NEWSWEEK still thinks they are unbiased

November 15, 2008 (long post)

A very strange video from NEWSWEEK - a place I haven't visited since September. The pro-barry propaganda never disappointed - even in the face of obvious lies. They crossed a line and realized they had to keep going because if he failed they would look even more ridiculous. But the bots were so vicious talking about Gov Palin and her family and Senator McCain and his history.

I'm always amazed at the venom of barry supporters. Why do they have to attack so vehemently? Because they have nothing to defend.

How blind are these folks who believe barry ran a "clean" campaign? The amount of pure ignorance - as in not knowing and not caring to - is staggering. Do these folks really believe he is the messiah and can do no wrong? Or do they now know he isn't and are making themselves believe because the alternative is embarrassment and despair?

This is the answer I am still seeking. Our purpose has been met. Hence the crossover to more opinion than facts. No one cares.

Here is the video link - well worth the 3 minutes. It's by a journalist who plumbed sources but was not allowed to say or write anything until after the election. NEWSWEEK advertises this as proof of unbiased reporting when all it does is prove they selectively filtered--censored--the reporting. Bias under the name of silence.

We are to believe that if these journalists had an important lead to help barry they were just supposed to sit on it? Or not pass along damning information about Senator Clinton or John McCain? Never happen. They were muzzled. Pravda 2.0

Daren Briscoe: "How difficult it can be sometimes because of all the rules we are operating under - where all of our reporting was embargoed. You can't talk about the reporting that you're doing - the things you are learning."

'Embargo' - telling word choice. Embargoing = deliberate silencing = censoring = propaganda. Is there a single young reporter who can still tell the "truth"? How long has this been going on? Is this what reporting is now? Be the first to blog on it before knowing it's veracity. Like Kos' ArcXIX and the biologically impossibility of the daughter giving birth.

The reporter in the video is Nick Summers, who had initially followed "Hillary". Do they call Obama barry? He starts out by saying: "I think I was assigned to "Hillary" because no one else wanted to cover her." Whatever follows will be inherently disrespectful because he didn't/doesn't have the respect to refer to Sen Clinton by her title.

And people like Rachel Maddow don't find that sexist. Does she truly believe she got her job on her own merit? That it wasn't because they needed a female olbermann and she fit the bill on more than one level? Her show is no different than his. She even mimicked his mocking voice when she talked about the presidential fete. She wants the White House to serve cheeseburgers to foreign heads of states here for a crisis summit?

Do these folks even hear themselves anymore? People watch because she provides entertainment - just not the entertainment she thinks she is providing. The little gotcha moments aren't even relevant most of the time - like the lipstick comparisons.

SUMMERS: "It was kind of jarring going from covering Hillary to helping cover Obama. It was like going from PC to Mac - everything just works. I was talking to one reporter and just said, 'it's so much easier here.' And she said, 'yeah, it's really weird, when you ask for the schedule, they just give it to you.

Of course they do. He could not live without his obamerized flock. It was vital to his campaign. It's all he wanted. People coming to adore him with the press covering every minute. I wonder how Lee Cowen is doing? He needs mancrush detox.

Summers then goes on to mention an "absurd moment" when they were on the bus in South Carolina going from A to B and they wouldn't know where B was. Guess he wasn't on the plane that flew the barry reporters to Chicago. Imagine if Sen Clinton or Sen McCain had done that? And I'm sure axelrod is still laughing about it.

(He then takes a deep breath, squints, shakes his head, moves his neck in his collar - like no thanks.) "But over time the Obama campaign was a little too choking. I don't know. I think a little too mannered and ordered. Very few people shouting questions at obama. I don't know - I preferred 'the Hillary chase'. Everyone misses it. It was great."

Yeah, because they had some autonomy and weren't part of the obamerized brigade that did nothing but parrot the party line. it's nice to see some degree of honesty coming from NEWSWEEK. Can see why he was muzzled. With "Hillary" they were allowed to attack. And they did - early and often - to NEWSWEEK's delight. With barry they didn't even get to question - let alone attack. Probably because they were afraid they'd be labeled racists. Too.