I'll say it, the MSM is BLATANTLY RACIST

[WeDidIt]

It's "presumptuous" and "arrogant" for Barack Obama to be presidential in the way he conducts himself, but it's fine for John McCain to actually pretend he's already the presidnet when it comes to Georgia.

Fine, guess we know there's one standard for a black man and another standard for a white man when it comes to the mainstream media.

I've already written to CNN over this from tehir Contact Us page.

[truthN08]

1. I totally agree with you

It just pisses me off so much.

[jaysunb]

2. Add me to that agreement

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6630171

[WeDidIt]

4. The RACIST Media is out to insure that a black man cannot win

That's all tehre is to it.

[TwilightGardener]

3. Yep.

[nc4bo]

5. A letter is the least I can do but I'd actually love and crave to do much, much more. nt

[WeDidIt]

I cannot believe they're being so BLATANT about thier RACISM

It's just soooo incredible!

[writes3000]

6. The media gets their talking points from the campaigns...

They only started questioning Obama about this crap when the RW talking heads did.

I suspect they will eventually ask the same thing about McCain although it won't be as loud.

[blm]

7. To a degree - but CNN has no problem whatsoever in pumping up any black Republican so, I'd say

it's more accurate to state that CNN is blatantly antiDemocratic nominee, especially any open government Democrat (closed government Democrats are great to them), and one who is also black.

[WeDidIt]

8. So who was teh Republican black man running for president?

They don't get off that easily with me.

It's the RACIST media.

[blm]

18. They elevate ANY black Republican and treat him like a statesman. They trash any Dem nominee as a

buffoon and less than a patriot, even the most heroic, wellspoken and gentlemanly of them, which includes Obama. CNN is acting racist - but they wouldn't be if the black candidate was a Republican nominee.

[inthebrain]

9. I hope you didn't just figure this out

Any media establishment that hires Pat Buchannan or Lou Dobbs has some serious screws loose.

[WeDidIt]

11. They always tried to keep the racism low key before.

They'd use the code words etc.

They're being BLATANT about the double standard now. There's no hiding the baltant racism that is the undercurrent of American media any longer.

[inthebrain]

14. I think you're just noticing it because Obama is the nominee

They ain't doing nothing new. Lou Dobbs is always hosting members of hate groups on his show.

Pat Buchannan has been a racial arsonist for years.

Bill Oreilly like Imus has a looooong list of racist statements that are BLATANT.

The list goes on and on. Crap, one of the biggest developments in the last 12 years has been the rise of hate groups in this country. ADL and SPLC have been covering it like crazy and the media has completely ignored it.

Even holocaust denial is on the rise as those folks have conspiracy theory in which to tack their ideology to; The 9/11 conspiracy where they blame the jews for taking down the towers and pentagon with planted explosives.

This stuff has been going on for years.

[butterfly77]

17. Lou Dobbs is a not just hosting members of hate groups...

he is a member of hate groups he hates,Hispanics, Blacks,Asians,Arabs. He is a republicon who tries to pretend that he is a so called: Independent/Populist and now he has it at the bottom of the screen as though it is suppose to mean something.

He's putting it at the Bottom of the screen so that the no nothings will write in and tell him that they have switched parties which is a bunch of bull which is what Lou Dobbs is full of...

[inthebrain]

20. I don't know if he has actual membership

I do know that he hosts them on his show as if they are "objective observers"

There was once a time on this board when his sychophants were running wild. Pretending that they too were independant objctive observers. All the while they'd C&P commentary from places like VDARE and the like.

[WeDidIt]

22. Probably

Given that I'm white, I don't pick up on it as much.

[MidwestTransplant]

10. McSame also has weekly radio addresses.

[BlooInBloo]

12. No it's not. Clinton supporters tell me so.

[Undercurrent]

13. Correct!

Thank you for writing. I have as well.

[Thrill]

15. Rachel Maddow called it from the beginning!

The media clearly makes Obama out to be Uppity. When McCain does it far more. Its ok. Again the media in this country is dangerous.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

16. And sexist. nt

[pot luck]

19. This is nothing new to black people.

We've been complaining about the racism in the media for years. The only images they show of us are negative and completely ignore people of color who go missing while focusing on missing blond girls. It's no surprise that they'd have a double standard when dealing with the first black man with a shot at becoming president.

[Captain Hilts]

21. The folks HERE and the press said the same shit about Hillary Clinton.