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July 21, 2008
Even Andrea Mitchell Notices Phoniness of Obama Tour
Even some moonbats have enough journalistic integrity to be disgusted by the contrived spectacle Obama's handlers have been staging in the Middle East. Andrea Mitchell gripes:
Let me just say something about the message management. He didn't have reporters with him, he didn't have a press pool, he didn't do a press conference while he was on the ground in either Afghanistan or Iraq. What you're seeing is not reporters brought in. You're seeing selected pictures taken by the military, questions by the military, and what some would call fake interviews, because they're not interviews from a journalist. So, there's a real press issue here. Politically it's smart as can be. But we've not seen a presidential candidate do this, in my recollection, ever before.
It's as if she's surprised to have learned that the fake candidate is running a fake campaign. But that won't stop her from voting for him.

On a tip from Oiao.
Posted by Van Helsing at July 21, 2008 9:27 PM
Comments
He looks as natural in that hat as I would if I ever donned a keffiyeh.
To you liberals - that means he looks like a compete idiot, and I will never wear a keffiyeh for any reason - much less to "win" (choke) votes.
Braaaaaaaack (excuse me) Hussein Obama is a fool. He's the fool of liberal fools - that's pretty damned bad.
Posted by: Jimbo at July 21, 2008 9:55 PM
I think most people are just in love with the 'idea of Obama'. The 'reality of Obama' is just too much for them to actually deal with.
Posted by: Smoke TNT at July 21, 2008 9:59 PM
Not sure if it's blog-worthy because one would have had to have been following the APS fiasco to go along, but LORD MONCKTON has issued a letter to the APS, found at junkscience.com, that I seriously doubt will ever be answered, slamming them for their previous denouncement and closing of the global warming debate.
Posted by: Smoke TNT at July 22, 2008 2:21 AM
Obama looks like a stand-in for Brokeback Mountain 2.
Posted by: Smoke TNT at July 22, 2008 2:25 AM
Suddenly, Andrea Mitchell discovers what it feels like to be a useful idiot.
But when Barack gets home, the glow will return.
Posted by: on-the-rocks at July 22, 2008 4:17 AM
"But that won't stop her from voting for him."
Spot on as usual bud.
Posted by: Cluebat from Exodar at July 22, 2008 4:22 AM
"Suddenly, Andrea Mitchell discovers what it feels like to be a useful idiot.
But when Barack gets home, the glow will return.
Posted by: on-the-rocks at July 22, 2008 4:17 AM"
Yeah, I don't think she cares that this propaganda tour is a complete farce. She just resents that the farce is not within the control of the "journalists". They like to at least maintain some pretense that they are actively collecting news rather than just regurgitating canned releases.
Posted by: forest at July 22, 2008 4:33 AM
I noticed last night the military news clips showed him surrounded by mostly black soldiers. Most white soldiers were kept back at a distance.
Posted by: Anonymous at July 22, 2008 4:49 AM
Obama campaign is ANTI-GREEN !!!! LOL! Apparently the real reason for Obamas people telling people not to wear green is its the color of Hamas. I guess the dont want to be toooooo obvious! LOL! I guess they wont be watching PLANET GREEN network.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0708/Obama_press_told_to_cover_up_not_wear_green.html
"Obama press told to cover up, not wear green
Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown, accompanying Obama on his trip to the Middle East and Europe, emails:
Reporters traveling overseas with Sen. Barack Obama were thrown a bit of curve last week when the campaign emailed a “dress code” for Israel and Jordan. Aides had passed along as a courtesy the list that they had distributed to their staff to follow.
But some of the tips raised a few eyebrows, particularly among the female reporters.
“Do not wear green.” (Explained later as the color of Hamas)
“Do not wear nail polish.”
“Women should only wear a limited amount of jewelry.”
“Shoulders and arms must be fully covered (no strapless tops, no tank tops, no short sleeve shirts.)"
“Closed-toe shoes, women should also wear stockings.”
Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at July 22, 2008 4:58 AM
PALESTINIANS GONE WILD ! Its like they watched the Stephen King classic, MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE, too many times. At least the Israelis know how to deal with these nut cases - if it happened here lawyers would be suing the guy who stopped the attack.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080722/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_attack
"JERUSALEM - A Palestinian rammed a construction truck into three cars and a bus near the Jerusalem hotel where Barack Obama is supposed to stay Tuesday, injuring four people before an Israeli civilian shot and killed the attacker, police and witnesses said.
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The attack was a chilling copycat of a similar incident earlier this month when another Palestinian plowed his front loader into a string of vehicles and pedestrians on a busy Jerusalem street about three miles away. Three people were killed in that attack and dozens were wounded before an off-duty soldier shot and killed the assailant."
Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at July 22, 2008 6:50 AM
I also got the impression that she was less upset about BHO staging a fake campaign than the fact the it wasn't journalists that were staging the fake campaign for him. But she'll still have his love child anyway, even if he won't call her again.
Posted by: CoderInCrisis at July 22, 2008 10:04 AM
I just spoke with my sister, who is in a public affairs unit out of Camp Liberty in Baghdad... her unit pretty much covers everything going on there. I can watch her video clips that they broadcast on the Baghdad 360 report to see what she's been up to.
She told me that they didn't even find out about the Obamessiah's visit until they saw it in the civilian media, well after the fact. She's checking with her higher ups as to why they weren't informed of it. Gotta wonder what that's all about.
Posted by: Seamus at July 22, 2008 11:46 AM
Andrea Mitchell clearly has an axe to grind with the Congressional Delegation of Reed, Obama, and Hagel. She feels she has not been given prestigous first contact so she attacks the trip and Sen Obama. Sour grapes are very much apparent here, including her lie today about Sen Obamas comments on listening to commanders on the ground.
Ms. Mitchell asserted that Sen Obama said he would not listen to commanders on the ground in making his decisions. Sen Obama clearly did not say that. In fact he said he would listen to such positions and make them part of his consideration as he weighed all parameters on the issues in trying to make a decision. For Ms. Mitchell to translate that into Sen Obama saying he would not listen to commanders on the ground is not only incorrect but a blatant lie, since there is no way she could have confused this point.
Her credibilty has clearly been damaged these last few days as she has whined and lied about the nature of and positions of Sen Obama and the Congressional International tour that he is currently participating in.
Shame on you Ms. Mitchell. I would have thought you a bigger person.
Posted by: Vgirl1 at July 22, 2008 12:03 PM
At least Sen Obama doesn't think that Chekoslovakia still exists (McCain thought and said so twice in the last weeks) and at least Sen Obama does not think that Iraq borders Afghanistan as stated by Sen McCain on the Today show this week.
For a man who is supposed to be so ready from day one to be Commander in Chief, I guess we had better send Sen McCain back to school to learn what countries exist today and where they are located.
After all, we wouldn't want McCain to send our troops to the wrong place or to start a war with an enemy that does not exist! (Pun intended)
Posted by: Here's Reality for You at July 22, 2008 12:23 PM
Dear Jack D. Ripper,
Did it ever occur to you that Sen Obama wanted to be courteous to the culture of the countries into which he was traveling? But NO-O-O! Your redneck ignorance shows you are so ethnocentric and predjudiced that you wouldn't even consider that. Instead you would just be the typical "Ugly American" you typify in your words.
Posted by: Your Ignorance is Showing at July 22, 2008 12:35 PM
Hey "Here's Reality for You"... what presidential candidate thought we had 57 states? I guess we had better send him back to school to learn AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY.
Posted by: Seamus at July 22, 2008 1:40 PM
Dear Your Ignorance is Showing,
Did it ever occur to you that Muslims who have not just visited, but moved their entire families to Western countries, should think enough of the cultures to which they have moved to make the least attempt to fit in? American "redneck ignorance" has nothing on the ethnocentric, prejudiced, willfully ignorant morons who have thanked the countries taking them in by beating up priests, raping indigenous women, whom they regard as whores, holding up signs saying "Behead enemies of Allah", and "Muslims will take over the world"... I think most sane people would agree that that behavior trumps being forced to look at a tank top. Your high mindedness is selective, to say the least.
Posted by: avalon at July 22, 2008 2:09 PM
Colt Government automatics should be required accessories for American women in the Middle east!
Posted by: KHarn at July 22, 2008 2:34 PM
I don't wish to live in the same country as Andrea Mitchell, or Barack Obama, anymore.
I cancelled my cable TV yesterday,and I am seceding from the U.S.,and the State of Florida, this evening.
My place will be known as The Republic of Mockinbird.
Posted by: Mockinbird at July 22, 2008 2:45 PM
Hey Mockinbird - you can join the Conc Replublic at Key West..............
Satire, I know, but someone needs to shove a bunch of those MoonBats into the sea and point them towards Cuba.............
All of the sudden, they would be glad to be American Citizens...ya bet ya!
Posted by: Oiao at July 22, 2008 9:48 PM

