John Nolte @ Big Journalism:
If you had the biggest scoop of the night that would break open the biggest story of the night, would you bury it under this generic headline:
Division over platform at DNC
Well, Politico did. Because when you’re Politico, protecting Obama is infinitely more important than breaking a potentially explosive and legitimate news story.
Before we get to the meat, let’s set the scene:
Yesterday, on the floor of the DNC convention, a fiasco occurred when the attempt was made to reinsert language into the party platform about God and Jerusalem. The stripping of this language had already caused President Obama’s reelection team any number of headaches, but things got improbably worse when convention chairman, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, called for what he probably assumed would be a rote floor vote only to have it blow up in his face.
Democrats are used to their supporters being mindless lemmings, so when at least half of the floor shouted “nay” to reinserting the 2008 language surrounding God and Israel, Villaraigosa (who needed a two-thirds “aye” to pass the resolution) looked legitimately stunned. Things quickly went downhill from there. Two more floor votes only increased the intensity of the “nays,” and Villaraigosa was forced to pretend he had the votes necessary to pass the amendment.
The defiant boos of those who just had their votes disenfranchised by their own party still echo in the hall.
What came next, predictably, was the Democrats’ spin.
Almost immediately after the debacle, we were assured by Team Obama and their worshippers in the media like NBC’s Chuck Todd, that after learning of the changes in the platform language (only after the platform was passed and the changes made news) that President Obama was upset to learn of the changes and immediately demanded the language be put back in. Both the Obama campaign and its Media Palace Guards spun this information in a way intentionally designed to make the president look decisive and like a leader.
This is exactly where things were when Politico learned…
None of it was true.
Whoa, hey, wait a minute! You mean, the Obama campaign lied to us and the media about this?
According to a Politico source, yes.
Now you have to imagine that you’re a real honest-to-goodness reporter in the middle of the biggest story of the convention and holding in your hot little hands the news that the furious spin spinning all around you is probably false.
What do you do?
Well, if you’re Politico and reelecting Barack Obama is more important to you than breaking news…
You bury it under a generic headline:
I’m all over it. 🙂
That’s the sort of thing that made Matt Drudge famous.
When the media has it but fails to use it for purely political reasons, there’s always a chance someone else who leans in a different direction also has it and will use it.
Democrats finally show how truly ‘godless’ they are.
Democrats hate religion, because to them it is a sin to disagree with their leader — Obama.
Politico couldn’t find a way to spin either of the two fails that expose the DNC and party for what they are. What party that claims inclusion and then offers up atheistic and antisemitic, revisionism that disavows God and Israel? What party conducts a voice vote on live television and then ignores the majorities’ vote in plain sight and sound? These people of “conscience” don’t seem to have any coming or going.
This whole fiasco is very telling…isn’t it??
Of course LSM outlets like Politico would like to bury it!!
I’ve been hearing from Democrats being interviewed or on panels who are asked to “explain” this whole debacle….many hem and haw, clear their throat…before giving a piss poor excuse… or place ‘blame’ somewhere else….of course they will say it was “over looked” [over looked??]… or no one ‘reads’ what is on the DNC platform [?!??] one Dem on a panel said [and this really struck me] he said “it’s a big screw up” on the Democrats part….so why didn’t THAT surprise me???
YES THE ARABSPRING BANNER WAS THERE AND DETERMINE TO WINN ON THAT,
IT SHOWS THEY HAVE A STRONG VOICE, AND IF IT WOULD HAVE BEEN OBAMA,
ASKING, I BET HE WOULD HAVE LISTEN TO THEM,
HE HAD AGREED BY ALLOWING IT TO GO THAT FAR,
IT’S HIS CONVENTION AND LIKE HE SAID, HE IS THE PRESIDENT,
WE SEE THE GREAT DIVIDE NOW, FOR THOSE WHO HAD ANY DOUBT,
AND IT WILL BECOME DEEPER IF THOSE DEMOCRATS AND OBAMA WHO LIED SO MUCH ARE GIVEN 4 MORE YEARS TO SPLIT THE STATES AMONG EACH OTHER TO THE POINT OF SOME SEPARATING FROM AMERICA, THE DANGER IS THERE AND NOW THEY SAW IT,
But let’s not forget the Republican Convention change in the rules—where the Nays seemed to be louder than the Yeahs—-but the resolution was passed anyway. At least the Democrats called for three voice votes because of some uncertainty in the count, before passing the resolution.
LIBERAL1
YOU ARE LOST IN THE DEMOCRAT MAZE,
THEY GOT YOU LOST YES, THEY ARE THE ONE WHO MESSED UP
WITH THE VOTERS,
ROMNEY AND RYAN WHERE UNITED AND THE CROWD WHERE
100% WITH THEM,
THEY BELIEVED THEM TO DO THE BEST FOR AMERICA.
@liberal1(objectivity):
Ummmmm no. They called for three votes hoping they would vote Yay. When it didn’t happen, they just ignored the vote. It’s on video ya know. Try lying to someone else.
Democrats showed their true colors. The vote was scripted. Theatre. Villaraigosa was reading from the teleprompter. Didn’t matter what the vote was, obviously, it was passing. By fiat. Obama style.
And removing G-d and Israel was no accident until it became public.
Villaraigosa came to the convention expecting to be the next Obama.Give a great speech (his got pulled, you know) then run for gov or senate then jump to the presidency.
He left with his tail between his legs instead.
All his dreams have been dashed.
Now he knows what it feels like under the wheels of Obama’s bus.
LOL!
fox is playing 9/11 in progress