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NY Times calls for the Media hit-job on Obama to stop!
nytimes.com — We’ve allowed the entire political process in what is perhaps the most important election in the U.S. since World War II to become thoroughly warped by the histrionics of a loony preacher from the South Side of Chicago. There ’s something wrong with us. The idea that his nonsense may shape the outcome of this election is both tragic and absurd.
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- tcbishop12, on 05/03/2008, -7/+18Excellent article. Calls for rational thinking usually are.
- RepubOperative, on 05/03/2008, -10/+5BREAKING NEWS! Black man at NY Times tells us to quit picking on....the black man! The idea that his nonsense may shape the outcome of this election is both tragic and absurd.
- RepubOperative, on 05/04/2008, -6/+5Ok lets see. 98% of all blacks are voting for Obama....nothing racist there is there? I mean it is possible....somehow, that 98% of people with free will can vote for one man and it not be racism isn't there? Then a black guy who has an 98% chance of voting for Obama demands that we quit questioning Obama with regard to his racist and black separatist church. Did you see what the racist black separatist church stands for?
What about Barak Obama's current African "Christian" church?
Obama's Farrakhan Test
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ...
Barack Obama is a member of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama's spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright's daughters serve as publisher and executive editor. Every year, the magazine makes awards in various categories. Last year, it gave ITS HIGHEST AWARD the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to a man it said "truly epitomized greatness." That man is Louis Farrakhan.
But the rap on Obama is that he is a fog of a man. It is hard to pin down just who Obama is. Farrakhan, in a strictly political sense, may be a tough issue for him. This time, though, voting "present" will not do...Obama is going to have to answer for what he did for twenty years in the church pews.
What do we know about Muslim Louis Farrakhan?
www.adl.org/special_reports/farrakhan_own_words2/farrakhan_own_words.asp
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Tell me more about Barack Obama's church. What is it like? What follows is documentation from Barack Hussein Obama's current African "Christian" church.
Obama's activist church enters spotlight: Pastor warns not to believe any reports of rift between candidate and him.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17701499/
Wright also told The New York Times in an interview published March 6: "When his (Obama's) enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli" with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan to visit Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, "a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell." - eliot2000, on 05/04/2008, -1/+2So where did you copy and paste this stuff from? Anyone here can go onto some website and dig up *****. Kindly invent your own original ***** for comments.
Thank you. - shadesofred, on 05/04/2008, -1/+0OMG he's black, don't listen to what he actually has to say!
- RepubOperative, on 05/04/2008, -6/+5Ok lets see. 98% of all blacks are voting for Obama....nothing racist there is there? I mean it is possible....somehow, that 98% of people with free will can vote for one man and it not be racism isn't there? Then a black guy who has an 98% chance of voting for Obama demands that we quit questioning Obama with regard to his racist and black separatist church. Did you see what the racist black separatist church stands for?
- RepubOperative, on 05/03/2008, -10/+5BREAKING NEWS! Black man at NY Times tells us to quit picking on....the black man! The idea that his nonsense may shape the outcome of this election is both tragic and absurd.
- cashman57, on 05/03/2008, -21/+10Wright was placed prominently in Obama's books and Obama hired Wright as a close advisor to his campaign. Obama knew Wright for 20 years and didn't notice he was a loony bigoted anti-American racist.
When asked about his leadership he pointed to his campaign and when asked about religion he said to look to his church to see where he comes from.
Both places had Wright.
The other thing that is going to assure that Obama won't win is his stupidity regarding the right of the people to be secure
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Where_Obamaplan_ ... - jforjools, on 05/03/2008, -5/+22Most coherent article of the weekend.
The 'free-press' has been going at this story like they're swift-boaters...only nobody has to come up with money to get them to air it!!! (MSNBC stoops to ABC-debate-level by airing a 'special' on Wright/Obama this weekend....not a 'special' about ANY other aspect of the race or this candidate--positive OR negative.)
"A highly decorated Army ranger named David McDowell, a 30-year-old father of two from Ramona, Calif., was killed in Afghanistan this week. As I read his obituary, I noticed that he had been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq seven times. What does that tell us about our shared wartime sacrifices?
I’d like to hear a lot less about Reverend Wright and a lot more about why the U.S. can’t close the deal in Afghanistan and hardly even seems interested in extricating our G.I.’s from Iraq."
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God bless David McDowell and his children and family, who endured the horrors of seven tours--only to sacrifice David in the end.
---------------------------------------------------------- - KLBP, on 05/03/2008, -5/+15Great article. It isn't that the media shouldn't have reported on the Rev. Wright issue, but it needs to be done in balance with really important issues. Unfortunatly the MSM, cable "news" channels especially, has gotten totally caught up in creating a self serving feeding frenzy to the exclusion of really important news and issues.
- mearth1961, on 05/04/2008, -0/+0Amen! I couldn't have said it better!
- MiltonWaddams, on 05/03/2008, -7/+2If nothing else, Obama should be happy to be having this argument now. Is Rev. Wright a relevant issue of the campaign? Whatever you believe on the matter, it's been clear that it would be something that would explored at some point. If anything, it's surprising that it took until March 08 for it to come up. Rolling Stone wrote about Wright in pretty unflattering terms back in February 07.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/1339060 ...
According to Obama, this article kept him from having Wright at his campaign kick-off more than a year ago. Why Obama thought having Wright show up at his campaign kick-off wasn't political suicide is beyond me. Anyone with a brain knew that Obama would have to deal with this at some point. Better now than in October I suppose.- jforjools, on 05/03/2008, -3/+5Well, my bone to pick with media does not have to do with the story not being a 'story'. I'll say it definitely deserves coverage. But cable news has turned into All-Writght-All-Day-All-Night...and the coverage of this topic outweighs all the other topics probably 20-1.
It's a disservice to Americans (forget about to Obama).
It's a disservice to Americans who rely on press coverage for election news and therefore their election decisionmaking.
It's no wonder that America has long been laughed at worldwide for such crappy press on every issue.- MiltonWaddams, on 05/03/2008, -2/+4It's great to think that we are going to have an election based on issues, but this is simply not the case. The press by and large are very wealthy people. They have healthcare and could give a ***** if you or your family do. While it's nice to think that Obama is bringing on this new era of politics, if you think the press is going to play along and suddenly start discussing real issues you are deluding yourself. The Wright stuff will be with us all election. Hunker down and figure out how to deal or lose.
- jforjools, on 05/04/2008, -1/+1Oh, you're right. The issue is here to stay. I do not have to figure 'how to deal'.
But I do challenge you and others and let your voice be heard by the MSM and by your fellow citizens.
Utlitmately, the MSM doesn't exist without its consumers.
I refuse to just do nothing and 'hunker down'.
I'm not some naive youngster. I'm a 42-yr-old educated single-mom and survivor-of-a-ton-***** who could teach Hillary a thing or two about what it really means to be a fighter. I don't naively stand by my words to stand up to the MSM.- MiltonWaddams, on 05/04/2008, -1/+1I'm not saying "you" have to figure out how to deal with it. The Obama campaign does. It's not going away and I think the Obama spin/attack machine has been garbage thus far. I know most Obama supporters will say he's above the spin/attack ***** that dominates our elections. I know it feels warm and fuzzy to think he's going to win the election on ideas, issues and message. If you think that is possible you haven't been paying attention to politics the past decade+. Bill Clinton got 10 blowjobs and ever since American politics has been silliness on stilts. Nonsense "character" issues are all that matters and Wright is a disaster in this sense.
- jforjools, on 05/04/2008, -1/+1Oh, you're right. The issue is here to stay. I do not have to figure 'how to deal'.
- MiltonWaddams, on 05/03/2008, -2/+4It's great to think that we are going to have an election based on issues, but this is simply not the case. The press by and large are very wealthy people. They have healthcare and could give a ***** if you or your family do. While it's nice to think that Obama is bringing on this new era of politics, if you think the press is going to play along and suddenly start discussing real issues you are deluding yourself. The Wright stuff will be with us all election. Hunker down and figure out how to deal or lose.
- jforjools, on 05/03/2008, -3/+5Well, my bone to pick with media does not have to do with the story not being a 'story'. I'll say it definitely deserves coverage. But cable news has turned into All-Writght-All-Day-All-Night...and the coverage of this topic outweighs all the other topics probably 20-1.
- fedupamerica, on 05/03/2008, -11/+6Now the NY Times wants to be political. They know that the Base of their readership is upset because they took shots at Obama, so now they are going with the polls. Good job NYT!
- Krisgi, on 05/03/2008, -3/+13Excellent article, but total common sense above all. Media riff aside, it is our lax, passive, consenting, and ignorant stance on critical issues over decades that have brought us to this point. We are all guilty of letting this get out of control. Bush should have been impeached long ago. Gore should have won... We need a ***** revolution, and I don't give a ***** who is in front... who holds the flag. We let this happen. We've created the Monster. Now the best guy for the job is being weeded out due to a bunch of irrelevant, senseless crap. It's sad, but we deserve it. We thought that we were above Good and Evil. Above paying the Price for such critical, continuous, outrageous errors. Guess what? Reality hits hard. I wish us all luck, but I don't think it's on our side this time.
- whatthefu, on 05/04/2008, -6/+3An op-ed columnist does not speak for a whole newspaper.
- IconoclastStill, on 05/04/2008, -8/+4Well, obie sucked down "the histrionics of a loony preacher from the South Side of Chicago" for 20 years with no objection, so, NO, I don't think focusing on wright is at all invalid. BURIED
- VCubed, on 05/04/2008, -3/+6Let's see, the media hired Pentagon lobbyists to give people "real news" about Iraq and Afghanistan and our service people getting maimed and killed there, and one of those lobbyists is a Clinton Military/Vet Committee big-wig, and the media gives Clinton free ads against Obama's ex-preacher, and millions go to lobbyist clients while our schools, hospitals and roads dams and bridges go to hell, but some of you want to know more about Wright? Get real. http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Hillary_Clinton_ ...
- regi49, on 05/04/2008, -2/+1I couldn't agree more with Herbert's article. In parting I'd like to mention that
while everyone was taking pot shots at Obama, most likely there are small
children being abused by their family priest. Where is the outrage in that? Why is that of so little importance compared to the oh so boring Rev. Wright. He's had his day in the spotlight. Now send him home and keep him off my TV!!! - Macrophage, on 05/04/2008, -1/+3I have been asking CNN for 2 months now to compare the voting records of all three of the Senators running for President. How have they voted, written, endorced Bills that concern
1. Health Care
2 The Economy
3. The War in Iraq
4. Iran
5.Veterans Rights
6, The Environment
7. Housing Crisis
8. and all the other real ISSUES
and what do i get from CNN? "Eternal Awaiting Moderation"
Fox and MSNBC are no better..theres money in these silly arguments...common sense
and actually doing their job of informing us..the Voters, just does'nt PAY as well
Is this really what we want and need from the Media Circus or are we ready to Demand
REAL information, as received from this reporter?
Thank-You Sir for starting us back towards the path of relevant information.
John From Cape Cod, Ma. - YellerDog, on 05/04/2008, -1/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfqCyMU3mfo Watch Bill Moyer's latest comments on the subject. Bill Moyer is a national treasure.
- Katetruth, on 05/04/2008, -0/+0Thank you. I agree and I emailed Mr. Moyers a letter. Hope you read my post.
- jedmed, on 05/04/2008, -1/+2The Jeremy Wright story is nothing but a thinly disguised manipulation knowingly being used by the media to willfully disguise this hysterical catharsis of accumulated US zenophobia, racial prejudice and repressed guilt for the sole purpose of making money.
It is embarrasing, self destructive and the direct result of a nation that refuses to accept responsibility for the inevitable psychological pathology of a nation whose history was built on genocide and racial slavery on the one hand vs freedom and civil liberty on the other.
These psuedo-journalistic manipulations play directly into the core appeal of the Hillary Clinton campaign - divisiveness, ruthlessness, corruption and a paranoid obsession with a need for power at any cost disguised as apple pie.
(An anglo saxon, combat veteran) I am thoroughly humiliated by the willingness of the American people to embrace this disgusting, destructive pathological manipulation of the citizens of the United States.
America, you are breaking my heart. - Katetruth, on 05/04/2008, -0/+0Thank you very much NY Times. According to those who call themselves the only patriotic Americans on earth, Mr. Obama should use the same campaign tactics they use; associate with no one without their approval; wear the clothes they say wear; wear a flag pin cause they said so, and the word "bitter" should never be in his vocabulary. They act like he is a slave and they are his master. Well, just for their information, that is one of the reason I am voting for this man, whom I believe will go down in history. I want to say to Obama, "Don't let these enemies defeat you. Please keep speaking, and let their jealousness rage on." You will overcome.
- fanessa, on 05/04/2008, -0/+0Your gining OBAMA a fighting chance amoung all the media critics and I say AMEN! I wish we could just love each other without critisizing one another because we disagree on candidates. None of the tearing down each other is helping, my friend is a McCain fan and I a OBAMA fan. She told me there is no way she would vote for Hillary, so I ask my friends is backing McCain instead our party choice helping or hurting us the ones that believe in nearly the same issues. Please reconsider where we want to be next YEAR with a all new beginning to bring our nation closer to what we all care about.
- Gram1213, on 05/04/2008, -0/+0Fantastic article! Hopefully the media will finally 'get it' and stop the madness and start reporting on the NEWS instead of all sounding like they are the trying to compete with the papers you can purchase at the check out at your store telling us about the UFO's that landed here! As much as this coverage of the Presidential nominations should change and have the stories on what the Candidates stand for I pray this also has the media again continue to talk about our brave men and women who are giving their lives for us and expose the war for what it is - OIL. I am amazed that the comment by McCain regarding 'never again sending our troops to fight a war for oil' hasn't had one bit of coverage! Instead we have to see over and over again the snippets of Obama's preacher. Is the media picking our President or are WE? Again, thanks for a wonderful article! If all the media had the courage to do what you've done it would certainly be a Change we need and want!
- mearth1961, on 05/04/2008, -0/+0Great Article! My family and freinds have been disgusted with the amount of airtime the Wright issue has gotten. I want to know what his policy is/will be. I want to hear about the issues that effect my pocketbook. I'm sick to death of all the dirty laundry that the media spends it's time covering.
- ZombieKilla, on 05/04/2008, -0/+0Wonderful article, Wright is a piece of *****, Obama has repudiated both Wright and his comments, we can now move on from this distraction!
GO OBAMA!!- ZombieKilla, on 05/04/2008, -0/+0GO OBAMA
- ZombieKilla, on 05/04/2008, -0/+0GO OBAMA
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