All The Obama-Wright That Can Be Fit Into Print (Or Digital, And Now, Broadcast)

Adam Nagourney a TV star?  I don't think so.

I just noticed, though, that the NYT has teamed up with MSNBC on a political broadcast called Primary Edition.  What primarily stood out in today's edition, however, is that, eight days after the NYT starting milking the Jeremiah Wright story for all its color (and, on the eve of the Indiana/N.Carolina primaries), they are still working this linkage.

Choreographed with this split-screen, talking head Contessa Brewer begins today's report as follows:

So we start this hour with the front page of the NYT, and a new NYT poll indicates that Barack Obama has survived the controversy over Reverend Wright ... for now.  But this could be an issue that follows him all the way through the general election.

(She might have added: "If the NYT has anything to say about it.")

Notice the screen caption, by the way.  (No, not the reference to tornados, although that analogy might also fit somehow.)  I'm referring to the remarkable implication that Wright, juxtaposed with Obama, somehow (still) qualifies for front page treatment.

screen shot from Primary Edition May 5, 2008 (NYT Video via nytimes.com)

Does this guy have balls, or what: Roberts declares `Wright - free zone' for Obama interview (AP)

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[Publius II]

ODE TO OBAMA
by Publius II

There once was a man named Obama
His life began with drama
An African Muslim father
An eccentric white mama

Obama’s white grandparents
They gave him a charmed life
Raised on the beaches of Hawaii
Far from ghetto strife

He went to private schools
Fourteen thousand dollars a year
Working-class white folks
They were nowhere near

He attended Columbia
Then Harvard Law
A very soft and liberal upbringing
Something Americans eventually saw

He then went to Chicago
Nation of Islam, Farrakhan, Black Panthers and Jackson
The only friends he made
All from the extreme left-wing faction

He joined a radical church
His Pastor downright insane
Blacks and whites, he said
Think with different parts of their brain

His church praised a man named Cone
With hateful opinions he was filled
He said white people were “the devil”
And Gods who love whites must be killed

Obama first ran for State Senate
With permission from Chicago’s Marxist King
A domestic terrorist named Ayers
Obama kissed his ring

He wrote a book called “Dreams From My Father”
From start to finish a racist rant
After people finally read it
They said: “Obama, no we can’t”

He wrote how he rejected his mother’s race
And that Malcolm X was a hero
People had a clear warning
Obama was a dangerous zero

He was then elected to the U.S. Senate
Obama’s ego grew very bold
He barely served a year
I will run for President was the story he told

He spent millions to stage rallies
The crowds would yell and cheer
But then it all fizzled out
Typical white folks, he said, cling to religion, guns and beer

His wife said America was mean
She was never really proud
Her Black Separatist thesis at Princeton
Became a campaign cloud

People said he was a Muslim
His supporters scoffed and jeered
Then his Black Liberation Church was exposed
And Obama’s ugly head was reared

He tried to recover in a speech on race
The left-wing media offered raves
But he said white folks had an “untrained ear”
And abolitionists in Pennsylvania rolled over in their graves

He claimed to be a uniter
He would bring people together all at once
But after his speech in Philadelphia
He proved to be a demographic dunce

He tried once more to persuade whites
But his bowling was a mess
He rolled a 37
Like a 5-year-old girl in a dress

He then played basketball
He drove the ball to the rack
But when all was said and done
He nearly had a heart attack

He said damn those white voters
Their Mutual Funds I will tax
I’ll double the capital gains rate
Like an old-school Liberal hack

He opposed a gas tax holiday
He said it wasn't a winner
$40 wasn't much he said
Just the weekly budget for the average family's dinner

He wouldn’t cover his heart
As the National Anthem played
It’s a meaningless gesture he said
But Americans felt betrayed

He wouldn’t wear a flag pin
It was against his One World view
It doesn’t matter he said
And the American people stewed

He first called terrorist Ayers his friend
Then said this man he didn’t really know
More deceit and cover-ups
Obama’s lies began to grow

Farrakhan, Jackson and Sharpton
Three of Obama’s greatest fans
He tried hiding them in the closet
So not to further offend the white man

Then came his anti-American Pastor
Obama’s mentor for 20 years
He preened, shucked and jived
White people rose up and sneered

NBC and the New York Times
They tried each day to save Obama’s campaign
But real Americans said “FU”
And Obama spiraled down the drain

His name was Barrack Hussein Obama
Running for a second Jimmy Carter term
Weak on National Security
A little, pacifist worm

The radical left-wing Democrats
A Presidential race lost once again
Is it really a surprise
They’ve lost 7 of the last 10?

[Weisseharre]

hmm...wizard commits 112 lines, swallows toothpick...

[DC]

George W Bush
Andover,Yale
Harvard..
Never learned a thing..wasted slots

Ducked Nam in TANG
Ducked TANG in 'bama

Never worked a day..
Took the money...

Real question never asked:
Would George really want to have a beer with
the fools who thought they'd like to have a beer with him?

Who is the elitist?

[black dog barking]

According to the script candidate Obama, the Outsider whose run for office is supposed to attract some early attention away from the Anointed Insider (played this year by Sen Clinton of NY), should have already made his Unforgivable Gaffe (eg, Dean's masterful Scream in 2004).

Since the Outsider is obviously off script and ignoring his cues, Stage Manager Times is forced to intervene, come onto the stage and set this narrative back in its track. The Wright stuff is obviously thin gruel and there's more than a trace of desperation in the tone and presentation. The smell of fear wafts from the box seats. Changing time for America?

[Johanna]

Queen Hill thought that she was a shoe-in/ And tonight she's fumin' and stewin'/ But not as much as Trie, Chung and Riady/ who paid millions and now nothin's doin.'

[Megalomania]

The Chicago papers, Republicans, lightly talk about the Rezko case and some interesting ties Obama could have with funneled money from an Iraqi Billionaire. Rezko is supposed to have a loan from the Iraqi Billionaire for about 3.5 million to help Obama in his election. The Rezko trial is ended. But there are sealed statements that are kept silent by the judge. Truly a political move. Great now we have another Bush type getting loan money from the very enemy America has to fight.

Most Americans know Bush is business buddies with the Bin Laden family for decades and little reported by the Media. The Bin Laden Buck Buddies have loaned millions to the Bush family for decades. So, here we go again. Obama maybe no better.

[DVJ]

Publius II = Megalomania?
Megalomania = Phony typepad page?
Another freeper troll???