For many months, I have watched Blitzer's pathetic attempt at fairness in reporting the news and can't help but wonder if I am the only one that recognizes his constant pandering to the right on just about every important issue.
Blitzer is a passive aggressive reporter who constantly invites Republican party loyalists to 'the situation room', then asks leading questions and quietly listens as they go through their talking points. Blitzer continues to do this time and time again without asking follow-up questions. This guy is pathetic.
He invited Tom Ridge to his "showcase" at 4:30 p.m eastern standard time and played a sound bite of Obama at the VFW, where the Presidential candidate challenged McCain to conduct a civil campaign based on the issues rather than indulge in personal attacks - like questioning Obama's patriotism. At the end of the sound bite, Blitzer asked Ridge what he thought, then sat back quietly as Ridge dodged the question and went into spin mode, belligerently bellowing out one misleading talking point after another.
Yes - I'm calling out Pastor Rick Warren. Because last night, on Larry King Live, Warren dismissed as "bogus" concerns about McCain having prior knowledge of specific questions. He asserted that there's no chance that McCain could have gotten questions during his drive to the forum because "the Secret Service would have reported it". Why are Warren and many in the media assiduously ignoring very clear evidence that John McCain knew at least one of the questions ahead of time? Do they expect us to believe them or should we believe our lying eyes?
Crusty, curmudgeonly commentator Jack Cafferty of CNN has tossed a spanner in the works of the MSM. In his most recent commentary piece, McCain's many shortcomings as commander in chief are laid bare:
"You know Chuck, I might have to get out of the Navy," McCain told him. "And I said, 'Why is that John?' and he said, 'Well I want to be a serious naval officer. And when I go places now, people tend to not take me seriously. They hear all the stories, they look at the early days and if they can't take me seriously, I don't know how I can perform.' And I said, 'John, you're going back.' "
So he wanted to quit the Navy because "they look at the early days" and can't take him seriously. The early days of sucking at the Academy, you mean? Like Cafferty brings up in another article on CNN's front page?
In preparation for the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Denver, it's best to map out a small, but effective little guide to first timers and those watching from home.
RUSSIA's Power Play: Pentagon No Evidence of Withdrawal From Georgia
CNN "Breaking News".
BTW, I broke my pledge to never watch CNN again. I was playing poker online when suddenly a loud "Breaking News" cut off the broadcast and a very serious sounding Wolf Blizter came on the screen. He went to a reporter who announced the breaking news that Russia was not withdrawing from Georgia. Breaking news!!!
There was a mindbreakingly bad news piece by KARA FINNSTROM, working (apparently) for CNN, Los Angeles that was broadcast today by WDEF 12 of Chattanooga, Tennessee. This news splat was vaguely about the recent Federal Court decision in favor of the University of California. The UC and several individual professors were being sued by the ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL, Calvary Chapel Christian School, and five Calvary student. Their goal was to force the University to grant credit for four courses offered by Calvary, and a biology course taught by Calvary Baptist School.
The WDEF story opened, "Can a private religious high school stress too much religion? A federal judge says yes, at least for students hoping to get into campuses like UCLA."
1894 - The Bureau of Immigration was established by the U.S. Congress.
1966 - The first pictures of earth taken from moon orbit were sent back to the U.S.
COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!
"The profession of the Christian faith is a system of the grossest hypocrisy, a fashionable villainy, a licensed swindle, cheat, and trick.
Never was the day, never, in all the tide of time, in which such mighty efforts were made to keep mankind in ignorance; never were any clergy on earth, Pagan or Papistical, so opposed to the diffusion of knowledge, so desperately afraid of it, and so bitterly hostile to it, as the Protestant clergy, both of the established church, and the dissenters of the present day, in this metropolis."
-- Robert Taylor
This is just stupid for the McCain Camp to request a meeting with Steve Campos. I don't understand why they are upset at Andrea. Rick Warren stated at the Forum, McCain was in the "Cone of Silence," when in fact he wasn't. Warren admitted McCain was in a motorcade from the hotel to the forum in an interview with Rick Sanchez on CNN. This was Rick Warren's lie not Andrea Mitchell's.
Andrea is a reporter, she was just reporting about a suggestion that the Obama camp made, so what? She is suppose to do that, so why is she the victim here? I found Andrea comments to be more negative against Obama than McCain. There had to have been plenty of Obama people at the event backstage, they knew when McCain arrived, and you can't tell me they didn't see him come in. I don't know the timeline of when these stories were exposed, from the CNN Ticker article, the Rick Sanchez interview, and Andrea on Meet the Press. The fact is the truth came out about John McCain and he had the opportunity to know the questions before he went on stage.
The final-final update;
Jack Tapper over at ABC is all over it! The McCain campaign is only answering in geographical terms and refuses to comment on devices such as cellphones or blackberries!
A. Larry Ross, a spokesman for Saddleback Church and Pastor Rick Warren, says that the campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has assured the organizers of Saturday night's "Civil Forum" that McCain did not "see or hear any of Senator Obama's appearance."
But as for the question the McCain campaign won't answer -- did anyone with McCain, given the questions via email or cell phone, share them with the senator -- Ross says, "I cannot speak to that."
Why that crazed response to Andrea Mitchell? Why won't they outright say that McCain and those around him had no access to mobile devices that could've allowed them to cheat? Donate.
On the political ticker, CNN had a story up about McCain not being in a cone of silence. For some reason, the story has disappeared. Most people who go on there know that stories don't usually disappear. They slowly go down the ticker until it eventually reaches the bottom.
Pastor Warren, the host of last night's forum was just on CNN. In an interview with Rick Sanchez the pastor admitted McCain was not even at the Church for the first half hour of the event. This admission comes as a surprise to those of us who watched the event and were told many times that McCain was at the Church and in isolation.
CNN says they talked to McCain's camp and they said no one in his camp was listening. The honor system, are you kidding me?
I think it is pretty clear at this point McCain did indeed know the questions in advance.
The important thing about Pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback showdown between Barack Obama and John McCain is not what was said. The important thing about it is that it happened.
That's important to point out, because it didn't figure into the start of the CNN analysis that is still going on right now, as I type this. I started to watch it, but by time the first commercial came up it was clear that "the political experts" weren't going to talk about the geologic shift Saddleback represents in American politics. (Instead they were going to do their usual horserace, who's ahead/who's behind, did this help/hurt Obama/McCain.
The most important thing about Saddleback wasn't even up for discussion. (continued)
The other day, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann told us that we don't need Nancy Pelosi to save the planet. Jesus has it covered. Here's what she said:
"[Pelosi] is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said that she’s just trying to save the planet. ... We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet — we didn’t need Nancy Pelosi to do that."
Not that it's really a surprise, but during this election season, CNN is really accelerating their long slow decline into Faux News journalistic ethics. Headlines on the front page of CNN.com are consistently misleading or just patently biased. What got my boxer-briefs in a bunch was this headline "Ticker: Obama plan called 'economic disaster'". Worried that some panel of economic experts had concluded that Barack's plan isn't up to snuff, I read the article only to find out that the source of the quote was the McCain campaign. Would it really have been so hard to use the Headline "McCain: Obama plan is an 'economic disaster'"? It makes me wonder if the requirements for their editor positions is just attending journalism school for two weeks before flunking out.
I wonder why John McCain doesn't come right out and say he sold his soul. We miss the straight talk. He should run with the explicit admission that he plans to pardon Jack Abramoff, and make the former lobbyist Secretary of the Treasury. Ralph Reed, McCain's newest best buddy, it should be admitted, will get a big role in McCain's administration. McCain should tell us that Exxon will replace our current EPA. He should regale us with tales of how his administration will be one big, happy oil company and lobbyist family, like his campaign. That would be straight talk.
