Notable Quotables Election Special: Barack Obama’s Media Groupies

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As longtime NewsBusters readers are painfully aware, the supposedly objective news media have showered Barack Obama with fawning press coverage throughout his campaign for the White House. (That, plus a $600 million war chest, will apparently get you pretty far in politics.) The Media Research Center has assembled a special Campaign 2008 edition of our bi-weekly Notable Quotables, chock full of journalists’ most adoring pro-Obama quotes. The full collection can be found here, but here are a few of the choicer quotes and along with a memorable video:

Love at First Sight

“I think the real breakout tonight is [Illinois Senate candidate Barack] Obama. I mean, Teresa [Heinz-Kerry] is a fascinating story, but Obama is a rock star!” — NBC’s Andrea Mitchell during MSNBC’s live coverage of the Democratic convention, July 27, 2004.

“I have to tell ya — a little chill in my, in my legs now. That is an amazing moment in history right there. It is really an amazing moment. A keynoter like I’ve never heard....I’ve just seen the first black President there!” — MSNBC’s Chris Matthews following Obama’s speech before the Democratic convention, July 27, 2004.

Run, Barack, Run!

“Obama’s personal appeal is made manifest when he steps down from the podium and is swarmed by well-wishers of all ages and hues....Obama seemed the political equivalent of a rainbow — a sudden preternatural event inspiring awe and ecstasy....He transcends the racial divide so effortlessly that it seems reasonable to expect that he can bridge all the other divisions — and answer all the impossible questions — plaguing American public life.” — Time’s Joe Klein, October 23, 2006 cover story, “Why Barack Obama Could Be the Next President.”

“Many people, afterwards [after Obama’s 2004 convention speech], they weren’t sure how to pronounce your name but they were moved by you. People were crying. You tapped into something. You touched people....If your party says to you, ‘We need you,’ and, and there’s already a drumbeat out there, will you respond?” — Co-host Meredith Vieira to Obama on NBC’s Today, October 19, 2006.


Is He “The One?”

“You can see it in the crowds. The thrill, the hope. How they surge toward him. You’re looking at an American political phenomenon....He inspires the party faithful and many others, like no one else on the scene today....And the question you can sense on everyone’s mind, as they listen so intently to him, is he the one? Is Barack Obama the man, the black man, who could lead the Democrats back to the White House and maybe even unite the country?...Everywhere he goes, people want him to run for President, especially in Iowa, cradle of presidential contenders. Around here, they’re even naming babies after him.” — ABC Nightline co-anchor Terry Moran, Nov. 6, 2006.


Mesmerized by “Stoic Eloquence”

“They come in droves, by the tens of thousands at times, to hear Barack Obama speak....With soaring rhetoric, Obama is moving his audiences not just politically, but emotionally. Even some political commentators who’ve seen it all can’t help but gush....The stoic eloquence channels John F. Kennedy.” — CBS’s Tracy Smith on the The Early Show, February 14.

“It’s almost hard to remain objective because it’s infectious, the energy, I think. It sort of goes against your core to say that as a reporter, but the crowds have gotten so much bigger, his energy has gotten stronger. He feeds off that.” — NBC reporter Lee Cowan in an MSNBC.com video about the Obama campaign posted January 7.

The Ultimate Obama Fan

“He’s come from a white family and a black family, and he’s married to a black woman, and they’re cool people. They are really cool. They are Jack and Jackie Kennedy when you see them together. They are cool. And they’re great-looking, and they’re cool and they’re young.” — MSNBC’s Chris Matthews talking about the Obamas on NBC’s Tonight Show, January 16.


Co-anchor Chris Matthews: “I have to tell you, you know, it’s part of reporting this case, this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama’s speech. My — I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often.”
Co-anchor Keith Olbermann: “Steady.”
Matthews: “No, seriously. It’s a dramatic event. He speaks about America in a way that has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with the feeling we have about our country. And that is an objective assessment.” — Exchange during MSNBC’s coverage of the Virginia, Maryland and Washington D.C. primaries, February 12.

—Rich Noyes is Research Director at the Media Research Center.


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Obama Luv where it learned how to run wild

If people haven't noticed yet, Madelyn Dunham, the infamous escrow
accounting Gramma of Barack Hussein Obama who was on "death's door" a
week ago, so Obama had to wait 2 days after the story to fly to Hawaii
(get the point the media lied about her condition) in order to see Gram
Dunham.

As she is still alive, she isn't dead. As Barry delayed days to go see her, well she wasn't dying.

So what was Obama really doing in Hawaii?

Well
the Republican Governor who spoke at the GOP convention, did seal
Obama's birth certificate, but then that must be all chance too like a
Gram reported taking the turn for the worst, at death's door, still
alive, as Obama prances about in Florida with Bill Clinton.

What
was interesting coming out of Hawaii is Jerome Corsi of World Net Daily
actually built upon my articles of discovery this past summer
concerning Frank Marshall Davis.
See WND, it is not so hard to give people credit and not just plagiarize bloggers.

I postulated that drug use, bi sexual actions and communism are learned actions.

As Obama has gravitated to this sort of association from Davis to Ayers in
Chicago, there had to be someone in his childhood mentoring him.

Corsi hypothesis is that perhaps Lloyd and Dot the in characters in Davis'
sex book from Seattle who he met in a park and all had a bi sexual 3
some for days, that Lloyd and Dot were Stanley and Madelyn Dunham.

We know Davis was doper and Corsi found a source who said Davis was
selling coke and weed out of his hot dog cart as his means of revenue.

The original theory posted was Davis sexed up Barry after getting him
stoned as a child. The same type of oral nature which Barack Obama
would "use" gay males alike Lawrence Sinclair and Donald Young in a
domination situation in being serviced.
Obama was just acting out in anger what he had been taught or forced to do in servicing Davis as he was not getting it at home.
This
is all fact and based upon known Chicago history of the gay community
there which Davis existed in which stated, you were not gay if your
wife would not perform oral at home and you had to go out and get it
from a gay male on the street.

Obama according to Lawrence
Sinclair mixed coke and sex. The mix in Hawaii was coke and sex with
Frank Marshall Davis from his own writings.

So Obama appears to
be part of a massive incestuous past. His grandparents did just happen
upon Frank Davis, they sought him out as sex partners and all three
were having sex. This is how Grampa Stanley brought Barry over to
Davis' house.

In a telling association which Barack Obama
recorded himself, Obama noted how Stanley and Davis would argue and how
Davis took great joy in berating and belittling the ignorant white man.
This
would fit correctly in the bi sexual nature that Davis was the dominant
in bed. In married women I have spoken with who were part of this
jungle fever, the underlying scenario was the wife was always a "less
than cordial" woman to her husband. The "b" word which according to
bank employees summed up Madelyn Dunham's iron fist personality.
The
husband being belittled would offer his wife to a black male to punish
her and "dirty" her up in his mind as the black male would dominate the
woman he could not.

So as Davis had dominated the Dunhams in bed
and had Stanley performing oral on him in servicing him, the same
repeat performance was carried out later by Barack with Lawrence
Sinclair.

There is no evidence as of yet, but Stanley Ann was
definitely around this venue. Her tastes were Barack Obama sr. black.
One person is trying to get Obama to take a paternity test to see if
Frank Davis is his father.
Why this is relevant is Davis recorded
pedophilia in sexing at 13 year old girl with his white wife who her
"aunt had dropped off" for save keeping.
Hawaii at that time was a pedophile orgy as girls of 14 were considered "legal".
Again why this matters is Stanley Ann had the jungle fever, was 17 when impregnated, by whichever black male.
It might be why Barack sr. ran for the border as he might not have liked sharing Stanley Ann or figured the Barry was not his.

As stated, I was exposing this all months ago hoping someone would pick it
up before 5 days before the election. Every bit of additional evidence
which comes out points to Lawrence Sinclair was telling the entire
truth and in knowing that, does America really want an Obama in the
White House whose main mentors in life were sexing his grandparents,
might have initiated his mother into sex, was a pedophile and going to
Chicago Ayers had a black guy rape a Jewish girl in his apartment while
he is a terrorist.

That type of imprint does not belong anywhere
near nuclear buttons or being backed by several million armed military
and law enforcement backing his every whim.

It is worth stating
again if you notice the political rape of Sarah Palin that it fits with
Lee Woodruff (wife of Bob Woodruff) who posted on Huffington Post that
her idea of dealing with peeping perverts was to hand out Penthouse and
Playboy.
These liberals like Bill Maher and camaraderie all couch
things in sexual nature and conclude one enables or services perversion
with more perversion.
I pointed out often that the reason these
liberal media types didn't think Bill Clinton raping women was
anything, because it is a combined part of their past. They know who is
in Asia on vacation or working for the reason of being a pedophile and
they know who doped the 12 year old neighbor kid and raped them,
because it is how this filth operates.

How else could the things
Bill Maher comes up with which are disgusting be condoned by his
bosses? It is because they all flock together and all of them know the
same stories on each other.

Davis had protection from higher
ups, Ayers has protection from higher ups and Obama has the same
protection which is promoting him now. That is how this sexual demon
operates and if one seasons it with dope to control people easier and a
little Marxism to glue it all together without God then all is the
Frankenobama being created for a not so virgin America which is about
to be doped and Democratic gang raped from Capitol Hill.

As it needs to be said to liberals, this is not just bad, this is evil.

agtG

 

 

*HIC IACET ARTORIVS REX QVONDAM REXQVE FVTVRVS

Barf bag please! "Forget

Barf bag please!

"Forget change, I want improvement!"

OMG.. That was my first

OMG..

That was my first thought...This needs a barf-bag alert!!

I am not having a tingle up

I am not having a tingle up or down my leg but my stomach is turning

"A light will shine down...you will say...'I have to vote for.."

"A light will shine down from somewhere. It will light upon you. You will experience an epiphany and you will say to yourself, 'I have to vote for Barack'," - Barack Hussein Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teM16UaA55A&feature=related 

18Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. 1 John 2

Many will come in my name, saying,(B) 'I am he!' and they will lead many astray. Mark 13:6

v

 

0bama has learned his

0bama has learned his Alinsky lessons well, and Matthews is a wide-eyed sycophant, ready to believe anything 0bama says.

Matthews "objectively" observes, "He speaks about America in a way that has nothing to do with politics." This is the goal, according to Alinsky.  Convince the rubes that your goals are anything but political, and they will back your politics right down the line.

And Obama has modernized

And Obama has modernized Alinsky's lessons... THIS IS WAR!

 

 

Making Fun of AGW http://giovanniworld.wordpress.com/  

No kidding, and apparently

No kidding, and apparently Obama was giving Chrissie the tingles way back in 2004!

“I have to tell ya — a little chill in my, in my legs now. That is an
amazing moment in history right there. It is really an amazing moment.....

Yeah.  I didn't realize

Yeah.  I didn't realize that he was getting the "leg tingles" in 2004 as well.  And last night when he was discussing Obama's infomercial he literally looked "turned on".  This guy is just not right.

Credibility

Poor Matthews. Forever has he saddled himself with that "leg" comment. Any partisan point he makes can be and is lost in absurdity when his guest fires back with a reference to that.

Hey Matthews, report this...

 

DUBAI (Reuters) - An al Qaeda leader has called for President George W. Bush and the Republicans to be "humiliated," without endorsing any party in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, according to a video posted on the Internet.

"O God, humiliate Bush and his party, O Lord of the Worlds, degrade and defy him," Abu Yahya al-Libi said at the end of sermon marking the Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr, in a video posted on the Internet.

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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury."

Stars & Stripes/Obama remix version

We you please be upstanding for the NATIONAL ANTHEM OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA/OBAMA REMIX...

Sung tonight by Secretary of Musical Re-Education Kanye West

Obama, can you see,
by the One's halo light
What so proudly we hailed
at freedom's last gleaming?

Whose high taxes and state czars,
through the perfidious sight.
O'er the media we watched
were so odiously misleading?

The Reverend Wright's red glare,
Ayers bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that
the Red Flag flies everywhere,

Oh, say does that Che-spangled
banner yet wave.
Obama the land of the unfree
and home of the welfare slave!

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

Wow. Jack, that was

Wow.

Jack, that was pretty darned good.

I'm going to Bidenize that (plagiarize) and email it.

strat -- steal my

strat -- steal my man!

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

Nothing more than....

The only thing missing from this compilation of pathetic fawning disguised as journalism is background music of Babs Streisand singing Feelings.

How about People who need

How about People who need people.....?

The big O

.......and oprah tingling

Very powerful presentation, Rich.

What a road they [MSM] have taken the US voters down. I imagine that it was challenging to limit the number of entries in the review?

Perhaps the most revealing response to the evidence here comes from on of the liberal elite's own. Thanks to Scott Whitlock's post yesterday, Editor of Time on Fawning Obama Coverage: Media Will Regret This:

Editor at large of Time magazine Mark Halperin appeared on Tuesday's edition of "Morning Joe" and admitted "mistakes have been made" in regards to the media's coverage of Barack Obama and that "people will regret it." Analyzing the fawning press that the Democratic presidential candidate has received, he added, "If Obama wins and goes on to become a hugely successful president, I think, still, people will look back and say it just wasn't done the right way."

Did Mao do it the right way?  Obama might just be trying the other door - Door # 2.

(;~> gary

Nope...no bias in he

Nope...no bias in he msm...none here at all..zilch...zip...nada...

These are some of the best examples of critters I want to see passing the Kleenex boxes and being hauled off by men in little white coats...on the 5th if not sooner...if we're lucky that is.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

What we're in for if McCain wins

If the McCain-Palin ticket wins, you know it'll be 100 "What went wrong?" stories to every "How McCain pulled it out" stories, and I'm not optomistic about that single story.  There will also be a flood of conspiracy theories and rants about "racist" America, as well as "The Republicans won by stirring up hate and fear".  I expect we'll hear from Obama every minute of the next four years. 

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

Wrong! The Democrats will

Wrong! The Democrats will look for an excuse, any excuse, to impeach McCain.

Then we get Sarah! v

Then we get Sarah!

v

vrwc.... LOL...now that

vrwc....

LOL...now that was funny!

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

...and she's no

vr... I should of said

vr...

I should of said that was rich...

Know what I mean?

I thought about going back and changing it...but too lazy.  

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

You are an optimist.  The

You are an optimist.  The Demos are likely to have a super majority after this election.  Palin or not, they will govern as they please.

My optimism is three-fold...

  1. If McCain is elected, we at least dodge the "socialism" bullet for awhile
  2. If McCain is elected and does not finish his term, we get Sarah a true conservative
  3. If obama is elected (brrrrr), we get to replace Carter as the worst president ever, and the dems will have the most horrific 4 years of their history.  With that, beginning in '13 (gotta like that number) the conservatives will rule for along time in the wake of the "socialist" experiment.

v

NT & nk

you're both right. We will be in for that and much more for 12 years, 4 under McCain and 8 under Palin. we will see also see a drastic increase in mental health care costs as more and more left-wing extremists require psychiatric treatment.

Huh?

NL, you lost me.  Nothing in your post contradicts one word of mine.  I expect multiple lawsuits, endless dirty tricks, and Dennis Kucinich filing to impeach McCain on Jan.20. 

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

Something caught in my th..

Something caught in my throat. No I'm not choked up, more like up-chuck. Gosh the bile tastes bad. Thanks NB for ruining dinner!