Media bias has been the only thing predictable this election cycle so I’m not exactly sure why I am still appalled and surprised at the what’s going on at ABC today. Not only is ABC running an anti-clinton hit piece on Good Morning America and the front page of their website, trotting out a nearly 20 year old story regarding Hillary Clinton’s time at Wal*Mart, but also above it in bright glowing red letters reads the ticker heading BREAKING NEWS: BARACK OBAMA RAISED $32 MILLION IN JANUARY, TOPPING WHAT HE HAS RAISED IN A SINGLE MONTH DURING THE COURSE OF HIS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.
I wish I had the access to a screen cap because you can almost see the webpage equivalent to an anthropomorphized smirk in the layout. No doubt, both the Obama campaign and some network producers are chuckling. Conspicuously absent, is any mention of the fact that the Hillary hit piece is not only 20 years old but has also already been ran more than once during the last two years and in this campaign cycle. I guess you keep slinging until it sticks.
The story in question aligns perfectly with the slam Obama made at the South Carolina debate. It minimizes the fact that Hillary spent at least some of her time at Wal*Mart advocating for women and better environmental practices along with pretty much anything that might be regarded as a positive influence her presence might have had on the company’s business practices.
Such as:
Clinton proved to be such a thorn in Walton’s side that at Wal-Mart’s annual meeting in 1987, when shareholders challenged Walton on the company’s lack of female managers, he assured them the record was improving ‘’now that we have a strong-willed young lady on the board.”
Clinton was particularly vocal on environmental matters, pressing the company to boost its sale and use of recycled materials and other ‘’green” products.
I wonder when they’ll figure out that hoes, rather than being the plural form of ho, is instead the plural form of a helpful farming and gardening implement? It would appear that the bros could use a little more time studying and a little less time at the frat house.
Consider the voice crying out in the wilderness, “…this kind of squabbling, how many children is this going to get health care? How many people are going to get an education from this? How many kids are going to be able to go to college because of this?”
The importance of Edwards’ campaign lies in his message and the realization that while we wait Americans are suffering and some of them are dying.
Whether he receives the nomination or not, it is essential that poverty and economic injustice in America become key issues once more within the democratic party. We are living in a time of economic disparity in the US not seen since the Gilded Age and are headed towards a recession. For many, the effects are already being felt but it is all too easy for those upper middle class and middle class Americans to live their entire lives without seeing the immense poverty that exists outside suburbia and gated communities.
If you’ve been following the race for the democratic nomination over the past few weeks you know that things took a decidedly nasty turn after Senator Hillary Clinton upset Senator Barack Obama in New Hampshire. Democrats, both candidates and supporters, went into the Nevada Caucus with their blood boiling. Various accusations between camp Clinton and camp Obama fueled heated exchanges before and after the caucus and last night’s debate was full of hits usually reserved for Republican opponents.
We’re talking about the possibility of making history, and in some ways we’ve have already achieved that with both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama, but we’re also talking about repairing our nation and restoring the American Dream.
Edwards lampoons the media over its lack of coverage of his campaign and obsessive focus on Clinton and Obama.
UPDATE: TPM has more info. on the lack of media coverage. Apparently, in the media’s eyes, and therefore the eyes and minds of much of the public, he doesn’t exist. There is no excuse for Edwards, who placed second in Iowa and managed a decent showing in New Hampshire, to be trailing so far behind in coverage.
When are we going to stop letting the media choose our candidates for us?
DemocracyNow has got you covered. They’ve spliced together a broadcast complete with footage of your favorite congressman answering Brian Williams’ Amy Goodman’s questions.
It’s nice that Rep. Dennis Kucinich is being given a chance by Goodman and the DemocracyNow folks to get his message out but where, oh where, is the crowd favorite Mike Gravel? You know, the guy that will say anything –the guy that made Kucinich look like a contender? Who better to have with you in Vegas than Gravel?
I love my grandfather, but I just want to slap himself across the face for liking FDR. I think that was one evil son of a bitch.
I guess Mr. Beck missed the memo that the vast majority of Americans, regardless of party, not only view FDR as a hero that helped defeat both Nazism and Fascism but also rank him as one of the greatest American presidents in history.
Why is Glenn Beck allowed on CNN? Surely, the time given to him could be better spent on actual news or a conservative commentator that isn’t nuts.
It’s taken a while for the results in New Hampshire to sink in. Almost everyone has a theory as to how and why, Senator Hillary Clinton manged to defy them all. I won’t repeat them all here but I will say almost all of them exclude two things (1) old fashioned, hard, on the ground, work on her campaign’s behalf and (2) more voters in New Hampshire simply decided they liked Clinton better than her opponents.
On primary night, pollsters, pundits, and a media that was gleefully tapdancing on her imagined political grave minutes before were rendered both speechless and in some cases overly imaginative as a different picture, one that didn’t include an overwhelming Obama victory, started to emerge. With the results coming in at the pace of molasses and the results still showing a Clinton lead, Chris Matthews at MSNBC theorized about how he wouldn’t be surprised if Clinton gave an early new conference and declared victory (stealing victory from Obama as viewers would then go to bed thinking Clinton had won and miss the real results). But even after Wolf Blitzer announced over the air that the AP had called the race for Clinton, CNN remained defiant, refusing to call the race until Senator Obama was making his way to the podium to give his concession speech.
They say that after denial comes acceptance, but for many, it seems that after denial comes conspiracy. The first cries were heard on Digg.com coming from disgruntled Ron Paul supporters, who, at least on Digg, had already established themselves a reputation for being prone to, shall we say, “creative interpretations” of reality. An article reporting on alleged disparities between votes that were hand counted versus those that were counted electronically was twisted to allege that there was proof of voter fraud in the New Hampshire primaries. Continue reading ‘Is Dennis Kucinich, Obama’s New Hitman?’
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