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3 Major “News” Anchors Set to Run Free Obama Campaign Commercials

Posted by: Mike's America @ 11:02 am in Barack Obama, MSM Bias, Uncategorized  | 4 views

The major media lovefest for Obama comes out into the open!

3 Anchors to Follow Obama’s Trek Abroad
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post
July 17, 2008; C02

The three network anchors will travel to Europe and the Middle East next week for Barack Obama’s trip, adding their high-wattage spotlight to what is already shaping up as a major media extravaganza.

Lured by an offer of interviews with the Democratic presidential candidate, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric will make the overseas trek, meaning that the NBC, ABC and CBS evening newscasts will originate from stops along the route and undoubtedly give it big play.

John McCain has taken three foreign trips in the past four months, all unaccompanied by a single network anchor.

Obama has “proven adept at generating excitement,” says David Folkenflik, media correspondent for National Public Radio. He said the anchors hope “a little bit of that excitement will rub off on their newscasts if they can convey an American phenomenon abroad, if that’s what it turns out to be. Senator McCain is not as magnetic a figure in that way.”

It’s been a given that most “mainstream” “news” media types have been in the tank for Obama from the beginning. It’s also no secret that the “news” media’s former darling, John McCain, has been largely kicked to the curb by the same folks who built up his reputation in the first place.

But now, the medias bias is becoming so obvious that it would be laughable if they tried to deny it. Three major news anchors going on the road with a presidential candidate? It’s unprecedented.

But what isn’t new is the media fascination with Obama which often treats McCain as an afterthought. The following chart by the Project for Excellence in Journalism makes it clear:

Bias in reporting isn’t always HOW you cover a story. In large part it’s whether you choose to cover a story at all. With three “news” anchors leading the cheering section for Obama’s upcoming trip, it’s clear whose side they have chosen.

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stix1972
 1Reply to this comment  

Of Course Fred Thonpson was no where on the chart or was Duncan Hunter.

But thge MSM willdrool all over the Obammasiah and try and find the few Obama cool aid drinkers in the military to show how much support he is getting from the troops.

July 17th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Howard Hawks
 2Reply to this comment  

Does anyone still believe ABC, NBC and CBS are not biased in favor of the Democommies?

July 17th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
doug
 3Reply to this comment  

I told you he was almost as much a media whore as McCain!

July 17th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
OLDPUPPYMAX
 4Reply to this comment  

Gee, if only Obama had returned the favor and endorsed McCain, maybe things would have been different and perky Katie would have gone with Johnnie! I don’t expect the media to be anything but the criminally biased group it is. However, I do expect the republican candidate for the White House to not be an imbecile. Anyone who goes to the NAALCP and gives a speech in which he actually endorse his opponent deserves any disrespect he gets. He brought it on himself. It is going to be a very, very hard trip, going to the poles and voting for this moron in Nov, even with the vitally important purpose of keeping an America-hating Marxist out of the White House.

July 17th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Mike's America
 5Reply to this comment  

“I told you he was almost as much a media whore as McCain!”

Almost?

Obama could give McCain lessons in media whoring. Funny that with all this lavish attention from the “mainstream” media Obama still hasn’t got the confidence to go on Bill O’Reilly’s show.

July 17th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Dave Noble
 6Reply to this comment  

That’s because the O’Reilly Show is to real journalism what the WWF is to the Olympics.

July 17th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Leah
 7Reply to this comment  

“Does anyone still believe ABC, NBC and CBS are not biased in favor of the Democommies?”

Come, now, that’s not news. It’s a commonly known fact. Soros doesn’t even need to pay them off.

It’s surprising to me, really; I know that the POTUS should have the power to persuade in his characteristic toolbox, but the power to mislead? This is just ridiculous, really.

July 17th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
stix1972
 8Reply to this comment  

Yes and Anderson Cooper is a real journalist also. At least O’Reilly ,the blowhard, doesn’t hide and say he isn’t biased.

July 17th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
DW 5000
 9Reply to this comment  

At least O’Reilly ,the blowhard, doesn’t hide and say he isn’t biased.

Actually, isn’t that precisely what “No-Spin Zone” is supposed to be saying?

July 17th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
DirtCrashr
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Didn’t Old-Whatshisname go on a trip to Germany and come back waving a piece of paper saying “Peace in our time” -?
Chamberlain. “The path which leads to appeasement is long and bristles with obstacles.”
Yet he overcame them in his mighty efforts for appeasement – but it wasn’t a Peace-mint at all…
“I think that Europe and the world have reason to be grateful to the head of the Italian government for his work in contributing to a peaceful solution.”
Yeh sure, Mussolini was a swell guy and made the trains run on time.
And Arrogance: “I have nothing to be ashamed of. Let those who have, hang their heads. We must feel profound sympathy for a small and gallant nation in the hour of their national grief and loss.”

Czechoslovakia was no more, as a result of appeasement and Chamberlains grandiose and unquenchable desire to be a big-time euro-Statesman… What a schmuck.

July 17th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
DW 5000
 11Reply to this comment  

Czechoslovakia was no more, as a result of appeasement and Chamberlains grandiose and unquenchable desire to be a big-time euro-Statesman… What a schmuck.

Now connect this rant with the Obama story, if you’d be so kind…

July 17th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
stix1972
 12Reply to this comment  

I guess you really do not know what Spin is. O’Reilly does not spin. Yes he giveshis opinion, but does not toe either parties line. He is conservative, and have opinions, but does not spin. I thik he is an idiot and a blowhard, but he does not spin. Unlike the biased spin onmost MSM news shows.

Opinion is opinion. Spin is spinnig something for a particular party stance no matter what. there is a difference.

July 17th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Scrapiron
 13Reply to this comment  

ABC, CBS, and NBC daily broadcast coming to you streight from the DNC. A shared building might save them from going broke.

July 17th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Scrapiron
 14Reply to this comment  

And Hussein O is the first candidate in recent history that would, and will, close the media outlets if he finds the power to do it. They will become more of a parrot (or die) than they are now.

July 17th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Mike's America
 15Reply to this comment  

Isn’t it funny that the libs would say Bill O’Reilly really isn’t a journalist yet would say that George Stephanopoulus who worked for Clinton or Tim Russert who worked for Senator Moynahan ARE journalists, but O’Reilly, who has a masters degree in broadcast journalism and has been doing that job for more than 30 years is not.

Well, it’s no suprise really. The libs only think that their kind are deserving to wear the mantle of journalist and that’s fine with me. We know none of them have any objectivity and their professional standards have been corrupted by the slavish devotion to Democrat socialism.

July 17th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Fit fit
 16Reply to this comment  

Would you like some cheese with that whine?

McCain blew his chance to get media coverage for his “big overseas trip”. You should be complaining about his inept campaigning, not media bias…

July 17th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Mike's America
 17Reply to this comment  

There is no arguing that McCain’s campaign has it’s weak points.

But that doesn’t excuse the blatant bias in this example.

Nice try!

July 17th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Scrapiron
 18Reply to this comment  

It will slow down the strut of Hussein. It will be hard to strut with three lame stream media heads up his butt, but his colon will be licked clean. It’s gonna be fun watching the lame stream networks go the way of the NY and LASlimes. Down the flusher with one flush.

July 17th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Mike's America
 19Reply to this comment  

One possibly positive point about having the big three anchors in Iraq is that they will have to observe, and one would hope report, firsthand the progress made in Iraq.

Since many of them repeated the Democrat-Defeatist talking points that Iraq was a civil war of sectarian violence with the U.S. caught in the middle will they now change their tune to match today’s reality?

July 17th, 2008 at 9:26 pm

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