NewsBusters: Pelosi Saga Took 17 Months to Gain Media Notice

2009 May 16
by bc3b

According to Jason Aslinger of NewsBusters.org, the Pelosi story stayed buried for 17 months.

Also on NewsBusters.org, your tax dollars at work. On Friday’s Inside Washington (NPR), Nina Totenberg defends Speaker Pelosi while Newsweak’s Evan Thomas expresses his hope that moderates will be able to save the GOP from Rush Limbaugh. Here’s Brent Baker’s post.

Two hat tips to newsbusters.org

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  1. 2009 May 16 3:41 pm
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    janzam permalink

    The news people become more irrelevant and trite by the day. Just how many times does the word “hypocrisy” have to be used when describing the media, before it sticks, and they lose all their credibility?

    Could people like Nina and Evan be why the ratings on FOX are skyrocketing? Talk radio shows are having a field day too in their ratings! People are starved to hear factual commentary, where the bad guys are uncovered and the good guys are treated to fanfare.

  2. 2009 May 16 4:11 pm
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    janzam permalink

    Axelrod: Prejean is a dog
    George Joyce
    On Thursday evening’s NPR quiz show “Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me” senior Obama advisor David Axelrod made reference to Miss California Carrie Prejean as a dog. Politico is reporting that when Axelrod was asked on the show if he had helped the Obama’s choose their recently acquired dog Axelrod replied:

    “I was only called in for the final three, and one was Miss California.”

    When a senior advisor to the President of the United States refers to a courageous, twenty-one year old Christian woman as a dog it’s a sign that conservatives have finally found a crack in the Obama administration’s armor. Axelrod’s remark is also an indication of the off-the-charts sense of superiority that characterizes many of those on Obama’s staff.

    How much longer will this country be able to endure the utter contempt these progressives have for traditional American values? When will conservatives begin to stand up for this young woman and the values she is defending?

  3. 2009 May 16 4:23 pm
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    drdog09 permalink

    Being a little slow on the uptake I guess. Just because somebody posted something newsworthy does not mean a count down clock ensues. Hence I don’t make the 17month connection. This really didn’t become news till Miss Botox called the CIA liars. Once that was uttered it gave the MSM the ‘hook’ to play the ’she said, he said’ game. Publishers eat that stuff up because it sells papers.

    I also think Gingrich calls it right. She is in a no win here. Either A) She lied about a national security matter and therefore is not qualified for her position. Or B) She was so asleep at the wheel in the meeting that she is again not qualified for her position. Fact this is the same argument many a Dim made against Reagan during the Iran-Contra affair.

    Some of the talking heads are posing the question — ‘Independent commission is needed to….’. That sound in the background is? Aaaah the sharpening of knives.

  4. 2009 May 16 4:26 pm
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    drdog09 permalink

    “When a senior advisor to the President of the United States refers to a courageous, twenty-one year old Christian woman as a dog it’s a sign that conservatives have finally found a crack in the Obama administration’s armor.”

    Elitism is a terrible millstone to wear. May they wear it with grace, or not.

  5. 2009 May 16 4:31 pm
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    justrand permalink

    Nancy’s “plight” truly does remind me of the Wicked Witch’s plight at the end of The Wizard of Oz. The same creatures who were so eager to follow the Wicked Witch’s orders one minute, are oh so relieved to see her melt!!!

    Now, where did I leave that pail of water, Toto…?

  6. 2009 May 16 7:04 pm
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    gnqanq permalink

    Pelosi admitted in the news conference that she was more concerned about winning elections than national security. This was all lost because she called the CIA liars and that whole side show. But this is just as damaging to those who are listening and watching.

    The quote:
    Pelosi said that no protest would have mattered to Bush administration officials, and pointed to competing legal opinions within the administration that had been brushed aside. Instead, she said her priority had been to help deliver a Democratic majority to Congress as a way of terminating Bush administration policies.

    Nancy Pelosi was more concerned about a Democratic majority than the protection of the country.

    http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/20090515_Pelosi__CIA_misled_me.html?viewAll=Y&text=

  7. 2009 May 16 8:16 pm
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    janzam permalink

    Here is a dynamite Victor Davis Hanson commentary:

    Missed opportunity? Obama could have had a one-time stimulus, then vowed to balance the budget. He might have praised wind and solar as he asked the carbon industry to ‘get us through.’ He could have politely disagreed with Bush, but framing differences in the tragic notion of no good choices. He might have cooled the overseas apologies, savvy that other nations have more to apologize for than his own. Obama should have established zero-tolerance for tax avoidance at a time of record tax increases. He could have remonstrated with Wall Street, and sought to rein in excess without Europeanizing the financial sector. He could have proactively reformed entitlements with bipartisan support, rather than, as will happen, drastically address them in the 11th hour. But then to do all that would be to assume he never went to Trinity Church, knew no Rev. Wright, Ayers, Khalidi, etc., did not run mysterious campaigns that eliminated opponents before the elections, was not the most partisan Senator in Congress, and avoided rather crude social and racial stereotyping while campaigning. Most who read this will not agree, given the mesmerizing effect of the Obama charisma. But in time, unless there are radical changes, I think the nation will come to learn that such talent was not put in service to our collective welfare.

    Cracks in the Facade

  8. 2009 May 16 8:22 pm
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    rightwingyahoo permalink

    Jan, look at this:

    Race relations. Here I am worried. Far from bringing us together, I think Obama’s serial emphasis on race may achieve the unintended opposite of polarization. He should have learned in the campaign (Rev. Wright, Trinity Church, typical white person, clingers, call for reparations, his grandmother — the purported prejudicial stereotyper, etc.), the perils of seeing the world through skin color. Yet to establish his own diplomatic fides abroad, he immediately evokes race at the South American summit. His interview with al Arabiya highlights his race and family’s religion. Race appears in presidential jokes. He distances himself from America prior to his coming of age.

    This is another very scary aspect of his presidency…

  9. 2009 May 16 8:28 pm
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    janzam permalink

    Absolutely. However, I thought all of Hanson’s points were spot-on and equally worrisome.

    However, it is ironic that a lot of people (including me, quite frankly) thought that at least having a Black American in the WH might turn the heat down on some of the racism projected by blacks onto whites.

    It appears to have polarized the races even more…..

  10. 2009 May 16 8:35 pm
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    rightwingyahoo permalink

    of course. I am surprised that anyone would think it would defuse tension. Do you realize how many Afr. Americans think along the lines of Wright?

    hint: a lot.

  11. 2009 May 16 8:42 pm
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    janzam permalink

    I know. Looking back it seems naive. But, I’m just admitting it did cross my mind, especially after the election, when I was trying to look for one positive point in Obama being elected.

    It lasted only a nano-second!

  12. 2009 May 16 8:49 pm
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    gnqanq permalink

    jan – the racism from blacks was confirmed by “zero’s” election. It seemed to justify their view and make the situation worse.

    A few blacks are waking to what a mistake “zero” was and is. Most have drunk the kool aid and there is no hope for them.

    Prior to the election, I was watching a program on CNN with Lou Dobbs. A black commentator made the comment that alot of black churches were like Wright’s in their message. Right then and there I realized there was very little hope for the black community. They would rather believe a lie than the truth.

  13. 2009 May 16 8:53 pm
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    drdog09 permalink

    Assuming that Obama is the disaster that we expect of him. He will have made the opportunity for another black president a dead letter for a generation.

  14. 2009 May 17 2:36 pm
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    phineas gage permalink

    The coming race wars will make the ’60’s riots look like a tea party.

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