TNR: press "certainly helped" Obama

Interesting TNR article here. The thing is about how the Obama campaign's hubris is starting to piss off the media. In particular an incident with a NYT reporter is written about in some length. When you get lefty rags like TNR openly making admissions like the quote below, and whining about how closed and controlling the Obama campaign is, it sounds to me like the campaign's honeymoon is just about over.

...The press certainly helped Obama get so far so fast; the question is, how far can he get if his campaign alienates them?...
...But, as Obama ascended from underdog to front-runner to presumptive nominee, the flame seems to have dwindled. Reporters who cover Obama these days grouse that Obama's flacks shroud the campaign in secrecy and provide little to no access. "They're more disciplined than the Bush people," a reporter on the Obama trail gripes...

Of course this could all be a pack of Beauchampian lies. After all, this is The New Republic and their dogged pursuit of quality reporting has taken a few hits lately. So take it all with a grain of salt. I'm pretty sure the unicorns are still grazing peacefully and sunshine continues to flow out the Messiah's ass as always.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 08:14 AM

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1 OT - I'm reading the story over in the sidebar about Kucinich's mini-showtrial yesterday and I'm wondering why the R's on the committee even bothered to show up and lend credibility to the little man's nutroot clusterfuck. I know Ace and a couple of the others have been behind the curtains on Capitol Hill. I'd be interested to hear the take of someone who's been there.

Posted by: pendejo grande at July 26, 2008 08:37 AM (qN0f5)

2 TNR is just firing a warning shot over the bow here. Trying to help their boy by warning him as to the perception that he's creating with other media outlets who may not share the taste for dick to quite the same degree as does TNR. Like when you handcuff a friend to the drain pipe for a couple of days in order to give the hobo population a chance to become winelocked again. And thus, less dangerous.

Posted by: pendejo grande at July 26, 2008 08:52 AM (qN0f5)

3 Every time you doubt Obama, a one of us dies.

Please everyone - say along with me.

I do believe in Obama. I do believe.

I do, I do believe in Obama.

I do believe in Obama.

Oh, thank you! Thank you, morons! StarTwinkle is all better now!

Posted by: The Unicorns at July 26, 2008 09:08 AM (VFTrh)

I am wondering the same thing. Barry's arrogance, hubris and egocentrism are stupefying. Sooner or later it has to grate even the faithful.

Hopefully soon.

They need to be disciplined. There is something they need to keep hidden. I don't know what it is yet, but something lies waiting.

Posted by: drjohn at July 26, 2008 09:09 AM (VFRay)

JULY 16 STORY NOT PUBLICIZED UNTIL JULY 24
The New Republic “End of the Affair” by Gabriel Sherman
re: NYT

Chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney received a terse e-mail from Barack Obama’s press office on the front-page piece titled “Poll Finds Obama Isn’t Closing Divide on Race.”

Nagourney responds. But Obama camp not satisfied and mounts its own publicity campaign vs. Nagourney who whines:

“I’ve never had an experience like this, with this campaign or others,” Nagourney tells me. “I thought they crossed the line. If you have a problem with a story I write, call me first. I’m a big boy. I can handle it. But they never called. They attacked me like I’m a political opponent.”

Hey, Nagourney! Obama’s camp DID send you an email. All anyone ever gets from the Obama camp is an email. When McCain showed the good etiquette to have a messenger bring Obama a personal note, Obama’s staff got angry at the inconvenience caused as it had not simply been emailed.

LOL! What’s good for the goose = gander Nagourney & NYT. You can dish out the bias and negativity but can’t take it.

Posted by: maverick muse at July 26, 2008 09:12 AM (F1b/5)

I think that classifying TNR as a "lefty rag", you aren't really helping readers unfamiliar with the publication understand their bias and predisposition. TNR is about as conflicted a "lefty rag" as exists in today's climate of black-and-white polarity.

Yes, they are liberal, but they have a compulsion toward tolerance for honesty that rears its head frequently amidst the more doctrinaire articles. Keep in mind that this is a publication that sided with Bush on the Iraq war and argued its position quite effectively.

The Beauchamp thing was interesting, but hardly a reflection of pervasive "left tanking". I blame Beauchamp for his lies, his fiance for getting the lies past the TNR filters unchallenged, and TNR for circling the wagons and trying to defend the indefensible after the fact. It was a low-point in their history, and not the only one, but it should be viewed within a larger context.

I would expect TNR to be one of the first left-leaning publications to be critical of Obama. I'm not trying to deflate the significance of their publishing the article--just acknowledging that they would be among the usual suspects when the globe of invulnerability around Obama starts to show stress fractures.

Posted by: Immolate at July 26, 2008 09:36 AM (pCspr)

Well, at least Dan Schorr's devotion remains strong. On NPR this morning he defended Obama tenaciously from that noted neo-con Scott Simon's questioning about the possible impression of presumptuousness inherent in Obama's coronation tour.

He spun the left-field perspective on all the "facts": the huge crowds, the "endorsement" of Sarcozy, the Pentagon's decision that Obama should not come to Landstuhl, the fact that McCain went golfing with Bush Sr. while Obama was causing Malaki to swoon and adopt his own Iraq withdrawal timetable, etc.

Simon to his credit pushed back fairly hard, but Dan dug in his heels and even seemed to take offense that the objectivity of the media was being questioned. It was a shameful performance that should have completely destroyed any hope some might hold that Schorr is anything but the consummate Democrat hack. I like to hope for NPR's sake that they don't pay him much, but I am sure he is lavishly compensated for commenting on the news while in effect being a media spokeperson for Democrats.

Posted by: sherlock at July 26, 2008 09:39 AM (ojW85)

8 I too found Daniel Schorr's comments to be absolutely remarkable. The media "can't help but cover Obama" because he's simply exciting? It's ok because thousands of other people are fawning over the manufactured celebrity with absolutely no experience, credentials nor basic extemporaneous speaking capacity?

Of course, NPR continued the "Daniel: Duplicitious, Deceptive, Dishonest, Democrat!" weekly commentary with a piece on how blogging is a Democratic movement because all the conservative blogs are run by party insiders, while blogs like the Huffington Post, DailyKos, Democratic Underground are all movements by the little people. The right, of course, was explained to only respond to top-down directives from authoritarian figures that demand compliance, not introspective thought, like Rush Limbaugh. Blogging, on the other hand, tends to be the liberals place because expression, thinking and open discussion were allowed and encouraged there.

Finally, we had some cultural treats from NPR, with one discussing how Harley Davidson was reaching out to younger markets, and then an interview with a composer who's written symphonies based on Grateful Dead tunes.

After this morning's program, about the only utility NPR is capable of demonstrating is that if Congress wishes to explore "equal time," then they need to first apply it to this government-subsided political campaign media outlet for the Democratic party.

Posted by: redherkey at July 26, 2008 10:06 AM (kjqFg)

9
Oh, there'll be the occasional complaint, or a little grumbling now and then, especially in publications like TNR, which have next to no circulation, and next to no influence. After all, everyone gripes about the boss now and then.

But when the time comes to file the dispatch or recite the report, the "reporters" will fall into line like the good little ideologues they are. Bank on it: the coverage in October will make what's going on now look even-handed by comparison.

Posted by: Brown Line at July 26, 2008 10:15 AM (OMiLl)

MSNBC showed a little sign of turning on the messiah this morning. I was waiting for my car at the carwash and watching the TV there.

The Dem rep said that Obama's visit showed his foreign relations credentials.

The Independent Women's Voters League (or something) was definitely not in the tank for Obama, but had her swimsuit on.

However the Anchor (some female) kept slamming and insisting that there was going to be a backlash from American voters because Obama was pretending to be the president.. {paraphrasing] the press may have made up their minds, "but the voters haven't decided that yet"

However the guys choosing the film haven't gotten the word that Obama is out yet.

During the discussion they started showing a split screen picture of the candidates - after pictures of Jesus in Germany, they showed McCain standing next to an old geezer in a VFW hat. The geezer was hunched like Quasimodo over the mike, and McCain was grinning like a fool. OK, fair enough.... but then the scroll across the bottom says that McCain met with the Dali Lama in exile, and said that China has to clean up their act on Tibet.

Did they show pictures of McCain with the Dali Lama talking tough on China?

Nooooo. Jesus talks to the European Gods, but McCain listens to old geezers give pointless speeches about the last war.

Posted by: Lokki at July 26, 2008 11:06 AM (gE65f)

11 Hmmmm.

According to the TNR when Obama farts an angel gets his wings.

Just don't get too close to them.

Posted by: memomachine at July 26, 2008 11:06 AM (3PLow)

12 What are they going to do when they find the Obamassiah has no clothes?

Posted by: GarandFan at July 26, 2008 11:29 AM (eJ32B)

13 The Left/DNC Media is just priceless....the amateur whores can't give it away fast enough. IMO they will tee off enough voters and will proudly go down with USS Obama in the end.

Posted by: vaquero at July 26, 2008 12:16 PM (ft+1C)

14 It was a shameful performance that should have completely destroyed any hope some might hold that Schorr is anything but the consummate Democrat hack.

Of course Schorr is a tired, old harlot and has been for years, but I think NPR keeps him around sort of like a museum piece.

Posted by: OregonMuse at July 26, 2008 01:54 PM (qm2ea)

15 Finally, we had some cultural treats from NPR...

Or you can turn to Fox news on the hour and get blasted with "Stripper kills her pimp boyfriend in lovers' quarrel! And eats his liver!"

I can't stand to listen to Fox News any more. I watch FNS every week because at least Hume and Wallace are serious journalists, but that's it. I am repulsed by Fox's sensationalistic, tabloid mentality that pervades the rest of their product. And having weapons-grade ass clowns such as Geraldo Rivera and Greta Van Sustern on staff doesn't help.

I'd rather listen to NPR, with their lineup of dilapidated old liberal whores like Schorr and Nina Totenberg. At least they're not constantly yelling at me like carnival barkers. Also, sometimes NPR puts on interesting stories and I can always discount the eye-rollingly bad liberal bias. I'd rather be spoken to as an adult rather than have a bunch of shiny objects dangled in front of my face.

Posted by: OregonMuse at July 26, 2008 02:11 PM (qm2ea)

16 "What are they going to do when they find the Obamassiah has no clothes?"

I'm guessing that would put a serious tingle up Chris Matthews' leg....

Posted by: notropis at July 26, 2008 03:01 PM (nNqMU)

17 The only thing that would be unusual for a Daniel Snore broadcast would be if he didn't remind the listeners that he was on Nixon's enemies list. That dead horse has probably been beaten into China by now.

Posted by: Captain Hate at July 26, 2008 03:07 PM (eP9wS)

18 What? Did you say Schorr was on Nixon's enemies list? Who knew?

Posted by: OregonMuse at July 26, 2008 08:38 PM (qm2ea)

19 Pendejo "I'm wondering why the R's on the committee even bothered to show up and lend credibility to the little man's nutroot clusterfuck."

Entertainment value. If there was an impromptu freakshow being staged in the building where I work, and I was actually invited to be in the audience for it, sure, I'd find some reason for being there instead of at my desk. And later on, I'd be sure to tell people all about what I saw and heard.
Also it looks bad if the accused's own guys don't show up for the show trial, like they couldn't even be bothered to try to defend him. So probably it's just as well that they were there.

Posted by: Stoop Davy Dave at July 27, 2008 05:47 AM (NznSA)

20 "Dan dug in his heels and even seemed to take offense that the objectivity of the media was being questioned actually exercised, albeit tentatively and timidly."

Ha! Stoopy fix!

Posted by: Stoop Davy Dave at July 27, 2008 05:52 AM (NznSA)

21 >>Also, sometimes NPR puts on interesting stories and I can always discount the eye-rollingly bad liberal bias. <<

Gotta give 'em that. They present a MUCH wider variety of eye-rollingly bad liberally biased reportage on at least four times as many topics per day. Fukkin Fox Radio, criminy, there's like only five stories happening in the world every day, and the fifth one is always about American Idol. Except on weekends when it's about box-office rankings. Gah!

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