wow… you’re starting to sound like a ron paul fan.

“it’s teh msm!1! tehy iz hiding r candidate!”

i guess you now know how it feels to watch a neocon-friendly media take story pitches from their fave candidates’ pr shills.

Since January 1st, Obama has had a FREE RIDE by the press! And ALL of America knows it. Only the past week have Americans started to learn of him, which is now negative press. But it is true! And had the press been forthcoming of this candidate from the beginning, he would never be in the position he is in. He would be out of this race!

And to endorse this candidate as the candidate of “great hope” for Americans when he attends and follows, for almost 20 years, a minister that only used the word “hope” in his deragotory slur against White America in blaming them after the 9/11 terroist attacks, is an insult to all of us. And his minister continues to preach hate and racism. The only unity that Obama follows in his personal life is uniting and advancing black America and Africa.

You have insulted ALL Americans with this endorsement!

Thats why Im glad you endorsed Obama….he is not getting much help from the media….The Clintons have had a lot of “experience” in getting businesses and the media on their side…..keep up the good work

It’s not Obama’s inability to shape the media coverage- it’s Hillary’s stranglehold on it (for all that she cries bias against her). With her out, it would change.

Yes, I really agree. Just b/c Hillary said “hey, you’re too soft on him,” all of a sudden, everyone believed it. In reality, if he was getting better press, it was simply b/c he had just won 11 straight elections, while she lost them. The Clintons are definitely good at getting the media to believe them- and that, in turn, means the public believes them too.

Well, Obama may be walking softly right now, but he’s got a huge club at his side.

To further your point about the media, did R.S. see what Chris Matthews did with your endorsement of Obama? Out of all your years offering a variety of covers, Matthews/GE first picked the two most risque visually: the nude Lennon cover and the Janet Jackson cover with the two hands over her breasts – very striking at first glance, right?
So Matthews leads of the piece with “…The same magazine that brought you this..(insert nude Lennon photo here) and this ..(insert Jackson breast photo here), now brings you ‘this’..(insert photo of Obama here).”

How f***ing degrading, deceitful and shameful of a way to mention your endorsement of a presidential candidate is that, from MSNBC/GE/Chris Matthews??

I hope your next cover depicts a degrading cartoon about what MSNBC and CNN have done in this campaign.

Oddly enough I’ve heard more decent and fair coverage of the Democratic by Republicans, like Bill Bennett and Joe Scarborough than from the Blitzers and Dobbs of CNN and Matthews and Abrahams on MSNBC.

who control media? those people want clinton to be a president, that’s why she got favor from media.we have seen media treat obama unfair

I am a big Obama supporter and I am glad that you have endorsed him but I think the cover with him on it is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Uhhhh….. I don’t really think the guy is Superman and I think you made him look pretty silly. Hopefully you haven’t cost him any votes.

I am a big Obama supporter and I am glad that you have endorsed him but I think the cover with him on it is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Uhhhh….. I don’t really think the guy is Superman and I think you made him look pretty silly. Hopefully you haven’t cost him any votes.

The Clintons know how to pull the Media strings. They have been playing this game for ever. Remember the “Right Wing Conspiracy” theory during the Ken Star Investigation.

Not much focus was paid to Norman Hsu during his trial and Clinton connection. However, we read about Retzko every hour.

Thank you for your article, I see Obama as a much needed healer for our stupid policies.

Finally a canidate worth registering as a dem, so I don.t have vote for the lessor of all evils repulican.

Go OBAMA

Texas Democrat,

Get a life. Its people like you that give democracy a bad name.

Rolling Stone has drank the Kool-Aid. The cover is Hillarious by the way. Obama in full Superman position with Halo rays behind him. Is he superman with messiah powers? When is Hillary going to get her cover story. I doubt she will, but I had to ask.

It’s all pointless because apparently McClinton has decided to support the republicans in 2008. She should be ashamed of herself. She is not a democrat. She’s a power-hungry mud-slinging rove lover that I (a voting democrat of 37 years) will NEVER vote for. She’s gone too far. Period.

And no, I wasn’t an Obama supporter until she started siding with McCain.

She’s evil and must be stopped.

(DD)

If HRC CAN control the media then I’d say ELECT HER!!

However, an article in the Washington Post weekly addresses that very issue. The conclusions wasn’t exactly shocking: no one controls the media. It’s like saying we control the weather. It/They go where they want and do what they want.

They’re like dogs in that if you pet them and praise them, they glow warmly. They’re like groupies in that they flock to something ‘new.’ And they’re like you and I, they want to be successful. If they think a story will s e l l, they’ll run with it. And they’re like some of us, they’re human.

TD, ironic that you, a member of the MSM should accuse it of that which you yourself are guilty. Or is that hypocritical? The ONLY thing you report on is the primary campaign and you ONLY praise BHO and condemn HRC. If your bosses are directing you, perhaps you should seek new employment; if it’s of your own design, perhaps you should opt for a spot of introspection.

Like the mafia,media overlords are a tight brotherhood. They in turn preside over an initiation process where the likes of a Tim Russert (who has never been a reporter) can move from being a political operative to a powerful spot as an executive at NBC—and then surface as host of a program like Meet The Press. Chris Matthews is another example. It is my experience that reporters who don’t toe the line by internalizing the agenda set by editorial bosses simply don’t get “good” stories and windup on the shelf until they just quit. Anyone who has followed the career of Seymour Hersh understands the obstacles I’m talking about. When he writing great stuff about the CIA and Henry Kissinger back in the 1970s, the New York Times pushed his ass out. Newspapers and television are power institutions —and power knows no morality.

I don’t know how this could be broached, but I think maybe pro-Israel interest at CNN is scared of Obama. Has anyone considered this? I think it is the elephant in the room.

The 48 Hour Torpedo

Surely I am not losing my mind. But did anyone else notice this.

48 hours before the Texas,Ohio primaries and throughout that day CNN and FOX did the following.

1. They continuously showed Obama with black people and Hillary with white people. They continuously had Obama supporters on who are black. The supporters of Hillary were white. I, who am a strong supporter of Obama based on my own research into the character of the man (I am white), found even myself wondering if Obama will give preference to black people over others. Will black people run the country. An all black white house staff flashed across my mind. I had to snap out of it and push my mind past old deep rooted racial biases. I thought, if they can do it to me…then surely others who are on the fence will go to Clinton.

2. These two networks continously showed the picture of Obama in muslim attire and the picture of the recently killed terrorist who strangely resembled who but Obama. Interesting, but immediately after the Texas and Ohio vote this image went away for good. Does this send out a message that Obama should have a big question mark. Is he muslim? Is he connected to the terrorist? Can we trust this man?

3. The media continuosly hammered at Obama on anything they could scrape up. Insignificant items suddenly were blown into huge proportion. They said, are people waking up from drinking the Kool Aide, etc. They essentially were telling us how to think. That we are ignorant and that we should follow their advice.

So where was Bill…was Bill the one sitting somewhere on the phone with old media friends carefully weaving this web.

I’m for Obama. Why? Because, of character. Experience is a non issue. Just look at Bush. A president has a support team and they are truly the ones who make policy. The president is a figurehead. He represents the country and leads. I want a pres. who will lead with a new set of principles that the world can appreciate. The only thing I can see possibly happening is the media continuing to torpedo Obama until the Clintons wiggle in a way to steal the election from him. Short of that…it is time we passed the torch to the new generation, to new ideas, to new principle, to a better way to represent the USA.

Congratulations RS, you’ve shot your wad with that cover shot of St. Obama. The celestial choirs have begun singing.

History will remember that Senator Clinton represented New York in the US Senate, the number one target of terrorist and ground zero on 9/11.

Senator Clinton had to consider the necessity, with the intelligence provided to her by our government and the White House itself, of protecting our nation from terrorist. She was assured that the White House was attempting to force Sadam into submission to the UN resolutions, with the threat of an invasion.

Monday morning quarterbacking has always been easy throughout history (consider the anti-slavery clause that Jefferson, Adams and Franklin were forced to remove from the Declaration of Independence, are they to be considered responsible for the Civil War).

She could not just give a speech or just vote “present”.

Experience Matters

Of the 3 years Obama has spent in the Senate, most have been spent campaigning for President.

Super Delegates evolved from the Kennedy/Carter convention of 1980. As the convention neared, Senator Kennedy’s campaign was far ahead of President Carter (momentum). At the convention Carter had to force a vote, binding delegates to vote as they were elected in their states (f13c) assuring his nomination and our eventual disastrous defeat to Reagan in November. Had super delegates existed in 1980, we may have avoided the next 12 years of Reagan/Bush and the demonization of the Democratic Party. Without Bush I, Bush II may have never happened.

It is only March. It is a long time between now and the convention. As the media have built Obama, they have begun “vetting“ him and begin the process of bringing him down to reality and potential defeat in November. The media always destroys what they have alone have created!

Congratulations RS, you’ve shot your wad with that cover shot of St. Obama. The celestial choirs have begun singing.

History will remember that Senator Clinton represented New York in the US Senate, the number one target of terrorist and ground zero on 9/11.

Senator Clinton had to consider the necessity, with the intelligence provided to her by our government and the White House itself, of protecting our nation from terrorist. She was assured that the White House was attempting to force Sadam into submission to the UN resolutions, with the threat of an invasion.

Monday morning quarterbacking has always been easy throughout history (consider the anti-slavery clause that Jefferson, Adams and Franklin were forced to remove from the Declaration of Independence, are they to be considered responsible for the Civil War).

She could not just give a speech or just vote “present”.

Experience Matters

Of the 3 years Obama has spent in the Senate, most have been spent campaigning for President.

Super Delegates evolved from the Kennedy/Carter convention of 1980. As the convention neared, Senator Kennedy’s campaign was far ahead of President Carter (momentum). At the convention Carter had to force a vote, binding delegates to vote as they were elected in their states (f13c) assuring his nomination and our eventual disastrous defeat to Reagan in November. Had super delegates existed in 1980, we may have avoided the next 12 years of Reagan/Bush and the demonization of the Democratic Party. Without Bush I, Bush II may have never happened.

It is only March. It is a long time between now and the convention. As the media have built Obama, they have begun “vetting“ him and begin the process of bringing him down to reality and potential defeat in November. The media always destroys what they have alone have created!

I’m glad Rolling Stone came out for support of Obama…the regular news media is all for Hillary and wont even put articles on that would hurt her like the latest Canadian contact from the Hillary campaign. No mention made of it on any of the news stations. I only hope Rolling Stone brings this out. The Clintons own the media….no doubt about it. You Hillary fans live in a bubble..,..you refuse to see what is really going on with the Clintons…Clinton will never win…

hazmaq,

Very good post and a perfect example of the skillfulness which the media operates with. This is not beijings propaganda machine, they are much more subtle and even more diabolical.

hazmaq,

Very good post and a perfect example of the skillfulness which the media operates with. This is not beijings propaganda machine, they are much more subtle and even more diabolical.

Paul in Atlanta,

“These two networks continuously showed the picture of Obama in Muslim attire and the picture of the recently killed terrorist who strangely resembled who but Obama. Interesting, but immediately after the Texas and Ohio vote this image went away for good.”

I TOTALLY noticed the same thing. Absolutely deplorable! It’s too bad that many people are unable to see this for what it is, a blatant example of media bias, racism, and the intentional convolution of our democratic system.

Shame on you CNN/MSNBS!

Not like they had any scruples to begin with, but their antics of late are reminiscent of communist Russia. Luckily, we have PBS, LinkTV, and other unbiased news sources to turn to, otherwise, we wouldn’t know what to believe!

Nice to see Hussein and Hitlery in a mud slinging fight… not that it matters. 79,934 days or 218 years 10 months and 7 days of white male presidential rule. Neither are going to stop the tradition. Silly Democrats.

Oh, Rolling Stone. Thank you so much for your hysterical cover featuring the inspirational portrait Jesus JFK Superman Ghandi Barack Obama-Kennedy-Lennon. I can’t stop laughing. You have given me A New Hope for future comic relief.