[StBernard] Camp Followers

[Westley Annis]

Call them exactly what they are:  media whores.

The only ones I watch now in the MSM are Lou Dobbs on CNN and Mornin' Joe.
Now on Joe, if I could get rid of Mika (my Daddy was Carter's Nat. Sec.
Adviser) Brzezinski and then little coconut-Willie Geist.  

I love it when Joe or Pat B. start getting wound up on the Dems or the media
and you can see little Mika starting to pout with that pissed off look on
her face.  Mika should have been removed or restrained from commenting on
anything about this prez race since her Daddy is advising the Big O.

And I really can't get started on Campbell Brown.

I really can't believe Joe is still on MSNBarrackobama, but the $$$s have
gotta be good.

JY




	
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	Camp Followers 
	by Patrick J. Buchanan (more by this author)
	Posted 10/24/2008 ET
	
	
	
	
	Perhaps the only institution in America whose approval rating is
beneath
	that of Congress is the media. 
	     
	Both have won their reputations the hard way. They earned them.
	     
	Consider the fawning indulgence shown insider Joe Biden with the
dripping
	contempt visited on outsider Sarah Palin. 
	     
	Twice last weekend, Biden grimly warned at closed-door meetings that
a great
	crisis is coming early in the term of President Obama:
	     
	"Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests
Barack
	Obama like they did John Kennedy. ... Remember I said it standing
here if
	you don't remember anything else I said . we're gonna have an
	international
	crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."
	     
	A
	 "generated crisis"? By whom? Moscow? Beijing? Teheran? 
	     
	This is an astonishing statement from a chairman of the Foreign
Relations
	Committee who has access to the same intelligence as George Bush.
Joe was
	warning of a crisis like the Berlin Wall of July 1961, where JFK
called for
	a tripling of the draft and ordered a call-up of reserves, or the
missile
	crisis where U.S. pilots like John McCain were minutes away from
bombing
	nuclear missile sites in Cuba and killing the Russians manning them.
	     
	Is Russia about to move on the Crimea? Is Israel about to launch air
strikes
	on Iran's nuclear sites? What is Joe talking about? 
	     
	If one assumes Joe is a serious man, we have a right to know. 
	     
	Instead, what we got was Obama's airy dismissal of Joe's words as a
	"rhetorical flourish" and a media -- rather than demanding that Joe
	hold a
	press conference -- acting as Obama surrogates parroting the
	 talking points
	that Joe was just saying that new presidents always face tests.
	     
	Had John McCain made that hair-raising statement, he would have been
accused
	of fear mongering about a new 9/11. The media would have run with
the story
	rather than have smothered it.
	     
	Contrasting McCain with his hero, Joe declared a few weeks back,
"When the
	stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television
and ...
	said, 'Look, here's what happened.'" 
	     
	Nice historical reference. Except when the market crashed in 1929,
Hoover
	was president, and there was no television.
	     
	Can one imagine what the press would have done to Sarah Palin had
she
	exhibited such ignorance of history. Or Dan Quayle?
	     
	Joe gets a pass because everybody likes Joe. 
	     
	Fine. But Joe also has a record of 36 years in the Senate.
	     
	Has anyone ever asked Joe about his own and his party's role in
	 cutting off
	aid to South Vietnam, leading to the greatest strategic defeat in
U.S.
	history and the Cambodian holocaust? Has anyone ever asked Joe about
the
	role he and his party played in working to block Reagan's deployment
of
	Pershing missiles in Europe, and SDI, which Gorbachev concedes broke
the
	Soviets and won the Cold War? 
	    
	In the most crucial vote he ever cast -- to give Bush a blank check
for war
	in Iraq -- Joe concedes he got it wrong. 
	
	Is Joe's record of having been wrong on Vietnam, wrong in the Cold
War,
	wrong on the Iraq War, less important than whether Sarah Palin tried
to get
	fired a rogue-cop brother-in-law who Tasered her 10-year old nephew
to
	"teach him a lesson"?
	    
	"I've forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues
	know,"
	says Joe humbly. Given his record, it is understandable Joe has
forgotten so
	much of it. 
	     
	Saturday, the New York Times did
	 a takeout on Cindy McCain that delved back
	into her problem with prescription pills. Yet when Hillary's
campaign
	manager, Mark Penn, brought up Obama's cocaine use on "Hardball,"
	he was
	savaged by folks for whom the Times is the gold standard. 
	     
	The people apparently had a "right to know" of Bush's old DUI
	arrest a week
	before the 2000 election, but no right to know about how and when
Obama was
	engaged in the criminal use of cocaine.
	    
	The media cannot get enough of the "Saturday Night Live"
	impersonations of
	Palin as a bubblehead. News shows pick up the Tina Fey clips and run
them
	and run them to the merriment of all. 
	     
	Can one imagine "Saturday Night Live" doing weekly send-ups of
	Michelle
	Obama and her "I've never been proud" of my country, this
	"just downright
	mean" America, using a black comedienne to mimic and mock her voice
and
	accent?
	     
	"Saturday Night Live"
	 would be facing hate crime charges.
	     
	How do we know? When the New Yorker ran a cartoon of Michelle in an
	Angela-Davis afro with an AK-47 slung over her shoulder, New Yorker
editors
	had to go on national television to swear they were not mocking
Michelle,
	but the conservatives who have so caricatured Michelle and The
Messiah. 
	     
	Is there a media double standard? You betcha. 
	
	
	Mr. Buchanan is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of
Churchill,
	Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and
	the West
	Lost the World, "The Death of the West,", "The Great
	Betrayal," "A Republic,
	Not an Empire" and "Where the Right Went Wrong."