NBC Admits: Media In Love With Obama

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Were it not for the leftward-leaning news media, Democrats would have a much tougher time getting their agenda out. This is a point which journalists now and then will admit. Another such admission was made earlier today by NBC anchor Brian Williams who said the following:

I interviewed Lee Cowan, our reporter who covers Obama, while we were out yesterday and posted the interview on the web. Lee says it's hard to stay objective covering this guy. Courageous for Lee to say, to be honest.

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The e-mail flood started out we caught you guys, we never did trust you. That kind of thing. I think it is a very interesting dynamic. I saw middle-aged women just throw their arms around Barack Obama, kiss him hard on the cheek and say, you know, I'm with you, good luck. And I think he feels it, too.

Credit should be given to both Cowan and Williams for not being afraid to admit what anyone who watches TV hasn't already noticed. Still, it makes you wonder what the point of such candor is. Will NBC work to counteract that bias or is this just a statement of fact?

Hat tip: FishbowlDC

Update 17:34. Bill and Hillary Clinton must be beside themselves at the media's abrupt shift toward Obama. Bill gave a glimpse of this anger at a campaign stop today in New Hampshire:

"It is wrong that Senator Obama got to go through 15 debates trumpeting his superior judgment and how he had been against the war in every year, enumerating the years, and never got asked one time, not once, 'Well, how could you say that when you said in 2004 you didn't know how you would have voted on the resolution? You said in 2004 there was no difference between you and George Bush on the war," Clinton said at a campaign stop in Hanover, New Hampshire.

"And you took that speech you're now running on off your Web site in 2004. And there's no difference in your voting record and Hillary's ever since."

He added, "Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen."

—Matthew Sheffield is the creator of NewsBusters and its Executive Editor.


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 Lee says it's hard to

 Lee says it's hard to stay objective covering this guy.

  Yes but, some of these same 'professional journalists' are able to stay completely 'objective' while watching terrorists set up an ambush against our troops.

You almost get the sense

that they're surprised just how much they love him.

He shouldn't be considering it's been the MSM's eternal quest to find another "Camelot," their idealized false portrayal of the Kennedy presidency.

Love affair

Right. But keep the "love affair" going. The media will be such sycophants, the public may get turned off, real fast. This Obama guy is going to expose the sophomoric, ignorant "liberal" nature to more people than ever.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

Lee says it's hard to stay objective covering this guy

Wow, what is it about Obama ?  What IS so hard about being Objective ?

We hear Bush, and then we hear Hitler, now we hear Obama and then we hear Kennedy.  I don't know who's father away in the comparisons, but Obama is no Jack Kennedy.  

I have to watch Obama and listen to him....ya just can't get away from that if you watch any TV news....but I have yet to be inspired by anything but his Voting record....and the Inspiration on that one is to vote Republican.

As I have said before, Obama and Hillary BOTH got elected by Default, as the opposition party to their Senatorial elections had their guys drop out of both races. 

Neither has earned an election the hard way, the competitive way.  The MSM is trying to grease the election Skids, Big time, but real Competition is on the Horizon, and the competition will be stronger than Edwards. 

 

<begin rant> I am so utterly

<begin rant>

I am so utterly disgusted with the media right now.  Never has it been so apparent as to how the media is biased toward the Democratic party.  In sales and contract law, we call this "puffing".  The media is "puffing" up both Clinton AND Obama.  The media sees positive aspects to these candidates that isn't even there.  The media is basically "selling a candidate to America."  

Brian William's sickens my stomach with the BS he is spewing in the above video

<end rant> 

Question

Why would it be hard for the Democrats to get their agenda if it were not for the current media?

These same robber barons did quite well in raping Europeans, Asian and American economies without the current media and creating little things like Baron Rothschilds government on the cheap with their "author" Karl Marx.

The MSM is really of no purpose. It had distinct parts in American history in nationalism and cross fights in like the J Q Adams and Andrew Jackson fights for power, but the same forces which were plundering American furs are the same forces which led General Custer and Indians into a massacre where they are still blaming each other, the same forces which created Hitler in the Rockefeller's funding his search of the Aryan using the greatest of German genetic scientists all so Germany could be led to exterminating it's Christianity and the same globalists using greenology to leverage a further grab for world power.

Cowen and Williams are not more than a pimple on the bloated whale of despotism which engulfs the entire world educational system turning out children who are soulless and ripe for the worker camps which do not need fences as they willingly abort their own children and die on command from cancer and auto immune diseases brought on by the genetic manipulation of corporate agriculture which the cartels run too.

The only reason the cartel created Obama was to draw in black voters to think they could be at the table too with the elitists. He now is a problem of being a cult hit.....but not so much of a problem until he removes Hillary from walking away with the nomination.

The thing to observe is if Obama wins and the darling story stays with him it means he has sold his soul to implement the North American Union, if stories start creeping in about Obama's funny money and other things which are there........then it means a new savior is there.

I have blogged this is all about Al Gore, but as the New York Times and Boston Globe have turned on him and global warming.......I will give full credit to my brother pointing out someone I know was at the global warming scam, who is a worse communist than Gore, is richer than Gore and is hinting he will run.............

Watch out for Bloomberg as he just might be the changling dumped onto the American people by the cartel as they have just about ripped the stuffing out of the Democrats and brought Conservatism to ruin in the GOP.

That is the story which must be watched.

Question was rhetorical as it was answered. 

 

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I just don't get it. Even

I just don't get it. Even Laura Ingraham was gushing about Obama and his magnetism. Whatever they see in this guy - I don't. Is it just me?

No, Chris, not just you

When I look at Obama, I see another "Slick Willy." Maybe a "Slick Barry." As mentioned above, the press is trying to create another "Camelot." They thought they had it with Clinton, they did the same "skid greasing" for him. They want to be "kingmakers" again. I think that's why they instinctively hate Bush and conservatives so much: we didn't bite on Gore OR Kerry. How DARE we! So they're pulling out all the stops so they can claim to have been a part of "history."

Chris normal......

Exactly, What is it about Obama  ?  

Obama's an empty Suit with no Flag pin and a bad Congressional voting Record, who has the Crooked Illinois political machine behind him.

I got Socks in my closet with more character than Obama has  shown.  

You have the Clintons' cat

You have the Clintons' cat in your closet???

;^D

But I DO believe he has more character!

 

Obama

Williams thinks he himself comes across as unbiased and I guess he does for the uninformed masses that swallow his particular form of political pablum. In this case, it is all projection. Obama is the perfect template for them to hang their ideological vision on. I thought they were all going to fall over themselves for Hillary Clinton this year, but then along came Obama. How would you like to be a fly on the wall when Bill and Hill discuss Obama. They must be beside themselves. Bloomberg would be a fool to run this time around. Obama would run circles around him.

it's hard to stay objective covering this guy [Obama]?

Perhaps the media could start by listening to what he says -- Oh, I'm sorry, does he really ever say anything other than bumper sticker slogans?

Well, a little while back Obama laid out his immigration reform platform - was at the CNN hosted Democrat Debate in Los Vegas. Now truly, if you actually consider what he said here -- he's not much difference than Tom Tancredo -- but he's got the liberal crowd, the same crowd that calls Tancedo, "intolerant," swooning -- and over what? Obama is lost here; the press and the crowd is not really listening to the words and besides, Obama ain't going to do any such thing:

Wolf Blitzer posed the illegal immigration question. These excerpts are in order and are accuratly transcribed. The context is Obama's. I have only removed the fluff around his words -- his [Obama] plan -- and [added my comments], for context and for thusly, for the entertainment effect:

SEN. OBAMA:  ..this administration, the Bush administration, has done nothing about. [well, the 8 yrs of the Clinton admin (any administration)  did something?] 

Now, I have already stated that, as president, I will make sure that we finally have the kind of border security that we need. That's step number one. (Applause.) [ugh - where's the fence? Wolf - take the hint, you should ask Obama how he proposes to do just that -- that's your job.]

 Step number two is to take on employers. Right now, they -- an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change. They have to be held accountable. (Applause.) [wonderful - that means immediately firing all 12 million illegal immigrants, does it not? The far left really supports that.]


I believe that we can take the undocumented workers, the illegal aliens who are here, get them out of the shadows, make sure that they are subject to a stiff penalty, [Brilliant. Just after Obama fires these 12 million illegal's, he going to levy a stiff fine on them, while they are in hiding (Will the ACLU please respond)-- will someone explain to me why this crowd is applauding?]

..make sure that they're learning English. [It just continues. Fire them. Fine them. Then, force them to learn English]

 ..make sure that they go to the back of the line so they're not getting an advantage over people who came here legally [..and once you have these fired, then fined  these suffering poor illegal's, who are now speaking English, Obama's planning to send them home - Why do I sense that the crowd is soon to come to it's feet with passionate cheering - most of this crowd strongly opposes almost everything that he is saying?]

..and we can once again be a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. That's what I intend to do as president of the United States. (Cheers, applause.) [See? It's so easy to speak to a crowd full of gullible suckers, who only hear what they want to hear. And the MSM]

 

But... but....

You just don't understand, Gary.

He's for CHANGE! (ever met a pol who wasn't?)

He'll do the same things, but it will be DIFFERENT! 

ROTFLMAO! 

Obahma for change

Yes, like everyone else these days he is for change. He is for changing his position if if it gets to be a problem. He is for changing his shirt when he gets sweaty. He is also for changing his personal history. So listen up folks, he is the candidate of change. That is 8 dimes for a dollar. Gotta withold 20% for processing fees.

AAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

If I hear the freaking word "CHANGE" one more time, I'm going postal. I think they should make their buzz word something more fun. Like; Underpants.

Obama; "A vote for me is a vote for Underpants. This Government in Washington D.C. needs underpants. We're tired of the imbedded politicians that resist underpants, so vote for Hussein and vote in new underpants in Washington D.C."

Faciem durum cacantis habes