“Liberal” Media Apparently Not in the Tank for Obama
Print and Electronic Media Making PUMAs Out to Be More Than What They Are
I get home from work, kiss the wife, pet the cat and check in on the Fourth Estate’s coverage of the Democratic National Convention. I was shocked to find out that the floor fights have already begun, Hillary has chained herself to the podium, Bill is threatening self-immolation, and James Carville just decked Howard Dean.
That’s what one would think from the 4,793 headlines on Google News and a review of today’s transcripts of CNN’s coverage. Every reporter in town is trying to find one of the two or three loud-mouthed, sore losers who are threatening to blow the place up. CNN’s “Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzed began the program with a quote from James Carville suggesting that the Obama campaign has handled things all wrong — the transcript doesn’t point out when that sentence was uttered or in what context.
The vapid Ann Curry of NBC’s Today Show is the podium reporter tonight on MSNBC. She literally pummeled poor Nancy Pelosi with questions about Hillary v. Barack. Memo to Ann: This thing was won about four months ago. Pelosi was straining so hard to smile through the barrage, she literally sweat Botox.
What’s missing from the media’s theme of discontent at the convention is — discontent. I haven’t seen one party leader threatening insurrection. I haven’t read one quote tonight from a party leader saying the situation is tenuous. There are no signs of Hillary placards in the crowd among the delegates.
What the media may be missing in its attempt to create news is the real news. Democrats are uniting in Denver this week.
There are far more of us who are NOT in Denver, and we are not uniting with the “New Democratic Coalition.” Not this week, nor at any other time.
“Democrats are uniting in Denver this week.”
Wanna bet?
When on a team…you may disagree with your captain, you may not always see eye to eye…but each day you go out and play the game together as a team. You fight against all odds and attempt to be the victor. This is true in sport teams, in boardrooms across America, in churches as well. But each of us wake up each day and attempt, for better or worse, to try and be a team player and be the best that we can be. Yes, for the first time a black man and a woman ran for president. One of them received the nomination although both sides fought for the chance to be the force to bring change they believe in to Washington; to America. But in the end, Hillary and Barack are team players. In the big scheme of things, they represent a truth that we all were waiting to see; that the view of the leader of one of the most diverse countries on the face of this Earth can finally represent the multitude of faces, of citizens that make up this great nation. When it comes down to it, we can say I wanted Hillary to win so I will not support the Democrats. But the truth is, she and Barack are both agents of change and they both stand together and say please America, let us not be divided on the minor difference between us such as race and gender; and lets stand united on the direction the country needs to move. When Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal were fighting, we said we just want the Lakers to win! Why can’t they work as a team. When our kids are upset that they didn’t get class president, we tell them to stand up strong and try again next time. I mean there are so many opportunities for us to get mad, be divisive and stand apart; but the truth is, the only person we hurt are ourselves. Hillary still has a chance to run for president in the future and we will all support her. Today, Barack Obama is the nominee, he has united so many and represents a hope that I have never experienced in my lifetime. Just try to see, try to be a team player, try to understand that the grand picture is beyond petty disagreements and that these next several years will either reposition America as a great power or finally admit to the world our level of decline. Please choose wisely.