Jimmy Carter got same media treatment as Obama has.

[dumpdabaggers]

While Carter was running for the presidency he could do no wrong according to most media. The second he took office the media began to pick him apart. No decision he ever made was the right one, everything that had gone wrong over the previous five years was now his fault. Anything negative was picked up on, anything positive like Camp David, was poo pooed.

The same thing has occured with Obama. In truth, most of the media has been highly critical of Obama since the day after he took office. The positive is seldom talked about in any detail, but the negative is picked apart.

The story since the dawning of the tea baggers has been how Obama is "losing support." The tea party is presented like "the independents," who are "mad as hell." The Republican's are going to win back the House and Senate in November.

Just look at the attention Sarah Palin gets. WHen has a defeated VP candidate ever gotten this much coverage?

[FrenchieCat]

1. I don't think the media thought that Obama would end up winning

after they played Rev. Wright's loop-D-loop for two months.
They weren't prepared for folks not giving a damn.

Whatever their plan was after they saw that failing
failed greatly due to the collapse of the financial system.....
and then it was probably decided that they might as well get him
to clean up the shit.

Then they drove his approval rating sky high right after inauguration
(likening him to Lincoln) in order that any poll numbers after that
would looks small in comparison.

The media governs us via commissioned polls. If you notice the NCB/WSJ poll that just came out,
the media is acting and reporting like those poll results actually speaks for America as a whole,
without respect to the poll questions and methodology, and how the poll was conducted.
They really want us to believe that speaking to 1,000 people at 3:00 p.m. in the afternoon
over landlines represents American opinions in their entirity.

Many of us eat it up and go along with the findings of these questionable commissioned polls.
Why, I don't know.

[Frustratedlady]

2. Absolutely! They were awful in the way they treated them like bumpkins.

A lot of it was centered around Billy and his beer drinking, but they were merciless. If it wasn't Billy, it was making fun of their daughter, Amy...the food they served their guests...there was no end to it.

President Carter was good for the times, as he had a calm demeanor and was able to settle the country down again after the protests and fighting that the country was going through when he took office.

The press has too much power.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

3. LOL...Obama had an easy campaign?

Rev. Wright?
Bradley Effect?
Too Elitist?
Not American?
Too Black?
Not really black enough?
Whitey Tape?
His Wife hates America?
He's a Muslim?
His birth certificate?
...

[Thrill]

4. The Palin obsession from the media

is unreal. They would never give a Democrat that type of attention.

[customerserviceguy]

5. Usually

a defeated VP candidate is looked at as a potential front runner for four years later. That happened with John Edwards, Joe Lieberman, Jack Kemp (to a lesser degree), Dan Quayle, Walter Mondale, Bob Dole, and Edmond Muskie.

Only Geraldine Ferraro and Lloyd Bentsen didn't enjoy such a spotlight.

[doc03]

6. Every Democrat gets the same treatment, they did the same

with Bill Clinton. The MSM was on to Clinton before he even took office, they found fault with every appointment he made and then said he wasn't filling government appointments fast enough.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. I don't remember anybody questioning Carters citizenship.

Or, for that matter, anybody claiming that because Carter was elected, we don't need affirmative action anymore.

[Bitwit1234]

8. Look at the way the dissed Bill Clinton

Every single Democratic president gets the same treatment. They have they heads so entombed in republican butt they Know they have to tell lies about Democrats. After all the republicans own every single media outlet out there. You know they are going to try to topple the Democratic president.