OBAMA APPROVED PUNDITS

There was closed door private meeting this past Monday at the White House with a select group of media pundits. Of course there was the typical Obama bootlickers like Keith (Obamamann) Olbermann and his fellow liberal lesbian co worker Rachel Madcow. Just One Minute has the complete list:

"The White House has sent TVNewser the complete list of those who attended the off-the-record briefing Monday: Eugene Robinson, E.J. Dionne, Ron Brownstein, John Dickerson, Rachel Maddow, Frank Rich, Jerry Seib, Maureen Dowd, Keith Olbermann, Bob Herbert, Gloria Borger, and Gwen Ifill. Several members of the staff also attended."

Kind of sad to see Maureen Dowd and John Dickerson in with the rest of the Obama bootlicking crowd. I just hope they were not forced to drink the Obama Kool Aid but, perhaps they already have and that's why they were invited.

Eugene Robinson crys the News

In his column on Tuesday Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson and Obama butt boy complains about how the McCain campaign is trying use the "news media" to distract the issues in the campaign. As opposed to say the "news media" bringing their bias and prejudice for Obama into their reporting or not reporting as the case may be. Robinson obviously frustrated that the McCain campaign won't play by his and the liberal mainstream media rules. Here are some of the money quotes:

"we think of ourselves as working in the public interest. We repeatedly remind everyone that our right to do our jobs however we see fit is enshrined in the First Amendment. "

Note to Eugene Robinson: That first amendment does not only apply to six figure salaried columnist at the Washington Post but, also to working class guys sitting at a keyboard at 6:30 in the morning commenting on the news of the day or the news media, Get used to it! Mr. Robinson.

"We love to quote Thomas Jefferson about how he would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers. "

I suspect that if Thomas Jefferson were alive to day he might say the same thing except because of the continuing failures of the mainstream news media he might phrase it a little differently. Perhaps something like this:

I would rather have a country without newspapers than a country without bloggers.

I think Jefferson would truly understand that bloggers are truly the voices of the American people not columnist at organizations like the Washington Post. I suspect Jefferson would be a blogger too.
Robinson continues:

"But in the Jeffersonian sense, we know that it's not in the public interest to spend the rest of the campaign talking about fringe characters who once crossed paths with Obama, McCain, Palin or Joe Biden instead of debating the economy, the war on terror, health care or any of the other big issues that will define the next presidency. "

Uh, like illegal immigration? Have we heard one peep from the candidates or the news media about this issue? How about when candidate Obama just makes stuff up in speeches as he did in May. Did the Washington Post cover it? I guess since it was Obama and not McCain it was not considered news.

Bitter hypocrisy!

It is yet to be seen whether condescending remark on "small town" America is Barrack Obama's "yeee ha" moment ala Howard Dean or just a bump in the road. But, the hypocrisy is startling. Just a few weeks after throwing his grandmother under the bus after describing her as a "typical white person" he is now embracing being raised by his single mother and his grandparents.
Meanwhile, Obama sycophant and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson defends Obama by launching a pathetic attack on Hillary Clinton and defending why we need an elitist for for President. Here is the money quote:

"As you've guessed, I have a couple of problems with Clinton's seeming-is-being theory of campaigning for the nation's highest elective office. First, given the urgency and complexity of the problems the next president will face, who's going to think it's a good idea to elect Joe or Josephine Sixpack?"

Ummm, Phone call for Mr. Robinson! It's Harry Truman.

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No Imus! No Peace!

You can almost smell the hypocrisy coming out of the National Association of Black Journalists as they came out against Don Imus returning to the airwaves. To them the first amendment has no meaning as they appear to attempt to silence voices that they find objectionable.

"CHICAGO Weighing in again on the Don Imus controversy, the National Association of Black Journalists Tuesday said the radio personality who outraged many with his comments about "nappy-headed ho's" should not be allowed back on the air.
NABJ called reports that Imus is in negotiations with Citadel Broadcasting and in informal talks with Fox News "unimaginable."- Editor and Publisher

Unimaginable? What a laugh! These so called "black" journalists had better not turn on black oriented television programs like those on BET. Because they would have heart attacks when they hear how black rap artist degrade and demean black woman. No even after numerous apologies by IMUS these hypocrites still don't want his acerbic humor to be heard on the air. But, they give Tom Joyner a free pass when he and his crew make fun of whites. Yes the hypocrites at the NABJ are in good company with the likes of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Keith Obermann, Al Roker and others who who mau maued the weaselly executives at NBC and CBS. Along with players like Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post and others. But, is there something else going on here? Perhaps Frank Rich said it best:

"Familar as I am with the warp speed of media, I was still taken aback by the velocity of Don Imus’s fall after he uttered an indefensible racist and sexist slur about the Rutgers women’s basketball team. Even in that short span, there’s been an astounding display of hypocrisy, sanctimony and self-congratulation from nearly every side of the debate, starting with Al Sharpton, who has yet to apologize for his leading role in the Tawana Brawley case, the 1980s racial melee prompted by unproven charges much like those that soiled the Duke lacrosse players."

There is another backstory for what Bill Maher calls the "manufactured outrage" against Imus and it has intriguing tie to the Hillary Clinton campaign and the liberal "watchdog" group Media Matters who pushed the story. You can read about those ties and the attempt to silence a Clinton critics like Imus here. It may just be that the NABJ and others are really worried that when IMUS gets back on the air he is going to open a big can of wup ass on them when he gets back on the air. I hope he does and I will be listening.

Steve Jobs is a salesman.

Face it all those who bought an I Phone ten weeks ago amid all the hoopla the corporate media created paid $200 dollars to use it that even before the usage bills came in from ATT. As Eugene Robinson points out it is becoming clear that executives like Apple's Steve Jobs are just salesmen. While he is not selling snake oil but, he is selling. It seems to me for those who followed Steve Jobs pied piper tune that caused them to camp out and pay top dollar for their I Phone the "I" stands for idiot.

The Imus media firestorm: Black hypocrisy and what lies beneath.

The press conference with the Rutgers Woman's basketball team should show Imus and others why what Imus said was wrong, insensitive and inappropriate. These woman athletes should be outraged and it looks like Imus will speak with them privately and apologize personally. That is appropriate. Team Captain Essence Carson had it right when she said:
"Some have pointed out that young women are routinely and unfortunately called "hos" in some rap lyrics. "That doesn't make it any more right for anyone to say it, it doesn't matter if you are African American, Caucasian, Asian, it really doesn't matter," said Rutgers team captain Essence Carson at a news conference yesterday. "All that matters is it's wrong."-Washington Post
I wonder if the black media elites like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Washington Post columnist Eugen Robinson and the National Association of Black Journalists etc... who are so outraged over Imus remarks will take the words of Ms. Carson to heart and go after BET (Black Entertainment Television), MTV and the rap and hip hop recording industry who promote artist and entertainers who compose songs with much more racist lyrics and images. If they don't it will show the hypocrisy of what Bill Maher calls the "manufactured outraged" against Don Imus. Don't hold your breath while you wait for all these same racial ambulance chasers going after Don Imus to go after the rap music industry for their use of even worse words and images. You can almost smell the hypocrisy coming from the positions of these black media elites.

But, why all this overblown "outrage" over the Imus remarks? Underneath all the media firestorm hidden in the remarks of people like Jesse Jackson may lie the real reason for the this media firestorm concerning Don Imus. It is political.
Don Imus usually uses his acerbic humor to go after the powerful that includes going after people from President Bush, Dick Cheney to Hillary Clinton. And there may lie the real reason for the media lynching of Don Imus. Both Sharpton and Jackson are Democratic partisans. Imus has often said that he would not have Hillary Clinton on as a guest on his influential program. Jackson appeared on Lou Dobs on Monday and here is the smoking gun money quote:
"JACKSON: He's not irreverent toward Joe Lieberman. He's not irreverent towards Harold Ford. He irreverent towards those he chooses to call out. But the idea of this pattern, the statements about. And even today he said he didn't want Hillary Clinton on his show. A political statement, you know. It's a very political show."- Jesse Jackson on Lou Dobbs

So that's what this is really all about. Democratic partisans like Jackson and Sharpton among others are going after Don Imus not so much because of his insensitive stupid remarks about the Rutgers Woman's basketball team. But rather being Democratic partisans and long time friends of Hillary and Bill Clinton they are trying to also eliminate or take down someone in the media who has derided Clinton in order to earn some points with the Democratic party and Hilliary Clinton in particular. More to follow....