Without Ross Perot sucking away 19% of the vote from President George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton is merely the former Governor of Arkansas.

"Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain." Official Motto of the State of Iowa

"You need "go back no further than four years ago" to find a similar political love affair..." Was Tim being understated? It seems to me that the intensity of this political love affair and the resulting grotesquely open and blatent bias is unprecedented in the modern history of journalism.

McNotObama '08

if it's due to sites like NB that make us even more aware of the media bias..

Or if they are just coming out of the closet big time for Nobama,,,

I think I'm going with the latter, my hope is that now that they are so over the top. The average joe and joette will recognize them for what they are and stop relying on the msm.

I hope this is one big backfire..

NOBAMA 08 !!!

The new ad(s) he mentioned are pretty good. A thrill going up his leg? Chris Matthews has lost it. I mean he actually said this about Obama's NAACP speech:

This is the kind of speech I think first graders should see - people in the last year of college should see before they go out in the world. This should be to me an American track, something you just check in with now and then like reading Great Gatsby or Huckleberry Finn.

Both those books have huge racial overtones, by the way. I also guess Chris didn't see the part of Obama's speech where he lost his line and said this:

Be-because, because, th-that, and by the way, uh, when we are takin’ care of our own stuff, then alot of other folks are gonna’ be interested in joining up and workin’ with us to take care of America’s stuff. We can lead by example as we did during the Civil Rights movement. Because the problems that plague our communities, they’re not unique to us. We just have it a little worse. But they’re not unique to us.

Tim Graham nailed it: "Cotton candy and pom poms."

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Screw 'em. Cut them off. No press releases, interviews...nothing - nada - zip. And then he should make himself available to local stations wherever he is.

Obama does not have a sense of history and he does mangle the facts, but the media focuses on his basketball skills.

At what point does the MSM lose credibility with the masses on this issue ... and people look for alternative sources of information?  I think that that change has begun to take hold, in some circles.

Over the course of the last year, Alan Keyes has talked to supporters about being blacklisted by the MSM.  He believes part of the problem in gaining traction has been that the public will not believe what they are told by their neighbor, unless it is confirmed in the press.  We need to get past that.  Keyes tells supporters that since the MSM will not cover Keyes, supporters have to become the media ... spreading the word of his candidacy person-to-person, in a grassroots fashion.

The people have a God-given right to self-government according to the founding fathers, yet today we do not trust one another to share political information, unless it is corroborated by the MSM.  I think that implies we no longer have self-government ... but an electorate that is simply manipulated to action by our elites, and none other.

Since the people hold power, in America, it's a huge deal if we are being duped.

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I am very much afraid that there is more than a love-fest going on with Obama. I believe the media is laying groundwork for a coup d'etat .

They will spend the next few months establishing how much more popular Obama is than McCain. They will hammer in his lead in carefully selected polls. They will have Obama the shoo-in by election day.

Then if McCain wins, the media will accuse fraud on a grand scale. They will use his pre-election leads and popularity as a basis. How could things come out differently, except through fraud? The NYT will probably even file their own lawsuit.

The media has been toying with this idea for the last two elections. They are so desperate and unprincipled that this might finally be it for them. They have been getting bolder of late. They might actually try to negate the election process to get their way. I'm scared.

At the very least, expect a fiasco that would make Florida 2000 seem like a little misunderstanding.

              A gun in your hand beats a cop on the phone.