporting. They mau-mau editors to avoid ethnic descriptions when it reflects badly on their group (see AAJA: Don’t call shooter Asian!) and applaud themselves for promotion “diversity” in journalism.
I poked fun at the group-think that infects UNITY gatherings four years ago with my own Malkin Media Diversity Test. Still applies today.
In defending the pep-rally atmosphere, one Dateline NBC employee argued that journalists should allowed to be “human beings:”
Said Luz Villarreal, an associate producer for “Dateline NBC”: “I don’t think it’s such a bad thing if for 15 minutes you take off your reporter hat and respond to (Obama) as a human being at an event where you’re surrounded by people of color and you’re here for a united cause.”
Funny how that works. Expressing solidarity for the “united cause” of promoting pride in “people of color” is acceptable American media behavior. But wearing an American flag pin on the air to express solidarity with the united cause of pride in our country is not.
Racial/ethnic pride: Good.
National pride: Bad.
It’s “UNITY” you can’t believe in.
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Gabe:
I remember watching some news broadcast after Bill Clinton won in 1992, some bimbo actress was gushing about how cute he was and how she couldn’t help but vote for him.
I, as a woman, was appalled. That’s when I started thinking about the wisdom (or lack thereof) of women voters. My father used to joke about his mother who only voted according to whether she liked the candidate’s face or not. I didn’t pay attention to his comments, but now I remember them and realize he was right.
Perhaps all Conservatives should try and reach out to more of these wrong voting women and try to bring them on board. We could start with shutting down the Department of Education, cutting University budgets to eliminate feelgood degrees and classes and then start weeding the chaf from the 1-12 schools.
Many of the sharpest minds in the Conservative movement are women, it can be done. I would play mamaObama’s tapes 6 times a day on every TV station in America. There are more than a few women in America who make less than $300,000 a year to “just get by”.
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Thanks for the jump in here. But now lgm might not like you!
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Gabe #100 - I am a woman and in agreement with you. Research on the Clinton campaign supports what you’re saying. The young women at my work and neighborhood thought Clinton was “cute” and were completely ignorant of the serious issues in the election. Most did not then and do not know now who their elected reps are. Some of these women had the nerve to say that Clinton was a moral man, even after his sins had been exposed! Women, wake up, smell the coffee and stop reading the newspaper or watching MSM newscasts.
That’s why they are conservatives!
Better than the candidates’ families, peers, co-workers and subordinates? Yeesh, what a dumbassed comment.
Seems the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth knew Kerry better than the reporters knew him.
Sorry, lgm. I just sunk your dinghy.
Aw, heck, Little Girlie Man is right… let’s just let the MSM choose our representatives… it would really simplify things.
If they know their candidate better than one of them, maybe one of them can take him aside a suggest that he honor some of his personal promises he’s been ducking for awhile.
I find it very interesting there hasn’t been any big news, i.e. Rev Wright, Ayers, ect, since Clinton dropped out.
Is she the only one that knows how to did?
Probably been said, but is there anything more ironic than this group of lemmings calling themselves “UNITY?”
The Rainbow Coalition comment was spot-on. ACBW = Any Color But White
But Obama has been completely consistent and above board, right? Don’t make me laugh. If you even glance at half the stories posted on this site, you know this is not even close to the truth.
lgm has a serious aura of BO around him. Or is it a stench? I guess one man’s empty suit is another man’s wet dream.
Hence the problem. And professionals keep their personal preferences out of their work. The very liberal MSM cannot seem to do that. Even Howard Kurtz has had stories on the blatant bias. But I am sure you are oblivious to it, because you “want to believe.”
Probably the same things Hillary did at the Rose Law firm when ol’ Bill became governor of Arkansas. I am presuming she was not a figurehead and actually did something (nice way of saying affirmative action mascot).
And I thought I was the only one that noticed the MObama resemblance to James Brown! Great minds think alike.
I am a person of color. It just so happens to be the wrong color.
Women aren’t the only ones taken in by the celebrity culture.
Barry F #55–They probably would have allowed that puppy to register as a Democrat.
mchristian:
You are right. However, the VAST majority of people who follow this kind of garbage are women.
How many men do you know of who read the National Enquirer regularly? I know of none. But when I stand in a supermarket line, guess who I see consistently picking up that rag and reading or buying it? Women.
Look at women’s magazines. Cosmo. Good Housekeeping. Self. All fluff, no substance.
Besides Chrissy Matthews’ tingly leg, who are the ones fainting at Obama’s rallies? Women.
Face it. Women are the ones who act like idiots when it comes to celebrities. Women committed suicide when Rudolph Valentino died. Women fainted and screamed when the Beatles arrived in the US. Teen mags about celebrities are aimed at female readers.
Not all women are like this, thankfully. But it’s undeniable that there is some kind of silly, adolescent attitude that many women have when it comes to celebrities.
BTW, my parents had a neighbor, a woman, who had Elvis Presley paneling in her “Elvis Shrine” room. Yup. Paneling with images of Elvis carved into it. My parents moved out of that neighborhood.
Scary.
Me too, I was out by the pool all week end.
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This morning on Fox & Friends, they were citing a new poll that showed BHO’s number going up to 49%, versus McCain’s 40%, and commenting about how at this same point in previous campaigns Dukakis had a 17 point lead, Gore and Kerry had somewhere around 13 points, and Jimmah Carter had a 33% lead in the polls, and they were curious as to where Obama’s post European vacation bounce was.
Apparently, most pundits are expecting a greater lead for BHO than what he is currently showing, and this seemed to baffle some people. I began to think about it, and reached the conclusion that most people just aren’t buying his rap. Am I missing something?
On July 28th, 2008 at 12:27 pm, lgm said:
If you say so, LGM, if you say so.
But that still doesn’t negate the fact that your statement was a broad, erroneous generalization: empty of substance and undeserving of a legitimate response.
I reiterate, it is stupid people who are the problem. Sheople come in both genders. Yes, women buy the show biz magazines. Men buy the sports and nudie magazines. Do you honestly believe that Playboy is more educational than Cosmo?
Please, they don’t read the articles.
mchristian:
Show me where men faint at concerts.
Sorry, but your response doesn’t fly, and it has not refuted my empirical observations.
Journalism bit the dust sometime prior to 1969. These people clearly are not. Could a pep rally be held for any other identified race?
All hail our first affirmative action president.
What? He hasn’t been elected yet?
Don’t quibble about meaningless things like elections. People will rise from the dead to cast their ballots for him and demand recounts until the correct results are obtained.
Vote early!
Vote often!
Yup. We are reverting back to tribalism.
Obama opposed KYOTO and took money from “big coal”
Employees of coal companies and electric utilities have contributed $539,597 to Obama’s U.S. Senate and presidential campaign, according to the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-07-17-obama-coal_N.htm OPPS how will he spin this one?
The Obama campaign is fostering more White racial awareness then any other movement in history. Young people on college campuses are getting together and talking about race, THEIR OWN race. They want to learn about their history, they want to understand the differences between the races.
About a week ago, I witnessed a group of White young women shout down unruly, disruptive, disrespectful Black women in a science lab. That would never have happened 5 years ago, 10 years ago, or 15 years ago. The young Whites would simply adjust their learning process to screen out the talking, movement, yelling, laughing, and anything but learning behavior that is exhibited by Blacks on college campuses. They are starting to realize who doesn’t belong in highly competitive academic programs, and wonder why their white friends who DID make the grades, and DID do the work, were left out in favor of people who cannot speak English properly because they WILL NOT, people who have zero grasp of mathematics because they lack the intellectual
capacity.
It’s becoming ever more painful to return to this site and read its content. I have the same reaction to it now that I had the day Michelle launched the revamped site.
The conversion to a “menu” of articles from a reverse chron linear flow readable by “page down” was a mistake. Perhaps it seemed innovative at the time, but no one else in the blogosphere has moved in this direction. The redesign — what a year old? — has a distinctly “old media” flavor to it, and frankly just makes it a lot harder to read the content here.
I hope another redesign is pending, one that embraces standards and convention, while introducing something truly innovative. Hard to pull off, but it shouldn’t be for a leader of the pack.
Great, GREAT stuff. I recall this clearly, and I’m frustrated how little mention it gets in the mainstream media. If Obama experiences the typical pre-general election decline of every Democrat candidacy of the past two generations, he’s toast.
Perhaps this is why he broke from public financing, to try and reverse history?
I wish mainstream media journalists were responsible enough to report this. It’s shocking to me that even professional pollsters and guys like Larry Sabato — whom I used to trust — can’t bring themselves to mention it.
The celebrity-obsessed male sheep aren’t at concerts, they’re posting on sports blogs about how they worship the Cheddar Jesus or how they once met Tom Brady’s housekeeper’s nephew’s ex-girlfriend’s Jack Russell…
There’s plenty of stupid behavior to go ’round.
Anil,
Check out the latest USA Today-Gallup poll:
http://patterico.com/2008/07/28/now-isnt-this-interesting-usa-todaygallup-mccain-4-over-obama/
Before clicking, WARNING:
Major suicide watch for Flenser, lgm, Rusty, and other liberals.
When you put into perspective that Carter, Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry were all ahead by double digits, this is bad news indeed for Barack Hussein Obama. And since this is a MSM poll, you can bet it automatically favors Hussein Obama. This is NOT looking good for Barack Hussein Obama.
Americans like hype, but like clockwork they begin to rebel against it, especially young people.
And funny how this poll is not currently being headlined on Yahoo. We are going to have some confused and depressed MSM reporters soon. I mean what can they do about the rise of McCain in the polls? Normally they would try to be more for the Democrat and increase their bias. How on earth could they possibly do that, though?
Poor MSM and poor liberals.
Susan Estrich was predicting this and worrying about it last week.
The Profession “Journalism” no longer exists. It’s all propaganda.
Heather, that does not excuse women’s idiocy. Sorry. Making excuses by pointing at other people’s errors (and in your case, they are not even equal), is no convincing argument. As a matter of fact, it seems to indicate that you are unwilling to face reality and accept the fact that there is some kind of conditioned idiocy in many women when it comes to making rational decisions when voting.
Until women are honest and accept that there is a problem, it will not go away.
Women are not above reproach!
And criticism of women is not taboo! Let’s grow up and face reality, girls!
I don’t know if this is a relevant thread, but in tune with the Drive-bys fawning over BHO, there was a link on Drudge for a very short period of time today - so short I almost missed it. A very unflattering editorial about Obambi written by Jon Voight . I used to think he wasn’t too biased, but when Ol’ Matt can leave a link to the ‘W’ movie up all day, but not this? Methinks something stinks…
If I may ask the question: what is “objectivity”? I mean, practically, not abstractly, what is “objectivity”? I ask this for one reason: of all of the millions of things that happen during the day, by what standard are journalists supposed to screen what is “newsworthy” and what is not? What does “objectivity” look like when choosing one news story over another? Of the hours and hours of debate in the Congress, which parts should journalists focus?
My solution is this: journalists need to focus on upholding the Constitution through information at their appropriate level. The local paper should focus on holding the city leadership and businesses accountable, not to mention letting the locals know what’s happening that affects them. The same with state level audiences and national. I’m tired of seeing Megyn Kelly (as an example) talking about the latest kidnapping or Shep Smith talking about some crane collapse. These things are not national news.
In terms of politics, journalists should focus on public policy questions, character, qualifications, and Constitutional issues. Beyond that, I don’t much care.
Every time he posts he loses a brain cells, before long his post will read like this ;ajhfgweahtpaghajnvlvbm nb,u24t907u02(*&T^%
Audacity of Dope?
That was post 85. Forgot to credit you, mule.
Anytime I hear, or think about the left wing media I find myself reminded of how they are losing market share, audience/subscribers, and of how many of them are out looking for work. IMHO, it would be a nice gesture to let these liberals know they had better start looking for a real job as it is most apparent that their current endeavors will not put food on their tables.
For those who would argue the point I would advise you keep a close watch for more lay-offs, and the share value of the NY Times. :oP
I can’t say I often agree with lgm, but he does spawn thought. He encourages us to at least look from different perspectives. He’s a decent devil’s advocate. Does he ever use fallacious reasoning? Yep. Did you call him on it? Nope. Did you refute anything he said? Nope. Instead you, and many others, chose to ridicule him without offering a single cogent idea of your own to counter his. Be proud.
Abstractmind, thanks for your thought-out reply to lgm.
People of color. Now just what does that mean? Michelle Malkin you know you have been declared black by some.
The American experiment resulting in our Republic didn’t result from a boatload of people landing on these shores clamoring for recognition of “people of color.” There was a united cause but it no way mirrors the tripe being spewed out by this bunch of so called jouranlists. God fearing people sought freedom from oppressive England, a free society built on solid moral and family values. Don’t see that much in this gaggle of goons.
As I’ve said before, the only racist groups of consequence in America are minority groups who put their race first - before country and fellow citizens.
ANY vote based on race is racist. Racism will not cure racism.
I think people are starting to notice that emperor BHO has no clothes.
Great post Michelle! These people…”journalists”…are so transparent. Sometimes I wonder if they even believe the stuff that spews from their mouths.
I got a jab in because of his wimp comment…but i usually try to have thought out responses when time allows
but thanks 
Oh, my gawd. Do these little simps realize just how ridiculous they sound? Political celebrity aside, their admiration has morphed into a sickening idol worship.
When he loses the election to John McCain, they’ll jump out of windows, enmasse.
I can hardly wait.
I have a simple question. Why is it offensive to say “colored people,” yet noble to say “people of color?”
Turning a participial phrase into a prepositional phrase transforms the exact same thought from evil to virtuous?
More laughable prestidigitation from the Left.
“Unity” conference? Funny, no Chicago media that I have seen has reported the brawl that took place. Only one source I have noticed so far. Bias? What bias?
BTW, I was wondering what the “unity” was supposed to be in UNITY’08.
OK. Now I understand.
And from the same article by Mark Fitzgerald comes this interesting tidbit, again, from Unity’08:
I guess like any failed liberal enterprise nowadays, they expect a government (read, taxpayer) handout.