The bias in our media towards Obama continues to grow. We need no more proof of this fact then watching them report on the Blago scandal. Recall Tom Delay and the outrage, the utter outrage, by the MSM upon learning of the charges that he took corporate money and spent them on a campaign to get Republican control of the Texas Legislature. A great example of that outrage comes from this article in the WSJ:
Whether Mr. DeLay violated the small print of House Ethics or campaign-finance rules is thus largely beside the point. His real fault lies in betraying the broader set of principles that brought him into office, and which, if he continues as before, sooner or later will sweep him out.
And Accuracy In Media does a great job showing the outrage from other outfits.
But now that cohorts of Obama are in the crosshairs its no big deal. Here is Jim Lehrer last Friday:
JIM LEHRER: Well, what about the point, though, that a lot of people are making, Mark, that the only thing Blagojevich did that’s different than the normal course of human events is that he was gross about it and he said it — he didn’t say it publicly, but he said it — there’s trading that goes on all the time over Senate — the appointment of senator — of empty Senate seats.
MARK SHIELDS: There are.
JIM LEHRER: What’s the big deal here?
~~~JIM LEHRER: But you don’t — but that’s what I’m actually essentially asking here, is that — is that he just went over the line of something that is the way you do business.
What happened to those principles now?
Here is David Gregory and pals talking about how this is all just normal stuff going on…whats the big deal?
MARY MITCHELL, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Reality check. Pay to play, everybody knows it. Even, not just in politics. Office politics. Pay to play. You know, if you know the boss, and you need something from the boss, he is going to look around and find the person who is going to do him the most good. He’s not going to hire, put somebody in a place of power that isn’t doing him any good. That’s the world. That’s how the world works. But, there is a line. You got to know how to play the game. And Blagojevich, Governor Blagojevich was tacky in playing the game. That’s what people are upset about. They are embarrassed that this man had the nerve to get caught on the wiretap using foul language, actually giving voice to, you know, the wink and nod thing. He didn’t just wink and nod, he actually tried to shake people down according to the wiretaps.
~~~GREGORY: The president-elect said this is the far side of the business approach to politics which is a nice, euphemistic way to put this. But Chuck this is part of entrenched politics here in Washington, something that Obama is going to confront.
~~~GREGORY: And none of this is illegal by the way. Even to raise it as an example. Nothing wrong with it. It’s part of the system.
Nope, putting a Senate seat up for sale to benefit yourself isn’t illegal….not at all.
Sheesh.
Times have changed since that cesspoll of corruption needed to be cleaned out in 2006 eh? Now, we all should just overlook the corruption since its Democrats involved.
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Get over it people……..everybody is going to be on Obama’s team, now and ever more. MSM is totally invested in Obama.
any bets on whether he will be convicted ? many are saying Fritz was forced by the Tribune into arresting to soon.
Even McCain is for Obama now. Did you see his answer to the question about supporting Palin in 2012 ?
Want to see how biased the media is on a daily basis? Go to http://www.newsbusters.org
Jim Lehrer is a hack, plain and simple. He’s no better than Chris Matthews. He just has a better disposition than Matthews and Olberman. But he’s a liberal hack none the less.
we cant trust them, that is why we get our news from alternate sources, we are smarter than they are and they know it. if they tell the masses that the shy is purple, they will believe it.
Democrats stinks. The trifecta Democrats that will be in the White House on January 20th, will only be corruption. Even the Judicial system seems to be in the tank for Obama. Your country is finish. No laws, no values, no Constitution… nothing is respected now. Sorry to tell you this, but it has been taken within. I do not believe in this country anymore. Republicans have failed because they do not respect their conservative’s values. Rinos and moderates have given your country to the evil democrat’s corruption. You are done!
I watched the Lehrer News Hour in question. I think you are misinterpreting Lehrer’s comments. Lehrer was saying that there are frequently quid pro quos for lots of things in government. Practically every bill that gets passed has quid pro quos. If you vote for this, then I’ll vote for your bill. If you vote for this, then I’ll do this. I’ll appoint Smith, in return for your support of Jones. It goes on all the time and it’s been going on since the founding of the Republic. It’s what politics is. So Lehrer is being a good new anchor. He’s asking the experts (Shields and Brooks) to explain to him and, more importantly, to the audience, exactly how this case is different than the usual state of affairs. It was an excellent question, under the circumstances.
I know that you guys think that the Obama team is “reeling” from this, but it is going to turn out to be a big nothing, relating to Obama. It’s got nothing to do with him or with his transition team, and it’s a big nothing that someone from Obama’s team (whether Emmanuel or anyone else) gave a list of preferred names, as long as they didn’t offer money or give a job to an unqualified relative or anything like that.
How do you suppose that Brown got appointed Director of FEMA? You don’t think that was some sort of quid pro quo? I mean, he’s an expert in horse shows, or whatever, and he’s put in charge of FEMA?
– Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA
Poor Larry, you really have no values and no morale. Still defending that crook, hey? Obama LIED when he said he didn’t know anything about it and that he never spoke with Blago… they met on the 5th of November regarding this matter. HE LIED… like he always does. You admire that? This is who you want as a POTUS? A LIAR? You are just like him. Well what do you know? “Like attracts like”. The law of attraction is the most powerful law of the Universe. It never fails. Tell me who you are attracted to, tell me who you hang around with and I will tell you who you are. BTW, just take a good look at Obama’s associations and you will know who he is: Resko, Wright, Ayers, Auchi, Farrakan, Manley, Odinga, Blago, etc.
Larry, I forgot this one. Take a good look at your President:
WASHINGTON – A man who has long been dogged by charges that the bank his family owns helped finance a Chicago crime figure will host a Windy City fund-raiser tonight for Sen. Barack Obama.
Alexi Giannoulias, who became Illinois state treasurer last year after Obama vouched for him, has pledged to raise $100,000 for the senator’s Oval Office bid.
Before he promised to raise funds for Obama, Giannoulias bankrolled Michael “Jaws” Giorango, a Chicagoan twice convicted of bookmaking and promoting prostitution.
Giannoulias is so tainted by reputed mob links that several top Illinois Dems, including the state’s speaker of the House and party chairman, refused to endorse him even after he won the Democratic nomination with Obama’s help.
Giannoulias was the bank’s vice president and chief loan officer for most of the more than $15 million in loans.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/giannoulias/index
Larry, you know damn well that if Blagojevich had been a Republican the MSNBC, CNN, and the rest of the MSN (including FOX) and nearly every Democrat in the country would be calling for his head. There is a big difference between appointing a friend to office and selling it to the highest bidder. Every time I hear this kind of hypocrisy, where unethical behavior by Democrats is seen as no big deal, yet Republicans are treated as criminals for even the slightest of mistakes, it makes me wonder. Why is it that in the MSM, Republicans are held to a higher standard than Democrats?
The media is as corrupt as the Socialist Democratic Party. They aren’t going to look into Hussein’s connections to this scandal in Chicago. To them it is more newsworthy to show a shoe being thrown at President Bush over and over and over all day long.
Last I knew, Obama wasn’t charged with anything – or even a suspect, and that there’s a call for Blago’s impeachment. Not sure what’s being defended. I’ve been working a whole lot, so perhaps I missed something?
Larry;
I agree with you that this is not likely to have Obama or the Dems “reeling from the feeling”. But it should. That’s part of the problem. How many ethic viloation hits does it take until the general population says, “You know what? No.”
A little horse trading, mediation, and concession on language SHOULD be part of the bill passing process as it tempers legislation to something all can come to final agreement to or not. Yes that is part of the process of parliamentary procedure and congruent with what the founding fathers probably envisioned with the system. I suppose it’s partially their fault as they did allow people to “buy their way out of having to serve in the military” or to purchase a commission, yet I doubt they would have approved the marketing of political positions for money. Otherwise, King George could have just purchased control of our country rather than spending that money to fight a Revolutionary War.
But it’s has gone way beyond seeking compromise and for far too long it’s been perverted via corruption. I doubt they would have approved of buying votes by adding pork spending that has nothing to do with the legislation on the bills under consideration. Introduction of new and hidden taxes. Unfunded mandates being forced upon the states, or upon military spending to force the military to pay for things they neither want nor need only to please some financial backer, wealthy campaign contributor, or a special interest lobby that does not have the interests of the American people and greater good at heart is all corruption that our founders would not have approved. Yet politicians on both sides keep immersing themselves deeper and deeper into corruption.
Now it’s gotten so bad that as is demonstrated here. Nothing can phase the Democrats or the media when it has to do with the Democratic party. Selling a political job position is illegal. Mary Mitchell tries to blow this off with a Boss choosing the best employee to advance analogy. But that is disingenuous. When did it become acceptable to bribe a boss to get hired for a particular job? What kind of boss would hire a person on such unscrupulous grounds in the private sector? It’s like a CEO passing up qualified job applicants to hand over a VP position to an inexperienced teen-aged child without consulting his board of directors. What message does that show to other workers? How does it effect corporate morale.
You’re a doctor Larry. In your opinion:
Do you think a surgeon facing valid malpractice lawsuits should be afforded the opportunity of “investing” in a chief of staff job to boost his income enough to cover his errors in judgment and to hire more expensive lawyers to get him out of it?
Is it perfectly okay for him to purchase new cars for every person on the hospital board to get that position or should the position be based on their merits and experience?
Would it be valid for those filing suit against him to be informed of this chicanery?
Should the judge and jury not take this information under consideration in the malpractice cases should they go to trial? How about in establishing compensation?
Should the patients at that hospital be made aware that the individual with the responsibility for making life-changing medical decisions concerning their own health and wellness received his position through unscrupulous means?
Should it be made public?
Would you commit your own loved ones to that individual’s oversight?
Now think of the American people as potential patients, corporate America as those supplying and servicing that hospital, Wall Street becomes the stock-holders, the staff and board of that hospital as our political leaders.
Now explain again why corruption in our government is no big deal and tell us why we should not take this matter seriously.
For the senate seat haggling he may only get conspiracy to commit (blank). He’s also accused of withholding funds for a children’s hospital until until he got his campaign contribution. That’s probably easier to prove something had actually transpired, rather than just wild daydreaming of schemes for power.
From the Bob and Tom website:
Here’s a photo of an Illinios school teacher taken in 2007. Notice he’s handing Blagojevitch a “job application”.
I agree with Cary. My impression from media coverage has been that what Blago did was horrendously wrong, and that he should be impeached or resign. As far as Obama goes, he and his staff have been cleared. The difference with Delay was that he actually did what was claimed (hence the guilty verdict). There were also plenty of conservatives in the MSM, who were calling Ronnie Earle a “partisan”, and decrying Delay’s innocence.
http://townhall.com/columnists/RobertDNovak/2006/04/06/tom_delays_paradox
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. You defended Delay, and now, you’re cherryp-picking clippings of coverage of this Blago scandal, and acting as if the MSM is not concerned enough about it. Well, how about you? Is it only a crime when Democrats are corrupt? I, for one, am appauled at both.
Sorry Curt – you’re overblown outrage is just plain stupid – it’s not the MSM that’s covering for Obama – it’s the Prosecutor! maybe he’s in on the deal. I am, however, pleased that you would quote the WSJ as an example of the liberal media…
The first line of lib defense when they are caught: Everybody does it.
The only difference is that when Republicans do it they get thrown out of office immediately and when Democrats do it they get lauded for their courage.
@Reasic:
What tree did you pick from? DeLay hasn’t even made it to trial yet. I get it, you want to show by example what pot/kettle means.
http://politicallycharged.org/Delaycasedetails.html
And now Soetoro has cleared himself of any wrong-doing, and the MSM reports it as “Obama is Cleared”. Why didn’t Nixon think of doing that?
“And now Soetoro has cleared himself of any wrong-doing, and the MSM reports it as “Obama is Cleared”. Why didn’t Nixon think of doing that?”
Obama has not been accused of a crime. The right wing is funny – by trying to conflate Obama – who’s been accussed of nothing – with Nixon – who’s henchmen broke into Democratic party offices with the idea of throwing a national election – they actually hope to smear Obama as a criminal!
Obama has been sharing his information with the lead prosecutor – you remember him – he’s the guy who told us that Obama is in NO WAY implicated in ANY of this. And the best part – George Bush – who skirted Insider Trading charges – was never touched for his crimes BEFORE he got into the White House – and now Obama – who’s not even in the oval offcie yet, is being compared to the biggest crook we ever had in the White House…
good thing that no one listens to republicans anymore…
” And the best part – George Bush – who skirted Insider Trading charges – was never touched for his crimes BEFORE he got into the White House”
And here we have it…..again. Another left wing loon is guilty of doing the same thing it accuses others of doing.
MARY MITCHELL?! B****, Please! She is a racist white hater. F- her. If a white person said the same stuff she did but about blacks, she would have been lynched along tiem ago. She has NOOOO credibility. Next.
Hey warDouche, you claiming Bush broke the law carries no weight. We know how f*cked in the head you are.
Larry W., check this:
According to Michael Sneed of the Chicago Sun-Times, Rahm Emanuel was not recorded in one, two, three, four or five conversations captured by the feds; he participated in TWENTY-ONE conversations recorded by Fitzgerald’s team. Allow me to write the number again: 21.
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/16/21-a-number-emanuel-and-obama-will-remember-on-fitzmas/
Craig,
Thanks for the interesting information.
I’ll follow with interest what the substance of those conversations turns out to be.
Quote from your link:
“President-elect Barack Obama said Monday a review by his own lawyer shows he had no direct contact with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich about the appointment of a Senate replacement, and transition aides “did nothing inappropriate.””
That’s the key phrase. “nothing inappropriate.”
If it was recorded, it will all come out.
– Larry W/HB
Got to disagree with you there too Larry;
The key phrase is “direct contact”, the plausible deniability tactic. Again a matter of Clintonesque style redefining the word “is”.
Sorry, I don’t get any “warm fuzzies” from a lawyer in Obama’s pocket, Obama, or MSM, all of which of course are biased in “clearing him of any misdoings”, saying he wasn’t involved. What is this the O.J. Murder trial all over again? Do we need DNA analysis and fingerprinting to prove that Obama’s hands are all over this. Even that wasn’t enough to convict O.J.. The gullible jury bought that contrived defense, just as gullible moonbats are buying into this one.
It’s up to the investigators to prove or disprove Obama’s involvement & the courts to decide. If you surrender such matters solely into the hands of suspects and accessories to crimes to decide, our prisons would be empty due to the guilty being freed on “technicalities” of their own creation.
Also found these which are food for thought:
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/16/pay-to-play-superdelegate-style/
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/15/barack-obama-i-investigated-myself-and-i-decided-i-am-innocent/
& more on a Dem scampering for an open seat:
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/12/15/open-thread-caroline-its-mine-because-i-have-that-name-kennedy-and-forget-about-my-real-last-name/
WHAT? There was no guilty verdict in the DeLay case.
Loggr, last I checked Tom Delay had not been convicted of anything.