Clinton-Obama Debate and the Demise of Broadcast Journalism

Hilary: "Good Job George, just like we discussed before the debate, How ya been since our 90's daze?"

While the above Hilary quote under the picture of the Democratic candidates and the ABC Pennsylvania Debate moderators is as ficticious as the cartoon captions in the New Yorker magazine, the sentament is that this Debate was made for Hilary. Maybe the two moderators did not wish to be given the distinction of always giving Hilary the first question as she remarked in a previous debate moderated by NBC's Brian Williams and Tim Russert.

Columinist for the Washington Post Colbert King in the April 19th editorial section described the attacks against Senator Barack Obama in three simple points:

1. Democrat Hilary and Republican McCain are a tag team against Senator Obama labeling him "Out of Touch" and "Elilist". These are two qualities that have categorized Hilary and McCain throughout their respectively brief and extensive political careers.

2. Discredit the front runner by associating him as with someone who is strongly disliked.

3. Cast the front-runner as uppity, but inexperienced, as a Black man has never been here before.

With the Pennsylvania Democratic debate behind us, the 'debate' also looms about the swift demise of Broadcast Journalism. Critiques -- from reporters and viewers -- about the first hour of the debate were a high negative, where absolutely nothing about issues about the American people were discussed. ABC moderators dumbed down to the level of cable news channels hosts. The non-Journalist George Stephanopoulos (former Clintonite) thought that his questions were "tough". May be 'Tough' in another setting, but not a Presidential debate. Shows you how il-trained that George really is, believing that the "all things go" news environment here in the 21st. century is Broadcast Journalism. According to fellow blogger Jason Linkins of the Huffington Post, Linkins writes that the Philadelphia debate, prior to the Pennsylvania primary, was the absolute worst debate ever! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/16/worst-debate-ieveri_n_97125.html

Hilary Clinton looked quite comfortable with the conflict-ridden debate and took her sweet time responding slap-handedly to the many bashing questions addressed to Senator Obama by George and Charles. It is unfortunate that now the major free TV network news programs have joined the cable news channels by supporting Hilary for fear of being singled out by the Clintons and the Clintons' croonies. If news hosts criticize the Clintons not to the satisfaction of the Clinton campaign, then news reporters and hosts livlihood are threatened by either the Clintons themselves or Clinton support groups. Suspensions, forced apologies, or outright firings are normally the result of going over the Clintons line. So what do they instead do, they choose to bash-Obama.

We are now in a Broadcast Journalism environment where "conflict" stories, far surpass "substance and fairness" issues. Today you would think that Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Nancy Grace, Anderson Cooper, Chris Matthews, and George Stephanopoulos are the news show's guests and not the host. These cable news commentator/editorialist preach their own agenda and go as far as disagreeing angrily to get a rise out of the listerer. They routinely cut-off, and dismiss the specialty guests' opinions as mutepoints, overshadowed by their own attention deflecting versions, hostily presented as the moral truth.

"You know over the last several weeks since she fell behind, she's resorted to what's called 'kitchen sink' strategies," Obama said, per ABC News' Sunlen Miller. "She's got the kitchen sink flying, and the china flying, and the, you know, the buffet is coming at me.
"And, you know, look, I come from Chicago, I know politics is hard, you know, it's not for the feint of heart, I understand that," Obama continued. "But when we end up involved in these constant distractions, these petty, trivial slash-and-burn, back-and-forth, tit-for-tat politics so that we no longer talk about the things that the American people care about, that may be good for the television ratings, but it's not good for you."

The Philly debate was a tag team performance between Hilary http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/john-mccain-should-go-on_b_96577.html, her former employee George Stephenopoulus, and ABC's evening news anchor Charles Gibson. But even with Hilary advantaged format bashing-Obama party in the debate, that is not good enough for Hilary. Hilary also believes that people are stealing her rightful Presidential crown away from her. While Hilary brags of winning big states, Hilary condemns organizations like moveon.org for losing "all" of her caucuses...including Texas. In Texas, because of Obama winning the caucus portion of the unique Texas's Caucus-Primary, Senator Obama was the overall delegate victor in Texas. Hilary went accused moveon.org of being against the invasion of Afghanistan. But again, Hilary was caught up in another lie by somehow thinking that no one would check her statements as in the Bosnia lie. It was the Republicans that made the same claim against moveon.org 'years' ago. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/celeste-fremon/clinton-slams-democratic_b_97484.html.

Hilary's right to the presidency continues to be marred by lies; Hilary attempts to persuade the American voters with a nasty character assassination campaign against Senator Barack Obama; flip-flopping; and Hilary's witch-hunting campaign against all Broadcast Journalists that criticize Ms. Hilary. She flip floped her viewpoint again following the Philadelphia by cruelly stating that if "Senator Obama can't take the heat then he should get out of the kitchen, a place that I am comfortable in". Again, many do recall that Hilary stated that she is not a "kitchen person that bake cookies", when the question was asked to her directly early in the campaign. Again Hilary which one is it? Are you a kitchen person or not?

The Clintons seem to think a Kennedy-like legacy is theirs to behold. No way! Everyone -- but the Clintons -- knows that Hilary and Bill are no where near the Kennedy legacy. In fact, Bill Clinton came on the scene after twelve years of a failed Reagon-Bush1 regime. The Green Party or Ralph Nadar could have beaten the next Republican Presidential candidate in 1992. Bill Clinton's 'triangulation' campaign strategy was not even necessary. Bill Clinton (centrist, closer to the right -- Dixiecrat) continued the Republican-Big Business sentiments with Bill's continuation of Reagon's deregulation strategies signing major bill after bill that have placed American labor movements, Women, and Children between a rock and a hard plate. Homeless, unable to afford health care, more Americans in prison than any other time in history, borders opened up wider, outsourcing factories/jobs, and costs have gone up while wages have gone down.

*The Telecommunications Bill signed by Clinton removed power from the people and into mega-corporations hands.

*Clintons' Maximum-Minimum bill -- a predecessor to the three strikes propositions -- placed more Americans in jail than in anytime in the history of our country. USA is now the world leader in this respect. The further privatizing of the prison system allows investors to 'own shares' of Wall Street companies that built and operate the 'modern' prisons.

*The stringent welfare reform bill that Clinton signed was pre-mature leading to an epidemic in homeless women and children with an increase in babies without health care.

*The dreaded NAFTA signed by Bill Clinton that the north are all too familiar. NAFTA has eliminated both jobs and factories complete with company tax breaks.

What you really need to research is why both Hilary and Bill supported segregationist campaigns in the 1960's (Segregationist Arkansas Senator Fulbright and Arizona Senator Goldwater - against the civil rights bill) illustated in a previous blog http://kirktanter.blogspot.com/2008_01_21_archive.html. Are the Clintons claim that Senator Barack Obama is "unelectable" against John McCain in the general election a code word for 'a Black man can't win the Presidency?' The Clintons have already used other direct code words and phrases. Just off the top my head we heard from Bill in South Carolina after a sound defeat by Hilary to Senator Obama that "Jesse Jackson also won South Carolina" -- twenty years ago. Another Bill Clinton blast from the recent past is: "Barack Obama's campaign is the biggest Fairy Tale I've ever seen." And it was Hilary that stated "It was a President in Lyndon Johnson that made the Civil Rights Bill possible" disrespecting all civil rights leaders and their constituency. In a recent debate Hilary pressured "Obama to denounce and reject Minister Louis Farrakhan and Reveverd Jeremiah Wright."

Funny that Hilary should demand denounciation by Obama yet she belongs to an extreme right-wing religion with mostly conservatives members commonly known as "Family". Google that one. Hilary is also back by Ann Coulter, and Geraldine Ferraro, but will not denounce nor reject their support.http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=33772760&postID=1922334751763361234 http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=33772760&postID=5440926606989602986. Have the Clinton changed over to the Democratic party because they could not win if they remained Republicans? Are they true Democrats or Democrats for conveinence? The Clintons have made race-baiting comments against Senator Obama since January. I would not be surprised if Hilary's 'unelectable' comments against Obama's chances in the general Presidential election is also a "race-baiting" statement to steer the white vote away from the Illinois Senator then and now.

The Democratic Party, Howard Dean, and Nancy Pelosi must be flabbergasted that Hilary would state that Hilary and a Republican John McCain are the only ones in the race ready to be President. McCain? The Clintons here speak more highly of a dreaded competitor than the Black man within the same party. Howard Dean and his DNC committee had all the candidates sign an agreement that Michigan and Florida delegates would not count due to the two states not following the rules of the DNC. You would have to think that Dean is pissed at the Clinton challenge after Hilary signed the paperwork, when she thought that the Democratic nomination was just a formality for her. Hilary did not expect to outclass, out raise her in money, and have more delegates now than she. Now that she is losing bad, she is doing anything to get power back, inclusive of legal threats to seat delegates from Florida and Michigan. I think this is why Howard Dean is pushing for the super-delegates to decide whom they support before July 1st.. Dean wants to get the Clintons out of here quickly, with fears of a divided party at the Convention.

In closing, despite the Clintons multiple attempts to scare White voters from Senator Barack Obama, the last time I checked, Senator Obama is waxing both Hilary's and Bill's collective asses in an 'elite' manner. If that Presidential chair was fitted for Hilary's bubble butt, I think it is high time for the oak-velvet diamond trimmed recliner be re-sized for a slimmer buttock. In accordance to the Clintons' supposed legacy, whomever can beat them wins. In essense, how can the Clintons have the nerve to think that the current leader of the pack Senator Obama is not electable? Obama has more delegates, more votes, after 40 of the 50 States have had their say. Most able Democratic Party minds are begging Hilary Clinton to resign and forward her delegates to Senator Barack Obama, especially if she loses or barely wins in Pennsylvania. Hilary should get on the bus with the African-American Senator from Illinois to begin the tough campaign against the Republicans. The Republicans are coming together and uniting behing McCain right now. Please stop the bleeding Hilary and the end your failed Democratic nomination campaign. Hilary has done a good job at proving to the voter that she is not worthy of becoming the first woman President of the United States. She is not alone in this distinction, as Gerraldine Ferraro also proved that she was not worthy of being the first female Vice-President. Women have finally come to realize that Hilary does not properly represent them.