I have had a very busy week and found myself again watching too much television as I lay on the couch hoping I could recoup a little more energy. I am a news hound and after a day surfing the news channels available to me I am ready to offer my impressions of the content and additional content from past News Articles.
The first trigger emerged on Wolf Blitzers’ segment when a “guest” commented that the newest announced Presidential Candidate, Michelle Bachmann erred during her announcement. She announced her candidacy in Waterloo, Iowa, her home state, wrongly claiming that actor John Wayne was from her Waterloo, Iowa. In fact he was from Iowa, but not Waterloo. It was John Wayne Gacy who was from Waterloo.
Lest we forget, on February 5, 2010 The Patriot Post reported that at the Natonal Prayer Breakfast, President Obama not only got a sailors’ name wrong, but couldn’t figure out how to pronounce “corpsman”. He said “corpse-man”, twice.
And I had just began to think that CNN and Wolfe were fairly non-partisan. I find that not only was the guest partisan but sexist as well. Perhaps I have erred by calling these folks guests, maybe they should be morelikely called “bag men”, you know the guys that that the mob used to deliver pay-off money, but in this case deliver messages that are then paid for doing it.
Then I remembered that Chris Wallace interviewed Michelle Bachmann on his Sunday program for FOX news. Investor.com reported on 6-27-2011 the following: Fox News' Chris Wallace asks Michele Bachmann, "Are you a flake?"
It is reported that he apologized to her the next day, but in my opinion his question was obviously more sexist than partisan. Do you think he would have asked any of the male GOP contenders the same question?
The author of that article writes: “ What she is is a heavyweight. “How should a presidential candidate handle a snide, moronic question completely removed from the issues of the day? If you're Rep. Bachmann, you let the facts expose the questioner's stupidity.
"I'm not only a lawyer," she told Wallace on "Fox News Sunday." "I have a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I've worked in serious scholarship and worked in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children."
In view of this attack by Chris Wallace of FOX NEWS, I have to add them to the list of sexist reporters and as partisan as anyone who watches FOX NEWS can agree, although their claim of “fair and balanced” reporting is not justified in my opinion.
So until and unless Sarah Palin declares the media will continue the bashing of Mrs. Bachmann….then they will have no time left to get onto the facts because then they would have two candidates to minimize and demean. Lets face it ladies, they did the same thing to Hillary Clinton. But going back to the Wolf Blitzer account, the “guest-bagman” added that Mrs. Bachmann was a “show-horse, not a work-horse”, which Wolfe repeated as a question for confirmation from the “guest-bagman”. Speaking of “show-horse” vs. “work-horse”….I find the following reports quite representative of our present Commander in Chief.
It's Not Just 'Ayes' and 'Nays': Obama's Votes in Illinois Echo (December 20, 2007)Barack Obama being sworn in as a Democratic state senator in Illinois in 1997. He was first elected in 1996 and left in 2004.
In 1999, Barack Obama was faced with a difficult vote in the Illinois legislature — to support a bill that would let some juveniles be tried as adults, a position that risked drawing fire from African-Americans, or to oppose it, possibly undermining his image as a tough-on-crime moderate.
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In the end, Mr. Obama chose neither to vote for nor against the bill. He voted “present,” effectively sidestepping the issue, an option he invoked nearly 130 times as a state senator.
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