Hollywood Media: In. The. Tank.
Posted by Dirty Harry on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Barack’s cover could’ve just as easily read; Rezko, Ayers, & Racist Church.
Who knew there was room in the tank for the Hollywood media with 99% of the MSM in there?
Hat tip: Malkin
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Jack Marinoon 02 Sep 2008 at 10:16 pm 1Keep throwing the rocks, mad dogs and watch us win a Republican sweep. Keep pouring it on….
wanketteon 02 Sep 2008 at 10:16 pm 2GET OUT OF MY HEAD, HARRY. I just posted that in the last thread…All courtesy that douchebag Jann Wenner.
The Ugly Americanon 02 Sep 2008 at 10:18 pm 3Good grief…could they have possibly made her look just a tad more serial mom crazy?
wanketteon 02 Sep 2008 at 10:22 pm 4I’m having a tough time tonight loving my enemies & praying for those who would persecute me.
Vincent Wongon 02 Sep 2008 at 10:25 pm 5I can’t wait til she uses all of these as ammo to strike back. The Barracuda is still lying low and taking all the hits right now. Let’s hope Rocky’s words resound with her: “It’s not about how hard you hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!”
Blackiswhite, Imperial Agent Provocateuron 02 Sep 2008 at 10:26 pm 6The hits just keep coming. The Huffington Poo put up a piece about her “controversial” Christianity. The lefties are soooo cute when they start pontificating on subjects they don’t understand, like faith.
I really think the Fourth Estate has gotten so arrogant that they think we won’t notice that they are biased to the point of ignoring inconvenient truths, or that they believe they are so powerful that they don’t care. Either way, it is pretty foolish in an era of declining ratings and readership.
Jillon 02 Sep 2008 at 10:28 pm 7Yeah, Jann Wenner, big contributor to Obama.
Do they have their hands in everything?
We are truly, in every sense of the word, the underdogs in this election. If we can pull this off and win (even with Obama involved with ACORN in blatant voter fraud) then it will be the accomplishment of the century.
It’s almost scary how bad they want this.
Zundfolgeon 02 Sep 2008 at 10:28 pm 8My wife is somewhat addicted to the celebrity news shows (like Access Hollyweird, Inside Edition, etc). She’s starting to froth at the mouth at the slanted reporting almost as much as I do watching cable news.
Honestly I’m seeing more and more how the left is trying to divide and balkanize our nation … pitting group against group … fomenting hatred and derision … throwing any chance for reconciliation out the window.
Someday something is going to cause America to snap, and more and more I just thank God I’m on the side with most of the guns.
I think I need an afternoon at the range.
whiskeyon 02 Sep 2008 at 10:32 pm 9Yes, DH, but US Weekly could not get away with that if women did not EAT THAT STUFF UP. Certainly not in this ever-declining print magazine environment where advertising is falling and revenues declining and all the mags even US Weekly and People are losing money.
Almost every woman, without fail, that I know in even a casual way is a hyper-liberal moonbat. That was true in New Orleans, it’s true out here in California, it was true in Denver, in Dallas, in Chicago, in NYC, and Atlanta.
But the biggest thing is class-envy and status striving. If you want to know why Obama is up by 8, it’s not “politics” since Joe Public does not really pay that much attention. It’s the constant class striving, that dominates life in the cubicle or office park or mating ritual in clubs and bars. Alaska is an outlier, a hangover from Frontier America, not cubicle America.
Like it or not, and I don’t like it but it’s reality, America is Ain’t It Cool News, CHUD, Slashdot, US Weekly, TMZ, Gossip Girl, Oprah, and the View. Striving to be the “coolest” not to actually do something or live life. That’s why they all hate Palin.
But give the Media credit. They’ll dominate the coverage. From here on out it will be the “lies” about Palin’s baby (even a DNA test won’t change anything), her husband’s DUI in 1982 (26 years ago), and so on. Edwards? Well he was the “correct” celebrity so they protected him like they protect Clooney, Damon, Affleck, Nicholson, Woody Allen, etc.
And the Rockstar-in-Chief, Obama.
Blackiswhite, Imperial Agent Provocateuron 02 Sep 2008 at 10:35 pm 10Someday something is going to cause America to snap, and more and more I just thank God I’m on the side with most of the guns.
I refer to the coming event as “The Great Pushback”, and I look forward to it with equal parts relish and dread.
Plissken79on 02 Sep 2008 at 10:37 pm 11This is brutally unfair, of course, but I would worry too much about it, these tactics will certainly backfire, we have already seen the backlash start to emerge.
Whiskey, I do not know too many women if you can make such a sweeping generalization about all of them. One wonders in the America you describe how Bush ever won two elections.
Besides, let’s see where the polls are after Friday, or better yet, after the debates
Billon 02 Sep 2008 at 10:42 pm 12You’ve got to be kidding.
When I first saw those covers, I thought it had to be a spoof. No way that could be true. To be so blatant, only five days after most of them have even heard of this woman.
We live in such a media saturated age, we have no problem judging and condemning people we know next to nothing about, simply because we hear a few things about them on TV or the internet.
Good grief.
Kiton 02 Sep 2008 at 10:45 pm 13Son of a!
the405on 02 Sep 2008 at 11:03 pm 14It’s very simple folks.
What they are trying to do is get McCain to dump palin before she gives her acceptance speech tomorrow. They feel that this “scandal” will make us conservatives “outraged” and lose McCain support.
The left knows that her speech is becoming the most anticipated night of the convention. Everoyne is going to want to watch like the little messiah speech.
All she has to do is say “I accept your nomination to be Vice President of The United States” and ITS OVER FOR THE LEFT.
These attacks are happening since the left really fears what she represents. The liberal republican establishment thats helping out the left fears her too.
Expect this to ramp up all day tomorrow untill she takes the podium.
Mr24pon 02 Sep 2008 at 11:12 pm 15As much as this really gets under my skin I am also happy because it means the left is pulling out all stops to go after her and McCain. They are literally going insane that they are giving up their silence and going full out in their blatant bias. I am finding more and more people now admitting to the left wing media. Even people on the left. These same people just a few years ago thought I was nuts for suggesting such a thing. No more.
Desperation is leading to them playing all of their cards. As much as it’s going to get tough looking at garbage like this we should all keep our heads high because we have overturned the rock and now everyone is seeing the termites we always knew were there.
Put on your big shoes because it’s stompin’ time!
Vincent Wongon 02 Sep 2008 at 11:12 pm 16“All she has to do is say “I accept your nomination to be Vice President of The United States” and ITS OVER FOR THE LEFT.”
– Eh? How do you figure that?
jhowardon 02 Sep 2008 at 11:31 pm 17A person’s goodness and decency can easily be measured by the degree of hatred and contempt held for them by the left.
It was true of W.
It is true of Palin.
Attmayon 03 Sep 2008 at 1:05 am 18I find it hilarious that morally lax people who think teenage sex is “self-expression” and promote it in the culture are pretending to give a damn about a 17-year-old girl who got pregnant.
Alicaron 03 Sep 2008 at 1:53 am 19“A person’s goodness and decency can easily be measured by the degree of hatred and contempt held for them by the left.”
That Pinochet…what a saint!
Vincent Wongon 03 Sep 2008 at 2:11 am 20So… the Right doesn’t hate Pinochet?
Johnny Ed's Babyon 03 Sep 2008 at 3:26 am 21Wenner makes me ashamed that I ever subscribed to Rolling Stone when I was in college.
As a Christian I know I’m not supposed to say this, but I hope Jann Wenner rots in hell!
Johnny Ed's Babyon 03 Sep 2008 at 3:31 am 22of, and Jon Voight gets to be in charge of the thermostat. And the dial goes to 11.
photomanon 03 Sep 2008 at 4:46 am 23“When they attack one personally it means they haven’t a single political argument left.” Margaret Thatcher.
Ohio Wolverine momon 03 Sep 2008 at 5:02 am 24Whiskey,
You have got to get out more—I don’t know much about southern Ohio yet, but every woman I know in the communities north of Detroit can’t stand Michelle Obama and are thrilled by Sarah Palin.
Michelle Obama is a bitter,angry feminist who is at home with the Code Pink crowd—though she is better toned and knows how to use makeup.
MO & BO are both opportunitists who have chased money and power, while Palin and her husband have followed their convictions.
And the media is totally underestimating how the coverage of Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is going to blow up in their face….only the hardline, bitter baby killers will resist Palin.
Newt Gingrich said recently on FOX that his only worry about Palin is that she will make Biden look so bad in the debates that the gasbag will get the sympathy vote.
blainemonoon 03 Sep 2008 at 5:42 am 25This is the exact type of media attack that can backfire.
How many of their 12 million female readers will it strike a chord as a tad enflaming to attack her as such when they themselves have been faced with teenage pregnancy or raising a daughter in similiar circumstances. The attack will be personaly related to many of their readers and feel as if the attack is on themselves also.
Stephanieon 03 Sep 2008 at 6:12 am 26US Magazine Contact Information……….
1-800-283-3956 (9 A.M. to 5 P.M. EST Monday – Friday); outside of the US, please call 515-242-0285.
Reader Mail
Editorial questions or comments should be sent to:
Us Letters, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104-0298, or e-mailed to: letters@usmagazine.com, or faxed to: 212-651-7890. Please include your address and daytime telephone number.
Please call them, fax a letter….share the LOVE! Tell em this crap plays in some fruity salon but not in the real world. Tell em apologize.
Salon 03 Sep 2008 at 6:25 am 27I sent one:
Embarrassing to whom?
US magazine.
Those of us who
actually live in the real world, instead of some bi-coastal bubble will remember this.
I think you owe the Palin family an apology.
On the good side, that is one beautiful little baby.
Salon 03 Sep 2008 at 6:26 am 28Um, that last line wasn’t part of the letter. Forgot the italics.
Carolynon 03 Sep 2008 at 6:40 am 29The media isn’t even TRYING to be fair.
Above the contempt they feel for Sarah Palin, just think what this symbolizes of their contempt for those who support her.
shunha7878on 03 Sep 2008 at 6:56 am 30Zundfolgeon 02 Sep 2008 at 10:28 pm 8
My wife is somewhat addicted to the celebrity news shows (like Access Hollyweird, Inside Edition, etc). She’s starting to froth at the mouth at the slanted reporting almost as much as I do watching cable news.
That happened to my wife. She likes to visit sites that gossip about movies stars, but she noticed how biased they are.
On another note, I am worried that when Sarah Palin debates Biden, He will already know what is going to be ask. I know this seem far-fetched but when I watched the Quayle, Bentsen debate, it seem Bentsen knew every answer. Every presidential debate after that, the democrats seem to win the debates. Remember the 1st Bush, Clinton debate. Somebody tell me why I am wrong.
Johnny Ed's Babyon 03 Sep 2008 at 6:59 am 31Looking at the picture of SP, does anyone know where the original is? It seems to me that her lipstick is darker red and her eyes darker than any other pictures I’ve seen of her.
I know in Dayton her lips were not red nor at the rally in St. Louis. Did she pose for US? I sort of doubt they would send a photographer to AK.
Obviously it would not be below them to photoshop her picture especially when you see the soft look of the Obamas. Of course they couldn’t get rid of that smile.
Carolynon 03 Sep 2008 at 7:03 am 32Bill? I also thought those 2 covers were a spoof!
Sigh. Well, adding my own little anecdote of how low the media is descended is this little example from that sorry Marxist town (San Francisco) I live in. Every morning when I power walk, the first thing I see when I step outside on the sidewalk is the SF Chronicle in its yellow metal stand. And every day of last week the front page of that Chronicle was screaming, lurid headlines, saturated coverage about the DNC! Every day. Every single day!
But this week with the RNC? Vanished. No coverage. Nothing. Nada. Zilch.
‘Nuff said.
kishkeon 03 Sep 2008 at 7:18 am 33Or it could have read:
Barack’s Mom: Teenage Mother
Conan O'Lenomanon 03 Sep 2008 at 7:27 am 34Why aren’t articles like the following appearing in our print media? From Asia Times: “Why Obama Will Lose”
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JI03Aa02.html
Single best breakdown of who Obama really is I have ever read.
Our MSM is desperate because of the Internet and talk radio cutting through the “kulture smog”–hence, elect Yomama and get the Fairness Doctrine (along with a number of other bad things). This is truly a culture war. Bill Clinton was elected by the MSM and a backroom deal with Perot. This is their last gasp and they know it. Palin is but a smaller battle along the way. “By any means necessary.”
Johnny Ed's Babyon 03 Sep 2008 at 7:41 am 35I sent my letter to US basically they have sunk to the lowest levels of journalism to the level of the KKK kooks printing their hate filled fliers out of their mother’s basement.
Now that I think about it, the KKK kooks are at least honest about their agenda. I apologize to the KKK and now will officially put them above US.
Rufus T. Fireflyon 03 Sep 2008 at 7:44 am 36Forget Palin and Obama, I want to know the truth about Laura’s big fight! (see lower left corner of Obama US issue)
Why are you keeping us in the dark, Harry?!
Johnny Ed's Babyon 03 Sep 2008 at 8:06 am 37For a really funny look at SP from the super feminazis at Slate, check out this story.
Forget that she doesn’t commute every day from Wasilla to Anchorage since Anchorage is, as every fifth grader knows, not the capitol of AK.
Here are the last two paragraphs. Try to imagine them writing this about Hillary.
This brings us to the pregnancy of Bristol Palin. We want to reiterate that this shouldn’t be used to bludgeon Palin. Accidents happen. But is it passing judgment to observe that for most mothers, a pregnant teenager is a sign of parenting gone awry? Is it unfair to wonder whether Sarah Palin has the right to haul her beautiful children into the spotlight when it makes her look like a Super Mom, then sweep them into the shadows when they make a mistake?
The Sarah Palin candidacy could have been a moment for women to celebrate, in glass-ceiling terms if not policy advances. But it never should have stood for the notion that the only way a woman is going to make it to the White House is if she’s the best mom in America first.
Bobon 03 Sep 2008 at 8:07 am 38See, Jann Wenner had to approach the story this way - just the way “US” treats Brad/Angelina, Tim Robbins/Susan Sarandon, and … oh … wtf … never mind.
Blackiswhite, Imperial Agent Provocateuron 03 Sep 2008 at 8:19 am 39but every woman I know in the communities north of Detroit can’t stand Michelle Obama and are thrilled by Sarah Palin.
Where the first day of rifle season is a holiday. I really hate living on the Left Coast sometimes.
Convention and Media Thoughts… « The Fuming Pewon 03 Sep 2008 at 8:25 am 40[…] And then there’s Governor Palin. ABC’s trio (Sawyer, Gibson and Stephanopoulos) covering the RNC last night relayed to their audience that Republicans intend to say that the criticism falling on Palin was a creation of the media. Well, read this, and tell me some of that ain’t so (HT: Dirty Harry’s Place). […]
NeoConJedion 03 Sep 2008 at 8:37 am 41Thanks for the info, Stephanie.
I just sent off an email — I hope I didn’t get too harsh, but I’m really getting annoyed with this treatment.
Oh well … I’ll put that energy into campaigning next week — I can’t wait.
Kiton 03 Sep 2008 at 8:51 am 42Conan O’Lenorman,
“Why aren’t articles like the following appearing in our print media? From Asia Times: ‘Why Obama Will Lose’”
“http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JI03Aa02.html”
Great article! Though I am a bit more pessimistic as the article gave me the opinion that there is no way of knowing how it will turn out until tomorrow and Friday (when the polls start responding to Sarah Palin’s address).
I am emailing it to friends, family, and maybe some liberals.
Carolynon 03 Sep 2008 at 8:58 am 43My bad. I was mistaken about the lack of RNC coverage on the cover of the Chronicle this morning. The HUGE big headline was of a homicide of a young councilman in Fairfield who was shot in the back of the head by a gunman in what has all the earmarks of a gang shooting. (Hmmm, strange the Chronicle screams about THIS shooting when last month it didn’t scream about an even worse gang shooting where a father and two sons were killed. Gosh, do you think it had something to do with the fact that the shooter that time was an illegal immigrant shielded in a safe house by the City of San Francisco?)
Anyway, today there actually was something on the cover of the Chronicle about the RNC. Except they didn’t say RNC - they just showed this teeny tiny little picture of a stage with teeny weeny people waving on it (or something). And it was shoved all the way to the left side of the cover, totally dwarfed by the screaming headline of the dead Councilman. So, as a consequence, I didn’t notice it. (Gosh! Do you think that was intentional on the part of the Chronicle?)
MovieBobon 03 Sep 2008 at 9:05 am 44The single most depressing thing about this for me is being reminded that people actually READ “Us Weekly.”
Mavison 03 Sep 2008 at 9:24 am 45I’ll be at the grocery store buying diapers and mac and cheese today. I plan on turning US Weekly around while I stand in line. I just can’t look at it. (I’m picturing everyone applauding while I do this, but it probably won’t be that dramatic.)
hairryon 03 Sep 2008 at 10:20 am 46Jann Wenner, I remember him from the tv show “Crime Story” with Dennis Farina. Awesome show, too bad that Wenner is such a creep! Actually calling him a creep is an insult to other creeps. Maggot is more like it.
Spacebasson 03 Sep 2008 at 10:33 am 47Thanks for the contact info, Stephanie! Here is what I emailed to them, with DH’s pics as well. I really should take the time to mail a letter. I am so disappointed with their choices. I was literally sickened by this news:
“I was eating my lunch when I came across this cover comparison online. I actually felt sick whilst viewing the unbelievable bias prominently shown on the covers of your magazine. Know this: your yellow journalism is an absolute SHAME that will be remembered for the rest of my life. The integrity of your magazine should be better than this-”
wfon 03 Sep 2008 at 11:46 am 48Spacebass, well done, but I´m afraid an appeal to their integrity will literally go nowhere.
Spacebasson 03 Sep 2008 at 12:58 pm 49wf - I understand where you are coming from, but I just feel compelled to let these companies/people know exactly where I stand as a consumer. They need to know that there are long term effects that they should at least consider. I haven’t bought Heinz Ketchup since 2004. I realize that my business is just a miniscule fraction of a drop of ketchup, but if these companies are gonna go ‘Linda Ronstadt,’ so can I.
Growltigeron 03 Sep 2008 at 1:33 pm 50Sure US is in the tank. Show them how much you care by boycotting buying them and anyone who advertises in their mags. That’s what the Lefties do, then scream that “it doesn’t work” when non-Lefties try it.