It is actually kind of funny. The press thought it had some tacit understandings for its complicity...like if the truthiness was so egregious and they called a politician out...she would stop. Now they have to face the reality that there were no grand professional balancing acts and compromises...their complicity was a pure sell out. That is why they are so shrill right now...they are having the raw truth of it (no pun intended) thrown in their faces.
Posted by allansfca at September 21, 2008 07:47 AMThe lack of self-awareness is stunning. All this time they did not realize they were court jesters.
They disparage the left blogs, but they apparently have never read them.
Posted by James E. Powell at September 21, 2008 09:27 AMYeah, like you know anything about truth other than shibboleth for obfuscation.
Posted by onar at September 21, 2008 11:36 AMSo, let me get this straight. The so-called 'journalists' are just now feeling righteous indignation that no one listens to them anymore or cares what they say. That no one respects them or trust them. LOL LOL LOL LOL
The truth is that they are as guilty as anyone for putting Bush in the Oval Office. They have lied as often as anyone in the Bush Administration, and never thought anyone would notice. They have willingly done the grunt work for the GOP (think media dinner: "some call you the elite, I call you my base"), and the utter disgust of people for these used car salesmen is a surprise to them?????
I will open a bottle of wine, sit back, and enjoy their demise with great pleasure, knowing that they finally understand that a great many of us don't give a fuck what they say, including it turns out, the GOP.
The curse of the 'journalist' and MSM has been the Internet. The press is irrelevant anymore, and I smell fear.
Posted by Judith at September 21, 2008 11:46 AM
and during the primaries the major blogs coluded in the lying and the sleaze so that shit you smell has splattered far and wide.
Posted by the young Judith (tyj) at September 21, 2008 04:29 PM"1998 was the start of a nauseous process of trying to take down a President for lying about his sex life."
Your right, I would have far rathered he be brought down for the firing of the travel office and going after Billy Dale, or illegally having over 900 FBI files in his office, or his illegal taking of Chinese money for his re-election, or his renting out of the Lincoln bedroom, or his stealing of White House furniture upon his departure, or his Wife witholding documents that somehow turns up 2 years later.
But you know, it is kind of like Al Capone. It would have been great to have gotten him for his more serious crimes but in the end they had to settle for the easy one, income tax evasion.
Posted by manapp99 at September 21, 2008 04:54 PMmanapp99, I wish you could hear how ridiculous you sound reading your words.
Posted by Judith at September 21, 2008 05:29 PMYour right, I would have far rathered he...
Ahhhh! That's cute. Scum like you calling Bill Clinton scum. Wave bye bye, bud. Your type will never run things again.
Posted by phidipides at September 21, 2008 07:21 PM"On Thursday, Obama said of McCain, "He has consistently opposed the sorts of common-sense regulations that might have lessened the current crisis." That's entirely untrue.
As The Washington Post pointed out in an editorial on Friday, McCain in fact has supported many new regulations of financial institutions, including some that Obama opposed. "In 2006, he pushed for stronger regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- while Mr. Obama was notably silent," The Post wrote.
Obama attacked McCain for having a top financial advisor who supported a deregulation bill a few years ago. Yet two top Obama financial advisors, with whom he met on Friday to help him form his response to the current troubles on Wall Street, supported the same bill, which was signed by President Clinton.
Also last week, Obama released a Spanish-language ad that portrayed McCain as anti-immigrant and anti-Hispanic and tried to link him to immigration policies that were not his own as well as some choice Rush Limbaugh quotes that appeared to insult Mexicans.
Anyone who has followed the immigration debate knows that McCain is the most pro-immigration Republican on the national stage and that he is not in the least anti-Hispanic. To pull quotes from Rush Limbaugh, who has completely different immigration views than McCain and who opposed him on that issue for years (and still does) is completely disingenuous. The ad is so bad that even The New York Times" From the Unionleader in NH.
Referring to both the Wash Post and NYTimes too! OOPs Obama got caught.
Then there's the report from KXTV in Bismarck reporting, "Obama campaign staff pulling out of ND." So much for that 36 state strategy. One by one the race is getting slimmer, less states to go to.
The people of NH also wonder...
"We wonder what those same voters think of Obama's sincerity now. In the past few weeks, Obama has thrown so many false accusations against John McCain that just keeping track of them has become difficult. And these aren't innocent errors. They are deliberate distortions of the sort Obama has always said he reviles." Unionleader.com
Posted by peter at September 21, 2008 08:37 PMPoor peter. Screwed, and you know it. Let me clue you in. If you want to know when McCain is lying, it's when his mouth is open.
Posted by phidipides at September 21, 2008 10:14 PMFrom Factcheck.org:
"Obama's Social Security Whopper
September 20, 2008
He tells Social Security recipients their money would now be in the stock market under McCain's plan. False.
Summary
In Daytona Beach, Obama said that "if my opponent had his way, the millions of Floridians who rely on it would've had their Social Security tied up in the stock market this week." He referred to "elderly women" at risk of poverty, and said families would be scrambling to support "grandmothers and grandfathers."
That's not true. The plan proposed by President Bush and supported by McCain in 2005 would not have allowed anyone born before 1950 to invest any part of their Social Security taxes in private accounts. All current retirees would be covered by the same benefits they are now."
Your right it is time the media does it's job and exposes this campaign of fear and lies.
Posted by manapp99 at September 22, 2008 07:29 AMBoth candidates are in attack mode, and although it seems like both are starting to bend the truth about their opponents, it appears that McCain started the attacks and Obama was forced into taking the same tactics. At least Obama was forced into this dirty race. I don't think McCain has an excuse for trying to steal Obama's slogan (Change) and platform. He should come up with his own. The Republicans have cleaned up over the last 8 years. From defense contracts, pre-emptive wars, constitutional alterations, corporate fraud and more, Republicans have had their chance in Washington. It looks like it will be more of the same with a McCain win. Many people say they are unsure of Obama, or that he is wishy-washy. These are the same accusations that Republicans made about Kerry, and he headed the commission looking into Iran-Contra. These are lies spread by the Republican Party in an effort to undermine their opponent and alter the view that the public has of their opponent. Even if I was totally unsure of Obama I would rather vote for the person whose ideas I agree with, but am unsure of, rather than McCain, the guy whose ideas I disagree with and am sure will follow through with them.
Posted by Matt at September 22, 2008 08:13 AMYou don't remember way back when Obama took McCain out of context saying he wanted to stay in Iraq for 100 Years?
Or when Obama took out of context McCain and the 5 million dollar quote?
Bottom line is that both are politicians running a political campaign just like all others. There is no change in this election.
The only change is how each candidate has changed his positions to say what they think you want them to say to get elected.
Clearly Obama does not think there are enough progressives to get him elected or he would not have started moving right after the nomination.
Clearly McCain was too far left for a conservative base as he has also shifted right.
Clearly this is still a right leaning electorate in the US.
Posted by manapp99 at September 22, 2008 08:53 AM