TYT: Is The Mainstream Media Swift Boating Obama?

[Turborama]

Run time: 05:12 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFohDDcecy8   Posted on YouTube: September 04, 2009 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 13084   Posted on DU: September 04, 2009 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 1113

 
The title is actually a rhetorical one. Of coooourse they are.

The intro is all about how Faux are manipulating the approval ratings thing and then from 2:15 Cenk compares how long it took torture, domestic state sponsored spying and anti war stories to float to the surface compared to the immediate widespread coverage of any insane anti-Obama accusations currently taking place. He then goes on to reflect on how much damage these relentless attacks will do to him over the length of his presidency.

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ETA this relevant thread posted by FrenchieCat in GDP: Media finally Busted! The Real Town Hall Story by E.J. Dionne

[FrenchieCat]

1. Yep...and we are lapping it up!

[ihavenobias]

2. This is why Cenk is one of the best talk show hosts out there.

He was incredibly critical of the president earlier, and now he's defending him here.

The administration is going to do some things brilliantly, some things horribly and some things in between. We agree or disagree on how many items are in each category, but it's absurd to pretend that all three categories don't exist and apply.

[democracy1st]

3. K & R

[20score]

4. A big K&R

[JDPriestly]

5. Now we know why Republican parents are afraid that their children

will hear Obama speak. What? Obama a Democrat speaks better English than Bush a Republican? That could convert millions of Republican kids to the Democratic Party. Can't have that.

[Enthusiast]

9. Believe me, that is part of their fear.

Just watch how the M$M lends credence to these insane new RW talking points about President Obama poisoning our children with communist ideology.

[rainy]

6. K and R. This it the biggest issue of the day. It should not be tolerated.

It is destroying our country. Because the talking points are distributed and the media lap them up the losers keep getting all the air time. We should not even be discussing the Obama speech. We had no such discussion when other presidents spoke to the children.

[yellerpup]

7. It's time for the media to talk about race relations in this country.

It's time they exposed the roots of the hostility that causes (racist) parents to take their children out of school rather than to allow them to listen to our President speak. Reporters are more like gossips these days. They insinuate rather than investigate. K&R!

[Enthusiast]

8. They learned how effective

Swift Boating is and they have tightened their control over the M$M.

Democrats were the overwhelming choice of the America people last election. But we are losing in the arena of the M$M and that is the arena that is hugely influential.

I watched this during the Clinton Administration. It was disgusting in the way that the entire media was just waiting for the new daily attacking points.

Now President Obama is going to poison our children by indoctrinating them with communist ideology. And I believe it.

[olegramps]

10. How long will it take before people realize that the media is controlled by Republicans.

[orbitalman]

13. That's RIGHT...

....and Wall Street, CEO's, Insurance companies; big business in general-not small business unless their ignorant (I have seen that too). This is why the battle is so difficult & time-comsuming less the damn Blue Dogs and whiffle-whaffers.

[pleah]

11. K&R

[OhioChick]

12. K&R n/t

[Cha]

14. YES..I don't even have to think

about that!

Of course, they are.

[Kajsa]

15. Yes, and many don't even question it!

Wait a minute- he's the

PRESIDENT of the US, addressing our nation's STUDENTS on
the importance of EDUCATION--

Isn't that a given?
Why is this even being questioned?

Oh no, no, no-- Can't have independent, critical thinking in the MSM world!

We feed you garbage, you eat, drink, sleep and think garbage.

Don't forget thinly disguised racism.
Was any white president ever questioned when he did this?

Nope.

K&R

[Seldona]

16. K&R

I agree it is pretty obvious. A surprising number of people do buy it though.

[matthewf]

17. k&r