From the moment Obama emerged as a candidate in 2007,
the media - both in Europe and America
- have disgraced themselves with their partisan behaviour.
Fawning and uncritical coverage.
A refusal to ever examine Obama's past,
his career, his grades, his publications, his religion, his racist church,
his terrorist friends.
Endless slurs of "racism" against his critics.
Has there ever in the history of European and American media
been more bias in favour of a candidate and President?
In my country, the
Irish Times
spins for Obama even harder than he spins for himself!
The contrast with the abuse President Bush got from the media is incredible.
The exposure of some of the contents of
"JournoList", a private email list for prominent leftie journalists,
has given a good insight into their incredible bias for Obama.
Actually, I didn't know Slate was so far left.
Good of them to be so honest about this.
Two pictures from
the 2008 US election sum up the unthinking left-wing bias of much of the US media.
Look at the treatment
by
Us Weekly
celebrity magazine
of
Barack Obama
versus
their treatment of
Sarah Palin.
From here.
As John Nolte
says:
"Barack's cover could've just as easily read; REZKO, AYERS, & RACIST CHURCH."
One photo sums up the entire problem with the western media.
Journalist
Askia Muhammad
took this photo in 2005
of Obama with Nation of Islam hate-monger
Louis Farrakhan.
He then agreed to
hide it for 13 years
so as not to damage Obama's career,
only revealing it in 2018 after Obama left office.
That really sums up the modern media!
From here.
Major network news shows ran 69 stories about Sarah Palin.
37 stories were negative.
2 were positive.
Not a single evening news show ran a positive story about Palin.
ABC's bias for Obama
Sample questions from
Charles Gibson of ABC's
interview
of Sarah Palin,
candidate for Vice-President,
11-12 Sept 2008:
Sample questions from
Charles Gibson of ABC's
interview
of
Barack Obama,
candidate for President,
4 June 2008:
Governor, let me start by asking you a question .. and it is really the central question. Can you look the country in the eye and say "I have the experience and I have the ability to be not just vice president, but perhaps president of the United States of America?"
And you didn't say to yourself, "Am I experienced enough? Am I ready? Do I know enough about international affairs?
Did you ever travel outside the country prior to your trip to Kuwait and Germany last year?
Have you ever met a foreign head of state?
I'm talking about somebody who's a head of state, who can negotiate for that country. Ever met one?
Are we fighting a holy war?
But then are you sending your son on a task that is from God?
Do you believe the United States should try to restore Georgian sovereignty over South Ossetia and Abkhazia?
Would you favor putting Georgia and Ukraine in NATO?
Do you consider a nuclear Iran to be an existential threat to Israel?
What if Israel decided it felt threatened and needed to take out the Iranian nuclear facilities?
Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?
Do we have the right to be making cross-border attacks into Pakistan from Afghanistan, with or without the approval of the Pakistani government?
(And lots more hostile and aggressive questions.)
Senator, I'm curious about your feelings last night. It was an historic moment. Has it sunk in yet?
When everybody clears out, the staff is gone, you're in your hotel room at night and you're alone -- do you say to yourself: "Son of a gun, I've done this?"
Did you truly, in your gut, think that a black man could win the nomination of a major party to be president of the United States?
On what criteria and what timetable will you choose a vice president?
On what three issues will this campaign turn to you?
Do you worry that it could turn on race, age and class?
Will you go to Iraq?
Is the hardest part of all this behind you or ahead of you?
The picture of you in the paper, this morning, with your wife, watching the Clinton speech. What did you think of the Clinton speech?
She didn't exactly acknowledge your victory.
And finally your daughters. What did they say to you? Did they take it as a matter of course that Daddy could be nominated to be president? They never knew what older people know in terms of discrimination, although they may still feel some. What did they say about that?
I watched closely your countenance last night, your mien, as you stood in that hall. You didn't smile much.
Has the joyfulness of this hit home yet? Do you take joy from it?
It is obvious that Palin's questions are not only harder,
but the interview is more hostile.
And she was only running for Vice-President!
Obama was running for President!
See discussion
here.
The pro-Obama bias has continued after the election.
The media has too much invested in this guy to change anytime soon.
Media Having Trouble Finding Right Angle On Obama's Double-Homicide, The Onion, 14 Apr 2009,
brilliantly nails the absurd media bias supportive of Obama.
"More than a week after President Barack Obama's cold-blooded killing of a local couple, members of the American news media admitted Tuesday that they were still trying to find the best angle for covering the gruesome crime.
"I know there's a story in there somewhere," said Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, referring to Obama's home invasion and execution-style slaying of Jeff and Sue Finowicz on Apr. 8.
"Right now though, it's probably best to just sit back and wait for more information to come in."
...
Since the killings took place, reporters across the country have struggled to come up with an appropriate take on the ruthless crime,
with some wondering whether it warrants front-page coverage,
and others questioning its relevance in a fast-changing media landscape.
...
"There's been some debate around the office about whether we should report on this at all," Washington Post senior reporter Bill Tracy said while on assignment
at a local dog show."
If you want criticism of Obama's appalling speeches
and grovelling around the world,
you need the Internet, because the regular media won't do it:
"End Of The Cold War", the leftie Independent absurdly gushes about Obama's trip to Moscow, 7 July 2009.
Did they ever credit Reagan (or Bush senior) with the end of the actual
Cold War?
Gary Younge, The Guardian, 16 January 2010, is baffled at why Obama's popularity has dropped so far in his first year.
Imagine any other politician (Tory or Labour, say)
whose approval rating had dropped.
The Guardian would blame the politician, of course.
Here, they blame the electorate.
The voters must be "racist" or something.
This line was tired in 2008.
Are people like Gary Younge going to wheel it out forever?
Will it be written in the schoolbooks?
"America's first black President, Barack Obama, was voted out of office in 2012
because of the inherent racism of the American people."
John McGuirk
fisks Gary Younge's article:
"Gary Younge doesn't want the real answer to the question his article poses. He seeks to explain why Obama has a lower approval rating than any President at this stage of his term since Dwight D. Eisenhower, and he goes to the one part of the country that rejected him more soundly than any other? There was no argument for going to Virginia? Or North Carolina? States that he won but now has low rating in? Nah.
This article isn't supposed to be about analysis. It's supposed to be about explaining away something that Guardian readers dislike (Obama's ratings falling) with something that appeals to their prejudices".
Brian Micklethwait, 23 Jan 2010, points out that the "racist" explanation for Obama's decline in popularity makes no sense:
"how come those who are now backlashing ... picked Obama to be President in the first place? ... Did a lot of Americans deliberately pick Obama, so that they could later hurl racist abuse at him? Come on. Obama's presence in the White House is evidence that racism in America is abating. Millions upon millions of Americans wanted Obama to do well and were eager to give him a chance because he is black. But, they are now disappointed. Are they disappointed because he is black? Have they only just noticed?"
When you came into office, you felt you would be able to work with the other side. When did you realize that the Republicans had abandoned any real effort to work with you and create bipartisan policy?
How do you feel about the fact that day after day, there's this really destructive attack on whatever you propose? Does that bother you? Has it shocked you?
In Sept 2008,
306 jokes (88 percent) were anti-McCain/Palin.
40 jokes (12 percent) were anti-Obama/Biden.
Obama-loving leftie
Paul Waldman, August 24, 2010, claims that the lack of jokes about President Obama is not because comedians are lefties
but rather because Obama is so obviously wonderful.
"our current political leadership just isn't all that funny.
... if comedy has an Obama problem, it doesn't have much to do with ideology. The guy is just difficult to mock.
...
The trouble with Obama is that he doesn't easily lend himself to mockery. He's famously cool -- never too hot, never too cold."
As for mocking Obama's huge sense of self-importance:
"maybe Obama does think he's all that and a bag of chips. But he is, after all, the most powerful human on planet Earth, which robs any immodesty he might have of the incongruity from which humor often flows."
Yeah, I'm sure you felt the same about Bush.
Comedian Lorne Michaels of "Saturday Night Live", Sept 2012, after 4 years of Obama rule, still can't
find anything funny about Obama:
"But Mr. Michaels acknowledged that Mr. Obama has been a challenge. What is his comedy hook? "So far we haven't found it. My joke is always that he's the first Canadian president," said Mr. Michaels, a Toronto native. "He wants to think it through, do it in the fairest way possible and be thoughtful. And be a little distant, which I totally identify with, obviously.""
Survey of jokes by late-night comedians in 2008 election:
658 jokes about Republican candidate John McCain.
566 jokes about Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin.
244 jokes about departing Republican President George W. Bush.
Only 243 jokes about Democrat candidate Barack Obama.
As the campaign moved from the primaries to the general election,
the comics told less jokes about the Obama ticket.
And they told double the number of jokes about the McCain ticket.
From survey above.
A very dishonest headline by
Reuters, 3 Nov 2012.
Obama told his supporters to vote out of "revenge".
In response,
Romney told his supporters to vote out of "love of country".
And look how Reuters titles it!
Great comment above:
"If Reuters had any integrity the headline would read:
"Obama talks revenge, Romney talks love of country""
Bush as Hitler, Swastika-Mania: A Retrospective, by Zombie, Aug 14, 2009:
"Hitler and swastikas were referenced incessantly at basically every single protest during the Bush administration. Anyone who claims otherwise is lying".
Hilarious story of a CNN journalist
who used a Bush-Hitler comparison approvingly in a 2006 story
... and got offended by an Obama-Hitler comparison in 2009.
It's not just the media.
Obama's Press Secretary
Robert Gibbs
complained in 2009
of the partisan debate over healthcare.
He idiotically says:
"Imagine five years ago somebody comparing healthcare reform to 9/11.
Imagine just a few years ago, had somebody walked around with images of Hitler."
As Victor Davis Hanson says: "Has Robert Gibbs Been on Mars?"
He points out that not only did moron street protesters (endlessly) compare Bush to Hitler,
but leading Democrats did too.
Victor Davis Hanson roundup, September 22, 2009, of all the complaints from
the Democrats and the left
that criticism of Obama is "racist".
He points out that calling someone racist is a great strategy:
"There are no downsides to the charge. It is akin to calling someone a wife-beater or molester. Conversation turns to "No, I'm really not!" It ends all discussion. The perpetrator suffers no censure."
German leftie
Jakob Augstein, 4 Aug 2011, complains about criticism of his beloved Obama, in a long ramble against America.
"America has changed. It has drifted away from the West.
The country's social disintegration is breathtaking.
...
In this new American civil war, respect for the country's highest office was sacrificed long ago. The fact that Barack Obama is the country's first African-American president may have played a role there, too."
Victor Davis Hanson fisks his silly article, 7 Aug 2011.
"Respect for the highest office in America was indeed questioned between 2001 and 2009, but did Mr. Augstein at that time voice worry that the venom had endangered the sanctity of the presidency?"
If Jakob Augstein ever complained about the demonisation of Bush, please
tell me here.
Nov 2004:
LA Weekly
runs this cover
in response to the re-election of Bush.
Aug 2009:
LA Weekly
complains about this anonymous poster of Obama,
sniffing that:
"The only thing missing is a noose."
(That is, that Obama's critics are racists.)
See also
unapologetic followup:
"I do believe the poster appeals to people who see in it a validation of their own racial prejudices
...
the fears of the art lovers who champion the Obama Socialism poster are all about race - about losing their skin privileges, about the possible airing of old crimes and grievances committed against blacks."
In other words, anyone who criticises the great leader is a racist!
July 2008: Vanity Fair
(a big media magazine, published worldwide)
draws Bush as The Joker.
Aug 2009:
The media throws a hissy fit about anonymous (non-media, non-published)
poster of Obama as The Joker.
The original image.
From this Flickr feed.
Amusingly, contrary to the confident assertions that the image was racist,
it turned out to be the work of a young left-wing Palestinian-American,
Firas Alkhateeb
(or Firas Al Khateeb
or Firas Khateeb).
In an interview
he says he
prefers Obama to Bush,
and doesn't like the way someone added "socialism" to his picture.
"To accuse him of being a socialist is really ... immature. First of all, who said being a socialist is evil?"
Flickr censored
the above image
on spurious grounds.
Try search.
Montage of Bush demonisation over the years.
See original.
From here.
Death of a President (2006),
a mainstream film about the fictional assassination of Bush.
I wonder if we will soon see films about the assassination of Obama?
The left goes insane if anyone uses "Nazi" language about them or their friends.
Here is a
Tea Party protest, May 2013, about the
IRS scandal
where the IRS under President Obama targeted conservative groups.
One of the protesters unwisely says "IRSS" comparing the IRS to the SS.
But look at what happened next:
The Democrats put an
incredibly dishonest spin
on this in a fundraising letter. They said:
"At one Tea Party rally this week, mobs chanted "Waterboard Obama, Waterboard Hillary!"
At another, radicals waved signs with Nazi symbols."
Yes, that's right.
The Democrats are pretending that the Tea Party guy is supporting the Nazis!
Appallingly dishonest.
Jon Stewart's lowest moment, 30 Oct 2010.
Not only does he hold a rally to save Obama (how uncool),
but he invites
Cat Stevens.
Ironically, he calls it a "Rally To Restore Sanity".
Nick Cohen:
"If members of the Tea Party said that American intellectuals who renounced Christianity deserved to die for their apostasy would Stewart be fine with that too? Of course he wouldn't."
Reason.tv
interviews the loony left crowd at
Jon Stewart's "non-partisan" rally.
My favourite is the woman at 3:19 who condemns the demonisation of Obama:
"You don't see reasonable people putting Hitler moustaches on people's faces."
When challenged about the billions of
Bush=Hitler signs
over the last decade
she says she agrees with that.
"No, but really, if there should have been a Hitler sign on somebody,
it probably would have been him, I hate to say it."
Newsweek
has been one of the most slavish of all the Obama worshipping media.
They almost parody themselves.
Newsweek editor calls Obama "sort of God", June 2009.
Iowahawk's hilarious slag of Newsweek's absurd bias, May 2009:
"Just wait baby, I'll make you forget all your old magazines. I'll be cooler and thinner and more sanctimonious and money-losing than all of them. Even Harpers. ...
Wait a minute! Were your eyes just wandering over at the magazine rack? For your information the dentist is a Republican, so don't think you're going to find a copy of the Nation over there. Stop that! I will not be ignored! If you don't start reading me again this minute, I'm going to ..."
They include
the leader of
China.
Newsweek reads like straight commie propaganda:
"a leader with a heart
... ordinary Chinese seem truly fond of "Grandpa Wen.""
Yeah, but not fond enough for him to risk having elections.
They include
the unelected king of
Saudi Arabia
who rules by brutal sharia law
and sponsors Wahabbism all over the world.
They praise him for some modest "reforms" in the system of religious tyranny.
Newsweek has no moral compass.
They include
the leader of
The Maldives.
They praise him for being "green".
They make no mention of his repressive Islamic laws.
The only amusing bit is that their hero Obama is not on the list.
Don't tell me they've moved on to the next fad?
Newsweek, Nov 2010, starts to make excuses for their hero.
So now the Presidency is too hard a job for one person?
Yes, I recall their cover saying that about Bush.
A double whammy: Newsweek spin for Obama, Jan 2012.
And a reminder of the sad decline of
Andrew Sullivan.
Newsweek working hard for Obama in the 2012 election.
Newsweek pulls out all the stops for Obama in Sept 2012.
It produces a left-wing list of the
10 greatest presidents out of the
20 presidents since 1900.
Reagan is down at no.9, behind Clinton at no.7!
It's bad enough that Obama is on the list (at no.10).
But the image department then puts him as the first photo!
And see also the
drooling cover
by the once-great, but now sad,
Andrew Sullivan.
MSNBC news anchor
Chris Matthews
(of the absurdly named "Hardball")
is perhaps the most comical media worshipper
of the Obama era.
Chris Matthews is famous for saying in
Feb 2008,
listening to one of Obama's stupid speeches:
"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."
In the second debate, Romney said to Obama:
"I don't think anyone really believes that you're a person who's going to be pushing for oil and gas and coal. You'll get your chance in a moment. I'm still speaking."
Chris Matthews is shocked that anyone could speak to his god like that.
He even implies it is illegal!
"I don't think he [Romney] understands the Constitution of the United States. He's the president of the United States. You don't say, "you'll get your chance.""
He implies Romney is racist:
"I think there's a lack of deference. ...
he looked down at the President. He looked down at him as a person. I think a lot of that, I don't even want to get into, but we can guess and none of it good."
You can't win.
Either the god is all-powerful and cannot be criticised.
Or else the god is a victim and criticising him is racist!
Or both!
Blood libel
against Sarah Palin at
MSNBC
after the
Tucson shooting in Jan 2011.
"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."
- Chris Matthews,
Feb 2008,
listening to one of Obama's stupid speeches.
"I didn't see a lot of warmth in that crowd out there. The president chose to address tonight and I thought it was interesting. He went to maybe the enemy camp tonight to make his case."
- Chris Matthews describes Obama's
Dec 2009
speech to the US military
as a speech to "the enemy".
"I was so proud of the president there, I must say. This has nothing to do with partisanship. This is a commander in chief meeting with the troops, as it was right out of "Henry V",
actually,
a touch of Barry in this case in the night
for those soldiers risking their lives over there."
- Chris Matthews,
1 May 2012,
hilariously compares Obama to
Shakespeare's
Henry V at Agincourt.
I note that the US troops are now apparently not "the enemy", now that Obama is running for re-election.
"Obama [whining about Fox] is like a quarterback complaining about the one cheerleader who won't [sleep with him]."
- Greg Gutfeld, Jan 2013.
by
John Ziegler (2009).
