Notorious Obamedia moments of 2008
In the tank.
My syndicated column today takes you on a brief tour of some of the most shameful Obamedia moments of 2008. Topping the list: The Los Angeles Times’ suppression of the Obama/Khalidi/Ayers-Dohrn videotape. The blogosphere has been pounding the story, with Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft leading the way. The Times claims it promised a source it wouldn’t show the tape. Can you imagine them abiding by similar conditions if they had a damning McCain/Palin video in hand? Now, reward offers for the missing video are pouring in: see Newt Gingrich; Ace; Dirty Harry; and JWR.
And another reward offer: $150,000.
I repeat: Bleeding newspapers really shouldn’t be pissing off readers. Same goes for the rest of the flailing old media.
No matter. They will cling bitterly to their drool cups until pried from their cold, dead hands.
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Notorious Obamedia Moments of 2008
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
To paraphrase Queen Elizabeth II, 2008 is not a year on which honest journalists shall look back with undiluted pleasure. This has turned out to be even more of an annus horribilis than 2004, when Dan Rather’s fake Bush/National Guard memo fiasco redefined the “BS” in CBS News. There were so many mainstream journalists swimming in the Democrat tank this year, the nation’s newsrooms looked more like overcrowded aquariums at Petsmart.
In less than a week, the campaign season will be over. But the Obamedia’s most shameful biases and notorious blunders shall not be forgotten. Here’s my top five list, by no means comprehensive and in no particular order:
1. The Los Angeles Times and the suppressed Obama/Jew-bash videotape. In April, L.A. Times reporter Peter Wallsten reported on a 2003 farewell party for radical Palestinian Liberation Organization spokesman/adviser-turned-Ivy League professor Rashid Khalidi. The gala was sponsored by the virulently anti-Israel Arab American Action Network. In attendance: good neighbors Barack Obama and Weather Underground terrorist duo Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
Wallsten reported that the “event was videotaped, and a copy of the tape was obtained by The Times.” But the news organization refuses to let readers watch the video of Barack and his left-wing terrorist friends for themselves and will not release the tape. It’s “old news” now.
The paper had no problem, however, embedding a clip of Sarah Palin’s 1984 swimsuit pageant video on its gossip blog and deeming it newsworthy.
2.Ogling Obama. In May, CNN posted “breaking news video” of female journalists on Obama’s press plane moaning and fawning over the Democratic presidential candidate as he talked on his cell phone. The caption listed on the network’s website: “Obama in jeans: Sen. Barack Obama surprises the press corps by wearing jeans.”
In the clip, several members of the press corps yell at a Secret Service agent to “sit down” because she’s obstructing their view of their beloved Obama. You can hear the journalists giggle and sigh as Obama straddles across a row of seats and they furiously click away on their cameras. “You’re killing us,” one of them truckles breathlessly.
No, you’re killing yourselves.
Runners-up for Most Drool-Covered groupies: The journalist who squealed “He touched me!” at the UNITY minority journalists’ convention in July; the MSNBC producer who broke down and shed tears of joy upon learning that The One had clinched the Democrat presidential nomination; MSNBC host Chris Matthews, who proclaimed that he “felt a thrill up his leg” after an Obama speech in February; Oprah Winfrey, who confessed she did a “happy dance” for Obama; and the writer for the German publication, BILD, who worked out with Obama at the Ritz Carlton in Berlin and reported: “I put my arm around his hip – wow, he didn’t even sweat! WHAT A MAN!’”
3.The Atlantic Monthly’s deranged photographer. Publisher David Bradley’s once-esteemed magazine hired celebrity lenswoman Jill Greenberg to snap portraits of John McCain. Greenberg, an outspoken left-winger who goaded children into crying on film and captioned the images with anti-Bush slogans, sabotaged the photo shoot and gloated about it on a photo industry website. After tricking McCain into standing over a strobe light to create ugly shadows on his face, she then posted vandalized versions of the McCain imagery on her personal website with crude, vulgar labels and Photoshopping. One featured McCain with fangs and blood dripping down his mouth – with the Greenberg-added words, “I am a bloodthirsty warmongerer (sic).”
Another piece of her “art” showed an ape (a favorite Greenberg subject) defecating on McCain’s head. The highly respected editors at the highly respected Atlantic professed shock, despite Greenberg’s notoriety. The name of her blog: “Manipulator.”
4.The quote doctors and the math manglers at CNN. In a botched attack on Sarah Palin, CNN reporter Drew Griffin cited National Review writer Byron York allegedly questioning her abilities and character: “The National Review had a story saying that, you know, I can’t tell if Sarah Palin is incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt, or all of the above?” York, however, was characterizing the press coverage of Palin, not speaking for himself.
In a botched tally, CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien proclaimed an audience poll showed “overwhelming” preference for Joe Biden after the vice presidential debate. A freeze frame of the show of hands, however, showed the audience split. The mathematically-challenged O’Brien also claimed that Palin slashed Alaska’s special needs budget by 62 percent (which she recycled from the liberal Daily Kos blog), despite the fact that the governor increased special needs funding by 12 percent. Facts, schmacts.
5. Us Magazine and publisher Jann Wenner’s Obama apparatchiks. The gossip mag’s September partisan slime job on Sarah Palin and her family (“Babies, lies, and scandal”) – which opened the floodgates of Palin-bashing across the mainstream media — was a nadir of the year. Prominent Obama backer Wenner, who ran countless hagiographies of Obama in sister publication Rolling Stone and featured the Obamas with the slavering headline “Why Barack Loves Her” on Us magazine’s June cover, had his media flack e-mail the anti-Palin hit piece to all media in St. Paul for the Republican National Convention:
“Might be useful as an illustration of how the news is playing out,” the flack wrote.
Indeed, the side-by-side covers of the Palin smears and the Obamas’ deification illustrate the year in Obamedia perfectly.
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Because Obamarx says their not. Obamarxism isn’t socialism. It’s…what did The One call it? ‘Trickle Up’ economics?
po-ta-to/po-tah-to.
Watershed, while the notion of government providing health care to everyone may be of benefit to some folks, the majority of us will end up hurting because of it. It is evident that you have never used any government assistance as you would know that the reality of government health care is a freaking nightmare.
I am a veteran, while in the military, there were long waites, poor service, and doctors that if they made a mistake, could not be brought to trial. Please look at other countries that provide health care to everyone. Why are these folks coming here to have operations? Because of they would end up dead waiting for someone to do the operation in their own country.
One fact you ARE missing here is the fact hospitals treat anyone REGUARDLESS of the ability to pay. Where do you think those 12 million illegals get their treatment from?
Government has proven time and time again they can’t run anything effectively and you want them running your health care program?
My health care provider will use me for a lab rat, treating me with experimental drugs with out my consent. If those doctors screw up and end up either killing or maiming me for life, I can’t sue them. Not to mention trying to even get an appointment for someone to actually see me if I’m sick. Guess who my primary health care provider is….
The Veterans Administration!
Rights are God-given and not anything that costs someone else for it to be attained. Therefore any type of service is not a right as it requires someone else to provide the service.
I like the US Weekly title for Obama:
“Why Barack Loves Her.” No really, why? What’s not to love about a shrew who lights her husband up in public?
Interesting that conservatives always choose to see the “tank” half full. If the LA Times were really in it to elect Obama, they wouldn’t have run the story in the first place.
Example #999,988 of Michelle Malkin fabricating hysteria out of surmise.
This FamilyWomen;
We never said that those are bad things you moron. We said the constitution should not guarantee them.
You may now have the keyboard back dear.
On October 29th, 2008 at 2:04 pm, Red State Skeptic said:
Aw shoot, did watershed get off work? Are you now sitting at his computer terminal?
Suggestion: use Lysol on the keyboard before you start typing. Shared keyboards can be terribly filthy.
That cracks me up!! Welcome aboard FamilyWoman…just watch out for the trooollllllssssss
Misscheryl My wife is always here. She’s a good strong conservative woman. I’m really fortunate to be married to her.
The emperor has no clothes! But you think the coolaid drinking, lemmings of the leftist-socialist democrat party can see it. NAAAA. He’s the one. And gosh he held a rally in jeans….ya’ll jeans…oh the man is soooooo coooool.
Not.
On October 29th, 2008 at 2:14 pm, FamilyMan said:
You better complement her when she’s that close to the monitor Familyman! Kudos to you!
Now that I think of it I think I owe my wife a good complement or something too.
I hope there’s not some anniversary I’m forgetting or something…
We have a saying in Texas about people that are not what they say they are….
All hat and no cattle…. pretenders
’nuff said.
She agrees and adds that you better not forget your anniversary.
Here is a good read about what we can expect with Obama at the helm.
Obama’s Constitution
If there is a right to welfare, then the people of America should have a right to productivity from welfare recipients. Report to the welfare office then wait for the worker’s bus to shuttle them off to a fair days work for a fair wage. Most of the illegal aliens in this country at least do work, and if the illegal alien gets the oval office he should honor their work ethic by enforcing it on everyone.
watershed, you haven’t discussed why 10% tax cuts for the poorest, 5%tax cuts for the next poorest group and 3% tax cuts for the highest income is only a tax cut for the rich? why do we have to subsidize opera and orchestra but not sports teams. oh yeah you will talk about the stadium financing being subsidy, but that generally is because the city wants the parking, food and rent fees not to mention the hiring of the POOR in these jobs. i’ve been on these boards, and the owners state unequivically that if they are going to build the stadium, it won’t be in the ghetto of downtown anywhere, but will be in the suburbs where the people are. you really can’t believe that the 90′s was eutopia, obviously you didn’t work in the tech sector or have investments in nasdaq. clinton kept the reagan tax cuts EXCEPT he raised the top rate 3% up, but it was still 30+ % lower than when reagan took over. and the reagan economy with a few hicups is still bringing prosperity to the u.s. today. todays housing/banking debacle is socialism (housing and loans for everyone whether they can afford it or not) driven. EVERY factual analysis of todays economy shows we are considerably better off than we were in the 60′s, the 70′s, the 80′s or the 90′s. education, life expectancy (health care), home ownership, salaries, taxes paid, etc. the problem has always been and it is not a liberal vs conservative problem but a congressman problem that they can’t resist spending more money than they take in to assure we are all willing to reelect them. dems give to teachers, lawyers, gays, blacks, their constituency and it’s causes, while republicans give to military, business, and their constituency and it’s causes. together they can outspend any budget. a look at the budgets of every president since nixon has shown the amount of increase in the debt has risen by a very similar amount right up to this GINORMOUS bailout of the last month. you can count on a doubling of the debt for every 4 year presidential term since nixon regardless of party.
Exactly why I got married on my birthday.
I never forget.
Anyone want to tell the LA Times what they think?…(from FoxNews’s website):
Tell the LA Times What You Think by e-mailing the paper’s “readers’ representative,” Jamie Gold, at readers.rep@latimes.com or call to leave a message with Gold at (877) 554-4000.
On October 29th, 2008 at 2:54 pm, sonofdy said:
Curses! Why didn’t I think of that?
‘Course, we got married on my wife’s birthday.
So, I’d get both barrels if I ever forgot.
Been
luckywise so far…31+ years.I never told my wife thats why we got married then, but I am sure she knows. She is not dumb. Besides It works for her too.
I am up to 12 years and going strong.
Good for you.
God bless you both.
Who ever said marriage was easy is a liar, but it is worth all of it. I know you feel the same.
I pray in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth for a few brave, patriotic Americans, who happen to work for the Commiemedia, to ask Barack Hussein Obama a few of the questions I posted to the Wolf Blitzer thread.
sonofdy, are you the one that married in Rhodesia? Sorry for my memory…
frontierguy, at least we should urine test them for drug use. every job i know insists upon that, why not welfare and unemployment. btw married 35 years to the same woman and still happy.
On October 29th, 2008 at 10:50 am, Misscheryl said:
I had to bold that last bit, because that is the heart of the matter.
Thank you, Mischeryl!
Nope Salt Lake City, Utah. I was born in New Zealand.
Oh, that’s right–you’re the blue-eyed Pacific Islander!
RAAAACIST!
Mischeryl, this fairy tale is one of my old favorites, and your post brought it to mind.
That tape must have some really damaging evidence on it for the LAT to hod on to it.
Thats me. I actualy did list myself as a Pacific Islander once to she what would happen. The government drone was stymied.
YA THINK?!
Good point!
Totally agree.
MissCheryl, shrug it off. actually i am glad that the racist word is wearing off. i don’t care anymore and you should not either. the racist word on the left is their “safety word”. it is what they yell to stop the debate. it shows that they cannot win in the arena of ideas. when racist does not work, screaming to drown out your opponent is the next strategy. don’t let it upset you, it just shows how small they really are.
redstateskeptic said:
Interesting that conservatives always choose to see the “tank” half full. If the LA Times were really in it to elect Obama, they wouldn’t have run the story in the first place.
Example #999,988 of Michelle Malkin fabricating hysteria out of surmise.
Hello:
The tank isn’t half full on this election when it comes to the LAT; when it comes to the paid-for-by-obama media. It’s overflowing.
Let’s see if you can actually grasp the fact that the LAT obamabots announced the tape back in the Spring, and now they cannot show the rest of us “inferiors” what it is all about. They made a promise? WTF is that worth to the LAT?
Where is the hysteria, and where is the surmise, that you attribute to MM?
The pattern is very clear to all but the brain dead. And that is the fact that ANY objections to the half-honky-all-donkey are deemed by the dhimmicrats as not worthy of discussion, as DISTRACTIONS.
And to boot, the dhimmis WiILL trash your private life, if you so much as question the h-h-a-d’s response.
Thank you Wayfaring Stranger! It can be comforting to come to realize that God knows us by our souls because that is who we really are. The rest just really doesn’t matter, but the rest can determine your essence if you want it to. That’s why every living soul is so incredibly special and incredibly important to help each one of us to become everything we can be. Even the trolls!
‘stymied’–har! made me blow snot out of my nose.
Correct.
Bingo!
There’s the difference in worldviews.
The socialists/statists deny the existence of the soul, ridicule the very idea of a soul; with the result that all they have left is “the rest”, and “the rest” thus, by default, determines their essence: money, sex, and power, as I’d written earlier.
sorry, watershed, but we’ve all seen plenty of would-be “Hitler youth” on the net recently, and they ALL are chanting the Messiah’s name.
Please F*ck off, will you?
The term “Racist” is so overused, so undefined, so bogus these days, it means zip, nada, zero. And for me it is a badge of honor that I will sometimes wear whenever it is written or spoken by a communist or socialist, or anarchist.
Not because I feel differently about “people of color”, or because I treat them as less-than. But just because I have been called today’s N-word and I know who called it; the ones who don’t have rational arguments for their attempts to take over my life, my property, my way of life.
Not they just use hate speech to try and shut me up. To them I say FOAD. Also, when you come and try to shut me up…oh well I won’t give away the ending.
Agreed, and its a real shame.
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/70801
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On October 29th, 2008 at 11:51 am, watershed said:
Okay, one more time for those who never watched the History Channel and are too lazy to Google:
The Nazi party was a left wing organization, not “right wing.”
The name stands for “National Socialist German Workers’ Party.”
I worked so hard to be a good racist and now look, everybodys one.
old_texan, I’m trying to move up to ‘cracker’, but right now I’m just ‘white trash’.
On October 29th, 2008 at 4:31 pm, Misscheryl said:
You are most welcome!
Like you, I’ve often been dismayed by the noxious bile and vituperation in some posts – sadly on occasion, from both sides.
Civility and passionate discourse can coexist. Disagreement with someone’s ideas is not synonymous with hate speech, despite what certain elements of society say.
And that, as Forest Gump would say, is all I have to say about that.
Well wighttrasch you have to do something really “crackery”. Have you out an old car in the yard? An old washing machine might do, but a car with the wheels off will get you to “cracker” status quick. I found an old Ford and it looks like hell.
On October 29th, 2008 at 5:01 pm, sonofdy said:
Yup. Could say more, but won’t. I think we’re [almost] all on the same page about the overuse, abuse and misuse of certain words and phrases.
Makes one want to cry…
On October 29th, 2008 at 5:25 pm, wighttrasch said:
wighttrasch, Little Big Town’s hit Boondocks is one of my favorite country songs, for several reasons – for one, I love, love love their harmonies, and get a musician’s thrill from the fuguing at the end.
But the lyrics, I think, speak for those of us who say, along with Little Big Town, I’m not ashamed; I’m proud of where I came from…
First exit poll of Actual American Voters Shows BIG McCain/Palin Win!
The Lying Media Could Have Blood on Their Hands
Imagine the hypothetical future news story by a reformed news media. It is sure to be a wonderful dream and at the sametime a nightmare for respective sides of the political divide. It goes something like this…
“At the height of affirmative action before the people came to their senses and finally declared it unconstitutional, the liberal media used affirmative action policies to help the less experienced (unqualified) candidate Barack Obama ascend to the presidency of the United States over the more experienced and qualified John McCain. Obama subsequently ran the United States into the ground. The people revolted justifiably and Obama’s “spread the wealth” polices were forever declared unconstitutional. In addition, the first amendment was modified to replace the “of the press” clause with the “the press must present triple checked facts only” clause. Ever since those constitutional changes, all Americans have learned to be more responsible, have become more patriotic, and all have achieved the American Dream. The United States has been the envy of the entire world ever since.”
So which part of the hypothetical news story is your nightmare and which is your wonderful dream?