America’s journalists have become blushing little girls.
Well they are not all Katie Couric, but many are acting like her. It is a shame that the New York times and Los Angeles Times and others are losing credibility. They are turning into the National Enquirer. In fact the National Enquirer is beginning to look more credible than the Times from both ends of the country.
From the New York Post:
Obama Could Snub Katie Couric
By DON KAPLAN
April 18, 2008
Katie Couric’s reported status as a lame duck may torpedo what was supposed to be her biggest night – a starring role as the host of a presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
After all where is this head line in the national press:
SEN. JOHN EDWARDS CAUGHT WITH MISTRESS AND LOVE CHILD!
“Vice Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards was caught visiting his mistress and secret love child at 2:40 this morning in a Los Angeles hotel by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.”
Now obviously, Edwards is not Obama. But Edwards endorses Obama and Obama for a while took on many of Edwards’ campaign promises and rhetoric.
The press is so eager to make history by getting Obama elected and giddy in his presence that it is sickening. I hope that this election causes the general American public to abandon its love of the MSM and move onto finding truth and gaining knowledge of the reality of this political season.
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And here is a great article by Michelle Malkin:
Obamedia Watch: Left-wing minority journalists show their true colors
“He touched me!”
So squealed a journalist attending Barack Obama’s speech yesterday to UNITY, the conglomerate of racial/ethnic identity-obsessed news associations for blacks, Asian-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans in the media, according to the Chicago Tribune’s Swamp blog.
The UNITY event organizers were so concerned about public displays of Obamedia affection that they issued several warnings to their news professional members that the speech would be broadcast live on CNN. “Professional decorum” was encouraged. One wire story even fretted: “Can minority journalists resist applauding Obama?”
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And here’s a thought from NewsBusters:
Couric Showcases Obama Over McCain, Admits Media ‘Obamathon’
By Brent Baker
July 22, 2008 – 21:21 ET
CBS tried to bring some balance Tuesday night to Barack Obama’s Magical Media Tour by having Katie Couric interview both Barack Obama and John McCain, and though she pressed Obama repeatedly on the success of the surge, Obama still came out ahead since CBS devoted more than seven minutes (over two excerpts) to Couric’s questions and Obama’s answers as the two sat together in a foreign setting compared to barely three minutes allocated to Couric and McCain by satellite. Couric touted at the top of the CBS Evening News: “We spoke exclusively and separately with both presidential candidates today and what emerged was a kind of a long distance debate. And their differences on the wars have never been sharper or clearer.
At the end of the newscast, from Amman Couric wondered: “Will this summer of love last” for Obama? And she conceded the media are part of the infatuation:
It has been an Obamathon ever since the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee touched down in Afghanistan. At today’s press conference in Amman, a throng of reporters recorded his every move. In total, 200 journalists requested seats on “Air Obama” — 40 of them were accepted. The bill for the trip? About $20,000 each. (NewsBusters)
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Some folks aren’t as enamored:
From Hugh Hewitt:
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 2:13 AM Is it possible that many Americans will not warm to the idea of a candidate presuming to speak as an incumbent, and to do so to the world from Berlin?
I have read a few dozen reactions this morning, and find Scott Johnson’s the most nearly like mine:
In his sermon to the Germans, Barack Obama presents himself both as Barack the Baptist and the Obamessiah. Nevertheless, Americans naturally root for for the underdog to prevail. For pride to take a fall. Don’t we instinctively seek to puncture the grandiose pretensions of a blowhard? It seems to me that this is the question that Obama’s speech elicits.
And one more question. I wonder if Americans will appreciate Obama’s deprecation of the United States on foreign soil for his own self-aggrandizing purposes. Surely one does not need to be a conservative Republican to recoil from this display. (More)
