MSNBC has just declared that

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the question of Obama's "involvement" with the Blago scandal "is not going to go away any time soon".

Displaying chyron: "PE Obama endorsed Blago in 2006, despite rumors of illegal acts". They've had it up for several minutes now.


Fuck them.

[ErinBerin84]

1. Obama said he is positive no talk of deals went on

and that he would share the talks that DID occur in the next couple of days...but this is not soon enough for Mark Whitaker, because Obama said they were still "gathering facts"...so this MUST mean they are still not sure! And that this story is not going away!

[deaniac21]

2. Rightwingers!

[me b zola]

18. Wrongwingers!

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. If the news channel has information to share, then it should share it with us now,

instead of trying to go on a fishing expedition, or worse, intentionally trying to weigh down the Obama Administration with yellow journalism.

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6. I am consumed by unmeasurable rage right now! n/t

[glinda]

12. Sick of the Media

not quoting sources and making blanket and hyper statements. The Republicans will do everything they can to take the Illinois seat, make sure Obama gets smeared and looses public trust or doesn't even get into office. He better watch his back big time. I am sick of the Republicans not working for the people to solve issues but instead grabbing every opportunity to "win" at any cost. I am sick over the crisis we face and their indifference to the Environment and hand outs to their wealthy buddies. They search for "minority" candidates now and take the American public for stupid. I am sick that Bush is not in prison.

[still_one]

4. CNN and the whole MSM are doing the same thing, even though they know Obama

had nothing to do with this

Compare that to what the MSM has done the last 8 years, and it is imperative that the communications act of the nineties be reversed

[WI_DEM]

5. Whatever, they will find nothing on him. Of course he endorsed him and so did most IL dems.

[bdamomma]

7. well again the media is showing their true colors

of being a$$holes. Nothing new.

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10. This has got to stop! People are falling for their bullshit and it is

endangering the President-elect's life!

[LynneSin]

8. Well there's the story - what has been manufactured by the media

How can this be the same channel that puts Keith and Rachel on primetime baffles my mind.

[blondeatlast]

9. I'm sick to death of idle speculation being "news." Got proof--tell us.

Otherwise STOP TRYING TO CREATE THE NEWS.

Thank God the internet has made them irrelevant.

[Captain Hilts]

11. They don't really have Hillary to kick around these days. So, they have to make up shit about Obama

[Mugweed]

13. By that logic...

Someone on the Stephanie Miller show just said that Sarah Palin should resign because of her relationship with Ted Stevens. I wonder if any of the MSM will pick up on that idea? Not holding my breath.

[gratuitous]

14. Awfully thoughty of them to let us know

Translation for those of you not quite clued in: "In spite of the lack of any evidence, we intend to keep puffing this story because reporting on anything else is sooooo boring or soooo depressing."

Who's that Tom Tomorrow kid? Boy detective Encyclopedia Brown or something? Has the nebbish "liberal" assistant named Moonbat? This has all the earmarks of a case for the boy detective!

[Junkdrawer]

15. Obama's doing what they want, and the Corporate Media wants to keep it that way....

4 years of playing Defense

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

16. Charlie Gibson ABC.... paraphrasing.. who on Obama's staff told Blago there was no deal and why

hasn't that person been named. Why has it gone on so long? Gibson then says, I guess they want to get their ducks in a row.

Corporate Media are poisoning the people's minds with inuendo.

[ErinBerin84]

17. oh god, we don't even know for sure that

someone on the Obama team TOLD them that there was no deal. The gov could have just gotten the impression from the advisor's tone, or that the advisor never brought something up. Or the fact that the Obama team was generally staying away from the gov with a TEN FOOT POLE! These talking heads are not too bright.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

23. Didn't Rahm tell the Feds about this? That is public knowledge. He was most likely

the one approached and the FBI wanted more "meat" before busting Blago.

[ErinBerin84]

27. I don't know

I think the Rahm stuff was confirmed to be just a rumor, and Obama said that neither he, nor anyone on his team, has been contacted or interviewed by the feds.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

28. Ok. I just did a quick search and it seems that it has been rumored and denied that

Rahm tipped off the Feds. Thanks for your response. :hi:

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20. THAT is exactly my point! They are poisoning minds! IT HAS TO STOP! n/t

[CrispyQ]

19. Sigh.

I realize there is never going to be a time when I'm not pissed off at the media. This is just the beginning. It's going to be a long 4-8 years.

Even if there isn't anything of substance on Obama, they will try & they will make a big stink about every little thing. And when it's proven that what they were stinking about is nothing, they will go on to the next manufactured stink, without any acknowledgment about what shits they are & their role in creating the stink. :grr: :grr: :grr:

What was done to Clinton was nothing less than a witch hunt & the media cheered it on.

http://www.thehuntingofthepresident.com/

[CitizenPatriot]

21. ratings whores

they know it's nothing

britney got her act together so they gotta drum up drama

how sad. we need to get our fourth estate together. if these guys want to be entertainment shows, fine - but we need a real fourth estate whose job it is to inform the people, not to get ratings.

what about the serious issues going on that they are not even reporting on? Lemming losers.

[LSK]

22. OMG HUGH!!! THE DEMOCRATIC SENATOR SUPPORTS THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR

WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT?!?!??!?!?!?

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24. Of course it would have been better had Obama deferred an

endorsement under the circumstances. The chyron was put up, though, to enflame opinion against Obama.

[LSK]

26. Did Durbin also endorse the Democratic Governor of his state???

Maybe hes dirty as hell too...

:sarcasm:

[deaniac21]

25. Five year investigation. We will never hear the end of it.

[ecstatic]

29. Is it time for an email campaign/boycott? nt