It’s no longer even debatable that the mainstream media are in the tank for Barry O. (see the latest example here). Should he happen to win the presidential election in the fall, it will be due to, in no small part, their willingness to cover for him in ways that their former favorite Democrat Bill Clinton can now only salivate over and whine about.
Released yesterday, additional excerpts of the former press-secretary’s forthcoming book What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception (which is already #1 at Amazon) continue to elicit commentary all over the map, from former Scott McClellan haters on the left who have predictably embraced his “tell-all” as if it were the gospel truth, to righties who never were that fond of him anyway suggesting that McClellan was a wuss for sticking around the WH even after he supposedly started to believe they were feeding him lines. Commenters to this blog have been weighing in on this story here. I’m a little late writing about it, so here goes.
The Senator released nearly 1,200 pages of medical records spanning from ’00 through this year to the Associated Press and they are reporting that McCain “appears cancer-free, has a strong heart and is in otherwise general good health.”
The buzz of the week earlier this week was the mainstream media’s news reports of how Barack Obama had a rally in Oregon that drew 75,000 people. It was an impressive story, but left out of most reports was the following information from Oregon Live about what else was going on at Portland’s Waterfront Park this past Sunday:
With just a couple of weeks left in the primary/caucus season for Democrats, and with Hillary Clinton’s campaign desperate for answers as to what happened, the focus of discussion in the media today has turned to sexism and misogyny, and what role – if any – did it play in the Dem race for the presidential nomination. Lois Romano in the Washington Post interviewed Clinton about the issue Sunday, and here’s what Clinton had to say:
Newsweek’s Evan Thomas and Richard Wolffe wrote a piece this past weekend that sounded like something you’d find emphasized in the Obama campaign’s talking points handbook. Essentially, the piece talked about how the Obama camp would be prepared to counter the GOP’s “smear tactics,” implying that using such tactics, including the use of proxies in 527s to defeat opponents, was the only way the GOP knew how to win. The piece also suggests that legitimate issues, like Hamas’ endorsement of Senator Obama, are vicious “smears” against the rookie Senator from Illinois, a sentiment Obama apparently agrees with.
