Yes, we can.

[Strangler Lewis]

I think it's news when a serious presidential contender speaks critically and, arguably, offensively about a major player in the cultural melting pot. It was news when Bill Clinton dressed down Sister Souljah. It was news when Ross Perot said "You people." It was news when all the Republicans said they didn't believe in evolution, and it would have been news at the time if we'd been privy to Nixon talking about getting the Big Jews on board.

[JWBear]

And Scaeagles... If you want to talk about the media being soft on someone, how about the way the so-called “liberal” press has looked the other way as the Bush administration steamrolled over our rights, trashed the economy, and lied its way into a war. Talk about “handled gently by the media, like a precious breakable package that we had best not even think about finding fault in”!

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by JWBear

... If you want to talk about the media being soft on someone, how about the way the so-called “liberal” press has looked the other way as the Bush administration steamrolled over our rights, trashed the economy, and lied its way into a war. Talk about “handled gently by the media, like a precious breakable package that we had best not even think about finding fault in”!

Perhaps you need to put down the Washington Times, turn off the 700 Club, and watch a little CBS and read a little NY Times.....

..just saying

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by JWBear

And Scaeagles... If you want to talk about the media being soft on someone, how about the way the so-called “liberal” press has looked the other way as the Bush administration steamrolled over our rights, trashed the economy, and lied its way into a war. Talk about “handled gently by the media, like a precious breakable package that we had best not even think about finding fault in”!

Guess it's all perspective.....I don't think the media has been soft at all on Bush. I will point out that I get in trouble on this board all the time for saying things like "oh yeah? Well how about this related item?!". I remember a media using forged documents to try to help John Kerry win an election, but that's another story.

And I disagree with the premise of your question, anyway, as the three things you have listed, JW, I don't concede are the case at all.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

...as I the three things you have listed I don't concede are the case at all.

This sentence should be taken out and shot to put it out of its misery. I had to read it three times to understand WTF you were saying.

[scaeagles]

What are you talking about? I don't see that sentence....

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

What are you talking about? I don't see that sentence....

See... it's all a vast right-wing conspiracy!

[SacTown Chronic]

The liberal media painted the Ivy League educated son of a former president as a good ol' boy who Joe Eighteen-Pack would love to share a beer with. Now that same liberal media is telling us that a man from a mixed-race broken home is an elitist. And the gun-and-bible crowd swallows it......again. And they always will.


The media has been plenty hard on Bush since his re-election (ha!) -- almost to the point that I feel sorry for him some days. Of course, a truly liberal media would have picked apart Bush's every word from, say, Sep 12, 2001 to March 20, 2003 instead of helping him sound the drumbeat for war.

[sleepyjeff]

Now that his wife is proud to be an American Obama feels it's ok to wear the pin again

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/wash...lagpinlap.html

I guess his words alone are not testimony to his patriotism after all

[SacTown Chronic]

Resolving the lapel pin issue should free up time for B-HO to work on being less nuanced elitist. Those flag lapel pins are amazing, man!