.........when the MSM will come to the conclusion ~ if ever ~ that if they presented the news as it should be (objectively) they might actually be able to attract viewers. 

Not only did Barack have nothing to do with Blagojevich he actually was responsible for taking him down according to the NYT's

http://www.nytimes.c...

In a sequence of events that neatly captures the contradictions of Barack Obama’s rise through Illinois
politics, a phone call he made three months ago to urge passage of a
state ethics bill indirectly contributed to the downfall of a fellow
Democrat he twice supported, Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich.

It was really Barack Obama who was taking on the corruption of Chicago politics.What a guy huh....?

Rod's corruption investigation has been going on for five years.  One of the principle figure in the investigation, Tony Rezko, sold Obama the house he now lives or part of the lot it sits on or both, at a loss.  When you look at the greed these people displayed, why would one of them do something that cost him money?  Simple answer, he got something for it that wasn't money, but would become money in the future.  Rezko raised campaign money for both Blago and Obama.  Rahm Emmanuel ran for the seat Rod vacated in the House when he decided to run for governor.  Rahm is now Obama's chief of staff.  One of the players in the corruption scheme that centers around Rod was Stuart Levine.  Levine was indicted, along with another person, a Chicago alderman named Ed Vrdolyak, for a scheme to get kickbacks from land developers.  The kickbacks were to be channelled via Rezko into Rod's campaign funds.  One of the people involved in the deals with the developers was a man named John Singer.  John Singer was Emmanuel's campaign treasurer.  You need a scorecard to keep all these guys straight, but in Chicao politics, they are all connected and they are all playing on the same team.  Obama was a major player.  If there were real reporters digging into this, the story would be very interesting. 

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  - Sir Winston Churchill

At this point whenever the MSM omits party affiliation I know immediately who's flock ... call it the unspoken truth (or the flock of D-gulls).

When WTF Blitzer claimed that we "hear" more reports of corruption from R's than of D's, it goes to prove that perception by omission is the "real" story.

"A man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument." Hilmar von Campe 

The media loves to present themselves as the watchdogs of democracy, eager to expose corruption and scandal. They all want to be Woodward and Bernstein, burrowing past the front doors, finding and revealing evidence. The myth is how they discover something wrong and following its connections, asking "inconvenient" questions along the way.

When I read the descriptions above, I have to ask myself:  do any of these people seem eager to pursue this story? Seriously, when you observe the coverage of this story, are there any reporters of commentators who have any passion at all?

The barking watchdogs have become turtles, desperately trying to get back into their shells. Apparently, when the Obama campaign assures the media that there's "nothing there," that's good enough for the media.

And we can expect Stage Two to begin any day now. Very soon, the media will argue that Republicans do it too, and that scandals aren't restricted to just Democrats. Then they'll try to focus attention as far away from Chicago as they can. (If they can get a story about corruption in New Zealand, they'll do it.) The media will find great passion in showing how Republicans are just as corruptible ... a passion they never display in finding Democrat counterparts when Republicans are accused.

Their method is predictable.

I watched Morning Joe this morning and Fox last night and all the media talent on the shows just repeated what all of us already know from the charging documents and tape transcripts.  It's truly amazing that with the thousands of media reporters, researchers, producers and on-air talent available, I'll bet this event will not spark one single investigative report into the cesspool of Illinois politics.  FOLLOW THE MONEY you lazy, lazy people!

Are there absolutely no "honest brokers" out there anymore? Does everyone in journalism really believe they are just publicists and public relations hacks?

How many times have lefties told us here not to get upset about a missing party label for a mayor or city councilman? Now when it comes to politicians with larger influence..... 

Let's see, the sitting governor of a large state was using his party connections to illegally auction off a place of power in our federal government, and the newly elected president has given suspicious statements about his own involvement. ABC runs one story about Obama's campaign contradicting him, Obama quickly covers it up, and the rest of the media agree to moveon.org

Are we supposed to forget all about 2000 when the media accused Jeb Bush and Kathleen Harris of stealing the election in the name of party loyalty? Should we forget their musing over how many Republicans secretly knew about Mark Foley? Are now forgetting the hundreds of times they'd talked about the "fallout" within the Republican party and the "tarnish" now put upon the GOP brand because of an isolated sexual misconduct case?

Now we have a scandal with far-reaching implications and evidence coming out that the Democrat party overlooked Blago's corruption for years....and the media half heartedly covers it with zero interest in how many Democrats were involved.

So come on back here lefties and explain how Blago's party is none of our business.

I'm a typical white person.

In a link at Yahoo home page the AP quotes Obama but they left out the gaff. "We" was not in the quote. Who knew?

After discussing the charges against him and painting Blago as a "lone wolf" ...the CNN newsbabe promos the next segment where they will talk about corruption in Chigago politics: not with a picture of Blago and Obama, but with a picture of George Bush and Blago.

There's got to be a screen cap of this somewhere.

It appears the Chicago Tribune went public on December 5th with the Blagojevich story to protect someone else. With Candidate Five on the verge of being exposed it would seem necessary to shut down the investigation as soon as possible. From what I’m reading, at least in several papers in south Texas, is that Jesse Jackson, Jr. could be Candidate Five. Given the relationship between the Democrat Party and the Chicago Tribune and the Jackson’s this connection makes sense.