Obama critiques 'media culture'

This is called biting the hand that feeds you.

Why does the media continue to play up Clinton's pathetically desperate attempts to smear Barack Obama?

If Clinton doesn't win PA by at least 20% then this race is OVER, that's how far behind she really is.

*"American Idiot"*
-Green Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5mjN32G1iI

Don't want to be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new mania
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind freak America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

Well maybe I'm the freakin' American.
But I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along to the age of paranoia.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

Don't want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

I have to agree. When news became a business, it became the way of sensationalism. There is little to argue that hearing what the news chooses to report on over and over guides some peoples thinking.

"MEDIA SOUNDBITES SPEAK"

"AUDACITY OF HOPE"
"WAR ON TERROR"
"CHANGE"
"EMERGENCY SPENDING"
"MISSION ACCOMPLISH"
"PURGING OF THE PROSECUTORS"

OBAMA IS FRIGHTENING
OBAMA IS SPOOKY

CONSERVATIVE BACKING IS A CONCERN. MY HOPE IS JOHN MCCAIN WILL DO SOMETHING!

REV WRIGHT!
REV WRIGHT!

"IMMUNITYPROTECTION FROM PROSECUTION"

MARXIST OR STALINIST ON THE GLENN BECK PROGRAM!

"ISSUES VS CHARACTER"

ALL IN 90 SECONDS AND NOT ON MOST LOCAL CHANNELS OR LOCAL NEWS SOURCES.

KARL ROVE LIVE ON FOX
TOM DELAY LIVE ON FOX

GOP FACISM, LIVE WITH KEN LAY ON FOX NEWS!

THAT WOMAN.
THIS WOMAN.
THOSE WOMAN.

FEDERAL ELECTIONS COMMISSIONER SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

COMMERCIAL BREAK, COMMERCIAL BREAK!

Remember how much the Swamp likes polls? Strangely they're not linking to this one: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/04/new-poll-shows.html

You also have to agree that media does thrive on "conflict". Editors send back copy if there is no "conflict". Just read the lead lines on the posts. Mccains slams Carter....Weathering the storm.....strain on docs. It sells...but is it right? I don't know.

"GLENN BECK SPEAKS"

AMERICA HAS NO ANTI-IMMIGRANT SENTIMENTS.

OBAMA IS OUT OF TOUCH.

AMERICA ISN'T "BITTER" I'M BITTER.

AMERICA ISN'T BITTER ABOUT THE GAS PRICES, OR THE DOLLAR.

RICH PEOPLE AREN'T WORRIED ABOUT GAS PRICES, WE ARE NOT BITTER.

NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH.

"YOU CAN'T TAKE OBAMA FOR WHAT HE SAYS"

THAT IS NOT THE CASE OF MOST PEOPLE, NOT THE RICH, THE WEALTHY THE CNN PUNDITS I KNOW, BLACK OR WHITE..

I BELIEVE IN THE "RULE OF LAW" I'M JUST NOT ABLE TO TALK ABOUT THAT, OUR AFFILIATES DON'T LET US TALK ABOUT THAT.

IT'S "BLACKNESS WEEK"
IT'S "THAT WOMAN WEEK"

HELLO, CALLER, CALLER, CALLER! YEA, YEA, YEA, WHERE DO YOU HANG OUT, WHAT KIND OF "MISERABLE PLACE" DO YOU LIVE IN. OH I BET, AND THAT IS GEORGE BUSH'S FAULT. OH YOU LOST A LEG IN IRAQ, OH YEA I BET.

PEOPLE AREN'T BITTER, FRUSTRATED AND CLINGING TO THEIR FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND FAITH. BOATS, GUNS AND PASSPORTS.

GO OUT AND GET SOMETHING BETTER FOR YOURSELF.

IS OBAMA HOLDING YOU DOWN!

IS HILLARY HOLDING YOU DOWN!

WE DON'T HAVE ANTI SENTIMENT IN AMERICA OBAMA IS JUST AN "ELITIST"
THERE WERE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
AND 4100 MEN AND WOMEN HAVEN'T DIED.

I'M STILL HERE, MY SHOW IS STILL HERE.

THE BIGGEST ISSUE WITH ACCOUNTABILITY IS PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.

CALLER, CALLER, MY STUPIDITY IS IN YOUR EAR, CALLER, CALLER!

NEXT ON THE HANNITY SHOW, OBAMA CAUGHT EATING WAFFLES AND CHICKEN! NOT CHICKEN AND WAFFLES, HE'S A FLIP FLOPPER!

Perhaps if he and his staff stopped working over time to come with manufactured dirt and controversies the media would have little to report. All the candidates do it, including him, but generally the MSM let's him do it without attribution while broadcasting loudly when the Clinton camp supplies info on him.

Hypocrite. Stop complaining about a system in which he readily participates and which has treated him very well relative to others. The arrogance. To think that nothing negative should be written about him lest the system is broken while he foments and revels in negative stories about his opponents is astounding. But I can understand it. The MSM has certainly enabled him in this regard.

Can Obama supporters get some love? The man calls him a terrorist and he cannot complain??? Thats crooked.

Puh-leeeze!
The Chicago media gave this guy a PASS for over a decade.
And today the nail reload cartridge arrived with the Rezko crap!
And he's so 'silly' as to bash the very people he fluffed his pillow for not becoming John Edwards (the ONLY candidate with a media reform plank in his platform)!
Well, Hilary started sounding a lot like John and sounds more like him every day.
Thank heavens we've got a Democratic candidate who knew when to wisely take a drink with the boys after young Barry kicked 'em in the you know whats!
Jeesh!
It's beyond time to accept Hilary's offer of veep and GET TO WORK FIXING ALL THE PROBLEMS!
Stop hurting America, Barry.
Now is not the TIME to start lecturing the news media when you're knee deep in your spilled arugula smoothie!
Yet another example that this nationally unvetted candidate cannot be the top of our ticket. HRC is NOT the enemy.
What’s wrong with waiting 8 years, Obama and Gobamas? Wait for LBJ’s 3rd generation of Dixiecrats to kick the bucket.
I used to say that. And I may say that again.
But, give a listen to the audio posted by Mayhill Fowler (the not so pretty girl recently on the bus who savvily recorded the disturbing speech in California).
It’s a disturbing speech and shaking a ‘you are naughty’ finger at Hilary Clinton will not work.
In fact, the whole strategy for ‘dealing’ with his comment disturbs me even more.
Because, there seems to be a pattern emerging from not just the Obama campaign, but from the lips of Obama himself:
Exclude from the ‘movement’ or otherwise silence the non-enthusiastic or
‘offending’ middle aged white or elderly women.
Listen to the audio Mayhill recorded—and be sure to thank her and show your support for her. She will need it, if Tavis Smiley is any example of how people non-conforming to the Obama message of ‘hope’ get treated.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mayhill-fowler/obama-exclusive-audio-on_b_96333.html
His comments to the crowd that we need ‘new people’ in the Democratic party kind of chilled me to the bone. I find him very intolerant. I find his campaign intolerant. He responded to a question about his ability to really unite the party after such a divisive campaign by saying that “people get their feelings hurt” and they’ll be back (basically).
I don’t think that’s the case. People left his campaign because we felt it was using the wrong strategy and felt (but couldn’t quite put our finger on WHY it was fundamentally wrong-minded.
In his speech last night, in which he mentioned that ‘abstinence” and teaching appropriate behavior would be a good idea—heck—the people he BASHED last night have been speaking about this stuff for years! In fact, the Planned Parenthood crowd in Kalamazoo, Michigan (who later came to Chicago) managed to get a K-12 systematic sex education curriculum passed in the late 1970s. The JOHN BIRCH society worked to get it removed from the schools—and the Planned Parenthood clinic was actually bombed.
Would 70s style peaceful activists be part of the mature crowd Obama now wants replaced with his Gobama crowd? No. Not if he can help it.
That’s what it’s looking like to me.
Particularly when I heard Obama last night say talk about the pro-choice people he said were reluctant to infuse a “moral dimension’ into the abortion issue.
Patently false. Shame on Barack Obama.
Shame on him also for the recent clarification that in fact he DID attend a Muslim school (the public schools in Indonesia were like the community—women didn’t have to wear the veil, but…) seems like he was earlier being less than forthcoming. Even in liberal Islamic settings, women have a back of the bus status. I do NOT think Obama has been honest enough about this.
I think he’s sexist. Not just for the relentless bashing of Geraldine Ferraro, but for something really revealing in his speech last night, he ‘could not remember’ whether he’d had a conversation with his daughters about God. Well, if you’re in a 50’s throwback marriage where mommy is the main person interacting with the kids when they’re not in the expensive, enriching U of C daycare---then you perhaps are leaving a lot of that stuff to the wifey.
And perhaps that’s why Michelle (back when she let reporters cover her fund-raising) cut loose with the “ladies against women” style rant against Hilary (“How can she handle the White House when she ‘can’t manage’ her own house (sic).”)
The problem with sexism or any ‘ism’ is the elitism at its heart.
But there’s another reason why the Obamas must mature more before they’re at the top of the ticket.
They’ve let the newfound celebrity go to their heads.
Call it the ‘diva factor’.
Bonnie Raitt (you might remember she and Jackson Browne played a New Hampshire benefit for John Edwards’ superior approach—since adopted by Hilary Clinton—regarding nuclear power, greenhouse gases, and whatnot) chafed at being called a diva on a blues show last night. She said it reminded her of the old saw “Don’t look Miss Ross in the eye as she heads on stage.”
Barack Obama as diva.
Annie Oakley at least was a class act.

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Jeff,

The more I see you cheerleading for Hillary, the more confident I am that Obama is going to kick old man McCain's butt this fall.
http://themocker.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/mccain_wheelchair.jpg

Biggdaws is right on. We didn't hear Obama complaining when the media was in his corner from the US Senate primary until today. I never really quite appreciated until recently the arrogance and hypocricy of the man.

by Hilary Clinton—regarding nuclear power, greenhouse gases, and whatnot) chafed at being called a diva on a blues show last night. She said it reminded her of the old saw “Don’t look Miss Ross in the eye as she heads on stage.”
Barack Obama as diva.
Annie Oakley at least was a class act.

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Posted by: sojourner truth | April 14, 2008 4:15 PM

Words of "wisdom" from a spamer....

I've counted 6 times already today that this person has re-posted this same dumb post.

"SOJOURNER TRUTH SPEAKS"

REZKO, REZKO, REZKO, REZKO NEVER TOOK A DIME FROM ME. HE NEVER EMBEZZLED MONEY FROM ME. HE DIDN'T HELP PUT US IN A "RECESSION" HE DIDN'T TAKE TAX PAYERS MONIES FOR POLITICAL GAIN.

I FOUND THE TRUTH, I FOUND THE TRUTH, I FOUND THE TRUTH, RICK RENZI DID STEAL FROM THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.
FOR POLITICAL GAIN!
HE GOT HIS SENATORIAL SEAT EMBEZZLING MONEY FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. NOT RE ZKO RE ZKO.

RICK RENZI, JOHN MCCAIN'S CAMPAIGN MANAGER DID EMBEZEL MONEY FROM THE CHOCTOW INDIANS. 4 MILLION DOLLARS THAT'S PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR, BASED ON THE "DOLLAR"

RICK RENZI IS THE SENATOR THAT WAS "WARRANTED WIRETAPPED" TAKING MONIES FOR INDIAN GAMING.

NOT RE ZKO, RE ZKO, IT'S RE NZI RE NZI AND RICK RENZI WAS HIS NAME!

AND THAT IS THE ABSOLUTE SOJOURNER TRUTH!

Big laugh when out of touch Obama accuses Hillary Clinton of shooting in a duck blind with a six shooter!!

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/4/14/11323/6876

Senator Barack "Elmer Fudd" Obama - out in a duck blind with a six shooter???

The original Obama elitist comment:
"Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and seen what they charge for arugula?"

bill "hussein" r,

I'd defer your question to the resident journalism grad and expert but, as you can see in post #1, he clearly illustrated his lack of understanding of the current media in this country.