I have been waiting breathlessly for Bernie Goldberg's book, A Slobbering Love Affair, (the true and pathetic story of the torrid romance between Barack Obama and the mainstream media).
This book details exactly what irked me about Obama and this entire election from the beginning. How can America have a fair election when the media shills so unashamedly for one candidate to an uninformed electorate? I really didn't think Americans were stupid until this election when, en masse, they seemed to turn into pod people, fainting and crying over a man about whom they knew - and continue to know - so little.
It reminds me of when I was ten and went to see The Beatles. I cried and screamed and jumped up and down and was TOTALLY in love with George Harrison, the quiet Beatle. I thought I would die.
But I grew up and got over it. When I was twelve.
Here are some delicious quotes:
Chris Matthews on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno: "If you're actually in the room when Obama gives one of his speeches and you don't cry, you're not an American."
Chris Matthews on MSNBC on Inauguration Day: (Chris is the gift that keeps on giving.) "This is the network that has opened its heart to change and its possibilities, let's be honest about it."
George Stephanopoulos, ABC anchor, cried at the inauguration.
Tom Brokaw, NBC anchor, cried at the inauguration.
Washington Post, Dec. 25, 2008: "The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games."
This dreadful writing might make it into the Washington Post, but it wouldn't cut the mustard in a bad romance novel - and I ought to know.
David Gergen, CNN, Aug. 28, 2008: "In many ways it was less a speech than it was a symphony. It moved quickly; it had a high tempo at times and then moved slower all along sort of interweaving a main theme of America's promise, echoes of Lincoln, of King, even of Reagan and of Kennedy. As a political speech, it was a masterpiece."
Gag.
It would be amusing if it weren't so dangerous. Here we have journalists actively campaigning for a candidate, their bias fully in play. How can a democracy survive when there are entire networks and newspapers in the tank for a particular candidate, not asking the hard questions of one, and muckracking and lying about the other?
This book details exactly what irked me about Obama and this entire election from the beginning. How can America have a fair election when the media shills so unashamedly for one candidate to an uninformed electorate? I really didn't think Americans were stupid until this election when, en masse, they seemed to turn into pod people, fainting and crying over a man about whom they knew - and continue to know - so little.
It reminds me of when I was ten and went to see The Beatles. I cried and screamed and jumped up and down and was TOTALLY in love with George Harrison, the quiet Beatle. I thought I would die.
But I grew up and got over it. When I was twelve.
Here are some delicious quotes:
Chris Matthews on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno: "If you're actually in the room when Obama gives one of his speeches and you don't cry, you're not an American."
Chris Matthews on MSNBC on Inauguration Day: (Chris is the gift that keeps on giving.) "This is the network that has opened its heart to change and its possibilities, let's be honest about it."
George Stephanopoulos, ABC anchor, cried at the inauguration.
Tom Brokaw, NBC anchor, cried at the inauguration.
Washington Post, Dec. 25, 2008: "The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games."
This dreadful writing might make it into the Washington Post, but it wouldn't cut the mustard in a bad romance novel - and I ought to know.
David Gergen, CNN, Aug. 28, 2008: "In many ways it was less a speech than it was a symphony. It moved quickly; it had a high tempo at times and then moved slower all along sort of interweaving a main theme of America's promise, echoes of Lincoln, of King, even of Reagan and of Kennedy. As a political speech, it was a masterpiece."
Gag.
It would be amusing if it weren't so dangerous. Here we have journalists actively campaigning for a candidate, their bias fully in play. How can a democracy survive when there are entire networks and newspapers in the tank for a particular candidate, not asking the hard questions of one, and muckracking and lying about the other?
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