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I was hoping you'd rather have a civil discourse and would have e-mailed me. I would have gladly sent you the information I was referring to and we could have discussed it. Instead, you seem bent on being just another moronic jerk on a message board, so I'll provide some of the information I was talking about right here. However, after that, I'll be ignoring anything else you have to say. You're beyond pathetic to me.
First, I'm sure I don't have to tell you that there was a huge controversy over race in the primaries. However, contrary to popular opinion among media puppets of Obama's like Olbermann, Maddow, Chris Matthews, and others, this controversy was not engineered by the Clintons, as they claimed literally hundreds of times throughout the primaries, but instead, was engineered by the Obama campaign itself.
It began the night of the New Hampshire primary. Shockingly, especially so to Obama and his supporters, Obama didn't win New Hampshire; Hillary Clinton did. Knowing that even with his win in Iowa Obama still had less than 30% of the support of the black community in South Carolina (in fact I believe his poll numbers among blacks at that point was like 20% at that point, with Edwards getting somewhere close to his numbers, and Hillary garnering nearly all the rest) Obama's campaign saw the writing on the wall if they couldn't turn that around in a hurry.
Enter Jesse Jackson Jr. one of Obama's senior campaign advisers. He appears on MSNBC that night, hosted by none other than Keith Olbermann, and made the following comment (and I’m paraphrasing here, but it’s pretty accurate and you’re welcome to google for the YouTube video that shows it) that Hillary’s “tears” needed to be examined in light of the “Fact” (and fact is a complete falsehood on his part as he hasn’t got a clue as to whether this is factual) that Hillary never cried about Katrina. He made this remark three times, and its clear intent was to say HILLARY CLINTON DOESN’T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE.
No one from MSNBC, including Maddow, who was a panel member, made any comment about this heinous statement, and in fact her and Olbermann would reference it in smears of Clinton a few times over the coming 24 hours.
Professor Michael Eric Dyson of Georgetown (a major advocate of the Obama campaign who spoke on Obama’s behalf on every major political show on TV), also appeared on both MSNBC and CNN and began questioning whether the win by Hillary in New Hampshire was NOT because she had swayed voters in that state based on their belief that she was a more experienced, more qualified, and more genuine candidate, but rather that they, the voters, had simply voted for her and not Obama because he was black.
This charge of racism leveled at the New Hampshire voters who supported Hillary was a veiled attempt at painting ALL of Hillary Clinton's supporters (at least the white ones), in fact ALL Democrats who DIDN'T support Obama, as RACISTS, and both Olbermann and Maddow, among many others trumpeted this same charge by constantly asking their viewers, "Could this possibly be? after referencing Dyson's remarks. This was sheer and utter demagoguery on their part.
The Obama campaign then manufactured a controversy over Hillary's statement about MLK, which was ONLY made in response to OBAMA'S likening HIMSELF to MLK and JFK, claiming she had "DISSED" the man. Nothing could be further from the truth, but the media, especially Olbermann, Maddow, and Chris Matthews, all picked up on this and whipped it into a frenzy, in order to paint Hillary Clinton as, AT BEST, someone who wasn't sympathetic to blacks concerns or sensibilities.
The Obama campaign then went on to use Bill Clinton's words, where he OBVIOUSLY criticized Obama for his claim that he had been ADAMANTLY opposed to the Iraq War CONSISTENTLY TO THE SAME DEGREE, since before it started, and tried to paint those remarks as racist as well by misquoting Bill, twisting his words, and taking them completely out of context to suggest Bill Clinton had suggested Obama's ENTIRE campaign (and thereby the entire notion that a Black man could ever be president) was a "Fairy Tale". The TRUTH, though, is that Bill had said, CLEARLY AND CONCISELY, that Obama's claim that he had been consistent on his views about the war was a "Fairly Tale".
Now, some could argue this is an unfair criticism of Obama, as Ted Kennedy did, and that would have been a valid, if incorrect opinion in my view. However, they didn't do this. Instead, they clipped the speech by Bill to include NONE of the context of what he had said, and simply used the words "Give me a break, this whole thing is a Fairy Tale" as their quote from Bill, and then claimed he had said this in the context of saying Obama's entire campaign, his entire dream of becoming president, was a "Fairy Tale".
Are you recognizing any of this from what the Right-Wing scumbag DEMAGOGUES like Rush Limpballs are trying to do to Sotomayor? Well, Olbermann, Maddow, Chris Matthews, and many others on MSNBC ran with this one for literally weeks, consistently misquoting Bill in order to obscure and confuse the FACTS and to play on the emotions, passions, and prejudices of blacks and others. That, again, is sheer and utter demagoguery.
I'll end it there. There are literally dozens more examples. I'm sure someone like you is likely to ignore what I've already supplied, so why bother with more. You'll shrug it off and say, "ahh, that's BS." You can do so, but you're only lying to yourself. All of this is FACT. On the record, and utterly true. They did this, and they've never even ONCE apologized to the Clintons for it. To me, Olbermann, Maddow, Chris Matthews, and others are pure scum. Obama at least has the excuse that he was fighting for his life in a presidential contest. Yes, his tactics were heinous and trite, but they were done, I believe, simply out of his desire to win.
Olbermann, Maddow, Chris Matthews, and others, being journalists, while they may want a candidate to win, and support him, should be above employing such heinous tactics themselves. They're supposed to be the arbiters of truth in our society. Obama was simply being a politician. All of them fight dirty at times. The media figures I'm talking about weren't "just being reporters", they were COMPLETELY ABANDONING their role as reporters, and became nothing but shils. Total media whores for the Obama campaign.
For that, they have my utter contempt, and likely always will. To me, in many ways, they're no better than Sean Insanity, Bill O'Lielly, and Rush Limpballs. For while they champion liberal, progressive, and Democratic causes, they've shown me that at the drop of a hat they will abandon their integrity in a heartbeat. In fact, they've shown they have not a shred of integrity to begin with.
And if you don't like that I say so, too friggin bad. Go cry to someone else.
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