Hello Everyone:

While much of the news cycle last week focused on Iran, North Korea, and health care, I could not help noticing how much that Keith Olbermann was complaining about Obama last week and how that he even admitted to it last Wednesday night!

The main purpose of this post is to make the point that biased media pundits such as Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Jack Cafferty, and many others who were openly cheerleading for Obama, who gave him fairly easy interviews, and who did not really ask him the tough questions during the 2008 election have absolutely no right to be complaining about him now. Because of this unprofessional behavior on their part, these biased media pundits have clearly forfeited any right to complain about Obama now or in the future in my opinion!

I have been hearing many of these biased media pundits complain about Obama a lot ever since the issue of Rick Warren leading a prayer at his inauguration came up:

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/17189

VIDEO: John Harwood explained the Rick Warren and Obama issue to Keith Olbermann

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on January 7, 2009 - 1:59pm.

So after all of the complaining that I have heard so far (and especially from Keith Olbermann for 4 out of 5 days last week), I could not just let this go without making some important points about it!

Here is a list of many biased media pundits I have seen documenting how that each of them were in the tank for Obama during the election and then documenting their complaining about Obama after the election:

1) Keith Olbermann:

A) Here is a link to document how that he was in the tank for Obama during the 2008 election:

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14859

Keith Olbermann, being a biased apologist for Obama, has lost ALL of my respect!

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on February 27, 2008 - 11:22pm.

B) Here are the links of ONLY his complaining that I saw from just last week and where he admitted to it:

1) Monday, June 15:

Keith Olbermann and Bill Maher complain about Obama over health care:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/31378220#31378220 (08:58)

Bill Maher on pushing health care reform
June 15: As Democrats try to get President Barack Obama's health care reform agenda passed, should they compromise with the Republican Party? HBO's Bill Maher discusses with Keith Olbermann.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/31378220#31378220 (08:58)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31387052/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/

'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Monday, June 15
Read the transcript to the Monday show

Guests: Bobby Ghosh, Steve Clemons, Lawrence O‘Donnell, Bill Maher, Tess

KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST: "Yes, he (Obama) was speaking to the second most powerful union in America, behind the Baseball Players Association. But when he spoke out for the public option today, while he did that and seemed to take a little bite, a little nibble out of the AMA, do you really think he may, particularly the president—may be willing to take an unnecessary compromise on this just for some premise of bipartisanship or other reasons? What do you think?

BILL MAHER, “REALTIME WITH BILL MAHER”: I don‘t know if it‘s bipartisanship I‘m so concerned with, as caving in to corporations and lobbyists. I mean, the track record so far is not good. You know, we did an editorial on our show Friday night that was pretty hard-hitting about Obama not putting it on the line and standing up to the energy companies, the health care industry, the banks.

And previously when I had criticized Obama in front of my—you‘ve been on our show—very liberal southern California audience, they were booing me. My crowd in my studio booing me, which is fine.

But on Friday night, I was expecting the boos and they weren‘t booing anymore. They were cheering. I think they‘re getting to the point where they‘re realizing, yes, we still like Obama. He‘s our guy. We‘re glad he‘s president, but where is the beef? And it‘s easy to make speeches. What‘s hard to do is stand up against corporations. Corporations and their incredible strength are what have ruined this country so far. And this president we thought might be the one to stand up to them. I‘m losing hope. I still have audacity, but my hope is fading...

MAHER: If he (Obama) doesn‘t act boldly, I think he‘s probably going to lose the mid-term elections and then have less Democratic support than he even has now.

The Republican party is at its weakest point. If he can‘t shove progressive legislation down their throats now, I don‘t know when it‘s going to happen. I was saying that what he needs to do is get a little George Bush in him personality-wise. Bush, as we all know, had horrible ideas about pretty much everything. But he was pretty good about when he wanted to get something to be done, he got it done...

OLBERMANN: The last president thought 2004 was a mandate. It looks like this president is not sure that 2008 was a mandate.

MAHER: Right..."

2) Tuesday, June 16:

Keith Olbermann and Chris Hayes complain about Obama over transparency and LBGT issues:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/31395901#31395901 (05:24)

Change you can’t access
June 16: The Obama administration has refused to release a list of names of visitors to the White House, reminiscent of a similar refusal by the Bush administration. The Nation's Chris Hayes discusses with Keith Olbermann.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/31395901#31395901 (05:24)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31407698/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/

'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Tuesday, June 16
Read the transcript to the Tuesday show

KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST: "In our fourth story on the COUNTDOWN: The Obama administration has refused to release a simple list of names of visitors to the White House. Even though a federal judge has twice ruled that visitor logs must be released-which makes President Obama on this point perfectly consistent with President Bush, so-called transparency be damned.

This time MSNBC.com made the request for the names of all White House visitors from January 20th to the present, the Secret Service denied the request, just as it denies a request from the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, also known as CREW. That inquiry was for visits by executives of coal companies to the Obama White House...

OLBERMANN: The Obama White House does not want the public to know who visits the Obama White House or also the Bush White House. Are we left to assign kind of most crass political motive to that?

CHRIS HAYES, THE NATION: I don't even know what motive there is other than this basic raw institutional prerogative of, you know, protecting one's self and accruing the maximum amount of power and latitude. I mean, this is something you see-and as a community organizer, I'm sure Barack Obama was on the other side of it. When you go up against a university or an organized religion or a hospital, a local governor that, you know, power tends to consolidate. It tends to want to defend itself.

And that's a really insidious-insidious tendency, and that's, I think, what we're seeing here...

OLBERMANN: Chris, there's another instance of action trumping promise of transparency, at least us far. The Justice Department in this administration last week defended the defense of Marriage Act, which basically denies even to legally married same-sex couples thousands of different benefits that straight couples take for granted.

As a candidate, Obama had pledged to repeal the entire act. How is the administration explaining this one in an overall basis? This is not some bureaucrat filling out leftover paperwork from the Bush administration.

HAYES: No, and the explanations so far have been pretty insufficient. They're not saying a ton publicly on this. I think they talked about re-examining the legal rationale.

But I do know that, you know, that there are reports that are out there and I think if you look at the kind of uprising that's been building among the LBGT community, you have this big news today about several prominent gay donors pulling out of a fundraiser. There's been a letter from the head of the Human Rights Campaign expressing his frustration, even despair, disgust of that particular brief. You have "The New York Times" editorial page.

There is a brewing sort of insurgency and revolt among some core aggressive constituencies, particularly in the LBGT community. That's going to be a real political problem for the White House.

OLBERMANN: And, of course, there's Bill Maher, who was on here last night and his own show last Friday, my old Cornell friend here, who has only half jokingly claimed that there is now evidence of a trend. That on certain issues, the administration is playing out way too safe, that the pledge of real change has really changed.

HAYES: Yes. Yes, this is the big $64,000 central existential question at the heart of this administration, which is-is the disposition towards consensus and incrementalism, is that solitary, or is that ultimately not going to be enough to meet the challenges of the moment? I, you know, continue to hope that they're headed in the right direction. But there's-there's real concern, and I think it's legitimate.

OLBERMANN: There is a honeymoon. It has an ending date. We're not sure when that is.

Chris Hayes of "The Nation"-many thanks, as always. Talk to you soon..."

3) Wednesday, June 17:

Keith Olbermann complained to Joe Solmonese and to Richard Wolffe about Obama over LBGT issues:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/31416031#31416031 (07:34)

Obama’s gesture to the gay community
June 17: President of the Human Rights Campaign Joe Solmonese reacts to President Barack Obama’s decision to only offer same-sex partners of federal employees some of the benefits granted to heterosexual couples.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/31416031#31416031 (07:34)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/31416068#31416068 (03:58)

Empty promises from Obama?
June 17: MSNBC's Richard Wolffe talks with Keith Olbermann about why it seems as though President Barack Obama is offering little to the LGBT community he made so many promises to during the campaign.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/31416068#31416068 (03:58)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31426061/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/

'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Wednesday, June 17
Read the transcript to the Wednesday show

Guests: Eugene Robinson, Rachel Maddow, James Risen, Joe Solmonese, Richard Wolffe

KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST: "Trying to have his constituency cake and eat it, too. The president does not savage the Defense of Marriage Act; he gave same-sex partners of federal employees some benefits granted to heterosexual partners. The president does not extend them health care nor Social Security; he gave them relocation expenses. The president does not issue an executive order to give those few benefits, he produces a memo that will expire the same day his presidency does.

The hurried half measures that have enraged the LBGT community as worse than nothing...

OLBERMANN: Day before yesterday, Joe Solmonese, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, wrote an impassioned letter to the president about his administration's defense of the Defense of Marriage Act. Quoting from his letter, "I hold this administration to a higher standard than this brief. In the course of your campaign, I became convinced-and I still want to believe-that you do, too. This brief should not be good enough for you.

The question is: Mr. President, do you believe it's good enough for us? If we are your equals, if you recognize that our families live the same, love the same, and contribute as much as yours, then the answer must be no."

Joe Solmonese was in the Oval Office for tonight's signing ceremony and has been good enough to join us now.

Joe, good evening.

JOE SOLMONESE, HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN: Good evening, Keith.

OLBERMANN: What is that memo sign today? Is it a make good? Is that an IOU? Is it an insult? What is it?

SOLMONESE: Well, I mean, whether it was a memo or an executive order, I think, matters less than what it ends up doing for federal employees who go to work tomorrow with a different set of benefits...

OLBERMANN: For more on the political fallout, let's turn to our own political analyst, Richard Wolffe, author, of course, of "Renegade: The Making of a President."

Richard, good evening.

RICHARD WOLFFE, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Good evening, Keith.

OLBERMANN: The seeming disconnect. The president is saying tonight he wants to work with Congress to overturn this Defense of Marriage Act, as it's been entitled even though that probably doesn't really describe what it does, and last week, the Justice Department filed with the Supreme Court a brief asking SCOTUS to not overturn DOMA.

What-I'm missing something. What am I missing?

WOLFFE: Well, you're missing some politics and some legalese. I mean, there is a legal point here, which is that the Justice Department does uphold the laws. Do they have to do it in the way they did? Even though they had to write a brief, the tone of the brief was understandably insulting to many people in the community..."

On this same program, Keith Olbermann admitted in the "Worst Person in the World segment where he disagrees with Obama:

KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST: "Here are the issues I've disagreed with the president on: on White House transparency, on Don't Ask Don't Tell, on prosecuting torture, on investigating the Bush administration, on military commissions, on the speedy withdrawal from Iraq, on eavesdropping, on the Defense of Marriage Act on earlier in this show, this token treatment of same sex partners of federal employees.

These are cases in which I have used the phrase "the president is wrong" or, "Mr. President, you're wrong." And that's just my show, to say nothing of Rachel or Chris's or Ed's or the day-time programming..."

Here is the Countdown video link to watch Keith Olbermann saying this:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/31416352#31416352 (04:46)

Worst persons: Fox ‘News’
June 17: MSNBC's Keith Olbermann accuses the Fox News Channel of being a political entity that foments hatred through bullying and fear mongering propaganda.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/31416352#31416352 (04:46)

4) Thursday, June 18:

Keith Olbermann seemed to take this night off from complaining about Obama but he did issue this statment to correct something that he said on Wednesday when he was complaining about Obama:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31444573/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/

'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Thursday, June 18
Read the transcript to the Thursday show

Guests: Richard Wolffe, Richard Engel, Chris Hayes, Melissa Harris-Lacewell

KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST: "One note about the Obama administration, I reported last night that the president‘s memo giving some marriage benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees did not carry the same heft as an executive order would have because the president‘s memoranda expires when his presidency does. The White House Press Office contends that is not accurate, that memos and orders are virtually identical, and barring definitive evidence to the contrary, we will defer to their interpretation..."

5) Friday, June 19:

Keith Olbermann complained Jonathan Landay about Obama over transparency:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/31454218#31454218 (06:02)

Will torture report see the light of day?
June 19: The CIA filed its investigation into the secret detention and interrogation program but how much will they keep secret? McClatchy Newspapers’ Jonathan Landay discusses with Keith Olbermann.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/31454218#31454218 (06:02)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31488520/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/

'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Friday, June 19
Read the transcript to the Friday show

Guests: Rachel Maddow, Bobby Ghosh, Jonathan Landay, Jonathan Alter

KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST: Last month, the Obama administration promised to release the CIA‘s internal report from 2004 on torture by today, Friday, June 19th. No, so far, no.

In our fourth story—was that—was that the doorbell? No. Oh, under previous director, Michael Hayden, the CIA had already released this report, last year like this...

Let‘s turn now to Jonathan Landay, senior national security and intelligence correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers.

Jonathan, good evening.

JONATHAN LANDAY, MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS: My pleasure to be here again.

OLBERMANN: You would not happen to have the new less redacted version of the CIA‘s report, would you?

LANDAY: No. I have the one that you have.

OLBERMANN: Yes.

LANDAY: Yes, that one.

OLBERMANN: The one that uses up all the toner.

The CIA inspector general who wrote that report, John Helgerson, now retired, told Jane Mayer from “The New Yorker” magazine, he wants the whole thing released. He wants it out there. Who does not want it out there?

LANDAY: Well, it seems quite obvious that there‘s an internal tussle going on about the extent to which the rest of this report will be released. And as you quoted from the ACLU letter, or at least the information the ACLU got from the CIA, they‘re still looking at how much, if any, more will be released. So, it‘s obvious that there is still a lot of deliberation going on inside the CIA, as well as almost certainly within other parts of the Obama administration..."

I have heard Keith Olbermann complain about Obama many times before but never so much in just one week. If I documented every time that Keith Olbermann has complained about Obama since the 2008 election was over, then CCN might run out of space and I would not want that to happen!

2) Chris Matthews:

A) Here are links to document how that he was in the tank for Obama during the 2008 election:

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14717

VIDEO: Chris Matthews said "I Felt This Thrill Going Up My Leg" As Obama Spoke!

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on February 14, 2008 - 10:23am.

http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?RsrcID=1728

The Obama Love Shack: That's Where It's At (04:28)

Submitted By: DannyG
Uploaded: 11 months ago
Date Aired: July 22, 2008

"The press has been in bed with Barack Obama since he gave the keynote at the 2004 Democratic Convention. Relive the "Obamedia's" public displays of affection in this video love story."

http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=e4kU2GaGqG

Chris Matthews: Building the Thrill (4:07)

Posted: October 03, 2008
Posted By: Seton Motley
Views: 6,084 | Network: MSNBC

"A video demonstration of why MSNBC's Chris Matthews will NOT be moderating NBC's October 7th Presidential debate. Any perceived likeness of appearance between Matthews and Wile E. Coyote is purely intentional."

B) Here are some links of him complaining about Obama:

Chris Matthews has some unanswered questions about Obama's foreign policy and has also criticized Obama for his "spending of all that money we don‘t have:"

http://www.thechrismatthewsshow.com/html/transcript/index.php?selected=1&id=163

The Chris Matthews Show
May 10, 2009

CHRIS MATTHEWS, host: "First up, has Barack Obama found himself in a death trap? Does he really want to get deeper into that wild, ungoverned and ungovernable part of the world known as Afghanistan and Pakistan? For a frame of reference, take a look of the thinking that led us into Vietnam. He was President Kennedy on the last day of his life.

President JOHN F. KENNEDY: (From November 22, 1963) Without the United States, South Vietnam would collapse overnight.

MATTHEWS: So let's look at three big questions facing this president. Call them the three rings of fire. Number one: Is he stuck in Afghanistan? Is he doing what some say President Kennedy did in Vietnam, getting pulled in deeper? Then there's that next ring of fire. What's going on in Pakistan, especially in the old ungoverned northwest frontier. And finally, number three: how to keep Pakistan's nuclear weapons from the Taliban?...

MATTHEWS: Here's number three, and this is the worst part. The worst ring of fire, which is will Pakistan's nuclear weapons be kept in safe hands? Let me show you how confident the president sounds on this one. This was at a press conference a week or two ago, where he just stunned me with this statement.

President BARACK OBAMA: (April 29) I'm confident that we can make sure that Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is secure.

MATTHEWS: Wow. How can we be?..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30521919/

'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for Thursday, April 30, 2009
Read the transcript to the Thursday show

Guest: Tom DeLay, Christopher Shays, Todd Harris, Steve McMahon, Jonathan Turley, Ron Brownstein, Jonathan Allen, Sharon Epperson

JAY LENO, HOST, “THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO”: "And you give the president what?

CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: I would give him an A-minus.

MATTHEWS: Well, I‘m still worried—the reason for the A-minus, I‘m still worried about the numbers, the printing of all that money lately, the spending of all that money we don‘t have. I don‘t know what the impact is going to be in the long run..."

Here is the Hardball video link to watch Chris Matthews saying this:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/30506096#30506096 (01:47)

Jay Leno plays Hardball with Matthews
April 30: Sideshow: During an appearance on "The Tonight Show," host Jay Leno attempted to get Chris Matthews to grade how President Barack Obama has performed so far.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/30506096#30506096 (01:47)

Chris Matthews criticized Obama twice on the same program back on February 18, 2008. The first Hardball video is his criticism over what he perceived as Obama's "indecision" and the second video is where he criticized Obama for the "same ‘ole Bush terror policies:"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/29266120#29266120 (07:33)

Who’s leading the GOP?
Feb. 18: President Barack Obama has been crisscrossing the nation, selling his plan to fix the economy, signing the stimulus bill and promoting his plan to fix the housing crisis, but where are the Republicans? Republican strategist Todd Harris and Democratic strategist Steve McMahon talk about who will start calling the shots for the GOP.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/29266120#29266120 (07:33)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/29266480#29266480 (08:10)

Still the same ‘ole Bush terror policies
Feb. 18: A Hardball panel (Michael Smerconish and Joan Walsh) debate how much change President Barack Obama is bringing to anti-terror tactics.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/29266480#29266480 (08:10)

Here is the Hardball transcript of these videos to see Chris Matthews complaining to Todd Harris and to Michael Smerconish:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29280970/

'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for Wednesday, February 18
Read the transcript to the Wednesday show

Guest: Rep. Gregory Meeks, Rep. Dan Lungren, Steve McMahon, Todd Harris, Joan Walsh, Michael Smerconish

CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: "I‘m getting a little worried about Barack Obama, in this sense. And I want you to respond to it. I think people don‘t mind somebody they disagree with. They fight with that person. That‘s how politics works. What troubles us is the sense of indecision. Do you have a sense he has a firm hand on the tiller right now? He knows what he‘s going to do about the banking situation, which scares the heck out of me, the fact that banks don‘t lend money—that can cripple the economic system of our country in the next several months. Does he have a plan there? Do you sense it?

TODD HARRIS, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: I don‘t sense a plan, whether it‘s on the banking system, whether it‘s this new housing proposal, whether it‘s this announcement that 17,000 new troops are going to Afghanistan, but no one is really sure what they are going to be doing.

MATTHEWS: You sense indecision?

HARRIS: Yes...

CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Michael Smerconish is an MSNBC political analyst and radio talk show host. And Joan Walsh, of course, is editor in chief of Salon.

I want to talk with Michael Smerconish, because I‘m not sure where you stand.

It sounds like he‘s going to close Gitmo. He‘s going to get rid of water-boarding as a normal technique. He‘s going to arrow the definition of what we accept as—as—as torture. And he‘s going to get rid of a lot of bad things, like overseas CIA detention centers that we‘re not supposed to know about.

But he‘s apparently—According to the testimony we have gotten from Leon Panetta and others, he is going to consider, as an option, rendition. He is going to consider, as an option, additional authority when it comes to squeezing prisoners, using harsher techniques of interrogation.

Is he slipping back into the dirty old ways? Well, maybe they are the ways you like, Michael.

MICHAEL SMERCONISH, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, yes, I‘m not prepared to concede that—that he‘s ending these, as you put them, unpleasant or bad practices..."

To be fair to Chris Matthews, he "grilled Obama supporter Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Texas, on what Obama had accomplished while in the Senate" which Watson could not answer on Hardball back on February 19, 2008. However he did interview Obama supporter Claire McCaskill right after Watson so that she could clean up his mess. Chris Matthews even put both of these interviews in the same Hardblogger article:

http://hardblogger.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/02/20/686932.aspx

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: SEN. WATSON RESPONDS

Posted: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:55 PM by Elizabeth Chuck

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23256713#23256713 (06:22)

Supporter can't name Obama's accomplishments
Feb. 20, 2008: During an interview with State Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Texas and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, MSNBC's Chris Matthews asks the lawmakers to name accomplishments by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23256713#23256713 (06:22)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23261748#23261748 (07:00)

Defending Barack Obama
Feb. 20, 2008: Obama supporter Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., talks about what Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has to offer the people of the United States.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23261748#23261748 (07:00)

My opinion about this is that Chris Matthews pressed Kirk Watson as hard as he did because it was a stand out moment for him that made him look very good (about as good as his Michele Bachmann moment):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axf81ck_O-E

Rep. Bachmann (Rethug-MN) w/ Chris Matthews, Suggests Liberals Are Anti-American (8:25)

Ishoozedotcom
October 17, 2008

However Chris Matthews did not want to damage Obama's campaign so he got Claire McCaskill to come in and clean up Kirk Watson's mess. I cannot tangibly prove this claim which is why I am calling it my opinion only but this explanation does make a lot of sense to me!

3) Jack Cafferty:

A) Here is a link to document how that he was in the tank for Obama during the 2008 election:

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15054

Jack Cafferty of CNN, an Obama apologist, did a hit job on Hillary on March 18!

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on March 19, 2008 - 4:13am.

B) Here are the links of his complaining about Obama on illegal immigration and on his spending:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/10/sitroom.01.html

THE SITUATION ROOM

Captain Risks Life for Escape; President Obama Sounds Hopeful About Economy; How to Fight Gangs of Pirates

Aired April 10, 2009 - 15:59 ET

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: "Let's check in with Jack. He has "The Cafferty File" -- Jack.

JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Wolf, it's not like he doesn't already have a lot on his plate, but now President Obama says he wants to tackle immigration reform and he wants to do it this year. In fact, he says he plans to begin as soon as next month. The president says he'll rely on a bipartisan and diverse group of experts to frame the legislation, but officials say immigration will not be on the same track as other key initiatives like health care and energy, and "Nobody's promising legislation or a vote this year."

Nevertheless, it looks like the president is going to try to make good on another campaign promise by working to fix the nation's broken immigration system during his first year in office. There are an estimated 12 million illegal aliens in this country. The number might even in fact be a lot higher than that.

The White House apparently wants to look for a path for illegal aliens to become legal. That's called amnesty, and a lot of people in this country are rabidly opposed, including those immigrants who took the time and trouble to come here legally.

The president also wants to remove incentives to enter the country illegally, beef up border security, work with Mexico to cut down on illegal -- blah, blah, blah. This is all stuff we have heard before, and at the end of the day, none of it ever gets done. Our economy is in the toilet. Is this the time to give millions of illegal aliens permanent access to American jobs, when millions of own citizens can't find work?

Mr. President if you want to begin to squander your incredibly high approval ratings with the American public, this might be a way to do it.

Here's the question: The White House wants to start tackling immigration reform this year. Where should they begin?

Go to CNN.com/caffertyfile and post a comment on my blog -- Wolf..."

Here is the link to his blog on this issue:

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/10/where-should-white-house-start-with-immigration-reform/

April 10, 2009

Where should White House start with immigration reform?

Posted: 04:00 PM ET

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0906/11/sitroom.02.html

THE SITUATION ROOM

What the Next Flu Season May Bring; Inside the Scene of Horror; Alleged Killer's Warning Signs; Iranian Women Demand Equal Rights

Aired June 11, 2009 - 17:00 ET

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Let's go to Jack Cafferty right now for The Cafferty File -- Jack.

Jack.

JACK CAFFERTY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: President Obama wants to have it both ways.

Hey, we'd all like that, right?

He wants the government to stick to pay as you go rules in order to keep federal budgets under control. Our deficit is expected to top $1.8 trillion this year -- more than four times last year's record deficit. The president wants Congress to pass a law that requires lawmakers to pay for new spending and tax cuts without adding to skyrocketing deficits.

He said the rule, which was in effect in the '90s, when the U.S. had budget surpluses -- yes, remember those -- is simple. Congress can only spend a dollar if it saves a dollar elsewhere. That's a quote.

But the president apparently wants pay as you go to apply to everybody but him. His plan would make $2.5 trillion worth of exceptions for some of the president's priorities over the next 10 years.

It's one of those do as I say, not as I do deals.

Mr. Obama's health care reform plan would also be able to run huge deficits during its early years, which is hardly the stuff of fiscal restraint.

Republicans are warning health care reform will add to budget deficits for years to come. House Minority Leader John Boehner says the Democrats have ignored calls for fiscal responsibility and he's absolutely right.

Quoting here: "We don't need more rhetoric and gimmicks, we need action to tackle the tremendous challenges facing this nation."

Of course, the Republicans ran up record deficits under President Bush, so Boehner's cries ring a little bit hollow. But nevertheless, he's got a point.

Here's the question -- is it OK to add to the record national debt in order to pay for health care reform?

Go to CNN.com/caffertyfile and post a comment on my blog -- Wolf.

Here is the link to his blog on this issue:

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/11/ok-to-add-to-national-debt-to-pay-for-health-care-reform/#comment-1011515

June 11, 2009

OK to add to national debt to pay for health care reform?

4) David Shuster:

A) Here are the links to document how that he was in the tank for Obama during the 2008 election:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200802080007

Fri, Feb 8, 2008 3:57pm ET

NBC News president: Shuster suspended for Chelsea Clinton comments

At about 2:49 into this video, Joe Scarborough blasts David Shuster for his lack of objectivity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuPvveYSuWw

Joe Scarborough Blasts David Shuster (08/26/08) (7:40)

Advocate1234
August 26, 2008

B) Here are the video and transcript links of him complaining about Obama in his “Hypocrisy Watch” segment about AIG bonuses:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/29743892#29743892 (01:50)

Did White House know about bonuses?
March 17: Hypocrisy Watch: Over the last 48 hours, the Obama administration has been expressing outrage over the AIG bonuses but it seems the administration had an opportunity to probe and act on that question a while ago and didn't. MSNBC's David Shuster reports.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/29743892#29743892 (01:50)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29754006/

'1600 Pennsylvania Avenue' for Tuesday, March 17
Read the transcript to the Tuesday show

Guest: Jon Tester, Gary Peters, David Corn, Ed Schultz, Tucker Bounds

DAVID SHUSTER, HOST: "Over the last 48 hours, the Obama administration has been expressing outrage over the bonuses at AIG. But the timing of the outrage takes us to tonight‘s “Hypocrisy Watch.”

First, the background.

Yesterday, President Obama condemned the AIG executive bonuses...

The problem is the Obama economic team had an opportunity to probe and act on that question well before yesterday...

When you claim to be as upset as the public is, but you only take action once the public takes notice, that‘s hypocrisy, and it‘s wrong..."

5) Ed Schultz:

A) Here is the link to document how that he was in the tank for Obama during the 2008 election:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/09/lkl.01.html

CNN LARRY KING LIVE

Clinton Hangs On But At What Cost?

Aired May 9, 2008 - 21:00 ET

LARRY KING, HOST: "Ed Schultz, you heard Terry McAuliffe, who says strongly this is a close race.

Do you buy that or was it spin time?

ED SCHULTZ, TALK RADIO HOST, SUPPORTS OBAMA: It's spin time, Larry. And nobody does it better than Terry. I've got a lot of respect for him, but we've had 14 superdelegates since Tuesday come with Barack Obama. It's 99 to 17.5 since Super Tuesday. And I think they're losing their bullet points -- bullet points that don't shake the sense anymore aren't with Hillary Clinton. And I think that they're a dangerous territory starting to plant the seed, telling Democrats across the country that Barack Obama can't get enough white voters to win.

The fact is, is in 1996, Bill Clinton lost the white vote, he lost the white male vote and he lost the gun owner vote to Bob Dole, a former veteran, and Clinton won the election. So I don't know what the Clintons are trying to do right now other than damage the party..."

B) Here are the video and transcript links of him complaining about Obama over health care and war funding:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/30690101#30690101 (11:02)

Chicken soup for America’s healthcare
May 11: MSNBC's Ed Schultz talks with the Obama administration's Budget Director Peter Orszag and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., about what the president plans to do to stop America's healthcare rates from continuing to skyrocket.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/30690101#30690101 (11:02)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30766481/ns/msnbc_tv-tucker/

'The Ed Show' for Monday, May 11, 2009
Read the transcript to the Monday show

Guests: Peter Orszag, Ron Wyden, John Nichols, Ron Christie, Mike Allen, Jamal Simmons, Dr. Lisa Jordan

ED SCHULTZ, HOST: "It should be noted, folks, that the same PR firm that directed the Swift Boaters is managing the effort to kill health care reform in this country. That‘s CRC Public Relations. Now, Rick Scott, who heads up the Conservatives for Patients‘ Rights, refuses to come on this program with me face to face.

Americans, I think we‘ve got to watch our backside on this one. I just don‘t feel like this is headed for real reform.

Now, that‘s just my opinion. I could be wrong on this, but I don‘t see everybody at the table, and that troubles me. And I don‘t believe that a bean counter from an insurance company is going to look after me and look after you when it comes to keeping costs down. So this is a real challenge for the Obama administration..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/30772162#30772162 (08:51)

War's whopping price tag
May 15: The House approved a $97 billion war supplemental which, if approved by the Senate, will fund the wars until September - nearly $100 billion for four months. Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., and former Congressman Tom Andrews discuss.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/30772162#30772162 (08:51)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30826435/ns/msnbc_tv-tucker/

'The Ed Show' for Friday, May 15
Read the transcript to the Friday show

Guests: Rep. Lynn Woolsey, Tom Andrews, Heidi Harris, Bill Press, Sam Stein, Kevin Ormes, Liz Winstead, John Harwood, Jerry Flanagan

ED SCHULTZ, HOST: "Tom Andrews is the national director of Win Without War, and a former Congressman from Maine. It‘s more of the same. I thought at least that there would be more of a reduction of funding. But this is one of the biggest four month allocations of money we‘ve seen ever. What‘s your response?

TOM ANDREWS, WIN WITHOUT WAR: Well, Ed, I think the whole thing is very disturbing. I think it‘s a wake-up call for those of us, of course, who campaigned for these Democrats who were going to very clearly turn this thing around...

SCHULTZ: I don‘t mean this to be a cheap shot. But is this change we can believe in? I want out of Iraq. I understand the 17,000 more troops going into Afghanistan. But I thought we‘ve been told time and time again that the Iraqi people had to stand up for themselves. Is this change we can believe in at this point?

ANDREWS: Well, clearly the Iraqi people want us to get out. And certainly there‘s going to be instability. There‘s going to be violence. There‘s a lot of compromises that still have yet to be made in Iraq..."

6) Roland Martin:

A) Here are the links to document how that he was in the tank for Obama during the 2008 election:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/06/AR2009040600886.html

A Host Looks to Heaven

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, April 6, 2009; 10:28 AM

"During the campaign, CNN used him (Roland Martin) as a liberal commentator who backed Barack Obama, regularly pairing him with a conservative..."

http://www.rolandsmartin.com/blog/?p=161

How Sen. Obama can get beyond Rev. Wright

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 at 6:54 am

"Let’s not kid ourselves, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was going to be a part of this presidential campaign through November, whether Sen. Barack Obama smacked his former pastor upside the head, or not.

Now that he has taken the necessary steps to separate himself from Wright, Obama must go on his most vigorous offensive to date and make it clear that he is running for president, and not Wright..."

B) Here are the CNN transcript links of his complaining about Obama over a flip-flop and where he gave Tim Geithner a "D" grade for his job performance:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/21/sitroom.03.html

THE SITUATION ROOM

President Obama Shifts Course on Torture Investigation; Geithner Grilled Over Federal Bailouts

Aired April 21, 2009 - 18:00 ET

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: "Let's get back to our top story. The president of the United States makes a major decision today potentially to launch criminal investigation in to some former top Bush administration officials.

Let's talk about this with our senior political analyst, Gloria Borger, our CNN political contributor Steve Hayes of "The Weekly Standard," and CNN political analyst Roland Martin...

BLITZER: Did he (Obama) flip, Roland?

ROLAND S. MARTIN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, I think he certainly flipped. And, frankly, I think it's a bad call by the president. Look, you are the president, you make the call. And so it's very difficult all of a sudden to say, well, aides are saying one thing, the president is saying is another thing. You have to be decisive in making this decision.

Now, if you have Democrats who, like Feinstein, they were making these various arguments, you can listen those arguments beforehand. But when you say we're not going to move forward with prosecutions, these things are going to be behind us, that's what you do.

You don't come back, the day after you went to the CIA, you don't come back to say, well, hey, we're leaving the door open, because now you're putting folks in doubt. This is a bad move out of the president. And again, it makes him look weak when he was looking strong before by saying no prosecutions..."

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/29/se.01.html

CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL

National Report Card

Aired April 29, 2009 - 19:00 ET

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: "All right, thanks very much, the time is up, six minutes over with right now and we can grade the secretary of the treasury based on those who went to CNN.com. Look at this, Timothy Geithner gets a "C", a "C" for his work as the treasury secretary during these, the first 100 days...

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Roland Martin?

ROLAND MARTIN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Why should we go easy on him? He was set up as the whiz kid, the smarty guy. He was over the New York Fed in terms of setting up the initial bank bailout deal. I'm sorry, dude, you get a "D."..."

7) Warren Ballentine:

A) Here is the link to document how that he was in the tank for Obama during the 2008 election:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/us/politics/27radio.html?partner=rssnyt

Black Radio on Obama Is Left’s Answer to Limbaugh

By JIM RUTENBERG
Published: July 27, 2008

"Rush Limbaugh, meet your black liberal counterprogramming. Mr. Ballentine is one of the many African-American radio hosts and commentators who are aggressively advocating for Mr. Obama’s election on black-oriented radio stations daily..."

B) Here is the CNN transcript link of him complaining about Obama over Afghanistan:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/26/cnr.05.html

CNN NEWSROOM

Swine Flu Deemed Public Health Emergency; 7 Fans Injured at NASCAR Race; Chrysler Cuts a Deal; Grading the President's First 100 Days; Michelle Obama's First 100 Days Also Being Graded

Aired April 26, 2009 - 22:00 ET

DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: "Give me Iraq and Afghanistan. Are we doing the right thing? Is the administration doing the right thing there? Because we've seen the violence go up and then people are going to be shifted over to Afghanistan.

Michael, real quickly.

MICHAEL MEDVED, HOST, "THE MICHAEL MEDVED SHOW": I think Afghanistan, he's doing the right thing. And I think he is in the process of reconsidering a rapid withdrawal from Iraq -- and that's right.

LEMON: Warren?

WARREN BALLENTINE, RADIO HOST, "WARREN BALLENTINE SHOW": I think Iraq, he's doing the right thing. Afghanistan could end up being his Vietnam. I'm very worried about that.

LEMON: All right. Thank you very much..."

While Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) is not a media pundit, I laughed when I heard her complain about Obama:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/06/key-obama-ally-says-president-obama-did-not-follow-the-law-in-ig-firing.html

Political Punch

Power, pop, and probings from ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper

Key Obama Ally Says President Obama Did Not Follow the Law in IG Firing

June 16, 2009 6:23 PM

"After being briefed today on President Obama’s firing last week of Gerald Walpin, Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said the president did not abide by the same law that he co-sponsored – and she wrote – about firing Inspectors General.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/06/president-obama-fires-controversial-inspector-general-.html

“The White House has failed to follow the proper procedure in notifying Congress as to the removal of the Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service,” McCaskill said. “The legislation which was passed last year requires that the president give a reason for the removal.”

McCaskill, a key Obama ally, said that the president’s stated reason for the termination, “Loss of confidence’ is not a sufficient reason.”..."

Why I think that "Keith Olbermann and many others in the media CANNOT complain about Obama now" is because they should have asked all of these questions and they should have brought up all of these issues that they are complaining about BEFORE Obama was elected instead of giving him a near free ride to both the nomination and to the White House doing far more cheerleading for him than asking him any tough questions. As a general rule with few exceptions, Obama's interviews as a Presidential candidate in my opinion (with the exception of FOX News) were about as easy and as softball as the interviews that Sean Hannity gave to Sarah Palin on FOX News!

I remember in one Presidential debate where ABC got slammed when Obama was asked some tough questions:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/17/AR2008041700013_pf.html

In Pa. Debate, The Clear Loser Is ABC

By Tom Shales
Thursday, April 17, 2008; C01

"When Barack Obama met Hillary Clinton for another televised Democratic candidates' debate last night, it was more than a step forward in the 2008 presidential election. It was another step downward for network news -- in particular ABC News, which hosted the debate from Philadelphia and whose usually dependable anchors, Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, turned in shoddy, despicable performances...

To this observer, ABC's coverage seemed slanted against Obama..."

Even long after the election, Keith Olbermann and Eugene Robinson attacked Ed Henry of CNN because he dared to ask Obama a tough question in a Press Conference (I agree with what Ed Henry did):

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/25/henry.obama/index.html

updated 12:35 p.m. EDT, Wed March 25, 2009

Behind the scenes: Ed Henry's take on exchange with Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sChUZhFmdag&feature=player_embedded

MSNBC Analyst: President Made CNN's Ed Henry His "Companion" (1:16)

NewsPoliticsNews
March 25, 2009

"MSNBC Analyst: Washington Post's Eugene Robinson (along with Keith Olbermann) - President Made CNN's Ed Henry His Bitch "Companion"

Of nearly all people in the media, Keith Olbermann has absolutely NOTHING to complain about right now and going forward because he has forfeited that right by his unprofessional behavior in my opinion!

Keith Olbermann and the many biased media pundits just like him are in the exact same pot of stew with Pat Robertson in my opinion. Pat Robertson knowingly gave Bush a free pass on his problems in the 2004 election, he did virtually nothing to hold him to any level of accountability, and then he had the audacity to complain about Bush on December 23, 2008 when his term was basically over:

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/17157

Pat Robertson can't complain about Bush now after giving him a free pass in 2004

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on December 30, 2008 - 5:40pm.

Keith Olbermann and company in my opinion have no more of a right to complain about Obama now than Pat Robertson had a right to complain about Bush in 2008. They all should have asked the tough questions to their respective candidates when it really counted but instead they chose to be cheerleaders for them!

In conclusion, this is NOT an anti-Obama post, it is an anti-media bias post where I am explaining why in my opinion those in the media who were in the tank for Obama (and that especially goes for Keith Olbermann after what I saw last week) during the 2008 primary and in the general election have absolutely no legitimate right to be complaining about him now!

Here are some links to see a lot of credible documentation which I think will verify the media bias that I am claiming in this post:

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/16968

Joe Scarborough, Mark Halperin & Lou Dobbs on the bias and failures of the media

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on November 14, 2008 - 9:16pm.

http://www.cmpa.com/media_room_4_27_09.htm

Press Release

April 27, 2009
Contact: Donald Rieck

"The media have given President Obama more coverage than George W. Bush and Bill Clinton combined and more positive coverage than either received at this point in their presidencies, according to a new study by researchers at George Mason and Chapman Universities..."

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15744#comment-309677

Here is the link to a post by Defoliate Bush which I also think is very good:

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/17352

A Slobbering Love Affair

Submitted by Defoliate Bush on February 22, 2009 - 4:22pm.

Regardless of all this media bias and unprofessional journalism, I want to make it very clear that I absolutely want Obama to succeed because success for him means success for the country while failure for him means failure for the country. In my opinion, everybody should definitely be rooting for Obama to succeed and no sane person should ever want him to fail!

As for how Obama is doing right now, I would basically agree with the explanation and the grade that Gloria Borger of CNN gave him:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0904/29/se.04.html

CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL

The CNN National Report Card: The First 100 Days

Aired April 29, 2009 - 22:00 ET

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: "All right. You've got under a minute and a half to go to CNN.com and let us know what you think. Grade the president of the United States, Barack Obama's, first 100 days. Let us know what you think: "A," "B," "C," "D" or "F."

Let's walk over to our analysts right now. It's -- I guess it's an easy grade for some people to come up with...

GLORIA BORGER, SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: I think he looks more like Ronald Reagan than anyone since Ronald Reagan as a new president. He gets lots of credit for trying to solve the huge problems that landed on his desk that weren't a part of his agenda that he ran on.

He's also an all-in kind of guy on his domestic policy, as well as his foreign policy. He's put all of his cards out there, and he's taken ownership of the presidency.

I think he's made some mistakes. He had a rough cabinet transition. His changing his position on torture, on prosecuting folks for their legal opinions on torture, could be a problem for him. I think his lobbying restrictions are onerous.

So I would overall give him a "B" plus. But again, it's very, very early..."

Hopefully some important lessons will be learned from this post when it comes to how the media covers future Presidential elections and it is my hope that more people will realize that biased media pundits like Keith Olbermann who did not ask the tough questions when it counted have no right to complain now!

Mitch Dworkin

http://mitchdworkin.com/
Check out my new website!

http://www.securingamerica.com/

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/16039
RESOURCES: Speeches, Articles, and Career Highlights to help define Gen. Clark!
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on July 7, 2008 - 2:51pm.

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!