Neocon GOP rapid response is heavily pounding away at Michelle Obama statements!
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on March 11, 2008 - 9:39am.
Rapid Response
Hello Everyone:
Right below is the Neocon GOP media watch and rapid response blog "NewsBusters" article from Sunday, March 9 titled "Michelle Obama’s ‘Mean America’ Statement Gets a Nearly Free Media Pass" where they heavily unload on some controversial statements from Michelle Obama that I am not hearing much about in the mainstream media and that will definitely come back to hurt Barack Obama in the general election IF he is the nominee!
Michelle Obama, along with Barack Obama, has also received a near free ride from the mainstream media for several controversial remarks that she has made so far that will probably come back to hurt Barack Obama in the general election IF he is the nominee which have been credibly documented:
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14667
YouTube Video: Michelle Obama said "I'd Have To Think About" Supporting Hillary
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on February 9, 2008 - 3:26am.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/john-stephenson/2008/02/18/will-media-ignore-michelle-obama-remark
Will Media Ignore Michelle Obama Remark?
By John Stephenson | February 18, 2008 - 19:21 ET
First she said that only Obama can "fix America's broken soul," and now this. If anything can stop Obama from getting the nomination or eventual Presidency,his wife running her mouth could be it.
http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/02/16/obamassiah-mender-of-broken-souls/
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/02/pride_in_the_na.html
http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/02/18/is-michelle-obama-the-next-teresa-heinz-kerry/
See video here.
“For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country,” she told a Milwaukee crowd today, “because it feels like hope is making a comeback.”
Doesn't this beg the question, "when did she become an adult"? Yesterday? The question is, will the media pay attention to this gaffe? Probably not much, and that is why the bloggers have to..."
While Neocon GOP rapid response may be wrong on many of the issues, they are very sharp and they do not miss very much when their opponents make a public gaffe. They are also masters of being able to spin what their opponents say to their advantage in a way that does influence middle America!
Each person will have to decide for themselves how serious that you think Michelle Obama's comments are below that NewsBusters talk about but you can be sure that if these comments are coming up right now in the primary from Neocon GOP rapid response, then they will also come up in the general election as well IF Barack Obama is the nominee!
From my standpoint, if Neocon GOP rapid response are right about Barack and Michelle Obama in their analysis, then I will definitely NOT put my credibility on the line trying to defend what cannot be reasonably defended:
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14885
How can Obama be credibly defended from GOP rapid response when they are right?
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on March 1, 2008 - 3:28pm.
Hillary Clinton on the other hand will much better be able to stand up to these kind of tough questions from NewsBusters and she will be far less vulnerable than Obama would be in the general election from Neocon GOP rapid response because she has already been fully vetted and tested while Barack and Michelle Obama have NOT been:
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/13992
Hillary's high negatives are an illusion compared to Obama or any other Democrat
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on November 28, 2007 - 4:49pm.
Please forward this information on for all Democratic primary voters to be aware of and consider!
Mitch Dworkin
http://www.securingamerica.com/
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/10756
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Submitted by Wes Clark on February 21, 2007 - 11:40am.
http://www.securingamerica.com/ccn/node/7191
Listen to Gen. Wes Clark fight for Dems on Sean Hannity's radio program: An excellent example for all of us to follow and what we all need to be doing to help fight back against extreme right wing Neocon smear propaganda!
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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/03/09/michelle-obama-s-mean-america-statement-gets-nearly-free-media-pass
Michelle Obama’s ‘Mean America’ Statement Gets a Nearly Free Media Pass
By Tom Blumer | March 9, 2008 - 10:02 ET
On Wednesday, NewsBusters' Noel Sheppard noted the following comments by Michelle Obama in her recent New Yorker Magazine profile by Lauren Collins:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/03/05/michelle-obama-america-just-downright-mean
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/10/080310fa_fact_collins
Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we're a divided country, we're a country that is "just downright mean," we are "guided by fear," we're a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. "We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day," she said, as heads bobbed in the pews. "Folks are just jammed up, and it's gotten worse over my lifetime. And, doggone it, I'm young. Forty-four!"
Sheppard said that "Given how (the) media made excuses for her comments in Wisconsin (She said, "for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country." -- Ed.), it will be quite interesting to see just how much of (the) interview ..... will be reported in the next 24 hours."
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/02/19/what-michelle-obama-said/
Well, Noel, I looked at the next 72 hours, and the answer is, with one enjoyable exception, "precious little":
(The results below are from a Google News search on "Michelle Obama" "New Yorker" "mean" [typed exactly as indicated] for the date range March 5-8; all relevant results are in the graphic)
http://news.google.com/news?svnum=10&as_scoring=d&client=safari&rls=en&oe=UTF-8&tab=wn&ned=us&hl=en&as_drrb=b&as_minm=3&as_mind=5&as_maxm=3&as_maxd=8&q=%22New+Yorker%22+%22michelle+obama%22+%22mean%22&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&start=10
The one delicious morsel in the above list is Brit Hume's "Political Grapevine" piece, because it makes the linkage the rest of Old Media should have made, and didn't:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,335829,00.html
New Information
A profile of Michelle Obama in the upcoming issue of The New Yorker magazine may help explain why she said last month that — "for the first time in my adult lifetime I am really proud of my country."
The article quotes from a speech Mrs. Obama made to a crowd in a South Carolina church in January. .....
The remaining Google News results consist of Noel's NewsBusters post; a brief WorldNetDaily item; briefer blog posts at the Boston Herald and the San Diego Union Tribune; a Frank James post at the Chicago Tribune's "The Swamp" blog that was also carried at the Baltimore Sun; and a great historical context piece at AOL's Political Machine by Justin Paulette.
What did the "papers of record" do with Mrs. Obama's comments? The same search done at the respective web sites, with no date range specified, came up with nothing relevant:
At the New York Times.
At the Washington Post.
At the Los Angeles Times (I further looked at the two major blogs listed at the link and found nothing relevant at them).
If the "papers of record" did nothing with her comments, you can be reasonably assured that the Old Media TV networks also ignored them.
The Associated Press's Calvin Woodward did note the New Yorker interview, but went nowhere near the controversy. Instead, he referred to a very odd thing Mrs. Obama said in reference to Bill Clinton ("Michelle Obama recently said this of Bill Clinton in The New Yorker magazine: 'I want to rip his eyes out!' She added: 'Kidding.'"), and speculated on whether Clinton-Obama could be a "Democrat Dream Team."
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/mar/06/democrat-dream-team/
So it would appear that Mrs. Obama's "mean" New Yorker musings did not make the print edition of any major newspaper.
Geez, at least Old Media did something with Hillary Clinton's infamous "baking cookies" tantrum in 1992. Mrs. Obama's virtual free pass for much more offensive verbiage is a useful reminder of how much worse Old Media bias has become in the intervening 16 years.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/etc/03261992.html
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
—Tom Blumer is a CPA based in Mason, Ohio and a contributing editor to NewsBusters
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by Mark Halperin | Thursday, February 28, 2008
HALPERIN’S TAKE: Michelle Obama and the General Election
So far, Obama campaign officials have smoothly explained away Michelle Obama’s statement Monday when she told a Wisconsin audience, “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country.” The campaign has clarified her comment thusly: Of course she is proud of America and loves her country, but she recognizes its political system has not always been perfect. Like her husband, Michelle Obama has garnered extraordinarily positive press coverage, and, despite some cautiously critical commentary during the last 12 hours, the dominant Old Media has not yet pounced on her remark.
But if you sample talk radio and the conservative blogs, you will get a neat preview of what will happen if Barack Obama is the Democrats’ presidential nominee and his wife makes similar statements as a potential first lady. The opposition will launch a full-scale assault against her judgment and (at least indirectly) her character and patriotism, and all previous remarks, including this one, will be recycled, replayed, and condemned. If she makes such a comment in October 2008, it could be disastrous for her husband’s campaign.
The clearest evidence: Cindy McCain, who almost never involves herself in the politics of the day and shies from controversy, struck back with this response: “I am proud of my country. I don’t know about you. If you heard those words earlier, I am very proud of my country.”
The Clinton campaign has often argued that Barack Obama is not prepared to face a general election onslaught from the rough Republican attack machine, but that contention has not yet been extended to Michelle Obama. This may change, given the pressures surrounding the current cluster of primaries. And those who think that the remarks of candidate spouses don’t count should hearken back to 2004. Teresa Heinz Kerry’s words were mocked, parsed, and censured by the Bush campaign and the Republican opposition, to great effect. In one incident, Mrs. Kerry was forced to apologize for suggesting Laura Bush had never held “a real job,” and her occasionally brash statements and behavior contributed to the negative image of Senator Kerry as patrician and remote.