Video: NBC reporter admits it’s “hard to stay objective” when covering Obama
posted at 4:05 pm on January 8, 2008 by Bryan
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Brian Williams is quoting NBC reporter Lee Cowan here, Cowan being the designated beat reporter covering Obama. Expect it to become part of the Billary campaign’s rhetoric asap.
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Obama is just so cute and cuddly.
Just like Knut.
You all remember Knut? How objective was your press then?!
Keljeck on January 8, 2008 at 4:07 PM
The woman that they have on that show is such dead weight.
Spirit of 1776 on January 8, 2008 at 4:08 PM
These people are such suckers for this, you have to love it. Oh Obama *rubs nipples*
Sorry. Too much?
Dash on January 8, 2008 at 4:08 PM
Wow! Actually doesn’t surprise me that the dem’s would nominate a muslim candidate with proven indirect ties to Hezzbollah. They consistently prove the neverending depth of their stupidity.
HaraldHardrada on January 8, 2008 at 4:09 PM
I don’t know whether I should vote for him or just pray to him.
The Obamassiah indeed.
billy on January 8, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Unpossible. This seems to confirm recent reports that reporters may have hearts or brains, but cannot have both.
gabriel sutherland on January 8, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Oh Barak Obama is so DREAMY how can people not love him ! /Unbiased MSM
(edited to change I called him Bark Obama as I didnt hit my a key the second time.)
William Amos on January 8, 2008 at 4:10 PM
What, was it the D after his name?
Dusty on January 8, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Yeah. Just like her dad, unfortunately.
Bryan on January 8, 2008 at 4:10 PM
I heard the “M”-word there….
calbear on January 8, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Fixed it for ya Bryan.
fogw on January 8, 2008 at 4:11 PM
Interesting that the story around the table is not the loss of journalistic objectivity but the baptism of white babies in Obama’s ora.
regal on January 8, 2008 at 4:11 PM
The MSM biased for a liberal Democrat???
Wow… who,da thunk it, huh.
Always Right on January 8, 2008 at 4:12 PM
OK BRYN and ALAHPUNDIT if we can’t get Obama’s record how about some reporting on HOTAIR
KBird on January 8, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Did anyone else see Williams’s eyes turn into Valentine hearts for a few frames?
jukin on January 8, 2008 at 4:13 PM
I may be sorry I asked this question, but um…What?
someguy on January 8, 2008 at 4:14 PM
What exactly are you saying?
John_Locke on January 8, 2008 at 4:15 PM
Did someone say nipples?
Hoodlumman on January 8, 2008 at 4:15 PM
Cover it with your notebook, Brian.
snickelfritz on January 8, 2008 at 4:15 PM
My goodness. “They were talking about white America.” ???
Three of the most ignorant rascist people on camera in the whole dam world. There’s more objective media working at Al Jeezera. There’s a more objective media working for Al Qaeda. I’d venture to say they smell bad too.
Griz on January 8, 2008 at 4:15 PM
Thanks for opening that can of worms for me… I have NO idea where you’d get that
John_Locke on January 8, 2008 at 4:16 PM
Just watched the video.
Drool bibs, all around please.
fogw on January 8, 2008 at 4:17 PM
Dude.
jewells45 on January 8, 2008 at 4:18 PM
http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm
He converts to Afro-centric Christian Universalism(I refuse to call the UCC Christian) about the same time he talks about getting into politics.
ninjapirate on January 8, 2008 at 4:18 PM
Wow. People were holding their kids in his direction to see this site and catch his aura…
The Messiah!
amerpundit on January 8, 2008 at 4:19 PM
Now that video is just over the top! That was worse than openly cheerleading for the guy. Yet this is the state of all the Press concerning Obama. I’ve heard the guy, he’s not that different than any other stump speech artist in the past. Oh well, we’ll see how this plays out.
Weight of Glory on January 8, 2008 at 4:19 PM
Brian Williams is a incredibly stupid person.
benrand on January 8, 2008 at 4:20 PM
Antoin Rezko was Hussein O’s #1 campaign funding source for illinois legistlature run. Rezko was known for buying several others in the illinois leg. Rezko did several corrupt deals with Obama such as selling him property for half market price and buying it back from him for twice market value. Antoin Rezko is a lebanese “businessman” who has several family members in lebanon that are affiliated with Hezzbollah!
HaraldHardrada on January 8, 2008 at 4:21 PM
*Yawn*…MSM subjective? Impossible.
Fox is talking about the Mitt/McCain gap narrowing as we chatter.
blankminde on January 8, 2008 at 4:21 PM
I know how Hillary can steal all the press attention away from Obama that he could never do…she should start wearing SKIRTS!!! Imagine how much discussion those milky calves would generate.
mattyj86 on January 8, 2008 at 4:22 PM
I think it’s time B.H.O. gets a Lloyd Bensen style “I knew Jack Kennedy. You Senator, are no Jack Kennedy” slapdown…
max1 on January 8, 2008 at 4:22 PM
People holding out their babies at him and middle aged women kissing him on the cheek?
That’s the real reason The Glacier has cracked. People are hiding their babies from her, and no one would touch her with even a 10-foot stick. (Especially her own husband.)
Jealousy’s a m6thaf789er…
AlexB on January 8, 2008 at 4:23 PM
Stunning, the fawning and idolizing over that guy.
As they say in Shrek the Third… “ewwweth!”
jjjen on January 8, 2008 at 4:24 PM
Brian has spent too much time in the tanning booth.
jewells45 on January 8, 2008 at 4:24 PM
So NBC has admitted that as far as Obama’s concerned, they’re nothing more than the screaming girls in old Beatles concert footage?
Frozen Tex on January 8, 2008 at 4:25 PM
Only thing missing was the big Ohhprah and a cigarette afterwards.
infidel on January 8, 2008 at 4:25 PM
Chris Matthews begs to differ.
TexasDan on January 8, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Wow.
Two “How to be Gay” posts in one day!
George Antrobes on January 8, 2008 at 4:27 PM
So true.
I’m a pretty easy going guy, but she gets under my skin with her faux-intellectual inputs. Like she’ll nod her head emphatically or interject a laugh of something like it makes her comments relevant to the conversation. Please.
Spirit of 1776 on January 8, 2008 at 4:27 PM
This might have deserved the “Quote of the Day”..
Heck, this may deserve “Quote of the Year”..
Get used to it gents, it hasn’t even started yet, none of us have ever seen what is coming in 2008 media wise.
saus on January 8, 2008 at 4:28 PM
OBAMA spelled backwards is AM A BO. So, the question is, what’s the BO stand for?
NNtrancer on January 8, 2008 at 4:28 PM
Memo to Brian Williams, you know why we think you’re biased?
Because you are.
Exit question, has anyone actually looked into what Obama would you know…do…if he were elected?
lodestonejames on January 8, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Here, let me help with a dose of reality:
Obama is protective of civil rights for Muslims in the U.S., saying, “In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging,” he laments. “I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
Obama sponsors Illinois Senate Bill 750 creating the “Halal Food Act,” providing for inspections by the Department of Agriculture to ensure that all food labeled Halal is prepared according to Islamic law.
Obama refused to vote for a bill in the Illinois State Senate that would have increased penalties for drug traffickers.
Obama voted against a bill that would have delivered the death penalty to gang members who murder first responders.
Obama was the only member of the Illinois State Senate to vote against a bill that prohibited early release for sexual predators.
Obama supports homosexual marriage, racial preferences, gun control, flag-burning, socialized medicine and the absolute right to abortion, including partial-birth abortions. He voted against requiring medical care for aborted fetuses who survive.
Obama is anti-war, voted against the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act, against privatizing Social Security and opposes the death penalty, three strikes laws and school vouchers. He has no military service record.
Obama opposed the Defense of Marriage Act; would work to repeal it in the U.S. Senate; would not vote for any legislation that would restrict the ability of gays and lesbians to marry.
Obama opposed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act four times in Illinois. A similar bill passed the U.S. Senate 98-0. The Born Alive bill would have prohibited a baby from being born alive but left to die according to the mother’s wishes.
Obama opposed this bill not once, twice, or three times, but four times.
Obama took almost $90,000 in bundled contributions from the Council for a Livable World. The council is a well-known anti-defense organization.
Obama, sharing his vision of America as welfare state with the annual meeting of the National Council of La Raza, compared last year’s massive immigration rallies, led by Hispanics, to the civil-rights marches of African-Americans in the 1960’s.
Obama recommended a 12.4 percent Social Security tax hike on “the rich” — those who make more than $97,000 per year. The tax would be paid by employees and half would be paid by employers.
Alden Pyle on January 8, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Un friggin believable!
Standard liberal hypocrisy. If this had been a Fox News reporter reporting on the Romney campaign, there would be death threats along with pretty much every nasty name in the book. But because he’s a liberal, supporting a liberal … it’s “courageous.”
Is there ANY campaign (other than Hillary) where there aren’t woman throwing their arms around the candidate and wishing him luck? Why does he act like this is something new? I’m going to go puke now.
Gregor on January 8, 2008 at 4:31 PM
Thanks, Matty. I just threw up in my mouth.
BacaDog on January 8, 2008 at 4:31 PM
This Just In: I am currently typing keys to construct a sentence, then posting it.
ThePrez on January 8, 2008 at 4:31 PM
Hard to “stay” objective? When have the MSM ever been objective, when it comes to Obamanation, or any other ultra-liberal Democrat, for that matter?
AZCoyote on January 8, 2008 at 4:31 PM
Funny. Accurate. And Brian Williams, they did catch you being the biased liberal Media - but it’s an easy catch.
mksmithwriter on January 8, 2008 at 4:32 PM
That is just freaking frightening.
29Victor on January 8, 2008 at 4:33 PM
Barack Hussein Obama was born to a muslim father from kenya and a white mother who was a convert to islam. After Hussein O’s father left him his muslim mother sought out and married another muslim man this time from indonesia(remember this was 40 years ago where it was a very rare sight to see a muslim in America) Barack Hussein’s grandfather was a muslim with multiple wives. As a a boy Hussein O travelled to indonesia with his muslim stepfather and studied in a muslim madrassa. Barack Hussein Obama registered himself as a muslim in the madrassa in indonesia and again later in schools in America. He has studied islam his whole life. In Hussein Obama’s book he said ” I wanted to move to Chicago to be in the same neighborhood as my hero Louis Farrakhan. Barack Hussein’s bodyguards are known nation of islam members.
HaraldHardrada on January 8, 2008 at 4:33 PM
You say those things as if they are bad things. DOnt you know babies glow after they see Obama ?
/MSM
William Amos on January 8, 2008 at 4:33 PM
Nice catch.
Did you get that from the RNC or Begala?
fogw on January 8, 2008 at 4:34 PM
Joltin’ Joe Scarborough is easily the most pathetic of the three. He used to have a brain.
horatio on January 8, 2008 at 4:36 PM
Obama rejected the white, Christian, Americans (his mother and her parents) who raised him, in favor of the black Kenyan Muslim father who abandoned him at the age of 2. Obama’s heroes are people like Malcolm X. Obama belongs to a black supremacist church.
This is the fellow who is going to “unite” us all.
Right.
AZCoyote on January 8, 2008 at 4:38 PM
Barack Hussein Obama’s mother was not a Christian she was a muslim. She is dead now so it is not surprising that Hussein O would say she was a Christian.
HaraldHardrada on January 8, 2008 at 4:41 PM
Ok I am eating lunch and you made me lose it. Thanks!
upinak on January 8, 2008 at 4:41 PM
Do they hear themselves? I would imagine the MSM would be a little less impressed if say, Bill O’Reilly developed a man-crush on Mitt Romney.
Laserjock on January 8, 2008 at 4:43 PM
Next up for MSM.
How Racist is America that it cant vote for a wonderful guy like Barak Obama ? Dont let racism prevent you for voting for Barak !
William Amos on January 8, 2008 at 4:43 PM
He’d bring “hope”. Now, no more questioning of the Messiah.
amerpundit on January 8, 2008 at 4:43 PM
Got it here http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm
It’s only the tip of the iceberg, I kid you not.
Alden Pyle on January 8, 2008 at 4:44 PM
OK, take that video of Brian Williams and put it next to this. Why would they be so unfriendly towards a Press that is finding it hard to be objective around him?
Weight of Glory on January 8, 2008 at 4:45 PM
Now it’s fixed
NoFanofLibs on January 8, 2008 at 4:49 PM
I never knew there was such a thing, but liberals always said there was. I guess they were right.
What a couple of brainless douches. Either they are just too stupid to hide their lack of objectivity anymore, or they figured out that they don’t need to.
Jaibones on January 8, 2008 at 4:50 PM
this deserves repeating….should probably be forwarded to all lamestream media as well…. it is such great ammo for when and if our republican nom needs it though…
HaraldHardrada on January 8, 2008 at 4:33 PM:
Barack Hussein Obama was born to a muslim father from kenya and a white mother who was a convert to islam. After Hussein O’s father left him his muslim mother sought out and married another muslim man this time from indonesia(remember this was 40 years ago where it was a very rare sight to see a muslim in America) Barack Hussein’s grandfather was a muslim with multiple wives. As a a boy Hussein O travelled to indonesia with his muslim stepfather and studied in a muslim madrassa. Barack Hussein Obama registered himself as a muslim in the madrassa in indonesia and again later in schools in America. He has studied islam his whole life. In Hussein Obama’s book he said ” I wanted to move to Chicago to be in the same neighborhood as my hero Louis Farrakhan. Barack Hussein’s bodyguards are known nation of islam members.
max1 on January 8, 2008 at 4:50 PM
They will never admit their anti-GOP bias.
infidel65 on January 8, 2008 at 4:50 PM
(sp.) aura
Although ora could be applicable in some conditions.
regal on January 8, 2008 at 4:51 PM
If Obama remedies the Kenya situation (shameless linking whoring), the election is done.
baldilocks on January 8, 2008 at 4:51 PM
Its hard to be objective when covering the Obama Christ, but not when “reporting” on news concerning regular Christ (or non-Muslim religion in general)?
Richard Bushnell on January 8, 2008 at 4:52 PM
Obama’s 40-year-old cousin Said Hussein Obama commented, “My cousin found it difficult when he came here to learn of his six half-brothers and sisters were born to four different mothers.
In addition to Obama’s half-sister, Auma (Obama’s right hand), Kezia has three sons by Barack Sr. Her two youngest, Bernard and Abo, live in Nairobi. They are all Muslims.
Check out the Black Value System he subscribes to at his church. http://www.tucc.org/black_value_system.html Imagine a white candidate with that adgenda..only substitute white for black while reading it, think the MSM would fawn over that?
Alden Pyle on January 8, 2008 at 4:52 PM
Geezalou, that was an eye-opening history lesson. Thanks for the tip.
(Recommended reading folks)
fogw on January 8, 2008 at 4:56 PM
lol at the premise… that an NBC News reporter was objective to begin with
bigbeas on January 8, 2008 at 4:56 PM
Women hugging him and holding their babies out to him. Wow! I’ve never seen that before in an election campaign.
/sarcasm
infidel65 on January 8, 2008 at 4:59 PM
‘Nuff said.
davidk on January 8, 2008 at 5:11 PM
well you could just knock me over with a feather .
Objective and NBC now there is an oxymoron
Mojack420 on January 8, 2008 at 5:16 PM
Silly NBC. Objectivity is for real news organizations
Drunk Report on January 8, 2008 at 5:23 PM
Which is why I would love for him to beat Billary in the Primary!
jjjen on January 8, 2008 at 5:24 PM
This is why MSNBC comes in 8th place with only a 4% vote
for “The most trusted name in news”.
efears on January 8, 2008 at 5:24 PM
Didn’t you read Helen Thomas the other day?
The msm is not objective or ethical because of bloggers….
/nuts
chewydog on January 8, 2008 at 5:41 PM
Occasionally I watch Morning Joe just to see if it’s still as pathetic as it was the last time I watched.
There are many things on the show that I dislike, but the main one is all the geezers male guest who fawn over Mika- She’s not attractive at all and she’s a moron to boot!
frank on January 8, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Saw a news alert on Fox today that some woman had passed out and was removed from an Obama rally on a stretcher…
Any bets on when panties start flying onto the stage when he shows up?
Wind Rider on January 8, 2008 at 5:47 PM
Heh. Another excellent example of foolish honesty.
eanax on January 8, 2008 at 5:50 PM
Laura Ingraham has been talking the last couple of days how exciting an Obama rally is and how easy it is to get caught up in it.
If it sinks the Clintons and Silky, Allah bless him.
Valiant on January 8, 2008 at 6:07 PM
He counts on it as part of his strategy:
There is an amazingly candid moment in Obama’s autobiography when he writes of his childhood discomfort at the way his mother would sexualize African-American men. “More than once,” he recalls, “my mother would point out Harry Belafonte is the best-looking man on the planet.” What the focus groups his advisers conducted revealed was that Obama’s political career now depends, in some measure, upon a tamer version of this same feeling, on the complicated dynamics of how white women respond to a charismatic black man.
Early in his run for the U.S. Senate in 2004, Obama’s pollsters discovered that women loved him, especially nice white ladies who like personalities more than politics and definitely don’t like political arguments.
Alden Pyle on January 8, 2008 at 6:16 PM
He’s counting on today’s libs wearing the same rose colored glasses, drug rugs and Jesus slippers that his mother wore.
To Obama, his mother is a Kumbaya-era liberal. He feels that she messed up her life due to naïve faith in Third World countries and Third World men.
Alden Pyle on January 8, 2008 at 6:24 PM
Wow, thanks Bryan. That was sycophantic in the extreme. I think we need some of Allah’s nasty robots as a palate cleanser!
Zorro on January 8, 2008 at 6:24 PM
Yeah,, that’s why it’s hard to watch the MSM when you want objective news.
JellyToast on January 8, 2008 at 6:25 PM
So, he’s Wesley Snipes in “Jungle Fever”?
Frozen Tex on January 8, 2008 at 6:25 PM
Obama trending big with baby aimers.
Dash on January 8, 2008 at 6:39 PM
His racist pastor is just one of his many weaknesses. This stuff from Trinity has been out there for a while; doesn’t anyone think that this is going to be examined in the rational world?
No one wants a racist black guy for President any more than any other kind of racist. I think.
Jaibones on January 8, 2008 at 6:40 PM
The Messiahbama is a Manchurian/Borg plant. Resistance is futile.
Don’t you guys read the news, even when HotAir links to it for you?
This guy is not a serious candidate. He only looks that way because the MSM is not serious.
Jack Ryan, where were you when we needed you????
fred5678 on January 8, 2008 at 6:57 PM
Trying to paint Obama as a racist will certainly make us look politically retarded.
The Race Card on January 8, 2008 at 7:09 PM
Someone get a mop.
ZK on January 8, 2008 at 7:15 PM
Yeah, but then he gets in office and mauls your face off.
- The Cat
MirCat on January 8, 2008 at 7:16 PM
It’s been
hardimpossible for the MSM to be objective for decades. Where’s the story here?Mojave Mark on January 8, 2008 at 8:36 PM
No, I was thinking more along the lines of….Mandingo!
Alden Pyle on January 8, 2008 at 8:43 PM
Dude. I don’t buy the rest of that crap that the new guy was spewing, but the Blackness Rules from Trinity UCC is real. I read it on their web site a year ago myself, and that link is accurate. No white racists made that up.
Now if you — and I believe that you said you’re African American — if you want to go through that list of crap and defend it as a Christian document that is not in any way racist, I’m all ears. The separatist nitwits that wrote that mess are Obama’s “spiritual advisors”.
Yeah, I think he’s a racist.
Jaibones on January 8, 2008 at 9:00 PM
This is a teaching moment for us, Race Card. Because some new HotAir commenter has thrown this stuff out for consumption (again) on the same day that Allah is wringing his hands over further evidence that Ron Paul has racist admirers. The comment count there is 542 presently.
Ron Paul is irrelevent, and claims zero involvement in the tripe that was written on a promoter’s newsletter.
So, here we have the winner of two Dem primaries, the media is having an Obasm, and just like them, you won’t be willing to look at this racist crap and call it that.
Do I have that right? No, we’re “retarded”.
Jaibones on January 8, 2008 at 9:06 PM
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