Will the newspapers toss Obama under the bus now?

30 thousand comedians out of work and you are applying for a job?

Many people will conclude that the print media will come back around to Obama after venting their spleen this week. Don’t be so sure. They believe in the public financing system — the Washington Post’s Watergate reporting practically invented it. If Obama wins, that system is dead.

I hate to disagree with you, but the public financing system was supported by the presstitutes only because it favored liberals, and getting the most-liberal candidate possible elected is the goal of the presstitutes, not because they actually believed in it. Now that it is not needed to create an advantage for liberals, it will be thrown under the bus, not Obama.

Sure there will be exceptions, but they will prove to be far and in between.

Many people will conclude that the print media will come back around to Obama after venting their spleen this week. Don’t be so sure.

Count me as one of those people who believe that after a weekend-long interval of teeth-gnashing, the media will go right back to carrying water for the Obama. His election over McCain is in my opinion much much more important to the media elites in this country than any thought of campaign finance reform.

Within a week, we’ll be told by MSM big-hitters not only is this issue irrelevant and Obama only did what he had to do to secure hope and change but it will be considered racist to think otherwise.

Don’t be so sure.

That’s funny. I’m sure they will get over it. They gave him a little spanking and now they will move on. Marxism is more important than integrity.

Or reveal themselves as whores

I vote for that one. Who’s keeping score?

I swear, if you hear guffaws echoing across the valleys, it’s me. :)

jon1979 on June 21, 2008 at 12:57 PM

Yep. Obama’s surrogates can trot out the race card any time he needs it. He’s bulletproof. Ironically, the media helped him with that,..now they are also hostage to it. Amusing.

Yes, the article from AP was amazing. You would think they were writing about a Bush or something!

Barry O: all sizzle and no steak.

PattyJ on June 21, 2008 at 12:26 PM

But the article was written three months ago, when there was still interparty battles going between the Clinton and Obama forces. That meant Ron Fournier could say things like that and still have at least half the Democratic Party returning his phone calls.

There’s no way that same article sees the light of day now that the fight is between Obama and McCain, even if the substance is more important now than it was on March 17.

Remember, one of the main driving forces behind Obama’s media support is they want to feel good about themselves for helping to elect the first African-American president, which is why he was built up into sainthood, because then, they could feel as if they’re supporting a saint. The other side is, even if the blinders are off a bit about Barack, the media doesn’t want to be attacked by those on the far left whose opinions they care about as racists because they’re started treating Obama as a typical Chicago politician. The most dogmatic on the left who have no qualms about playing the race card will make sure any wavering media people at the sites that lean left are kept in line.

Barry O: all sizzle and no steak.

Dale in Atlanta on June 21, 2008 at 10:13 AM

Way to take a good argument and discredit it with stupid.

With estimates of 90% of newsrooms being registered Dems it is virtually impossible to fantasize about Editorial pages being drivers of critical thought as regards Obama’s merits.
Instead I think it is safe to conclude that newsrooms will pick their spots to appear independent. This is a perfect example. Inside the beltway types understand the broken promise but the average voter scratches their head and goes Duh.

Obama’s silly little presidential seal is a good case in point. Imagine just for a moment had a repub fashioned such a stupid plague to be carried about like the “nuclear football”. The mockery would know no end. Saturday Night Live would have a field day. The hubris of it all.

Only the blind and the mentally limited have not noticed this yet.

He’s bordering on arrogance.

Understatement of this campaign.

But both Obama and his wife, Michelle, ooze a sense of entitlement.

Entitlements and cockiness are indignant.

Will the newspapers toss Obama under the bus now?

(Looks out window) Nope, no avian porcines in sight.
(Checks on-line weather report) Nope, Hades is still well above 0 degrees Celsius.
Conclusion: After a small snit (probably less than 24 hours), the MSM will be back to their fawning and drooling.

Too bad for Bambi he can’t say the same thing. Not that the media will destroy him, but they can at any time if it suits them.

misterpeasea on June 21, 2008 at 12:05 PM

Yes, and the media is being slowly, but systematically, destroyed by the new media. The clock is winding down for that whole media/dem party enterprise. While that makes them particularly dangerous now (Tet offensive time), it’s looking like it will cost them the WH.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Don’t Hyde

Too bad for Bambi he can’t say the same thing. Not that the media will destroy him, but they can at any time if it suits them.

… he has reversed himself on public financing of the general-election campaign …

This is a non-issue. Who among the large swath of potential voters who can name the last 3 runners up of American Idol will care about “public financing of the general-election campaign”?

This will be swept under the rug.