Roy Sekoff with Dan Abrams on Media Coverage of Obama vs. Hillary

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[longislandlol]

Unfair and unbalanced? Try listeing to Bennett and Gergen on CNN on Thursday night>>>

[genseric]

When Abrams came out with this line right before the NH primary; I thought finally, an honest person and not just someone trying to annihilate Hillary. The non-stop barrage by all these supposedly honest reporters like Tim Russert was pretty stunning and an eye-opener. They seem as fanatical as the Hannity people in trying to destroy her. When she won NH, it was like the shot heard round the world and Obama never has recovered from it. So far she has won New Hampshire, Nevada, Michigan and Florida. He won Iowa basically because Richardson, etc. threw him their supporters because they wanted the contest to go on; otherwise Iowa would've been a 3-way tie. Obama won SC solely because of the black vote. This isn't a slur on the black vote but just a point that this won't work in many places.

[RAVEN13]

Mollye, I apologize here is the address in the
correct format:
http:Rezkowatch.blogspot.com/
Wish us all a great debate may both candidates
do well.

[HighBeam]

Dan is right on the money. But the Obama camp, including HuffPost, and the MSM calling this a "beauty contest" is not correct. The people of Florida watch TV, read newspapers, and listen to talk radio. One candidate even ran ads on cable, not Sen. C. All candidates had organizations working with endorsements. The agreement was that the candidates themselves wouldn"t actively campaign in the state, but they were allowed to go for fundraising. Sen. O went to fundraise earlier and Sen. C went the day before the election. Nothing was reported on Sen. O, but Sen. C was made to look like she broke the agreement. She won big with over 1.5m votes cast. The 400k that voted early went for Sen. C because older people vote absentee, younger people don"t. The probability of a large number of these voters changing their vote to Sen. O is very low. So, when there were a few more Sen. O voters on the last day, it was because his voters came out on voting day and Sen. C"s voters voted absentee. The percentages my have been slightly different for a few deflections from Sen. C, but it wouldn"t have been significant. The O camp, HuffPost, and the MSM started this "beauty contest" spin because there were no delegates awarded, but there was an election. People of Florida and Michigan will be seated at the convention because the DNC can't afford to lose these two key states. The thing that bothered me the most was that Sen. O didn"t even thank the people that voted for him. He looks more like a sore loser every time he loses.

[MJV135]

But what the hell can we do about it?

[coop]

While I'll give you Hillary people that the media does go after Clinton more, the truth about Florida is it was an unbalanced election and with the rules as they were, should not be counted.

Due to the lack of campaigning, obviously the one with the most name recognition wins. What does it say about all of you and your candidate that you are willing to cheat to win.

It's also true that the majority of the votes were absentee ballots sent in several weeks and even months earlier. Quite a few even before Iowa. The large majority of votes cast on Tuesday were for Obama.

If it weren't for the Republicans in the state legislature voting to move the election date up, all the candidates would have campaigned and the outcome would have been very different.

If you trust that Hillary won fair and square, let's all push to have another election with campaigning and see what happens. Yeah I didn't think so.

And just so you know, I live and voted in Florida, so stop all the nonsense about Floridians being pissed off about our votes not counting. Only Hillary supporters are pissed because they want their ill gotten gains. Let's ask the majority of Floridians shall we?

[vsign]

Young people unite and do away with the old people! Tear down the bridge to the past and follow me! I will deliver the power to you, you so deserve.

Who said this?

[RAVEN13]

Cafferty on CNN raised the question concerning
Bill Clinton and the Canadian businessman re: the NYT story. Yet, where's the same proactive
interest in Obama's unvetted issues.
Check: Rezkowatch.com, I had no idea there was
so much information related to this issue.

[JPaul2008]

I thought I was living on another planet. Thanks for stating the obvious. The media has a love affair for Obama and disdain for the Clintons and a particular sexism against Senator Clinton. Obama has an ad that shows a newspaper article that says he was the first black to head Harvard Law Review. If the Clintons had said that as a compliment, they'd be accused of race baiting and making him the black candidate. The media first said he wasn't black enough. Then raise the question of Oprah's motive. Then complained that Oprah and Obama were trying to sound black in front of black audiences. Then said he lost in N.H. because to the Bradley affect. After all that, the Clintons say LBJ deserved credit, and Jesse Jackson also won S.C. and they're depicted as wearing white sheets and burning a cross. Dear Senator Clinton, it's all right to flirt with Obama, but eventually they'll come back to mama! Good luck at tonight's debate.

[apresdeluge]

Dan Abrams is the only one who tells the truth when it comes to the media (including HuffPost) bashing Hillary & Bill Clinton and anointing Obama. MSNBC's coverage of the Florida vote was pathetic. I had to turn to CNN & Fox to see what was happening on the Democratice side.

Fellow Hillary voters, let's support Dan Abrams and let MSNBC know that we are on to their game.

[buddyd]

Nogoodname is correct. I have been watching MSNBC for a very long time. In, fact I was one of the few Black People who wanted Imus to stay on in the morning.. He hated everyone. To me, that mean balance.. Anyway, Joe Scarrrr,Matthews, and now Keith are really out to bring Hillary down. Who is the lady on in the mornings with Scarrrrr..She is awful

[THISTLE]

Dan Abrams is the ONLY one that has the
integrity to expose this story of the media's
non-stop attacks on Senator Clinton. The
media's 24/7 attacks and obsession and hatred
of Senator Clinton borders on the pathlogical.
When she wins it is played down, and ignored,
when St. Obama wins, it's the Second Coming.
Obama gets a pass on everything, isn't asked
direct questions, he LIES over and over again,
and is NEVER called on it. He told us, "Lobbyists will NOT be in MY White House,"
the next day he changed it, "Lobbyists will
not DOMINATE MY White House," and no one called
him on it. He has done NOTHING for the people
of Illinois, except LIE to them, when he said,
"I will NOT run in 2008." He says, "I only
worked 5 hours for Rezko." Next day, he says,
he has known him for "20 years," and Rezko
was just arrested. If Hillary did any of these
things - there would be non-stop attacks.
Obama gets a pass - he is an empty suit.
He talks about how he would not have voted for
the War - YET HE KEEPS FUNDING IT - AND HE
HAS DONE NOTHING TO STOP IT - NO BILL HAS HIS
NAME ON IT. Are the American people so dumb
that can't see through his guy? If the
Democrats are dumb enough to nominate this
guy, then they deserve what they will get.

[vsign]

The clip of Obama on Good Morning America telling President Clinton - "We're going to have to sit down and have a talk about some things"

[apresdeluge]

Dan Abrams is absolutely right. The media loves to bash Hillary & Bill Clinton and have practically annointed Obama. Just read ObamaPost's headlines on any given day if you doubt it. I almost threw my shoe at the TV watching Sekoff insult the voters of Florida. All this talk about Obama being "unknown" and Hillary winning because of "name recognition". BS.

Hopefully, the American voting public has learned enough over the past 8 years to see through the media's delight in selecting our political leaders. They bashed Al Gore in 2000 and look what that got us into.

[RAVEN13]

Dan Abrams has a segment where he will cover
what the campaigns are doing and "call" them on
it. It is important because there is so much
bias in the coverage by the MSM. I would like
to see him add Craig Crawford to his panel
once in a while, along with Bill Press. The
rest of the usual suspects that appear, except
for Pat Buchanan, seem dedicated to annointing
Sen.Obama. Offering excuses for any questions
that are raised "for him". That won't help him
to win should he be the nominee. He can dene-
grate with flourishes Sen.Clinton. Her sub-
stance remains. Now, he's announced that he wants to decriminalize marijuana? He said the
opposite at one of the prior debates. Oops!
That'll work well in the red states. I wish
us in the end a unified party.