Hardball: President Obama Bypassing the Media Filter?

[OneDollarBook]

Men engage in hoping, praying, pining, longing, desiring, anticipating, expecting, inferring and insinuating after they've expended many of their waking hours denying, cursing, denigrating, degrading, blaspheming, destroying and denouncing. [Eulogize America before its buried.]

[garthggarth]

People want calm and reassuranc, both here, AND ESPECIALLY AROUND THE REST OF THE WORLD!

Most of the G20, and all the (actually more critical) emerging economies want to know how the U.S's economy is flowing, AND where they are going, IN ORDER TO plan thier own futures. They don't need or want sensationalism. They want direction, and a bit of reassurance, with a dose of facts.

Obama might go down as the best American communicating politician in a century. MSM is irrelevant, almost.

[cleo1994]

With the Low Quality of US MSM, it's an excellent idea to bypass MSM all together.

[terrence0258]

I think the media is starting to realize that they are no longer relevant. The internet is now where its at. Newspapers and magazines all over the country are going down, CNN's ratings are awful, and for the first time more people in polls say they get their news online. The only bad thing about this is I'm a journalism student.

[bbbbmer]

oh bullshit! these 'reporters' / PROPAGANDISTS / are nothing but apologists for bush/cheney -- where were they then???? they were softballing bush/cheney! what liars!!!

[Officechick1991]

I like Chris & I know he's got a republican background but lately he seems to be drinking the Fox News kool-aid and He gives Sarah Palin waaay too much credit!!

and i believe CATAGORY 5 MORON would be a better assessment of her

[YOURGODISNOWHERE]

Chris Mattthews is racist

[redbonepro]

il128 - That is the stupidest thing i've ever heard.

The MSM has a love-affair with Obama. They're the primary reason he got elected in the first place. The fault is all theirs for failure to even vet the guy.

But they sure went after a nominee for VP on the other side didn't they.

Give me a break. This is the same Chris Mathspews that had a 'thrill running up his leg' when he heard Obama speak. Good lord...

[DirtyDirtracer2006]

because Sarah Palin was a moron and the idea of her being near the Red button is fucking terrifying.

[johnedwards1968]

lol! That's a very fair assessment of Palin.

[TheSteelGeneral]

very mild assessment.

[integral]

If you're a right winger and take in a diet of Fox or Rush and such nonsense then you're likely to buy the MSM hearts Obama routine.

If you're trying to prove that silly point by citing a few extreme examples (like Tweety's leg thrill routine) all it does it show the weakness of your argument.

But you basically seem to be using "everybody knows" as proof of that idea.

[47f0]

What a load of garbage redbone - Love affair? All I heard from the MSM was flag pins, National Anthem salutes, Reverent Wright, more flag pins, Ayers, Rev. Wright again, birth certificates, Rezko, Muslim schools...

Apparently, you were lapping it all up so hard you didn't even notice.

If you're bitter, be bitter at your party for utterly failing to come up with a more credible set of candidates than a geriatric cancer patient with anger issues and a moose-hunting bible-thumper.

[TheSteelGeneral]

the MSM are still slavishly following repukkke culture. they consider liberal views STILL as "controversial", they have TWICE AS MANY repub guests on the sunday talk shows than Democrats.

Face it, the majority of this country is NOT center right. it's center left. But the majority of this country's MSM, yes that IS rightwing.

[il128]

The MSM hates our President.