ALTER: The Smear Gap

re: ALTER: The Smear Gap

Bacalove — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:08:24 GMT

Every campaign season GOP scare -- Dems will raise your taxes! George Bush did not Raise Taxes and yet, are we any better off for it? We have to wake up from this rheteroic which distorts the issues and the truth. Not raising your taxes only means that something else will have to be raised like your medical insurance or car insurance, bank and financial fees, etc. Raising your taxes is not the issue, the issue is what will the candidate do for the country and the American people, for jobs, schools, cost of education and health care. Let's not get it twisted.

You don't need Washington experience to be experienced. You need to be smart, foreward thinking, independent of big business and oil companies, knowledgeable about economics and the Constitution. It doesn't take rocket science to know how to get along with other people around the world -- treat others like you would want them to treat you.

re: ALTER: The Smear Gap

Harvybing — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:39:31 GMT

CNN, CBS, MSNBC, ABC, Newsweek, The New York Times and many other members of the Main Stream Media have for months helped to foster a deception upon the American people, that being Obama's true position on many major issues. They have achieved this deception by not reporting on the facts, and not asking the tough questions that need to be asked of a Presidential Candidate. The US Constitution guarantees Freedom of The Press in order to assure that the main stream press is free to ask just such probing questions. The profit motive has now entered into political reporting and major news outlets are skewing their reporting in order to garner favor among certain portions of the population. This prostitution of the Freedom of the Press was never envisioned by our founding fathers. Isn't it IRONIC that a PASTOR and NOT a REPORTER was the main instrument in getting Obama to finally answer some tough, difficult, yet truly relevant questions? Pundints from every major news organization have admitted ON AIR that the venue that Pastor Rick Warren organized was a "Brilliant" one. Rest assured that since the Obama campaign has seen how poorly Obama performed under such a format, that they will do everything in their power to block any further "Debates" from adopting the same format.

The Saddleback experience has firmly cemented the Church's legitimate role in the future of Presidential Debates. Thanks are due to CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, Newsweek, and The New York Times for moving aside in your reporting coverage these past months, and allowing Rick Warren to have a place in history. Thank God for people with courage and moral fortitude like Pastor Rick Warren who are willing to examine the issues facing our country without regard to the profit motive. Freedom of The Press Should not be for sale! Take heed CNN. Pay attention MSNBC. Learn something CBS. We've just made news here ABC. Are you reading between the lines here Mr. Editor of The New York Times? Can you figure out the implication of this story Newsweek? I hope all of you are listening. The silence is truly deafening!

re: ALTER: The Smear Gap

ApostasyUSA — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:54:08 GMT

"As usual, news organizations are deeply afraid to say that one side is more negative than the other. Doing so sounds "unfair." It's much easier, and less controversial, to say that "both candidates" are being negative. That would be "balanced", but also untrue..."

Right on!!

My guess is Sen. McCain is using the same technique that the Bush administration exercised to great success during its entire tenure: Tell a lie often enough and people believe it's true. Especially when the press is either so woefully uninformed or willfully non-confrontational (or both) that they allow such gaffes to pass unchallenged, while the citizenry is too busy watching "American Idol" to care.

Here...let me just help proliferate the right wing "opinion base" simulacrum:

The economy has made great progress. Obama supporters are welfare sponges. Democrats are traitors. Republicans are patriots. America is admired around the world. The constitution is for weaklings. Everyone to the left of Dick Cheney is a socialist. We now own Mexico and China. The Saudis beg us for more oil. The millions facing foreclosure are whiners. The largest income inequality since the Great Depression is meaningless. Al-Qaeda has been destroyed. Iran has been weakened. Federal spending over the last 8 years has reduced by a trillion dollars. Scientific facts are a liberal conspiracy. 82% who think the country is on the wrong track drink kool-aid. 66% who disapprove of Bush are communists. Upper-income tax cuts during war make sense. The dollar has never been stronger. NAFTA creates jobs. Only greedy poor people and the media bellyache about skyrocketing gas prices. After 8 years of the greatest president of all time, Obama will destroy America.

Remember:

The media is only as liberal as the giant corporations that own it.

re: ALTER: The Smear Gap

orion12 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:41:39 GMT

Well Alter has hit the nail on the head. It is so unfortunate that Obama has to put up negative ads about McCain. If he does not he is at a disadvantage. But good for him he measures it. But McCain really does not care. It is his style and will play dirty all the way. I think that this article should be read by McCain. But will it do anything to him? I doubt it. Meanwhile I hope and believe Obama will continue to take the high road.