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May 5, 2008

All The Obama-Wright That Can Be Fit Into Print (Or Digital, And Now, Broadcast)

Primary-Edition-Obama-Wrigh-1 Adam Nagourney a TV star?  I don’t think so.

I just noticed, though, that the NYT has teamed up with MSNBC on a political broadcast called Primary Edition.  What primarily stood out in today’s edition, however, is that, eight days after the NYT starting milking the Jeremiah Wright story for all its color (and, on the eve of the Indiana/N.Carolina primaries), they are still working this linkage.

Choreographed with this split-screen, talking head Contessa Brewer begins today’s report as follows:

So we start this hour with the front page of the NYT, and a new NYT poll indicates that Barack Obama has survived the controversy over Reverend Wright … for now.  But this could be an issue that follows him all the way through the general election.

(She might have added: “If the NYT has anything to say about it.”)

Notice the screen caption, by the way.  (No, not the reference to tornados, although that analogy might also fit somehow.)  I’m referring to the remarkable implication that Wright, juxtaposed with Obama, somehow (still) qualifies for front page treatment.

screen shot from Primary Edition May 5, 2008 (NYT Video via nytimes.com)

Does this guy have balls, or what: Roberts declares `Wright – free zone’ for Obama interview (AP)

  • Publius II

    ODE TO OBAMA
    by Publius II
    There once was a man named Obama
    His life began with drama
    An African Muslim father
    An eccentric white mama
    Obama’s white grandparents
    They gave him a charmed life
    Raised on the beaches of Hawaii
    Far from ghetto strife
    He went to private schools
    Fourteen thousand dollars a year
    Working-class white folks
    They were nowhere near
    He attended Columbia
    Then Harvard Law
    A very soft and liberal upbringing
    Something Americans eventually saw
    He then went to Chicago
    Nation of Islam, Farrakhan, Black Panthers and Jackson
    The only friends he made
    All from the extreme left-wing faction
    He joined a radical church
    His Pastor downright insane
    Blacks and whites, he said
    Think with different parts of their brain
    His church praised a man named Cone
    With hateful opinions he was filled
    He said white people were “the devil”
    And Gods who love whites must be killed
    Obama first ran for State Senate
    With permission from Chicago’s Marxist King
    A domestic terrorist named Ayers
    Obama kissed his ring
    He wrote a book called “Dreams From My Father”
    From start to finish a racist rant
    After people finally read it
    They said: “Obama, no we can’t”
    He wrote how he rejected his mother’s race
    And that Malcolm X was a hero
    People had a clear warning
    Obama was a dangerous zero
    He was then elected to the U.S. Senate
    Obama’s ego grew very bold
    He barely served a year
    I will run for President was the story he told
    He spent millions to stage rallies
    The crowds would yell and cheer
    But then it all fizzled out
    Typical white folks, he said, cling to religion, guns and beer
    His wife said America was mean
    She was never really proud
    Her Black Separatist thesis at Princeton
    Became a campaign cloud
    People said he was a Muslim
    His supporters scoffed and jeered
    Then his Black Liberation Church was exposed
    And Obama’s ugly head was reared
    He tried to recover in a speech on race
    The left-wing media offered raves
    But he said white folks had an “untrained ear”
    And abolitionists in Pennsylvania rolled over in their graves
    He claimed to be a uniter
    He would bring people together all at once
    But after his speech in Philadelphia
    He proved to be a demographic dunce
    He tried once more to persuade whites
    But his bowling was a mess
    He rolled a 37
    Like a 5-year-old girl in a dress
    He then played basketball
    He drove the ball to the rack
    But when all was said and done
    He nearly had a heart attack
    He said damn those white voters
    Their Mutual Funds I will tax
    I’ll double the capital gains rate
    Like an old-school Liberal hack
    He opposed a gas tax holiday
    He said it wasn’t a winner
    $40 wasn’t much he said
    Just the weekly budget for the average family’s dinner
    He wouldn’t cover his heart
    As the National Anthem played
    It’s a meaningless gesture he said
    But Americans felt betrayed
    He wouldn’t wear a flag pin
    It was against his One World view
    It doesn’t matter he said
    And the American people stewed
    He first called terrorist Ayers his friend
    Then said this man he didn’t really know
    More deceit and cover-ups
    Obama’s lies began to grow
    Farrakhan, Jackson and Sharpton
    Three of Obama’s greatest fans
    He tried hiding them in the closet
    So not to further offend the white man
    Then came his anti-American Pastor
    Obama’s mentor for 20 years
    He preened, shucked and jived
    White people rose up and sneered
    NBC and the New York Times
    They tried each day to save Obama’s campaign
    But real Americans said “FU”
    And Obama spiraled down the drain
    His name was Barrack Hussein Obama
    Running for a second Jimmy Carter term
    Weak on National Security
    A little, pacifist worm
    The radical left-wing Democrats
    A Presidential race lost once again
    Is it really a surprise
    They’ve lost 7 of the last 10?

  • Weisseharre

    hmm…wizard commits 112 lines, swallows toothpick…

  • DC

    George W Bush
    Andover,Yale
    Harvard..
    Never learned a thing..wasted slots
    Ducked Nam in TANG
    Ducked TANG in ‘bama
    Never worked a day..
    Took the money…
    Real question never asked:
    Would George really want to have a beer with
    the fools who thought they’d like to have a beer with him?
    Who is the elitist?

  • http://www.jaxxattaxx.com/ black dog barking

    According to the script candidate Obama, the Outsider whose run for office is supposed to attract some early attention away from the Anointed Insider (played this year by Sen Clinton of NY), should have already made his Unforgivable Gaffe (eg, Dean’s masterful Scream in 2004).
    Since the Outsider is obviously off script and ignoring his cues, Stage Manager Times is forced to intervene, come onto the stage and set this narrative back in its track. The Wright stuff is obviously thin gruel and there’s more than a trace of desperation in the tone and presentation. The smell of fear wafts from the box seats. Changing time for America?

  • Johanna

    Queen Hill thought that she was a shoe-in/ And tonight she’s fumin’ and stewin’/ But not as much as Trie, Chung and Riady/ who paid millions and now nothin’s doin.’

  • http://www.typepad.com/t/comments Megalomania

    The Chicago papers, Republicans, lightly talk about the Rezko case and some interesting ties Obama could have with funneled money from an Iraqi Billionaire. Rezko is supposed to have a loan from the Iraqi Billionaire for about 3.5 million to help Obama in his election. The Rezko trial is ended. But there are sealed statements that are kept silent by the judge. Truly a political move. Great now we have another Bush type getting loan money from the very enemy America has to fight.
    Most Americans know Bush is business buddies with the Bin Laden family for decades and little reported by the Media. The Bin Laden Buck Buddies have loaned millions to the Bush family for decades. So, here we go again. Obama maybe no better.

  • DVJ

    Publius II = Megalomania?
    Megalomania = Phony typepad page?
    Another freeper troll???