Are you ashamed of the biased presidential coverage?

[Inky_Wretch]

Straight face, and no "if's" this time: A Muslim president puts us one giant step closer to becoming a jihadist-like nation intent on wiping Christianity and Judaism from the map while the starstruck folks who put Obama in office are left scratching their heads wondering what in the world were they thinking. That's a hypothetical only in the sense it hasn't happened yet.

All your rants and screams about "religious prejudice," "right-wing nutjobs", etc. won't stop this from happening if he's elected.

Speaking of rants and screams ...

I've heard that exact rant from the nutjobs interviewed at McCain/Palin rallies who think Obama winning the election = apocalypse.

Seriously, you realize this is a respected U.S. Senator we're talking about here, not Osama bin Laden?

No, he doesn't. He seems to believe whatever whackjob, wingnut chain e-mail his mouth-breathing buddies forward to him.

 

[friend of a friend]

Straight face, and no "if's" this time: A Muslim president puts us one giant step closer to becoming a jihadist-like nation intent on wiping Christianity and Judaism from the map while the starstruck folks who put Obama in office are left scratching their heads wondering what in the world were they thinking. That's a hypothetical only in the sense it hasn't happened yet.

All your rants and screams about "religious prejudice," "right-wing nutjobs", etc. won't stop this from happening if he's elected.

Did you say something about right-wing nutjobs?

 

[spnited]

Straight face, and no "if's" this time: A Muslim president puts us one giant step closer to becoming a jihadist-like nation intent on wiping Christianity and Judaism from the map while the starstruck folks who put Obama in office are left scratching their heads wondering what in the world were they thinking. That's a hypothetical only in the sense it hasn't happened yet.

All your rants and screams about "religious prejudice," "right-wing nutjobs", etc. won't stop this from happening if he's elected.

Did you say something about right-wing nutjobs?

I'm actually more ashamed of some of the things posted on this thread than I could ever be about the media coverage of this campaign.

Honestly, I don't care about the media coverage of the campaign because I decided from the start that I would like to see President Barack Obama and therefore paid little attention to the bullshirt that's been going on for the last 18 months.

And as soon as someone defines for me exactly what role Bill Ayers has had in Obama's presidential campaign, I'll take a look at Obama's terrorist ties.

 

[DanOregon]

Sarah Palin gets hung in effigy in California has some sort of prank, and West Coast liberals have a field day with it, laughing their butts off. But can you imagine what would happen if someone did something as simple as exercise fair play and put a figure of Obama in the same noose? You would have every remnant of the Black Panthers, Jesse Jackson's crew, the ACLU and Muslim groups worldwide screaming for blood!!!!

Um...

http://www.local12.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=39c3f3ee-24f8-4126-9ea8-f8b18ef1c2d1

But they probably didn't report that one on FOX News.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/racial_incident_rattles_george.html
And we haven't heard from anyone but the Secret Service, who found the students responsible.
And using the phrase "exercise fair play" with hanging someone in effigy, particularly an act used to intimidate black people, is disgusting to me.

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

2. Of course, some of you will scream: "But you can't run with someone just on the basis of the National Enquirier!!!" But the MSM ran with crap about Sarah Palin's daughter actually being the mother of the Downs Syndrome baby on the basis of left-wing blogs -- no better than the NI.


I want to see actual evidence of this. I think you wish this had happened, and suspect that it happened, but I'd like some evidence that it actually did. Andrew Sullivan posted the question on his blog for the Atlantic. That's about as close to the MSM as this story came. Please provide a link, or a nexis mention, or something that says Bristol Palin was the mom of Trig.

It came from a DailyKos Diary that has since been deleted.

What conservatives don't understand is anyone can write a diary on that site. You just sign up, jot some shirt down and it's up there for all to see. I wouldn't exactly call the Palin-Tri diary a conspiracy though. It was just some merry prankster looking to stir shirt up. How do I know this? I frequent an Internet forum where the original poster of the diary formulated his plan of attack.

 

[wisportswriter]

5. Keith Olberman's "How Dare You" Mr. Bush. I don't care if you're right and he's wrong. You don't lecture the President of the United States. You have some common courtesy.

Two cousins and a friend dead in Iraq.

I'd spit in his face.

Serious question, boston, not meant to incite.
Would your cousins and friends have wanted you to do that?

 

[toolsofignorance]

Sarah Palin gets hung in effigy in California has some sort of prank, and West Coast liberals have a field day with it, laughing their butts off. But can you imagine what would happen if someone did something as simple as exercise fair play and put a figure of Obama in the same noose? You would have every remnant of the Black Panthers, Jesse Jackson's crew, the ACLU and Muslim groups worldwide screaming for blood!!!!

Um...

http://www.local12.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=39c3f3ee-24f8-4126-9ea8-f8b18ef1c2d1

But they probably didn't report that one on FOX News.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/09/racial_incident_rattles_george.html
And we haven't heard from anyone but the Secret Service, who found the students responsible.
And using the phrase "exercise fair play" with hanging someone in effigy, particularly an act used to intimidate black people, is disgusting to me.

And I'm sure there are other instances.

But I'm confused! Where are the Black Panthers and Jesse Jackson and all of the angry black people and Muslims and William Ayers and Osama bin Laden crying for blood?

Re: the bold, you and me both. As disgusting as the stunt that idiot Ashley Todd pulled.

 

[DanOregon]

And when I think of media coverage of Sarah Palin, I kind of think her supporters want to have it both ways. They want the media to cover her like a mom from Alaska, but they want the people to respect her like a national leader.
Remember, Nixon, Quayle, Ferraro, Agnew, George Romney and Eagleton, all took much more heat than Palin has. I think people are confusing attacks on McCain's selection of her, with criticism of Palin herself.

 

[wisportswriter]

I'm guessing his cousins and friends would want to be alive.

No shirt?
Thanks for the input.

 

[GlenQuagmire]

We'll see how it plays out, but I would say that for the most part, the campaign coverage, on both sides of the aisle, has been a disgrace.

I just wanted Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric, the New York Times, etc., to treat Obama the same way they have McCain and Palin. There's been an obvious difference in election coverage. And I think the mainstream media have spent more time believing what Obama says and spent not enough time doing their own reporting to find answers.

And for the record, I no longer support the Republicans nor Democrats. At this point, I think my cats would be better candidates for president.

 

[buckweaver]

I just wanted Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric, the New York Times, etc., to treat Obama the same way they have McCain and Palin.

What would you have the Gibsons and Courics of the world do, Quagmire? Obama and Biden aren't the ones declining every interview and bashing/blaming the press every time something negative (like the Ayers or Wright stories) appears in the media?

If your job is to cover two campaigns and one of them is blasting the media on every perceived slight, real or imagined, what can anybody possibly do to make the coverage appear "equal"?

 

[Pilot]

The people at my shop -- copy desk, news side reporting staff -- plan to pop a bottle of champagne to celebrate Obama's election. I pointed out this might not be intelligent, and they said: "Oh, don't worry. We will only have one bottle and share it. We promise we won't get drunk."