Douglass K. Daniel of the AP Is Not a Journalist [UPDATE: Sarah Palin Responds]

AP is also the organization that announced Hillary was conceding the election the morning of June 3rd — while people were just going to the polls in two primaries.

Zell and Murdoch, big Obama supporters, are on the AP Board.

Perhaps that helps to clarify the butter.

Sarah is obviously landing some devastating blows. Otherwise, why such a reaction with much distortion to boot? When Barack and Biden start addressing Sarah’s statements, that is when we all know SHE IS being really, really, effective. GO SARAH! GO! GO! GO!

And MORE! MORE! MORE!

I wrote them as well; both “douglas” and AP.

This was a piece of crap article, with the audacity to invoke “racism”.

Gee…shouting RACIST worked with Democratic crackers….didn’t it…chuckle…BARKY & THE MINIONS ARE SHRILLING DESPERATE….PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE HAMAS…chuckle…

Thank you. Ayers is white. Obama’s mom was white. Obama has white grandparents.

Mention black folks - racist.

Mention white folks - racist.

New Obama campaign theme - mention any human being on the planet - racist.

Ayers himself said they (The Weathermen)didn’t go far enough. Quoting Ayers is now racist.

Good grief.

Fabulous work here, Truthteller.

Thank you for spelling it out so clearly.

What a putz Bozo and his gang of name-calling assholes are.

GO SARAH!!!

Oh My GOD…FLOP SWEAT drowning robby…clean up on aisle 6…lol

Agreed Excellent Spot On Analysis of this Obama Campaign Wishlist Talking Point Press Release Masquarading as a news story.

SHAME ON YOU ASSOCIATED PRESS FOR ALLOWING THIS CRAP RACISM SCARE TACTIC STORY TO HAVE YOUR NAME ASSOCIATED WITH IT!

JUST UNBELIEVABLY BIASED REPORTING OF THE WORST KIND!

Oh Wait what am i saying AP is in the Tank for Obama…this is what they consider their job to do!

Thank you, workingclassartist. I really enjoyed writing this essay. In fact, it wrote itself.

Paln is takin on Obama and the MSM…McCain is a genius at strategy…He’s right…Barky does not know the difference between a tactic and a strategy…I’ll take butter on my popcorn…BARKY

I think it’s fair to talk about where Barack Obama kicked off his political career, in the guy’s living room.”

“In the guys living romm” LOL wow wow wow.
She says it like it is. Not in his office but much more like friends..in his house!

Well the OB camp accused the Hillary side of the democratic party for being racist since they weren’t “getting over it” and unifying.

Now the GOP are getting a taste and I am pretty sure they will not take it sitting down. You betach Obama and his minions just woke the sleeping bear! GOP does not have racial guilt - remember they were responsible for freeing the slaves, Having Colin Powell, Clarence Thomas AND Condi Rice. So who is the racist now? Um-hmmmm. Not gonna work.

Their is no logic in their arguement. however i did see one of the people from the DNC on fox who was claiming that John Mccain and Pain were desperate. I think the people on hill buzz were on to something last week where obama as running around saying things like John McCain is so desperate he will say anything and his follers were running around calling people racist. they must have know mccain and palin were going to come at them with this and tried their best to shoot it down before it was even launched .

Comment by Paul3triple | 2008-10-05 13:57:54

i was of the impression that terrorist is not a race. Weren’t you?

Oh and you should update this with Mccain campaign’s response:

“The last four weeks of this election will be about whether the American people are willing to turn our economy and national security over to Barack Obama, a man with little record, questionable judgment, and ties to radical figures like unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers. Americans need to ask themselves if they’ve ever befriended an unrepentant terrorist, or had a convicted felon help them buy their house — because those aren’t smears, those are true facts about Barack Obama.” —Tucker Bounds, spokesman McCain-Palin 2008

IN THE WORDS OF THE DAY (When Billy boy was bombing the country that most of us love):

RIGHT ON!

GO MAC DADDY!

Same people who think “African” is appropriate to put on Birth Certificates under “Race”. Hahaha, dumb and dumber.

If Mac ever said that, Barry would set a new record for “uh’s”…

I read it and I suggest everyone send it to their family and friends. It covers what our press refuses to cover.

Obama has, in a sense, represented a new version of the invisible man, a candidate whose colour obscures his failings.

This Australian media does not candy coat.

Good article. It’s a real shame that our media will not report like this.

Juicy morsels and big chunks to bite on. Here is Australian News article for archive and all.
Fred Siegel | May 05, 2008
POLITICAL campaigning necessarily produces a wide gap between words and deeds. This is the price of bringing together a broad coalition with disparate interests. All effective politicians are at times authentically insincere or sincerely inauthentic. Exaggeration, embellishment, overstatement, doubletalk, deception and lies presented as metaphorical truths are the order of the day.

So, of course, Barack Obama is no different. He exaggerates the credit he deserves for a limited piece of ethics-reform legislation. He embellishes when he presents himself as having had a consistent record on the Iraq war when in fact he’s done a fair amount of zigzagging.

He engages in doubletalk when, on free trade and Iraq, he tells the yokels one thing and the policy people another. He overstates when he presents his minimal accomplishments in the Illinois Senate as proof of his stature. He engages in systematic deception when he says he doesn’t take money from lobbyists. He presents a lie as metaphorical truth when he says it was the 1965 bloody Sunday attacks on peaceful civil rights protesters in Selma, Alabama, that inspired his parents to marry. (They had been married for years already.)

All of this is unappealing, but also unexceptional. What makes it different is that there’s not just a gap but a chasm between his actions and his professed principles, which would normally kill a candidacy. And because his deeds are so few, the disparity is all the more salient.

Obama, far more than the others, is the “judge me by what I say and not what I do” candidate. He wants to be the conscience of the country without necessarily having one himself.

The disparity between Obama’s rhetoric of transcendence and his conventional Chicago racial and patronage politics is a leitmotiv of his political career. In New York, politicians (Al Sharpton excepted) are usually forced to pay at least passing tribute to universal principles and the ideal of clean government.

But Chicago, until recently a city of Lithuanians, blacks and Poles governed by Irishmen on the patronage model of the Italian Christian Democrats, is the city of political and cultural tribalism.

Blacks adapted to the tribalism and the corrupt patronage politics that accompanied it. Historically, one of the ironies of Chicago politics is that the clean-government candidates have been the most racist, while those most open to black aspirations have been the most corrupt. When the young Jesse Jackson received his first audience with then mayor Richard Daley Sr - impervious to the universalism of the civil rights movement in its glory - offered him a job as a toll-taker. Jackson thought the offer demeaning but in time adapted.

In Chicago, racial reform has meant that the incumbent mayor, Richard M. Daley, has been cutting blacks in on the loot. Louis Farrakhan, Jackson, Jeremiah Wright and Obama are all, in part, the expression of that politics. It hasn’t always worked for Chicago, which, under the pressure of increasing taxes to pay for bloated government, is losing its middle class. But it has served the city’s political class admirably.

For all his Camelot-like rhetoric, Obama is a product, in significant measure, of the political culture that Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass described: “We’ve had our chief of detectives sent to prison for running the Outfit’s (the mob’s) jewellery-heist ring. And we’ve had white guys with Outfit connections get $100 million in affirmative action contracts from their drinking buddy, Mayor Richard Daley … That’s the Chicago way.”

At no point did Obama, the would-be saviour of US politics, challenge this corruption, except for face-saving gestures as a legislator. He was, in his own Harvard law way, a product of it.

Why, you may ask, did the operators of Chicago’s political machine support Obama? Part of the answer was given long ago by the then boss of Chicago, Jake Arvey.
When asked why he made Adlai Stevenson - a man, as with Obama, more famous for speeches than for accomplishments - his party’s gubernatorial candidate in 1948, Arvey is said to have replied that he needed to “perfume the ticket”.

Obama first played a perfuming role as a state senator. His mentor, Emil Jones, the machine-made president of the Senate, allowed him to sponsor a minor ethics bill. In return, Obama made sure to send plenty of pork to Jones’s district. When asked about pork-barrel spending, Jones famously replied: “Some call it pork; I call it steak.”

Obama repaid the generosity. When he had a chance to back clean Democratic candidates for president of the Cook County board of supervisors and Illinois governor, he stayed with the allies of the Outfit. The gubernatorial candidate he backed, Rod Blagojevich, is under federal investigation, in part because of his relationship with Tony Rezko, the man who helped Obama buy his house.

The Chicago way has delivered politically for Obama even this year. Ninety per cent of his popular-vote lead over Hillary Clinton comes from Illinois, and two-thirds of that 90 per cent comes just from Cook County.

Some of this advantage came from the efforts of Obama’s political ally, the flame-throwing reverend James Meeks, a political force in his own right. Meeks, who mocks black moderates as “niggers”, is an Illinois state senator, the pastor of a mega-church and a strong supporter of Jackson’s powerful political operation, which has put its vote-pulling muscle squarely behind the Obama campaign. It was only with Obama’s remark about bitter, white, working-class, small-town voters that we saw his difficulties appealing beyond the machine’s reach. He won his US Senate race in 2004 not only because his opponents self-destructed but also because of the machine’s ability to deliver votes.

In Pennsylvania, he has lacked such assistance and the campaigning has not gone nearly so well. First, Obama pretended to be a tenpin bowler and scored a 37. Then, appearing before a supposedly closed San Francisco audience, he complained that small-town Pennsylvanians “cling to guns or religion or antipathy towards people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations”. This is the man who belongs to a church built on bitterness, rancour and conspiratorial fear. During the Wright affair, Obama not only repeatedly lied about what he knew and when but violated the spirit of the civil rights movement in its mid-1960s glory.

When, as a young man, I was on the periphery of the movement, there was an unwritten rule that if people told racist jokes or speakers engaged in defamatory rhetoric, you needed to register your immediate disapproval by confronting the speaker or ostentatiously walking out.

Wright’s “black theology” is essentially a Christianised version of Malcolm X’s ideology of hate.

But for 20 years, Obama, who had planned to run for mayor of Chicago, kept silent about the close, if at times competitive, relationship between Wright, whose 8000-member mega-church gave him his political base, and Farrakhan. His ambition overrode his moral integrity.

As part of his “black value system”, Wright attacked whites for their “middle classism”, materialism, and “greed in a world of need”. Obama sounded similar notes in his recent address at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, in which he laid the blame for the sub-prime mortgage crisis on those who had “embraced an ethic of greed, corner cutting and inside dealing”.

But that’s exactly what Obama did in buying his luxurious house. Given the choice of purchasing a less expensive home or getting into bed with his fundraiser-cum-slumlord-cum-fixer Rezko, Obama chose the latter. Then again, the oppressed of Trinity United Church of Christ are building Wright a $US1.6 million ($1.7million), 960sqm home complete with four-car garage, whirlpool and butler’s pantry. This house, which backs on to a golf course, is to sit in Tinley Park, a gated community in southwest Chicago that is 93 per cent white.

The Obamas’ charitable giving is consistent with Wright’s talking Left while living Right. Obama and his wife are quite well off. They had an estimated income of $US1.2 million from 2000 to 2004. But the man who preaches compassion and mutuality gave all of 1 per cent of that income to charity during those years. Most of that went to Wright’s church.

There is a similar chasm when it comes to Obama’s claim to post-partisanship. His achievements in reaching out to moderate voters are largely proleptic. But words are not deeds and, although Obama has few concrete achievements to his name, his voting record hardly suggests an ability to rise above Left v Right.

In the Illinois Senate, he made a specialty of voting present, but after his first two years in the US Senate, National Journal’s analysis of rollcall votes found that he was more liberal than 86 per cent of his colleagues. His voting record has only moved further Left since then. The liberal Americans for Democratic Action gives him a 97.5 per cent rating, while National Journal ranks him the most liberal member of the Senate. By comparison, Clinton, who occasionally votes with the Republicans, ranks 16th.

Obama is such a down-the-line partisan that, according to Congressional Quarterly, in the past two years he has voted with the Democrats more often than did the party’s majority leader, Harry Reid.

Likewise, for all his talk of post-racialism, Obama has played, with the contrivance of the press, traditional South Side Chicago racial politics. The day after his surprise loss in New Hampshire, and in anticipation of the South Carolina primary, with its heavily black electorate, South Side congressman Jesse Jackson Jr - Obama’s national co-chairman - appeared on MSNBC to argue, in a prepared statement, that Clinton’s teary moment on the campaign trail reflected her deep-seated racism.

“Those tears,” said Jackson, “have to be analysed … They have to be looked at very, very carefully in light of Katrina, in light of other things that Mrs Clinton did not cry for, particularly as we head to South Carolina, where 45 per cent of African-Americans will participate in the Democratic contest … We saw tears in response to her appearance, so that her appearance brought her to tears, but not hurricane Katrina, not other issues.”

In other words, whites who are at odds with, or who haven’t delivered for, Chicago politicians can be obliquely accused of racism on the flimsiest basis, but pillars of local black politics such as Wright, with his exclusivist racial theology, are beyond criticism.

Liberals love Obama’s talk of taking on powerful financial interests. But here , too, he is rather slippery. In his Cooper Union speech, he denounced in no uncertain terms the “special interests” of people on Wall Street (who are well represented among his campaign donors).

He, of course, had an opportunity to push for repealing the privileged tax treatment of private equity firms when that question was before Charles Grassley’s Senate subcommittee - but he simply made a pro-forma statement in favour of doing so and disappeared.

Nationally, as in Chicago, Obama the self-styled reformer never crosses swords with any of his putative foes. To pick another example, he has attacked “predatory” sub-prime lenders while taking roughly $US1.3 million in contributions from companies in that line of business.

Obama is the internationalist opposed to free trade. He is the friend of race-baiters who thinks Don Imus deserved to be fired. He is the proponent of courage in the face of powerful interests who lacked the courage to break with Wright (until Wednesday). He is the man who would lead our efforts against terrorism yet was friendly with Bill Ayers, the unrepentant 1960s terrorist. He is the post-racialist supporter of affirmative action. He is the enemy of Big Oil who takes money from executives at Exxon-Mobil, Shell and British Petroleum.

Obama has, in a sense, represented a new version of the invisible man, a candidate whose colour obscures his failings.

But so far, the wild discrepancy between Obama’s words and his deeds, and between his enormous ambitions and his minimal accomplishments, doesn’t seem to have fazed his core supporters, who apparently suffer from a severe case of cognitive dissonance. Like cultists who rededicate themselves when the cult’s prophecies have been falsified, his fans redouble their delusions in the face of his obvious hypocrisy.

That is because Obama, in the imagination of many of his fans in the public and the press, is both a deduction from what was - the failures of the Bush administration and the scandals of the Clintons - and an expression of what should be.

The ideal, the aspiration, is so rhetorically appealing that it has been assumed to be true. They remind one of Woodrow Wilson’s answer when asked if his plan for a League of Nations was practicable: “If it won’t work, it must be made to work.”

Fred Siegel is a contributing editor of City Journal. He teaches at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

That article pretty much says it all. When the powers that be first starting pushing this standard-issue Chicago pol, I knew to look at him with a jaundiced eye. My 8-years living in Chicago make me very cynical of anyone who emerges from that cesspool.

One more thing, why do you think there is so much about Ayers going on now, false AP reports and attacks towards Palin?

Obama does not want this issue raised tuesday night to 70 million people and the false AP reports will be the only answers Obama will give if they are raised Tuesday night! So Obama thinks…lol

…Thanks for the link, but I find it hard to swallow coming from a site that advertises t-shirts saying “I’d rather be waterboarding”.

That person is not supporting US Soldiers.

Yes, he has, and he has trivialized racism to a point at which real acts of racial violence will be ignored.

GO SARACUDDA!!!!!!!!!!