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Media Donations Favor Democrats 100-1
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Investor’s Business Daily documents the extreme liberal bias in the media by examining political donations by media folks.
By analyzing federal records, Investor’s Business Daily reveals a great disparity in the amount of money journalists contributed so far this election cycle to each party.
The contributions add up to $315,533 to Democrats and $22,656 to Republicans — most of that to Ron Paul, who was supported by many liberals as a stalking horse to John McCain, a la Rush Limbaugh’s Operation Chaos with Hillary and Obama.
What is truly remarkable about the list is that, discounting contributions to Paul and Rudy Giuliani, who was a favorite son for many folks in the media, the totals look like this: $315,533 to Democrats, $3,150 to Republicans (four individuals who donated to McCain).
Let me repeat: $315,533 to Democrats, $3,150 to Republicans — a ratio of 100-to-1. No bias there.
And the scribes at the New York Times have recently been forbidden from making political donations.
So the list would have an even greater imbalance if they Times crew were free to flaunt their political proclivities.
The Mainstream Media Loves Obama
Barack Obama is sure to get lots of coverage from the anchors of the three network evening newscasts for his upcoming overseas trip, because they will all be joining the party.
Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric are making the overseas journey with the promise of exclusive interviews.
In other words, the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening newscasts are gearing up to be all Obama all the time.
Plus, another 200 or so other journalists have requested to join the Obama road trip.
John McCain has taken three foreign trips in the past four months, all unaccompanied by a single network anchor and with little fanfare, according to Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post.
Additionally, the Tyndall Report, which monitors news coverage, reveals that for this month the nightly newscasts on the three networks spent a combined 114 minutes covering Obama, compared to just 48 minutes to McCain.
Must be nice to have the mainstream media in the tank for you.
In this age of enlightenment, it’s a shame that we’re seeing such a “separate but equal” attitude from the media.
Free Flip Flops from Obama
Just in time for summer - free flip flops from Barack Obama.
Barack Obama’s Birth Certificate
There has been ongoing speculation over the birth certificate of Barack Obama, and whether it contains some information the Presidential candidate is trying to suppress.
As a bit of backstory, Jim Geraghty of the National Review Online, called for the Obama campaign to release the candidate’s birth certificate.
Then the extreme left blog, Daily Kos, posted a birth certificate for Obama, which was apparently requested from and provided by the Obama campaign.
The birth certificate provided is clearly not the original. Well, unless they had laser printers in Hawaii back in 1961.
Anyhow, the israelinsider dug into the issue and found that there is some manipulation going on with documents here.
The perceived unreliability of the image has provoked petitions and widespread demands for Obama to submit for objective inspection the paper versions of the “birth certificate” he claimed in his book Dreams from My Father was in his possession, as well as the paper version of the Certificate of Live Birth for which the image on the Daily Kos and the Obama “Fight the Smears” website was supposedly generated.
Maybe we should get Dan Rather on the case to authenticate the birth certificate.
No American Should be Punished with a Baby
“I’ve got two daughters, nine years old and six years old. I’m going to teach them, first of all, about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Barack Obama
March 29, 2008
Johnstown, PA
Barack Obama and Chris Dodd
I’ve got to wonder if Senator Chris Dodd is still being considered as a potential Vice-President pick by Barack Obama.
After all, Obama could pull his standard, “that’s not the guy I knew” line and excuse Senator Dodd and his sweetheart mortgage deals from Countrywide, a company whose practices he once called “abusive”?
If you’re not up to date on the story, Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, got two loans at special rates from Countrywide in 2003 to refinance homes in Washington and East Haddam, CT.
The loans were reportedly part of a “V.I.P.” program, where certain lucky folks received preferential rates from the chairman and chief executive of Countrywide, Angelo Mozilo.
Yes, the same Countrywide that had ties to Former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson, who served briefly on the committee to help pick a VP for Obama.
He was booted when his questionable connections to Countrywide were revealed.
Stay tuned to this one.
Don’t Tell Me Words Don’t Matter, Obama
Some highlights of Barack Obama, and the response from the media as he breaks his pledge to take public financing.
John McCain and 100 Years of War in Iraq
The Democrat machine and their 527 group surrogates has been perpetuation the myth that Senator McCain favors 100 more years of war in Iraq.
It makes for an impactful soundbite, but it’s not true.
Obama claims to want to run on a platform of change and taking the high road, but his campaign is doing just the opposite.
When confronted about the often repeated lie by Today show host Meredith Vieira, Obama exclaimed, “That’s just not accurate, Meredith. We can pull up the quotes on YouTube.”
Have a look at a couple of his “quotes on YouTube“:
“He (McCain) is willing to send our troops into another hundred years of war in Iraq.”
“We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another hundred years.”
Here is the full text of the exchange.
QUESTIONER: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years…
McCAIN: Maybe 100. We’ve been in South Korea… We’ve been in Japan for 60 years, we’ve been in South Korea for 50 years or so. That’d be fine with me, as long as Americans… as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed. It’s fine with me, I hope it would be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al Qaeda is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.
Funny how Obama and company have omitted the “as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed” part.
Actually, that’s not funny. It’s sadly business as usual for the Obama campaign.
Barack Obama, Race Baiter
On Friday, June 20 at a Florida fund-raiser, Barack Obama proclaimed that Republicans will make the Presidential contest about race:
“The choice is clear. Most of all we can choose between hope and fear. It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of the economy or their outstanding foreign policy. We know what kind of campaign they’re going to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid. They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?”
I consider this demagoguery and race-baiting by a Presidential candidate to be appalling.
Now I understand that Obama hopes to be “Big Brother,” but I don’t think he has the ability to read minds.
Not to mention that racists probably wouldn’t vote for a qualified, accomplished African-American for President of the United States, so they certainly wouldn’t vote for him.
Such a campaign by Republicans, which only exists in Obama’s imagination, wouldn’t make sense. We saw that in his races against Hillary when he had extreme difficulty winning the big blue states.
It’s also ironic that Obama would assert that Republicans would run on fear, since it is a hallmark of the Democrats, such as their continued lies about social security.
This paranoid, mean spirited and divisive talk is offensive, and it serves to do nothing but drive a wedge in our country.
Obama - how about running on concrete plans and solutions, rather than the race card?
Barack Obama Represents a Change for the Worst
It was reported yesterday that Barack Obama decided to break his pledge to enter into the public financing system.
No great surprise - it’s not as if he’s been honest or consistent. This is just the latest flip flop, and as usual he has a bad excuse.
When trying to explain why he was declining public funding yesterday, Obama cited the role of third party groups, own as 527 groups, saying that McCain is “not going to stop the smears and attacks from his allies running so-called 527 groups, who will spend millions and millions of dollars in unlimited donations.”
That is a pretty lame excuse considering liberal 527 groups spent $146 million during the last Presidential election, while conservative 527 groups spent $46 million over the same time.
And this year, liberal 527 groups are, again, raising and spending far more than conservatives.
Once again, Democrats are cornering the marketing on hate and fear, and they’ll be spending more than ever between their 527 groups and the broken pledge fundraising of Obama.
I guess the public financing system isn’t the one he used to know.
