Barbara West asks Senator Biden questions - Obama campaign blacklists media
I recently made a Youtube video where I mentioned several questions that should be asked by each voter before they make their vote. The now famous Joe the plumber had a question that he asked of Senator Obama. Joe has been raked over the coals by many part of the media and internet for that. Much of the major media was also embarrassed that the internet and an average guy are asking the toughest questions of the Obama campaign since he decided to run for President.
But now we may see why
After that interview the Obama campaign pulled all interviews with Biden and his wife. The station, for those not familiar with Barbara West and Florida television, is the number 1 news channel for the last 20 years in Florida.
Over and over it seems that every news organization that challenges the Obama campaign is labeled as rude, outlandish, and biased. Every tough question has been branded Right-wing propaganda, and refused to be answered.
Everyone admits that the media overwhelmingly is in favor of Obama and has been unfairly easy in asking Obama questions. And even when Obama has been on “difficult” news media, like Fox News with Bill O’Reilly, and treated fairly he has turned around and blasted the organization as being unfair in their coverage.
Why is it that Obama refused to answer, and attack when asked, the tough questions. Why is it off-limits to question the direct similarities of Obama’s self-stated desire to redistribute wealth and socialism (which is a moderate form of communism)? Especially when socialism has part of its definition as redistribution of wealth? Why is it wrong to note the on-the-record comments of Obama from his past?
Do you think this is unfair? Is this a question that the news media can’t ask? And what else that might be of interest that cannot be asked.
By the way Biden stated directly that only Obama would be challenged by an international crisis. Colin Powell never addressed this in statements I read. And the Obama campaign did in fact give $800,000 to an ACORN subsidiary.
Labels: Barbara West, Bill O'Reilly, Colin Powell, Joe Wurzelbacher, Presidential election race 2008, Senator Barack Obama, Senator Biden
posted by M. Vass @ Monday, October 27, 2008
4 Comments
4 Comments:
I saw only excerpts from the news interview with Senator Biden. Either the reporter does not know Marx, does not understand some of the objectives of our tax system, or does not understand the concept of the theory of distribution of wealth that is part of every known society.
The United States has a tax system which is a mixture of progressive taxation and regressive taxation. Taxes are used to pay the costs of all government services and to redistribute wealth. In the USA and every state fears that no one group or person should have more power and authority than the state because of wealth. Taxes is it's means to check and balance the problem of equity based on wealth.
jack_snyder25@yahoo.com
She kept trying to ask the same question, worded differently. That's why he asked "Are you kidding me?" She obviously didn't like his answer, so tried again. it seemed to me that that interview was a waste of Biden's time.
Cathy M.
This comment comes from Presidential Race Blog, where I am also the author.
Fily Bâ
October 28, 2008 @ 1:21 pm
The analysis of the situation provided by the piece is somewhat misguided. It is the belief of the author that the questions posed by Barbara West are exemplary of those that should be, but are not being asked by much of the media. However, the truth is that while Obama does get some favorable attention by the mainstream media, this is in the face of the multiple things the media allows John McCain and Sara Palin do get away with. The questions posed by West were not in depth or challenging but rather already refuted statements that were only designed to maintain the focus of the people on some obscure, ungrounded, and often irrelevant charges while taking their focus off of the issues that truly matter. Such is the last strategy of the McCain Campaign.
Please see my post Was Barbara West's Senator Biden interview fair? for my response to your comments.
And thank you for taking the time to comment.
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