Ben Smith writes about this idiotic poll question by CNN on their website. When did they start channeling poll questions that would normally appear in the NY Post? It’s just offensive that a main stream news organization would stoop this low.
I’ve got to say, I’ve never seen a reader poll like this on a mainstream media website (or, to be honest, a right-wing blog). This is currently on CNN.com.
This question seems tied to this story, in which he took a question about his patriotism. But it’s odd to see the mainstream media drive a largely whispered question that none of his main, named critics — Hillary, McCain, or the RNC — will touch.
I’d demand an immediate apology from CNN . Did John McCain show the proper patriotism when he sang bomb, bomb, Iran? Please leave the jingoistic garbage to the Freepers.
John Cole points out just how patriotic these American flag lapel pin wearing Republicans are, That is unless being corrupt is a virtue CNN thinks Barack Obama should strive for:
Then we have Rick Renzi, John Doolittle, Bob Ney—you get the point.
Since Obama and the Democrats seem to have such a big problem with patriotism and lapel pins, I guess we need to have yet another photo montage of prominent Republicans demonstrating how to wear a lapel pin. Here goes…read on
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Does CNN have the proper credibility to be a News Channel?
that librul media is at it again
cnn, you can suck my sweaty hairy balls. cnn = faux news
How about:
“Was John McCain sufficiently tortured during Vietnam to be President?”
Swift Boat Veterans want to know.
balloon-juice is awesome.
But where do you wear your lapel pin in a prison shower? Lapel pin on a rope?
Well if Bush & Co. and their ilk are patriotic, then frankly we could do with a lot less patriotism.
Isn’t spending nearly two years campaigning everyday for the presidency proof enough of one’s patriotism? CNN should be ashamed.
What a bunch of shit.
Ver ist du Swaztika?
It interesting how the GOP would love nothing more than to sew a big yellow Star of David on Barack Obama’s chest.
The American Flag long ago has stopped being a symbol of our country. It has become a symbol of blind obedience to the notion that America can invade any country, torture any detainee and spy on any American with impunity.
I stand corrected from my post on a previous item.
Two sphincters farting out a rendition of “Dueling Banjos” would be an improvement.
What passes for journalism today really is simply no better than passing gas.
The FCC is the Federal Clown Commission.
Yes Patriotism. Meanwhile . . . .
JEDDAH (Reuters) - Economic growth has stalled and recovery may take longer than usual, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said on Monday.
“As of right now, U.S. economic growth is at zero,” Greenspan said at an investment conference in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia’s second-largest city. “We are at stall speed.”
Alright CNN.
Where are you?
Be a man and tell me.
Cuz I’m coming over to kick your ass.
Ass kicking is what it’s all about. And you got one coming.
But CNN just posted a story where they have Obama’s response to these claims.
Read the story here
So I’m confused, is CNN just a “typical MSM” who has it out for Obama, or did they put up a stupid post then realize it was dumb and then posted a story about how Obama responded to it?
Oh well, I enjoyed living in the black-and-white, us-against-them world, to bad that only lasted 2 seconds.
Idiots! What poll next? “Would Obamas connections to Islam be an obstacle in the war on terror?”
Asked how he would fight the image of being unpatriotic, Obama said, “There’s always some nonsense going on in general elections. Right? If it wasn’t this, it would be something else. If you recall, first it was my name. Right? That was a problem. And then there was the Muslim e-mail thing and that hasn’t worked out so well, and now it’s the patriotism thing.
Nuff said.
I’m no Obama fan, but this is outrageous.
Lest we forget, CNN was the network who gave us Bernard Shaw’s disgraceful Kitty Dukakis question, and that was before Fox News showed them how to really lower the bar.
Gawd, so many of today’s “journalists” are contemptible.
False patriotism runs amok. US flag bumper stickers, support the troops metallic stick-ons, lapel pins make one patriotic only in the eyes of the grossly misinformed and ignorant general populace. Few understand that a true patriot rebels against a government that is unjust. Where would America be if the true patriots of the 18th century had not risen up against unjust government? The right wing slime machine is going to have a ball going after Obama on the patriotism issue. A well funded and professional slime campaign coupled with a very gullible public has proven to be most effecitve; always remember the swift boating of Kerry.
The candidates for president are pretty much assuming that vast financial resources will exist to be deployed against a range of problems. Everybody is going to be hugely disappointed.
BTW, where is mccain’s lapel pin? Does being a repuke trump the need to show false patriotism via lapel pin?
The only difference between FOX and CNN is that FOX is out and open with their bullshit(like the surgeon general warning on a pack of cigarettes). CNN pretends to be a creditable news source. Except for Jack Cafferty, CNN is just a large turd in the toilet next to FOX waiting to be flushed.
Looks like the poll is gone. This is going to be a loooooooooooooong election season.
Pay attention John … fascism, know it, love it.
They are out in front of you yet again. Stop being surprised that you smell smoke while living with a pyromaniac.
The flag is supposed to be the symbol of our nation. It is flown in front of government buildings or it is draped over the coffin of those who served their country. The flag is not a cheap bumper sticker made in Thailand, nor is it a cheap lapel pin made in Communist China.
Sincerely,
A US ARMY VETERAN
Even the neocon’s head cheerleader, Bloody Bill Kristol, wouldn’t stoop this sort of childish tactic. Oh, wait, that’s what his NYTimes column is about today.
You’re in good company, CNN.
Our entire system is corrupt. Our government, our agencies, our media…corruption, deceit, cheating, lying…they permeate all aspects of our lives.
Democracy is based, first and foremost on truth. There is no truth anymore, there is only what we are told.
THAT is FASCISM. Plain and simple. FASCISM.
Everyone knows that wearing a flag pin proves you’re a fine, upstanding, honest, moral patriot. Yes, indeed. Well, mostly.
Media is so corrupt. Not gonna be easy to win in November.
Democracy requires participation.
People need to participate. Not participation within the system, but outside of the system. We have a right to protest…and we have the right to protest wherever we CHOOSE. “Free speech zones”? What the hell are THOSE? The country belongs to US. We paid for the government building, the streets, the sidewalks…we OWN ALL the property in this country.
Property taxes…whether private or commercial are paid to US. Our government, federal, state, and local are MIDDLEMEN. The government owns NOTHING…we own it.
We can protest where we like. So long as we are not breaking the law, we have the right to congregate wherever we please.
ENOUGH OF THIS BULLSHIT.
Christopher Turkel @ 22:
I am wondering if the Pentagon Office of Misinformation has hackers that put things like this poll on websites like CNN. I know that sounds like a conspiracy theory; but, to put things into context, the bushy government has a track record of engaging in inefarious Orwellian activities.
What is proper? Is it flying a little American flag from your car window until it falls off and gets swept up with the trash on the side of the road? Is that proper?
Jesus, this has got to show that CNN has gotten caught up in the shit flinging fad. I’m glad Obama didn’t dignify this bs with any more than he did. He blew it off as just more crap from the big pile of crap that they’re using to try to damage him. A candidate must scare the hell out of you when you have to stoop this low to try to attack him.
I have been searching in vain for a picture of Ronald Reagan wearing a lapel pin. I hope they at least buried him with one, or he’ll be insufficiently patriotic from beyond the grave. Dig him up and stick a pin in his body!
Bloated gas bags like Tim Russert, Wolf Blitzer and the rest of them are an insult to their profession. They are an insult to our intelligence.
There was a good response to this news on another blog:
Would CNN put up a similar poll question about Hillary Clinton or John McCain?
I’d say the questions about their patriotism are much more relevant, given their support of an unConstitutional and illegal war.
This is ludicrous. Right up there with the rest of CNN’s terrible “news coverage.” They seem to be doing everything they can to hurt Obama, probably because he hasn’t taken any money from them…
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Sick Of It Day is a day for everybody who is SICK OF THE LIES, SICK OF THE CORRUPTION, SICK OF THE WAR to make their statement in a way it will really count…
CALL IN SICK on March 19, the 5th anniversary of the Iraq invasion!
I wonder if McCain put a flag pin on his dick before he allegedly laid pipe to Iseman.
Chuck @ 30:
Hack? Hell, no. They just send an email.
No country can survive when citizens are constantly fighting each other.
We’re rotting.
CNN is ramping up the shit in time for the two hillary-firewall primaries.
If they can make the deal close enough, the superdelegates can steal the nomination from Obama.
Then sHillary can lose to John McCan’tKeepMyPantsOnWhenALobbyistIsInTheRoom (or McKeatingFive) after she is thoroughly demonized like Al Gore.
CoIntelPro @ 40:
And there’s your winner for today.
just sick and sad and low.
Idle financial web gossip has it that the Bushit Criminal Cabal and their Wall St ButtBoyz are hoping to keep enough duct tape and baling wire wrapped around the stinking pile of parrot droppings known as the ‘aMerakin Economy’ to reach April 15.
The last real cash infusion for the Gov’ment before it become obvious to even the most moronic of US ‘citizens’ that the cupboard is Bare.
I mean BARE.
xoites defends Constitution @ 38:
It was exposed some time ago that NYTimes, CNN, Fux, LATimes, WaPo and other major outlets have a staffer provided by or assigned by the Intel community (usually CIA) to help deliver a controlled message. I remember that coming out after the 2000 elections, when people started realizing that Al Gore was being demonized by everyone while lying repugs were portrayed as ’sincere’ and ‘honest’.
The media train wreck for Obama has commenced. The MSM agenda to destroy Hillary and love Obama has been non-stop since the boy pile on of Hillary at the MSNBC Philadelphia debate. “Hate Hillary” “Love Obama” wild-eyed mantras have reached crescendo since John Edwards left the race. Corporate media, owned by Republicans serves the will of the Republicans who fear Hillary and knew all along that they could defeat Obama in the general election. Now he will get plenty of vetting and it will be brutal. All those red states Obama won? All those Republican who voted against Hillary? Yep, they will vote for McCain in November. Obama’s new theme song:
“Why do u build me up (build me up) Buttercup, baby
Just to let me down (let me down) and mess me around
And then worst of all (worst of all) you never call, baby
When you say you will (say you will) but I love you still
I need you more than anyone, darlin’ (aaaaaahhhhhh)
You know that I have from the start
So build me up (build me up) Buttercup, don’t break my heart.”
sherry @ 42:
Yeah…no one thought that the powers that be would sink this low…huh.
And who woulda thunk that someone would fly planes into buildings.
Chuck @ 24:
Not supposed to be. But it is.
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are not supposed to be cheap toilet paper, but it defacto is.
“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
Samuel Johnson
April 7, 1775
Am in the middle of Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. If you haven’t read it, stop reading this blog and read it right now. You will be a better person for it.
I wonder if CNN thinks they will get more viewers when they pull this bullshit. Somewhere in the back of my little mind I was thinking that maybe CNN is about middle of the road. Not near enough to the truth to be called liberal but coming down enough on the neocons to not be in the same sentence as FOX News. When they do something like this they lose any credibility they may have gained.
I use to put CNN on as soon a Tucker hit the airwaves at 3:00 PM west coast time but now I think I may have to just turn the set off. What is the point of watching CNN when they are only spewing the same crap as FOX. Whatever news CNN happens to wedge into their neocon propaganda I can get elsewhere. Fuck you CNN. Sorry Jack Cafferty but I cannot sit through the propaganda to hear what little they let you say.
Truth B Told @ 47:
Actually, it’s car magnets and window inserts made in “most favored nation’ China.