I couldn't agree with her more.

 

Moderators Charles Gibson's and George Stephanopoulos's offense was to ask questions Mr. Obama didn't want to address. Worse, they'd continued to press them even when the displeased candidate assured them these were old and tired questions.

 

- "Akin to a federal crime . . . new benchmarks of degradation," The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg declared, of the debate.

 

- "Despicable. . . . slanted against Obama," Washington Post critic Tom Shales charged.

 

- A "disgusting spectacle," the New York Times's David Carr opined.

 

- The questions had "disgraced democracy itself," according to columnist Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News.[/Quote]

 

 

Offered a chance to explain the meaning of his remarks about the reasons people living in small towns cling to guns and religion, he went on to repeat them all over again in different words. What there was in those remarks, what attitudes shown, that had offended people, he had still not grasped. In short, what he had said that day he'd meant to say. "What you are, picks its way," as Walt Whitman told us.[/Quote]

 

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Stephanopoulos has really taken a beating for asking questions. Its a warning to other reporters.

Stephanopoulos has really taken a beating for asking questions. Its a warning to other reporters.

Yeah, totally absurd. The kid glove treatment needs to stop!

Kid gloves? They spent an hour talking about Rev Wright, Flag pins, weather underground, Obama's patriotism, and various other nonsense before asking one policy question. When Fox spends 20 of their 24 unbalanced hours not talking about Wright or Ayers or some other thing to attack Obama I'll believe you. McCain has been getting the love from the media and ABC's debate was embarrassing.

Yeah, totally absurd. The kid glove treatment needs to stop!

 

No chance, he's their guy.

Kid gloves? They spent an hour talking about Rev Wright, Flag pins, weather underground, Obama's patriotism, and various other nonsense before asking one policy question. When Fox spends 20 of their 24 unbalanced hours not talking about Wright or Ayers or some other thing to attack Obama I'll believe you. McCain has been getting the love from the media and ABC's debate was embarrassing.

Yes, kid gloves. The media falls all over themselves for Obama. You call asking questions embarrassing? Not happy unless there throwing up softballs for him? He made STUPID comments, he should be asked about them and he should give an honest answer. If Obama can't handle playing ball with the big boys, time for him to quit. The guy is an elitist though, he'll never get it.

The way he treated the whole capital gains tax question is an example of why this guy is not trustworthy IMO.

No chance, he's their guy.

Ain't that the truth! :thumb:

Kid gloves? They spent an hour talking about Rev Wright, Flag pins, weather underground, Obama's patriotism, and various other nonsense before asking one policy question. When Fox spends 20 of their 24 unbalanced hours not talking about Wright or Ayers or some other thing to attack Obama I'll believe you. McCain has been getting the love from the media and ABC's debate was embarrassing.

 

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More from Dorthy Rabinowitz's op-ed.

 

The uproar is the latest confirmation of the special place Mr. Obama holds in the hearts of a good part of the media, a status ensured by their shared political sympathies and his star power. That status has in turn given rise to a tendency to provide generous explanations, and put the best possible gloss on missteps and utterances seriously embarrassing to Mr. Obama.

 

The effort and intensity various CNN panelists, for instance, expended on explaining what Mr. Obama really meant by that awkward San Francisco speech about bitter small towners clinging to their guns and religion – it seems he'd been making an important point if one not evident to anyone listening – exceeded that of the Obama campaign itself.[/Quote]

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Yeah, that's why the media is all over Stephanopoulos, because it's McCain that gets the golden boy treatment.

Yes, kid gloves. The media falls all over themselves for Obama. You call asking questions embarrassing? Not happy unless there throwing up softballs for him? He made STUPID comments, he should be asked about them and he should give an honest answer. If Obama can't handle playing ball with the big boys, time for him to quit. The guy is an elitist though, he'll never get it.

The way he treated the whole capital gains tax question is an example of why this guy is not trustworthy IMO.

 

The guy who was raised by a single mom and had to work hard to get into Harvard on his own merit is more of an elitist than the guy who got into the Naval Academy b/c his father and grandfather were part of the military aristocracy and married a woman with a $100 million + fortune. Yeah that's elitist. The Republican party is the party of elitists. The Bush family alone is an example of that.

The guy who was raised by a single mom and had to work hard to get into Harvard on his own merit is more of an elitist than the guy who got into the Naval Academy b/c his father and grandfather were part of the military aristocracy and married a woman with a $100 million + fortune. Yeah that's elitist. The Republican party is the party of elitists. The Bush family alone is an example of that.

Ah yes, those tired old leftist talking points. I don't recall Bush making the elitist comments, that falls on your guy.

Ah yes, those tired old leftist talking points. I don't recall Bush making the elitist comments, that falls on your guy.

 

Bush never had to make them. He lives elitism. Any family that has a private island compound is elitist (I include the Kennedy's though they've been better public servants).

Bush never had to make them. He lives elitism. Any family that has a private island compound is elitist (I include the Kennedy's though they've been better public servants)

No, that just proves they have money, sounds like you have a case of class envy to me.

 

Even Clinton agrees with me.

 

 

"Well, could I just point out that, in the last several debates, I seem to get the first question all the time? And I don’t mind. You know, I’ll be happy to field them, but I do find it curious. And if anybody saw ‘Saturday Night Live,’ you know, maybe we should ask Barack if he’s comfortable and needs another pillow." She was referring to a skit last weekend that had television journalists fawning over Obama. [/Quote]

 

And

 

Howard Wolfson, a top Clinton adviser, said that “the press has largely applauded” Obama “every time” his campaign launches pesonal attacks on Hillary. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell says the media has “relished” Hillary’s slide.[/Quote]

Ah yes, those tired old leftist talking points. I don't recall Bush making the elitist comments, that falls on your guy.

:thumb: Nice poster of Snobama!