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Wanker of the Day

by BooMan
Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 03:27:11 AM EST

Michael Falcone. Anyone care to make a count of the numerous ways this front-page New York Times article is biased and stupid?

Wanker of the Day | 17 comments (17 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Wanker of the Day (4.00 / 2)

If that had been McCain on vacation in Hawaii, there is no doubt that the NY Times would have portrayed him as a good family man doing the decent thing and taking a break from politics to spend time with his kids. I'm surprised the Times didn't Photoshop those snow cones and substitute watermelons.

Beating McCain is the easy part. Fighting against the biased, corrupt, and incompetent corporate media is Obama's real challenge. That's where the real fight is going to take place in this campaign.

by eagleye on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 02:00:16 AM EST

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My guess is this Kathleen Hall Jamieson fool loves Cokie Roberts and needs an Island vacation.

Perhaps that is why Mr. Obama has played down his Hawaiian roots, said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Obama's biographical narrative has focused on his mother from Kansas and father from Kenya, and less on his time in Oahu.
"When you're being accused of being an elitist," Ms. Jamieson said, "and when people are using code words such as `exotic' in order to describe you and your background, you would not want to locate your biography in Hawaii, if you had a choice."

This is a behavior of DC punditry is to "talk about other people" using such GOP style attacks while making them yourself with your kneecapping comments but cleverly blaming "others" for the issue.

McCain wears 500 dollar shoes, owns 10 homes and flies around in his own 12mil jet but Obama is the "elitist?" Pathetic. Thank GOD the New York Times is liberal and I can only imagine if it wasn't!

Blue Tidal Wave

by Mac G on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 01:58:40 AM EST

Re: Wanker of the Day (4.00 / 2)

If you will allow me a moment of self-indulgence...

Part of my job description as a blogger is to read dreck like that and then figure out the best way to explain everything that is wrong with it.

You can see the job before you as your read it. It's really a Sisyphusian job, because there is no end to it and you never feel like you've really accomplished anything when you are done.

But every once in a while a column comes along that is SO bad that it outstrips my endurance and I just don't have the energy for it. That's when I ask you, dear readers, to do my job for me. This is one of those of times.

by BooMan on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 02:17:17 AM EST
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And sometimes the article is so ridiculous on its face you know just can ignore it and go back to knowing you do an infinitely better job for much less money.

More at Zandar vs. The Stupid.

by Zandar1 on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 11:05:09 AM EST
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Let's not be running down $500 shoes. I wear $500 shoes. McCain wears 1500 dollar shoes.

Knut

by Knut Wicksell (b_didnn@hotmail.ca) on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 09:58:06 AM EST
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Wow, I can hardly comprehend $50 shoes!

by eeblet (bethbudwig at g mail) on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 12:54:10 PM EST
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Did it really make the front page? At the bottom it says "A version of this article appeared in print on August 15, 2008, on page A15 of the New York edition." Ridiculous if it did. Well, ridiculous regardless.

by dogooder on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 02:26:27 AM EST

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It probably only appears on the front-page in the web edition.

by BooMan on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 02:30:29 AM EST
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the media has Obama on the defensive...their whiteness is showing. I say that because McCain lies and presumptuousness goes unchallenged - like sending Lieberman Graham to Georgia. Just imagine Obama upstaging Bush?

Gotta say the dude looks cool, focused on enjoying his ice cream and his family. You wouldn't thinks he's anywhere near a campaign even for dog catcher.

Obama has a plan to go for the gold and will not allow himself to be distracted by hyper mediaphiles in a festival of juvenilia. Ask Phelps how that works, tuning out the noise.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 09:31:52 AM EST
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The most horrible thing about it the NYT's Georgian bias. Why would it be tacitly endorsing the view that the separatists are BAD and Georgia is GOOD and Obama is BAD for not saying Georgia is GOOD? Unless...

Nah, the NYT couldn't possible be beholden to oil interests.

by eeblet (bethbudwig at g mail) on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 03:02:10 AM EST

Re: Wanker of the Day (4.00 / 2)

Nowhere in the NYT will you find the following:

1.Georgia is a US-Israeli client state.
2.Georgia unleashed violence on the S.Ossetian civilians using weapons provided by US/Israel and training provided by Israelis.
3.The aim of this terror campaign against the S.Ossetian people,as in the usual Israeli M.O. is ethnic cleansing of the S.Ossetians.By driving the S.Ossetians Northward,the Georgians are implementing a Georgia for Georgians policy.
4.No one appears to state the obvious: This magnificent little war is designed to revive the all-but-dead campain of McCrypt.
5.No one would say a thing about where Karl Rove and Condi Rice were before the outbreak of hostilities.Karl was vacationing in the Crimea (talk of an "exotic" location!) and Condi was buying shoes in Tbilisi.

True to his pedigree as a NYT reporter, Falcone assumes the following:When the US uses overwhelming force,as in Iraq, it is good.When the Russians use the same tactics in their own backyard it is bad.No one is allowed to do anything that promotes their self interest.Ony the US is allowed to do so.

This is another article that sheds light on the art of not seeing and not asking any questions.

by KlatooBaradaNikto (easwar7@aol.com) on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 07:12:01 AM EST
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Georgia is an Israeli client so it's hard for NYT to print the truth of the matter. Both were enablers of pre-emptive invasion of Iraq, a precedent for Russia...except that Russia has not displayed shock and awe in Georgia.

Israelis are masterful at disinformation. Masterful controllers of the media. ~~Shrills~~ spies found in the most unlikely places.

Who'd have thought Julia Childs was a spy?

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 09:38:34 AM EST
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Oh, good grief!

...he emerged from his beachfront rental home to condemn Russia's escalation, in a way that seemed timed for the evening television news.

Wooooww! That's sooooo bad of Obama! I mean, it's not like any other politician in all of American history has ever timed his announcements for maximum media exposure. Bad Obama! tsk, tsk, tsk!

by rich2506 on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 09:45:47 AM EST

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I guess it was the early line about McCain showing his foreign policy credentials. It's sort of like a dementia patient's trousers fall to his ankles without him noticing, he trips and falls, and the NYTimes comments not only on his fine dance steps but his sharp new outfit.

by Bob In Pacifica on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 10:17:49 AM EST

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The article failed to mention that McCain gained his fluency about Georgia from Wikipedia.

by Joyful Alternative on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 10:51:26 AM EST

McCain == Bush (none / 0)

McCain loses no opportunity to emphasize his backing of Bush policies.
Bush policies are less popular day by day.
Why oughtn't Obama take some time off while McCain champions Bush?
Why does the spellcheck on this site tag Obama?

"Think this through with me, Let me know your mind" Hunter/Garcia

by epcraig (epcraigatgmaildotcom) on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 11:00:45 AM EST

A hack-tastic hit (none / 0)

McSame has taken just about every weekend off, was basically chillin' until June, but Obama can't take a week off? Whatever.

And of course, John McCain isn't presumptuous or anything, calling for more war. Just sayin'...!!!

The stupid: it burns, it burns!

Presumptuous is the new uppity.

by AP on Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 12:28:28 PM EST

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