How the Media Talking Heads LIE about OBAMA/DEMS/Video Composite via TPM..MUST SEE!

[KoKo]

TPM put together a devastating video that stands as an indictment of the depressing incompetence and lack of professional standards of cable tv "news" hosts. Watch Here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWRRtslRQuo&eurl=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/206529.php

Every one of the cable hosts caught on that video misinforming their audiences without checking the facts owes the American people a profound apology. If the industry had an ounce of integrity, a lot of folks would be fired for this.

The context was the cable news hosts' self-righteous condemnations of Barack Obama for saying something described as "presumptuous," after the Washington Post's Dana Milbank took out of context Obama talking about his candidacy symbolizing hopes for America.

Milbank's "quote" was reported from hearsay; he wasn't there. Others who were there report a different statement, which when put in context is completely opposite from the interpretation the cable hosts assumed, repeated and piously condemned.

What Milbank reported Wednesday

Inside, according to a witness, he told the House members, "This is
the moment . . . that the world is waiting for," adding: "I have
become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best
traditions."

And here, via Media Matters and HuffPo's Jason Links is the context for what Obama said:

One leadership aide said the full quote put it into a different
context. According to that aide, Obama said, "It has become
increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign -- that the crowds,
the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all.
It's about America. I have just become a symbol."

As Media Matters documents, the latter statement is consistent with what Obama has said many times. Among those shown in the TPM video, it fell to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow (with help from Smerconish) to sort out fact from fiction. As usual, Rachel gets it right <http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/31/race-to-the-white-house-rachel-maddow-calls-out-pat-buchanan/> (h/t Nicole at C&L). As for the rest . . .
How the Media "Talking Heads" were Caught Misleading Viewers about Obama Comment (You Tube)
I thought I was beyond further discouragement, further disgust at the media, but after watching this video -- and it's painful to watch if you're old enough to remember what news used to be -- I can't imagine how we can elevate America's political discourse until every one of these arrogant nitwits is removed from our tv screens and held up to public ridicule for the harm they do to our country.

/Video via TPM/

[KoKo]

1. Hope more folks will watch. Folks I've e-mailed it to were shocked at how it shows

the "Media Talking Points" when viewed in a composite like this. I got good feedback. Hopefully some of you can pass this along to your "awakening friends and family." They might finally be ready to accept that the Mainstream Media is hardly a Liberal Cabal...That was a RW MYTH...spread around like "Saddam had Weapons of MD" to choke off the Masses of Protest by Americans who still could "think for themselves."

This video show how they've won...that they could be in "lockstep" with something like this from M$M and not DEMAND cable companies "Cease" this Propaganda!

[VP505]

2. K&R

Lack of Professional standards is an understatement!

[malaise]

3. Brilliant n/t

[proud patriot]

4. wow

[spanone]

5. it's unfuckingbelievable

[bleever]

6. Olbermann put some tire tracks on Milbank for that.

Thank you, KO.

[rainy]

7. posting so I can come back to this later.

[FredStembottom]

8. Best 9 1/2 Minutes I've Spent in Weeks.

The contrast between the million dollar studio sets, hairstyles and clothes and the Junior-High level of commentary is stunning.

It becomes clear that there no journalism at all is done inside these velvety propaganda rooms. None.

It is American Pravda.