Monday, November 3, 2008

Obama shuts off press coverage... redux



weeder gander returns with a lengthy comment. It deserves its own post. His comments are in italics.

Maureen Dowd is not a reporter.

So, reporters are the only ones who can't be kicked off the bus?

Interesting rule. Ever hear of Calvinball.


Huh? And your point is?? The issue is that Hussein kicked off three reporters. With them gone the secrecy shield is even tighter. Dowd is not a reporter.

(I had written.) "I know nothing about the so-cancellation with CNN's Larry King. Is that like Hussein not accepting Hannity's request for an interview?"

BOH was interviewed by Bill O'Reilly, who is to Hannity as Couric would be to Mike Wallace, if you remember the latter.


It is obvious that you don’t watch/listen to Hannity. Comparing him to O’Reilly is like comparing a pit bull to a golden retriever.

I didn't know that there was another rule that a major Presidential candidate had to accept an invitation every time someone with a TV show asked him to come on.


Hussein doesn’t. Especially if he wants to show that he is afraid to face the pit bull. He’d rather sit down with no preconditions with our enemy leaders…

Ms Brown bringing folks up to date:

CNN's Brown - Monday(09/01/2008) I did an interview in the Election Center with Sen. John McCain's campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds. The interview was about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's experience and readiness to be commander in chief. The interview became a bit of a lightning rod.

Over the last few days, I have received thousands of e-mails. For those who didn't see the interview, you can read it or view it below.

McCain's campaign got upset about that interview. McCain officials told CNN I had crossed a line and they canceled a scheduled appearance by McCain on "Larry King Live."

I don't think the interview was over the line. Neither does CNN. And neither do most of you who e-mailed me this week. Thank you, all of you who e-mailed me, including those who disagree. We're always interested in getting past talking points and exploring the issues in any political interview.

You have a right to know the people you are voting for. Our pledge to you on this program is to ask the tough but fair questions and to try to get answers.


I understand you do not understand. The following quote from the transcript demonstrates and summarizes how the Left’s media water carriers went completely beyond reasonableness.

CNN’s Brown: “And if we, you know, as much as everyone might want to give this young woman her privacy, you know that's not going to happen. And so you do risk putting her through an incredibly difficult process by accepting this job if you're her mother. You can't deny that, right?


Read that paragraph again.

“….as much as everyone want to give….”


If they did they would just shut up about it. But they didn’t and their excuse for attacking a 17 year old pregnant young woman is

“…..you know that’s not going to happen.”


And note how the Governor is blamed for the Left's attacks on the daughter.

"so you do risk putting her through an incredibly difficult process by accepting this job if you're her mother."


Utterly and disgustingly and totally self serving. If I knew Brown and saw her walking down the street towards me I would cross to the other side to avoid speaking to her.

BTW – To demonstrate her inexperience and lack of knowledge about a Governor’s duties, she has this exchange.

BROWN: If I can interrupt for one second because I've heard you guys say this a lot. Can you tell me one decision that she made as commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard, just one?

BOUNDS: Yeah. She's made -- any decision she has made as the commander of the National Guard that's deployed overseas is more of a decision Barack Obama's been making as he's been running for the president for the last two years.

BROWN: So tell me. Tell me. Give me an example of one of those decisions. I'm curious, just one decision she made in her capacity as commander in chief of the National Guard.

BOUNDS: Campbell, certainly you don't mean to belittle, every experience, every judgment she makes as commander --

BROWN: I'm belittling nothing. I want to know one judgment or one decision. I want to know what one decision was. I'm not belittling anything, I am curious.

BOUNDS: As she makes a decision how to equip or how to command the national guard in Alaska, that is more --

BROWN: But Tucker, those are the Pentagon's decision, that's Gen. Petraeus, that's the White House.

BOUNDS: Pardon me?

BROWN: No governor makes decisions how to equip or deploy the National Guard. When they go to Iraq, those are decisions made by the Pentagon.

BOUNDS: Campbell, on factual basis, they certainly do. In Alaska, if I have an emergency in your state, the National Guard is under the command of the governor. That is more of a command role than Barack Obama has ever had. I would argue John McCain and Gov. Palin between the two of them have far more command experience in military than either of the candidates on the Democratic side.


So here we see the truth. Brown doesn’t know that Governor’s command their state’s national guard. I wonder if they teach state government in journalism school today? Evidently that, along with good taste and ethics are receiving little attention.

You know, this also demonstrates why the press, ignorant of the how the National Guards is commanded, never understood that Bush couldn't just dispatch the LA National Guard during Katrina and how the DEMOCRATIC Governor's delay was so devasting.

Ignornance about such basic things should not be tolerated.

You know, when Perky Couric didn't challenge Biden's gaffee about Roosevelt comforting the nation over TV regarding the stock market crash in 1929 I thought she was biased.

Hell, she didn't know that Hoover was President and that TV was around!


Repeat. Ignorance about such things shouldn't be tolerated.

To my way of thinking, cancelling an interview with "The King" is shooting one's self in the foot, unless one has been caught doing something unethical, illegal, or just plain stupid. His interviews aren't that demanding, and it made McCain look either childish, petty, a bully, or all of the above.

(I had written) "The reporters, not opinion writers, were tossed off because their employers endorsed McCain. The TV reporter's station was blocked from further access to the campagin because they didn't like the questions."

Not quite:

They have also been encouraged to travel with Obama's vice presidential pick, Delaware Sen. Joe Biden.


So let me see…. They want secrecy around Hussein so they send them to cover the VP whose gaffe’s have been ignored by the press..

(I had written)"no news conferences have been held for over two months."

And the last time McCain has held a news conference was when?
McCain is the most open candidate in history. You know that, I know that.

There have been none with Ms. Palin since her nomination for the VP slot. Just saying.

I really think that mentioning who has and hasn't had a news conference isn't something you should explore as a topic.


Let me see, ABC, CBS……

(I had written)"Hussein is preparing to turn this country into a dictatorship."

At first, he snubbed Larry King but I didn't say anything because I wasn't an aging talking head

then he kicked Maureen and Joe Klein off the bus

but I didn't work for Time, so I didn't say anything


And your point is what? That he doesn’t have Marxist friends and hasn’t expressed Marxists views? Of course he has. Do you remember the 250,000 civilian force that he wants to have as much power as the military??

Link to Hussein’s civilian force and some possible uses.

Here's another, more historical answer to why messianic leaders need a civilian force....

(I had written)"His references to things taking more than 8 years have already started paving the way for seizing power for out "own good."

pointing out that the current President and 6 years of Republican misrule will take a long time to fix doesn't imply that he needs to(or will) stay in office past Jan 2017.


Can you say, “Freudian slip?”

You remind me of the folks who think that if the election comes out for Obama, GWB will declare a state of emergency with some sort of excuse.

See you in the reeducation camps, comrade.


You jest, but here you see the youth being trained by a taxpayer paid for school teacher.

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