This…
… says more about the state of our media than a thousand blog posts, surveys, or studies could ever dream of doing.
Update: Jonathan Bydlak wrote to remind me that as bad as this video is, it still pales in comparison to the awe-inspiring :50 sec video of Obama talking on a cell phone on vacation. We should count ourselves fortunate that CNN was willing to tough it out to bring us this exclusive.
I suppose now we know why the major media was too busy to cover Dr. Paul?
May 8th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Of course…didn’t you know, this is Presidential Idol.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
I wish I were surprised by this, but I’m not. Really, there are no other issues to focus on, come on!
May 8th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
The jean’s picture fits right in with Obama’s sexual appeal to young females. The problem is how many in that population will be voting.
I read that Obama has a new pastor, one that seems at least as radical as Rev Wright and may cause the older voters to look elsewhere. I doubt the jeans picture will be very appealing to them.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
There is a major difference between Obama’s cult of personality vs Dr. Paul’s cult of principle. It makes me want to shake my head at all those deluded idiots who slobber over Obama like he’s Elvis the Second.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
This is exactly what our country has come down to . God help us.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Good thing we have the Communist News Network to keep us informed on breaking news in our world.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Well, there you have it. Obama in jeans, as attractive as any young Kennedy was, fifty years ago. McCain (presumptively) is toast.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
My stomach is still turning. When Dole was running for office, a friend and I were discussing who we were going to vote for that year. I didn’t like either the Dem. or the Republican, and I was curious about how my friend felt. She said that she could NEVER vote for Dole….. Because he looked funny and had a bad arm. I just couldn’t believe it. Considering this, I am not in the least bit surprised that women are voting for Obama because they think he is attractive, but I am TERRIBLY disgusted by it. Somebody, get me some pepto!
May 8th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
And they can’t say a peep about RP… Ugh!
May 8th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Alright that’s it, Lew Moore - get Paul out there with some tight jeans PRONTO!
May 8th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Oh, and about the 100,000 dead in Myanmar? We’ll have a 10 second blurb coming up at the bottom of the hour. But right now, LOOK! New footage of John McCain eating a hamburger at a greasy spoon in Biloxi! We’ll have our experts analyze this awesome new video for the next half hour!
Thanks, Wolf.
May 8th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
I, for one.. do not find Barrack attractive at all. He may not be hard to look at, but attractive..NO!! Ron Paul is much more so. And I am Barracks age. Ohhhh, The Audacity of Intellectualism..
May 8th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
And the media doesn’t have time to discuss issues that effect middle class America. This CNN video is much different than this spoof - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viVAAy_qkx0
May 8th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
should’ve said “This CNN video is NOT much different than this spoof” - I wish I could type better
May 8th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Adam LOL
May 8th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
You have got to be kidding me!!
What’s next? his wife on the cover of Maxim?
If this is all I’m going to get from cable, I think I’ll cancel the service.
Who paid for the plane he was on for vacation??
Dr Dave
May 8th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
I could have done without looking..Images stick like when he was danceing on Ellen. Very ****, but not what one needs to be focused on when going to the polls voting for the President of the United states.
**** can be found on MSM 24/7. Entertainment Tonight? or some substance and action for what ails this country? We need the good Doctor Paul!
May 8th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
I’m trying to decide which clip has the most throw-up appeal, this one, or the one of Bill Clinton’s remark when a woman fainted (from the heat) at his little speech the other day. He said he didn’t know he could still make people faint. Give me a break! And to think one of the two of those guys will probably end up in the White House, but by the grace of God.
May 8th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
A very eerie reminder of 911 as depicted by the movie and vacationing in the Virgin Islands???
May 8th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Hmmm….this just in (actual MSM headlines in the past 24 hours)
“Students scatter as car sails onto field”
“Stiletto-clad beauty queen seeks office”
“The comic books that horrified America”
“After gulping cars, trees, sinkhole may be full”
“‘Idol’ wannabe arrested”
“Best Buy moves to Europe”
“Clinton offers fainter water”
“Crop circles cause mystery”
“Mariah’s beautiful ballad”
“Mariah spills the beans on marriage”
“View: Who’s feuding with who, now?”
“Why ‘cleavage is the worst’ at work”
“What are the best car bargains out there?”
Anyone feeling more educated after that? Or are you doing what I am doing…fighting the nausea and looking for the Gravol?
Ugh.
BTW, I wrote a blog entry on the media a while back…stop by and have a read. Feel free to leave a comment
May 8th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Kind of like sending a clown to a funeral.
May 8th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Did anybody see Cafferty yesterday, he was acking like he was in love with Obama & saying Clinton should just get out the race now. Cafferty also said a few days ago that RP should just quit the race. I think Cafferty is a nut job. How much do theses people get paid to sit there on TV talking ****… I wonder. They all act like such experts, I can’t believe I use to like that stuff, I learned alot since I got to know the man, Ron Paul…. I can spot a phony a mile away now.
May 8th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I didn’t use the “S” word ther, it was a “c” word, not nasty….
May 8th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Great article in Huffington post: What John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He’s Fallen
“Through a spokesperson with the colorful name Tucker Bounds, McCain has denied telling me he didn’t vote for Bush in 2000. “It’s not true,” Bounds told the Washington Post, “and I ask you to consider the source.”
My sentiments exactly — because John McCain has a long history of issuing heartfelt denials of things that were actually true.
He denied ever talking with John Kerry about his leaving the GOP to be Kerry’s ‘04 running mate — then later admitted he had, insisting: “Everybody knows that I had a conversation.”
He denied admitting that he didn’t know much about economics, even though he’d said exactly that to the Wall Street Journal. And the Boston Globe. And the Baltimore Sun.
He denied ever having asked for a budget earmark for Arizona, even though he had. On the record.
He denied that he’d ever had a meeting with comely lobbyist Vicki Iseman and her client Lowell Paxon, even though he had. And had admitted it in a legal deposition.
And those are just the outright denials. He’s also repeatedly tried to spin away statements he regretted making (see: 100-year war, Iraq was a war for oil, etc.).
So, yes, by all means, “consider the source.”
Original Post: At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, I was talking to a man and his wife, both prominent Republicans. The conversation soon turned to the new president. “I didn’t vote for George Bush” the man confessed. “I didn’t either,” his wife added. Their names: John and Cindy McCain (Cindy told me she had cast a write-in vote for her husband).
The fact that this man was so angry at what George Bush had done to him, and at what Bush represented for their party, that he did not even vote for him in 2000 shows just how far he has fallen since then in his hunger for the presidency. By abandoning his core principles and embracing Bush — both literally and metaphorically — he has morphed into an older and crankier version of the man he couldn’t stomach voting for in 2000.”
The rest is here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/what-john-mccain-told-me_b_100183.html
May 8th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Library of Congress declassified some interesting information
The Bush Family are Nazi’s
YouTube - Nazi financing by the Bush family
May 9th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Obama is attractive? He looks like JimJim from Speed Racer.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:01 am
Hey wait a min… I wear jeans, Obama wears jeans, we wear jeans he has my vote now, thank you CNN if it wasn’t for you guys posting videos of news reporters giggling because Obama wearing jeans I would never have known what it is like to have Obama fever “Yes we can wear A&F clothing, Yes we can wear jeans, and yes we can use cell phones during a plane flight” I now have hope that I can be brain washed into thinking America can change, for the better or worse it does not matter since change is change with a silver spoon full of hope
May 9th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Obama Fever apparently effects your ability to think for yourself. Fortunately this condition can be cured by the doctor - Go Ron Paul.
May 9th, 2008 at 8:13 am
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24533311/
May 9th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Off Subject, but following above comments about McCain voting for Bush: Last night on O’Reilly, he laughed when O’Reilly said it’s been stated that he said he didn’t vote for Bush. Then McCain said that of course, he voted for Bush, both times, and helped in his campaign, and that he had never said he didn’t vote for Bush. (I have to wonder if he really even remembers whether he did or didn’t!)
May 9th, 2008 at 9:48 am
This appears to be a follow up piece to the riveting and indepth US Weekly article in which Senator Obama, when pressed, refused to indicated his preference for boxers or briefs, although he did say something to the effect of “Whichever one it is, I look good in them.”
Things to come: “A Very Special Oprah” in which Nate Berkus redecorates the White House.
May 9th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Amazing. I can’t wait until the bring us the exlcusive coverage of Obama flossing his teeth. Do you think he does it patriotically enough?
May 9th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Marilyn, I was at the Bill Clinton speach you mentioned, holding my Ron Paul sign where the person fainted. I have to admit it was a funny moment. I tell you what, I will volunteer to faint for Ron Paul if it gets him some primetime coverage. I’ll say I swooned for the Constitution or something like that.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:12 am
I was working around the house the other day, with the “news” on in the background, and I heard a lead in to a story claiming that the voters will not vote for a candidate with ugly, crooked, or yellowing teeth. According to the media, then, Ron Paul is very much in the race…. I’m so glad that the citizenry uses the real issues to determine whom they will vote for. I’ve not noticed how Obama’s teeth look; is he still in the race?
May 9th, 2008 at 11:14 am
All I can say is Thank You Dr. Paul. You have taken the high road, you have not complained in the face of adversity, strengthened your core group of followers, and gained additional supporters with your consistent message and candor with America. You have not resorted to “politics as usual” and have inspired over a million of atrophied American citizens. The blood is now flowing in your supporters and the momentum is gaining. Thank you, thank you, and thank you.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
I SECOND THAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 9th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
I watched this video 3 times because I thought that I was supposed to find something shocking or significant about it. Then I read the comments on this blog. Then I laughed!!!!!
May 9th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Heather D states taht she is “sit in her stomach” because a friend stated years ago that she would not vote for Dole “because he had a bad arm.” Heather is concerned that women may vote for a candidtate because he “is attractive.” News for Heather D: Women have been voting for candidates in the presidential elections for years based on the candidates attractiveness. Two in mind, John Kennedy & Bill Clinton. This is statistical fact. Issues do not matter!! Hence, the women support for Obama.. Sad, but true!!
May 9th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Good God. Obama in jeans. Who cares. Gimme a break..
May 9th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Steve F: That is so true unfortunatley but luckily we have quite a few gals here supporting Ron Paul. There is some hope.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Off Topic
I am thinking that if Ron Paul doesn’t get the nomination that is not all bad. By staying in the GOP race we are given the best platform possible to get the freedom message out to the voters. Now that Chuck Baldwin is a candidate…lets say he chooses the Judge or Jessie as VP that would leave Dr Paul in Congress doing what he does best. We would then have 3 Patriotic men in DC fighting for the Constitution. That makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over.
May 10th, 2008 at 1:51 am
I’m so voting for Obama now. He’s dreamy.
May 10th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
My husband attended University of Florida for their top rated Journalism School… I asked him if they would have ever covered or talked about this kind of bs in their classes - of course he said no. He had a cow when Katie Couric wore white on her debute on CBS evening news… a cardnal sin of the journalism world wearing white on a broad cast… Journalism is just based on sensationalism and ratings these days… Presidential Idol is right on… which will be voted off next!?!
May 11th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Wow, I wear bluejeans all the time and look good in them. Should I run for president anybody? I might win all the female voters and then drop out and endorse Ron Paul.
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY, ESPECIALLY TO MY MOTHER, WHO, I MIGHT ADD, VOTED FOR RON PAUL!!
May 11th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
You know this will sound crazy, but maybe our founding fathers knew what they were doing when they said only 3% of the population could vote. Who had to be a property owner, be white, practice a certain religion, and be of the male gender.
I know that we should not try to make all of those rules again, but hey, maybe our founders knew what they were doing. Only 3% of the population could vote and you got George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. Now everybody can vote and we get Obama, Hillary, and Mccain.
I’m just running my mouth though, and I’m glad we can all vote. Ron Paul needs to be able to get his message out to the masses, and we have to help him.
My ratnings are not meant to be taken as fact, because I can see how only allowing a few people to vote would lead to tyranny. However, I just wanted to say something radical and get some debate going.
May 11th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
JoshualAL: I know what you mean. It’s so frustrating to talk to voters who have no clue for what the candidates they support really stand. I think we should have a test in place to qualify voters before they can be eligible to vote. I used to listen to David Brudnoy on am talk radio all the time (he passed away) and he was a big supporter of making people take tests in order to vote. He was also a Libertarian and all for following the Constitution. I’m sure he would have supported Ron Paul now too if he was around.
May 11th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
JoshuaAL:
I’m glad we all vote but if there were requirements added to be eligible to vote, it should be a minimum amount of knowledge about the U.S. Constitution.
May 11th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
JoshuaAL, Karen & Scott
I’ve been advocating a voter competency test for years!!! I don’t think voting should be limited to only white-male-christian-property-owners, though. I think voting eligibility should be determined by a potential voter’s knowledge of the documents that govern our government.
If you can’t identify the powers granted to the federal gov’t by the Constitution, you can’t vote for US Rep, US Senator, or President. If you can’t identify the powers granted to your state gov’t by your state’s Constitution, you can’t vote for State Rep, State Senator, Governor, or any other statewide races.
The practice of creating dependent voters through government aid needs to stop.
May 11th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Well said JoshuaIN.
May 12th, 2008 at 12:21 am
True beauty and attractiveness comes from an inner glow, which people that are happy, altruistic, wise, truthful and sincere have. Ron Paul possesses this glow.
Obama is merely an empty shell spouting rhetoric and a thinly concealed bitterness; I see nothing there. How shallow this society is, to judge people for their outside appearance as if this were a prom king & queen or beauty pageant!
May 12th, 2008 at 10:19 am
Heather, I sent you an email. I am mailing out your signed book today or tomorrow!
May 12th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
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