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Offline Happy Fun Ball

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When we call the media biased, this is what we mean
« on: June 05, 2009, 11:31:05 PM »
From Newsbusters:

Newsweek’s Evan Thomas: Obama Is ‘Sort of God’

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Newsweek editor Evan Thomas brought adulation over President Obama’s Cairo speech to a whole new level on Friday, declaring on MSNBC: "I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God."

Thomas, appearing on Hardball with Chris Matthews, was reacting to a preceding monologue in which Matthews praised Obama’s speech: "I think the President's speech yesterday was the reason we Americans elected him. It was grand. It was positive. Hopeful...But what I liked about the President's speech in Cairo was that it showed a complete humility...The question now is whether the President we elected and spoke for us so grandly yesterday can carry out the great vision he gave us and to the world."

Matthews discussed Obama’s upcoming speech marking the 65th anniversary of D-Day and compared it to that of Ronald Reagan. He then turned to Thomas and asked: "Reagan and World War II and the sense of us as the good guys in the world, how are we doing?" Thomas replied: "Well, we were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way. It hasn't felt that way in recent years. So Obama’s had, really, a different task We're seen too often as the bad guys. And he – he has a very different job from – Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is ‘we are above that now.’ We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial."

Thomas elaborated on Obama as God, patronizingly explaining: "He's going to bring all different sides together...Obama is trying to sort of tamper everything down. He doesn't even use the word terror. He uses extremism. He's all about let us reason together...He's the teacher. He is going to say, ‘now, children, stop fighting and quarreling with each other.’ And he has a kind of a moral authority that he – he can – he can do that." In response, Matthews wondered: "If there's a world election between him and Osama Bin Laden, he's running a good campaign." Thomas agreed: "Yes, he is."
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Re: When we call the media biased, this is what we mean
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2009, 12:04:10 AM »
Evan Thomas is the principal reason I dropped our subscription to Newsweak, incurring a very heated reaction from Mrs. E (who is a lib'ral wannabe).

I told Mrs. E that that rag would not ever set foot in the house again, George Will being the token conservative or not.
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Re: When we call the media biased, this is what we mean
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2009, 09:14:14 AM »
I was a Newsweek subscriber for 30 years when I dropped it due to their slobbery coverage of Obama and beat up on everyone else.  Time is no better and letting that run out.  Their cover of Sonia Sotomayor is so heavily air brushed and photoshopped, she looks like a teenager !  See the difference when they ran the cover of Sarah Palin in a most unflattering closeup.....

Sonia:

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20090608,00.html


Sarah:

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20080915,00.html



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Re: When we call the media biased, this is what we mean
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2009, 09:23:46 AM »
Quote from: seabelle on June 06, 2009, 09:14:14 AM
I was a Newsweek subscriber for 30 years when I dropped it due to their slobbery coverage of Obama and beat up on everyone else.  Time is no better and letting that run out.  Their cover of Sonia Sotomayor is so heavily air brushed and photoshopped, she looks like a teenager !  See the difference when they ran the cover of Sarah Palin in a most unflattering closeup.....

Sonia:

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20090608,00.html


Sarah:

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20080915,00.html





The difference is stunning.  You can tell how much work they have done TRYING to make Sotomayor look half as good as Sarah did with nothing done to her.

That is simply amazing.

Thanks for sharing.

KC
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Re: When we call the media biased, this is what we mean
« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2009, 11:05:37 AM »
 :wtf2: :puke:
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Re: When we call the media biased, this is what we mean
« Reply #5 on: June 06, 2009, 02:16:40 PM »
I don't even imagine this level of adulation is acceptable in North Korea.   I mean, Dear Leader has some standards.
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Re: When we call the media biased, this is what we mean
« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2009, 02:36:20 PM »
Quote from: Baruch Menachem on June 06, 2009, 02:16:40 PM
I don't even imagine this level of adulation is acceptable in North Korea.   I mean, Dear Leader has some standards.

You sure about that?  I mean, he'd admitted he'd do the big nasty with Madeline Albright, after all...
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Re: When we call the media biased, this is what we mean
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2009, 02:42:28 PM »
Quote from: seabelle on June 06, 2009, 09:14:14 AM
I was a Newsweek subscriber for 30 years when I dropped it due to their slobbery coverage of Obama and beat up on everyone else.  Time is no better and letting that run out.  Their cover of Sonia Sotomayor is so heavily air brushed and photoshopped, she looks like a teenager !  See the difference when they ran the cover of Sarah Palin in a most unflattering closeup.....

Sonia:

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20090608,00.html


Sarah:

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20080915,00.html





Is the one of "Latina Justice" supposed to look like a character sketch?
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Re: When we call the media biased, this is what we mean
« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2009, 06:30:59 PM »
The Sotomayor cover is highly stylized, and actually a bit disturbing when you see it up close. From a distance its like they tried to shave 30 years off of her, but when viewed up close the cover makes her skin look like rubber stretched over a form. -- Believe me, I know - I delivered at least 50 of these things along the mail route earlier this week. Everytime I saw the cover, I would discover another disturbing area of it.

Like the Sarah Palin cover - the further away you are from it the better it looks.

But I do agree there is different intention of the publisher for both images.
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