So says Jesse Jackson.
Well, that is if I assume correctly that his comment “have we ever witnessed anything like the unrelenting assault on Barack Obama?” refers to obama as a president and not obama as a celebrity; in which case I’m pretty sure even Lindsay Lohan’s press would prove Jesse wrong.
I don’t actually know who this Lindsey character is, I just hear her name on radio and TV and see it often in the headlines; I couldn’t pick the tramp out of a lineup.
Jesse’s new gig it appears is writing for the Chicago Sun Times, where his current racial angst is directed at the media, which he calls “ideological propaganda outlets,” and urges them to “Back off Obama” (http://www.suntimes.com/news/jackson/2605222,CST-EDT-jesse17.art icle).
Jesse has never been one for backing off; except possibly when stories of his infidelity and birthing babies out of wedlock were making the rounds of the “ideological propaganda outlets."
He sure wasn’t for backing off George Bush during the 2004 election when he ran around the country campaigning for John Kerry and attacking Bush for everything from Super Bowl boobs to super tsunamis (metaphorically speaking but you get the point).
Jesse was not for backing off George Bush when he helped organize thousands to march in anti-Bush protests and exhibit civil disobedience during the 2004 GOP National Convention in New York City.
But that was just Jesse being Jesse; now he’s like the Tidy Bowl Bubbles of politics – he plays the race card so obama doesn’t have tooooooooooooooo.
However, stepping over Jesse’s hypocrisy and his short term memory, let’s remember when the media was seen as obama’s little propaganda outlet.
HBO’s Bill Maher underscored the media’s drooling “professionalism” with his comment about MSNBC’s coverage of obama’s 2008 Democratic National Convention: “…I mean these guys were ready to have sex with him” (HBO, Real Time, August 29, 2008).
A Pew Research Poll in October 2008 found that 70% of those responding felt that the media was in the tank for obama (http://people-press.org/report/463/media-wants-obama).
Tony Blankley, writing for RealClearPolitics in September 2008: “The mainstream media have gone over the line and are now straight-out propagandists for the Obama campaign” (http://realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/the_man_who_never_ was.html).
Now Jesse bemoans the fact that some in the media are taking the shine out of the little fantasy rainbow that is obama, which may lie in the fact that those that pay attention are in the majority in their disapproval of the job obama is doing as ‘president’ (RealClearPolitics.com, 8/17/2010).
Let us also not forget the culture of hate that spewed forth from the media during George Bush’s two terms as President of the United States.
Let’s not forget the New York Times asking us on its front page: “Is George Bush Smart Enough to Be President?” (June 19, 2000).
Hating and criticizing George Bush became a cottage industry in all forms of media. You couldn’t walk through a Border’s store without tripping over anti-Bush books (Carl Cannon, Washington Monthly, Vol. 38, Issue 3, p24.).
Author Matt Bai, in his book on how the democrats supposedly rebuilt their party after two consecutive defeats to George Bush (2007, The Battle Inside: The Battle to Remake Democratic Politics), wrote that “all the leading arbiters of American culture had been united in their determination” to defeat George Bush (p19).
Who were these “leading arbiters of American culture” that were not backing off George Bush? Bai tells us they were Hollywood celebrities, New York financiers, the country’s leading editorial pages and magazine editors, best-known novelists, scientists, and great political minds like Bruce Springsteen and Eminem (p17).
It says a lot about your culture if the likes of Springsteen and Eminem are considered to be “leading arbiters” of that culture.
The Bush/Kerry campaign of 2008 saw fake television journalists (Dan Rather) using fake documents to create fake stories in an attempt to secure victory for a fake personality (Kerry).
To go along with Jesse’s “birthers,” those who claimed that obama is not a US citizen, Bush also had his wing-nut critics. Author Stephen Hanchett, tapped out as a writer and gasping for literary success, came up with this gem of a book: “Is George Bush the Anti-Christ?”
A Pew Research poll in October 2004 said that 50% of those polled felt newspaper reporters and TV journalist were too eager in their disdain for Bush.
Is Jesse’s question evidence of his slipping into dementia or just further evidence of those still-obama supporters who cannot believe that the nation is no longer drooling like Chris Matthews or Keith Olberman over obama?
Jesse wonders in print why republicans are not working with obama to solve problems.
Jesse’s dementia or his dilated passion keeps him from seeing that obama’s ego doesn’t allow for much outside suggestions toward policy. Take obama’s Race To The Top school funding program, either your state conforms its reform program to his way of thinking about school reform, or your state does not get a share of his funding monies.
obama feels nearly 100% congressional democratic approval of his policies is people doing the right thing, while 100% of republican disapproval is partisan politics.
Take note, while obama and his love-hounds criticize republicans in congress for their obstructionism, their negativity, their short-term memories, and their overall distaste for most things obama, they are also criticizing a majority of Americans…you..
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