Do you believe our (US) Fourth Estate is somehow 'in the tank' for O? Some, even in the MSM, are reporting that it seems so.
Personally... I find it difficult to believe that
all in mainstream media are in thrall to the Pied Piper of Hyde Park.
There are critics and mild exposes but it is mind boggling that the MSM refuses to report information that is so readily available. Is it possible that our
Freedom of the Press could be
bought, co-opted or coerced?
This question is, of course, rhetorical. The next is not.
Can there be any other explanation?
Allegedly
fair and balanced Fox News Channel cast a special report on 18 August titled
Presidential Character & Conduct 2008: Barack Obama. It skipped over a bit.
O's maternal grandparents were communists. His Kenyan father was a communist.
As a Nairobi bureaucrat, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a Harvard-educated economist, grew to challenge the ruling pro-Western government for not being socialist enough. In an eight-page scholarly paper published in 1965, he argued for eliminating private farming and nationalizing businesses "owned by Asians and Europeans."
His ideas for communist-style expropriation didn't stop there. He also proposed massive taxes on the rich to "redistribute our economic gains to the benefit of all."
His mother seems to have been... a rebellious young woman.
Who, while being raised by his grandparents in Hawaii, steered a 13-14 year old boy into the mentorship of
CPUSA (Communist Party USA) member
Frank Marshall Davis--A man who had fled Chicago in 1954 for the then US territory before being caught in an FBI gauntlet? O spent 1975--1979 absorbing this man's poetry and thought.
Upon graduation from that
bastion of clear thought Columbia University (the school that hosted
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last September) O went to work as a 'community organizer' in Chicago for one of the
shakedown gangs advocacy groups founded by communist
Saul Alinsky. There's an awful lot to read about Alinsky if one knows where to look including Hillary Rodham Clinton's Wellesley thesis.
Off to Boston to get a bit more than street cred O gets to be editor of the Harvard Law Review
without ever publishing a single paper of his own.
Then back to
Chitown with a prestigious degree for more... organizing. Let me be very clear--
organizing means getting wealth from them that has to them that don't. He worked for the
Woods Fund from '93--'01. Business, industry and
government taxpayers are the source of money to fund Jeremiah Wright's Trinity school and Rezko's urban housing projects (condemned on completion).
O went on to head the Chicago Annenberg Challenge along with Pentagon bomber William Ayers. The
records of that foundation are in the University of Illinois at Chicago library but have not been released for study. As these papers are the only record of O
ever running anything there are people who believe they have a right to examine them.
But when the shoe is on the other foot... Republican candidate for the open US senate seat in 2004 Jack Ryan had made public the divorce records with ex-wife actress Jeri Ryan but the custody records were sealed by request of both parties. In June of that year the Chicago Tribune and WLS TV requested that the custody records be released and a willing judge overturned what had been a settled case. The details were sufficiently sordid that Ryan dropped his candidacy and... well... O was a shoe-in.
If literally hundreds--maybe thousands--of us on the blogs can ferret out the words and associations and
intent of O why is the MSM mute? In 1996 details of illegal Chinese and Indonesian donations to the Clinton campaign were readily reported. In 1998 Drudge broke the story of the blue dress and it was all over network news.
Now the silence is deafening.