Hillary's ad against the media; McAuliffe says media ‘in the tank’ for Obama!
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on May 19, 2008 - 3:28am.
Media
Hello Everyone:
Here is the new YouTube video ad that Hillary is running against the media right now in Oregon which shows Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Tim Russert, and George Stephanopoulos at the beginning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7w1_ZFMRMc
What's Right (00:31)
Here is The Hill reporting where Terry McAuliffe in my opinion very correctly said "that the former first lady is hamstrung by a biased media," "Clearly it has been a biased media, no question about it," and where he rightly called FOX News "one of the most responsible in this presidential campaign:"
http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/mcauliffe-says-media-in-the-tank-for-obama-2008-05-13.html
McAuliffe says media ‘in the tank’ for Obama
By Klaus Marre
Posted: 05/13/08 11:43 AM [ET]
Terry McAuliffe, campaign chairman for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), said Tuesday that the former first lady is hamstrung by a biased media.
“Clearly it has been a biased media, no question about it,” McAuliffe said on Fox News. When asked how much of the mainstream media is “in the tank” for Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), who leads Clinton in the race for the Democratic nomination, McAuliffe estimated that about 90 percent of the media favor Obama.
“It is what it is. We’re not complaining,” he stated. “We have to deal with the hand we’re dealt with.”
McAuliffe added that “every independent study has said that this is the most biased coverage they’ve ever seen in a presidential campaign.”
He also praised Fox News, which is often viewed as a conservative media outlet, as “one of the most responsible in this presidential campaign.”
This did not go over well with the anti-Hillary and pro-Obama Keith Olbermann who gave Terry McAuliffe runner up for Worst Person in the World for these comments back on May 14 in this Countdown video:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24633980#24633980 (02:36)
Worst Person in the World
Here is the brief Countdown transcript of this video:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24647047/
'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Wednesday, May 14
Read the transcript to the Wednesday show
Guests: Richard Wolffe, Chuck Todd
KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST (voice over): "The runner up, Terry McAuliffe, Senator Clinton‘s campaign chair;
“clearly, it has been a biased media, no question about it.” He says, “90 percent of the media favors Obama.” Quote, “every independent study has said that this is the most biased coverage they have ever seen in a presidential campaign. It is what it is, he adds. We are not complaining.”
Terry, this is something you saw in a sketch on “Saturday Night Live.” It didn‘t actually happen. Also, the part about your campaign not complaining, I would like to mark this on my calendar; you are not complaining starting when?"
Here are my three responses to Keith Olbermann about this nonsense:
1) Terry McAuliffe was only stating a clearly proven fact as opposed to complaining. The facts about what Terry McAuliffe said are absolutely true:
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14665
MEDIA STUDY: Media Boost Obama, Bash “Billary” and "NBC Is Toughest on Hillary"
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on February 9, 2008 - 1:01am.
2) I do NOT see Keith Olbermann trying to deny Terry McAuliffe's credible claims of anti-Hillary media bias. Keith Olbermann is one of the most guilty culprits of anti-Hillary and pro-Obama media bias in the business right now as I have credibly documented:
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15523
Keith Olbermann called Hillary's voters "Republicans and Democrats in name only"
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on May 16, 2008 - 9:34am.
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15359
Transcript & Video: Keith Olbermann made fun of Hillary's supporters on April 23
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on April 24, 2008 - 4:41pm.
3) Because Keith Olbermann is so biased against Hillary and because he openly makes fun of her supporters, he has lost all of his credibility as far as I am concerned and he has also lost me as a viewer. I will continue to monitor (NOT "watch") him right now while the Democratic primary is still going on but once this primary contest is over, then I will be completely through with him regardless of who wins!
Please forward this information on so that more Democratic primary voters and superdelegates will understand how serious of an issue that anti-Hillary and pro-Obama media bias are right now!
IF Hillary loses this primary contest, then the media will be mostly responsible for it in my opinion and I will definitely NOT forget about that or legitimize it in any way during the general election!
I am proud to see both Hillary and Terry McAuliffe taking a stand against this unprofessional media bias!
Mitch Dworkin
http://www.securingamerica.com/
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/10756
StopIranWar.com: "War is not the answer"
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!
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10420.html
Hillary turns fire on media
By KENNETH P. VOGEL | 5/17/08 6:29 AM EST
Clinton launches a new ad blasting D.C. punditocracy for counting her out.
Photo: AP
PORTLAND, Ore. – Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is increasingly aiming its punches not at her front-running opponent Barack Obama, but at the media.
On the campaign trail, in a new ad and in her meetings with donors and superdelegates, she blasts the D.C. punditocracy for counting her out and urges anyone who’ll listen to ignore the hardening storyline that places Obama as the Democratic presidential nominee.
The goal is twofold. Clinton, a New York senator, wants to stanch the flow of uncommitted superdelegates to Obama, an Illinois senator, by convincing them she can still win the nomination. She also wants to generate a protest vote in the four states that have yet to hold primaries, as well as in Puerto Rico.
The Clinton camp believes a media backlash drove up turnout among her supporters in West Virginia, which last week delivered a landslide 67 percent to 26 percent victory for her.
“Because I believe that I am better prepared to be president and I am more likely to be able to win, I don’t care what the pundits say. I’m going to leave it up to the voters,” Clinton said Friday night at a televised town hall meeting at Portland’s NBC affiliate. She said pundits have been counting her out “since Iowa and the voters always prove them wrong. I mean, I’ve been declared dead so many times and luckily it’s been premature and I’m hoping it stays premature.”
Also on Friday, Clinton’s campaign began airing an ad in Oregon, which holds its primary Tuesday, that pits her against the Beltway media elites.
The ad, titled "What's Right," shows video snippets of a cadre of television show hosts who have dismissed or downplayed Clinton’s chances – NBC’s Tim Russert, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and MSNBC anchors Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews...
of gender politics. Their misogyny is so slimey and disgusting that it's difficult for me to read and impossible for me to listen to. With the voters, however, I believe that their vile talk has merely served to mobilize those who find their words nauseatingly biased. Have they forgotten that women can vote in this country?! I no longer listen to MSNBC, but my husband does sometimes, and everytime I hear a snatch from one of its programs, it's someone either delivering an ad hominem attack on Hillary or thundering that she can't win "because of the math". They bluster that the Dems can't go against "the will of the voters"--which, of course, isn't represented by the tiny-turnout caucuses and torturously twisted delegate allocations. No, the DNC better not go against the will of the majority, but they will if they manage to get BO nominated.
Good for them!
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Clinton_media_elitists/2008/05/20/97568.html
Clinton Slams College Educated Media Elitists
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:06 PM
By: Newsmax Staff
Although it's been a constant theme of the Clinton campaign for the Democratic nomination from the start, Bill Clinton took yet another punch yesterday at the media and Beltway media elites, accusing them of being slanted in its coverage of wife and presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton.
During a rally at Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky., the former president lashed out at the media for what he called its “slanted press coverage.”
Clinton attributes Sen. Barack Obama’s delegate lead to the bias the press has shown during this year’s campaign and pressed the argument Hillary made earlier in the day, that she had now and would have at the end of the primary process more popular votes than Obama.
“I believe it is far more likely than not when this is over she will have won a majority of all the votes cast in all the states,” he said.
With that as pretext, Clinton unleashed a 12-minute tirade against the media in which he said, “"First of all, by their own admission, this has been the most slanted press coverage in American history. Secondly, they declared her dead more times than a cat’s got lives." He went on to further accuse the press of not caring about the needs of voters and favoring other candidates over his wife.
Clinton also ridiculed Obama for vastly outspending Hillary in several states Obama lost.
“In Pennsylvania she was outspent 3-1 – by $8 million – and she won anyway,” he recounted.
“In every single electoral math I have seen, she is beating Sen. [John] McCain [the presumptive Republican nominee for president] handily, and she is the only Democrat who is doing that,” he said, echoing statements Hillary has made in recent weeks.
“Every time you turn on the television and you listen to one of those people dissing her, they all have a college degree, they all got a new job, they all got healthcare, and they're not going broke filling up their gas tank," he railed.
Two days earlier, Hillary told a crowd in Mayfield, Ky., the very same thing.
“All those people on TV who are telling you and everybody else that this race is over and I should just be, you know, graceful and say, ‘Oh, it’s over,’ even though I’ve won more votes,” she said. “Those are all people who have a job. Those are all people who have healthcare. Those are all people who can afford to send their kids to college. Those are all people who can pay whatever is charged at the gas pump."
Hillary went on to say the media has been counting her out “since Iowa, and the voters always prove them wrong. I mean, I’ve been declared dead so many times and, luckily, it’s been premature. And I’m hoping it stays premature,” she said.
“Because I believe that I am better prepared to be president and I am more likely to be able to win, I don’t care what the pundits say. I’m going to leave it up to the voters.”
By placing blame for his wife’s campaign problems and shortcomings on the press, Bill Clinton fell back on an old tactic he used when he first broke on the national scene in 1991.
The Clinton camp is riding this tactic right to the bitter end of the election race. It even unleashed a new television advertisement in Oregon Friday which points a finger at some of America's top political pundits, whom they accuse of being elitists.
The ad, titled "What's Right," aims its punches not at her front-running opponent, Obama, but at the media. It shows NBC’s Tim Russert, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, and MSNBC anchors Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, downplaying Clinton’s chances.
“In Washington, they talk about who's up and who's down,” the narrator in the ad says. “In Oregon, we care about what's right and what's wrong.”
In addition, the message Hillary’s camp has been hammering home to supporters and superdelegates all along the campaign trail is not to count her out just yet. They urge anyone who’ll listen to ignore the college-educated, elitist media hype that places Obama as the Democratic presidential nominee.
you up! Your fellow hillbillies are with you and Hillary, and we outnumber the wine-sipping elite types of Oregon!
How much the Obamaniac media has to do with BO's wins is up for discussion, but there's no doubt that it is unprecedented and will, at some point and to some degree, backfire on the condescending snobs at MSNBC, etc. I feel like a peasant listening to the lords and ladies discussing whose castle will host the next feast! I feel so bitter I think I'll go cling to my pitchfork!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24714554#24714554 (02:22)
May 19 Hardball Video: Clinton targets the media
Here is the Hardball transcript link of this video. It looks like what David Shuster said on Hardball does NOT apply to his own colleague Keith Olbermann as I have credibly documented:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24729509/
'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for Friday, May 19
Read the transcript to the Monday show
Guest: Roger Simon, Margaret Carlson, Hilary Rosen, Jamal Simmons, Michael Isikoff, Michael Shear, Michelle Bernard, James Carroll
DAVID SHUSTER, HARDBALL CORRESPONDENT: "But nobody in the mainstream media asked then or has ever asked for Clinton to quit..."
http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15229
Keith Olbermann mocked Hillary as the guest who wouldn‘t leave the primary race!
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on April 9, 2008 - 10:50am.
Jack Cafferty of CNN also wants Hillary to quit the race:
http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/07/what-will-clinton-do-now/
May 7, 2008
What will Clinton do now?
Posted: 01:28 PM ET
"Then there are the superdelegates, who could now start to move in larger numbers to Obama. Or even superdelegates who currently support Clinton and could switch to Obama. Finally, The New York Times suggests that senior Democrats who support Clinton – like Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell or New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine – could now ask her to consider quitting.
On all of this, Hillary Clinton is absolutely tone deaf. Last night she told supporters, “it’s full-speed on to the White House.” This is denial in full bloom..."
These biased media pundit idiots who are very clearly in the tank for Obama are pathetic hypocrites and they definitely need to be exposed for their unprofessional journalism in my opinion!
and "they drive the masses."
I was thrilled to hear Professor Swain bluntly say this on Lou Dobbs today. More people need to be talking about this right now in my opinion!
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/21/ldt.01.html
LOU DOBBS TONIGHT
Clinton and Obama Campaign in Florida; Hispanic Caucus Attacks LOU DOBBS TONIGHT; Cisco Systems Puts Profits Ahead of People
Aired May 21, 2008 - 19:00 ET
LOU DOBBS, CNN ANCHOR: Joining me now, three of the best political analysts and CNN contributors in the country. Republican strategist Ed Rollins who served as White House political director under President Reagan, chaired Governor Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign, Democratic strategist Robert Zimmerman, Democratic National Committeeman, Hillary Clintons supporter, superdelegate. And in Washington, D.C., Professor Carol Swain, Vanderbilt University's Law School; Carol also the editor of Debating Immigration.
Great to have you all with us.
Carol, it looks like Senator Obama is claiming the nomination without doing so. What's your reaction?
PROF. CAROL SWAIN, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: I think the media claimed it for him a long time ago. Nothing new, no surprises.
DOBBS: Do you agree, Robert Zimmerman?
ROBERT ZIMMERMAN, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Well I think the real issue here is no one knows what the number is going to be, the magic number to claim the nomination and that's the under reported story.
DOBBS: May 31 Rules Committee likely to be 2,210, if you include Michigan and Florida if they are seated, right?
ZIMMERMAN: Well if they're seated it could very well -- it depends on how many of the delegates from each state are seated but we know it's not going to be 2026 and the fact that we could talk about anyone laying claim to the nomination --
DOBBS: So why don't you guys just broker this deal, get to convention and get it over with? Either way it's going to have to be brokered, the superdelegates, the DNC Committee, the Democratic National Committee is going to make the decision.
ZIMMERMAN: Here's the big race, if in fact he can claim enough delegates before June 3 to claim the nomination, it's over. If Hillary Clinton can win the popular vote and neither side has enough delegates, then it comes down to what the superdelegates do it. And a lot of tough choices.
SWAIN: No, it comes down to the media and what they say and how they drive the masses...
while she was trying to "be nice" to Fla and Mich voters (ie sucking up), that whoever reached 2026 first was the nominee, period; that means if BO gets to 2026 before the Fla and Mich delegates are seated, then BO is the nominee.
Nobody's vote is recorded until the Denver convention. By then, the number may be 2209, or some number between 2025 and 2209. As a member of the DNC and Rules Committee, she ought to know better.
Stan Davis
Lakewood, CO
Wes Clark -- Make America All It Can Be!
superdelegate when she is giving analysis because it is very obvious that she is in the tank for Obama!
She can be on CNN to give her opinions BUT they should call her an Obama supporter just like how they do with pundits like Jamal Simmons and David Wilhelm.
The same should also go for Roland Martin in my opinion. He is about as much in the tank for Obama as Keith Olbermann and Jack Cafferty are!
Nobody should be represented on cable news as being "uncommitted" or "objective" when they are clearly NOT because they lose all of their credibility when they do that in my opinion!
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/21/ec.01.html
CNN ELECTION CENTER
Oil Price Politics; Interview With Senator Richard Durbin; Is McCain Auditioning V.P. Hopefuls?
Aired May 21, 2008 - 20:00 ET
GLORIA BORGER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: She is very interesting. She has lately, not just today but in some recent speeches, she's started making counting votes in Florida and Michigan a civil rights issue. She's talked about abolitionists and suffragettes and counting your votes, and that's what she worked for as a young student.
And so, she's kind of made this an issue larger than Florida and Michigan. And if she feels that the results of that May 31 meeting of the Rules Committee...
CAMPBELL BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: No. I was just saying, why do you think the Obama campaign hasn't tried to step in, tried to reach a compromise, tried to broker some sort of deal at this stage of the game?
ROLAND MARTIN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Here's the deal. You got to get to 2,026. I mean, look, she wants to count all of them, which remember, is completely different what she originally said when she said they're not going to count for anything. And so, you're not going to sit here and cut your own throat. You don't cut a deal until you got the nomination in the bag. That's just common sense.
If the roles were reversed, she'd be doing the exact same thing. May 31 is going to be key. And so, I think you're going to see the pressure put on the superdelegates.
Look, if she wants to keep threatening going to the convention, end this thing right now. Get the 2,026, and then say fine, we'll give you whatever you want. We already have the nomination...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/20/AR2008052000797.html
The Sisters are Steamed
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 20, 2008; 9:06 AM
"Women are pretty ticked off these days...
Numerous women -- journalists themselves and those interviewed by journalists -- believe the former first lady has gotten a raw deal, especially from the media. It's no accident that Hillary's positive ad in Oregon takes a swipe at Tim Russert, Chris Matthews and George Stephanopoulos--all men, last time I checked, and one of them her former White House colleague..."
I really appreciate Howard Kurtz for bringing up and talking about this very serious issue!
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/18/rs.01.html
CNN RELIABLE SOURCES
Interview With Barbara Walters
Aired May 18, 2008 - 10:00 ET
HOWARD KURTZ, HOST: "Hillary crushes Obama in West Virginia and the pundits don't care. Edwards endorses Obama and the media go wild. Why can't she catch a break?...
KURTZ: Barack Obama seems to lead a charmed media life. He literally broke into the evening newscast the other day by staging a John Edwards endorsement that obliterated coverage of the West Virginia shellacking he took at the hands of Hillary Clinton...
KURTZ: Hillary Clinton in West Virginia on Tuesday, taking a shot at the pundits. She won two-thirds of the vote in that state, and yet these pundits, the commentators, still called her a certain loser, even as her team begs to differ.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
TERRY MCAULIFFE, CLINTON CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN: You keep saying the race is over. It ain't up to Chris Matthews.
MATT LAUER, NBC NEWS: This was expected. We all knew, even as we were saying the last couple of weeks, that this race is basically over, we knew that Hillary Clinton was going to win West Virginia.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KURTZ: And when Obama trotted out John Edwards at that even in Michigan, the endorsement somehow became bigger news.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: It was a master stroke that literally wiped Clinton's big West Virginia headlines right out of the news.
ROY SEKOFF, HUFFINGTON POST: This isn't the final nail in the coffin. This is dirt thrown on the coffin that's already in the grave.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KURTZ: Roland Martin, so the media have decided Hillary is dead and buried, and even a landslide win doesn't matter?
ROLAND MARTIN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Look, we don't get excited about big wins...
KURTZ: Forget about the voters, it's all about media expectations.
Let me turn to Jim Geraghty.
I thought there would be a lot more media chatter after West Virginia on how can Obama, who's on the verge of clinching the Democratic nomination, not even crack 30 percent in West Virginia?
JIM GERAGHTY, "NATIONAL REVIEW": Well, let's give him credit where it's due. He did beat John Edwards by about 20 points, coming ahead of a guy who quit three months ago.
Look, everybody kind of knew that this was going to be a tough state for him. But when it turned out to be a blowout, I think it just kind of -- and the media kind of downplayed it, I think it reflects media exhaustion with the Democratic primary.
Nobody's had a break since January. They've been covering a race every couple of weeks. I think basically the Democrats are ready to say this race is over, let's get on to the general election. We don't like covering Democrats fighting each other anyway.
KURTZ: All right. So we're all tired and cranky, according to Geraghty..."