Corporate Media Propaganda Promoting Hillary Clinton's Campaign

The world seems to have gone topsy turvy overnight. Previously, the corporate media was going easy on Hillary Clinton and failing to push her on the Income Tax Return issue and failing to label her campaign as a loss in spite of the fact that Clinton cannot hope to catch up with Obama short of landslide victories in Texas and Ohio. This was acknowledged even by the Clinton campaign until recently...but we know the flip flopping Clinton campaign will lower their bar and heighten the Obama bar every chance they get.

The madness is that the media has gone beyond handling Hillary Clinton with kid gloves. They are now actively promoting Hillary Clinton's campaign while bashing Obama at every turn. Lots of progressives are saying the corporate media loves a horse race and this is the reason for the media spin.

I believe there are two major reasons the media has flipped and it's not because the media loves a horse race. The media stands to make record breaking profits if they promote the lame duck Hillary . If the political pundits can keep the campaign funds rolling in I wonder what their bonuses will amount to? Obama represents the grass roots and Hillary Clinton--the Corporate Girl--is the ultimate Washington insider. The corporate elitists and their lobbyists want a Presidential race between McCain and Clinton...they know they can control these two candidates.

Rush Limbaugh has joined the fray and is recruiting his Texas listeners to go out and vote for Hillary Clinton. Did anyone ever predict this? The Republicans are desperately trying to derail the Obama train because they know McCain has a fighting chance pitting his experience against Hillary's meager experience. McCain has a lot more years in the Senate than Hillary. Heck, Obama has more legislative experience than Hillary but the media does not tout his experience in the Illinois Senate where he sponsored major legislation.

McCain will have a field day with Clinton's incompetent, mismanaged campaign. He will be able to raise many questions about her judgement, character, and competency. Questions the media won't touch with a ten foot pole. It's just not profitable for the media to report fairly on the Clinton candidacay.

No matter how much Obama raises for political advertisements these advertisements can not compete with the spin fo the corporate media pundits. They are on the air 24/7 (on cable and satellite) and they are gunning for Obama and campaigning for Hillary.

No you aren't crazy....watch what they say....Hillary is their golden goose. Let's hope the grassroots will be able to hold on and see our candidate win the Democratic primary.

We Need HONEST Leaders

Hillary and Bill Clinton have been campaigning like neocons not like democrats. You'd think they had morphed into Karl Rove himself with the divisive lies they keep spreading.

There's one big fact that everyone can see....Hillary Clinton will lie and maybe stop at nothing to get elected.

If, with the electronic voting etc, Hillary Clinton does get the Democratic nomination then the Democratic leadership is going to be in for a major shock in November. There are too many folks who have been the base for the democratic party for decades who will either sit at home on election day, write in a candidate, or vote the green party.

Hillary is losing some strong noteable women supporters

I suspect that many pro-choice women will be leaving Hillary's camp over this.

The LGBT community has not been fond of the Clinton's. Clinton had promised the LGBT community that he would open our military forces to the worldwide standard...of allowing lesbians and gay men to serve openly. It was expected that Clinton would do this through an executive order. Instead, the Clinton word was broken and the horrible don't ask don't tell policy was put into place. Lots of folks in the lesbian/gay community remember how we were sold out and are no longer willing to play with the Clintons.

How anyone who is scraping can forgive the Clinton's for that awful welfare reform program that broke the safety net for those in need in this country. There are many more poor, hungry children and families in our country today because of the Clinton legacy.

Doubting that the Clintons are both notorious sellouts? Hillary has accepted alot of money from insurance companies. What happened to national universal healthcare that Clinton promised? He gave it to Hillary to run and she spent alot of time at the White House kitchen table with folks like Dr. Dozoretz and his wife from First Hospital Corporation, a very large HMO insurance company. When I heard that I knew that their promise for a national health care policy was nothing more than a vote getter and I swore NEVER to support Hillary Clinton again.

Oh and the biggest sellout of all...The Clinton's pushed NAFTA through Congress...So give me a break Bill when you want to preach about all the good that Hillary did for "us" by working on the Wal-mart board?? Give me a break. Do I want to return to the Clinton White House Days?

Hillary wants us to believe that she can take lots of money from the multinational corporations and yet she will represent "us" not "them." Well your cherished "record" says the opposite. There is no way that I will go to the polls and pull the lever for Hillary Clinton....I'd rather vote for write in the name Dennis Kucinich if the Democratic "alleged leaders" like Pelosi/Reid/Carville etc insist on Hillary being the winner. There are many others who are thinking they will sit at home and let that message ring out....

No way....besides breaking your promises to the people who put you into office...this country remained divided. We need UNITY in our country and Hillary Clinton is a divisive force. Her campaign is exposing the divisiveness....

And IF you still don't believe that Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton are liars....just look at how they are campaigning and smearing the Barack Obama campaign with horrible lies....the biggest lies are through their supporters, of course...they are actually stating that Barack Obama, a Christian, is "secretly a Muslim".....and then there's the lies about his record....

If you look at Barack Obama's Illinois record those "present" votes were put to good use. As a young state senator he has an impressive record of getting lots of great bills passed and a very impressive record of being able to unite folks to get things done.

This is the time we need someone who can unify this country once again....We need a UNITED States of America....where folks will discuss and disagree on the issues but the issues don't get lost in nasty hateful uncivilized behavior.

Buzz....Buzz....

Let's Look at Hillary Clinton's record

First I refer you to the earlier post about how Hillary, as First Lady, took what should have been a Republican scandal and singlehandedly turned it into a Clinton scandal--Travelgate.

Hillary OFTEN mentions her mentor at the Children's Defense Fund--the legendary Marian Wright Edelman.

So let's look at what Marian Wright Edelman thinks of Hillary Clinton's alleged "record." Democracy Now reports:

AMY GOODMAN: Marian Wright Edelman, we just heard Hillary Rodham Clinton. She used to be the head of the board of the Children’s Defense Fund, of the organization that you founded. But you were extremely critical of the Clintons. I mean, when President Clinton signed off on the, well, so-called welfare reform bill, you said, “His signature on this pernicious bill makes a mockery of his pledge not to hurt children.” So what are your hopes right now for these Democrats? And what are your thoughts about Hillary Rodham Clinton?

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Well, you know, Hillary Clinton is an old friend, but they are not friends in politics. We have to build a constituency, and you don’t—and we profoundly disagreed with the forms of the welfare reform bill, and we said so. We were for welfare reform, I am for welfare reform, but we need good jobs, we need adequate work incentives, we need minimum wage to be decent wage and livable wage, we need health care, we need transportation, we need to invest preventively in all of our children to prevent them ever having to be on welfare.

And yet, you know, many years after that, when many people are pronouncing welfare reform a great success, you know, we’ve got growing child poverty, we have more children in poverty and in extreme poverty over the last six years than we had earlier in the year. When an economy is down, and the real test of welfare reform is what happens to the poor when the economy is not booming. Well, the poor are suffering, the gap between rich and poor widening. We have what I consider one of—a growing national catastrophe of what we call the cradle-to-prison pipeline. A black boy today has a one-in-three chance of going to prison in his lifetime, a black girl a one-in-seventeen chance. A Latino boy who’s born in 2001 has a one-in-six chance of going to prison. We are seeing more and more children go into our child welfare systems, go dropping out of school, going into juvenile justice detention facilities. Many children are sitting up—15,000, according to a recent congressional GAO study—are sitting up in juvenile institutions solely because their parents could not get mental health and health care in their community. This is an abomination.

The woman Hillary Clinton regularly mentions as her mentor strongly criticizes Hillary's alleged record. I personally would love to see a humane, progressive woman in the White House....but Hillary Clinton is NOT that woman. Hillary likes to compare herself to Margaret Thatcher, who was often jokingly referred to as a "man in drag" because of her policies.

Hillary will probably love the fact that Mosquito Blog is criticizing her...it will maker her appear more centrist.

I can personally understand the symbolic importance and progressive act it would be to elect our first woman president. That would be joyful indeed. But not if our first woman president is not progressive.

Does one's gender make one immune from betraying helpless children and the poor? The safety net in this country was ripped apart under the Clinton's and we have more children in poverty today because of their version of welfare reform.

Taking money from the poor to "give it" to the rich corporations is not beneficial to our country.

H/T to Buzzflash for the inspiration.