August 04, 2008

Liberal Press Circles Wagons Around Obama

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By: David Limbaugh

The liberal media are unhinged over John McCain's recent ad campaign against Barack Obama, which erased Obama's 9-point lead in the polls and tied the race. How dare McCain challenge their anointed one?

Obama is not the only one convinced he is "the one we've been waiting for." The media are also annoyed they have to endure this irritating uprising from McCain, who is officiously intermeddling with the inexorable flow of history.

Sunday show hosts, editorial pages, and both print and TV news stories this past weekend were pregnant with outrage over McCain's "negative" campaigning -- "negative" being defined as anything, truthful or not, that places Obama in a less favorable light than they require.

Their attitude toward Obama is not unlike their approach to the global warming issue: They accept the environmentalists' edict that man-made, apocalyptic warming is occurring, and no one is allowed to dissent.

So if McCain exposes Obama's policy inconsistencies, questions his character, highlights his presumptuousness, inexperience or superficiality, lampoons the media's crush on him, criticizes his injection of race into the campaign, or responds to Obama's attacks, the media yell "foul."

Newsweek's Jonathan Alter is a good example. It's not just that McCain is using unfair tactics against Obama but also that he's straying from the liberal line that earned Alter's and other liberal journalists' favor in the first place. Coursing through Alter's entire piece "Where Have You Gone, John?" is the unwritten charge that McCain is crossing the line merely by staying in the race. But to confront Obama on issues that matter, that's downright heresy.

What are McCain's capital offenses generating such media outrage? He has depicted Obama as a flip-flopper. He has accused him of arrogance and putting politics above the national interest in refusing to acknowledge the success of the surge and sticking with his demand for immediate withdrawal. McCain had the temerity to make light of Obama's pop celebrity by interposing Obama's image with those of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. McCain accused Obama of playing the race card when suggesting Republicans would attempt to frighten white voters by pointing out that he doesn't look like past U.S. presidents depicted on our greenbacks. McCain parodied Obama's messianic image in likening him to Charlton Heston's Moses parting the Red Sea. And he accused him of canceling his scheduled stop to visit wounded soldiers in Iraq allegedly because media cameras would not be available.

Alter was livid, calling McCain "a surprisingly immature politician -- erratic, impulsive and subject to peer pressure from the last knucklehead who offers him advice." McCain's "lame" tactics, in Alter's opinion, are "out of sync with the real guy." The "real guy" is that Republican who endeared himself to the likes of Alter by attacking fellow Republicans, not superior liberal Democrats. He should be attacking corporate greed, not Barack Obama. This can't be the real John McCain. The real John McCain would put the final nail in the GOP coffin and concede the race.

Surprisingly, The Washington Post's editorial page editor, Fred Hiatt, put his finger precisely on the liberal mindset concerning Republican challenges to their Democratic rivals and their policies. Hiatt says it is "an article of faith among many Democratic believers … that Democratic policies are so obviously superior, and so much more in the interest of a majority of voters, that only some form of chicanery can explain Republican election victories. In this view of the world, Republican operatives … manipulate … issues … to deceive people to vote against their economic self-interest. Or they inflate security threats to frighten them into voting against their self-interest." Bingo and kudos.

With the exception of the charge that Obama canceled his troop visit because cameras wouldn't be present, all of the other supposed McCain offenses listed above are anything but dirty politics. And Obama, by the way, did cancel his visit to meet the wounded soldiers, even if his reason wasn't photo op-related. McCain has a right to expose Obama, his flawed policies, flip-flops, hypocrisy, unfair tactics and character flaws. Indeed, he has a duty to do so.

Campaigns are supposed to inform voters, and all questions should be on the table. It is not negative campaigning to enlighten voters about your opponents' positions on the issues, his qualifications or his character, so long as the information is truthful. Negative campaigning is smearing your opponent through lies and deceit.

But while we're on the subject of honest campaigning, perhaps it is time for Obama to be truthful about who he is and what he stands for instead of scrupulously concealing those things.

But the truth will come out eventually. And if you think the media are squawking now, just wait till the campaign proceeds to the point that Obama's policy and racial radicalism receive the exposure they deserve.

Posted by redguy at August 4, 2008 09:11 PM

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Another great one, Dave! I laughed when I read your humorous but apt remark about the Socialist Democrats "circling the wagons around Obama"!

I fear Obama's big mouth he acquired from hanging around the "Wrong Reverend Wright" far too long has gotten him into big trouble! Obama keeps on proving to those of us who do possess the common sense he obviously lacks, that he has absolutely none (like most of his fellow college-educated morons who claim there supposedly is no need for America to drill for oil because we only need to fill up our tires with air and take our cars in for tune-ups and we supposedly will have it)! I'd like to know how those measures will amazingly provide all those billions of oil we require, expecially if those who follow Obama like sheep to the slaughter (like Hitler's followers did likewise), aren't willing to do everything their "Messiah" suggests? I guess like them, he hasn't thought that far in advance to consider that possibility? During this hot weather all across America, with people running their air conditioners in their vehicles, I believe this man lacks the ability to discern that when you use your vehicle's air conditioner, it always consumes far more fuel. I wonder how many of Barack's followers (including Barack, his Wife, his family, or his political team members) will be stupid enough to shut off their own vehicles' air conditioners to suit him and all their fellow Socialist Democratic Environmentalists, so they can die from heat stroke? I wonder the same in regard to all of them turning off their vehicles' engines in all of those long lines they will encounter at all those tire places across the US, so their employees can stuff more air into their tires? With the economy as it is, I'm wondering whether or not Obama plans to create yet another tax for taxpayers to pay, so we can then pay for all those engines to be "tuned"? I suggest that Obama expend part of all those millions he keeps getting to get the lobotomy he desperately needs!
That's what happens to your brain when you only spend 56 hours serving in the US Senate and the rest of your hours running as the Presidential candidate for his do-nothing political party that believes only Socialism or Communism are the only answers for all the problems his own political party has created ever since they gained control over our US Legislature!

Maybe Obama and his fellow Socialists who plan to monitor and control every aspect of our personal lives should adopt all of the "brilliant" ideas that regularly come directly out of Portland, OR? For instance, their plans to tax the highway bridges that multitudes of drivers (including all those truck drivers) cross daily from WA State to OR State (and vice versa), so they can use that money to build bike paths across them instead of doing what they're supposed to be doing and have been neglecting to do: fix the infrastructures of the bridges so they won't collapse! Oh that's right, they expect us taxpayers to pay even more taxes to our US Government so they can send even more money back here, so they can used all that money for more pork projects! What about their plan to tax us 20 cents to 30 cents per plastic bag whenever we need to buy ourselves groceries or buy anything else? I experienced that first-hand with my groceries rolling around all over the recesses of my trunk those 5 yrs. I lived in Socialist-controlled West Germany! If you want even more of these "brilliant" ideas all these drug-addicted, tree-hugging "green" fruitcakes regularly come up with here, please contact the Victoria Taft Show in Portland, OR. Victoria will also be thrilled to educate you about the new illegal employment office they opened up in Portland to help illegal aliens find jobs and to help those who illegally hire them to also find illegal aliens for their employees! I should also mention Portland City Council's "brilliant" plan to build $125 grand public restaurants all along their downtown city streets? They plan to put all the sinks on the outside, claiming that way, no one supposedly will have anyplace to "do drugs". I wonder what all of those drug addicts and homosexuals plan to do inside that enclosed indoor toilet? But Portland--ever faithful to the plight of the "poor and needy"--declare they have a "responsibility" to ensure their needs are met! Oh yes, I also heard that OR's US Senator Blumenhaur, I believe, said he wants us all to be forced to ride bikes! I happen to be physically disabled from multiple failed back surgeries, so I want him to tell me and other disabled people--especially those in wheelchairs--how we are to ride bikes everywhere, especially during our hot summer months when most disable people are not even supposed to be outside during hot weather (under Doctor's orders, for health reasons) or be outside in the cold winter weather! I now have arthritis in my spine, hips, and back pelvis, Mr. Blumenhaur, so let me advise you of this fact: I don't plan on buying a new or used bike that I can't even ride, let alone on ice, so I can then fall and break a hip or even worse! With all of these like-minded morons controlling America's Federal Legislature as well as controlling this State for the past 25+ yrs., it's no secret why those in Washington only have an approval rating of 15%! They and the Socialist Democratic media and press who support them are responsible for our President's lowered ratings, because they've lied about him day in, day out, since they first announced their own last Presidential candidates running for office! He rightfully refuses to let all those morons in Washington, DC to keep him from his ppointed task of protecting not only our Nation, but also us!

I'm positive "brilliant" Barack Hussein Obama has even more suggestions like the idiotic ones that he keeps spewing on an almost daily basis!

Getting back to John McCain, I don't agree with your contention that he is supposedly necessarily truthful. I still recall when most Conservative Reporters were just horrified about the prospect of McCain becoming our President! I know for a fact be has a history of not being 100% truthful, including proving himself--on several occasions--to be totally disloyal to politicians and others he had first befriended, one reason I have this major problem trusting John! McCain has been willing to trash our President who has protected us and our Nation these past almost 7 yrs., for McCain's political expediency--after campaigning on behalf of our President's re-election across America--which makes it extremely difficult for me to trust someone that two-faced who professes he's supposedly a "Christian"!

I also have a major problem trusting John McCain because he's proven himself disloyal on several other occasions, i.e., when he rushed to support John Kerry immediately after the Swift Boat Vets told the truth about John Kerry's history. John McCain had the audacity to call that man who was a traitor to his fellow Viet Nam Vets a "war hero", despite knowing for a fact he wasn't one! That infuriated not only the Swift Boat Vets and multitudes of Viet Nam Vets and their families who remember Kerry had denied them their right to the title of "war hero", when he lied about them all to our US Legislature, calling them all "war criminals"! Thanks to McCain's endorsement of John Kerry--calling him a fellow "Viet Nam War Hero"--he almost helped Kerry get elected as our next President and Commander of our US Military. McCain then stabbed Kerry in the back, helping George W. get re-elected President! Now he is running for President, himself, McCain has been stabbing President Bush in the back (to distance himself from him), so he can assure himself all those extra votes he needs to win the Presidency this fall! Then I'm sure he personally plans to take total credit for everything President Bush originally accomplished, because he was a "Viet Nam War Hero and POW"!

John McCain's unexplained very bad judgment in first endorsing John Kerry (maybe Kerry gave him big bucks for doing so?)--then stabbing him in the back to endorse President Bush--then stabbing him in the back, are things I can't stomach about McCain. Based upon these things and other things McCain has said and done in the past to prove his disloyalty to those he first pretended that he supposedly was friends with, makes McCain a very dangerous chameleon to his enemies and also his friends, in my eyes! Maybe McCain aquired this very bad trait while he was a POW in Viet Nam: likely to survive?

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