Monday, October 20, 2008

MULLINGS.COM Rich Galen nails it again.....

(UPDATE: HERE IS A BIG SURPRISE (not): Thanks, Always on Watch and Gayle..... Another BIG SURPRISE...Liberal talkshow host Ed Schultz is saying how "Reasoned and excellent Powell's reasons for supporting Obama are" !! )

Here's RICH GALEN'S excellent column: (my two cents are at the end, as usual!)

Yesterday, the National Broadcasting Company buried the memory of Tim Russert by turning Meet the Press into a campaign event for Barack Obama.

People connected with the Sunday talk shows - producers, bookers, hosts, etc. - understand that they get measured, not on whether they shed light on the shadows within the folds of complex issues, but whether they make news.

That is, does something said on Sunday show up on the front pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post on Monday. To do that, the Sunday shows spend a great deal of time and effort getting the guest or guests most likely to make news. It even has a name: "The Get." As in, "Meet the Press" had The Get when they booked Colin Powell to be on yesterday's program.

As soon as word leaked out that Powell was going to be on "Meet" it was assumed that he would be endorsing Obama. Why else would he be on? To discuss bilateral relations between the U.S. and Chad?

(Dear Mr. Mullings:
Am I mistaken, or did Chris Wallace have John McCain as his guest on Fox News Sunday? Isn't that a campaign event on behalf of McCain by Fox?
There is a difference between having an actual candidate on to defend his or her record and positions and having Colin Powell spending the first half of the show endorsing Obama - without a countervailing supporter of John McCain on at the same time. I'm still not so sure. I am. If NBC wanted to demonstrate "fairness" (keep that word in mind as we head into the era of an all-Democrat Washington) they would have had Joe Lieberman on with Powell - a Democrat who is voting for McCain.)

Powell claimed that race had nothing to do with his announcement; saying if that were the basis of his decision to endorse Obama he could have done it months ago. He said he was disturbed by the continued Conservative bent of the Republican Party. Yeah, right. Do you think that NBC would have booked Warren Christopher to announce he was voting for McCain if Christopher thought the Democrats were veering too far to the left? (Z: Juan Williams, this morning, says "Rush is right....this endorsement is all about race")

If the Republican Party were lurching to the right, Mike Huckabee would be the nominee, not "centrist" John McCain.
And, by the way, when he was climbing his way up through the Washington, DC power vines:
Powell was appointed National Security Advisor by Ronald Reagan. Pretty conservative, by most accounts.
He was nominated to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by George H.W. Bush. Moderate, in most people's thinking.

He was nominated to be Secretary of State by President George W. Bush. Certainly to 41's right.
And how did the Democratic Party treat Colin Powell when, say, Bill Clinton was President? PBS quotes Dick Morris on the relationship between Clinton and Powell prior to the 1996 re-election campaign as follows:

"Clinton was apoplectic on the subject of Colin Powell, terrified of Colin Powell. For three months, all he could think about was Colin Powell. And he would talk about the press giving Powell a free ride, that the press is promoting Powell's candidacy."

Was the party ideology claim challenged by Tom Brokaw? No. Of course not, because NBC and a significant proportion of the main stream media believes it to be true.

NBC will "win" this week's Sunday Talk Show Sweepstakes. In fact on both ABC's "This Week" and Fox's "Fox News Sunday" George Stephanopoulos and Chris Wallace brought up Powell's endorsement on their shows. It will certainly be on the front page of the Times, the Post and every other newspaper this morning.

When Tim Russert hosted the show, he was tough on every guest - Republican or Democrat. The new "Meet the Press" is an FEC investigation waiting to happen. (Z: Tim Russert deserved better than this)

On the Secret Decoder Ring page today: Links to "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and that Dick Morris quote. A Housing Crisis Mullfoto from New York City the other day and a Housing Crisis Catchy Caption of the Day.
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Z: Please check out Rich's column, Mullings.com...you get it delivered to your internet door Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. You don't have to bend over to pick it up when you go out to walk your dog, and it's more honest than that thing you really ought to just kick out of your way instead of reading it. You've seen Rich interviewed on FOX, CNN, MSNBC and other stations.......you'll like getting his column. I promise. One of the things he's done in his career in Conservative politics was Press Secretary to Newt Gingrich. Rich is always fair.


z

10 comments:

Ducky's here said...

Possibly Lieberman isn't news. He's been pictured with McCain so often that his endorsement is already "priced in" to McCain's campaign, so to speak.

You have to live with Powell since Republicans built that image during his tenure with Bush and while it won't have much impact per se it does keep the spotlight on Obama for a few days while the campaign is real short time.

The more the endorsement is talked about, regardless of what is said, the more it will help Obama.

Thanks Rush

Z said...

Ducky, "Republicans built that image"? A GENERAL who can't build his own image through what he says or does? odd. Maybe that says more about Powell than anything any of us could have said?

yes, the Obama people kicked Joe the Plumber down with ridiculous slams like "he hasn't paid his taxes" "he has no license" , when none, absolutely NONE of that applied to his QUESTION. But, he DEIGNED to ask THE OBAMA a question and the OBAMA didn't like it so..."GET HIM!"
The Obama-puppeteers knew that the GREAT PUPPET had goofed in mentioning (gasp!) redistribution of wealth again! and so the media chided them (very little but this is where the clamor went) for being mean to poor ol' Joe...TOPIC FORGOTTEN. OBAMA COVERED AGAIN BY YOUR MEDIA, DUCK! Brilliant! REDISTRIBUTION was out of the news....again.

If only lies and deception and obfuscation and nastiness were all one needs in a president,huh?

You should have read Rich's column....Lieberman SHOULD HAVE BEEN ASKED TO DEBATE POWELL, to discuss the situation from ALL SIDES....an odd concept for leftist media, I know, but still...you'd think they'd TRY?

Thanks Rush, yes...he finally got the truth out. And he's backed by Black leftist journalist Juan Williams.

Good stuff!!!

Granny Annie said...

So do you keep Ducky around to try to be fair and balanced? I can't think of a single talk show that has featured Lieberman for the majority of their program.

Z said...

GRANNY, I keep him around so his feathers don't get too ruffled!

Brooke said...

Redistribution of the news.. *snort*

:)

Anonymous said...

Liberal talkshow host Ed Schultz is saying how "Reasoned and excellent Powell's reasons for supporting Obama are"

Now there's a typical liberal for ya. Since Powell is black, Ed (your modern "progressive" liberal) finds it "amazing" that Powell could "reason" his way into voting FOR Obama.

But everyone knows that anybody can reason. It's Powell's purported "excellence" in reasoning, which is, IMO, questionable. Especially since Powell's "personal" and therefore subjective interest in the matter would appear to lie in the direction of making an Obama endorsement.

Now had Powell reasoned "against" his own personal interest, THAT, IMO, would have been a better indicator as to the "excellence" of Powell's reasoning. But since Powell and Obama's interests would appear to move hand in glove, we'll need to wait until the future to find an example of Powell's purported "excellence" in reasoning. After all, the last time Powell reasoned for his "subjective interests," he was rather roundly criticized by the likes of Ed Schulz...

Anonymous said...

Excellent reasoning or self-interested reasoning. You decide.

Z said...

Right, FJ....I posted that BIG SURPRISE of Obama suggesting Powell will have a say in his administration at the top of this great Galen column...you are SO right about this...Self interest..

no doubt about it.

Average American said...

Let's see, we have a military poll showing every category but one backing McCain by a landslide, that one exception being black Americans. We have Washington D.C. polling about 75%-90% for NOBAMA. And now we have Colin Powell, a man for whom I had tremendous respect until a couple days ago, endorsing NOBAMA. SURPRISE!!!!! Is there a short explanation for all these occurances?? YES!!

RACISM!!!

REVERSE DISCRIMINATION!!!

A blind allegiance to the messiah based on his skin color instead of his substance. And they have "The Audacity" to call our side racist??

What a crock of shit!!

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Stop making hay over Powell's endorsement.

It's not like he had an inexperienced liberal white guy to endorse instead.