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April 29, 2008
NYT Spinning Wright Away From Obama
Barack Obama's Manhattan campaign office, located in the newsroom of The New York Times, is spinning Rev. Jeremiah Wright's incendiary comments at the National Press Club away from the Illinois senator. The headline says it all: Not Speaking for Obama, Pastor Speaks for Himself, at Length.
That sounds like a David Axelrod press release.
Posted by jeffgannon at 09:16 AM
Left Charges Old Media Political Manipulation
In my book, "The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report", I predicted that the rapidly changing media environment would significantly impact the 2008 election. I wrote that in 2006, the Old Media dropped any pretense of objectivity, both cheerleading for the Democrats and obsessing on negative stories about Republicans, particularly the Mark Foley text messages and George Allen's "macaca" gaffe.
During the election cycle thus far, the Old Media started out carrying Hillary Clinton on their shoulders down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. However, somewhere along the way, another candidate came along that sent "tingles down the legs" of enough of the media elites to cause a split in the Old Media. Without the collective mindset to guide the direction of their political coverage, liberal journalists have turned on each other on behalf of their favorites.
One writer is suggesting that Monday's breakfast at the National Press Club (which as a member I attended) was a set-up by a Hillary Clinton-supporting journalist to damage Barack Obama. Let me repeat: One liberal journalist is calling out another liberal journalist for playing politics.
While those one the right, including me have been complaining about political media bias for some time, this is the first instance of liberal media elites making the claims and doing it against one of their own.
This is a new day indeed!
Posted by jeffgannon at 08:10 AM
April 28, 2008
Rev. Wright Confirms All That We Knew
The spinners of the Obama campaign and the Illinois senator's Old Media sycophants that have been trying to convince Americans that the remarks of Rev. Jeremiah Wright have been misquoted or taken out of context are probably going to get drunk tonight if they have not already done so. Many of them sat with dropped jaw this morning as they watched Barack Obama's former pastor repeat the outrageous claims made in several sermons over the past few years.
Flanked by bodyguards on loan from Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, Rev. Wright played to a packed and stacked audience at the National Press Club. I hosted an Christian evangelical pastor at the breakfast, both of us hoping to hear Rev. Wright clear up the misunderstanding of his words that sounded so hateful and anti-American.
Instead, the Washington press corps and by the end of the day most interested Americans will have heard Rev. Wright confirm and defend his "controversial" statements and do it in an angry and arrogant manner. Perhaps the first clue to how the event would play out was when I spotted Cornell West, a black radical. Later on I would read from Dana Milbank's reporting in The Washington Post that Wright's guests included Marion Barry, Malik Zulu Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party and Nation of Islam official Jamil Muhammad.
Because I am a creature of Washington, I was only mildly offended at Rev. Wright's remarks. Much of America, however, will be shocked at the hateful bigotry coming out of the mouth of Obama's "spiritual mentor." At minimum, sensible people will be appalled at the rude treatment of National Press Club Vice President Donna Leinwand, attacked by Rev. Wright for reading questions submitted to the podium by members of the press.
Wright espoused "reconciliation" between the races, but stoked racial anger and rage. He reiterated that the United States brought 9/11 on itself and that the government created the AIDS virus to kill the black race. Oddly enough, Wright failed to mention Planned Parenthood, an organization established by eugenicist Margaret Sanger expressly for the purpose of black genocide.
Rev. Wright did not necessarily sink Obama's White House hopes, but he did not help them, either. The recent press tour that Rev. Wright has been doing will keep the focus on Obama's ties to radicals, only a handful that have been discussed by the press. There are many of them lurking out there, waiting for a turn in the spotlight. Next up: Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans, a fundraiser for Obama (and Iraqi insurgents.) I wrote about it sometime ago, but the Old Media might catch up with the New Media at some point before November.
Posted by jeffgannon at 03:15 PM
April 15, 2008
Barack H*****n Obama
Democrats have tried to score points with Sen. John McCain's recent flub during which he momentarily confused Sunni and Shia.
Please tell me then, which one is Obama, Sunni or Shia?
Posted by jeffgannon at 01:29 PM
Lib Journo Gets Pass For Racial Slur
Speaking at an awards banquet for the Society of Professional Journalists on April 4, "Phoenix New Times" and Village Voice Media Inc. Executive Editor Michael Lacey used the "N-word" to refer to a former colleague.
Not a single major media outlet reported the incident. Another liberal journalist gets a pass on a racial slur.
At least he didn't say "nappy-headed".
Posted by jeffgannon at 12:48 PM
Obama: The Black John Kerry
Hillary Clinton's efforts to portray herself as a centrist seem to have paid off - with some help from fellow Democrat Barack Obama. The recent "bitter" remarks of the Harvard-educated Illinois senator to a group of chardonnay-swilling San Francisco elites makes Yalie Clinton sound downright homespun.
Posted by jeffgannon at 12:37 PM
April 08, 2008
ABC Can't Find Military McCain Supporter in Iraq
Members of the military are prohibited from engaging in political activity, but ABC News convinced a few soldiers in Iraq to go before the cameras to discuss their choices for president. It is well known that the troops generally support Republicans because of their pro-military credentials, which is the reason Al Gore tried to have ballots from overseas military bases disqualified during the 2000 recount. However, Martha Raddatz could not find a single soldier who supported Sen. John McCain, a Vietnam War veteran for Commander in Chief. Most of those Raddatz interviewed backed Sen. Barack Obama with one favoring Sen. Hillary Clinton and a few undecideds.
Equally revealing was the that issues most inportant to the soldiers were education, the economy, the environment and fear of war with Iran. None of those interviewed mentioned completing the mission or national security.
ABC News is suggesting that the military is against the war in Iraq and back the most antiwar candidate seeking the nomination. It is likely that when patriots saw the liberal Raddatz and her camera crew coming, they went in the opposite direction.
The headline says it all: "Surprising Political Endorsements By U.S. Troops". It is not a surprise that ABC News would produce such a biased piece and try to pass it off as news. Raddatz should get a Pulitizer Prize for investigative reporting since she probably really had to talk to alot of soldiers to find that many Obama supporters.
Posted by jeffgannon at 09:02 AM
April 03, 2008
At Least She Didn't Say 'Nappy-Headed'
Liberal Air America Radio host Randi Rhodes was suspended after a profane outburst during which she called both Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferarro a "f*****g wh**e."
Only suspended? Paging Don Imus...
The same Randi Rhodes fell down during a drinking spree last year spawing accustations of a right-wing hate crime.
Posted by jeffgannon at 03:23 PM
Or You'll Do What, Ms. Pelosi?
The unmitigated gall of the Speakerette of the House, Nancy Pelosi to "warn" General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker not to "put a shine on recent events" in Iraq during their upcoming testimony next week!
What's wrong San Fran Nan? Are you afraid we're winning?
Posted by jeffgannon at 02:14 PM
Liberals Give Out 'Liars' Awards'
Radical liberal elites gather at the National Press Club on Thursday to honor other liberal radical elites who have distinguished themselves in disservice to America. The Nation Institute gives out "Ridenhour Prizes" in memory of Ron Ridenhour, a "journalist" who brought the My Lai "massacre" to the attention of the world during the Vietnam War and helped to establish the liberal template of the American soldier as a mass murderer.
This years' "Courage Prize" goes to Bill Moyers, a liberal icon who established state-financed media that includes NPR and PBS. Past recipients: Jimmy Carter, Gloria Steinem, Seymour Hersh and Daniel Ellsberg.
The 2008 "Truth-Telling" award winner is Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz, a former JAG officer who leaked a list of names of Guantanamo Bay terror detainees to the Center for Constitutional Rights, a group of radical lawyers who provide aid and comfort to America's enemies.
A previous recipient of the "Truth-Telling" prize is former Ambassador Joe Wilson. The Nation Institute bestowed the award before the Senate Intelligence Committee determined Wilson to be a liar. However, such an inconvenient fact is no cause for concern among liberals.
Liars seem to be attracted to each other. Last week, Joe Wilson appeared with Sen. Hillary Clinton at a campaign event in Pittsburgh. John Kerry dropped Wilson as a senior advisor following the SIC report, but the truth-challenged Mrs. Clinton seems to be willing to overlook such a minor character flaw.
Posted by jeffgannon at 08:57 AM
Fonda Puts Kiss of Death Endorsement on Obama
Antiwar activist Jane Fonda is endorsing Barack Obama for President. It should come as no suprise that the woman who provided aid and comfort to the Viet Cong while John McCain was being tortured in a North Vietnamese prison camp is backing a man whose "spiritual leader" hates America. Fonda tried to help John "War Hero to the North Vietnamese" Kerry win the White House in 2004 with her "Vagina Voices" get-out-the-vote campaign.
With Fonda's endorsement, torch has passed to a new generation of the "hate America" crowd.
Posted by jeffgannon at 08:41 AM