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Let me try that again. Every time they try to find something wrong with him, it brings out something wrong with them, mainly how ... etc,

Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly are so obsessed with bringing Obama down that they don't see that the more they try, the stronger he gets. Every time they try to find something wrong with them, mainly how they have to choose their guests carefully now because they discovered early that they can't handle the ones who have minds of their own. Thier remedy for those people are to not let them finish. O'Reilly says famously, "OK, you have the last word" then when they try to have it, he interrupts them if they are not makng HIS point and gets the last word anyway. Only people with brains the size of a pinhead would base their final opinion on that trick. Amd Sean, did he go to school?

confused,

You are 100% correct. But let me unconfuse you. It's not about the facts it's about amusing oneself.

Notice how when the facts are presented with evidence that cannot be refuted it gets ignored.

Time to get dinner ready.

Was anybody as put off as I was by Hillary's telling of the story of the "dead woman" who voted for her and somehow made a lifelong legacy for herself by so doing?

@NinaK... well put! maybe a little to rational for the I'm gonna vote for McCain out of spite/FOX really is fair and balanced all of a sudden crowd but what the !%#&
@Debra, etc... "ding-dong the witch is dead!" get over it already

How about Chris Matthews statement last night--while coanchoring the MSNBC primary night coverage--that Hillary Clinton is "the Al Sharpton of white people"? This is a far cry from the unbiased reporting of the news. MSNBC should either fire Matthews or suspend him then not renew his $4 million contract which is up this year.

How about Chris Matthews statement last night--while coanchoring the MSNBC primary night coverage--that Hillary Clinton is "the Al Sharpton of white people"? This is a far cry from the unbiased reporting of the news. MSNBC should either fire Matthews or suspend him then not renew his $4 million contract which is up this year.

Yes, this has been the most biased, misogynist coverage I have ever seen.

It is a testament to Senator Clinton's abilities and fortitude that she does as well as she does despite being treated like this by the media and outspent ridiculously at every turn by Senator Obama -- while the media functions as apologists for his many gaffes, insults and nefarious associations.

Can you imagine where we would be now if the press had done their jobs from the beginning.

Hello, Madame Nominee!

NinaK...go to your everloving Obama news coverage and CHANGE THE CHANNEL, FROM THE ONLY FAIR AND BALANCED CABLE NEWS. WAY TO GO FOX (and don't you just love Sean Hannity who has the gonads to keep newsworty Obama stories out there, so American's can learn who this guy really is).

Gotta love Hannity and Colmes, each supporting the only two candidates I could ever vote for....Hannity/McCain or Colmes/Clinton. I love how Colmes said one night last week, he is a Hillary supporter...I thought he was in it for BO.

The great thing about FOX news is the payoff in viewership for fair and balanced coverage. I was on a website for cable news ratings and they were 7 times that of anybody else. I might even be underestimating. CNN and MSNBC should be worried.

The media coverage has been appallingly biased for Obama and he has used it brilliantly. MSNBC has made a mockery of cable "news". FOX really does look fair and balanced by comparison.

CNN and MSNBC are so blatantly pro-Obama, which is why I won't watch their campaign coverage anymore. If Hillary had lost by 41% to Obama we'd still be hearing their applause filling the airwaves It is so biased! FOX is the only channel that will give the audience more fair reporting and discussions. Thank you FOX!
RISE, HILLARY, RISE!

This is a typical example of journalistic bias : I just read an article by Maureen Dowd (New York Times) but dropped it quickly, for it's sickening to read such hatred and contempt.
"Bitter Hillary and her bitter supporters" as she mentioned the West Virginian vote. This is alienating for Hillary supporters and don't be surprised her OBi man won't get many of their votes. And talk about divisive. That Dowd is nothing but venom and that kind of thing has been going on for months.
Hillary supporters should show they don't accept being treated with such irrespect by just voting in the next primaries. Pass word around.

I saw him twice. he looks like crazy and out of mind.
He is saying whatever things.Out of control.
....what is a medical term.... d-ebil?
or c-retin?

I think it is at least 90% Biased coverage. Actually this is exacly the kind of across the board slanted coverage (including the costant use of the Obama talking points) that could cost any candidate 20% in nationwide polls.

The fact that this barrage of the MSM has been ongoing makes Hillary's continued competitiveness all the more remarkable.

To Ninak,
it's the media that keeps mentioning that Hillary's supporters are old people and uneducated poor white americans who make less than 50000$ a year. For one this is not completely true because a lot of educated people support her as well.
It's a poor way of diminishing the impact of voters who support her by mocking their social status. Never forget that America was founded by hard working pioneers and hard work has never hurt anyone, it can only help except if you work hard and don't get a chance, which might be true these days because the world has moved and so economy.
We are in the world of speculation with ruthless practice from big financial groups. The gap between the young generation and the old generation lies there. Youth nowadays are into internet and visual effects. What does that mean "hope and change"? if not the illusion of it? As the world and so do american have to deal with the planet warming and the ice melting, it takes responsibility, work, and consciousness, along with imagination to do something to help avoiding big catastrophy, while dealing with everyday life and existence.
Please don't give me rhetoric, show me the capacity of the leader to work out the way towards solutions, only then one can talk about unity for only such a leader can coalesce americans behind him or her. OB is not the one. Show me courage, combativity, imagination to carry out the challenge of this complex era of planetarian consciousness.
You are lucky enough to live in a rich country, with some freedom. Go to Africa, to poor asian countries, to norht african countries and you can appreciate the hard working mentalities of americans who have contributed to shape America.

The problem with the news media today is that it has become fractured and splintered into an entirely new entertainment industry but is still viewed under the "old-school" umbrella business that was perceived to merely report facts. Today, opinions and agendas are concealed and passed off as "fact". It's as if the editorial and op-ed. pages of the newspaper were placed on the front page and sold as "news". This is disingenuous and harmful.
Furthermore, "old-school" investigative reporters are simply not doing their jobs. For fear of losing their access to newsmakers, they too often become mouthpieces to politicians who obviously see value in presenting a story in a favorable light.
The solution: American citizens need to start performing the duties that a democracy requires of them and the most important of these is to get informed. It will become increasingly difficult for some kiss-ass posing as a journalist to sell their spin as news if their audience starts using some basic critical thinking skills. Get on your job Americans!

The basic problem here with the media is that they are NOT independent organizations; they are corporations driven by Wall Street's demands to make money. Sensationalism sells; and it's much cheaper to sensationalize some small point than to do an in-depth story. Why is it so many people don't know what Obama's accomplished? He's gotten some variety of legislatin passed, he's traveled abroad in the service of arms reduction, but you hardly hear about any of this from the regular press, much less the TV media. And how are we to evaluate Clinton's claim of experience without some extensive review? How about, say, assessments from various people who've worked alongside the candidates over the years?—But that would mean hiring more reporters, who might have to put in some days' work just on one story. Let's not forget how busy the media were cutting back on real reporting, closing down news bureaus, in the last few decades just so they could increase their profit margin.
It's also important to remember that the elections represent BIG money for the media from the millions and millions of dollars worth of election ads bought. How critical is any media outlet likely to be of a candidate who might send lots of money their way? How is all that money likely to influence the coverage of a candidate? --Oh, reporters will claim to and even believe themselves to be independent, but it's not likely that any who were inclined to go too far outside the orbit of what a media company found acceptable would have their job for too long.
Another effect of the lure of ad money is that candidates who aren't seen as raising alot of money are dismissed early by the media as not a viable candidate; are given little coverage; and are dismissed from debates, even while they are still running. What an insult to the American people, what a stifling of democracy, to have some media giant decide which of that candidates we are going to get to hear!
The greed of investors for a high profit has corrupted our media. Considering how vital media is to the functioning of democracy,as the Founding Fathers recognized, we ought to be thinking of ways we can limit the demands of that greed and have at least some media––and not just the web, but the common popular media people here are referencing repeatedly--free from the choking constraints of excessive profit and working in the service of the democracy Americans deserve.

It's pretty obvious, all you have to do is pay attention to media coverage to see the bias. If obama wins a state - even if it's a state he's been long projected to win - it's like he won the nomination, he's the king, blah blah blah. If hillary wins a state, it's like, this doesn't change anything, let's move onto the next state. Ugh.

Hillary's just been getting stronger and stronger and has become a better campaigner and candidate. Obama has been getting weaker and weaker.

And look at all the free press Obama was given!

First the "race" speech as he stood solemnly in front of a thousand American flags as he told us all that his pastor was a pistol... like an old Uncle to him.... But it was ok to do away with his typical white Grandma who brought him up!

The it was the wrenching "I was wrong, and my pastor is uncontrol-able" speech some weeks later. In this one, Jake used up screensfull of copy and the Chicago Tribune had a comic strip in full color drawn up for page three of its Sunday paper. And Obama came out and disinherited poor Jeremiah for the tenure of this election....

Oh, and he threw him under the bus with his poor white typical grandma .

That was thousands of hours of air time...free publicity out the kazoo.

How come you never treated Hillary so royally?

I think when it comes to this election, the media .... including the fourth estate... is broken.

I think that rather than being objective, the media has been judgemental to such an extreme that it has pretty much predetermined the direction in which this election has gone.

Is it fixable?

I pray that it is!

Mr Unite us,

As I know Rupert Murdoch recently switched to back Obama.

Fox Television owner Rupert Murdoch is a Clinton fund raiser. His stations attacks against Obama are the equivalent to millions in negative attack ads.

ABC's Brian Ross spliced together the Jeremiah Wright highlight reel.

ABC also accused Obama of snubbing Clinton when he merely turned to answer a question from Senator McCaskill.

I recognize that Fox has a bias and may not always sufficiently vet it's stories, but the sad truth is that it has provided the most fair and balanced coverage this primary season. That isn't so much a compliment for Fox as it is an insult to the other networks. MSNBC and CNN, especially, and to a some what lesser extent the other networks have provided horribly biased coverage (and there are studies to prove it). Most of the networks have been in the tank for Obama, and even though they've covered Rev. Wright, they've also paraded out a number of apologists so the coverage wouldn't be too damaging.

Now, I wouldn't necessarily say political punch has been in the tank, but am pretty much in agreement with that 90% estimatation. I mean, seriously, can anyone else remember when the media has become so involved in calling for one candidate to exit the race? And, why is everyone so concerned that Clinton will harm Obama? If he is that delicate, perhaps he isn't the best candidate to go up against McCain in the general.

Oh, and rather than complain about getting called out for being in the tank, and taking shots at Fox (which, I agree is bad), why not do something to increase the journalistic integrity of your own network (as a parent, I tend to think in terms of children, and if one of my children came home and complained about getting an F on a paper and said well, the teacher gave Bobby a D- and Bobby made a lot of mistakes, I would say, well, let's forget about Bobby and see what you can do to improve your performance -- get it?).

I think that Fox has been the fairest too. Although they have the Republican slant they don't really have a horse in the Democratic race. Even though Murdock's daughter is an Obama fundraiser Fox has been pretty fair on the race.

MSNBC is an outrageous excuse for a news outlet. I have no intention of watching their terrible excuse for media. Across the board they have been fawning of Obama and critical of Clinton. Chris Mathews has been a total sad excuse of a journalist. His Clinton directed anger is out of control.

CNN has commentators that pretend to be political consultants but are Obama surrogates. Roland Martin used to get totally out of control and emotional in his support of Obama....He once claimed that if Clinton won he would get on his blog and urge Blacks not to vote for her in the general election. I thought that someone in the media would mention this but they totally ignored it. They refused to ever ask Obama any hard questions. I rarely watch them any more.

ABC has been better than CNN and MSNBC....except for some of the very slanted visuals. For instance the big play you gave to the "Tonya Harding" comparison and the many stories that were really non-stories that seemed to be intent on proving Hillary was dishonest. It seems like ya'll have given almost as much play to Bill Clinton's 10 year old affair as to Obama's long term association and influence of Rev Wright. For instance anyone that was not paying close attention to the race would not understand that Rev Wright was making these outrageous sermons as late as Dec 2007 at the same time he was on Obama's campaign. Actually I doubt from reading ya'll that most people would know how close the Rev and Obama were until recently.

Although ABC started to cover Rezko through your Investigative journalist...you have never given it the coverage it deserves.

I assume Fox is waiting to drop this into the General Electon. The very questionable Obama-Rezko home purchase took place in 2005....Obama has lied on countless occasions on the record about his relationship with Rezko...the mainstream press is surpressiing the story. If it would have been about Clinton it would be big news. If it was McCain it would be big news.

By validating Obama's victimization /race characterization of the Wright story all of the mainstream media have done America a great disservice. This is a judgement issue that has never been truly addressed by anyone but Fox.

Mark Penn was a front page story here for a long time...the recent firing of Obama's advisers gets very little play. What's up with that?

I also think that most MSM have failed to qualify when their are blogs and stories written by Obama supporting journalists.

I noticed here that one of your embedded journalists was constantly slanting her stories to demean Clinton...I got better information at Fox...for instance the day that Hillary invited striking truckers into her economic summit your reporter seemed to miss that detail in her coverage.

I am highly resentful that Obama was given a 1 hour time slot for his race speech when Hillary was trying to cover economic issues that week and ya'll simply cut her off. This speech was nothing but political pandering and an attempt to distract people from the real issue....It worked only because the MSM were complicit in making it effective.

Are there FCC rules that allow major networks to give free coverage to one candidate and not give the other equal time? If so, you have all violated these restrictions.

Why is it all these supposed serious media professionals are not only pro-Obama but happy to admit that they are so? Seriously, they are an embarrassment to journalists everywhere and have succeeded in making a mockery of this election.

Isn't funny how Clinton Chair, Terry McAuliffe, praises Fox News and says 90% of the Media is in the Tank for Obama and how the Clintonites jump up, grab it, and run around waving it in the wind hoping everyone will believe it!! Fox has always been PRO Hilliary, isn't Murdock the owner? And isn't he a big donor to the Clinton campaign? He's an advisor too, isn't he? So, of course, Fox is PRO Clinton. McAuliffe is spewing crapola again...Hilliary and her campaign are very good at doing this. ALL the media was all about Hilliary when they annointed her as the "inevitable nominee" and "the shoe-in" We hardly ever heard of Senator Obama. Senator Obama beat her big time in Iowa and Hilliary and Bill just could not take it...remember Bill getting all red-faced and wagging his finger with anger and putting down Senator Obama! Bill was out of control, enraged, and brought out the race card in NH and then again in North Carolina. In between, Hilliary, her campaign, and her surrogates were out there literally using the race card and belittling Senator Obama on a personal basis. It wasn't about issues anymore; the Clintons wanted to fight, and fight dirty they did. Hilliary lied, lied, and lied, so did Bill, and the campaign. We all saw plainly what the Clintons were doing and it turned a lot of us against them for their dirty tactics!! Her mismanagement of her campaign funds factored in as well as it showed a woman of incompetence and NO integrity; one who would do anything, say anything, and throw anything to win. Many of us lost total respect for her and Bill. Hilliary's continued bashing of Senator Obama now that he is only about 150 delegates away from the magic number shows just how evil and self-obsorbed she is....with her, it's all about Hilliary! Frankly, she does not care about her party, the USA, or the people. She pays lipservice to get your votes, otherwise you mean nothing to her. Just look at the way she describes the voters in NH!! "Hardworking Americans, WHITE Americans, harding working Americans with LESS THAN A COLLEGE DEGREE, who want me" Okay, all you uneducated, illiterate, and ignorant white hardworking Americans, how do you feel about how she has portrayed you to the entire USA and the rest of world. She is calling you uneducated, illiterate, and ignorant!! She is also saying the rest of us are LAZY nogoods since we do not fit into her "WHITE" hardworking Americans and into the less with college degree bracket. Is that woman divisive and destructive??? You bet she is! Definitely NOT POTUS and CIC material!!

More of the Hilliary campaign spin, nothing more, nothing less. Guess they don't get it; we are tired of your many lies and of your whimpering. Poor Hilliary, is playing the "POOR HILLIARY" CARD again@@

I have blocked MSNBC from the TV's in my home. I will never forget the way its talking heads once fawned over #43, and I believe that Russert and Matthews are shallow, uninformed, and incapable of logical discourse.

Clinton is the best candidate and would do great things for America. However, the four horsemen of the Democratic Party apocalypse. namely, Kennedy, Kerry, Dean. and Oprah (or is it Brazile) have decided that the American people have not suffered enough so they found another shallow "uniter not a divider" for us. (I personally hope that MA, a state that voted for HRC,decides to retire Kerry and Kennedy.)

If Hillary is not the nominee, I will vote for McCain because he is a better candidate than Obama. He is a veteran, has years of experience, and loves America. (His wife also loves America.)
Enough is enough.

Speaking of Rev Wright....does anyone else find it curious that he has seemingly dissappeared into thin air?
This loud mouthed, self righteous idiot couldn't be shut up for days on end. He hardly seemed the type to just go away giving O the last word. And yet, after affording O the opportunity to disown him after his tirade, he has willingly left the stage. Notice the in the tank for O media has "put that baby to bed". I don't normally subscribe to conspiracy theories, but the timing of his appearance and disappearance seems very convenient for O. Something stinks here.

Hillsry lost this race at 3 corners:

1-SC. because the whole world knows Hillary had more black support than Obama. She CLEARLY had the black elite, clergy and politicians behind her. So SC turned a corner.
2-Skipping the smaller states. Had she not been so cocky and self entitled, she would NOT have ignored those states and she could be ahead if not tied with him. Now, she is forced to go to the WI. WV. and others, so being thinking she was entitled to the throne turned a corner.
3-Her and him (Hill and Bill) turning to conservative media! What the hell is all that about? It is a slap in the face for her to chat it up with the enemy, when it is the enemy that was plotting to bring both her and him down. Turning to those blow hearts netted Obama more delegates in one week than at any time before....

There are other instances the main being MONEY MISMANAGEMET but you all get the point. Anyway, it's of no use now to blame the media. In fact, I'm getting read tired of the blaming the media when things look bad but laughing it up when things are in her favor.....

90% only?!!
Where's the 10% for Hillary? I have yet to find one outlet pro-Hillary, the shameful way that all talking heads are in the tank for the "Incandescent One".
From Obama Central at MSNBO with Chris "tingle-up-my-leg" Matthews and Keith Obamaman, the frauds at CNN, etc.
Wasn't the media supposed to be impartial?
They are not for Hillary at FOX, they just have better material with Obama.

Okay. So let's be clear FOX blew it on the madrassa deal. BUT--it'snot true OBAMA was never a MUSLIM. After all, in his own autobiography he talks about geeting in trouble for "making faces during Koranic Studies". His sister was quoted in the NYT as saying "My whole family was Muslim. Everyone we knew was Muslim" and in "Obama: Man of the World" by Nicholas Kristof he relates hoe Obama can recite the Islamic call to prayer in "perfectly accented Arabic".
Y'll--wake up--they don't speak ARABIC in INDONESIA. Now, according to JakeT. Obama visited Pakistan in 1981 (when it was illegal for a US citizen to do so). So what's up with that???
It's simply NOT TRUE as Obama has repeatedly stated that he was NEVER a MUSLIM. He was. ---According to his own autobiography.

One of the pillars of democracy is freedom of expression which is supposed to be fairness of information and the media has not shown this along the campaign. Worst the media tries to prevent the process of democracy by sealing the nomination of OBI while he doesn't have the number of delegates required yet and 6 more states have to express their vote next. Where is independence of information?
This will stay in history as the worst example of non democracy. Don't talk about hope and change. This election process has shown the obscure face of the american society.
How to explain this? Is money buying OBI his nomination?
Is sexism prevailing while everyone tries to show that racism is over with by pushing forth a black candidate?
Is this the way the Democrat party deals with people and hopes to unite the party? Very sad indeed.

Oh please! This race was over after Texas and Ohio but did the "mainstream media report how daunting trhe math was for Clinton? NO! They kept on reporting like it was still a race. You Clinton supporters go ahead, vote for McCain, you likely voted for Bush anyway. Go ahead, keep being the "stupid" vote Hllary so lavishly boasts of.

Okay. For the logically challenged: If we assume that all politicians are liars, and that both Clinton and Obama have lied (although history reveals Obama as a much more transparent and forthright person than the Clintons), shall we set aside lying as a wash? What's the next excuse for a supposed Democrat not voting for Obama?

I am so disgusted with the turn Keith Olbermann has taken against Hillary and also with Mika Brezinski, who is a hateful witch.
Hillary, don't give up, here in Chi-town, we know the other shoe is gonna fall on Obama and it is called the Illinois Combine.

Duh? I, too, have quit watching MSNBC and CNN. They are in the entertainment business, not news, and I am not entertained.

Ksren:

If you're looking for Obama's bloopers,,
read "Obama's laundry list of lies" right here on the web!

There were about 70 of them last time I looked about a month ago... and they're all "fact:checked".

Enjoy!

Big business owns the media, folks. Now why would big business go totally out of their way to constantly point out the negatives of Senator Clinton? Because she is truly the one who will fight the stranglehold big business has on our government. Barack Obama's "grass roots" donations make up only 46% of his total donations. Where did the rest come from? Big business! Wake up! Hillary and McCain voted against the Bush/Cheney energy bill, written by the oil companies behind close doors and giving billions in tax breaks to the energy companies. Barack Obama voted for it! Wake up!

Clinton/Leiberman/Fox News !

Birds of a feather.

Obama never said his parents met in Selma and his dad did in fact come to america as part of a group that The Kennedy family funded. Perhaps you should stop getting your info about democrats from extreme right wingers like Paul Hollrah, here is a link to support this info, snopes.com/politics/obama/saywhat.asp
As to Ayers, Obama didn't say that he never met Ayers, he said he didn't know him well. I know people who serve on dozens of nonprofit boards and don't know half of the other members. They only see each other at benefits, and for his legislation, All senators attach their names to bills and claim some credit for them, when they didn't have much to do with it. Hillary has done it, Obama does it, they all do it. Oh, you want to talk about questionable donations? How about Norman Hsu? Hillary had to return $850,000 that he gave raised for her. I still can't believe that disappeared so quickly.

I find comments about how people dislike Hillary disconcerting. They cite her "win at all costs" campaigning, implying that she fights dirty and lies... You know, you need to figure out that Obama has not been above political posturing and manipulation. What you say of Hillary, Obama has also displayed. Use a better measure.

The problem is, the media does not find it worthy to report about his campaign antics. It is only news if it is Hillary looking bad. This kerfuffle is just exasperating.

The losers are the public and the credibility of the media.

Seriously, Obama, the candidate of change? Look a little deeper, you will find he has played dirtier that most as he was trained to pol the Chicago way...

Do I think Hillary is perfect? NO, but Obama is far from it himself. I will not vote for him because he has displayed a remarkable amount of immaturity during this campaign. He has demonstrated to me that lacks the breadth and depth of knowledge about the economic, foreign, and domestic policies that concern our country. He can not stick to an answer on any questions that were properly placed before him. His firm resolve on any issue is nonexistent. He has become the expediency candidate. (Do you think wearing the flag pin in West Virginia earned him more votes?)

All I ask is that you pay attention. The media coverage has been biased to an extreme. My local paper endorsed Obama, but he was also the only candidate running full page ads everyday. Hmm

Quote: "Those are just 6 of Obama's many lies but only Clinton's Bosnia story keeps coming up..."

Oh..here we go. Obama's questionable statements are "lies," but Hillary's falsehood is a "story." LOL There's a prime example of unreasoning prejudice.

It's interesting how often the Hillary Bosnia story comes up but Obama people are so quiet about the Obama lie about his parents meeting in Selma, four years after he was born. Then the Kennedy's brought his dad here...nope.
Then there is the story of the man who changed his life.....one problem, it was from a novel called Black Like Me.
Then Obama told us about all the bills
he passed but even Dodd and Kennedy
had to come out and say, he wasn't at a single meeting. He didn't get much money from Retzko.....suddenly in March it was $250,000. He doesn't know Ayers that well. Isn't that odd because he was appointed to the Annenenburg Education Project funded by a grant Ayers got and Ayers than appointed him to the head of the committee. Then he served with him on the Woods Committee.
Nope he doesn't know him.
Those are just 6 of Obama's many lies but only Clinton's Bosnia story keeps coming up.....

Quote: "I just cannot vote for someone with radical, hateful, terrorist ties..."

I can't buy that as a rational reasoning. It's illogical in part because Bill Clinton pardoned a whole group of FALN terrorists in 1999. These men belonged to a Puerto Rican freedom terrorist group, which was responsible for planting over 130 bombs in public places in the U.S. They killed six people and injured seventy. The FALN represented the single largest terrorism campaign in the U.S. “Yet Clinton’s clemency released individuals from prison after serving less than twenty years of terms running from fifty-five to ninety years.” Again, President Clinton did not follow formal pardon procedures. He skipped the Department of Justice and attorneys. The FBI did not conduct any background checks and the FALN did not even execute a formal request. These facts, coupled with the Department of Justice’s 1996 denial of their clemency, make Clinton’s motives highly questionable. The fallout was terrible for Clinton, receiving bipartisan condemnation and public fury. The Houseof Representatives later passed a resolution condemning Clinton’s pardon as an explicitly illegal action.

Not to mention that you have no evidence that Barack Obama is a radical. There is more evidence that the Clintons are radicals than that Obama is. I don't have a short memory like some of you apparently do. Bill Clinton, because of his "radical" past, did not even qualify for a security clearance when he was president. He once famously stated that he "loathed the military." Many people would consider that a very anti-American statement.

You're reasoning for saying you would not vote for Obama, even when Hillary asks you to, cannot be supported with a rational explanation.

This thread itself is biased, hahahha. My comment was deleted because I mentioned media bias against Ron Paul.

Patriot...yes, if Hillary gets on bended knee and pleaded with me to vote Obama I wouldn't. AND I AM NOT RACIST.
I just cannot vote for someone with radical, hateful, terriorist ties....I don't believe, deep in my heart, he is a true American. He's more of a world citizen, with his own agenda...hopey dopey, uniter divider.

Let's be clear. If Obama wins, I will vote for McCain. Why? Because the media has thwarted the election process without thoroughly vetting Obama. And because the DNC is undemocratic. It takes away the decision making powers of the taxpayers and puts it into the tiny percentage of elitest who feel Americans are too dumb to make the right decision. Its Hillary or McCain for me! A vote for Obama is a vote against America!

Let's be clear. If Obama wins, I will vote for McCain. Why? Because the media has thwarted the election process without thoroughly vetting Obama. And because the DNC is undemocratic. It takes away the decision making powers of the taxpayers and puts it into the tiny percentage of elitest who feel Americans are too dumb to make the right decision. Its Hillary or McCain for me! A vote for Obama is a vote against America!

I bet there are McCain staffers already salivating at the prospect of Hillary defectors...they know they are going to completely benefit from this in a much greater way than they ever would with BO defectors.
Nothing like women scorned....we have great memories too, and mean it when we say we will vote McCain.
Sixty eight percent of exit pollers said they think BO has the beliefs of Rev. Wright. He will never shake that.
I usually watch FOX but am watching CNN for election results.

Quote: "Oh and Hillary supporters are not afraid of change. We'll be changing to vote Republican if Obama is on the ticket."

Can you explain yourself for that assertion? Precisely WHY would one who would vote for Clinton not vote for Obama? Is there a reasonable reason for that, other than irrational hatred or racism? I'd like to hear the reasoning for that, because it makes no sense.

And if Hillary asks her supporters to vote for Obama, are you going to tell her to stick it?

It is tragic that the media has abused their power in order to secure the nomination for Obama. It has been riddled with bias and double standards. No matter what controversies Obama has stepped into the media has quickly covered his butt. When Clinton on the other hand, missteps or misstates it is talked about endlessly for days. Things like the elitist comments or some of his associations are swiftly minimized. The race card is a convenient tactic that Obama benefits from on all fronts. It isn't racist to point out that 90% of the AA vote goes to him but it is spun as racist when 60%-70% of the blue collar white vote goes to Clinton.This election is not about electing the most qualified candidate it is about making a social statement. That, unfortunately, is a national tragedy of immeasurable proportions. Say hello to President McCain.

why are obamniac such whiners?

if they really feel Hillary is losing why can't they show some patience and compassion.

and if they're from Florida or Michigan, why shouldn't they be given the opportunity to select the nominee of their choice.

hmmmm?

The Macker is absolutely right. Foxnews has moved away from the right and finds itself being credible. ABC is trying, but they seem to drift toward the popular version sometimes.

Patriot...if Obama vs. McCain, see landslide McCain. Only 19% of the voters in W VA care about Iraq, not that they are representative of the whole country, but everyone knows the economy is the #1 issue, and just WHAT HAS OBAMA SAID HE WILL DO FOR THE ECONOMY? He has worked 145 days in Senate so what exactly qualifies him? McCain's got to have more experience in every area....so again....REPUBLICANS WIN 9 OUT OF THE LAST 11 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, IF OBAMA IS THE NOM. Mainly this will be less about policies, promises that won't be kept...it's about Head of State and who is deserving.

Fox News is definitely not favoring Clinton over Obama. They bash both candidates with vigor so that's why they're fair and balanced. I've stopped watching MSNBC, NBC, CNN and CBS. I generally like ABC but they've had their moments with the bias against Hillary as well. Oh and Hillary supporters are not afraid of change. We'll be changing to vote Republican if Obama is on the ticket. Investigative Reporter Pringle has a great article (Part II) on Rezkowatch which explores connections between Obama campaign donors and rigged Illinois Health System related bids (he was the architect of the related Illinois bill which allowed corrupt committee to be formed and received donations himself).

haha... MSNBC just put out an article today about racism inflicted upon Obama campaigners.

GEE... perfect time to print that article. Why not after the Indiana primary? WHy wait until the exact day of the Hillary Clinton blowout in West Virginia... one of the whitest countries in the U.S... Maybe to tell voters subliminally that West Virginia is a racist state and would never vote a black man in anyway?

I'm a democrat, left-wing guy but I hope the power system that is the media.

Why hasn't he "sealed the deal?" He has..he's won the nomination. That's how you seal the deal. These people who keep saying the Democrat (Obama) is not going to win in November are self-deceived. Either Democrat will beat McCain like a red-headed step-child. It's going to be an anti-Republican landslide. Hide and watch.

Oh cry me a river!!! Why is it so hard for Hilary to admit that the race is over and not matter how much campainging and victory speeches she give is not going to change the math.

Flordia and Michigan broke the rules why is it that their votes need to count they realize what they were doing before it was done. Hilary wanted to secure the nomination by Feb 5th super Tuesday and when it backfired.. Now her campaign is crying and keep changing the rules to benefit Hillary.

Enough is enough it's time to quit while she ahead and try to support Obama and stop trying to divide the party just out of power and greed.

And all of her aides need to stop making excuses and state the facts and not lies.

Obama for President.

Gotta love FOX saying Hillary wins 68 to 32, and that's just with the exit polls...raw numbers will be in later. Kentucky is the next win there. Super d's need to be fully responsible for handing this thing to him with SERIOUS DOUBTS, thinking they can buy it for him.

"The media has absolutely been in the tank for Obama. I no longer watch MSNBC, NBC, or CNN. I gave up long ago trying to figure out why, because it really doesn't matter.

The big question is - with his media backing, 4:1 outspending, and massive recruitment of new voters... why hasn't Obama been able to seal the deal?"

Obama is not going to win in Nov. So the Press handed the 2008 election to McCain.

This is just another example of how far Hillary Clinton will go in order to become President. She hated Fox News for years, yet because they support her, because they think McCain can beat her more easily than he could beat Obama, then they've been nice to her and mean to Obama (most of the time, anyway).

It's easy for the Hillary supporters to cry about the media not showing only good things about her and to blame Obama and his supporters for it (most of what I saw in the media was good and bad for all candidates). Her supporters don't care what kind of person she is. They either support her because she's a woman, the wife of Bill Clinton or because they are racists. And because they so blindly support her, they hate anyone that doesn't support her or who goes against her. They are just as bad as she is. (This is what I've seen on the blogs and news websites.)

I can't wait until she is out of the race, and as an independent that has only voted for Republican presidents since Reagan, I plan on voting for Obama this time around. McCain and Clinton both are out to be President no matter what it takes to achieve that, by flip-flopping on issues and trying to pander to voters by saying exactly what they want to hear, yet everything they say contradicts what they have said before. They are not going to do what they say they are going to do, once they get into the White House. It's happened many times before when a person gets elected. But this time, there is a candidate that I believe really means what he says. When I look at and listen to Obama, I really believe him. So he's the one that will get my vote.

Oh, and I'm not an "elitist", I'm a lower-middle class, white woman over 40 who lives in the South, and I don't look at race or gender as factors on who I decide to vote for as President.

If the Clinton campaign can't read the writing on the wall then they must be taking some illegal substance. Everyone can't be wrong. FOX NEWS IS REPUBLICAN, OK?

On another note about the media, no one seems to have noticed how Google and it's search engine are also in the tank for Obama. If you put in Hillary, majority of the time google will give you all the negative articles on Hillary (granted for the past week nothing has been positive) but even before that. However, Obama could never do wrong on the google search engine. Just curious if I was the only one that noticed this.

I stopped MSNBC as my home page and stopped going there because of their bias towards Obummer. They're disturbingly gullable or worse just plain dumb.

The media has absolutely been in the tank for Obama. I no longer watch MSNBC, NBC, or CNN. I gave up long ago trying to figure out why, because it really doesn't matter.

The big question is - with his media backing, 4:1 outspending, and massive recruitment of new voters... why hasn't Obama been able to seal the deal?

Obama played the race and sex card and is now playing the age card with MCCain he uses words that people are not aware ...he used fluff to impress people and never once talked about the issues...but when character questions came up he decides well into the race he wants to talk about the issues...which he really avoided most of the campign long enough to cut and paste other's policies and ideas into his own...

Blue Irish

I am a writer. I grew up in a small town suburb with a father and a mother who worked for 40 years for Polaroid to scratch to put me through school...after school I worked as everything from a paperboy to a video clerk to landscaping to a nursery to a farm...to being homeless, to being a waiter...to working at a nursery... to production to finally achieving something as a writer in the past few years...after a lifetime of fighting.

I am a self made man yes...and I make money now ...finally...but I am still blue collar to the core... it is my blue collar roots that made me successful... it is my blue irish family that I fight for on these blogs.

I know what it is like to not have health insurance and work every day at it... to not know how to work a job while you can't keep a roof over your head and dream.

I am a very proud born and bread blue collar guy living in NH.

and very proud that Barack Obama will be the person my sisters, my cousins, my brothers will all have defending him getting their country back to the leader it once was...the ally it once was... the strength it once had...the virtue it once had...

and most of all the beacon it once was.

So NEVER call me a LIAR. I could not speak of all the issues with healthcare and working class if I was not born and breed part of that constituency.

so Blue Irish.. who are you

Big deal Clinton's have money ...they accomplished the American dream ...Obama did attend private schools worked for some great firms ..he made millions before he became a public person...great book deal...brought a million $$ house...while making a couple