Pardon the Obama Media Hypocrisy!
by Brian Jennings
When writing my book Censorship: The Threat To Silence Talk Radio, I included one of the Obama campaign’s most hypocritical moments. After reading this, you’ll have no question why the “Teleprompter of the United States” needs one. John McCain was no challenge in the debates but Obama avoided this confrontation. An excerpt from my book which Simon & Schuster will publish May 5th:
In late August, 2008, Obama supporters unleashed their venom on Chicago’s WGN radio for allowing a critic of Barack to come on the air. The station had scheduled an interview with Stanley Kurtz, author of an article that linked Obama to 60’s radical William Ayers. (Ayers – now a professor in the College of Education at University of Illinois – was co-founder of a radical left-wing organization called the Weather Underground that was responsible for bombings of public buildings in the 60’s and 70’s, resulting in injuries to and deaths of several people.)
Obama supporters were incensed that the radio station would interview someone whom they accused of being a “hatchet man”, spreading what they considered to be lies and distortions about their chosen candidate. Their intent was clear and to the point. They wanted to intimidate WGN and force management to reverse its decision to put Kurtz on the air. They urged their supporters to send intimidating e-mails and make phone calls to WGN radio to complain; the station was deluged with calls and e-mails.
This controversy developed into a major story not only in Chicago, on Obama’s home turf, but all across the country. It was yet another frontal assault on free speech. According to my long-time friend, former WGN Program Director Bob Shomper – who now programs WLS in Chicago – the controversy developed as a result of trying to give Obama’s campaign the opportunity to come on the radio show with Kurtz. How ironic! In other words, the station offered to fairly balance the show, but Obama supporters declined that offer and continued their intimidating tactics to try to prevent the interview from being aired. Shomper said, “Instead, they e-blasted their national database to clog our call-in lines.” Rather than choosing to debate the issues, the campaign resorted to intimidation.
Footnote: Because the mainstream media endorsed and worshipped Obama, few of them will now leave the alter. For their own sake, they need him to succeed. Otherwise, they run the risk of a total credibility meltdown. Journalism is dead in America. That’s a topic for another day. Thank you.
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The media (most of them) are so vested in the 'success' of Obama, they will put lies before truth, and spun reality before clarity, and career before country. Our grandchildren won't recognize democracy and freedom as we know it. And the sheep will blindly follow their messiah to the doom of the last great bastion of freedom in this world.
I listened to that radio show and it was beyond creepy. Left-wingers continually called in reading from talking points like a bunch of brain-dead zombies given their marching orders from headquarters.
I remember being horrified by the attempts to block Kurtz's free speech. Because I found it hard to believe that statist liberals would be so blatent in denial of free speech rights, I downloaded the radio show from iTunes to listen for myself. The Obama accolates clogged the phone lines … AND THEY ALL SAID THE SAME WORDS … it was as if they were reading from prepared text. It was a harrowing glimpse at 1984 and soviet group-think.
There is so much behind Obama that needs light and airing out. If he's so perfect, so right for the times, why is everyone on the left so scared and angry when someone wants to find out something?
At some time, someone is going to ask the questions, and won't accept being shouted down anymore.
It's scary when you think about where most people get their "news." John Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert, Keith Olberman, Chris Matthews… and on and on. It's a wonder than an alternative viewpoint ever makes it through all the noise.
Otherwise, they run the risk of a total credibility meltdown. Journalism is dead in America. That’s a topic for another day. Thank you.
Footnote? Another day? I think not! It should be at the HEAD of every story the dinosaur media runs. In a few more years this era will be seen as the day the press died, along with the networks. The new media gives everyone a chance to state their views, whether they be heard or not becomes the personal choice of the populous, thus having the cream rise to the top, instead of propaganda being force to the bottom.
Unfortunately for us as American citizens, the media is supporting obama, but it is even worse than that. The media is not just supporting the man, they are supporting his agenda of socialist change. The media understands that if this change occurs only voices on the left will be heard, all others will be censored.
At one time America was proud that voices of differing views could be heard. Unfortunately obama is leading us down the road, where only one voice is heard.
The media, and journalism in particular, stopped doing their job, when they started to support a political ideology, and finally a politician.
The legal system has been intimately complicit in this journalism meltdown. Whenever Obama can't use straight-up editorial and content intimidation, he threatens legal action. The threat of civil actions was bad enough, but the bloodlust is running so high that pseudo-lawyer Obama and his gang of lefty shysters even went so far as to threaten criminal actions against the purveyors of "hate speech" (i.e., anybody who disagrees with the messiah).
I followed Stanley Kurtz's research – he did a ton of it and the MSM just ignored it. Guess there were too many facts involved!
Yeah I was more than a little appalled when I saw the news during the election of his "Truth Squads" or whatever the heck they were called, and even more appalled when I realized that they would be conveniently forgotten about almost as soon as they were reported on.
Indeed, and isn't it ironic that the only time they don't seem to favor the idea of the "Living Consitution" is when they can sanctimoniously say,"We're the only profession that was specifically talked about in the Constitution."
As a wise man said once, irony can be quite ironical. But they don't see it, most of them are following the the footsteps of a much less wise man who said, "Irony is like goldy or bronze-y but made of iron, right?"
America has been in the process of "dumbing down" for decades. The educational system teaches what to think, not how to think., while society in general teaches that image is more important than substance.
How could the events of this article NOT come ?
OMG, breaking news from the No Duh Institute: the media was in the bag for Obama? Really??
Who cares what happened during the election.
The McCain campaign ate it because it ran an awful campaign based on a lame RINO (who I voted for with my nose held closed).
Care about — and fight about — what the president and Congress (on both sides of the aisle) are doing to your lives, your families' lives, the economy, your life savings!
Do they ever have trouble making ends meet??
Actually it is Republicanism that is dead.
I don't believe that for a second. SUPPORT THE TROOPS!
you people live on your own little island
man you guys never get tired of the same old stale talking points do ya
I think it's hilarious that you have to come here to give us your drivel just to make yourself feel important. Your "real" life (as if we aren't looking at it) must be really pathetic! Ha!
How much have you heard in the MSM about the Tea Parties, and their turn-out? Thirty ACORNs paid $8/hour to visit AIG execs' houses get more attention than thousands of people protesting multi-trillion dollar government deficits.
Look kid, I'm not going to bother reading what you wrote (why start now?) but since you're still here, I'll give you some free advice:
1. We don't care — seriously. Sure, some people will play with you, but it's all for fun. Almost no one bothers reading your posts and nobody gets upset. We're all too used to the net these days for a little turd like you to bother us. Your posts have the same effect as a 10 year old just calling us stupid.
2. It really is pathetic what you do. Think about it. If the nerd next to you just leaned over and said, "I just went on the Next Gen site and I posted that Kirk rules and they drool." What you would think of that geek. Well, that geek is you, buddy. Grow up man.
3. Girls don't bite, go meet some.
No, talking points are b.s. filler meant to end conversation. They are prepackaged dialogue which are to be inserted into conversation when you have nothing original to say or can't win the argument. Talking points are NOT argument, they are anti-argument.
I honestly believe Obama wants to be KING, not president. The USA is a FREE society, and he will never be KING in a REPUBLIC (the USA is not a democracy). I believe Obama and his people are creating problems and taking advantage of existing problems to make them worse so that the USA will fail.
Obama sees a friend as anyone who will help him in his quest to gain his crown. A strong militay would fight back if someone tried to take over the USA, so he is reducing it and demoralize it. He sees them as the enemy. He also wants to start a "Civilian National Security Force" that is as strong as the military, and funded like the military. Remember when King Obama was campaigning he promised he would start one? What did Adolf Hitler call his?
Obama has shown his contempt for leaders of our friends in other free countries, and aligning himself with leaders of dictatorships. This tells me a lot about what his intentions are.
Obama knows who HIS friends are, and they aren't people in a free society. They will not VOLUNTARILY help him to become King Obama. You align yourself with those who you respect most. Obama respects getting what he wants at any cost.
I think Obama wants the USA to fail and be taken over. Obama thinks the ones who take it over will be so thankful for his help that they will make him KING. Then he can say, "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED." Now I understand why he couldn't keep from laughing during his 60 Minutes interview. He knows they are helping him become King Obama, and will be subject to HIS rule soon.
"3. Girls don't bite, go meet some."
Some do! Oh wait, nevermind.
Indeed, we can't go around passing out facts to leftists, because to them facts just do not fit into their worldview. Remember if they think something really hard, like Iran is a swell place, then it automatically happens.
Indeed, we can't go around passing out facts to leftists, because to them facts just do not fit into their worldview. Remember if they think something really hard, like Iran is a swell place, then it automatically happens.
Interesting that this moron is choosing this tact on a post whose subject relates directly to left-wing robots phoning a talk show to mindlessly utter exactly what they were told to.
"It's a wonder than an alternative viewpoint ever makes it through all the noise."
You can't stop the signal.
Hey my second callback in two days, I'm starting to get the hang of this Hollywood thing!
"It's a wonder than an alternative viewpoint ever makes it through all the noise."
You can't stop the signal.
Hey my second callback in two days, I'm starting to get the hang of this Hollywood thing!
And you finish in classic conservative style, feminize the opposition. Oooh, I'm gay and not nearly the man YOU are lol. And you lecture ME about maturity. Arguing on a website has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with sexual prowess. I don't see how it does.
Pathetic is whining like a little girl about how "biased" and "unfair" the media is to you. It's whining about the refs. Who you own of course.
And really, born in '72, daddy-o. It's the entire reason I am a liberal and not some Reagan fluffer.
Because I remember when this country was cool. I remember when you conservatives were "square" and couldn't get laid to save your lives. And I know that this is PRECISELY the reason you are so bitter. In those days, the guys who got laid were not the squares in the suits with the parts in their oily scalps who submitted to their corporate masters. No, it was the hippies who got laid – they had the looks, the rock and roll attitude, the Pink Floyd tickets and the dope.
You? Sitting at home on Saturday night cracking open the spank bank full of hippie chicks who wouldn't look twice at a buttoned up greedhead square like you.
Sit on it, Cunningham.
George The Moron,
Exactly, what part of what I had to say was mindless and repetitive?
The irony of tehstupid babbling his meaningless drivel – and then trying to say we don't have any original thoughts isn't lost on anyone with two brain cells to rub together. (And proven all the more by the fact the he keeps posting the same nonsense, is that he is the aforementioned imbecile with no brain cells). Anybody ever see "The Cell" and remember how warped and disconnected and surreal the mind was inside of Vincent Donofrio's character? I have to imagine that is what it is like inside tehstupids head. The stupidity of what he writes makes my head hurt – I can't imagine how horrificially surreal it really is in there.
The irony of tehstupid babbling his meaningless drivel – and then trying to say we don't have any original thoughts isn't lost on anyone with two brain cells to rub together. (And proven all the more by the fact the he keeps posting the same nonsense, is that he is the aforementioned imbecile with no brain cells). Anybody ever see "The Cell" and remember how warped and disconnected and surreal the mind was inside of Vincent Donofrio's character? I have to imagine that is what it is like inside tehstupids head. The stupidity of what he writes makes my head hurt – I can't imagine how horrificially surreal it really is in there.
The irony of tehstupid babbling his meaningless drivel – and then trying to say we don't have any original thoughts isn't lost on anyone with two brain cells to rub together. (And proven all the more by the fact the he keeps posting the same nonsense, is that he is the aforementioned imbecile with no brain cells). Anybody ever see "The Cell" and remember how warped and disconnected and surreal the mind was inside of Vincent Donofrio's character? I have to imagine that is what it is like inside tehstupids head. The stupidity of what he writes makes my head hurt – I can't imagine how horrificially surreal it really is in there.
What the heck. I told you I'm not reading your posts, so you make them longer? You think I'm going to read this? Give me a break.
What the heck. I told you I'm not reading your posts, so you make them longer? You think I'm going to read this? Give me a break.
Actually it's Boss Limbaugh who wants the US to fail. And really, thanks for all the evidence in your rant. Chock full. King George called, he wants his throne back.
Actually it's Boss Limbaugh who wants the US to fail. And really, thanks for all the evidence in your rant. Chock full. King George called, he wants his throne back.
Actually it's Boss Limbaugh who wants the US to fail. And really, thanks for all the evidence in your rant. Chock full. King George called, he wants his throne back.
Georgie Porgie, please point out where I said something unoriginal.
You really are a sad little boy aren't you. Small unit?
You really are a sad little boy aren't you. Small unit?
You really are a sad little boy aren't you. Small unit?
Why wouldn't you read it? What's so scary? You guys have long since lost the ability to make an actual argument haven't you. Wow. Worse off than I thought.
Why wouldn't you read it? What's so scary? You guys have long since lost the ability to make an actual argument haven't you. Wow. Worse off than I thought.
Why wouldn't you read it? What's so scary? You guys have long since lost the ability to make an actual argument haven't you. Wow. Worse off than I thought.
Exactly where was I repetitive?
You should read Trollboy's response, it's way more pathetic than you can possibly imagine.
You should read Trollboy's response, it's way more pathetic than you can possibly imagine.
No why do you ask?
Wow, talk about slurpee jockey on the edge!! Kids, stay in school. LOL!!
Yes, yes it was.
Is he saying he was born in '72? What was he a 2 year old hippie at a Pink Floyd concert?
I feel like the Principal from Billy Madison all of a sudden.
Yes, yes it was.
Is he saying he was born in '72? What was he a 2 year old hippie at a Pink Floyd concert?
I feel like the Principal from Billy Madison all of a sudden.
Exactly my point, no brain cells. Thanks for proving the point in writing all to see. Run along and play now.
Rush wants Obama's policies to fail, not the US. Or is the distinction lost on you?
Once again you're really living up to your clever screen name.
Rush wants Obama's policies to fail, not the US. Or is the distinction lost on you?
Once again you're really living up to your clever screen name.
To borrow from Twain, the reports of the Republican Party's demise have been greatly exaggerated.
To borrow from Twain, the reports of the Republican Party's demise have been greatly exaggerated.
To borrow from Twain, the reports of the Republican Party's demise have been greatly exaggerated.
Good job of showing me the errors of my robotic, repetitive talking point ways. Moran.
TS, really… can you go back to Obamabot Central Command or wherever it is trolls like you come from, and tell them that bighollywood is desperately in need of a left troll upgrade? You are clearly not up to snuff for this website's lefty troll needs.
TS, really… can you go back to Obamabot Central Command or wherever it is trolls like you come from, and tell them that bighollywood is desperately in need of a left troll upgrade? You are clearly not up to snuff for this website's lefty troll needs.
TS, really… can you go back to Obamabot Central Command or wherever it is trolls like you come from, and tell them that bighollywood is desperately in need of a left troll upgrade? You are clearly not up to snuff for this website's lefty troll needs.
This is perhaps the most ironic post that Tehstupid has ever made.
Yeah we definitely need some sort of Troll Redistribution plan to kick in over there to get some better ones.
You're welcome… always happy to help the semi-retarded. (And I believe the spelling of the word you were trying to yank from the misfiring grey matter, is moron. Not moran.)
Now seriously, you won't win against me – and you are tetering on the edge of semi-retarded, and in danger of plummeting into the depths of full retardation. Move along.
Moran? Really? I mean seriously, really?
I'm at a loss.
Why does this entire post remind me of Cartman insisting he's the coolest kid in class..
tehstupid is like an advertisement:
"Hooked on MediaMatters worked for me!"
Risk of a credibility meltdown? I wasn't aware that mainstream media had any credibility left.
http://the100mostannoyingthings.blogspot.com/
Excellent, excellent point.
I am so glad I'm following my no eating or drinking whilst reading Big Hollywood rule, otherwise there would have been a disaster of epic proportions.
Well played.
AWESOME!
LOL!! By the way, Elstupid has been told before that he doesn't know how to spell moron — several times. So you may be right about him not being all there.
If he'd register he'd be able to spell check, I know I have to now and then. Of course that would subject him to the Righteous Thumbs of Shame in a permanent record sort of way, and he just can't have that.
Republicanism may be dead but Conservatism is approaching like a tsunami.
For once, the correct reflex action beat out the slower, more incompetent thinking on TEHSTUPID…
Then again…
One can only hope. And pray. And mabye offer small sacrifices to the gods. Hey, maybe TEHSTUPID can be put to some good use after all.
Nice distinction Dave!
Sure they do… at troll central.
He no brite enuph to rejistr.
Thanks for visiting, we love to drag our t-bag over your face. But seriously…
Joe was visited by Obama, not the other way around.
Our Sarah? define, please.
George Bush. Not here, left office. Move along, move along…
Ayn Rand/Milton Freidman Economy. Wish we could debate that, instead of the current socialist/more socialist debacle on now.
Iraq War rationale. Bye Saddam. Had a nice time at your necktie party. Dead. Move along, move along…
Hatred? I don't hate you, TEHSTUPID, you're a marvelous release for dealing with lib idiocy. Timmy wants to jump in the well and create a takeover now before they need to, and more lib moderates are coming to the conclusion if it continues, they will strangle the goose that lays the golden goodies they live off of. Less than three months, that has to be a new record for lamebrain. The teleprompter must be high.
Please, kiss our t-bags more as you write your replies while semi-naked in your skidded underwear within Mom's basement.
PS: You need a bath.
oops. My bad. I always forget those pesky trolls.
Careful, GEORGE. I think he likes you…RUN!
LOL!
Neither do you.
What? Like compost? Soylent troll is made from Stupid!!
Wait until his head explodes when he discovers the irony…wait…
Its TS we're talking about, right?
Never mind…
Actually, I can send it to Obama, but he has to wait until the chimichangas are moved out first…
And here I thought he used "moran" on St. Paddy's Day to be cute! Nah, he was just being TehStupid…
Ouch. +1 to Price! TS, time to see the nice Obama doctors, get your lollipop; Barney is done in committee now….
Wow, that even puts an entirely new spin on the Thumb of Shame too.
Hehe, but trolls aren't cute as a rule, they're all…you know, troll-y.
"Moran" is a reference to a famous picture taken at a pro-war rally, a picture that pretty much sums up the liberal mental picture of conservatives. The subject is a pro-war protester wearing a ratty T-shirt, an American flag doo-rag, wraparound shades, a mullet and a Jeff Foxworthy mustache; he is holding a hand-made protest sign reading "GET A BRAIN, MORANS!" and another reading "GO USA".
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/f/f/get_a...
Every time TS misspells "moron", this is the picture he's thinking of.
TS on the mound, stretches, windup into his pitch…
HOLY COW! aharris took that low and away balloon right into his wheelhouse, look at it go!
Ladies and gentlemen, I have NEVER seen a straight away home run over the center field fence like that before, goodbye Mr Rawlings! That ball was lucky to be hit away from the airport, some 737 would be reporting a UFO right about now…
Huffington is going to the mound, looks like she'll call for the lefty Wasilla Hillbilly, even though he's been carrying a 327.3 ERA lately. TEHSTUPID is one of the best switch pitchers the Libs have, but he's been getting his bell rung up soundly by the gang from Big Hollywood way too frequently as of late…Huffy needs to get some right-handers on the team and play it up straight; that strategy of whining about every pitch just isn't making it with the crowd anymore…
Who is "Moran"?
You guys run the country into a ditch, and then blame the demi-god Bush/Cheney as having fallen. You worshiped them, gave them unalloyed praise and adoration. But the scales fell from your eyes and now they are the ones who betrayed you, when all of you betrayed the country.
You may need to turn off MSNBC once in a while. Who forced banks to give home loans to those who couldn't afford them? ACORN, Barney Frank, Dodd, Clinton, and their ilk.
Brian – thanks for a great article. Journalism is dead. The journalists – I mean propaganda writers drank so much Kool-aid that they couldn't see the censorship/intimidation during the campaign and now. What kind of administration has his press secretary "call out" the pundits who are criticizing him? It's incredibly moronic – not moranic!
show me where i used a talking point
I'm not surprised. This is the next iteration of censoring speech. One of my worst memories of my time at Indiana U. in the 90's was when Judge Bork was invited to speak on campus. Seating was first come, first serve and the leftist student organizations camped to be at the head of the line, took up the first three rows, and created such a disruption that the speech was cancelled after 5-10 minutes. What was the University response? A tsk, tsk and a request not to do it again. It's sad that not only has nothing changed in 15 years, it has gotten worse. I have found that those who espose anything goes, are often the biggest censors.
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