Quotable

"Obama needs to humanize himself. His campaign has done too good a job of apotheosizing him. A good start would be for Obama to apologize to Clinton supporters for not coming to her defense during the primaries and helping her battle a torrent of sexist media criticism. McCain, the soldier, conversely, needs to get disciplined and promote a rock-solid economic message. He needs to convince swing voters that he will do a better job of righting the economy than a rookie senator with little by way of a legislative record.

This race is still the Democrats' to lose. But by going overboard on unity and turning unity to hubris, they can still easily lose it."

~ Bonnie Erbe, "Barack Obama's Arrogant Campaign Risks a Stunning Loss"

If you aren't outraged...

Much has been said about people who cast votes for Senator Clinton in the primary and who continue to voice their disappointment in how the nomination has been given by the DNC to lightweight Barack Obama. We're commonly referred to as being angry and irrational. I have been motivated to change my political affiliation from Democrat (life-long) to independent. But, I don't think I have been operating out of anger. Well, I'm angry today.

Check out this "journalism" from MSNBC:



At one point, maybe feeling a slight bit foolish about her appallingly giddy idiocy, Novotny quips: "Welcome to mid-July." As if MSNBC hasn't been covering Senator Clinton in this sickeningly sexist fashion from day one. Here's just one other example out of many:

As Media Matters for America documented, on July 30, 2007, MSNBC devoted a total of 23 minutes and 42 seconds to segments discussing Clinton's (D-NY) "cleavage" between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET.

BTW - Senator Clinton's statement before her colleagues in the Senate was about the veto override of the medicare fix.

Contact information:

MSNBC
Mr. Phil Griffin,
Senior Vice President, News
NBC Television Network
30 Rockefeller Plz
New York, NY 10112
phil.griffin@nbc.com

Steve Capus,
President, NBC News
steve.capus@nbc.com

MSNBC
letters@msnbc.com
MSNBC/Microsoft-NBC
30 Rockefeller Plz
3rd Fl
New York, NY 10112
(212) 664-4444

Oh, that media imbalance

From an article in today's NYT "Media Stars Will Accompany Obama Overseas":

The imbalance has appeared in various analyses of the news coverage. The Tyndall Report, a news coverage monitoring service that has the broadcast networks as clients, reports that the three newscasts by the networks — which have a combined audience of more than 20 million people — spent roughly 114 minutes covering Mr. Obama since June. They spent about 48 minutes covering Mr. McCain, who made the rounds of the evening newscasts in satellite interviews last week.

This amazing situation is not one those in the Reagan administration who killed the Fairness Doctrine would have envisioned, I'm sure. Wonder if Pelosi, Kerry and Durbin will renew their efforts to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine? Not holding my breath.

Quotable

"Someone who can shift positions so quickly on so many important issues that will face the next President comes off as a man who doesn't have fixed convictions. Pragmatism has to be guided by principles. A man who believes in everything believes in nothing, and that's a formula for chaos in the White House."

~ Michael Goodwin, "Will the Real Obama Please Stand Up?"

A democratic Democratic Party