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October 22, 2008
Exclusive: News Flash! Obama’s Gets Endorsement from His Wife!
Looking for new ways to make their favorite son, Barack Obama, look like the best thing since Pampers®, the mainstream media has decided to enter the third phase of their “OBAMA BY DIVINE RIGHT” tour.
Phase One: What Warts?
In the initial phase of their official courtship with Barack Obama (the unofficial one began the minute he finished his keynote address at the 2004 Democrat Convention), the mainstream media began a policy of completely ignoring or downplaying any negative image, message or news about the object of their crush. Thus, the scandal of being in the same time zone much less the same church as that master of sanity and racial harmony, Jeremiah Wright, subsided. So have the legion of questionable and ominous associations over the years with Ayers and others.
A recipient of the MSM’s “bubble of protection” in the past, Hillary Clinton quickly experienced that unique feeling of knowing that your opponent could flash the camera smoking pot burning the U.S. flag while holding a photo of Fidel Castro with no political fallout or negative publicity. In fact, it seemed that most magazines on the stands hit us over the head with the inspiring query “Michelle – Why Obama Loves Her So Much.”
Phase Two: Grumpy Old Man and Betcha Bimbo
Having initiated the flood of positive images and messages about Barack Obama, the MSM began phrase II, which has been to flood the mental marketplace with an even larger volume of negative portrayals of John McCain and Sarah Palin. Thus, we hear jokes about how old he is, false rumors about her adulterous love affair, comments about how angry and negative he is and mockery about how “inexperienced” she supposedly is.
It has gotten to the point that John McCain and Sarah Palin could save a dying child while campaigning and the media would either ignore the act or perhaps run a headline saying GOP MORE FOCUSED ON SIDE ISSUES THAN NATION’S FUTURE.
Phase Three: Look, No Hands!
We are now in phase three of the MSM’s embarrassingly obvious display of Obama love. Here, we have the media foaming in admiration because Obama stops his campaign for two days to visit his sick grandmother in Hawaii, as if visiting a loved one who has sacrificed so much for you is an act demanding sainthood. Turning predictable, routine and common acts of expected duty into headline news is the third phase of the media’s attempt to crown its beloved Barack king of the castle.
This, on the heels of the earth-shattering news that Colin Powell has endorsed Obama – as if anyone with an ounce of brains could not have seen that one coming from a mile. Before long, we will hear that Obama actually puts his pants on one leg at a time, kisses his children at night and eats his vegetables.
You can take it to the bank that if Obama’s opponents visited their sick relatives, we would either not hear about it or listen to the story spun in some neutral or even negative way. Can’t you see McCAIN FINALLY VISITS SICK RELATIVE on the front pages?
Conclusion
The other day I was at a restaurant when two people began hugging and kissing in a nearby booth. Pretty soon, everyone around the teens became uncomfortable sitting near this kind of display. Nothing wrong with showing affection, but a little restraint, discretion and control is always appreciated.
As we approach the most important election in a long time, the discomfort of seeing the media coddle, embrace and defend its new boyfriend is only surpassed by its pathetic pretense and denial that it is visibly favoring one side over the other.
Like the lover who giggles at every inane joke, smiles longingly into the other’s eyes and drivels sonnets of adoration at every instance, the MSM is certainly following the song “Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About”.
If I soon see a headline that reads OBAMA TAKES TIME TO FEED LITTLE BIRDS ENCHANTED BY HIS VOICE, I will plead out loud what all of those people in the restaurant were thinking that evening as those two lovers were redefining the meaning of lunch hour; namely, “Get a Room!” Please, for the sake of this country, just make that room have an Illinois address.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Gabriel Garnica, Esq., is a college professor who holds a law degree from New York University. Write him at gbgmyarticles@yahoo.com.
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