A Perennial Press Opera

NOBAMA!!!!

NOBAMA!!!!

Oh, and one other thing. This article does nothing but admit your favortism and slam the Clintons. What a shameful bunch you are.

While it is not true that the press has "gone easy" on Obama???his slender record has been and will be scrubbed???the press helped fuel his momentum with mostly positive coverage.

Disagree on the "gone easy" part. I have not seen one tough question or discriminating article. The press is, as usual, out to lunch.

This article is a perfect example of the Media's favoritism toward Obama. You admit your guilt but slander the Clintons. I cannot stand watching the news or listening to your one-sided love with Obama. You are the ones splitting the party, not Hillary. Where is the news about the LARGE crowd Hillary addressed in Texas. You all make me ill. What a bunch of losers.

Hmmmm . . . do the media decide who runs for president? Well, lets just look at the former 3 top candidates: Clinton, Obama and Edwards. Edwards did great in the Iowa caucas and received almost no press. That remained true for the rest of his time in the running. A contest between a woman and an African-American man makes better press.

The press has been very slanted in Obama's favor. The press tried making Bill Clinton look like a racist for comments that were made following the South Carolina primary. I listened to the comments and in my opinion there was nothing racist at all about them. Bill Clinton is the least racist person in politics. On the other side, Hillary has had gender bashers show up at her rallies with signs saying "iron my shirt" or "make me a pot pie" and the press has not even mentioned it. I can't believe that a motivational speaker is being built up by the press while the candidate that has given entirely of herself to this country is being treated like a woman.

Also, I find the notion that the media is somehow sexist to be laughable. Conservatives often complain about a liberal bias in the media. If by "liberal" they mean "feminist", then they are absolutely correct. Hillary Clinton was touted as the presumptive nominee for like an entire year, and none of the male candidates complained about sexism against them. The Clintons are playing the press like a fiddle: complain about unfair coverage and get blatent and overt positive coverage as a result to remedy the percieved slight. I've seen a lot of that over the past week. Obama keeps getting positive press because he keeps winning.

There is no doubt in my mind that the press have both favored Obama and bruised Clinton. Perhaps it's because Obama is the "new thing," despite the fact that he has no ideas of his own (and few of anyone else's). And the bias also occurs because of the long history of the press and Bill Clinton. Still, the fact is that many in the press, protestations notwithstanding, are sexist. We heard a great deal about Clinton's cleavage, her smile, her dress, her giggle. We did not have concomitant stories about Obama's "package" or the cut of his suits. This does not mean I don't like Obama???his oratory is amazing???but just wait until McCain, who has been through intense scrutiny, begins to eat his lunch one on one. The final problem is that there isn't really a record with Obama. Only three years ago, give or take, he was still in the State house in Illinois. Quite a quantum leap onto the national scene, which the press have grabbed as a different kind of American dream story. And finally, it is perhaps the Clintons' being victimized by their own success. Now always coupled with the Bushes, which for anyone who has voted since the Reagan years will tell you they are utterly different in kind and character, they appear old and dynastic.Still, the press should not gasp when people question their objectivity, especially when you have the open hostility toward the Clintons (in re Chris Matthews) and such transparent love for Obama, who is a liberal's dream candidate. If Senator Clinton actually receives the nomination, my hat's off to her, for she will have accomplished it, over and against the press's steamroller. You know there is media bias against her when Clinton's best press friends are Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh.

It is obvious The media is against Hillary, especially women.
What is wrong with you female reporters?
Hillary is the BEST candidate for president, for so many reasons.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being black.

??? I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.
??? Of my two "handicaps" being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.
??? I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being black.
??? In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism.
??? At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
??? One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian.
??? ... rhetoric never won a revolution yet.
??? Prejudice against blacks is becoming unacceptable although it will take years to eliminate it. But it is doomed because, slowly, white America is beginning to admit that it exists. Prejudice against women is still acceptable. There is very little understanding yet of the immorality involved in double pay scales and the classification of most of the better jobs as "for men only." (1969)
Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
??? The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman to serve in the United States Congress. An early education expert, Shirley Chisholm was elected to the New York Legislature in 1964 and to Congress in 1968. She ran for president in 1972, winning 152 delegates before she withdrew. Shirley Chisholm served in Congress until 1983. During her congressional career, Shirley Chisholm was noted for her support for women's rights, her advocacy of legsislation to benefit those in poverty, and her opposition to the Vietnam war.
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djjl | 02.17.2008 - 12:13 pm | #

News coverage and opinions have been negative to Hillary Clinton due to the Clinton Machine from her husbands policitical aspirations. If Hillary loses, I switch my vote to a Republican party. Barrack does not have the skills and experience to assume running a country from day one. I don't want another Geroge Bush in office, and Barrack equates to that with his experience. Men have ran our country for years, and we see what a mess it is in, it needs a woman to clean it up. It still equates to discrimination, not on race but based on sex. We have the opportunity to put someone in the whitehouse that has past experience having been there, knows how to make the wheels of the system move, but we are watching everyone choose by race and not by experience or expertise. I see another fiasco coming if Barrack is nominated and I will vote for McClain. What a shame. Barrack cannot tell the American people details of what he will do. I wonder where Barracks campaign would be if Senator Kennedy wasn't backing him. Which brings the question, is Kennedy backing him out of this is the best person for the job or does he have a hidden agenda? Hillary Clinton can bring our country forward, but only if we allow her to. She can repair damage done by George Bush. I would love to see a President Hillary Clinton and a Vice President Obama Barrack.

The media, especially the male reporters, is against Hillary. It's still a sexist country. These people do not want to give a woman a chance. Gosh, a woman has to be better than Bush. Hillary is the best candidate at this time. Her experience in the Senate is very important.

Yes, the media is favoring Obama. It seems as if all the male reporters do not want a woman President. This country is still sexist. Let's face it, the supposed man in the White House right now is a poor excuse of a man-a woman can do 100 times better.

I think Hillary and her experience in the Senate is the best candidate at this time.

The press has been biased against Clinton and provided more positive coverage and opinions that definitely has affected the election. The one aspect everyone forgets is, Can Barrack assume duties from day one? NO! He has some experience, great social skills but has absolutely no leadership or management skills. If he is nominated, I will vote for McCain as a registered democrat. McCain will be the best choice to elect someone with some leadership skills, and thereby forcing this democrat to vote for the other party. Democrats want a democrat in office, consider the outcome. It's like having Bush elected president and we all know what a fiasco he created.

I will vote for Obama if Hillary loses, but what scares me about Obama is what scares me about George Bush. For years you could not criticize Bush because "we were at war" . With Obama , you cant criticize him, because its "the same old politics". Any Politician who has positioned himself set up above criticsm , can chart on unquestioned . I dont like that at all.

There are facts and then there is the press. The Obama campaign injected race into the campaign when they cried foul when Bill Cinton said his comments about Obama's voting record on Iraq was a fairytale. They cried foul because what Clinton said was true. The race card they played stopped any further questions of Obama on this topic. Don't you people know that to win in Chicago, this is how black politiicans always play the race card?

Obama's slender record has been well scrubbed? I love it. There is no there there and the media has all but sanctified Obama into sainthood. HRC is not glitzy or glamorous, but she will get the job done in Washington. Obama should move to Hollywood. He is a great actor.

It took 6 people to write this? To tell us that after years of pure lies and smears "reported" by the MSM, the Clintons don't want to talk to you, and "the press backlash was indignant and gleefull." This is pitiful and juvenile.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare