More media bias: Walters showed footage of some of her dumb questions, such as asking Obama whether Wall Street executives should grant themselves a Christmas bonus. She also asked how he felt when he read that the three CEOs of the car companies took private planes to Washington to ask for a bailout. Naturally, Obama thought it was shockingly out of touch.
Stop the tape. Earth to Walters: Did it ever occur to you that Mr. Obama campaigned all over America by flying on a huge private 757 jet, painted as a vehicle of “Change” with a half-million dollar makeover for the general election, complete with Obama logos sewn into the headrests? And how do you suppose Ms. Walters travels? By carpool? What sheer hypocrisy — on both their parts.
Walters continued the gushing on her daytime show “The View.” Doing her usual tap-dance of faked objectivity, Walters cooed: “I’m supposed to be very neutral, but they are the most appealing couple, and so smart.” It’s easier to look smart when no one’s asking you a brainteaser. Walters shamelessly tried to sell the interview as super-substantive. Obama was asked about a range of matters foreign and domestic in the first 20 minutes, but all with a deeply deferential style.
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Jack Kelly, in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, says that those who were sent out to get more information on Obama were thwarted in their efforts, with more obstacles than have ever been put in place before.
Less is known about Barack Obama than about any major party candidate for president in modern history. His public resume is thin — eight years in the Illinois Senate, four in the U.S. Senate, with two of them spent running for president.
And no candidate for president has had more problematic associations. Barack Obama’s first major financial backer was Antoin “Tony” Rezko, currently awaiting sentencing on corruption charges. For nearly 20 years Mr. Obama attended services where the Rev. Jeremiah Wright preached hatred of the United States, and of white people. The radical group ACORN has been committing voter registration fraud on a massive scale. Mr. Obama taught classes for ACORN organizers, and represented the group in a lawsuit against the state of Illinois. The most significant managerial responsibility Barack Obama has ever had was as chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a project conceived of by unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers.
Perhaps it’s true that Obama did a great job of keeping them out of his history and off of that trail, but then journalists should feel obligated to make that point, over and over again. It should be documented that they have tried to gain access and have not gotten it, and it should be looked upon with great worry. Instead, they have taken the easier, more popular route of jumping on the bandwagon.
It seems that Obama has something to hide. The mainstream media should hope that nothing terrible happens in the next 4 years, because if that does occur, the media will be exposed for the failure to ask the questions many of us have while there was still time to do something with the answers to those questions.
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Michael Malone writes about the bias and decline of the media, and where they have gotten the gumption to do what they are doing. The whole thing is so good that I will not do the injustice of quoting a paragraph or two. Just read it.
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