Last weekend was wall-to-wall Wright/Obama coverage. 1 week later, Obama's the presumptive nominee.

[jenmito]

For all the attempts to keep the "horse race" going with non-stop negative coverage of Obama, "wondering" if Hillary could minimize Obama's expected win in NC (or even pull an upset victory) and pull off a larger-than-expected victory in IN, it didn't work. Now, just days later, Obama is widely considered the Dem. nominee and people are wondering aloud what Hillary's still doing in the race and how/when she'll get out. GOBAMA-the REAl fighter!

[saltpoint]

1. I wonder if people just didn't say to themselves, "Well, good god, the

cable news heads are just jabbering like magpies about Obama's preacher, and frankly, I don't go to that church anyway, and our OWN pastor is not exactly 100% right all the time, and we've got economic pressures that far outweigh this dust-up over Rev. Wright."

The media trotted this out and wouldn't shut up about it and I wonder if people just zoned out on the controversy altogether.

Obama weathered it swimmingly, in any case, and he is 44.

[jenmito]

4. I think you're right...and regarding your last sentence...

I JUST photoshopped a pic of the "HillaryIs44" logo to "ObamaIs44." Do you know how I could get it to show here?

[saltpoint]

7. Hi, jenmito. I don't know how, no. When I've been stuck on technical

things I usually ask at the Lounge. A lot of classy folks there to start with, and most are very tech-smart and savvy.

[jenmito]

9. OK. Thanks!

:hi:

[Willo]

12. you have to upload the pic to a site

I use photobucket

then enter the address for the uploaded pic

[jenmito]

13. Thanks! I'll see if I can figure THAT out!

:hi:

[jenmito]

14. I just did it and then clicked on "properties" and copied the address,

but on "preview" here the pic didn't come up. :shrug:

[sniffa]

17. Copy the direct link box on photobucket

[jenmito]

26. Thanks, sniffa...

I got an "illegal code" message so I changed the image and now I'm trying to upload it again before I can do what you said, but I'll try once I successfully upload it. :hi:

[jenmito]

34. I DID it!...

Thanks!

[Forkboy]

21. When the Wright story broke the first time...

(Before the National Press Club thing) I said that both the media and many Hillary supporters totally overplayed their hand with the story. When the press club stuff happened I said they would do it again, and sure enough they did. The backlash was easy to see coming to anyone who had paid attention the first time around, but many Hillary supporters were so desperate to pull Obama down that they couldn't help themselves.

[Cha]

22. Hoisted on their own petard as

I knew given enough rope they would hang themselves. They're too clueless not to.

[saltpoint]

23. Hi, Forkboy. You had it called right, and you had it called early.

You were right on Wright.

The comments made on DU and elsewhere about how the craven media slobbers and growls over a black pastor's intemperate remarks but leets the white fundie nutbags like Robertson and Dobson et al go unchallenged ... well, I'd say that's stil a good question and the media owe us all a better answer than we've gotten so far.


:thumbsup: :hi:

[Forkboy]

24. And the story is dangerous for McCain as well.

He's saying that it shouldn't be an issue now but not because he's a nice, fair guy, but to cover his own ass and his own pastor story. Surrogates will use it, but Obama surrogates will counter with Hagee. The two candidates themselves will be mostly silent about the other's pastor I suspect.

[saltpoint]

25. Yes. Agree. It would be disastrous for McCain to try to stir this up

AGAIN.

The media tried to torpedo Obama with Wright and they failed miserably. Out of the controversy, we were given the enormous gift of Obama's speech on race in Philadelphia, not incidentaly the place where the republic was forged. Obama took a barn of rancid straw and spun it into solid gold.

He knows how to handle things, looks like to me.

Hagee is an absolute nutbag. Shithouse rat crazy, or worse.

[Bonobo]

35. I have been saying it and saying it. This is the bursting of the "Media Bubble" (TM)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=5716377

[jenmito]

36. You sure have...

and speaking of which (on the thread you started that you linked to)...

[Bonobo]

37. Yes?

Don't leave me hanging there, pal.

[jenmito]

38. Oops-in the post you were responding to...

post #1 on THIS thread, they wrote "Obama is 44." And I just happened to photoshop the "HillaryIs44" pic to say just that. Sorry for the mix-up!

[billyoc]

2. Even the national media monopolies can be shamed into dropping smear campgaigns

if they're ridiculed enough.

[jenmito]

8. They didn't drop it 'til after he did so well Tuesday.

If he didn't do well, they would've gone on to say how much that hurt him.

[DJ13]

3. Its a real slap in the face of the MSM, & I love it!

They needed to be taught a lesson that they arent as powerful as they thought they were.

Hopefully they'll exercise some restraint in the GE.

(But I doubt it...)

[jenmito]

10. So do I...

but I doubt it, too.

[cliffordu]

5. Yeah, and the MSM has gone back to the lurid - the obsession

with car chases, robberies by people of color, rape, murder and NOTHING about the war(s), nothing of value about Congress or the downstream races......

Or the coming failure of our way of life due to the worship of unbridled consumption.....


The closer we get to the GE, the more the coverage will swing back to the niggle and quirks of the candidates, microphone mistakes, shithead reverends, the usual...

Fiddling while Rome burns....

[monmouth]

6. Quiet voters make the loudest of sounds.....n/t

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

11. We're smarter now. After losing GREAT Candidates due to the MSM smear machine

We say: Not this time!

Ans as a matter of fact, after delivering us into the hands of the worst President in history, they have absolutely no credibility whatsoever. I watch them for entertainment and that's it.

Must be a blow to the Matthews, Russerts, Hannitys and Limbaughs and O'Reillys to see their dead horse flogging over a tangenital issue fall so flat and that they are considered so irrelevant. They earned the contempt.

Recall Russert asking Kucinich about UFOs. Recall George and what's his name asking Obama about flag pins.

Probably didn't move anyone except the same 29% that are immovably right wing anyway.

[jenmito]

15. Of course Faux is still talking about Wright. I guess they DON'T want to run against Obama

like Rush and others claimed.

[oxbow]

16. It was Hillary's last stand. That's all.

One last round of fire to harden the skin on Obama's back before the GE. Now he's been tested. Now he's ready for the main attraction, and frankly so am I.

[jenmito]

27. I agree, but I doubt the media was doing it to try to toughen him up...

Just the opposite. They were trying to destroy him. But they failed and he now IS stronger and ready for the GE!

[oxbow]

33. Let em try. They're still stuck playin the old game just like Hillary.

Obama's in a league all his own. He's rewriting the rules, and we aint seen nothin yet.

[Deja Q]

18. We're talking about the media. Even johns aren't as fickle.

:shrug:

[butterfly77]

19. It all seem to change after...

the horse race when the horse died..

[pretzel4gore]

20. the rush limbah mass media

rush limbah wants to sabatoge the US electoral system (even the freaking tweety mathews condemned the tactic of misusing something like the vote, which patriots have died gaining the right for!) by having dittomites vote for hillary, in order to 'bloody up' Mr Obama, and the mass media is right there with limbah- indeed, rush is their leader! imagine that, following a goof who has warred on the US public interest/welfare for nearly 20 years!

[jenmito]

29. The media has in large part dismissed Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" as nothing more

than Rush's ego and NOT a reality that made any difference in the primaries. That's bull. Of COURSE his "dittoheads" went out and voted for Hillary whether the MSM wants to admit it or not.

[pretzel4gore]

31. it still disgusts that Tim McVeigh credited the ratwing media

for the inspiration to attack the federal government-had the net been prevalent then, we would have brought that to wider attention. 168 people died thanks to cnn and limbah and the rest. The guilt of the bushmedia for damaging the national interest is the guilt of individuals, who try hide behind the company logo and earn big money lying for fascism; it's they who are rush limbah, only they're mainstream, and they who cost the USA about $5 trillion dollars, at the least, thus far. And the men involved, like sam donaldson, all know it, and are doctoring their resumes to hide the facts, or pretending they retired etc. Woof blitzer started out with 700 club, forchrissakes. bellow reilly comes from 'inside sedition'...

[Pushed To The Left]

28. Not only is it a defeat for Hannity, FOX and the media, but it is a defeat for Rush Limbaugh and his

"Operation Chaos" BS. Besides, Rod Parsley and John Hagee make Jeremiah Wright look pretty tame by comparison!

[jenmito]

30. Yeah, but Limbaugh DID probably give Hillary the win in IN.

I agree Parsley and Hagee make Wright look pretty tame. I just wish Obama could start running against McCain already.

[pretzel4gore]

32. please don't do that...credit the goonie

anyone who listens to limbah quickly learns that he's playing a game, using code for all the selfish, stupid racist;/sexist/classist nonsense you got. He passes muster, but only by guys who go along with the fiction, which isn't just a game to some of the denser ones btw. The point is; it's highly unlikely limbah is a natural, 'market forced' phenomenon- after all, who benefits from what he's done? 911 was an inside job, a fx movie shoot costing up to $20 billion, that's fact. And limbah just tiny potatoes to the big fraud, but you can bet junyer bush's left nut that limbah's 'eib' network was a cia/nsa/kkk front job, like AOL, of Langley township, Virginia, and millions of tax dollars (?) kept limbah going over the last 20 years because the ignoranti just aren't that numerous or wealthy. Even jeff christie isn't as blindly ignorant as limbah acts- Iraq will cost us $3 trillion dollars....and 'we' are killers

[futureliveshere]

39. I have been repeatedly saying this

The constant coverage would help Obama by highlighting his religion and when he denounced Rev. Wright's words that got a lot of coverage too.

[jenmito]

40. True, which makes it even more puzzling that

people in WV still think Obama's a Muslim (according to an article posted here yesterday).

[Bonobo]

41. The Media continues to try to tell us what we, Americans, believe. I believe less and less that they

have any idea what "Americans" believe.

[jenmito]

42. Ain't THAT the truth!

Yeah, they have NO idea. But they'll see soon enough!