On Monday, Glenn Reynolds posted a note he received from a reader who works in a “major newsroom:”
Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor refuses to publish anything that would jeopardize election for O, and betting you dollars to donuts same is true at NYT, others. People cheer when CNN or NBC run another Palin-mocking but raising any reasonable inquiry into obama is derided or flat out ignored. The fix is in, and its working.
NBC even has sent a team as far away as Hanoi in to confirm John McCain’s stories of the torture he experienced when he was captured by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War.
You’d think that if NBC would pay to send a team to Hanoi, they might be able to send some reporters to Chicago–or even tap reporters from their local affiliate in the Windy City–to investigate some of Barack Obama’s stories, say, his response that unrepentant terrorist was just “a guy who lives in his neighborhood,” dodging the question about his relationship to William Ayers.
Noting this failure, Rush observes:
Did they go to Chicago to delve into Obama’s ties to terrorists and real estate frauds? No. And did they go investigate his ties to the church? No! They still have not done that, and they won’t. Did they follow up on any of Joe Biden’s lamebrain claims during his long and not-illustrious career? No, they did not, they have not, and they will not. But they have to go back to Hanoi and check and see if McCain’s version stands up to what the North Vietnamese torturer remembers. No mention of torture in this report, none whatsoever.
Given economic anxieties which always hurt the incumbent party and the media bias, it’s a wonder John McCain is even competitive in this presidential election. If the media treated Obama as they have John McCain, we wouldn’t be reading reports about Democrats clamoring to replace Joe Biden as the number two man on the Democratic ticket, but about their efforts to replace the man at the top of the ticket.
What were they going to find in Hanoi besides stories about McCain’s heroics?
I guess the couldn’t find his forced confessions, but maybe they found documents about his injuries, and they could use them to report on how he can’t send emails, or maybe they can just use the fact that he was a prisoner of war fighting for America to show that he is too patriotic for NBC News.
#1 Come on, the media is trying to prove that McCain really wasn’t tortured. One of the ex Communist guards said he doesn’t remember McCain being beaten.
I think it was NBC who sent a reporter to remote Alaska to report on whether you could actually “see” Russia from Alaska as Palin claimed. After flying for hours burning gallons of fossil fuels, the NBC reporter found that there was a remote island with no hotels, no restaurants, no street lights where you could actually see a Russian island from Alaska. But don’t think the media won’t stop searching for Palin or McCain “lies”. The issues are critical. Any doubt, ask the MSM.
This is an ad right there: “The Obama campaign is now claiming that John McCain was never tortured in Vietnam”.
Mainstream Media Logic:
1. We don’t investigate Obama’s connections because it’s a non-story.
2. Obama’s connections are a non-story because we don’t investigate them.
Thank you for reporting this about NBC and the other media outlets…They are a disgrace to their profession as journalists…They should be called what they’ve become…Gossiping Tabloid Junk…The American people deserve better in their election reporting.
It would be divisive and cynical to investigate Obama.
How do you know they didn’t investigate Obama in Chicago? Because an anonymous tip said so? Because Rush said so? Because you want to believe they didn’t? Or because they didn’t find anything, and you are so convinced he *must* be guilty that it didn’t happen? (Faith-based journalism, I guess)
And ND30, I notice you didn’t link that, but I will make note that under the Bush definition of torture, John McCain wasn’t “tortured.” He was subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques. So no one is saying that McCain wasn’t brutally treated in Vietnam. The sad part is that, according to Bush, it wasn’t torture. If you don’t like that analysis, complain to Bush, not Obama.
In the comments to a recent post, torrent, you were expounding on the wonders of google. Why don’t you use it to show how wrong I am–and show me an NBC investigative report on Obama and Rezko or Obama and Ayers or Obama and Fannie Mae?
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So now torrentprime is saying that Obama agrees that what happened to John McCain is not torture — because Obama agrees with enhanced interrogation techniques.
Again, torrentprime, you expose the problem; Obama screams about “torture” elsewhere and argues that the Bush definitions are wrong, but then tries to invoke them as an excuse for his claims that John McCain was not tortured.
Obama sat in the pews of The Right Reverend Wright’s church for over twenty years and didn’t hear any hate-filled comments or rants by Wright? Several months ago Obama made his victory tour of Europe giving speeches as if he was President of the United States. Gwen Ifill has a book coming out on January 20th with the title, “The Breakthrough, Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.”………..and, she is moderating tonight’s debate. Biden make’s gaffe after gaffe, but no one in the media cares……………people, the fix is in.
Wow, what a screamer talkingpoints has turned into. While he’s Googling for that NBC reporting about Rezko, maybe he could check how many detainees at GITMO have had their limbs and extremities broken, how many have been forced to participate in propaganda films, how many have been kept in bamboo cages the size of dog crates, how many have been starved.
First, the liberal-left dumbed down the definition of torture to mean “any discomfort of any kind complained about by a terrorist,” and now they’re claiming that the far worse treatment of American prisoners by the enemy doesn’t even rise to the level of torture. What a sick bunch of depraved (expletive deleted).
hehehe. oh he associates with terrorists, as the conservative right-wing whiners chirp….but then, i thought they put terrorists in jail?
Now I’m understanding why gay leftists like michael and torrentprime support Bill Ayers so much.
He also writes about the Weathermen’s sexual experimentation as they tried to ”smash monogamy.” The Weathermen were ”an army of lovers,” he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend.
What a surprise; a depraved leftist terrorist who opposes monogamy and normal relationships partners up with a politician like Obama who wants to teach the same thing to young children.
To V the K,
I think that they should close down GITMO. Ship all these terrorists back to their country of origin. I am sure that they would be better treated, right? When Obama is elected they can all stop by the White House for a State dinner on their way home and get a letter of apology.
To V the K ……………. satire.
To Swampfox… that’s not satire, that’s the Obamunist terror policy.
I am sure many GITMO detainees will be teaching at the University of Illinois and working as Community Organizers by the end of Obama’s first term.
Hell, one of them was a delegate for the Democratic Party, and that’s 100% true!
link: http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2008/05/exarmy_chaplain_cleared_in_git.html
NBC preaches to the choir. None of this behavior is new. Good news is, most Americans don’t take NBC news seriously anymore. Surveys show that most Americans today believe NBC is totally in the tank for Obama. So no matter how hard they try, they’re not likely to sway anybody these days.
This story is BS. NBC is not trying to verify or attack McCain’s war record, nor is anyone else. But, some extreme anti-Obama folks are claiming this, just to stir up trouble.
Look, suppose some anti-McCain nut job started circulating a rumor that McCain was on video using the N-word at a function in 1997. If they saw it a few times, some people would start to believe it. And they would be stupid to do so. Likewise, some people are starting to believe the NBC investigation story, and they are stupid to do so.