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McCamy Taylor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 05:53 AM
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(Coming Soon) The Press vs. Hillary Clinton
Edited on Fri Mar-07-08 05:55 AM by McCamy Taylor
I thought I would just whip this one out. Boy, was I underestimating the hatred of the corporate media for Hillary Clinton. All you Hillary bashers out there who think you come by your Hillary hatred naturally-- boy are you in for a surprise. You have been drinking MSM Koolaid All you Obama supporters who think that your man did it it all by his lonesome---you are going to be shocked, absolutely shocked at how much corporate media support your candidate has had since January of 2007. All you Hillary supporters--it is not your imagination. The entire mainstream media is out to get Hillary. And every mini campaign that they initiate against her has the direct effect of making Obama's campaign stronger in the primary election---but will end up weakening him in the general.

So far I have 35 (!!!!) pages of links and notes to work with. It has taken me about six hours to go through just Media Matters. Since it is almost 5 am here I am going to call it a night and do some more research tomorrow. MM sort of scrimps on some journalists that I know probably have done a little more Hillary bashing than MM gives them credit for.

This will be a first for me. A document about a media campaign against a candidate before the candidate has been bumped out of the race. Complete with names, because journalists need to credit for their media whore ways. If Hillary really is the crazed, knife wielding Lady MacBeth that they describe her as being they had better watch out!

Jesus Christ! How is Hillary still in the Democratic Primary? Maybe she really does have super powers. Or maybe women, who make up a lot of her supporters, can see through a media smear.

If anyone has some choice links to really wretched smears and media lies plus add them as replies. I am not going to focus on Tweety much except for his Penn said the word "Cocaine" Big Lie and his recent (post apology) atrocities. He has already been covered.

PS If anyone felt sorry for David Schuster, don't. Everyone at MSNBC except Craig Crawford can burn in hell. KO gets purgatory for not trying harder to stop them.
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leftofcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 06:08 AM
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1. Most of us have known this
It has never been a secret that in order to kill Obama for the GE, you have to get rid of Hillary first. Anyone who thinks Rove has not been working overtime on this, I have some swamp land for you. This has been in the works by the Right Wing since Obama announced. Build up Hillary, get rid of Edwards so the corporations would be happy, then get Hillary out of the way and go after Obama. All part of the plan and now that you have Dems divided, makes it easier for the plan to work.
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 06:19 AM
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2. Lookout -- here comes the Waaahmbulance
It's not fair!! They're picking on the girl!!




BTW, we all wonder how the fuck Hillary is still in the Democratic party. Oh wait -- she's not.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 06:26 AM
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3. I don't hate Hilary BUT
I don't think she's fit to be the nominee. She might make a capable president but she's all wrong to be the standard bearer of the party.

Now let me inform YOU. I don't watch TV. Haven't in many a year. I don't even have TV. I don't listen to trash radio- ever. I read a wide variety of material. I surf the net.


Yes, the MSM has been unfair to Hillary, but she's responsible for part of it, and she's actually done things to earn the ire of real dems.
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 06:32 AM
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4. More than anything, the Malignant Media "disappeared" John Edwards.
They created the circus we're watching now.
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leftofcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 06:39 AM
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6. They sure did
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earthlover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 06:33 AM
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5. They are conspiring? Out to get her? Plot?
Edited on Fri Mar-07-08 06:39 AM by earthlover
Interesting display of emotion!

Hillary was named the front runner in the first place, before 04 was even over, by the media. They could have named someone more...er....experienced. Like Biden, Dodd, etc. But they didn't.

She has had the lion's share of media coverage, most of it positive all through last Spring, Summer and into the Fall. When Obama started to do better, he got some media play too and this, I guess, is what is driving the Hillary "entitlement crowd" into a tizzy.

No candidate could lose 11 primaries/caucuses in a row and be taken seriously as a contender. Except for Queen Hillary. The Hillary campaign's talking points are dutifully reported in the media.

Just this morning as I was listening to NPR they were reporting about the Obama campaign being like Ken Starr. I guess because they are wanting Hillary to be good on her promise to release her tax records and records on the Clinton Library that have been years in coming. Source was the Clinton "conference call". Isn't it interesting that the media doesn't have to really do any work any more, they just listen to the spin coming from a campaign's "conference call" and call it news. The conference call sets the topics the media dutifully talk about in the next news cycle. Oh yeah, the media are out to get Hillary. Right.....

I am glad you stayed up so late to find your dirt. Although you didn't give us any specific examples at all. Just whining.

Maybe Hillary is doing as well as she is because a lot of women, as you said, think she is being picked on by the media. Maybe it is a group whine. Maybe it is a cult. I don't know. Cults are notorious for thinking the outside world is out to get them, and paranoia reigns supreme.

Get. Over. It.
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Jawja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 07:10 AM
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12. The GOP Corporate Media
has been playing her stupid "who do you want to answer the red phone at 3 AM" ad for FREE ever since it came out. I haven't heard them blare the new twist on the Canadian Nafta story YET, except for KO.

Both CNN and MSNBC (especially CNN) are keeping the "should the Florida and Michigan delegates be seated" issue front and center ad nauseous.

They are, with out a shadow of a doubt, shrilling to keep this race going with all Hillary, all day, all channels.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 06:43 AM
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7. So far, they are squarely in your camp.
Edited on Fri Mar-07-08 06:44 AM by mmonk
They could tell the truth about Fla. and MI. but they don't. They could tell the whole truth in regards to Naftagate, but they don't. Hopefully, KO will keep pointing things out since he's the sole progressive sounding anchor in major media.
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thoughtcrime1984 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 07:00 AM
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11. Exactly
But Hillary supporters have decried KO as a hack because he doesn't kiss the ass of the Republicrat. The MSM steered Tuesday's election with endless loops of the bullshit NAFTA-gate, the Rezko trial, and Tubbs-Jones. All flowers and balloons for Ms. 3AM. Viva la Olbermann!
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TheZug Donating Member (886 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 06:48 AM
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8. They're always against my favorite sports teams, too!!!
I don't know how I always manage to pick the teams the media hate the most, but I do! They're so mean and unfair!
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Perry Logan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 06:50 AM
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9. Sounds fascinating. I'm sure 99% of the anti-Clinton feeling at DU comes from media brainwashing.
Edited on Fri Mar-07-08 06:51 AM by Perry Logan
The press has been smearing Hillary for nigh onto 20 years. It's simple neurology--you cannot possibly hear that much hatred, repeated that much, and not be influenced by it.
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Maraya1969 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 06:55 AM
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10. The MSM did not say McCain is better suited to be president than Obama
in a time of crisis. The msm did not darken and distort Obama's face in that 3am ad. The msm did not whisper the NAFTA lie to get it started like a game of telephone.

I know I'm leaving things out.

But trust me; I've listened to the msm throughout this whole primary and it was not until a few days ago that my stomach turned against Hillary. And it was a direct result of what came out of her mouth or from her campaign.
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Jawja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 07:12 AM
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13. But the GOP Corporate Media
keeps playing her over and over SAYING IT.

Just like they gave the Swift Boat Scum for Republicans a big platform to spew their lies on Kerry in 2004. She is getting massive free advertising from them.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 07:15 AM
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14. Craig Crawford is a likable wank. I think he beats off to much
Craig is so blind and has fur hair like hands.

McCamy you say a lot about yourself when you talk about 'hell' 'Jesus Christ' and 'super powers' Perhaps your just another likable wanker like Crawford, but I doubt it!!
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Carolina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 07:23 AM
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15. I came by my Hillary hatred naturally
After being a staunch Clinton supporter in the 90s, I watched her Senate behavior, cozying up to Bush and calculatingly vote for IWR. Then I have watched her primary campaign... experienced, ready on day one. Bullshit. But same repuke modus operandi: repeat some mantra (lie) often and loudly enough until the dweebs think it's true.

I never trusted the media, now I don't trust, and can't stand, her. And the media had nothing to do with it. It's her claculation, her triangulation, her hiring the likes of such loathesome people as Dick Morris, Mark Penn and Harold Wolson -- birds of a feather.

And KO is great; last night was one of his finest hours!
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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 07:26 AM
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16. K & R
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McCamy Taylor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-07-08 02:35 PM
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17. Just the responses I was expecting....but the article is not what you are expecting.
You had better get ready with a lot of "but, but, but", because what the corporate media has been doing and what is documented on the internet for all to see is absolutely mind blowing.

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