Pete Sampras Backhands Tina Fey

61. The mainstream media have gone over the line and are now straight-out propagandists for the Obama campaign.

While they have been liberal and blinkered in their worldview for decades, in 2007-08, for the first time, the major media consciously are covering for one candidate for president and consciously are knifing the other. This is no longer journalism; it is simply propaganda. (The American left-wing version of the Volkischer Beobachter cannot be far behind.)

And as a result, we are less than seven weeks away from possibly electing a president who has not been thoroughly or even halfway honestly presented to the country by our watchdogs — the press. The image of Obama that the press has presented to the public is not a fair approximation of the real man. They consciously have ignored whole years of his life and have shown a lack of curiosity about such gaps, which bespeaks a lack of journalistic instinct.

Thus, the public image of Obama is of a "man who never was."

The man the media have presented to the nation as Obama is not the real man.

The mainstream media ruthlessly and endlessly repeat any McCain gaffes while ignoring Obama gaffes. You have to go to weird little Web sites to see all the stammering and stuttering that Obama needs before getting out a sentence fragment or two. But all you see on the networks is an eventually clear sentence from Obama. You don't see Obama's ludicrous gaffe that Iran is a tiny country and no threat to us. Nor his 57 American states gaffe. Nor his forgetting, if he ever knew, that Russia has a veto in the U.N. Nor his whining and puerile "come on" when he is being challenged. This is the kind of editing one would expect from Goebbels' disciples, not Cronkite's.

More appalling, a skit on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" last weekend suggested that Gov. Palin's husband had sex with his own daughters. That show was written with the assistance of Al Franken, Democratic Party candidate in Minnesota for the U.S. Senate. Talk about incest.

But worse than all the unfair and distorted reporting and image projecting are the shocking gaps in Obama's life that are not reported at all. The major media simply have not reported on Obama's two years at New York's Columbia University, where, among other things, he lived a mere quarter-mile from former terrorist Bill Ayers. Later, they both ended up as neighbors and associates in Chicago. Obama denies more than a passing relationship with Ayers. Should the media be curious? In only two weeks, the media have focused on all the colleges Gov. Palin has attended, her husband's driving habits 20 years ago, and the close criticism of the political opponents Gov. Palin had when she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. But in two years, they haven't bothered to see how close Obama was with the terrorist Ayers.

Nor have the media paid any serious attention to Obama's rise in Chicago politics. How did honest Obama rise in the famously sordid Chicago political machine with the full support of Boss Daley? Despite the great — and unflattering — details on Obama's Chicago years presented in David Freddoso's new book on Obama, the mainstream media continue to ignore both the facts and the book. It took a British publication, The Economist, to give Freddoso's book a review with fair comment.

The public image of Obama as an idealistic, post-race, post-partisan, well-spoken and honest young man with the wisdom and courage befitting a great national leader is a confection spun by a willing conspiracy of Obama, his publicist (David Axelrod) and most of the senior editors, producers and reporters of the national media.

Perhaps that is why the National Journal's respected correspondent Stuart Taylor wrote, "The media can no longer be trusted to provide accurate and fair campaign reporting and analysis."

That conspiracy not only has Photoshopped out all of Obama's imperfections (and dirtied up his opponent McCain's image) but also has put most of his questionable history down the memory hole.

The public will be voting based on the idealized image of the man who never was. If he wins, however, we will be governed by the sunken, cynical man Obama really is. One can only hope that the senior journalists will be judged as harshly for their professional misconduct as Wall Street's leaders currently are for their failings.

Posted at 3:22PM on Sep 29th 2008 by Here I am

62. Thank goodness someone in California is sane!!! We thought everyone insane in the US had moved to California to live together. It is good to see there is someone there with a brain of their own.

They are just liberals because they think it is "cool". I guarantee you that most of them don't even know why they want Hussein....I mean Obama.....as President. How can ANYONE who has seen Reverand Wright and Obama's lack of experience vote for him against a true patriotic American with LOADS of experience? McCain is an American POW who is familiar with the way the world actually works. The rest of the world doesn't want to sit and hold hands and be our friends. They don't even do that with their own people!

You liberals just think it is cool to be anti-Republican. Get a mind of your own and look at the real world!!! That is why I am disgusted with TV and mainstream media.

Posted at 3:25PM on Sep 29th 2008 by sick of liberals!

63. Well I used to like him....now I see he's just another McCain supporting moron! Why can't people realize, McCain is just another Bush in the making...the rich stay rich and poor stay and get poorer. What a country!

Posted at 3:27PM on Sep 29th 2008 by Steph

64. #3 He said he DOESN'T watch her, clean your freakin ears!
#5 He never once said anything about himself being "common folk' or anything of the like. Just like a Demo"crap" to twist words around and spew false information! It that's what it takes for Dem's . like you and Obama to win is to lie then you are pathetic and it proves that this country will go down the tubes if he makes it to office.
#13 That was so politically correct of you- again just another hypocrite demo"crap".
#14- see what I said about 13, it applies to you too.
I won't even read comments past page one b/c This page alone has enough to prove how ignorant and hypocritical most Obama supporters are. Pathetic people.

Posted at 3:27PM on Sep 29th 2008 by Figures...

65. GO PETE! NOT ONLY IS HE SEXY, BUT SMART TOO!

Posted at 3:38PM on Sep 29th 2008 by Dahlia

66. 62. Well I used to like him....now I see he's just another McCain supporting moron! Why can't people realize, McCain is just another Bush in the making...the rich stay rich and poor stay and get poorer. What a country!

Posted at 3:27PM on Sep 29th 2008 by Steph

YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT POOR MEANS..LETS PRAY (OBAMA CHICAGO POLITICS ) DOESN'T WIN...WHAT A JOKE!

Posted at 3:32PM on Sep 29th 2008 by Here I am

67. Tina Fey is a hard core Democrat and is acting like palin on TV (talk about political Bias on NBC).

Posted at 3:38PM on Sep 29th 2008 by Tina Fey is a hard core Democrat & Palin

68. I was asked a very good question today by one of my co-workers who is 100% for Obama because her hubby is. She was talking about how funny Tina Fey was at mocking Palin and about the debate and how Obama won hands down. I told her because more democrats watched the debate and she said well why do you think that is???

Here is my point - you do not see the Republican party lowering themselves to trashing and doing skits on the democrats. Republicans know what they want, do not need to watch a stupid debate and will not choose their candidate because someone famous said to. There are too many important things in life instead of watching an actress (who I could never take seriously) do a skit about a women who is getting criticized for keeping a child and who honestly thinks she is funny. Oh well, that's my two cents.

Posted at 3:39PM on Sep 29th 2008 by lissabell

69. #62- Do you have any actual facts and data to back up your "taglines" that you throw out! Seriously, I'd love to know if you have any knowledge what so ever on any of Obama's OR McCain's issues and how they affect or benefit you and why you support either or. Most likely, like the rest of the yahoos on TMZ, you read other posts, listen to commercials, or read the headlines to bank your handful of taglines. Then you just randomly spew them out instead of actually making a statement with any substance and facts. Oh, that's right, dems don't like facts, they just get in the way! Ha ha ha. Do yourself a favor and do a little research, and by that I mean actually look at both sides of an issue so you can actually argue your points!

Posted at 3:43PM on Sep 29th 2008 by go to "taglinesRus"

70. latest Barak Hussein Obama Gaff:

McCain explained at the debate how he always wore the bracelet of a fallen American soldier that fought in Iraq, McCain spoke clear without looking down about the man, his name, the soldiers family and how he came to get the bracelet. Barack's turn to speak came up and he started speaking about the bracelet, he too, also wore of an American soldier in Iraq. The baffoon had to look down at the bracelet to read the soldiers name. Nice going hussein, to honor and remember a fallen soldier. That's right Obama show us how American you are

Posted at 3:55PM on Sep 29th 2008 by truth hurts

71. CELEBRITIES DON'T PUSH THEIR POINT A VIEW ON ANYBODY, THEY'RE ENTITLED TO THEIR OPINION JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE..IF YOU'RE TRULY YOUR OWN PERSON AND NOT A FOLLOWER, THEN THEIR OPINION SHOULD NOT HAVE AN AFFECT ON WHAT YOU THINK OR WHO YOU VOTE FOR..NOBODY IS FORCING YOU YO VOTE FOR ANYTHING, JUST BECAUSE A CELEBRITY ENDORSES A CERTAIN CANDIDATE DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU HAVE TO...AND SOME OF YOU DOGGING OUT CELEBRITIES ARE THE SAME DUMB ASSES WHO WHORSHIP PARIS AND BRITTANY AND ARE CLUED TO THE T.V. FOR THE MTV AWARDS AND OTHER STUPID SLEEZY SHOWS, SO GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK.

Posted at 3:53PM on Sep 29th 2008 by STEFANY

72. I could give a rats ass about a washed up tennis player expressing his uninteresting political endorsement.

Posted at 3:55PM on Sep 29th 2008 by Aingealz

73. I can not believe you guys have the NERVE to call him a captain hypcrite. What he was saying is 100% TRUE!! Everyone is sooooo sick of celebrities!! I refuse to watch SNL, E!,TMZ, or read US WEEKLY. You are all so bias it is sickening. Why can't I get my celebrity gossip without being force fed Liberal beliefs.

Posted at 3:58PM on Sep 29th 2008 by Go McCain

74. Does anyone really give a rats ass what this retired loser has to say.
GO OBAMA ALL THE WAY.

Posted at 4:00PM on Sep 29th 2008 by joan

75. 72. latest Barak Hussein Obama Gaff:

McCain explained at the debate how he always wore the bracelet of a fallen American soldier that fought in Iraq, McCain spoke clear without looking down about the man, his name, the soldiers family and how he came to get the bracelet. Barack's turn to speak came up and he started speaking about the bracelet, he too, also wore of an American soldier in Iraq. The baffoon had to look down at the bracelet to read the soldiers name. Nice going hussein, to honor and remember a fallen soldier. That's right Obama show us how American you are

Posted at 3:55PM on Sep 29th 2008 by truth hurts

IF IT ISNT IN THE SCRIPT ROVIDED, OBAMA WONT SAY IT. Obama Hussein is a great orator in a suit, with no substance, experience, who will be in the popularity parade and then go to the next set with a different viewpoint if it is popular

Posted at 4:03PM on Sep 29th 2008 by truth hurts