Liberal media: “The same machine that got Obama elected”

May 22, 2009

Pro-barry media bias is no mystery. Hasn’t been since March 3, 2008 when the media let barry walk away after answering, like, 8 whole questions. Imagine Hillary Clinton getting away with that on the eve of what could have been the clinching of the Dem nomination. The New York Times just admitted–as far as they were willing to go–that they killed a story about barry and ACORN.

Why is this a surprise? It’s only the beginning of what will be revealed. And the anger festering since the primaries, coupled with barry doing what barry does: lie, coupled with his birth certificate is going to come to a head. It’s just a matter of time. Hence barry’s “civilian national security force”.

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Here are a couple of quotes from NYT’s CLARK HOYT to show how he still thinks it was no big deal. NewsBusters’ MATTHEW VADUM does a great job bringing Hoyt’s words into the world of reality.

HOYT: Evidence supplied by the source could not be verified.

When did that matter for barry’s opponents? Gov Palin faking giving birth? Banning books? And the completely bogus “KILL HIM!” that barry announced during the last debate right? People still believe that happened – John Ridley, Keith Olbermann, Whoopie Goldberg, Joy Behar and Donna Brazile to name a few. And what happened when Sen McCain brought up ACORN?

And then this, which proves he has no journalistic ethics and an even poorer memory. He needs to go back and look at the polls. And it doesn’t matter. None of it should be qualified. It was wrong. It was done to make sure barry won. The intent is what makes it wrong even if it was mathematically impossible. They were corrupted.

HOYT: Even if the story had panned out, it is hard to see how any editor could have regarded it as momentous enough to change an election in which the Republicans were saddled with an unpopular war and an economic meltdown.

Republicans were saddled with the war? barry’s story about Iraq was a fairy tale from the start and it was definitively proven so at Camp LeJune. The troops are coming home on Pres Bush’s timetable.

And if they didn’t think it was going to matter – why did they do it in the first place?

HOYT: I think The Times handled the story as any responsible news organization would.

Name a “responsible news organization”.

None exists.

In the IFC/Zogby Poll right after the election 73% believed there was media bias in general, 75% thought media bias influenced the outcome of the presidential election and 93% thought barry got more coverage. It’s not even a possibility anymore for folks clinging to the delusion that there was no pro-barry bias to be taken seriously.

Hoyt, case in point.

Art imitating life. On 30 Rock Alec Baldwin’s character needed to find his dad kidney in a hurry. His solution:

I have the entire liberal media establishment at my disposal. The same machine that got people to vote for Barack Obama.

SNL, ACORN and the NY Times a large part of it.

Presidential candidate to Iowans: "Hello, Iowa! Hello, Chicago!"

December 26, 2008

Presidential candidate to Iowans: "Hello, Iowa! Hello, Chicago!"

Propaganda Pravda style

November 15, 2008

I happened across this article from Filebox and it all seemed very familiar. Read along. Do you hear propaganda, media control, rallies, pamphlets, internet, youth vote, grass root, documentaries of their leader, 30 minute infomercials, ACORN, caucus, voter turnout and glorifying image? Musings not accusations. Scattered quotes from the article.

Pravda achieved the goals of Bolshevik propaganda by motivating the people and controlling the media available to them, The Russian Association of Proletarian Writers controlled the media available to the public.

To spread their propaganda, “agit-trains” were sent throughout Russia with pamphlets and even films to assimilate the peasants. This allowed the communists to see things on a local level and take care of problems at the root, such as school conditions and the secret police. These films brought the faces of Lenin and Trotsky to them and made them feel closer to their leaders.

To ensure that the communists secured the vote, voting rules were changed in the early 1920’s. Now, votes were taken by a raising of hands. Obviously not many people came out to vote under this method and a ‘secret’ ballot system was instilled.... To make matters worse, voting counts were manipulated, making voter turnout appear higher.

The influence of these groups – the writers, the soldiers, the youth, and the voters was to be accomplished through propaganda.

Lenin definitely used these means to promote his ideology, and his image was often used in propaganda, although not to the glorifying extent that Stalin's image was.

[Poster] depicts Lenin as the bringer of a better future but is different in the way that it does not depict the workers in adulation, rather, they are working hard - infering that all good Soviets should work hard to bring about the Leninist ideal.

Curiosity of the day

Are there any swing states in which ACORN is not under investigation?

Voter irregularity: Nevada caucus

November 1, 2008

Ran across this post by WINGEDHUSSAR1683 about voter irregularities in the Nevada primary. Just look at the swing states and you'll find plenty of "voter irregularity". I believe ACORN is being investigated in each one. Senator Clinton's counsel, Lyn Utrecht, wrote a detailed letter (dated 1-23-08) to Jill Derby, Chair Nevada State Democratic Party. The entire letter is there and also: http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2008/images/01/23/nv.state.letter.1.23.08.pdf,
Backup http://www.stentorian.com/Obama/clinton_complaint.pdf

Evidently barry's camp sent a letter the day before complaining about the caucus. Typical MO. Accuse the other side, let the MSM run with it and his own problems get shoved to the blogosphere. His ego probably couldn't tolerate losing -- it was the only caucus Sen Clinton won.

LYN UTRECHT (emphasis added)

This letter is not intended as a response to the Obama campaign's letter. However, in the interest of a complete record, and in contrast to the alleged minor procedural problems noted by the Obama campaign, the Committee wishes to bring to your attention information we have received evidencing a premeditated and predesigned plan by the Obama campaign to engage in systematic corruption of the Party's caucus procedures. Compounding this blatant distortion of the caucus rules was an egregious effort by the Obama campaign to manipulate the voter registration process in its own favor, thereby disenfranchising countless voters. Finally, the Committee has received a vast number of reliable reports of voter suppression and intimidation by the Obama campaign or its allies.

þ Preference cards were premarked for Obama.

þ Clinton supporters were denied preference cards on the basis that none were left, while Obama supporters at the same caucus sites were given preference cards.

þ Caucus chairs obviously supporting Obama:
o Deliberately miscounted votes to favor Senator Obama.
o Deliberately counted unregistered persons as Obama votes.
o Deliberately counted young children as Obama votes.
o Refused to accept preference cards from Clinton supporters who were at the caucus site by noon on the ground that the cards were not filled out fast enough.
o Told Clinton supporters to leave prior to electing delegates.

þ Clinton supporters who arrived late were turned away from the caucus, while late Obama supporters were admitted to the caucus.

þ Obama supporters wrongly informed Clinton supporters that they were not allowed to participate in the caucus if their names were not on the voter rolls. However, Obama supporters whose names did not appear on the voter rolls were permitted to register at the caucus site.

þ Obama supporters falsely informed Clinton supporters that no registration forms were available for them to register to vote at the caucus site.

þ Obama supporters wrongly told Clinton supporters who were attempting to caucus at the wrong precinct that they could not caucus at that site, while simultaneously permitting Obama supporters at the wrong precinct to participate.

þ Obama supporters were allowed to move to the front of the registration and sign-in line.

þ Voters at at-large caucus sites were informed that those sites were for Obama supporters only.

þ Clinton supporters at at-large caucus sites were told that their managers would be watching them while they caucused.

þ Workers were informed that their supervisors kept lists of Clinton and Obama supporters, and were told that they could not caucus unless their name was on the list of Obama supporters.

þ Many Clinton supporters were threatened with employment termination or other discipline if they caucused for Senator Clinton.

þ Workers were required to sign a pledge card to support Obama if they wanted time off to participate in the caucus.

þ Workers at one casino were offered a lavish lunch and permitted to attend and register to vote only if they agree to support Obama.

The complaints summarized above represent only a small sample of the complaints received by the Committee. With respect to each of these complaints and many more, the Committee has the names and phone numbers of those reporting these incidents and the specific precinct numbers where the incidents occurred. Upon request the Committee will share these with the Party with appropriate safeguards to protect these individuals from reprisal. On the whole, these reports show a troubling effort by the Obama campaign and its allies and supporters to advance their own campaign at the expense of the right of all Nevada Democrats to participate in the democratic process in a free, fair and open manner.

Senator Clinton and the Committee are wholly committed to ensuring that every eligible voter has his or her vote cast and counted. There is no place in the American electoral process for the types of voter suppression, intimidation and harassment systematically engaged in by the Obama campaign, its allies and supporters.

I really don't know why people are surprised by this. It's standard operating procedures in Chicago politics. barry's main accomplishment as community organizer was registering 150K new voters (with ACORN). And who were the votes for? Bill Clinton. Sorry don't know the status at present - but with that rundown and voters willing to testify I can't imagine it being shoved aside. Though I wouldn't be surprised if it was. I also ran across a site that posted an outline of voter fraud in other states and a quick run down on barry's illegal donations. I'll see if I can find it...I'm transferring over posts and adding drafts as I am able.

UPDATE: Biden's "Are you kidding me?" interview

Backlash from Biden's (10-23-08) interview with WFTV-9's Barbara West. For the record, I think he did pretty good. I don't understand her "interviewing style". All the words have the same emphasis and she reads them from the teleprompter like they don't register up top.

Found this article at NewsBusters by P.J. GADNICK:

Here are the observations of what happened from the Orlando Sentinel blog of Hal Boedeker the TV Guy: (emphasis added)

Biden so disliked West's line of questioning that the Obama campaign canceled a WFTV interview with Jill Biden, the candidate's wife.

Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign."This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election.

McGinnis said the Biden cancellation was "a result of her husband's experience yesterday during the satellite interview with Barbara West."

WFTV news director Bob Jordan said, "When you get a shot to ask these candidates, you want to make the most of it. They usually give you five minutes."

Jordan said political campaigns in general pick and choose the stations they like. And stations often pose softball questions during the satellite interviews. "Mr. Biden didn't like the questions," Jordan said. "We choose not to ask softball questions. I'm crying foul on this one."

Hal Boedeker also cited how upset the Obama campaign was with an interviewer who finally asked tough questions of a Democrat candidate in another blog posting:

Why did Barack Obama's campaign cancel an interview Jill Biden, wife of Sen. Joe Biden, was going to do with WFTV-Channel 9?

In a statement Friday afternoon, Adrianne Marsh, Florida spokeswoman for Obama's campaign, said the station, in talking with Sen. Biden, was "both combative and woefully uninformed about simple facts."

Marsh said West's insistence that Obama was an organizer for ACORN was "100 percent false." "In a line of questioning that would make Rush Limbaugh proud, West even went as far as to quote Karl Marx, a Communist icon, in a disturbing attempt to associate Barack Obama with socialism," Marsh wrote.

"There's nothing wrong with tough questions, but reporters have the very important job of sharing the truth with the public -- not misleading the American people with false information," Marsh added. "Senator Biden handled the interview well; however, the anchor was completely unprofessional. Senator Biden's wife is not running for elected office, and there are many other stations in the Orlando television market that would gladly conduct a respectful and factual interview with her."

So it must be a FOX affiliate. Gotta give it to Joe on this one, even though his explanation of his mark my words comments were fantastical. For a laugh see his 9-26-08 interview with West.

Biden quote of the day: "Are you kidding me?!"

October 23, 2008
Interview of Joe Biden via satellite by Barbara West of WFTV. She has a strange interviewing techniques where she sounds like she's reading not talking to someone live. I can see why he was a little weirded out to begin with and then the questions were right from Limbaugh. Video courtesy of techvids 052oo6 via AmericasNewsToday.Org

[....]
BIDEN: We haven't paid ACORN a single penny to register a single voter. [in the general election - primaries absolutely.]

WEST: But in the past--

BIDEN: They're the facts!

WEST: But in the past Senator Obama was a Community organizer for ACORN, he was a lawyer for ACORN--

[Obama served ACORN and it's associates as an attorney on voter registration and on cases involving subprime mortgages that lead to this current financial crisis.]

BIDEN laughs.

WEST: ...and certainly in the senate he was a benefactor for ACORN.

BIDEN: (Indignant) How's he been a benefactor of ACORN? (Like he truly doesn't know.) He was organizer. John McCain stood before ACORN not long ago complimenting them on the great work they do. Does that make John McCain complicitous in any mistake ACORN has made? Are you kidding me?? C'mon, let's get real here!

West smiles like she's got him now. They discuss Joe the Plumber and spreading the wealthy around and whether Obama made a "crushing political blunder". Biden says, "Absolutely not!" And then goes on about middle class and taxes.

WEST: You may recognize this famous quote (I wasn't sure if she meant it was one he plagiarized. Joe Biden is in the Plagiarism Hall of Fame.) "From each according to his abilities - to each according to their needs." That's from Karl Marx. How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?

BIDEN: Are you joking? (He blinks and gives his classic I'm going to eat you little girl grin.) Is this a joke?

WEST: No.

BIDEN: Is that a real question?

WEST: Yes.

BIDEN: He looks down and does that grin like listen here girlie. He's entertaining even when he's patronizing.) He's not talking about spreading the wealth around. He's talking about giving the middle class an opportunity to get the tax breaks they used to have......that's what we think. It's a ridiculous comparison, with all due respect. (Too late, Joe.)

WEST: You recently said: 'Mark my words...

BIDEN nods his head, clenches his mouth and licks his lips...too late...they've already flapped.

WEST: ...it will not be six months till the world tests Barack Obama.' But what worries many people is your caveat asking them to stand with him because it's not going to be apparent initially that he is right. Are you forewarning Americans that nothing will be done and..

BIDEN puffs up his chest and leans forward in his seat.

WEST:...that America's days as the world's leading power are over?

BIDEN: (Barely able to contain himself. The question was designed to provoke him. Is this a FOX affiliate? He closes his eyes and shakes his head. The Obama camp must have been ready to shock his dog collar) No. I am not at all. I don't know who is writing your questions (like even you a dumb blond couldn't come up with these.) - but let me make it clear. The fact of the matter is that everyone has acknowledge from Colin Powell down that the next president of the United States will be tested." He goes on comparing BO & JM and the economy, Iraq, Afghanistan and North Korea. "Barack Obama's been right. John McCain has been wrong. That was my point. Barack Obama is more ready than John McCain."

[Even for Biden that is a stretch - though he tried to sound convincing.]

WEST: Getting back to the spreading the wealth question...

BIDEN has that incredulous look like how dumb is this broad?

WEST: What do you say to the people who are concerned that Barack Obama is going to turn America into a socialist country much like Sweden?

BIDEN: (He doesn't even other to dignify it.) I don't know anyone who believes that except the far right wing of the Republican Party. (Get me to the hell out of here.)

WEST: Thank you, Senator Biden.

Video cuts off so we can't see what he said.

UPDATE on post interview happenings.

FBI confirms ACORN under investigation

October 17, 2008
Westchester, Ohio
Palin continues to hammer ACORN - as right she should. When they uncover the extent of the fraud (after the inauguration) it will prove that Sen Clinton won the popular vote...by a lot. How will it reflect then on the first black president? That he won because of voter fraud, electioneering, illegal campaign donations, an illegal primary, racial threats if he lost, a capitulated convention vote and coronation by the DNC. Never happen if the gender and race were reversed. What kind of racial equality is there if it goes hand-and-hand with white guilt?

CNN (Ed Hornick, Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston):

"[Obama] won't tell you the full truth ... on his connections to ACORN ... under investigation for rampant voter fraud."

"In this election, especially here in Ohio, you're going to be asked to choose between a candidate who will not disavow a group committing voter fraud and a leader who will not tolerate it."

The FBI confirmed (10-14) ACORN is being accused of voter registration fraud. Brian Mellor, an ACORN attorney in Boston, Massachusetts, said the group has its own quality control process and has fired workers in the past -- including workers in Gary, Indiana.

(In Gary, Lake County, IN), during the primary, there is eyewitness accounts that school buses were used to take students to the voting booths where they were coached who to vote for. Gary was involved in the late returns that considerably narrowed the popular vote. Just an extension of the Daley Machine. See: "We Will Not Be Silenced" documentary by Gigi Gaston. Presently the mayor is trying to get people to vote early...and often.)

But Mellor said allegations that his organization committed fraud is a government attempt to keep people disenfranchised. "We believe their purpose is to attack ACORN and suppress votes," he said.

[usual refrain. I wonder if Obama's camp furnished the statement.]

Palin said her campaign is calling on Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, to release communications his campaign had with the group.

"[We] don't want to turn the Buckeye State into the ACORN state," she said to loud cheers.

Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor responded in a statement Friday, saying: "We have not worked with ACORN at all in the general election. Rather than make these false, desperate attacks, the McCain-Palin campaign should release an economic plan that actually helps the middle class instead of giving billions in tax cuts to big corporations."

Thus admitting that they DID in fact use ACORN to win the primaries - it's all that mattered. In January Obama said: "I have no doubt that I'll--once the nomination contest is over, I will get the people who voted for her." Doesn't get a whole lot more messiah than that. Less than 120K separated Bush in Kerry in Ohio and voter fraud was discovered then. They still haven't fixed it. Now 300K ballots look suspicious with duplicates, obviously same signature and names featuring the Dallas Cowboys. The attorney general took it to the Supreme court to delay it until after the election. See here. Florida it was Mickey Mouse and Nevada it was funny names on Obama campaign donations. Then there were complaints of caucuses in Texas and busing across state lines in South Carolina. All the FBI needs to do is check out the swing states.

Obama and ACORN (12-1-07)

Courtesy of Naked EmperorNews
"12-1-07 Heartland Democratic Presidential Forum - which drew 3,600 grassroots activists from 32 states, including Gamaliel (founded by started by Saul Alinsky) and ACORN people, to question presidential candidates about the issues and values that are important to low-income people. Obama said ACORN and friends, responsible for voting fraud and the subprime crisis, are going to be shaping policy for an obama presidency. Deepak Bhargave lobbied for ACORN to force the Clinton administration to toughen the Community Reinvestment Act. ACORN and Obama then sued banks to force bad loans. Deepak created the forum."

BHARGAVE: "That is why we have created the campaign for community organizers bringing together hundreds of grass roots organizations from a cross the United States to begin today to continue the elections till we win the elections justice in America for everyone!

INTERVIEWER: If elected president would you agree in you first one hundred to agree to meet with a delegations of these various delegations from these various organizations - the campaign for community values - could they count on you in you first 100 days to sit down with them?

OBAMA: Before I even get inaugurated, (12-1-07 he's saying this), during the transition we're gonna be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda. We're gonna be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America."

I'm not sure what happened but the comments were shut off. Anyone know why? Who's going to take on ACORN? What would happen if more than 50K (or more) dead or ineligible voters voted for barry like the bussed school kids in Gary? Sen Clinton would unquestionably lead in the popular vote. More voters actually pulled the lever for her anyway. This whole election is a fraud and not in the least bit democratic.

RANT of the day: "Kill him"

October 16, 2008
Third (and final) Debate

Barry mentions the alleged comments: "terrorist" & "kill him" in the debate but the chant of "kill him" had not been substantiated by anyone - including the Secret Service agents in attendance. But barry told the whole nation that it happened. Barry: "In which all the public reports indicated (aka nothing was confirmed) were shouting when my name came up things like: 'terrorist' and 'kill him'. How can you say that to 60 million people or whatever when it has not officially been vetted? It can never be unsaid. It's just a variation on the race card. barry's campaign can't get any scummier. For mentioning Ayers - a very real concern except to the probarry propaganda outlets - McCain was compared to George Wallace and Birmingham bomb of the church that killed four young girls. How more vile does it get? Even a man who served our country, without being drafted and held hostage for 5 years, can be called a racist. It's absolutely disgusting and beyond irresponsible.

October 11, 2008
Rep Lewis: "George Wallace never threw a bomb. He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights. Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed on Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama."

Do y0u know that Condelezza Rice actually knew the girls?

And Joy Behar repeated the same thing on The View yesterday...that someone had yelled: "Kill him." and Gov Palin said nothing. What can she say if nothing was ever said? How many people watch The View? And what else would the media write? They're in a full court press to hide Ayers, Obama's fundraising, his birth certificate, ACORN, what the Mrs and Rev Jesse Jackson Sr said and who knows when Wright is going to bust free. Only Rezko is safe until after the election, though Blagojevich is getting in on the barry bashing...before he joins Ryan up in Oxford.

I can't wait till this election is over. It's a fraud. Imagine if barry loses? McCain can never "win" just like SHRC couldn't. It will be because the racists won't vote for barry. Anyone else tired of this crap? barry has yet to set the black community straight on "The Clintons". That's another rant...

ACORN voter registration

Courtesy of Mark Levin

Low-tech ACORN?

Courtesy of Huffington Post

McCain ad : "ACORN"

October 10, 2008
McCain spells out ACORN connections. The lies that obama has said about his connections are too legion to document. And when were they first raised? The primaries just like everything else being "discovered" now.

ACORN PAC endorses Obama

February 21, 2008
ACORN PAC - "ACORN Votes" endorses Obama

What a shocker. Why wouldn't they when Obama has been working with them since the 90's? ACORN Votes are ACORN members under a different name basically - maybe even literally.

ACORN’s Political Action Committee, ACORN Votes, announced Feb. 21 that it had endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for President. ACORN PAC’s representatives went through an extensive process of interviewing each of the major Democratic candidates. ACORN is a national anti-poverty organization which has hundreds of thousands of members in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods in 104 cities.

ACORN Votes moderator, Maude Hurd. "ACORN’s members have deep appreciation and respect for Senators Clinton and Edwards and their work on behalf of our communities. What it came down to was that Senator Obama is the candidate who best understands and can effect change on the issues ACORN cares about like stopping foreclosures, enacting fair and comprehensive immigration reform, and building stronger and safer communities across America."

Alicia Russell of Arizona, western representative for ACORN Vote, “I think he will commit himself to providing us the necessary path for the low-income and moderate-income families to improve their lives. He’s on the same level as we are, and sees our issues as we do.”

He's on the same level as we are = racial code words. Obama as a multimillionaire living in a $1.65M mansion and running for president with his own Air Force 1 is not on anyone's level - certainly not anyone at ACORN. Simple identity politics and payback for the years he worked with them.

Quote of the day: "Wow, he's gonna cry."

January 30, 2008
Morning Joe
Mika, Matthews & Joe

MIKA: "He's gonna cry."

So, as Scarborough said, "Did the machine win"?

Yes, but not the one he meant. The Daley Machine has: pay-to-pay + voter fraud + nepotism + general corruption = JFK victory. I find it very funny that SHRC set out to prove voter fraud and she did. The standard no address exists. And then ended up on Nixon's impeachment trial.

For barry it's: Tony Rezko and credit for the recent passing of the pay-to-play law. Hysterical isn't it? ACORN. And he has had the full support of Mayor Daley since he obamanated with Dorothy Tillman. And then theres Mrs Obama and Valerie Jarrett who have a long-standing relationship.