Late Edition: Suzanne Malveaux Says "Some" Are Worried About Obama's Audacity
By Nicole Belle Sunday Jul 27, 2008 9:45am 
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You gotta love the predictability of the framing from McCain's Media. John McCain challenges Barack Obama to go to Iraq, and so he goes. Then he makes the exact same courtesy calls with other heads of state with whom he would be in close contact should he win the presidency that John McCain made just a couple of months ago, but according to Suzanne Malveaux on CNN's Late Edition, "some people" are worried that Obama is just a little audacious for making this trip. Riiiiigggghhhhttt. Just who would be these people, Malveaux? Would they be those same GOP/RNC types that have been whispering these ridiculous slurs because Obama's trip was so successful and made their candidate look like an intemperate, ill-prepared and out of touch amateur?
Senator, I want to use a word that you love to use, "audacity." A lot of people looked at the trip and they saw the palaces, the world leaders, the 200,000 that were gathered in Berlin, and they said, "The audacity of this trip, it looks like he is running for president of the world."
Are we quoting Krauthammer and Brooks again on another media outlet? It appears so. The question goes out to McCain's Media yet again: by what standard have these two chuckleheads--who have yet to be right on anything, mind you--earned the privilege of framing the debate of this race?
Kudos to Obama for responding the only way you should to these intelligence-insulting media narratives.
OBAMA: Well, let me make a couple points. First of all, I basically met with the same folks that John McCain met with after he won the nomination. He met with all these leaders. He also added a trip to Mexico, a trip to Canada, a trip to Colombia, and nobody suggested that that was "audacious."
I think people assumed that what he was doing was to talk to world leaders who we may have deal with should we become president. That's part of the job that I'm applying for.
And so -- so I was puzzled by this notion that somehow what we were doing was in any way different from what Senator McCain or a lot of presidential candidates have done in the past.
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MALVEAUX: Senator, I want to use a word that you love to use, "audacity." A lot of people looked at the trip and they saw the palaces, the world leaders, the 200,000 that were gathered in Berlin, and they said, "The audacity of this trip, it looks like he is running for president of the world."
And a lot of people looked and they want to know, what out of this trip did you take away that you feel makes you a stronger candidate to be a leader here?
OBAMA: Well, let me make a couple points. First of all, I basically met with the same folks that John McCain met with after he won the nomination. He met with all these leaders. He also added a trip to Mexico, a trip to Canada, a trip to Colombia, and nobody suggested that that was "audacious."
I think people assumed that what he was doing was...
(APPLAUSE)
... talk to world leaders who we may have deal with should we become president. That's part of the job that I'm applying for.
(LAUGHTER)
And so -- so I was puzzled by this notion that somehow what we were doing was in any way different from what Senator McCain or a lot of presidential candidates have done in the past. Now, I admit we did it really well.
(LAUGHTER)
(APPLAUSE)
But that shouldn't be a strike against me. You know, if I was bumbling and fumbling through this thing, I would have been criticized for that. And so -- so that's point number one.
I don't know the political effect of this when I come back. You know, I think people are worried about gas prices; they're worried about job security; they're worried about their retirement fund, as the stock market goes down.
So probably a week of me focusing on international issues doesn't necessarily translate into higher poll numbers here in the United States, because people are understandably concerned about the immediate effects of the economy. And that's what we will be talking about for the duration.
I do think that, in terms of me governing, being an effective president, that that trip was helpful, because I think I've established relationships and a certain bond of trust with key leaders around the world who have taken measure of my positions and how I operate and I think can come away with some confidence that this is somebody I can deal with.
MALVEAUX: Senator Obama, hold on to that thought. We're going to take a quick break.
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Makes me glad I don't watch the boob-tube anymore.
(Although I'm sad I miss out on Colbert.)
sorry, to post again but i repeat
Who does the media really love? not who you think.
Attention Vs Media love
(Obama is interesting) Vs (McCain, boring but free donuts)
I have this ugly feeling that we're going to hear "audacious" being used as a synonym for "uppity."
According to the GOP/RNC, Obama is the anti-christ while the Senator from Arizona is right on point with everything! Do I expect anything else from these morons?
NO
mclame doesn't have the guts to meet with the journalists of color at the Unity Confeerence this past weekend. He chicked out.
eric @ 5:
Oops
Sour grapes. Nothing more. If McCain didn't come off as a slighly higher functioning mowroon than w and had anything positive to say or for his supporters to be excited by, they wouldn't feel the need to dig deep,deep,deep to try and find something to attack Barack about.
Sanjiv Sarwate @ 3:
As "exotic" was substituted for "black". The RNC needs to launder their own sheets never mind trying to cloak anyone else in them.
You do have to love the way he makes these ignorant fools look like the childish idiots they truly are. Like trying to have an intelligent conversation with a game show host.
As usual, Obama handles the issue with grace and style while at the same time, dismissing the criticism as ridiculous.
The guy's a master!
displaced @ 1:
Same here. Now and then when I'm really feeling ambitious I'll watch clips of that and the daily show but these days I turn it off unless I've got an episode of Doctor Who to see.
if there ever is to be an undoing for Obama, it will be his charisma and popularity. the right already are painting him as TOO powerful, and must be stopped. (they associate him to hitlers rise to power)
“The audacity of this trip, it looks like he is running for president of the world.”
He'll be Leader of the Free World, doesn't that dingbat know that?
The members of the media are just giving talking points to one another. One of them says something and somehow that gets translated into something the public is talking about. I get so angry when I hear one of them ask another of them, what do Americans think? They have no idea because they aren't talking to people like you and me, they are simply conversing amongst themselves.
I think it's great how Sen. Obama takes these loaded questions and responds to them the way he does. He gently and with humor points out how ridiculous they are.
sort of a devil's advocate thing here, but the media often willingly play the straight man by asking a confrontational question and allowing the candidate to "hit it out of the park" as Carl Cameron described his interaction with Ron Paul during the Republican primary debates.
just something to keep in mind.
cuz, does ANYONE think that Suzanne Malveaux is a McCain supporter?
anyways, as always, the most important aspect to remember is that cable news is not primarily news and never will be. cable news programs are like the Jerry Springer Show with more important guests. fundamentally they perform the same service.
it's up to the American people to allow news outlets to make money "the old fashioned way" by only supporting those outlets that deserve it. that group certainly does not include cable news at this time, so if you watch these jokers you're part of the problem.
- cold turkey for 7 months and loving it
eric @ 6:
Plus Sen. Obama had just flown back from his trip the night before. The guy had to be tired as hell yesterday morning but he made it to the conference anyway. What was McCain doing?
I'd also like to point out how odd it is that "president of the world" is now being used as a slander. It wasn't all that long ago that one of the common patriotic descriptors for the president was "leader of the free world" and this was meant as a great responsibility.
There was a post here (or somewhere in Leftern Blogistan) about the increased use of "Commander in Chief" as a sign of militarization of the office. I wonder if a Lexus Nexus search would show an inverse correlation in those terms. If that bears out, we can extend the argument for militarizing the presidency to also include increased isolationism.
The Republicans have shifted the global position of the oval office from a "shining beacon of freedom" to a paranoid self-isolating garrison.
displaced @ 1:
You can catch John Stewart on Veoh.com. Not a site ripe, but the actual show.
Take THAT, cable!
eric @ 13:
No he won't.
He isn't the prime minister of Canada or Britain or Germany or France or the endless number of countries that are free democratic societies. That misnomer is ridiculous and ignorant. He'll be president of the USA. Period.
eric @ 13:
reich-wingers are stupid enough to believe there is a position of " president of the world."
BTW, the shooter in Knoxville said the reason why he wanted to kill was because of his hatred for gays and liberals. He's the newest hero of princess, faux, and drugbaugh.
Nada @ 11:
W00t!
Media clown smackdown!
I am so furious with CNN that I just had to let it rip this morning. Read more. http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008/07/cnn-fair-and-unbalanced.html
I am worried about Obama's lack of audacity.
O is pure class.
Most of the right-wingers do not know what audacious means. So, that could lead anywhere.
It appears the Tenn. church shooting was done by a right-wing nut job.
Bravo, Obama! Exquisite answer...polite, intelligent, and articulate. You answered the question by turning it right back on the interviewer and pointed out that McCain has done the same thing before you and IT WAS NOT A BIG DEAL!
Bravo!
Sounds like Dean to me!
The only thing missing is "somebody with backbone!"
Obama/Dean 08
"Win/Win!"
McCain’s Cronies: Big Oil Money And A Big “Straight Talk” Fraud
So much for the "mavericky" persona. First, it was the Freudian slip of his "oil executives" tongue on off-shore drilling. Now? We see what's been greasing up more than just the "Straight Talk" bus:
http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/28/mccains-cronies-big-oil-money-and-a-bi...
some of us out here in viewerland think that suzanne malveaux has had plastic surgery to keep that young, vibrant look so desperately craved by the cnn chatterbunnies.
Kathleen Parker has an op-ed in todays Dallas Morning Nudes that Obama should apologize for not thinking the surge would work.
One: I'm wasn't sure how successful it could be since it seemed to be limited to around the Green Zone.
Two: It's only one siege of many.
Three: booshco excused the higher American casualty rate earlier in the year to the surge, thus proving Obama's view it would increase the violence.
Four: Yahoo news is reporting another bombing in Baghdad that killed around fifty and wounded around 150.
Television. Hmmph.
For those of you who have permanently turned it off, congratulations! Don't you feel better already?
For the rest of you, I've said it before but it bears repeating: Why do you think it's called "programming"? --MaryK
For the first time in the past eight years, I'm proud to be an American!
Attacking Obama on stupid stuff allows the White House to skip over the fact Bush has wasted 500 Billion dollars in 2008 and will leave a debt of 12 Trillion dollars. As Americans and the GOP call Bill Clinton every name in the book, we forget Bill left the White House with a 128 Billion Dollar Surplus. Now with the Bush Recession it seems Americans are willing to stay the White House course of stealing, borrowing and giving billions to War Profiteers. The big Oil Companies know who will let them continue to get their big Quarterly profits as they have given millions to the McCain campaign. Like Bush said he didn't know what the gas price was, then he found out and said what's the problem England gas price is 7 dollars. Being as dumb as he is and of course his alcoholic/drug problem he did know England uses less cars and most take public transportation.
Obama: Poise, self-control, articulate, humorous, intelligent...
Change you can believe in.
Did he hold on to that thought, or did they change the subject since it was making them appear like limp wads?
A non-white guy running running for president ?? Such audacity !!
Such a young guy running for president? Such audacity !!
Making wise cracks when Suzanne Malveaux was asking serious questions !! Such audacity !!
Well now, this young confident black guy has more nerve than Nancy Pelosi !!
GOOD !! Because he'll need it in November when there's a post-election POST -ELECTION showdown like what occurred in 2004 and 2000 (Kerry/Bush) (Al Gore/Bush).
McCain and the repigs must have all kinds of tricks ready that we have not yet imagines.
Let's hope that Obama has tons of audacity !!
No doubt : the first time FOX sees any tiny window of opportunity -they'll announce a McCain victory.
hah! You'd think meeting world leaders would happen in the city slums over cheap ripple? Welcome to the GOP Douchebag Talking Points Hour!
Malveauwned
Barrett D @ 12:
Being popular, intelligent, and resourceful are the qualities a GOOD president should have. Dubya Bush was 'popular' enough to have an election stolen with the help of Diebold, and is neither intelligent, or resourceful (unless if for getting no-bid contracts, and tax breaks for corporate crooks).
For republicans, it's something frightening. A good president this short a time after Bush, will show just how morally and politically bankrupt the republicans are. A black president will also break down the walls on some racial barriers, and racial tension is something that republicans have relied on for some time. They NEED racism. How else are they going to validate killing brown people?
There are so many reasons why they're terrified of Obama. But, they're all such contemptable reasons that they HAVE to talk about it in a kind of code:
Elitist: (Translation) Educated, informed, and Intelligent. Three things that they don't want the American people to be.
Exotic: (translation) N*gger... I'm sorry if that's offensive, but there's no other way to say it. In fact, Pat Buchanan, who first referred to Obama this way, regularly attends White Supremacist gatherings. He also often quotes from their literature.
See link the following link. http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2007/08/22/pat-buchanan-again-cites-racist...
Dayum! Did he ever bitch-slap Malveaux's head off her shoulders!
ysbaddaden @ 31:
But the 50 killed in Baghdad were Iraqi - so they don't count to most Americans. In their minds - the surge is working because fewer Americans are being killed.
rcm @ 38:
Knowing the media, they think that Obama was going to invite them to a dingy alley with some 40oz Colt 45's.
eric @ 5:
John McCain doesn't work weekends
Simon White-Thatch Potentloins @ 10:
He is and although I did not see this pathetic interview (I have gone to NPR) I did send an e-mail letting the woman know how pathetic such comments were. Who are the "some" she is reporting about...probably the big wigs than run them telling them what to say.
Barrett D @ 12:
yeah, funny thing that ...
apparently we've discovered another secret rule of the world according to the never-right: no one can be more "popular" than a republican, because it's just not fair!
Sheep
Obama can handle himself when dealing with the McCain Media. Obama taking a big audicity all over Tom Brokaw and David Brooks. He points out that there are nine good reviews of his Berlin speech to every negative one, and asks why Brokaw chose the one by Mel...I mean David Brooks.
A society primed for implosion.
pissed off patricia @ 16:
Trying to pee.
L.A. Confidential @ 47:
Is that what you're raping right now? Hillary lost, thank God, get over it....or go on a church shooting rampage.
Piss on the teevee.(unplug first) We cut the cable 3-4 years ago when we realised that we hardly ever watched it anyway. I mostly just hollered and sputtered at the pretty little talking pointy headed bampots.
Here in PHX AZ the reception for network teevee is so poor that we don't get that either.
Do your part to help the pundits make teevee irrelevent - CUT THE CABLE TODAY!
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 51:
Glad I don't blindly follow your leadership or advise.
NoGWBpolicyleftinplace @ 50:
Getting prepared for his next fake outrage against Obama....this week it will be the audacity of wearing diagonal stripes with vertical stripes.
L.A. Confidential @ 53:
Sure you are....you're blindly following the failed campaign of Hillary, sheep.
This woman actually shows how out of touch she is since he basically is running for President of the world. It's why a number of citizens from other countries find callous attitudes towards American elections so puzzling. We get hung up on issues as silly as haircuts for people running for President of the US which, as leader of the strongest world in the nation, with great power in every international institution, is very much a President of the world. It's refreshing seeing someone take on the role by giving respect to other people in the world, rather than simply barking orders at them to get on board with whatever the US wants to do or else. It's called acting like an experienced adult rather than a petulant child.
The only people "concerned" are the GOP sub-humans.
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 55:
Better see a shrink Matt
I really hate that "a lot of people" trick. All it takes is for a few blowhards to start some smear and then sit back and let their dittoheads repeat it. There are "a lot of people" saying that Obama is behind a series of murders dating back to when he was about ten years old, too. Will the media be asking him about that next? How about those accusations that he's the anti-Christ? It's just a lousy line of questioning no matter whom it's used on. If they can't cite sources, it should be a sign that something is up.
displaced @ 1:
You can watch full episodes on the comedy central website.
Let me get this straight. C&L is pro-Obama, no? The trip was audacious because Obama hasn't secured his nomination yet; And I'm pretty sure the Germans were there for the beer and brats and have no idea what the FISA bill was all about. I'm a lifetime democrat and, quite frankly, as light as CNN has been on Obama's rookie mistakes, it's about time they started asking somewhat tougher questions. This 'nominee' has been quite 'presumptive' this entire election cycle. What is this? Change you can't believe? The FISA 180 and the 180 on campaign finance could be enough o make Obama, just another Crook and Liar, so stop drinking the friggin kool-aide, guys. I expect more from you!
Scy @ 57:
Corrected.
L.A. Confidential @ 58:
Quite a bit of self-projection. How typical of a reich-winger. You're the one that can't get over the failed campaign of Hillary, sheep.
Malveux "Senator I want to use a word you love to use "audacity". I for one have never heard Obama use that word.
Just wonder why Maleveux obviously does not have the ability to think of or ask Obama another question that has not been repeated in the MSM during the last four days. yawn
Love Obama's response
"I admit we did it really well"
displaced @ 1:
I don't watch boob-tube anymore either but no reason to miss Colbert. You can see episodes at Comedy Central's web site: http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-episodes/
Their online episodes used to be slow and unreliable, especially on Macs, but lately they are much better. I used to get them on iTunes but I got sick of iTunes delivering them a day or more after they aired. You have to watch one commercial which you can of course turn the sound off of (although even with the sound off the commercial for Step Brothers got really annoying).
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 61:
I feel sorry for you. Your everyday life seems so totally beyond your control your reduced to blurting out paranoid hallucinations that don't even exist.
Later kid. Good luck. Your going to need it.
I have heard that SOME people believe that TV News Journalists are frigging airheads. I’ve also heard that SOME people believe TV News Journalists are paid way too much for what little they do. These same SOME people would also like to remain anonymous for fear of also being labeled airheads. And lastly, SOME people really get on my nerves.
Rodneyj43 @ 59:
It is possible that Obama might be better than another four years of Bush. Must drink more Kool-Ade so that I can think for myself and vote for straight-talking maverick McCain....your concern is noted.
Higher pole numbers?
I don't know, my pole got higher...
"Some" in that context is FOx newspeak for "I am about to blow some Rovian taling point up your ass".
These people are sick, sick, sick. And I'm not even kidding.
They are the biggest bunch of true Sociopaths. Read this and that'll be all you need forever to understand how mentally ill and dangerous people like Suzanne Malveaux are. Also - why it's so important to reinstate the rule of law in this country.
They have to be stopped - or this really will be the end of America.
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Does someone with two sphincters have an oddassity?
Larry Johnson and Susanpc over at No Quarter USA spend most of time at their website undermining Barack Obama. Sure has some of us wondering about whose team they are on. Certainly not the Democrats team.
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/07/28/the-test-of-baracks-character-or...
Johnson wonders about Obama's "character". Johnson and Susan should spend more time turning their shaking index fingers around on themselves. I have directly witnessed Susan over at No Quarter USA making claims that are complete and utter lies. Larry can not stand being challenged in his thinking.
"Some" are worried you are too uppity for your race' is really what she's saying. I love the way Obama counter-punches. It makes the questioner look foolish.
John Kerry, bless his heart, would of just sat there like a bump on a log. That is just one of the reasons Obama will win in November.
Scy @ 57:
You got it. According to N.Y. Times rightwing welfare queen Bloody Kristol's dribble in todays paper, they can see the writing on the wall.
He is terrified the government might actually start to invest the money in the people who actually pay the taxes; the American citizenry. His grand illusion of neocon world dominated fascism is slipping away right before his bloodthirsty eyes! What's a sociopath to do?
Dear GAWD! Some of the MSM hacks make me just wanna reach through my interweb and pimp-slap the lot of 'em!
croatoan @ 44:
So what happens if he becomes president? Will he shut the oval office down and put the phone on auto-answer over the weekend? Now there's a change I don't want to believe in.
missmarple @ 42:
BINGO
Now if we could just figure out who killed Col Ketchup in the pantry with a toilet plunger.
Everyone does know that Malveaux is married to a repug toadie?
Hey yous guys!
You'll never believe this shit! Not in a million years!!!! ;) Way to go McClellan!
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/26/mcclellan-fox-talking-points/?Tools
the debates should end this nonsense, right?
We need to start demanding that "journalists" name "some."
Let's lay it on the table: neocon radical rightwing Republicans, Big Oil greedheads, the BushCo White House, John McCain, and their media fellow travelers willing to use racist code words to demonize = "some"
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Fresh Prairie: The Pickens Effect
L.A. Confidential @ 64:
Dude, Dr. is precisely right about you. Gloom, doom, everything's all lost, the fucking sky is falling, what's the use, and of course, NO SOLUTIONS. Actually, you sound like McGeezer.
For anyone who saw Meet The Press yesterday with that soon to be put out to pasture Brokow, it is clear that the media are intent on destroying Obama. Brokow was hitting Obama with some of the most ridiculous race baiting questions I have ever heard. I thought he was interviewing Malcolm X! But we better get used to it, because it will continue even after Obama becomes president.
Sanjiv Sarwate @ 3:
Yep. My thoughts exactly.
Thought to be fair to the "journalists", they do believe that Obama is a credit to his
raceheritage. He just needs to learn his place.Obama has a huge pair of cast-iron audacities. Here's hoping they crush McCain!
Rusty Shackleford @ 83:
Hey, he's 1/2 white. Are they going to refer to him as an audatious white guy? Not.
Tom from NJ @ 79:
McCain could masterbate on stage during a debate in front of the entire country, and the MSM would try to blame it on Obama!
As the camera's turn away, I can just hear Susan's question: "Senator Obama, isn't it true that you support paying for viagara prescriptions that can lead to prolonged erections in elderly Americans who are not able to deal with them?"
If you want audacity of the worst kind, look no further than the current president and vice president. What we need is a new leader with enough of the good audacity to mend the serious wounds suffered upon this nation, in deed, upon the whole world, by Bush and Cheney!!!
Tom from NJ @ 79:
They are going to lower expectations for McCain so low before the debates, that if he doesn't start speaking in tongues, he will be declared the winner.
Just watch. That's what they did for bush and in his case it seemed to work.
surfjac @ 4:
My gf's mother lives in Texas. She told her daughter (who is an avid Obama supporter) that her minister was telling people IN CHURCH that Obama is the anti-Christ.
OBAMA: Well, let me make a couple points. First of all, I basically met with the same folks that John McCain met with after he won the nomination. He met with all these leaders. He also added a trip to Mexico, a trip to Canada, a trip to Colombia, and nobody suggested that that was “audacious.”
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Ding ding! That deserves a rightfully deserved *clap*
This media is getting rediculous. Thanks for pointing it out Obama!
Tom from NJ @ 79:
Naw...Obama will make McKeating look like the zombie that he is and the ProfitMedia(TM) will shriek with indignation about the Scary Black Negro beating up on poor Grampaw, who by the way was a war hero despite making propaganda films for the enemy etc etc.
Why isn't Novak in jail???
91 Mick
I don't think it'll be as obvious as all that, but if recent newscycles prove constant they'll concentrate on Obama's gaffes, excuse mcgummy's, and in the interest in being "fair" call mediocre answers from the latter a come-back or good answer.
Maybe Bob Eubanks should m.c.
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 61:
Hillary didn't run a failed campaign. She ran the type of Republican-lite campaign that she wanted to run.
The simple fact is, that philosophy aint' playin' well with the public anymore. THAT is why McCain is gettin' his clock cleaned.
The sun is setting on the right wing, neo-con, supply side, capitalist agenda. NONE of the negativity that the GOP is throwing at Obama is sticking. NONE of it, and the more shrill they get, the more popular he becomes.
Obama will pull away in August and he'll be at double digits by Labor Day. McCain will be SCREAMING for all kinds of debates...more, more, more debates...because it will be his only chance. Of course, Obama will debate (no more than three).
After that, it will be all over but the cryin'.
liberAL @ 92:
Because he only committed treason, and nearly killed an old man in a hit and run. It's not like he got a blow-job or something.
NoGWBpolicyleftinplace @ 86:
thanks , now i have to wipe off the coffee from my monitor.
Numinous @ 95:
Or gave one that we know of, yet.
Liberal AND Proud @ 94:
I believe that you are right except for one thing. I really believe that the Repimplicans will see the handwriting on the wall, orchestrate a "terrist attack", declare martial law and cancel the election.
PLEASE... I stopped watching CNN because of reporters and anchors like Suzanne Malveaux, Kira Phillips, Wolf Blitzer.... They're nothing but Bush Whores with their bias reporting...and right wing sympathies.
Blue Buddha @ 43:
...and he surprised them when he didn't ask for some M*****f***ing iced tea.
Yeh think mccain will do this in the debate?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qG5V2iBvFs
98 Mick
The only writing on the wall I see is when I miss the urinal.
I dont care if Suzanne Malveaux wants to be another corporate cardboard media cutout, and ask these questions of Obama. He has no problem answering them.
And therein lies the rub. Since he has no problem answering them, he gets asked them.
John McCain? Not so much. After a few inappropriate giggles, and then mention ing his trip to the hinterlands of the Iraq/Afghanistan border, his questioners wince and remember to ask him something easy next time.
I remember when he did the 60 Minutes segment either before he announced, or shortly after he announced. It was pretty sad listening to this old geezer get interviewed in Iraq about how we were going to "win" there, and this was after his much guarded visit to the Baghdad market.
It had to strike anyone then, with half a brain, he was far past prime time, and he reminds everyone daily of this. The media cant bury it without John starting digging again.
McCain is becoming a real joke
To have a President who gets Alzheimer while in office is understandable, but electing one is that already has or it unstable is unforgivable.
Mick @ 98:
If that does happen...that could very well be the death of this nation.
ysbaddaden @ 31:
I think that Kathleen Parker should apologize for pretending to be a competent journalist. She is a disgrace to her profession.
bmw H. 528 @ 106:
Journalism in the U.S. is not a profession but rather an avenue to the courtesan class. The corporate media is a disgrace. Corrupted by access, celebrityhood and wealth.
Carol @ 104:
Yet so many are so dead set against black men..I mean Obama...that they are voting for McCain against their own interests, and despite the fact that Obama is by several orders of magnitude a better candidate.
I'm feelin very pessimistic this morning...I can totally see that old fuck being placed in the whitehouse over some bullshit.
I just don't trust these goddamn fascist gangsters in the GOP to let American voters decide who they want.
oops
Never never trust them liberal, they are capable of anything
Ugh.
Right on cue: http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/12092
I freaking hate Politico.
When I was watching the Sunday shows, I could see it on the tip of their tongues. All of the pundits and talking heads wanted to call Obama and Uppity N****r.
Audacity = Uppity in these so-called journalists minds.
Liberal Media, my ass.
Mick @ 52:
Since tee-vee is going "digital" next year, rabbit ears are a thing of the past, no everyone is going to have to be "hooked in" through satellite or cable and God only knows what the corporate media will be pumping into homes.
Disinformation = Journalism for most outlets
Carol @ 110:
The suspect in the Tenn. church shootings hated liberals.
Numinous @ 95:
How many times was Obama asked to go to Iraq
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhWG2llWcyc
Or was completely part of the thugs who outed Valerie Plame/Wilson and then hid behind the Shield Law. Our nation needs an officials secrets act so that agents of influence like Judy Miller and Robert Novak can be sent to prison for undermining National Security.
I like his ability to think on his feet like that and answer calmly. Compare this with McCain who either gets hot-headed or has to look for Liberman for help. "Phone-a-friend"
Y'all think this'll become a mccain camp election issue?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w91-GMc3j7I
Who's in charge of the camp.
http://politickles.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/giuliani_in_drag2.jpg
Kathleen Parker: Back when I used to get a newspaper I saw her columns for the first time and I wondered. How does this ill-informed little mormon hausfrau rate a photo with her editorial? Then I saw that she was a syndicated columnist for the wapo or some such. The Gannet Corporation AZ Republican had a full range of opinions from the leftist George Will, centrists like Krauthammer and the usual Kristols, Friedmans, Jon Kyl, etc.
We no longer get a newspaper. And judging by the newspapers' plummeting circulation numbers - neither do a lot of people. They are irrelevant, with the exception of the Toledo Blade and a few others.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Mick @ 117:
Yes. Thankfully the long national nightmare of George W. Bush is coming to an end.
It's just updated racial coding. "Presumptuous" and "audacity," in Republication mouths, really means "uppity."
Old dogs, old tricks . . .
Gotugye @ 107:
We can apologize right after the neoclowns apologize for.......
1. Using the corporate media to give us an incompetent psycopath from Texas as president
2. Trashing the constitution
3. Sending Americans to die in a war of lies for corporate profits
4. Corporate fascism
5. Destroying the middle class and the so-called American dream
6. Lying about everything they do so the people cannot keep up with all their treasonous activities
7. Using the justice department for the purpose of political terrorism
8. Destroying every facet of the "people's government" so their coporate cronies could financially rape the American people
9. Filibustering any legislation that is good for the country and the people
10. Passing legislation that is only good for a few corporate executives at the expense of everyone else
11. Turning America from a land of hope and opportunity into a fascist hell-hole, where only the aristocracy enjoys its former glory
12. Stealing elections
13. Promoting hatred in order to bring out the worst in the weak minded, all for bebfit of their own financial greed
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1,000,000 Just for being the low-life, sociopathic, lying greed infested dickhead assholes they are!
There Ms. Parker. Now my turn.
Take your right wing faux outrage, and stick it up your lying, sociopathic, greed infested asshole!
Move on people, nothing to see here. @ 115:
Maybe that's the way the debates will be handled for McCain, kind of like Who wants to be a Millionaire. He'll have three chances to get help for the answer to a question. Ask the audience, phone a friend and whatever the other one is. Sen. Obama will just stand back and smile while all the drama is going on, on the other side of the stage.
Obama is SO uppity. How dare he travel to the Middle East and Europe, speak in complete sentences and make Americans look like good global citizens and well versed on the issues of the day. Really? Who DOES he think he is? THE NERVE!
I bet Suzanne Malveaux has a French name. Audacious ta-ta's got her the job? Anyone ask Tweety for an opinion?
Kathleen Parker had an op-ed piece praising the plcuky cheeked VP candidacy of Bobby Jindal. Unfortunatly his Vatican via Vishnu tour had ended the day before when he exorcised himself from the veepstakes. She should apologize for her thinking her surge
would work.
Almost all the media outlets I watched/listened to (FOX, MSNBC, CNN) were going out of their way to spin Sen. Obama's ME & Euro trip negatively. It was definitely a multi-pronged assault in that they'd slant their openers, trot out some more unfounded negative observations, and finish up with poll numbers showing how close Sen. McCain was and use that as more proof that Sen. Obama "can't close the deal."
Much as with Hillary in the Dem primaries, no matter how impressive any given showing by Sen. Obama was, the MSM would interpret it, as "That's great news for Sen. McCain!"
eric @ 5:
Why do we have a journalist of color organization? Why cant all journalists be the same , after all isnt that what people of color have wanted their whole life? What would happen if people of no color(caucasion) started to form a journalist of no color organization would you be offended. Oh and how come no one of color had anything bad to say to Jesse Jackson about his comments on Obama, sure is a good thing he is of color or he would have lost his job just like Imus.I am sick of these double standards of racism that some people of color keep bringing up.
pissed off patricia @ 121:
Computer removes two of the choices, leaving only two.
Risky move for McCain to try that one, unless he uses phone a friend to call Joe.
"... a word you love to use..." No doubt the msm had staff members counting the syllables in that word. They're so much more adept at monosyllables, like "surge" and "cheese."
imagine the cocky arrogance we would see from mccain had he been that successful with his trip abroad. the world has moved on John.
Yes Michael, the audacity of Obama meeting with other Leaders.
McCain came to Canada and hardly anyone showed up and we heard about it after he left. ROFL
I loved that interview - Obama showed her some fangs on several occasions, finally!
He's got full gist of it now. And I hope we all have house parties set up when he and McCain go mano e old farto !
But CNN in general has long had a habit of throwing out numerous false assertions without ever backing them up so their credibility isn't big anyway - Dobbs and Beck??
Last year they tried to jump in on the 'race wars' staring the very white Paula Zahn - who was so white she didn't know how to say 'apartheid'. And now they try once again to jump on the 'race wagon' - starring Soledad O'Brien - a proud Latina.
Next week is a new series on Edukayting Yur Chill'drun at home starring Britney Spears.
I'm hopeful Suzanne Malveaux learned something from that public spanking she got. I have my doubts though, anyone who would ask the question in the first place is obviously lacking some insight and intelligence that a normal thinking person possesses to function on a day to day basis. She's probably not even aware (as so many times Blitzer hasn't been aware ) that she was spanked.
Mick @ 66:
I see so that's why this is such a groundbreaking historical event....because....he's better than Bush. That's why the press should go easy on Obama.....because...he's better than Bush. Well so is a poke-in-the-eye with a sharp stick. Big friggin Deal. If the 4th branch of our government doesn't keep these folks in check, we're in for just another ride. Don't be easy on him, fillet the bastard like anyone else (and I didn't say a damn thing about McCain, get your head out of your anus and smell the coffee or something...in any case STOP DRINKING THE FRIGGIN KOOL-AIDE!). Don't make Jim Jones proud enough to rise from the grave.
Same old trick Fox uses - "People Say" without ever having to say what People or When they said it - how convenient !!
Nitwit...
Funny how Suzanne Malveaux champions conservative talking points
When her own name sounds so FRENCH.
127 odanny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irzOBTV0xTE
Rodneyj43 @ 133:
This is why Democrats always lose. They underestimate the blind obedience of the right and criticize anything resembling it on the left. As far as I'm concerned, I hope Democrats are drinking up the kool-aid this time like their life depends on it, like they've been in the desert for days (or years) and are almost dead from dehydration, because at least metaphorically speaking, they have been. There'll be plenty o' time to grill President Obama.
ysbaddaden @ 135:
I read on the emails that Presdint Hussein Obama X wants to make her learn to talk Paris talk.
Rodneyj43 @ 59:
Rodney, have you ever been to Europe?
Let me enlighten you. First, the average European knows more about the FISA bill then the average American. They also have a much more enlightened view of the world, world politics, culture and their place in it. Americans believe the world revolves around them, and they are wrong.
The Germans didn't turn out for the beer. They turned out because Obama is VERY popular in Germany, and in many other European countries as well.
The European people understand politics far better than we do. Are their politicians perfect? No, and the people know that. They don't expect perfection, they expect competence. They know an intelligent, competent and qualified individual when they see one. They also don't give a hoot over nonsense that Americans jump up and down over, like sexual scandals. Europeans are much more adult and progressive than we are about those types of issues.
The outpouring of good will that you saw from the German people was very real. The look of utter pleasure and honestly, the look almost of RELIEF, that you saw from every leader that Obama sat down with, speaks VOLUMES about the damage that GW Bush has done, and what little regard he was held in.
Viktor @ 134:
Furthermore, FOX uses the question mark to disown the accusations they are putting forth.
For example, instead of saying: Obama is a muslim. They simple write it as "Obama is a muslim?"
They don't even formulate it as a question, but they get away with it since they are not "claimin" Obama is a muslim, they simply claim that is something that "some people say..."
That is why journalism in this country is lower than dirt. In fact, fuck it... let's stop calling it journalism and call it what it really is: Propaganda.
Right wing radicals having a field day attacking Obama trip. Oh yeah. National Review filled with Obama attacks
http://www.nationalreview.com/
Obama "I admit that we did it really well"
Liberal AND Proud @ 139:
I agree with most of what you said, however let's be clear: People in Berlin showed up because there was a free concert. That is what most US media fails to mention, in fact if anything... the speech that Obama gave, albeit delivered in a fairly inspirational fashion, was fairly insulting to the sensibilities of most Europeans.
These Republican attacks are actually a godsend. Everything I have read about these sort of attacks is that they have a high burnout rate. They are effective on the short term, close to the election. Over the long haul, the candidate associated with such claims is viewed as negative, deceptive, backwards, unsavory, and lacking in ideas. They play well with the GOP base, but poorly with independents. Provided that Obama can rebuke and debunk these claims in a positive, rational and consistent manner, he should actually be in much better shape by November.
People are beginning to see McCain as he is: an OK politician and a real military hero, but socially and psychologically unfit for leadership.
The key is work on the media. Condition them to accept the fact that McCain is running a negative campaign, saying negative things himself, and running ads that are light on issues and heavy on innuendo. People need to take him with a grain of salt.
Suzanne Malveaux, you should hear what "some" have said to me about you. Terms like: HACK, FINISHED, THROUGH, DONE, IRRESPONSIBLE, CHILDLIKE are constants.
The Dude @ 142:
I suggest you actually read the German news and watch foreign news. Then we can discuss REALITY.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/
If you'd like more, Dude. I can oblige, but I'm sure you know how to use "the Google".
In fairness to Malveaux, it's not as though these right-wing shills actually give the candidate an opportunity to answer the question. If she decides to pose it, Obama finally gets a chance to prove how much smarter, more thorough and more perceptive than that crowd is. I will agree with you, Nicole, that she shouldn't use "some people", and instead quote the people who are criticizing. But merely asking the question and giving a chance for Obama to respond to these criticisms is not an innately unfair thing to do.
It's time for everyone to start asking the ringmeisters of these dog and pony shows "Which people?" and pointing out their own 'some people' feel exactly the opposite of the questioners' 'some people.'
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