If anyone ever seriously doubted that there's blatant anti-conservative/anti-Republican bias in the major media outlets, here is CLEAR EVIDENCE...this time courtesy of CBS and also ABC news.
The media is TOTALLY in the tank for Obama. (The only good thing is that in this electronic age, we're able to catch the media in their duplicity... not that they seem to care. )
CBS New anchor Katie Couric ordered staff to drop all references to "Governor" or "Gov." from her interview with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. When a staff member pointed out that in other venues, Couric and CBS News had referred to Governor Palin's opponent, Joe Biden, using his title of "Senator" or the abbreviation, Couric, according to a CBS News editorial aide, sought approval from CBS News management to drop the "Governor" reference http://www.theamericanprowler.com/ds...p?art_id=13947
Governor Sarah Palin has given two mainstream media interviews. In both, she made multiple statements about the importance of multilateralism in foreign policy. In both, these comments were deleted by the news organizations.
After both interviews, a furor has broken out afterwards because of her hawkishness.
At two points in the video (2:58 and 5:39), segments have been removed from the official transcript.
I'm quite disappointed in ABC News' Charlie Gibson as I write these words, but maybe I shouldn't be. I thought he was a good choice do do Sarah Palin's first televised interview since she got picked to be McCain's VP. He seemed like a fair person, and one who would do his research and ask solid questions. Maybe I was wrong.
Within minutes of looking at a released transcript of the interview on abcnews.com, one glaring error jumped out at me. Notice the dialogue here:
GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, "Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God." Are we fighting a holy war?
PALIN: You know, I don't know if that was my exact quote.
GIBSON: Exact words.
PALIN: But the reference there is a repeat of Abraham Lincoln's words when he said -- first, he suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words.
But what Abraham Lincoln had said, and that's a repeat in my comments, was let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God's side.
That's what that comment was all about, Charlie.
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Palin explains herself well here. But frankly, the question didn't even need to be asked, because that same meaning was clear in the original context in which Sarah Palin first made those comments. And ABC news knew this, but chose to ignore the plain truth, so they could come up with a question based on a phony assertion -- that she feels that the Iraq war is "from God".
Immediately, the Charlie Gibson's credibility is shot, in my eyes, because those may have indeed been Palin's "exact words", but those words are pulled blatantly out of their context, cut off from her words immediately previous to those quoted. This of course serves to misrepresent her original meaning. For those who care about truth, here are the the facts:
On June 8, 2008, Sarah Palin spoke at her home church, the Wasilla Assembly of God. During that speech she started speaking about her son Track, who was preparing to be deployed to Iraq. Palin says:
"Pray for our military. He's gonna be deployed in September to Iraq. Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for -- that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan. So Bless them with your prayers, your prayers of protection over our soldiers. "
Therein lies the key difference. Palin never stated the war was "a task that is from God". She asked that the congregation pray that the soldiers would be on a task that was from God -- in other words, she was praying that the soldiers would be in God's will in what they were doing, and that our national leaders would also be in the will of God. Let's be clear here. Her prayer is quite similar to the many such prayers that concerned mothers and fathers all across the country pray for their own children daily. That is VERY DIFFERENT from the Charlie Gibson's contention that Palin stated they were "on a task that is from God", as news outlets have been repeating for almost a week now. Looking at what was said, any adult with proper reading comprehension can see what was really being said. These media types are almost all college-educated individuals with excellent comprehension skills. For them to take a slice of what she said, and pull it out of context and simply use the piece that they did, simply creates an irresponsible and unconscionable distortion.
Clearly there are many who are eager to portray Sarah as someone who's an irrational warmongering religious kook. And for the media to falsely imply that she believes the Iraq war is "a war from God" just gives further ammunition to her political enemies, and the enemies of Christianity as well.
ABC News and other news outlets that are misrepresenting Palin's words had full access to the full context of what Palin said. (As so we all --- the video clip is all over YouTube.) But they chose to slice the part of her words that woud create a certain impression, rather than just let the truth speak for itself. And in so doing, they give us yet one more reason not to trust the mainstream media.
(The context of Palin's comments can be seen from 3:05 to 3:42 on this video.)
Obviously this has been a rough week for Barack Obama. And Joe Biden just made it a bit worse.
Wednesday, the chairwoman of the South Carolina Democrat party said that Sarah Palin's primary qualification is that she hadn't had an abortion. After the comment caused an uproar, she later apologized.
....And this coming on the heels of his ill-advised "lipstick on a pig" comment from yesterday.
They still have some time to recover, but right now, Barack and the Democrats seem to be in meltdown mode. I guess that's why so many Democrats are afraid Obama may be blowing it.
I know the year isn't over yet, but this article by Fatima Ali of the Philadelphia Inquirer is soooo bad, it's the clear front-runner for the "Worst Article of the Year" Award. Some of you might be thinking: "I didn't know you HAD a "Worst Article of the Year" award. In fact, I didn't. But this article is so bad, I decided to create one!
"The policies of the current White House have brutalized our economy, yet the wealthiest think that everything is fine."
"...Critics of the GOP believe that a four-year extension of the Bush administration will be disastrous. People are struggling, and the privileged are so out of touch they pretend it's OK that children go hungry. " "...If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness - and hopelessness!"
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/opinion/20080902_Fatimah_Ali__We_need_Obama__not_4_more_years_of_George_Bush.html ------- So if Obama loses, we should expect a race war? Puh-leeze.
Then again, no surprise here. It's just the typical alarmist tripe we've come to expect from the left -- painting the bleakest picture possible, talking down our economy, and making it seem like we're living in some Third World country. Yawn.
Actor Matt Damon is giving two thumbs-down to the prospect of a Palin Presidency.
Damon said it's "scary" to think of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin being a heartbeat away from the Oval Office as John McCain's running mate.
"I think the pick was made for political reasons, but in terms of governance, it was a disaster," Damon, a Barack Obama supporter and heavy contributor to liberal groups.
"I think there's a really good chance that Sarah Palin could be president, and I think that's the really scary thing," Damon, the Academy Award-winning star of "Good Will Hunting" and "The Departed," told AP Television.
Why does the media think we care about Hollywood actors' opinions on political matters? It's not like Matt Damon is known as an intellectual or any such thing.
I'll just put it this way:
These are the top 5 reasons why Matt Damon's opinion should be important to us all:
It's a Democratic year... or so we're told. Oil and gas prices hit all time highs this year. George Bush is highly unpopular. The economy is in a funk. The Republican brand is badly tarnished. So why is this election still so close? Why isnt Barack Obama leading by 12-15 points at this point?
"Even before John McCain shook up the presidential race by tapping Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate, polls weren't showing the late-August lead that Barack Obama (and many Republicans) expected. Why so?
It's not because of the brilliance of the McCain campaign. Rather we believe that -- despite the media's best efforts to exempt Mr. Obama's policies from critical examination -- American voters aren't sheep. They pay attention to the candidates and positions and make wise decisions about who should lead the country.
True, Mr. Obama enjoys several advantages. Republicans are struggling nationwide in head-to-head contests. Democrats lead in voter registration, and have a well-funded presidential candidate.
Yet Americans have not committed to Mr. Obama. Why?"...
If anyone ever seriously doubted that there's blatant anti-conservative/anti-Republican bias in the major media outlets, here is CLEAR EVIDENCE...this time courtesy of CBS and also ABC news.
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