Faux News's Mara Liasson does NPR hit piece on Obama -

[Avalux]

with some help from Leon Panetta and Bill Carrick. I heard this on my way to work this morning. Mara Liasson moonlights on NPR, however they never reveal she slums around Faux News as her regular job - permanent fixture on The Capital Gang.

In the piece, they wonder if Obama has the temperment for a GE, say he has clay feet and also wonder if he can gain the support of just about everyone in the Democratic Party - working class whites, Latinos, Jews, etc.

I really don't get why Panetta and Carrick would participate in such a clearly slanted report.

Ultimately though, I had to laugh at the absurdity of what they were saying. Have they looked at the competition? ;-)

Here's a snip (you can even listen at the link if you have the stomach for it):



Dissecting Obama's Vulnerabilities for November

Carrick also worries about Obama's uneven performance in debates, particularly the last one in April in Philadelphia against Clinton. When he was hammered by both Clinton and the moderators, Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, it was a preview of the type of fights he will have to endure for the general election.

"He's going to have to get better at debating than he's been in the primary process," Carrick says. "He's also going to have to figure out how to pull himself out and put himself in drive mode and be consistent everyday, which is tough. It requires a mental and physical discipline that is unlike any other experience people have."

Republicans Taking Notes on Obama's Weaknesses

Given that McCain is facing the worst political landscape for a Republican since Watergate, GOP pollster Glenn Bolger is relieved to find out that Obama may have feet of clay.

"Clearly, some of the bloom is off the rose on Obama," he says. "He's not walking on water right now, like he was a couple of months ago. He seems to be annoyed by some of the demands of the job of campaigning."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91366795

[PVnRT]

1. Philadelphia was not a "debate"

It was a bullshit hit job brought to you courtesy ABC.

[underpants]

2. Prepping the battlefield for Luntz's focus groups

Its what everyone is saying!!!

[Emit]

3. So, NPR has two Faux Noos folks ?

I knew about Juan Williams, but thanks for the heads up on Mara Liasson.

[butterfly77]

4. I think we know why Panetta is doing it..

[NatBurner]

5. hammered? lol - "does jeremiah wright love america as much as you?"

please stop the madness

[Voltaire99]

6. People, people, people. Don't give money to NPR affiliates.

If you pay to support right wing media, you get what you deserve.

Give your money to worthy INDEPENDENT media, such as DemocracyNow!

[Tesha]

8. Seconding that -- NPR has been in the Republicans' camp for at least a decade.

They lived for a long time on our warm feelings from the
eighties, but meanwhile, they were shafting us with the
Heritage Foundation, the Hoover Institute, and the CATO
Foundation.

Tesha

[Cha]

15. Exactly! Democracy Now is the wave of the future..

What's with the media stations wanted to destroy our country further..I really don't get it?

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. I kept thinking, "okay, but what about McCain?".

Apply any of those criticisms to McCain & see who wins.

[Colobo]

9. Bah.

[Hieronymus]

10. It's obvious that NPR has been infiltrated by right wingnuts.

[FrenchieCat]

11. Do we have Email addresses for Leon Panetta and Bill Carrick?

We need to start communicating with these folks, instead of just passively reading about how they are skewing the PR around town.

We can be of assistance to the Obama campaign, if we actually participate as opposed to watching the circus as it comes to town.

[2rth2pwr]

12. Thanks for your "concern".

[Cha]

13. So they all want mccain who is a 3rd term of bush?

They're really are greedy "it's all about me" assholes.

[zulchzulu]

14. I can't even listen to the National Petroleum Network anymore...

It is hideous. I've stopped giving them money. They USED to be decent.

Obama has "a feet of clay"? He got upset at the Philadelphia charade of a debate about flag pins and crap? Give me a break.

[bcoylepa]

16. NPR did another one tonight

on All things Considered

focus was the Evangelicals and someone from the CBN ( Christian Broadcasting) was discussing with Michele Norris Obama's visit with 30 Clergy yesterday - he was very positive about it and the NPR reporter kept pushing Obama's pro choice position and how hard this would make it for him to get support from Evangelicals - very slanted reporting

[dailykoff]

17. Last night she asked Obama TO HIS FACE why he lost the "white

working class voters" in OH, PA and KY. He said it was a primary not a general etc., but the assholes at NPR have been pushing this overtly racist bullshit for months. :mad: