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S Landreth

I saw it on the news last night, in Miami, Florida (Not on cable,...just regular CBS local news).

raycarey

it was widely covered on the broadcast networks and CNN, FIX, and MSNBC.

owned indeed.

Jet Gorgon

^^ I'll check, L. Thanks.

Norton

CNN International and BBC had it on several times. Not once did they mention it was Obama's fault. Libbie, bastards!!!!

Jet Gorgon

^ The story's been buried already. (SWINE FLU!) Obama laughed about it (you know, like the Asian way -- you fek up, you laugh). Doubt many New Yorkers liked that much.

sabang

No doubt the Swine Flu will prove to be the Libbies fault too.

Jet Gorgon

^ Think you got the party wrong. You know who the libbie media always blames.

MustavaMond

As he was no where near the plane, I think it fair to blame it as a staff error.
However he apologized, took responsibility.. It is such a red herring as to be bleeding an obvious desperate ploy by the wing nutters to find any lame excuse to try and trash the guy, ain't gonna work- he's too smart and too right.

See, when you don't have bogus electronic voting throwing elections, liberal candidates win by clear majorities .

Get used to it .

MustavaMond

What a load of lies, it was all over CNN ( Corporate News Network) and I suppose you think an illiterate President like Shrubster is better? He waited, what a year before he had a press conference, cause he knew, in public without being spoon fed the answers in a wire - he would look like the stupid moron he is.

FLASH BACK : He read " My Pet Goat" to children while the country was under attack from hi jacked jet liners.

WAKE UP! Turn off Limbaugh and Faux news and start thinking on your own - as if you could

raycarey

yeah, jet's right.

for example, the 'libby' media sure did a great job of down playing everything during the clinton administration.....especially the lewinsky situation. if the bladdy liberal media hadn't kept that out of the papers and off the TV, it could have become something of a scandal. fortunately because of the vast left conspiracy, not too many people every heard about her or the incident in question.

Jet Gorgon

Poor dear. Intelligent people do not shout. Or are you upset that your welfare check is late this month? (Ah, so that's how you know ray.)

As to your accusations, if you can understand what you read, check post 263, little one. Or should I say, mustfindamind.

S Landreth

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raycarey

what liberal media?



Amazon.com: What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News: Eric Alterman: Books

and btw, here's FIX news during obama's first 100 days.

fair and balanced, right?

YouTube - 100 Days of "Fair & Balanced"

S Landreth

Interesting article:

Republicans Are Not the “Other” Party We Need

In a rational world, the media would refrain from quoting/interviewing any Republican Party spokespersons/leaders until they can answer questions in private for at least 10 minutes without saying something completely stupid, fraudulent, dishonest, insulting, offensive or just plain nuts. This probationary period may take a few years, because the current Republican gang is pretty pathetic, but that's fine. Almost no one will miss them.

The problem we're having is that our Beltway media are under the impression that the Republicans are the missing "opposition party" a healthy democracy needs as a responsible check on the party in power. Even Frank Rich believes this. But even if you agree the principle is valid, it does not follow the current Republican Party is even remotely mature or sane enough to perform this function.

America is indeed suffering from insufficient debates about public policy, but ask yourself, what do Republicans have to say about any of the important issues facing the country? The answer is: nothing.

It gets better: http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/5114#more-39678

Boon Mee

^
What a load of Ca Ca!

attaboy

Bronstein at Large : Love or lust, Obama and the fawning press need to get a room


On January 23, 2008, Bronstein announced that he was leaving his job as editor of the San Francisco Chronicle to take an editor-at-large position with Hearst Newspapers.




BRONSTEIN AT LARGE
June 8, 2009
Love or lust, Obama and the fawning press need to get a room

When Barack Obama decided that questions from the German press about his trip agenda in that country were too pesky, he told the reporters, "So, stop it all of you!" He just wanted them to ask things he wanted to talk about. Well, what politico wouldn't want that?

OK, dad. We'll behave.

And according to a new Pew Research Center poll, we are behaving...like fans. On domestic press, it showed that "President Barack Obama has enjoyed substantially more positive media coverage than either Bill Clinton or George W. Bush during their first months in the White House" with "roughly twice as much" Obama coverage about his "personal or leadership qualities" than was the case for either previous president.

Back in the US, NBC's Brian Williams' two-part "Living Large With the Top Dog" feature on Mr. Obama's life included a plug for Conan O'Brien's new show and mention of cable talkies where Mr. Obama only cited MSNBC personalities.

Accident? I don't think so. There were a few probing moments in there, but they were overshadowed by the flash of hanging out in the back of the Auto One limo and having burgers. A little navel-gazing among journalism standards hall monitors about whether the thing had been too soft came and went.

Then, this Sunday in the NYTimes, there was full-on chick-flick swooning over Barack and Michelle Obama's heavily scented "date night" in NY City and its high bar standard effect on our relationship culture, with just a hint of controversy over the taxpayer costs to add some spice. I swear I've seen this movie, only Michael Douglas was the President. Or Harrison Ford. Or one of those cool and languid characters you'd want to like you. George Bush needed to be beer-bar likable to get elected. His successor has managed to get a lot of people to want to be liked by him.

And in Paris, Mr. Obama talked about how he'd love to take his wife for a romantic tour of the City of Lovers, but couldn't. Then he did. I'm guessing some regular-Joe freedom fries weren't on the menu.

This guy is good. Really good. And, frankly, so far, we're not.

You can't blame powerful people for wanting to play the press to peddle self-perpetuating mythology. But you can blame the press, already suffocating under a massive pile of blame, guilt, heavy debt and sinking fortunes, for being played. Some of the time, it seems we're even enthusiastically jumping into the pond without even being pushed. Is there an actual limit to the number of instances you can be the cover of Newsweek?

If I wanted to see highly manicured image management I'd just take some No-Doz and read Gavin Newsom's tweets. But the Obama-press dance is a more consensual seduction where, in the old-fashioned sense, we're the girl. (In California, there's no other option.)

I thought that the Maxfield Parrish, heroic days of the Kennedy Administration PR, where the press and the president were pretty much all in on the same screenplay and the same jokes, couldn't happen in our modern era, what with paparazzi and tabloids and talk shows, citizen sound-bite scavengers and voracious 24/7 news cycles. But now that the stumbling Bushes and smirking Clintons are out of the White House, time has compressed back on itself like the machine in the Denzel Washington movie, "Deja Vu." It's the early 1960s and Camelot all over again:

Very attractive wife, cute, precocious kids and the hopes and dreams of at least 63 percent of the population sitting on the athletic shoulders of a young, charismatic, mold-breaking leader, Blah, blah. (Oh, and a Chicago Mayor Richard Daley helped make it possible. We can play the Lincoln-Kennedy parallels game here.) Only there's a puppy now instead of a pony and it seems like Barack Obama may be less socially, self-destructively libertine than Mr. Kennedy. In fact, he's downright conservative on things like same-sex marriage. (It's smart to have a wholesome life -- though very clearly, in the sinuous world of the Obamas, not to the point of abstinence -- when you're pushing programs that get labeled as socialist.)

So we're in love, lust, or just a whole lot of like. Clearly we get something in exchange, whether it's a little reflected exuberance, a sense of history or just some very minor role in a fun movie. If you want to appear in a movie with John Travolta, you go willingly with him to the LA Scientology Center and are happy about it. "I'm clear, man. Hand me the cans."

I'm not sure Mr. Obama is necessarily getting away with anything here. In Cairo, when he spoke of the "principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings," more than a few writers pointed out that this meant unless you're the Egyptian government or two gay people wanting to get married. What the President was saying overseas, to mostly purplish commentators' delight over the symbolic significance of the event, Dick Cheney was actually meaning in his own "freedom means freedom for everyone" speech about same-sex weddings.

The style-over-substance hit followed him from continent to continent. "While the president is popular among Europeans," the Wall Street Journal wrote, "he returned from his second trip to Europe with little more progress on key issues" than he got on his first visit. That's the Journal. But the Washington Post, where the John Kennedy myth was nurtured like a golden statue, managed a cautionary op-ed column from Robert Samuelson warning that "our political system works best when a president faces checks on his power." He meant checks from the press.
Samuelson was one of the few in the media to give some room to the Pew Research Center poll.

So far, this is all about image and character and press "opportunities." But with what CNN medical reporter Elizabeth Cohen called this morning "gazillions of dollars" of our money at stake and crazy people with nukes bristling from around the edges of the world, we can't afford not to keep a closer eye on the substance thing.
Posted By: Phil Bronstein (Email) | June 08 2009 at 03:35 PM









The assistant managing editor of Newsweek sould be capable of choosing his words more carefully.

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Jet Gorgon

Must say, I was very disappointed in FOX news today. O'Reilly was blasting salon.org chick about partial abortions but some numbers didn't jive (even against another FOX broadcast) and his (and her) arguments fell short of the mark. Hannity wasn't much better in one segment -- attacking garbage disposal in Pelosi's SF? I think their producers are on vakay. I don't take their words as truth, but they usually have pretty good offensive takes to the libbie fluff.

raycarey

o'reilly and hannity.....that's quite the exciting friday night you lined up for yourself, jet.

Boon Mee

As opposed to your Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann & that spittin' fool who gets a "warm, tingly sensation up his let" watching BO?

Jet Gorgon

^ hehe. rc and his playground pals just can't give it up, can they?