When Obama's Character is the Issue, Mainstream Media Becomes Restive

I guess when you are a commercially disastrous old media rag like the Washington Pest Post, the political opinions of the Style columnist carry great weight with the editorial board.

And when you are a foppish, pseudo-intellectual, poser and "Style Columnist" like Tom Shales, any substantive discussion about "Style," particularly when it concerns the character of a possible future President of the United States, such a discussion become particularly unsatisfying. After all, what does character have to do with running the most powerful nation in the world?

Well here is a portion of the semi-lucid, simpering of Obama sycophant Shales:

In Pa. Debate, The Clear Loser Is ABC

By Tom Shales
Thursday, April 17, 2008; Page C01

When Barack Obama met Hillary Clinton for another televised Democratic candidates' debate last night, it was more than a step forward in the 2008 presidential election. It was another step downward for network news -- in particular ABC News, which hosted the debate from Philadelphia and whose usually dependable anchors, Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, turned in shoddy, despicable performances.

For the first 52 minutes of the two-hour, commercial-crammed show, Gibson and Stephanopoulos dwelled entirely on specious and gossipy trivia that already has been hashed and rehashed, in the hope of getting the candidates to claw at one another over disputes that are no longer news. Some were barely news to begin with.

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The boyish Stephanopoulos, who has done wonders with the network's Sunday morning hour, "This Week" (as, indeed, has Gibson with the nightly "World News"), looked like an overly ambitious intern helping out at a subcommittee hearing, digging through notes for something smart-alecky and slimy. He came up with such tired tripe as a charge that Obama once associated with a nutty bomb-throwing anarchist. That was "40 years ago, when I was 8 years old," Obama said with exasperation.

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No sooner was that said than Gibson brought up, yet again, the controversial ravings of the pastor at a church attended by Obama. "Charlie, I've discussed this," he said, and indeed he has, ad infinitum. If he tried to avoid repeating himself when clarifying his position, the networks would accuse him of changing his story, or changing his tune, or some other baloney.

This is precisely what has happened with widely reported comments that Obama made about working-class people "clinging" to religion and guns during these times of cynicism about their federal government.

"It's not the first time I made a misstatement that was mangled up, and it won't be the last," said Obama, with refreshing candor. But candor is dangerous in a national campaign, what with network newsniks waiting for mistakes or foul-ups like dogs panting for treats after performing a trick. The networks' trick is covering an election with as little emphasis on issues as possible, then blaming everyone else for failing to focus on "the issues."

The only truly shameful occurrence concerning this debate is the effort being made by the Dying Old Media to avoid forcing Obama to address these very disturbing facets of his career in any substantive way.

Major Kudos got to Charlie and Steffy for at least making a concerted attempt to elicit some consistent and lucid attempt to force Obama to explain the apparently inexplicable.

Most readers know, but for the record I will make it clear, I am no fan of ABC, Charlie Gibson, George Stephanopolous, Hillary Clinton, or Barrack Obama, but these blatant attempts by a majority of the extreme Left-wing Dying Old Media (DOM) to whitewash Obama's clear deficiencies in experience, character, and accomplishment are obscene and I applaud ABC for at least attempting to remain honest brokers in the Democrat Party nervous breakdown, laughingly described as their primary election.

Obama is showing himself more and more as an equivocator of, at least, equal talent to that of Hillary Clinton or any other of the myriad of Democrat Dissemblers posing as patriotic Americans.

The fact that Barack Obama has "discussed" his relationship to Pastor Wright does not explain away that relationship or the unbelievable assertion, on Barack Obama's part, that he was unaware of Reverend Wright's anti-American views or the fact that, far from being a rare and occasional occurrence, judging from Wrights more recent appearances it is a constant and unremitting theme which permeates every facet of his ministry.

Obama's relationship and continued association with two members of the 60's radical and violent terrorist Weather Underground, members who remain unrepentant and unapologetic for his actions in bombings during the late 60's and early 70's. Far from being contrite, Ayers regrets that they did not do more

William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn were never prosecuted for their involvement with the 25 bombings of the Weather Underground. All charges were dropped because of improper FBI surveillance. As is typical of the American Left and the "Hallowed" Halls of Academia these two criminals are now considered heroes and Liberal icons for their contemptible acts of terrorism.

There is no doubt that Ayers and Dohrn were guilty of terrorism, just as there is no doubt that they have had more than just a passing acquaintance with Barrack Hussein Obama. Obama served on the Woods Fund board with Ayers from 1999 to 2002.

More mendacity from Obama and Shales, by proxy, this is not as Shales quotes Obama as saying "40 years ago, when I was 8 years old," this association is quite recent and apparently still in tact...at least until it became a political liability to Obama's Presidential aspirations.

These efforts by this Dying Old Media outlet to suppress and otherwise explain away these and other glaring problems in Obama's past will not wash.

We have Reverend Wright's wrongs, the Ayer/Dohrn relationship, the "Bitter-gate" scandal in which they have attempted to rephrase Obama's berating of the American culture by claiming the problematic word was "bitter" and not "cling to," and soon to be discussed on these pages an even more disturbing examination of Obama's political history and the relationship his own beliefs have to those of his African Father's.

Obama lays claim to being the first "real" black president (should the unthinkable occur), but he is genetically just as white as he is black. Then again Baracks true color shows through loud and clear in his political associations and beliefs.

Barack Hussein Obama's true color is not "Black;" nor is it "White;" it is "Red;" as in Red Chinese, Red Soviet Union, Red as in Communist.

Barack Hussein Obama is a true "blue" communist, as communist as Karl Marx could wish for in any "citizen-fellow traveler."

Compared to Obama, Hillary is still a "Goldwater Girl" and we know how absurd that description is.

It is time for Conservative Republicans to take back our party and reject the presses choice of red as a representative color for our party.

As we have all long know, the true "Red" party is the Democrat Party. The party of big government, socialism, and ultimately servitude to the State.

Time for Republicans to re-adopt the phrase, so popular during the Vietnam era and the Cold War, "Better dead than Red."

Long Live Our American Republic!!!

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