Filed under: General News — Michael van der Galien on July 23, 2008 @ 11:20 pm CEST
Just make one up. Perhaps the public is too stupid to do some serious research, allowing you to get away with the lie.
If this was John McCain, all hell would - rightfully - break loose in the media. Since it’s Obama bragging about something he didn’t do, however, his ‘gaffe’ is simply ignored by the far majority of American journalists. As a result Obama is able to keep up appearances and to pretend that he’s more experienced and pro-Israel than he truly is.
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1 utsu
July 23, 2008 @ 11:29 pm CEST" Since it’s Obama bragging about something he didn’t do, however, his ‘gaffe’ is simply ignored by the far majority of American journalists."
The media isn’t pro-Obama or pro-McCain. It’s pro-media, and likes to keep the scales even when they aren’t. The mood of MSM changes, but mostly it feeds itself, and things are emphasized or ignored by pure chance. It leaves slam-dunk cases of dishonesty that require thinking on the parts of the media consumers and go for big things close to people’s reptile brains. The media pursues itself, trusts itself and loves itself.
No one thinks most journalists aren’t pro-Obama. But you are forgetting that journalists don’t decide what their stations or newspapers spread. Much richer and generally republican people do that. So we get a quilt of easily-consumed stories that are easy to form opinions around, or pure red-or-blue-colored glasses over our eyes.
2 Kevin H
July 24, 2008 @ 12:27 am CESTMaybe you should do some more research and try to think about why he said what he did. You see, the truth is that it’s not his committee, but it IS his bill! It’s clear that people are out to cause a controversy, not get to the truth.
3 Kevin H
July 24, 2008 @ 12:57 am CESToops, sorry that link went bad. Here’s a good one.
4 Michael Merritt
July 24, 2008 @ 1:53 am CESTHe probably meant to say something like, "a bill I sponsored."
A gaffe to be sure, but not anything huge. It’s on the level of "Czechoslovakia" (though not the repetitions of such).
5 Tom
July 24, 2008 @ 4:31 am CESTLet’s see…
Obama-bashing
Quotes from Power Line, National Review, and Hot Air.
Perhaps on the Blog Roll the Poligazette should be listed under "Conservative"
6 Michael Merritt
July 24, 2008 @ 4:49 am CESTTom, I think you need to view the whole of the site before defining it. When there’s people like me, Claudia, and Jason on here, I think you’ll find it hard to definite it definitely conservative.
Even Michael is nice to Obama on occasion, and for a while, I thought he had become "in the bag" (as they say) for him. Boy, was I proven wrong!
Michael gets a lot of flack from some of the more liberal commenters here because he’s a foreign policy hawk. Likewise, some commenters might start calling me far-right if I wrote about my views on illegal immigration (which I have done on my site).
7 Jonathan Wilson
July 24, 2008 @ 7:32 am CESTWhen Obama makes a mistake, it’s "he probably meant to say this…" or if he says 57 states "well it’s probably just because he’s so tired from the campaign". Isn’t it funny that McCain a man of age 70+, and yet his mistakes or gaffes are blown out of proportion "omg, he said that Iran funds Al-Qaeda, but Iran is Shia and Al-Qaeda is Sunni" which is silly because Iran’s number one enemy is the United States and Israel, not Sunni Muslims (the enemy of my enemy is my friend), but let’s just let Obama’s mistakes slide, and blow McCain’s misspeaking of Czechoslavakia out of proportion.
I think America is having a big case of Agism, being unfair to McCain because he’s "Old". Even the comedians on TV cannot come up with anything to make fun of Obama, but they never stop coming up with those good "old jokes".. "haha look, McCain is old!"
If Barack Obama says his "[uncle liberated Auschwitz]" the media says, oh he just meant Buchenwald. Yeah right, if my great uncle liberated a camp or was part of a big event in history, I’d know exactly what it is, for him to not remember it was Buchenwald shows his disrespect for his great uncle, or it shows his disinterest in history, or his deception at buying the Jewish vote through speeches.
The American people are smart, they see through Obama, and he’s going to be falling really hard in the few months to come.
8 Jonathan Wilson
July 24, 2008 @ 7:34 am CEST"Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don’t have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon."
Please read this again guys, Obama said it was "my committee" and that "we passed", "you can look at my deeds"… Once you read that statement in context it is very obvious that Obama thought he could get away with lying again. Its amazing how lawyers can be so deceptive in politics.
9 Tom
July 24, 2008 @ 2:09 pm CESTWith all due respect Michael, this site is definitely trending more conservative than it was last year, despite the addition of more liberal bloggers. You can really see this change in the comments section.
Sorry to disappoint you Jonathan, but the polls and the political scientists say that Obama’s almost sure to win.
10 Jason, Managing Editor
July 24, 2008 @ 5:03 pm CESTTom, this site also includes at least two contributors who are pro-Obama, Michael Merritt and Claudia. Perhaps condemning the whole site just because the anti-Obama contingent is more prolific lately is a bit hasty.
11 Tom
July 24, 2008 @ 5:11 pm CESTHasty? Perhaps…but the comments section is definitely more conservative than I remember it.
12 Tully
July 24, 2008 @ 6:16 pm CESTwe passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee
Had he just said "we passed out of the US Senate banking Committee" I’d give him a complete pass. It was indeed his bill–a safe and uncontroversial one submitted with broadly bipartisan support.
Claiming the committee as his own was the kicker, complete to the hand on the chest when he said "MY committee."
13 Jason, Managing Editor
July 24, 2008 @ 9:48 pm CESTWell, Tom, if so, that is a deficiency that you can help solve.
14 Jonathan Wilson
July 25, 2008 @ 5:50 am CESTTom, is it at all possible that, liberals like myself, have just seen through the lies of Barack Obama and started to respect the intelligent speeches of John McCain, a war hero who was right about the surge in Iraq?
Is it at all possible that people who watch the news are just getting sick of hearing about how amazing Barack Obama is, when he stutters more than George W. Bush and admits to drugs just like George W. Bush had taken cocaine.
Is it at all possible that people are beginning to realize that Barack Obama is just the worst Democratic candidate in US history?
15 utsu
July 25, 2008 @ 10:30 am CEST"war hero who was right about the surge in Iraq?"
Was wrong about the war too. One bad judgement cancels a good one in my book.
"lies of Barack Obama"
If you can see through Obama then you should be able to see all kinds of stuff in McCain as well.
"getting sick of hearing about how amazing Barack Obama is"
Or getting sick about hearing all the rumors and memes about him. Stop trying to pretend that Obama is only getting a good deal - no one believes it.
"admits to drugs just like George W. Bush had taken cocaine."
How about McCain’s ape rape joke. You know, he was older than Obama when he made it. He has many such worrying tendencies in his past, and over 60 very real flip-flops so far. Plus, his stubbornness and completely one-sided view of US wars in the past is worrying. He has hired very strange people, like Gramm and Schmidt. He has just as many weaknesses as Obama, and more serious ones if one is a liberal.
"Is it at all possible that people are beginning to realize that Barack Obama is just the worst Democratic candidate in US history?"
He’s still winning, and his policies are good. What’s wrong, are you worried he won’t protect you from the baddies in the scary region?
16 Tom
July 25, 2008 @ 2:09 pm CESTJW, it’s certainly possible that people who were for Barack Obama are now turning against him. It happens with every candidate. It’s also likely that Obama’s inspirational character has been grossly oversold. Heck, I’ve never been an Obama fan, I preferred Hillary. Still do.
But none of that changes the fact that Obama will almost certainly win in November, whatever variation in the opinion polls we’ll see between now and then. And none of that changes the fact that McCain is a Republican with traditional Republican views on things like abortion and the Iraq war, making Obama a better match for liberals like me.
17 C Stanley
July 25, 2008 @ 2:29 pm CESTWas wrong about the war too. One bad judgement cancels a good one in my book.
Then it’s a wash for the two candidates, because the majority of Americans might believe that Obama’s judgement was right about the Iraq War to start with, but he was wrong about the surge. Vice versa for McCain.
18 utsu
July 25, 2008 @ 6:10 pm CEST"Then it’s a wash for the two candidates, because the majority of Americans might believe that Obama’s judgement was right about the Iraq War to start with, but he was wrong about the surge. Vice versa for McCain."
Then Obama seems to be right today, because Maliki, Bush and his military advisors and McCain gravitate towards him.
19 Chris
July 25, 2008 @ 6:31 pm CESTJonathan;
"is it at all possible that people are beginning to realize that Barack Obama is just the worst Democratic candidate in US history?"
Take a deep breath. Consider that statement closely. Worse than George McGovern? Worse than Gen McClellan (probably other good examples)
Like all candidates he has his faults. My reasons to vote for him are simple and haven’t changed for a while:
1) Historically too liberal
2) limited experience and especially limited experience in reaching across the aisles.
And for those of you who are sure that no Dem could get my vote, in the last four elections I’m 50% Dem, 50% Rep.