THEY LOVE ME, THEY LOVE ME NOT

by Malik Isasis














Like Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has surged in the polls but his narrative in the corporate media has been vastly different than Huckabee’s.

Oprah Winfrey has thrown her support behind Obama and with a scheduled three-state tour, it has sent political operatives and their media whores into a spinning frenzy. Even National Public Radio has jumped on the band wagon of trying to marginalizing Oprah’s influence with headlines like, “How Much Can Oprah Help Obama?” (audio here). Here is a sample of a piece from Fox News’ John Gibson titled “Why Oprah Gives Obama Political Leeway”: This Oprah-palooza is a big test for her famous power to bring in women, particularly white women. White women are, of course, the basis of her great success. She is also, obviously, a black woman and she is also trying to pry black votes from Hillary Clinton. So she is telling her female audience don't buy that solidarity thing and vote for a woman — Hillary — but telling black people do buy the solidarity thing and vote for the black man.

Shilling it Up

When the axe came into the forest, the trees said, “The handle is one of us.” -African Proverb

The political operatives have pulled their conservative Negro, Shelby Steele, out of the stable with his new book, “A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited about Barack Obama And Why He Can’t Win” to make the rounds on the cable news channels. Isn’t it cute how white pundits bring out black conservatives to validate their white supremacist ideology? In the clip below watch how Sean Hannity guide his black buck down a predetermined path.



National Public Radio, got into the act, again. Listen to the Shelby Steel interview and listen as he goes unchallenged.

The corporate media and their henchmen won’t come straight out with their plans of sabotaging Obama’s campaign; they will do it with a smile and blame it on his inexperience. Just as Howard Dean’s surge was interrupted in 2003, they the corporate media will try and interrupt Obama’s surge with a whisper campaign and it will be death by a thousand paper cuts. So they hope.

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