what a stupid question/thread. you sound like a baby whining. oh, it’s going to be a LONG, LONG decade for you repugnant republicans.
obama was vetted for two years. palin doesn’t have, obviously, the gravitas to pull off the spotlight. time for her to shut her trap, go home and take care of her kids. her 15 minutes were up long ago, and hopefully she’s smart enough to realize it (though that’s doubtful, seeing as she’s a u of ID grad).
Obama vetted? Not by the US media. He is being vetted now, though. By the Mullahs of Iran. By Putin. By Chavez of Venezuala. By the economy. By North Korea. And he ain’t looking so hot.
Hey, buckeye, did Obama ever have the media snooping around in his private life? Did comics ever make jokes about his daughters? Why is it that folks like you just need to insult your ideological adversaries? Can’t you communicate without spewing venom?
If we’re so repugnant, why do you spend so much time on our blog. If I reach a similar judgment about a left-wing blog (i.e., determine it’s the equivalent of “repugnant” in my evaluation), I’ll just stop reading it, wondering why I should waste my time with such hatred. So, while you’re at it, addressing the questions I pose below (related to this post), address that one as well. Why are you so drawn to something you find so repugnant?
Just look at your comment, filled with insults. Just one example of how Palin has been treated. And you never address the question. Why does it sound like whining? Back up your point.
C”mon, dare to answer, how would he have reacted if the MSM hadn’t fawned all over him?
And since Obama has been so thoroughly vetted as you claim, please tell us what he had done to merit the adulation of his acolytes? And do so without insulting a single Republican, only singling out his qualities.
Is it possible for you to talk about anyone without badmouthing Republicans?
& Jody, that’s not the point, though I’ll grant it’s a clever answer.
The question is how Obama would have reacted? And we do have hints–of how testy he gets just at the thought of FoxNews–which offers the least biased coverage of any news network (a study from a nonpartisan outfit confirms this)–even George Stephanopoulos has noticed this testiness.
And had he reacted the way he does to FoxNews, would he have been able to continue to project his celebrated “cool” demeanor?
He can barely handle even the mildest of criticisms without being surly and petulant. The unending attacks would have brought him to his knees.
Libbysays
Obama quit every single job he had to advance himself into the next job. The fact that his “faithful” do not know that just proves that they have worked for and elected a man that they knew nothing about.
I know all about him, his entire story as far as it can be know with all of the ommisions and protected information that no one can get to and I knew that he was a failure at every job he has ever had long before Nov, 2008.
Do you have any clue as to why Obama is so confident? It is because he knew that he would be President without ever having to do anything other than what his puppetmasters told him to do…and he did it.
So we have a mindless President who really believes that if he just talks he can make anything happen because it has always worked for him in the past.
Obama does not know about money, or government, or leadership, or war, or responsibility, or anything else. He knows his job is to deflect criticism while he runs to his team and asks them what he should do next.
Dan, I think you answered your own question. Obama gets testy. He doesn’t quit. As I recall, Bush did the same thing.
Regarding the study, can you be more specific? The nearest one I could find with a quick google search was this Pew Media Study that came out last year. It was only focused on the Election not on overall ongoing and eternal bias.
Skimming through that Pew report as well as the one they released a week earlier, it looks like it wasn’t so much that Obama was getting great marks by the combined press but rather McCain was getting a hell of a lot of bad ones on all sides. Fox was more evenhanded in some aspects regarding Obama but they did tend to give McCain more favorable reportage.
Also, going by those same reports, Palin wasn’t getting consistently slammed by everyone, as the story is being spun. MSNBC did more negative reporting about her than other channels but that was countered by the good notes she got from Fox — and from NBC.
If you are referring to another source, please let me know. Otherwise, as far as I can see, pick a channel and show and they all went after somebody, in some way someone thought was fair and someone else thought wasnt. The difference is that Obama, McCain, Biden, even Clinton, are all still slogging it out. Palin, not so much.
I think Mr. Reynolds nailed it: if the ever-so-thin-skinned Barack Obama got one-tenth the abuse that Sarah Palin has gotten, he’d cry like a little girl. And his defenders would scream raaaacciiiiism at the top of their lungs.
Obama has been treated with kid gloves by the vast majority of the media, so much so, that when they start to question his actions, it’s newsworthy.
One thing that probably is not reflected in the survey is the difference in attitude and tone when liberal reporters question leftists versus Republicans and conservatives. The Democrat/leftist is typically allowed to finish his or her answer completely, get out all of his talking points without interruption; and they’re answers are seldom challenged with follow-ups. During the ObamaCare infomercial, Obama was given 60% of the airtime to give his talking points, no opposing views were allowed.
In contrast, Republicans and conservatives are almost always interrupted by the hosts and their answers are challenged. (The leftists *hate* this when their guys get the same treatment on FNC.)
I also don’t think Pew takes into account puff-pieces like Brian Williams going out for hamburgers with the Dear Leader, and never questioning whether these aren’t just stage PR stunts. Nor does it take into account dishonest reporting like the “story” that racial epithets were heard at Sarah Palin rallies. These claims were never validated, but somehow became a meme of MSM reporting on the campaign.
BTW, even though the MSM covered the fake story of racial epithets being heard at Sarah Palin rallies, did they ever cover the real story of Democrats selling “Retarded Republican Babies for Palin” T-Shirts? No? I rather thought not.
Ignatiussays
I’m going out on a limb here to state that bias in the MSM is fairly well established.
The_Livewiresays
Jody, thanks for the links,
Personally, I’d have loved to have seen ‘Barack Obama is a Richard” T-shirts and the reaction there was.
Lord’s bleeding wounds… Who remembers the uproar over Obama-Chia?
V the K, asking bnl to think is like asking him to not spout bile.
Practically every story on Palin’s resignation speech has described it as “rambling” and or “disjointed.” Have these esteemed journalists never heard Dear Leader speak without a Teleprompter?
Jody, Bush, get testy, what?!?!? He received more negative press in an average day than Obama got in the entire presidential campaign. And he never got testy about reporters the way Obama gets about FoxNews.
When I have a moment, I’ll find the study, think it was Lichter, but am not sure . . . showed something like 40% of FoxNews’s coverage of both candidates was favorable. Or so I recall.
Here’s the study.I was wrong about Fox giving exactly the same amount of positive coverage to both presidential candidates:
On Fox News Channel, by contrast, Obama’s press has been only 28% positive during the general election, even worse than the 38% positive evaluations of McCain.
It seems that that gap though was smaller than the other networks, that is the gap between their positive coverage of Obama and of McCain.
So, Fox tilted less to the right than they did to the left.
The biggest hypocrite in the media is, of course, Andrew Sullivan, who has demanded Sarah Palin release all medical records relating to the birth of her son Trig, because of his deranged conspiracy theory that she is not his real mother. Meanwhile, the God of the Bronze Pecs releases nothing but a note from his doctor, and St Andrew of the Vapors is satisfied.
Duff - Native Intelligencesays
Benu…you continue to be the Cajun Spice of this blog. However, that being said, I find it incredible that your favorite guy has surrounded himself with the same old crowd – promising change and finding the same old crowd to “assist him” remake the US and bring forth change. For the middle class and conservatives he what a combination of Andrew Jackson and George Armstrong Custer would be for Natives. Keep on providing the “spice” my friend.
cubanbobsays
V has the excitable boy Andrew demanded that Obama release his birth certificate?
The real test so to speak for Hussein is when the House goes Republican and grinds him to a halt. He may not quit but I would not be surprised if decides not to run again in 2012. The real problem with Republicans when interviewed by clowns like Couric is to simply dissect the imbecilic question and the fraudulent assumptions and then ask them to rephrase the question in an intelligent manner based on true facts. The first Republican that actually does that will so embarrass the media… one can only dream.
MinaBsays
If the press had asked Obama a single difficult question during his run for the office, things might be different. As we see now, he does not like difficult questions. Very thin skinned. And people do cannot see how savagely Palin has been treated are willfully blind and ummm…dishonest idiots.
ThatGayConservativesays
oh, it’s going to be a LONG, LONG decade for you repugnant republicans.
And what of the millions who have lost their jobs under your beloved idiot? You’re right, it will be a long time and not just a decade. It’ll take a lot longer to pay off the massive debt he’s given us. Not to mention the rights and freedoms we’re handing over to him for control.
palin doesn’t have, obviously, the gravitas to pull off the spotlight.
And Joe Biden has what, exactly? Only the left would put a racist bigot in the WH.
SoCalRobertsays
Obama wasn’t subjected to the usual media anal exam because 1) he’s a liberal Democrat and 2) he’s black (There! I said it!).
Buckeye boot licker and his ilk have nothing substantive to offer in the debate – all they can do is blame all the worlds ill on people they don’t like (for reasons that they can’t articulate).
Even with their people in complete control, they’re as mean and nasty as ever.
Liberals won’t be happy until everyone is as miserable as they are.
Nan Gsays
Obama would have created a long ”enemies list,” and, if he’d have still got elected he would have made those enemies pay one way or another.
We would not have heard any hints about ”bailing out” the newspapers or media, that’s for sure.
Dan, thanks for the study link. It came out at the same time as the Pew report, and gave roughly the same results. I think the two Pew reports were more comprehensive than the CMPA report, looking at questions of bias and candidates from multiple angles but all three addressed bias, showing there was enough to go around, Fox and MSNBC included.
And yes, Bush did get testy. On Iraq. On questions of torture. Arguing it’s not the same kind of testiness as Obama is special pleading again, which I mentioned under the comments for your Bush/Obama attacks challenge. If you want an exception for Bush’s exchanges you are going to have make a better case.
Look, I don’t see any evidence (outside of rumors) for any scandals brewing on the Palin front. No family problems. No marriage issues. No “big” reason she might walk away.
I do see evidence that things have gotten tougher for her this year — and I don’t just mean with the press coverage that comes from being a national figure. Running Alaska is more difficult with the economy in shambles. Her relationship with both local parties administrating her state has soured; with the national GOP is probably worse. Her approval ratings were also way down. In various shapes and forms, that happens to everyone elected to public office.
So I’ll go back to my original point about Palin. Obama and Bush and McCain and Biden and Clinton (…and Reagan, and Bush I, and Mr. Clinton, and Gore and….) all encountered fair and unfair criticisms. All got testy with the press. They got through it. They served (or are serving) their elected positions.
Palin quit.
Gene in Pennsylvaniasays
As I recall the toughest question Obama got during the campaign was “what’s your favorite color”. He stammered and stumbled and said…
“ummm yaoh sometimes it’s green, sometimes black, yaoh depending oh umm ahhh yaoh my mood yaoh.” NEXT!
Gene in Pennsylvaniasays
Is there any doubt if Obamateleprompter got the same coverage as Palin he’d be curled up in a little ball in the corner?
Check the recent coverage of the OBAMA GLARE. He doesn’t like it when someone disagrees with him. Weren’t we promised an open transparent government where all opinions were valued? Lies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9coNTKQi544
whaaa, whaaa, whaaa. you’re all a bunch of whiners. It’s going to be a LONG, LONG decade for the repugnant republicans, and you deserve every moment of it.
Judysays
1 week and he’d have been in permanant fetal position. My grandmothew is tougher than Pres.98 lb. weakling and she has been dead for 5 years
if they gave out awards for cowardice and wimpyness-he’s have won it every year
TOmsays
this is funny. he has every media BUT FOX giving him oral sex and he STILL whines about Fox. That tells you how he would have handled it. He’d have folded in days had he gotten 1/10th the crap Palin had.
buckeyenutloversays
Whoops, sorry about that. I didn’t proof read. I do get tired of the whining though. You’d expect with 98% of the Media in the tank for Obama, he’d keep his yap shut. He can’t even do that with only Fox network not kissing his a** extrodinare
You dont know that Palin “quit” in that sense. Perhaps she is leaving politics, but she has not made her plans clear. Indeed, the only thing she has said is that she is advancing on a new front, or something to that effect, which suggests she is not quitting politics at all, but may very well be devoting all her time to campaigning against your fascist leaders. And if that is the case, that’s not quitting, that’s going on the offensive.
first, aren’t you embarrassed by such a skanky name? If it helps, we are embarrassed for you.
And second, yes, it is going to be an excruciatingly long year, waiting til Democrats get thrown out on their asses next year with you repeating what is apparently the only sentence you are able to string together over and over and over again.
I suppose in liberal circles, your statement must sound ingenious, and as such bears repeating. But you should know that everywhere else, it just makes you look like a retarded preschooler.
I would agree. I would consider becoming a pundit “leaving politics”. I was talking about campaigning for office.
ThatGayConservativesays
It’s going to be a LONG, LONG decade for the repugnant republicans, and you deserve every moment of it.
How about the millions of Americans f@cked over by your beloved liberals? Do they “deserve every moment of it”? Quite a few voted for “hope & change”. Is massive debt and unemployment what they deserve?
What a sad, pathetic turd you must be.
Gene in Pennsylvaniasays
Yes We Can. No he didn’t. Is it true our young President is really traveling over to Russia and Ghana this next week? Just 5 days after it was announced another 467,000 Americans have lost their jobs during the Democrat Obama recession/depression. Takes some big onions to start traveling like everything is terrific back in the homeland. Is Obama out of touch or what?
For the sake of the world and the universe, I don’t think she’s going to be able to run again. By quitting, she’s blown her chance at higher office.
Suesays
#3 Jody
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wanna bet? he didn’t serve out his full term as Senator. Even after he said he would. He served 2 years out of a 6 year term-leaving 1/3 into his term of office. Big time quitter
For the drooling idiot buckeyenutlover, and for Jody, I invite attention to just one instance of the psychotic hatred dealt to Sarah Palin over the past year; can’t recall a good URL right now, but it’s a photo of Sarah and Trig (the “Down’s baby”), along with a coat-hanger, and the caption “better luck next time.”
What kind of people are so completely batshit-twisted crazy that they advocate that kind of hatred?
Look, I think capping on Michelle Obama because you don’t like her looks is chickenshit punk. I think going after the Obama daughters is so far beyond the pale you should thank God if someone doesn’t put you in intensive care.
But that’s the same thing as slandering Palin’s husband and both of her daughters for things that never happened. Even if you want to slam Bristol Palin for being 17 and clueless (but I repeat myself), that’s no excuse for bringing in her 14-year-old daughter.
So, yes, I would say that Sarah Palin has put up with WAY more crap than Hillary Clinton ever had to. Not only that, Sarah Palin is much less a professional politician than Hillary is. Maybe she (God forbid) honestly thinks that taking her family away from the spotlight is a good thing.
I remember when so many talking heads (including a healthy number of conservatives) bashed Fred Thompson because he was “lazy.” What they should have said is “Fred Thompson is a man with a strong sense of public duty, but truly questions whether the benefits of modern politics justifies the personal cost.”
The statement that only a crazy person would run for president has been a public staple for years. What sane person would put up with the abuse, and accept the necessary devotion? Yet the two people who demonstrate a less than obsessive (i.e. non-monomaniacal) drive for public office have suffered the most.0
It’s sad that the sane players are considered “lazy,” or “quitters.”
The media have in a sense become human shields for Obama. Whenever we discuss how Brian Williams or Chris Matthews is beclowning himself in fawning obsequiousness to Dear Leader, we’re not talking about Dear Leader’s corruption and incompetence.
As for Sarah being a “quitter,” I see it differently; she actually put her family ahead of her ambitions. Which is way better than the way the Obamas use their little girls as political props and stage dressing.
heliotropesays
Palin will have “quitter” as a taunt from many on the left. In their view, she picked up her marbles and ran away; she doesn’t have the stuff to be President; she couldn’t stand the heat, so she got out of the kitchen.
If that is enough to derail her, then so be it. One thing is certain: there is no way you can turn this taunt off or around.
However, Palin has the moxie, the smarts and the charisma to steamroll right over the taunters. Actions always speak louder than words and Obama’s actions are screaming to be challenged. If he rids the world of nuclear arms, brings peace and stability to the Middle East, solves the energy problem, stops global warming, ends joblessness and repairs the world economy, he will be hard to beat. But if he comes out of the chute promising “hope” and “change” he will have to defend his non-record and that includes being a quitter on his campaign promises to the hard left. He will undoubtedly blame everything on what he “inherited” and order people to stand pat, because change is just around the corner.
Obama has set himself up to be criticized on substance. He played the Messiah card effectively, now he has to produce some fishes and loaves. The people with torches and pitchforks are growing in numbers and they are not amused.
As Rush likes to ask: “How’s that hope and change working out for you?”
No, he quit because he was bored and lied his way into another job. Seen it before in the business world, and just like in the business world, the people to whom he lied are figuring out that he’s a complete and utter incompetent.
Meanwhile, what’s funny is how leftist pigs like Jody quash valid ethics complaints against their own Pelosi, Reid, Murtha, Rangel, Dodd, Obama, and others, but file frivolous complaint after frivolous complaint against Palin with the express intent of harming and bankrupting her. They cheat and lie and steal, then start screaming “quitter” when a woman refuses to play the game any more and walks away from them.
Sarah Palin is no more of a quitter than a person who refuses to play poker with a known cheat and liar. That’s what Jody and his Obama Party are, and the fact that they do so, like Casey pointed out above, demonstrates what piggish and hateful scum they are.
Palin will have “quitter” as a taunt from many on the left.
While no doubt many on the Left will use it… hey I already have…. I think the most damage in the future is going to come from members on the Right of the spectrum.
Like Hilary scored one of the more damaging digs against Obama with her 3AM add and Bush / Rove decimated McCain years ago with the “he’s crazy” and “black baby” robocalls, Palin will have more to worry about from one of her future competitors for the nomination using the quitter adjective against her. She has some cover from Democrats who use it. When she’s facing down a current or former governor from her own party it’s going to be a pretty tough hit to shake.
Not that I think she’s ever running again.
how leftist pigs like Jody quash valid ethics complaints against
Yes, ND30, you’ve caught on to my Evil Plan(TM). Safely ensconced in my Secret Hideout I call “Starbucks #343,” I use my laptop to reach out to my evil minions across the globe, directing them to obfuscate, deny and destroy ethics complains against all the heads of the Democratic Party. Such is my power. Kneel before Zod! Mwhahahahahahahaha!
Safely ensconced in my Secret Hideout I call “Starbucks #343,” I use my laptop to reach out to my evil minions across the globe, directing them to obfuscate, deny and destroy ethics complains against all the heads of the Democratic Party.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the least. Paid Obama shills like yourself have done far worse, such as the photoshopping of pictures of Trig Palin to make him look grotesquely deformed and spreading lies that Palin was under indictment.
Why do you support those things, Jody? Why do you support filing frivolous ethics complaints against Sarah Palin, but so adamantly oppose them against proven criminals in your own party? Do you truly have any values or principles? Don’t you realize your whining about being criticized by people for your need to have sex with children is truly hypocritical when you yourself are attacking Sarah Palin’s family and joking about raping her daughter?
Let me follow-up and say that the harsh commentary against Palin quitting have already started appearing on Fox.
Proving once again that FoxNews really is fair and balanced, unlike its competitors.
Anniesays
I remember seeing photos of people wearing “Palin is a C*#t” shirts before the election. And the recent photoshopped photos of Trig are sickening. In what twisted universe is this behavior acceptable? Obama would have shriveled under the same malicious treatment that Sarah Palin has endured.
Again, Jody, not that it surprises any of us. Spoiled brats like you and your fellow liberals have, throughout history, acted out merely to get attention and to upset other people.
It speaks volumes for you and your party that the only purpose you have is to annoy others. Fortunately, the American public is starting to realize that that’s simply not a method of governing.
Not really. It’s merely providing an excellent example of how liberals like yourself are not interested in intellectual thought or argument, but only in annoying and attacking others.
John T. Simpsonsays
Guys, You must have missed this piece I posted at Big Hollywood – “What If President Obama Were A Republican?”
Y’know, Jody, until the last couple of posts, I thought you were a liberal with a sense of humor. Someone who liked to mess with the other side for some laughs.
Alas, you are just another wanna-be smartass. Mainly because you don’t have enough functioning brain cells to be a genuine smartass.
what a stupid question/thread. you sound like a baby whining. oh, it’s going to be a LONG, LONG decade for you repugnant republicans.
obama was vetted for two years. palin doesn’t have, obviously, the gravitas to pull off the spotlight. time for her to shut her trap, go home and take care of her kids. her 15 minutes were up long ago, and hopefully she’s smart enough to realize it (though that’s doubtful, seeing as she’s a u of ID grad).
Obama vetted? Not by the US media. He is being vetted now, though. By the Mullahs of Iran. By Putin. By Chavez of Venezuala. By the economy. By North Korea. And he ain’t looking so hot.
I doubt he would have quit.
Hey, buckeye, did Obama ever have the media snooping around in his private life? Did comics ever make jokes about his daughters? Why is it that folks like you just need to insult your ideological adversaries? Can’t you communicate without spewing venom?
If we’re so repugnant, why do you spend so much time on our blog. If I reach a similar judgment about a left-wing blog (i.e., determine it’s the equivalent of “repugnant” in my evaluation), I’ll just stop reading it, wondering why I should waste my time with such hatred. So, while you’re at it, addressing the questions I pose below (related to this post), address that one as well. Why are you so drawn to something you find so repugnant?
Just look at your comment, filled with insults. Just one example of how Palin has been treated. And you never address the question. Why does it sound like whining? Back up your point.
C”mon, dare to answer, how would he have reacted if the MSM hadn’t fawned all over him?
And since Obama has been so thoroughly vetted as you claim, please tell us what he had done to merit the adulation of his acolytes? And do so without insulting a single Republican, only singling out his qualities.
Is it possible for you to talk about anyone without badmouthing Republicans?
& Jody, that’s not the point, though I’ll grant it’s a clever answer.
The question is how Obama would have reacted? And we do have hints–of how testy he gets just at the thought of FoxNews–which offers the least biased coverage of any news network (a study from a nonpartisan outfit confirms this)–even George Stephanopoulos has noticed this testiness.
And had he reacted the way he does to FoxNews, would he have been able to continue to project his celebrated “cool” demeanor?
His head would have exploded.
He can barely handle even the mildest of criticisms without being surly and petulant. The unending attacks would have brought him to his knees.
Obama quit every single job he had to advance himself into the next job. The fact that his “faithful” do not know that just proves that they have worked for and elected a man that they knew nothing about.
I know all about him, his entire story as far as it can be know with all of the ommisions and protected information that no one can get to and I knew that he was a failure at every job he has ever had long before Nov, 2008.
Do you have any clue as to why Obama is so confident? It is because he knew that he would be President without ever having to do anything other than what his puppetmasters told him to do…and he did it.
So we have a mindless President who really believes that if he just talks he can make anything happen because it has always worked for him in the past.
Obama does not know about money, or government, or leadership, or war, or responsibility, or anything else. He knows his job is to deflect criticism while he runs to his team and asks them what he should do next.
Dan, I think you answered your own question. Obama gets testy. He doesn’t quit. As I recall, Bush did the same thing.
Regarding the study, can you be more specific? The nearest one I could find with a quick google search was this Pew Media Study that came out last year. It was only focused on the Election not on overall ongoing and eternal bias.
Skimming through that Pew report as well as the one they released a week earlier, it looks like it wasn’t so much that Obama was getting great marks by the combined press but rather McCain was getting a hell of a lot of bad ones on all sides. Fox was more evenhanded in some aspects regarding Obama but they did tend to give McCain more favorable reportage.
Also, going by those same reports, Palin wasn’t getting consistently slammed by everyone, as the story is being spun. MSNBC did more negative reporting about her than other channels but that was countered by the good notes she got from Fox — and from NBC.
If you are referring to another source, please let me know. Otherwise, as far as I can see, pick a channel and show and they all went after somebody, in some way someone thought was fair and someone else thought wasnt. The difference is that Obama, McCain, Biden, even Clinton, are all still slogging it out. Palin, not so much.
OK, Jody and Buckeyebuttlicker, simple challenge: Name one tough question posed to Obama by the MSM during the campaign. One.
I think Mr. Reynolds nailed it:
if the ever-so-thin-skinned Barack Obama got one-tenth the abuse that Sarah Palin has gotten, he’d cry like a little girl. And his defenders would scream raaaacciiiiism at the top of their lungs.
Obama has been treated with kid gloves by the vast majority of the media, so much so, that when they start to question his actions, it’s newsworthy.
One thing that probably is not reflected in the survey is the difference in attitude and tone when liberal reporters question leftists versus Republicans and conservatives. The Democrat/leftist is typically allowed to finish his or her answer completely, get out all of his talking points without interruption; and they’re answers are seldom challenged with follow-ups. During the ObamaCare infomercial, Obama was given 60% of the airtime to give his talking points, no opposing views were allowed.
In contrast, Republicans and conservatives are almost always interrupted by the hosts and their answers are challenged. (The leftists *hate* this when their guys get the same treatment on FNC.)
I also don’t think Pew takes into account puff-pieces like Brian Williams going out for hamburgers with the Dear Leader, and never questioning whether these aren’t just stage PR stunts. Nor does it take into account dishonest reporting like the “story” that racial epithets were heard at Sarah Palin rallies. These claims were never validated, but somehow became a meme of MSM reporting on the campaign.
BTW, even though the MSM covered the fake story of racial epithets being heard at Sarah Palin rallies, did they ever cover the real story of Democrats selling “Retarded Republican Babies for Palin” T-Shirts? No? I rather thought not.
I’m going out on a limb here to state that bias in the MSM is fairly well established.
Jody, thanks for the links,
Personally, I’d have loved to have seen ‘Barack Obama is a Richard” T-shirts and the reaction there was.
Lord’s bleeding wounds… Who remembers the uproar over Obama-Chia?
V the K, asking bnl to think is like asking him to not spout bile.
If they had treated Obama like that?
He would have become the Reverend Barack Obama.
Practically every story on Palin’s resignation speech has described it as “rambling” and or “disjointed.” Have these esteemed journalists never heard Dear Leader speak without a Teleprompter?
Jody, Bush, get testy, what?!?!? He received more negative press in an average day than Obama got in the entire presidential campaign. And he never got testy about reporters the way Obama gets about FoxNews.
When I have a moment, I’ll find the study, think it was Lichter, but am not sure . . . showed something like 40% of FoxNews’s coverage of both candidates was favorable. Or so I recall.
Here’s the study.I was wrong about Fox giving exactly the same amount of positive coverage to both presidential candidates:
It seems that that gap though was smaller than the other networks, that is the gap between their positive coverage of Obama and of McCain.
So, Fox tilted less to the right than they did to the left.
The biggest hypocrite in the media is, of course, Andrew Sullivan, who has demanded Sarah Palin release all medical records relating to the birth of her son Trig, because of his deranged conspiracy theory that she is not his real mother. Meanwhile, the God of the Bronze Pecs releases nothing but a note from his doctor, and St Andrew of the Vapors is satisfied.
Benu…you continue to be the Cajun Spice of this blog. However, that being said, I find it incredible that your favorite guy has surrounded himself with the same old crowd – promising change and finding the same old crowd to “assist him” remake the US and bring forth change. For the middle class and conservatives he what a combination of Andrew Jackson and George Armstrong Custer would be for Natives. Keep on providing the “spice” my friend.
V has the excitable boy Andrew demanded that Obama release his birth certificate?
The real test so to speak for Hussein is when the House goes Republican and grinds him to a halt. He may not quit but I would not be surprised if decides not to run again in 2012. The real problem with Republicans when interviewed by clowns like Couric is to simply dissect the imbecilic question and the fraudulent assumptions and then ask them to rephrase the question in an intelligent manner based on true facts. The first Republican that actually does that will so embarrass the media… one can only dream.
If the press had asked Obama a single difficult question during his run for the office, things might be different. As we see now, he does not like difficult questions. Very thin skinned. And people do cannot see how savagely Palin has been treated are willfully blind and ummm…dishonest idiots.
And what of the millions who have lost their jobs under your beloved idiot? You’re right, it will be a long time and not just a decade. It’ll take a lot longer to pay off the massive debt he’s given us. Not to mention the rights and freedoms we’re handing over to him for control.
And Joe Biden has what, exactly? Only the left would put a racist bigot in the WH.
Obama wasn’t subjected to the usual media anal exam because 1) he’s a liberal Democrat and 2) he’s black (There! I said it!).
Buckeye boot licker and his ilk have nothing substantive to offer in the debate – all they can do is blame all the worlds ill on people they don’t like (for reasons that they can’t articulate).
Even with their people in complete control, they’re as mean and nasty as ever.
Liberals won’t be happy until everyone is as miserable as they are.
Obama would have created a long ”enemies list,” and, if he’d have still got elected he would have made those enemies pay one way or another.
We would not have heard any hints about ”bailing out” the newspapers or media, that’s for sure.
Dan, thanks for the study link. It came out at the same time as the Pew report, and gave roughly the same results. I think the two Pew reports were more comprehensive than the CMPA report, looking at questions of bias and candidates from multiple angles but all three addressed bias, showing there was enough to go around, Fox and MSNBC included.
And yes, Bush did get testy. On Iraq. On questions of torture. Arguing it’s not the same kind of testiness as Obama is special pleading again, which I mentioned under the comments for your Bush/Obama attacks challenge. If you want an exception for Bush’s exchanges you are going to have make a better case.
Look, I don’t see any evidence (outside of rumors) for any scandals brewing on the Palin front. No family problems. No marriage issues. No “big” reason she might walk away.
I do see evidence that things have gotten tougher for her this year — and I don’t just mean with the press coverage that comes from being a national figure. Running Alaska is more difficult with the economy in shambles. Her relationship with both local parties administrating her state has soured; with the national GOP is probably worse. Her approval ratings were also way down. In various shapes and forms, that happens to everyone elected to public office.
So I’ll go back to my original point about Palin. Obama and Bush and McCain and Biden and Clinton (…and Reagan, and Bush I, and Mr. Clinton, and Gore and….) all encountered fair and unfair criticisms. All got testy with the press. They got through it. They served (or are serving) their elected positions.
Palin quit.
As I recall the toughest question Obama got during the campaign was “what’s your favorite color”. He stammered and stumbled and said…
“ummm yaoh sometimes it’s green, sometimes black, yaoh depending oh umm ahhh yaoh my mood yaoh.” NEXT!
Is there any doubt if Obamateleprompter got the same coverage as Palin he’d be curled up in a little ball in the corner?
Check the recent coverage of the OBAMA GLARE. He doesn’t like it when someone disagrees with him. Weren’t we promised an open transparent government where all opinions were valued? Lies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9coNTKQi544
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashoe.htm
whaaa, whaaa, whaaa. you’re all a bunch of whiners. It’s going to be a LONG, LONG decade for the repugnant republicans, and you deserve every moment of it.
1 week and he’d have been in permanant fetal position. My grandmothew is tougher than Pres.98 lb. weakling and she has been dead for 5 years
if they gave out awards for cowardice and wimpyness-he’s have won it every year
this is funny. he has every media BUT FOX giving him oral sex and he STILL whines about Fox. That tells you how he would have handled it. He’d have folded in days had he gotten 1/10th the crap Palin had.
Whoops, sorry about that. I didn’t proof read. I do get tired of the whining though. You’d expect with 98% of the Media in the tank for Obama, he’d keep his yap shut. He can’t even do that with only Fox network not kissing his a** extrodinare
He is a whinny wimp isn’t he?
Jody,
You dont know that Palin “quit” in that sense. Perhaps she is leaving politics, but she has not made her plans clear. Indeed, the only thing she has said is that she is advancing on a new front, or something to that effect, which suggests she is not quitting politics at all, but may very well be devoting all her time to campaigning against your fascist leaders. And if that is the case, that’s not quitting, that’s going on the offensive.
Buckeyenutlover,
first, aren’t you embarrassed by such a skanky name? If it helps, we are embarrassed for you.
And second, yes, it is going to be an excruciatingly long year, waiting til Democrats get thrown out on their asses next year with you repeating what is apparently the only sentence you are able to string together over and over and over again.
I suppose in liberal circles, your statement must sound ingenious, and as such bears repeating. But you should know that everywhere else, it just makes you look like a retarded preschooler.
AE if, after a half-term as Alaska’s governor, she winds up a talking-head on Fox that’s not going on the offensive. That’s cashing in.
I would agree. I would consider becoming a pundit “leaving politics”. I was talking about campaigning for office.
How about the millions of Americans f@cked over by your beloved liberals? Do they “deserve every moment of it”? Quite a few voted for “hope & change”. Is massive debt and unemployment what they deserve?
What a sad, pathetic turd you must be.
Yes We Can. No he didn’t. Is it true our young President is really traveling over to Russia and Ghana this next week? Just 5 days after it was announced another 467,000 Americans have lost their jobs during the Democrat Obama recession/depression. Takes some big onions to start traveling like everything is terrific back in the homeland. Is Obama out of touch or what?
WHAT!?!
We agree!!
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!
{explosions…. world ends… universe dissipates}
For the sake of the world and the universe, I don’t think she’s going to be able to run again. By quitting, she’s blown her chance at higher office.
#3 Jody
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wanna bet? he didn’t serve out his full term as Senator. Even after he said he would. He served 2 years out of a 6 year term-leaving 1/3 into his term of office. Big time quitter
Sue, he got a promotion.
For the drooling idiot buckeyenutlover, and for Jody, I invite attention to just one instance of the psychotic hatred dealt to Sarah Palin over the past year; can’t recall a good URL right now, but it’s a photo of Sarah and Trig (the “Down’s baby”), along with a coat-hanger, and the caption “better luck next time.”
What kind of people are so completely batshit-twisted crazy that they advocate that kind of hatred?
Look, I think capping on Michelle Obama because you don’t like her looks is chickenshit punk. I think going after the Obama daughters is so far beyond the pale you should thank God if someone doesn’t put you in intensive care.
But that’s the same thing as slandering Palin’s husband and both of her daughters for things that never happened. Even if you want to slam Bristol Palin for being 17 and clueless (but I repeat myself), that’s no excuse for bringing in her 14-year-old daughter.
So, yes, I would say that Sarah Palin has put up with WAY more crap than Hillary Clinton ever had to. Not only that, Sarah Palin is much less a professional politician than Hillary is. Maybe she (God forbid) honestly thinks that taking her family away from the spotlight is a good thing.
I remember when so many talking heads (including a healthy number of conservatives) bashed Fred Thompson because he was “lazy.” What they should have said is “Fred Thompson is a man with a strong sense of public duty, but truly questions whether the benefits of modern politics justifies the personal cost.”
The statement that only a crazy person would run for president has been a public staple for years. What sane person would put up with the abuse, and accept the necessary devotion? Yet the two people who demonstrate a less than obsessive (i.e. non-monomaniacal) drive for public office have suffered the most.0
It’s sad that the sane players are considered “lazy,” or “quitters.”
The media have in a sense become human shields for Obama. Whenever we discuss how Brian Williams or Chris Matthews is beclowning himself in fawning obsequiousness to Dear Leader, we’re not talking about Dear Leader’s corruption and incompetence.
As for Sarah being a “quitter,” I see it differently; she actually put her family ahead of her ambitions. Which is way better than the way the Obamas use their little girls as political props and stage dressing.
Palin will have “quitter” as a taunt from many on the left. In their view, she picked up her marbles and ran away; she doesn’t have the stuff to be President; she couldn’t stand the heat, so she got out of the kitchen.
If that is enough to derail her, then so be it. One thing is certain: there is no way you can turn this taunt off or around.
However, Palin has the moxie, the smarts and the charisma to steamroll right over the taunters. Actions always speak louder than words and Obama’s actions are screaming to be challenged. If he rids the world of nuclear arms, brings peace and stability to the Middle East, solves the energy problem, stops global warming, ends joblessness and repairs the world economy, he will be hard to beat. But if he comes out of the chute promising “hope” and “change” he will have to defend his non-record and that includes being a quitter on his campaign promises to the hard left. He will undoubtedly blame everything on what he “inherited” and order people to stand pat, because change is just around the corner.
Obama has set himself up to be criticized on substance. He played the Messiah card effectively, now he has to produce some fishes and loaves. The people with torches and pitchforks are growing in numbers and they are not amused.
As Rush likes to ask: “How’s that hope and change working out for you?”
Sue, he got a promotion.
No, he quit because he was bored and lied his way into another job. Seen it before in the business world, and just like in the business world, the people to whom he lied are figuring out that he’s a complete and utter incompetent.
Meanwhile, what’s funny is how leftist pigs like Jody quash valid ethics complaints against their own Pelosi, Reid, Murtha, Rangel, Dodd, Obama, and others, but file frivolous complaint after frivolous complaint against Palin with the express intent of harming and bankrupting her. They cheat and lie and steal, then start screaming “quitter” when a woman refuses to play the game any more and walks away from them.
Sarah Palin is no more of a quitter than a person who refuses to play poker with a known cheat and liar. That’s what Jody and his Obama Party are, and the fact that they do so, like Casey pointed out above, demonstrates what piggish and hateful scum they are.
While no doubt many on the Left will use it… hey I already have…. I think the most damage in the future is going to come from members on the Right of the spectrum.
Like Hilary scored one of the more damaging digs against Obama with her 3AM add and Bush / Rove decimated McCain years ago with the “he’s crazy” and “black baby” robocalls, Palin will have more to worry about from one of her future competitors for the nomination using the quitter adjective against her. She has some cover from Democrats who use it. When she’s facing down a current or former governor from her own party it’s going to be a pretty tough hit to shake.
Not that I think she’s ever running again.
Yes, ND30, you’ve caught on to my Evil Plan(TM). Safely ensconced in my Secret Hideout I call “Starbucks #343,” I use my laptop to reach out to my evil minions across the globe, directing them to obfuscate, deny and destroy ethics complains against all the heads of the Democratic Party. Such is my power. Kneel before Zod! Mwhahahahahahahaha!
Let me follow-up and say that the harsh commentary against Palin quitting have already started appearing on Fox.
If Palin choses to run for another office, it’s only going to get worse.
Safely ensconced in my Secret Hideout I call “Starbucks #343,” I use my laptop to reach out to my evil minions across the globe, directing them to obfuscate, deny and destroy ethics complains against all the heads of the Democratic Party.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the least. Paid Obama shills like yourself have done far worse, such as the photoshopping of pictures of Trig Palin to make him look grotesquely deformed and spreading lies that Palin was under indictment.
Why do you support those things, Jody? Why do you support filing frivolous ethics complaints against Sarah Palin, but so adamantly oppose them against proven criminals in your own party? Do you truly have any values or principles? Don’t you realize your whining about being criticized by people for your need to have sex with children is truly hypocritical when you yourself are attacking Sarah Palin’s family and joking about raping her daughter?
Sarah Palin is no more of a quitter than a person who refuses to play poker with a known cheat and liar.
A cheat and liar who also happens to own the MSM Casino.
Let me follow-up and say that the harsh commentary against Palin quitting have already started appearing on Fox.
Proving once again that FoxNews really is fair and balanced, unlike its competitors.
I remember seeing photos of people wearing “Palin is a C*#t” shirts before the election. And the recent photoshopped photos of Trig are sickening. In what twisted universe is this behavior acceptable? Obama would have shriveled under the same malicious treatment that Sarah Palin has endured.
I’ll let you in on the secret, ND30. All of our evil plans? They’re all done for one simple reason.
I’ll whisper it to you because I’m not sure everyone else in the Vast Conspiracy wants it know, but I’m brave enough to tell you…
Lean in… come on…
Ready?
It drives you nuts.
Yup. That’s it. That’s the secret. We’re all in this to drive you, ND30, into ever higher heights of consternation, condemnation and outrage.
Oops! I’ve said too much. They’re listen. Must get back to my other Evil Deeds. There’s a quota, you know.
Again, Jody, not that it surprises any of us. Spoiled brats like you and your fellow liberals have, throughout history, acted out merely to get attention and to upset other people.
It speaks volumes for you and your party that the only purpose you have is to annoy others. Fortunately, the American public is starting to realize that that’s simply not a method of governing.
ND30, you misread my post.
Our Vast Evil Conspiracy is directed purely at annoying you.
And it’s working splendidly.
{cue evil laugh}
Not really. It’s merely providing an excellent example of how liberals like yourself are not interested in intellectual thought or argument, but only in annoying and attacking others.
Guys, You must have missed this piece I posted at Big Hollywood – “What If President Obama Were A Republican?”
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/04/29/what-if-president-obama-were-a-republican/
That should answer any questions you have 🙂
Y’know, Jody, until the last couple of posts, I thought you were a liberal with a sense of humor. Someone who liked to mess with the other side for some laughs.
Alas, you are just another wanna-be smartass. Mainly because you don’t have enough functioning brain cells to be a genuine smartass.
Casey, I will of course defer to your expertise in deficient brain cells and intimate familiarity with smartass-ery.