THE MEDIA ISSUE: VOLUME 7, ISSUE 12
THE LONG ECLIPSE
by Malik Isasis















Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell said that some white people won’t vote for a black candidate. So, when Obama lost the race he was expected to lose, why are the media over playing the loss? Earlier this year, I predicted in an essay Death By A Thousand Paper Cuts that the corporate media and the Republicans will kill Barack Obama’s presidential aspirations by death of a thousand paper cuts. I underestimated the contempt of the Republicans, the jealousy and sense of entitlement by Hillary and Bill Clinton, and the vacuous corporate media who is the parrot on the shoulder of the imperialist pirate George Bush. The Republicans, Hillary and Bill Clinton and the corporate media are using a blunt object now to kill Obama’s bid to become president.

By all measures, Obama has out campaigned both Republicans and Democrats by raising more money, winning more states, and more total votes. But this isn’t enough; Obama must be perfect because the corporate media continues to raise the bar and move the goal post with race and gender baiting a divided Democratic coalition to offset Obama’s accomplishments.

The corporate media is doing everything it can to throw the Democratic fight by consistently overplaying Obama’s failures, while overplaying Hillary’s successes. Watch Clinton’s campaign chair Terry McAuliffe praise Fox News, which is now being used as propaganda by Fox News.



Even though Obama has won some of the whitest states like Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, the corporate meat puppets continue to inject the myth that Obama is unable to connect with white voters. George Bush and his policies haven’t shown any propensity toward understanding poor, middle class white voters, but since he is white I guess he gets a pass—as a matter of fact, Bush and the Republicans have failed, utterly in understanding poor and middle class white voters, but the corporate media just says, "Oh, well."

Puppeteering

Day after day, pundits and political operatives plague the airwaves with ideological sickness, which shapes the narrative of the mainstream pundits like Tim Russert and George Stephanopulous who give credence to misinformation by Republicans as well as Hillary. Russert and Stephanopulous often recite neocons’ talking points when discussing Iraq with Democratic politicians. The Democratic politicians then shamelessly, frame the debate with these pundits using the same narrative that was created by the Republican Party. As argued in my earlier column When the Rainbow Isn’t Enough.

The pundits are nothing more than a sewing circle, creating whisper campaigns, and misinformation that are picked up by the mainstream corporate media.

Hillary Clinton is losing because she has run a poor campaign, and since Barack has run circles around her, she and Bill with the help of Fox News will distract and tap into the xenophobic nature of people with manufactured controversies like this:



Hillary is showing her true colors, which is her inability to subdue her ego and think bigger than herself. This campaign has become more about her than the people. She feels she deserves the presidency and will do nearly anything to win it. If she can't win it, she'll make sure Obama can't.

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