DISQUS

michaelt · 1 year ago

O/T, but how is the media ever going to change? they keep going like nobody noticed thier cheerleading for an illegal invasion. when are these people going to atone? do we just forget the whole thing happened?

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

Hear, hear on the "when are they going to atone" thing...
Sackcloth on-camera wardrobes and anchor chairs of thorns would be a start for our conveniently forgetful media darlings...

Milli · 1 year ago

Watch out. McCain has the nursing home vote all sewn up.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

Boy ain't that the truth

lynchie · 1 year ago

Isn't that the bed pan vote.

Mark in Florida · 1 year ago

What's that sound I hear? I think it's the impending 'bump' in the polls.

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

We need an adult in the Whitehouse for a change.

Busboy · 1 year ago

Sorry, DJ, I'm not available...

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

Thank God.

jr · 1 year ago

"you can only sound presidential if you're white"-Joe Lieberman

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

Cygnus X-3 is emitting myrid tons of cosmic rays at us again. Just like before.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

Last time, according to ice cores, man began our first cave art and settled agricultural communities.

Joneses · 1 year ago

finally, someone who doesn't embarrass the United States of America!

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

Someone said it in an earlier thread and I heartily agree...this is going to be some fun campaign (i can't decide on the various dynamite-loaded Rethug Veep selections!!!) what with Paxil-Johnny and the campaign gang that couldn't even get it together enough to shoot crooked.
On we go to the increasing insane domestic media spin we’ll hear with Obama’s EU crowds…
I'm hoping the foreign journalists will hiss and cat-call during some of the more inane script questions from the Kool and Extra Kool Kids of domestic teeveeland.

Linzack · 1 year ago

There's very little objectivity in the press reporting... they try as hard as they can to distort Obama's outreach and position to protect McCain so that he lasts long enough for the election. Truth is, the election is over. Obama has won. McInsane is just a puppet of the republicans now who are running for the hills. D.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

The hills are just over the hills and we will get them.

hawkseye · 1 year ago

I see signs that some of the MSM are beginning to abandon McSame. He's played a hero role for so long, he doesn't understand that it requires near perfection. The longer he whines, the less heroic he looks and the more he becomes a candidate for road kill.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

Don't worry. The CEOs of the MSMs will rein them in to ensure the GOP holds at least the WH come November.

sittenpretty · 1 year ago

why yes he does...a sight for sore eyes

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

Cygnus is the bird in all cultures. So make of it what you will and egg laying. A bird who lays its eggs and forms something.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

Bird is the word...

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

The Northern Cross/Star in the sky.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

I hate to admit this but I turned on MSNBC a few minutes ago and listened to Chris Godzilla and Mrs Alan Greenspan discussing Obama and it's like they are shocked that this guy looks and sounds qualified. Or presidential. Or able. I really hate these assholes. Obama is so articulate and well thought out compared to Grandpa Munster with his Rodeo Queen airhead. And sadly the seniors watch these news shows (just look at the commercials to tell who their market is.) And they trust these media wonks. Good God.

CitizenTwenty · 1 year ago

Based on some of the unvarnished astonishment exhibited by certain members of the media (oh yeah...and by those folks at fox, whatever one would call what they do) that Senator Obama might just be the person for this job makes one wonder what their honest thoughts on the subject are.
I surmise, based on what they feel comfortable saying publically that if you could listen in to what they actually say inside their heads you might hear something like "Holy hell, this well spoken, handsome negro fella just might be able to pull this off".

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

US corporate media whores: He hasn't made a gaffe, yet, but we're living for the moment when he does--and then it's all over! He's got a brain! He's not just pretty! He can put four words together to make a coherent sentence, which we don't have to rewrite to make him look good! But can he connect with the real America? Isn't he just a smartypants elitist who can't seal the deal with the voters, even though it's still months away from the election? If he's so great, why is he just even with McCain in the polls? So what if he knows what countries border Iraq, is he a genuine war hee-ro whose foreign policy strengths are unassailable, like McCain's? And if all those Muslims and Europeans love him, how great can he be, really?

ZennButtKicker (tlhwraith) · 1 year ago

"Maybe the reason Obama is getting better press coverage than McCain, if it's true at all, is that Obama is doing better than McCain, and the media is simply reporting the facts."

It's pretty obvious and even a lot of my conservative friends admit it, Obama has an actual plan/vision for his Presidency, McCain is kind of taking the stay the course/I'm not Obama route and it's starting to hurt him even with the stalwarts. At some point McCain needs to actually articulate why he's the better person for the job, not why he "thinks" Obama is not. This is Clintons fatal flaw all over again, she got so wrapped up in bringing Obama down that she didn't lift herself up (except during brief moments of admitted brilliance). The only real distinction between Clinton and McCain is that at least Clinton had a vision, it's just that sometimes she forgot it in the heat of campaigning, I'm not sure McCain has one at all.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

Oh forget it. I need some more meditation in my garden with a cold one...

Ben Dover · 1 year ago

Obama DOES sound presidential. It's a real joy to listen to him, after seven long years of hearing the constant screeching and cage rattling by the Chimpenfuhrer.
Stand the two candidates side-by-side. McSame, who doesn't know Shiite from Shinola, is better suited to skittering around the Bush Retirement Compound in Kennebunkport in a golf cart than making sound policy for America. Obama, on the other hand, has shown his grasp of foreign policy and ability to lead the world in a new direction, with fresh ideas and dedication.
A feeble and uninspired relic from the distant past versus the promise, drive and dedication to a better tomorrow for ALL Americans.
I'll take that promise of a better tomorrow, any time.

Obama '08!

jiminportlandoregon · 1 year ago

Obama "looks and sounds presidential" because HE IS presidential.

kirkaracha · 1 year ago

What's the deal with the reference to "the jokes and 'rah rah' language"?