Tell the Media to Stop the Smear Campaign on Obama

That's exactly what they are. They will not talk about Hagee and Parsley but wait until the Fall. MSNBC will drop it on them. Obama will survive this. I call on all of you who like Barack to respond to these attacks by donating more money to his campaign. Attacks = Donation, that will they will help him raise money. Stop at barackobama.com and donate anything you can. 5 bucks, 10 bucks, anything and email all your friends and ask them to do the same.
Thank you.

Thanks, Carla, I have signed.

Religious psychotics (not to say that truly religious people are psychotic - anything but) are a political liability for all political candidates. Obama would do well to "denounce and reject" the psychotic rantings of his "minister".

Okay.. All the talking heads were from Fox, except two from MSNBC and one poll from CNN.

Who is watching FOX except far right wingnuts? Not even a month ago all over the net people claimed the media was "hard on Hillary", soft on Obama.

Looks to me like The wingnuts are running scared. Obama has his following and I don't think they're going to turn against him no matter what FOX says.

Steve, Obama did denounce his former ministers more radical views and said that he disagreed with them. McCain has not done the same with regard to Revs. Hagee and Parsley, who are much more over-the-top radical hate-mongers than Wright ever was.

And yes, Debra, I would agree. They wouldn't be going after Obama if they weren't scared.

Carla: "Obama did denounce his former ministers more radical views and said that he disagreed with them."

Good. Thanks for that news. Do you have a reference?

Carla: "McCain has not done the same with regard to Revs. Hagee and Parsley, who are much more over-the-top radical hate-mongers than Wright ever was."

Well, if McCain is pandering to religious psychotics, that's his liability. He has a more weighty millstone around his neck, IMO: bush. In any case, religious psychosis is invariably destructive, and I'm glad to hear Obama confronted it.

Carla. Never mind the link. I found this one:

Obama Denounces Statements of His Pastor as 'Inflammatory'

The thing that does concern me about Obama, to the extent that I am concerned about him, is his ties to the Exelon Corporation. Exelon is one of the nation's largest nuclear plant operators, and one of Obama's largest campaign contributors. When I hear Obama say that nuclear energy is "on the table" when discussing climate change - that causes me concern. (Note: the NY Times is not "Fixed Noise".)

Nuclear Leaks and Response Tested Obama in Senate

Most of what Wright says is true, the media just doesn't want to admit it. White men did wipe out the Native Americans, white men did kidnap and enslave black people, white American men did nuke two Japanese cities, white American military do occupy many, many, many nations, and are trying to occupy many, many, many more, and the chickens are coming home to roost. Disclaimer: I do not hate America, but these rich white men who call themselves Christian conservatives need to give the White House (Funny they called it that) back to the people.

Do you think rich white Republican church folks want to hear the truth about how they have behaved? NO! What they do want is to keep their power, so they think they need a McCain-Clinton race come Fall, because they believe they can beat her. So they will stay on this at all costs, no matter how mant times Obama denounces and rejects the Rev.

And Hilary is playing right into their trap instead of stepping aside, because her career just can't come to an end now. She also will do anything.

I think all Obama supporters should do a write-in for him on their ballot come Fall if he isn't on the ticket. Maybe you can get Move-On to spread the word on that Carla. I would, but I am not a member.

Rosa, I agree with what you say. Wright, though inflamatory, spoke a lot of truth. No, most Americans don't want to hear it.

And yes, I also agree that Hillary is thinking more of herself than the party or the country for that matter. Many Republicans crossed over to vote for her in the Texas primary because they believe that McCain can beat her in November. She, of course, will not acknowledge that. As said before, the attacks now on Obama are coming because of the fear that he will receive the nomination.

Rosa, let's think positive and believe that Obama will get the nomination. And as far as Moveon, anyone can join it. Just get on and sign the petition. They'll put you on their list and send you updates on what is going on. It's a good organization to belong to, because they help to get the word out.

When the dust settles and reasonable people dissect Wright statements, he will be condemned for some things and praised for saying other things and putting his efforts where his mouth is. There will be more praises. In my opinion, Obama attended his church for those values.

I thought about this for a very long time. Way before the MSM picked on this. It was out there and I read about it. At the end of the day any honest American has to know that those Katrina victims were not singing "God Bless America." American citizens with Arab names victim of the Patriot Act did not sing "God Bless America" while captured and handled without due process. We build more jails than we spend money on educating our inner city youth. Yet some people want to want to ignore all that and pretend that we all get along and everything is fine. I am very happy these issues are being discussed. Wait they are not discussing, they are condemning the whole thing. When the dust settles, they shall look deep into the aches of American, for a better America.

Obama did more than denounce Wright's statements. He denied ever hearing anything like them, before Fox played the tapes. Or was it at the beginning of his campaign, when he barred Wright from speaking? Senator Obama has some questions to answer, and Fox seems to be the only network that will bother asking them.

Christopher, I don't know if what you say is true, but here's a question for you...Why doesn't Fox ever go after the Republicans? Why do they only go after the Democrats? My brother, who watches Fox, never even knew about the many scandals having to do with Republicans. He lives on a little cloud of ignorance of anything that smells of corruption in the Republican party.

I think it's very odd that concerns about Obama's ties to Exelon seem to be ignored, just as they have been in this thread. It makes me think that people do not realize how serious an issue the expansion of nuclear energy is, and that people's support for Obama is just as willfully ignorant as w.'s supporters have been. I am convinced that we absolutely do not need another personality cult in this country. But I am also convinced that that is exactly what the superficial media projects. I would urge any Obama supporter to look at the Exelon ties (link above), and IF you decide to continue to support Obama, then challenge him on this issue. Expansion of nuclear energy in this country is a profoundly wrong direction to pursue.

Steve, I read the article and yes, it disturbs me. But there are no perfect candidates here. I could point to equally disturbing issues with McCain and Clinton. They all have flaws and weaknesses. But out of all the candidates--Obama, Clinton and McCain, I find less faults with Obama. With McCain we will get more of the same that we've had for the last eight years.

Carla. "I read the article and yes, it disturbs me. But...."

No "But...". I'm not asking you to change your support of Obama. I will vote for him if he is the nominee. I'm asking you to address this issue with the Obama campaign and your fellow Obama supporters.

were are the clinton tax returns-donation list for the clinton library&massage-parlor.Wher did that 5 million come from-chineese reastaurants again-who is bank -rolling the clinton machine??? Mc Cain at 71 years,a one term president who will not owe anything to anyone to get re-elcted, maybe able to get things done.

Micky, McCain already owes favors if he gets elected. He has lobbyists in charge of his campaign. If you don't think he owes favors you are sadly mistaken. Besides, we need change. He can only give us more of the same as we have gotten from Bush. He comes across as tired and ready for retirement. He has no enthusiasm or passion. It's time for him to retire--in my opinion.

Steve, I agree. We need to speak out as citizens. I think that was one of the problems over the last eight years. We as Americans got complacent and didn't get vocal about our concerns to our congressional representatives and to Bush. I think the country is tired of it now though and will not stand for the same "business as usual" government. I may be wrong, but I hope not.

Carla: " I think the country is tired of it now though and will not stand for the same "business as usual" government. I may be wrong, but I hope not."

Media is still as superficial as ever. The country is diverted from the real issues just as easily as ever, IMO. That said, Porgie T., Sam Carana, and Sherwood M. have written good articles on the nuclear industry's attempts at a so-called "renaissance". If you're not familiar with this issue, these are good sources.

Of course, that's not to mention Amory Lovins.

I agree about the media. I read shocking things and am disappointed to see that they are never mentioned on the evening news. Maybe it's about time, but they always find time to talk about Britney Spears.

Nuclear power plants have been a concern of mine since the beginning. There are too many possibilities for things to go wrong and for targeting by terrorist groups. The waste is a problem too.

Fox news has reported on GOP scandals, Carla. They also have many liberal commentators, in contrast with their "conservative" image. I don't know how often your brother watches it, but I watch it enough to affirm that.

What you see as a "smear campaign" is actually called "negative media exposure," and it happens to every candidate. It's no surprise that other news outlets are reporting negative stories about Obama. You didn't expect him to get some kind of "pass," did you?

No, Christopher. I did not expect him to get a "pass". But when you consider that not one network seems to be mentioning McCain's endorsements by Rev. Parsley and Rev. Hagee, that makes me wonder. Why are the media guns pointed consistently at Obama?

Christopher, can you please link to footage from FOX that demonstrates that they have attacked or reported negative stories about McCain. If you can find them, I'd like to see it.

And who pray tell are all these "many liberal commentators"? Please send us a list so we can verify their credentials and their ties to "liberal" institutions or think tanks.

Fox News did attack McCain before he became the persumptive nominee.
But of course, they attacked him then because he was not far enough to the right.
Now that they are stuck with him, he is still more to the right than Obama.
I still do not consider that fair and balanced.

Yes Obama did denounce what Rev. Wright said in his sermon after 9-11-2001. Oddly enough if you listen to the whole thing it isn't any worse and probably more accurate than Pat Robertson with Hurricane Katrina. Why did they have to go back nearly 7 years to find an inflamatory sermon. BTW Obama wasn't there that day.

Sadly it gave Rev. Wright his Kato Kaitlyn moment of shame. And he went looney tunes on it. Seriously! And So the whole church was under attack. And no it is not a racist church. So the Obama's sent in their letter of resignation from the church and at no point in doing so did they attack the church. They apologized to it for all the media attention focused on the church.

Meanwhile McCain spent MONTHS trying to obtain the endorsement of two very bif Evangelical ministers. Who eventually gave it to him and then they went and showed their own insanity that was actually far worse than the one clip of Rev. Wright played over and over and over. This got VERY LITTLE COVERAGE.

Even after Wright was replaced and the Obama's had resigned from the church they were still getting blamed for everyone who ever was in that church or anyplace the Obama's had ever once been or thought of going and the other person flatulated. But cue Barack he must be responsible??Does this make ANY sense to ANYONE? Not as a campaign strategy as "news"?

You are right the other news organizatons must start refusing to report on non-news events or issues.

Jared, you are right, a great defense is to contribute even if it is just a little, I will do so.

On the times that FOX news has reported on GOP scandals it is less reporting (unless it is at a local level, ironically our local Fox news is really pretty good, it is the rest that should be shunned, and possibly sued for false advertising) and more about spinning it and putting lipstick and the multitudes of pigs that they have seemed to almost thrive on these last 7 years.

As far as any concern about Obama and Nuclear Energy. John McCain has been saying he is completely for it and woudl have X number of plants built across the country. So big whoop.

How come no one listens when Big Oil keeps making GIANORMOUS profits while gouging us while we have an administration that to say they are oil men is like saying the tin man squeaked a bit now and then, wow what a pairing they would make...but oil man , tin man...same sex no go?

I think if all of us really want the smear attacks to stop on Barack Obama, then we need to ensure the smear attacks stop on Sarah Palin. After all, she is not running against Obama. Sarah Palin has been attacked on The View, SNL, Letterman, etc. I don't believe that smear campaigns are the way things should be in America and somebody should lead by example. If the Republicans won't step up and stop the smears, we need to be the ones.