Tapper again referred to 'Barack Hussein Obama'

[kurth]

Tapper again referred to 'Barack Hussein Obama'

ABC News senior national correspondent Jake Tapper ended a February 9 post on his ABC News weblog Political Punch by asking: "What do you all think of Mr. Barack Hussein Obama?" Previously, as Media Matters for America has noted, on the January 16 edition of ABC's Nightline, during a report on the Illinois senator's decision to form a presidential exploratory committee, Tapper referred to Obama as "Barack Hussein Obama" and asked: "Just who the hell is Barack Obama? And why, in these dangerous times, should he be entrusted with the most powerful job on Earth?"

In a January 24 post, Tapper had criticized what he called the "sliming" of Obama in connection with the now-debunked InsightMag.com article that alleged Obama attended a madrassa in Indonesia. Yet Tapper continued to use Obama's middle name, even after a January 28 Washington Post editorial described it as a "sleazy tactic." The Post noted that Obama does not use his middle name and argued that people "who take pains to insert it when referring to him are trying, none too subtly, to stir up scary images of menacing terrorists and evil dictators." The editorial stated that using Obama's middle name "would be merely juvenile if it weren't so contemptible," adding that those who employ it "embarrass only themselves."

Media Matters has documented numerous instances of media figures referring to Obama using his middle name. Most recently, MSNBC's Imus in the Morning executive producer Bernard McGuirk, apparently in reference to "Hussein," said Obama has a "Jew-hating name."

Tapper has referred to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards as "Johnny" (and did so again in his Feb. 9 post; "Johnny" is apparently Edwards' given name) and to Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), also a presidential candidate, as "the Kooch." He frequently ends his posts by asking some variation of the question, "What do you think?"....

http://mediamatters.org/items/200702090018

[Gabi Hayes]

1. who's worse, take your pick: ABC, with Mark Halperin calling the shots, or NBC, with

Tim Russert?

spoiled meat, or week-old diarrhea?

[Jim Sagle]

4. That's easy. ABC is MUCH worse.

ABC openly ridicules Democrats. Except for Tweety, NBC treats them respectfully if not fairly.

The local NBC affilate covered Obama's kick-off speech this AM. ABC didn't bother (nor did CBS or FOX).

[Gabi Hayes]

7. you have a good point there, especially when you take The Note

into account.

and Halperin does seem to exist in a world of denial of his clearly right wing leanings

see Eric Boehlert's review of his book about 'winning', or whatever BS hommage to RW Gingrichian/Rovian/Goebbelsism it was.

[papau]

13. I agree n/t

n/t

[Bitwit1234]

2. Slur and smear.

That's all the republics have got. It a damn shame that congress does not get off their butts and enact that Fairness Doctrine for the media. And it is a shame that someone does not start a lawsuit against one of the networks so maybe they will tell the truth once in a while. Til we get that bill enacted they are going to spew bush's poopoganda far and wide with no one to stop them.

[Buzz Clik]

3. It's his name.

As is George Herbert Walker Bush.

Shrug it off and move on.

[Jim Sagle]

6. Jake, is that you?

[Gabi Hayes]

8. jimbob...check your PMs

[PCIntern]

5. Jake the Snake had a date with Monica Lewinsky

about a thousand years ago, political time, and he has parlayed it into being the king of all cockroaches. Well, maybe the son-in-law-elect of cockroaches. Forgive the exaggeration.

[Bluebear]

9. Jake Tapper is straight?

That surprises me.

[Gabi Hayes]

10. I wanna hear more about FEITH!!!!

didn't you have to regulary beat the crap out of him?

what an ASShole

[LibDemAlways]

11. Expect to hear that a lot more. The repukes will be

smitten with Obama's middle name and will bring it up at every opportunity. It's a cheap shot, but an easy one.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

12. speaking of names - Rudolph Guiliani

[Cha]

14. Oh Fuck..we have a homindical

fucktard in charge now and tappert is quibling about Obama?

I used to think tappert was progressive? Sold out or always a jerkoff? :freak:

[bling bling]

15. Personally, I think that the more he says it now the better.

The more people say his full name the sooner people will become habituated to it. I say "people", referring to the dolts who are so annoyingly immature that they don't understand a middle name that = the last name of an Iraqi dictator doesn't mean jack shit.

I thought I was dissappointed in Americans when * was re-elected. That will be nothing compared to my disappointment if Obama's middle name becomes an actual factor that sways a significant number of voters.

[Pyrzqxgl]

16. Look! The guy either uses the initials BHO or simply BO

either way the Right is going to use it for what their side calls humor. I'm sure Obama has coped with this for a long time. I remember we used to cut up GOLDWATER bumper stickers to read OLDWETRAG. I'm sure we'll figure out ways to degrade Rudy, or Mitt. or McCain as well. Thats politics folks.