Does everybody really feel that all of Obama's success to get to this point can be directly and solely attributed to a biased media?  I'm asking an honest question here; I'm not looking for insults, just opinions.

Another excellent piece by Melanie Phillips. 

Pieces like this prove how the media hates America.  If they can speak out about Obama trouble over in Britain, why can't they do it here?

Ms. Phillips ends the piece:

"And yet despite all of this, virtually no-one in the mainstream media is asking any questions. Has there ever been a more staggering, surreal and scary race to the White House?"

http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2178136/subversives-for-obama.thtml

McCain's twisting in thewind trying to explain how we really need a bailout.

But Obama's soundbite of the day is that we need to increase FDIC protection to $250,000.  Simple and easy to understande.

Advantage Obama.

"I've got a bracelet too" - Barack Obama

Its not all thanks to the media.  He is an enthusiastic speaker and an intelligent individual (he is connected to the right people, but we are unable to officially stick him to these questionable people).  However, you cannot take the media away from his rise to stardom.  Would he be where he is without the media maybe, but it wouldn't nearly be as close as it is, in fact McCain might be running against Hillary right now, but you never now.

So is it thanks to the media we have Obama, probably, but I don't think we can pin all of his success to the media.

"what can possibly be done to fix the problem?"

Wow, you're playing my song! This occurred to me about a week ago or so. Not much traffic, but it's right on topic.

"... smells like... victory." - Robert Duvall

I never thought that the alphabet MSM would become Pravda for the leftist Democrats, but it has.  Alinsky and Marx have made great strides.

As mentioned in other posts here, it ALL falls to McCain to say the things he needs to say in the debates, when many of the voters in this country are watching, and it's not edited by the MSM.

Sarah has an opportunity as well, maybe McCain will play nice, and Sarah will be allowed to be the "pitbull."  I hope so.

But McCain and his "we don't need to point fingers" B.S. leaves the public to believe that it's conservative policies that created this mess!!! That's not acceptible.  If you can't point to what caused a problem, then you can't propose the right solutions to the problem.

Hey, Newsbusters.org, here's a suggestion, let's get an ongoing thread of debate arguments.  Doesn't have to be just for us from the right, but let's put the bloggers to work coming up with the best arguments and short soundbites for the next debates.  Maybe someone will pay attention!

"Would Democrats ever win national elections if the media weren't biased?"

Interesting question! In order to answer it, we would need to prove the existence of liberal media bias (which wouldn't be too hard) and take into consideration how much the public is affected by their news and, as specifically as possible, in what ways. Polls show that a good chunk (nearly half, I think) of the nation believes that there is bias of some sort in the media.

But we also need to consider the GOP angle before answering the question- What about RINOs? What about GOP members who genuinely make mistakes in their judgement (Sen. Stevens, Specter and McCain are good examples) that voters find unattractive to the point where they no longer want to vote for that candidate? Perhaps, at the GOP party level, we should give aspiring candidates a test that they must receive outstanding marks on before they are considered for nomination to run for office.

"If virtually every major press outlet in the country wasn't so obviously in the tank for Obama, would someone with so little experience have gotten beyond the Iowa caucuses or New Hampshire primaries?"

Once again, we would have to consider whether or not voters completely bought into it, and if so, exactly how many voters and to what degree. We'd have to ask voters who bought into it why they bought into it.

"If media had done their job and properly exposed Obama's connections to Rev. Wright, William Ayers, Tony Rezko, Franklin Raines, and Jim Johnson, would he even be in this race?"

Possibly, but whether or not he would still be succeeding would be up for question. All I know is that there's a lot of stuff McCain's not attacking him on, and McCain is stupid for that reason. 

"At the Congressional level, if media outlets exposed how Democrats have blocked Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reform for many years, and are FAR more responsible for today's financial crisis than the Republicans, would we be looking at the possibility of a GOP landslide in five weeks rather than the Democrats getting a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate?"

See the second sentence of my answer to the previous question, where I mentioned McCain. The point is that McCain and GOPers can get past this crap if they actually tried (which they're not doing) to prove the Dems wrong as clearly and publically as possible so that everyone could see it.

McCain does commercials, right? How about this: instead of investigating how much Obama "agreed" with McCain during the debate, or what Biden "thinks of" McCain or Obama, why doesn't McCain instead release a commercial that actually does some legitimate hardcore investigation of Obama-Biden on real issues? 

McCain, as well as many Repubs running for election or re-election, has proven himself inept in this area. They simply don't know what the hell they're doing.

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  Obama & the media reminds me of a boxer in the early stages (at least in my home town) of Television in the 1950's.

I can not remember his name ,but the media loved him and just build him up to the point,you thought he was the best boxer in the world and in the history of boxing.

There was one problem,he was only fighting against weak opponents,ones that only his manger would book for him. 

 He was to fight an other boxer finally,that was a major boxer.

 Well I thought,along with all the media,that this boxer would win.

One sports writer thought that he would get his bottom wiped out.

I thought that this writer was nuts and boos to him.

Well the fight was and our hero had no chance from the first round and was totally wiped out,out of his class.

So much was the boxing experts of TV in those days.

That may be OK for a boxer, but for a man who will lead the strongest country in the world,it would be a disaster.

I am afraid that his "Boxer" Obama will win and become President.

I woke up this morning to find that the world did not, in fact, end over night.

It appears the markets are an their way back, as well.

This bailout was nothing more than certain areas of the private sector (Wall Street, which has a surprisignly high number of liberals like H. Paulson) using horror stories to try and see if they could use the federal government as an instrument of plunder.

Thank God it didn't work. Well, this time, anyway.

-As an aside here, I am really beginning to think that Michael Savage, as out there as he is at times, has been right all along about Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. 

-Dave

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them - Rick Roberts

My troll fuse length today: 0.003mm

If I had a head for business I wouldn't be sitting here with hundreds of convicted felons around me. But it is a job that pays fairly well. I heard Paulson say yesterday that if companies couldn't borrow then they couldn't make payroll. I know companies borrow to increase stock and expand among other things. If you are borrowing to make payroll then it sounds to me that you are in trouble to start with. Help me out here. I know that when I was working for DOOK Power during the Jimma Carter years they were selling properties to make payroll but they were not borowing.  

If pro is the opposite of con what is the opposite of progress? Congress!

It's very crisp and to the point.  His best ad yet I think

McCain ad - Rein

The media has a large part to play, since without them, we would not have any news and thus no idea what's going on in the nation's political arenas.  Granted, there's bias, so the news we get isn't exactly... accurate.

Don't forget the schools, however. The media isn't the only establishment involved in the formation of political ideals.

Some Democrats would still get elected if the media wasn't biased, but there would probably be more balance overall.  The urge to please the media seems to have played a part in the downfall of the GOP through the appearance of RINOs.  In addition, we are now a two-party political system DUE to the media and its emphasis on Democrats vs Republicans.  If someone were to break away from a party now and start their own, they'd get nowhere.

The only thing that can be done is a comprehensive ad campaign akin to the swiftboat ads showing the american people that Obama is a communist with evil plans for this country. He has no concern for gun rights, no concern for freedom of speech, he hates capitalism or what he calls our "economic philosophy". This has to happen, but I wont get my hopes up...

I had to leave for a bit but now I hear Rush talking about this link I saved early this morning to put on here....

Anyway...good ol'Big Brother Hollywood at work once again!

  Enjoy!

Somebody may already have this posted, haven't even had time to read much of anything yet...

Obama is the American Idol presidential candidate.

We watched AI for the first time last year. It took a while for my family to catch on, but we soon realized that it's not the best SINGER who wins. It's the best package from a sales point of view.

It's the same with Obama. The media is like all of the people who vote on AI. They go for the package, the appearance, the story, not the actual ability of the candidate. And because the media has almost a monopoly on what most people see and hear, they easily convinced those people that he was the best candidate.

Unfortunately, I think all of this is because of the dumbing down of the American people (maybe even the West as a whole). So few people have a knowledge and understanding of current events, history, culture, economics, etc. that the media (and campaigns) can say whatever they want and few will have enough knowledge to see through it to the truth.

And it starts young. I remember being in my sophomore year in high school and the only person in my social studies class that knew where France was. My youngest are in high school now and report the same lack of knowlege. Yesterday it was the kids in my daughter's history class that thought the Titanic was sunk during WWII. These kids are the next generation who will grow up to vote. Scary.

Fox is reporting that the McCain campaign is going to be getting Gov. Palin out in the media more, and the plan is to let "Sarah be Sarah"!! I've been saying that for the last two weeks-She is one of the best assets the campaign has, and they have been underusing and overmanaging her.

It's about time! 

"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan, January 20, 1981

comments today....this popped into my head.  We all know Obama is an empty suit, but speaks well.  No foriegn policy experience, no real federal experience.......flat out NO experience.  So what are we left with.......a piece of clay that can be molded and formed.  I feel that Obama is that clay, and will be molded by the likes of Soros, Ayers, Alinski, et al.  He will be a figurehead controled from the shadows....he has way too many "markers" that will be called in if he is elected.  IMO, he will be beholding to these people, and be President in name only.  This is why he was "selected". 

"If a man does his best, what else is there"?

General George S. Patton Jr.