ABC News's Good Morning America just did a brief piece that began

[No Elephants]

'To understand McCain, you must understand the Navy. To understand Obama, you must understand Hawaii, then cut immediately to a demonstration by the CURRENT Hawaiaan secessionist movement. It then went to things that make Hawaiians reluctant to fight, the primary one being Hawaii's racial diversity. When it ended, the anchor mentioned it was interesting to see the forces that shaped Obama.

WHAT?

[dennis4868]

1. The media is seriously...

fucked up and I only hope that Obama and America does not pay the price for it...

[OKNancy]

2. I saw it as a positive piece

They talked about the Hawaiian attitudes that one talks out your problems.
They also said that they didn't like slime tactic, but preferred to sit down with ones enemies.

[No Elephants]

7. What was positive--or relevant--about leading with the secessionist movement of today when Obama has

not lived in Hawaii since he was graduated from high school? They were providing cover for Todd Palin. And never wanting to fight is not a great trait for the President of a nation currently involved in two real wars and a fake war on terra.

[MJkcj]

3. thats unbelievable!

Is there a way to protest that kind of "reporting". email abc? Boycott abc news?

[AllieB]

4. And yet they never draw the parallel of Palin's membership in a secessionist

movement.

[flpoljunkie]

6. Call it what it is, journalistic malpractice for ABC conveniently ignoring this relevant fact.

[No Elephants]

11. I know what you mean, but, technically, malpractice is negligence. This was an intentional. effort

to provide cover for Todd Palin, to emphasize the racial issue and to make Obama seem as though he would be an appeaser.

[flpoljunkie]

13. Malpractice at its core is simply 'bad' practice.

[No Elephants]

8. Um, there is NO parallel. Palin was a member of a secessionist party for years. What goes on in

Hawaii today did NOT shape Obama in the 60's and 70's, when he lived there. Obama was never part of the secessionist movement, nor did it "shape" him.

[dennis4868]

5. TO UNDERSAND MCCAIN...

you must understand G Gordon Liddy....

[No Elephants]

10. There you go. And McCain says that Liddy paid his debt to society by going to jail, so it's all

good. Ayers turned himself in, but the charges were dropped bc of government misconduct. Therefore, through no fault of his own, Ayers, according to McCain, has to be a pariah forever. Please, God, help me not to hate a large portion of my own country. Please help me.

[Enthusiast]

15. Good and timely prayer. nt

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

9. To understand ABC...

you have to understand Times Square circa 1979.

What a bunch of media whores...

[No Elephants]

12. Here is a link to contact information for ABC News. This would, of

course be Good Morning America (Weekend edition). http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3068843. I don't think info on this story is on the website yet. Maybe once the show is off the air, it will be here. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/

You know what to do.

[Enthusiast]

14. ABC has zero credibility.

They are no more credible than Fox News. But they should be called for this smear piece. Every time one of these one sided "news" sources gives slanted information they should be called out.