Politics '08 - Biased Media

The 2008 campaign season started way too early, but I managed to stave off my quadrennial obsession until this month. - It looks like nothing was gained by starting early, I might add, so I'm glad I didn't waste my time.

But now things have heated up and it's .... it's .... Well, it's disgusting and upsetting to me.

Harkening back 8 years, I was a John McCain supporter, only to watch the assassination of his candidacy in the primaries by the Bushes.

Then 4 years ago, I would have been for McCain but he wasn't the nominee. He acquiesced to the Bushes and pretty much sold his soul, probably for promises of support this time around. - I lost all respect for him.

The day after Edwards and Kerry lost, I sent a message to former Virginia Governor, Mark Warner, and said he should consider a Warner-Obama team for the next election. I had seen Obama in his senate campaign and was very impressed.

By 2007, I hoped that Republican, Chuck Hagel, would run, perhaps even as an independent, because of his views of how to end the war.

I took an online poll a few weeks ago that supposedly matches voters up with the candidate that best reflects their views. - Mine was Dennis Kucinich.

While still undecided about a candidate, I am not undecided about the media's campaign to shape the election.

One thing is for sure: They hate the Clintons!

First, Oprah Winfrey, the queen of racism, is the one who injected race into the scenario when she was on the campaign trail in the fall, trying to give Obama's campaign a much needed boost. She shot straight at the heart of the blacks by saying that Martin Luther King could only dream about an African American president -- now Obama could really be one.

Like everything else, from toenail fungus to natural disasters, Bill and Hillary Clinton are blamed for injecting race into the campaign.

On Bill Maher's show last week, one of his guests (apparently forgettable) repeated the myth that the Clintons had played the race card... Maher asked him to state specifically what the Clintons had said. He gave the example of Hillary saying "slumlord," which she did in the debate last week. That is NOT one of the statements the media has used against them regarding race. In other words, he really didn't have an example... Like too many people, he simply heard "Clintons used the race card" and he ran with it. - I just don't see it that way and I have watched and read everything.

Matt Taibbi, a writer for Rolling Stone magazine, gave a great example of the clueless media a couple weeks earlier on Maher's show. He said that when John McCain put a banner on the side of a bus that said "Straight Talk Express," an hour later the media was saying, "He's a straight talker!" - That's about how it is.

The Clintons are smart, and few disagree with that. They would be the last people on the face of the earth to play a race card. Instead, it is the media that sees a racial angle in everything the Clintons say. The MEDIA is fixated on Obama's race and they seem to view everything through black colored glasses. - They want conflict and animosity!

They want Hillary to lose.

It is actually VERY difficult to find a blog or website that is supportive of Hillary, so I have to wonder where her primary votes are coming from.

Although I watch both FOX and CNN, I have enjoyed the fact that James Carville and Paul Begala have been advocates for Hillary.. On FOX, Britt Hume, Dick (likes-to-suck-toes-and-be-naked-on-a-dog-leash) Morris and their cronies sit around and smirk as they ridicule Hillary, like a click of catty teenage girls.

Now I see that the two voices for Hillary - Carville and Begala - are suspended from commenting on CNN until after the Democratic candidate has been chosen. Reportedly, Obama's campaign has complained about their bias, supposedly because they are on retainer by the Clinton Campaign. - Haven't I seen parades of pro-Obama people on CNN, retained and otherwise? If Obama can't handle the 99.9999% pro-Obama forum of CNN, how could he possibly cope when under fire from the Republicans?

Has CNN caved in to the pressure? I think so. In the 2004 election, when they had that whiny Judy Woodruff, the political commentators bent so far to the right that they were hardly visible on my TV screen. They were hypersensitive to being labeled the liberal cable outlet and they completely succumbed to conservatives. For more than a month before that election, I stopped watching.

I want balanced coverage and I want the facts straight from the horses' mouths. And I don't want to watch a candidate say something and then have the media tell me what I heard and what I should think about it.

Now, Wolf Blitzer has become as mealy-mouthed as Judy Woodruff and it is getting hard to take. They are obviously biased in favor of Obama, all day every day. They are patronizing - along with walking-on-eggshells, lest they be accused of racial discrimination.

I think that is the direction things are going and it will be interesting to see how FOX handles Obama as an adversary if he gets the nomination.

Frankly, I think race relations are going to be set back 50 years or more by the time this election is over.

For CNN to suspend Carville and Begala because the Obama campaign thinks they are biased, is outrageous! HOW can this be after the incredibly negative coverage of President Bush for eight years and the Clintons for eight years before that!

Last week, I noticed that John Edwards was not mentioned for days on The Obama Channel CNN. The media was so focused on generating more dysinformation for Obama and the Clintons to tangle about that they forgot all about Edwards. He noticed, too, and he finally got some attention after he complained.

CNN is on now and guess who is being interviewed? I think Suzanne Malveux on The Obama Channel CNN is auditioning for Press Secretary. She has lost her objectivity and that has been apparent for a long time.

Hillary seems smarter than any of the men in the campaign - but too many people don't like her, especially insecure men (like those on FOX) who feel threatened by her. I think she wins all the debates hands down but that is mainly because Obama is afflicted with a case of circumstantiality - - thus, is not clear and almost never gets to the point.

None of the candidates suit me but I'll keep watching.

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