*I've changed the title. Thanks for the tips! Sorry about that.
This is my first diary and I’m not sure exactly if I’m doing everything correctly or not. I apologize in advance for anything and everything that I’ve done wrong.
I’m pretty new to Dkos, political ranting and spending WAY too much time on the internet reading every site, post, blog, etc. that concerns this election. I dream in open tabs...
Now for the rant...
I am furious that the MSM chooses to totally ignore so many news stories that raise questions concerning Hillary Clinton’s campaign tactics and political pandering. Instead we get a 24 hr loop of more inane talk about Rev. Wright and Hillary Clinton gaining in polls. No one is questioning anything that she has said or that has come to light over the past 4-6 weeks. All the political reporting has been unbalanced. WTF?
Why won’t the few journalists out there ask the hard questions of Hillary? Or ANY questions for that matter. No one has really pushed her on anything, nor gotten a real answer out of her. She’s been evading and avoiding everything, and she is very quick to just turn every argument into an attack on Obama and his campaign. I am truly shocked at the numbers of Americans who are actually falling for her routine. Could that many people not really see through her façade and her manipulation of the facts? (I keep forgetting how many people voted for Bush – both times!)
Anyway my frustration stems from the dirty tricks her campaign is engaging in to try to ruin and destroy a fellow Democrat. Furthermore, although all of this information is out there, it is not being covered by the MSM and therefore the people are voting for and supporting her without knowing the truth. We just keep getting more of the same about Sen. Obama’s Rev. Wright problem (which is SO OVER!) and his supposed problem attracting blue-collar voters. These right-wing talking points are really getting old and the worst part of it is that Hillary’s surrogates push the same meme so it has gotten to the point where it’s just a repetitive drone.
Let’s try to move the conversation forward, shall we? I think it is important to make sure someone in the media cover the important stories about Hillary that they have been ignoring over the past weeks. Here is a small list of those stories and info, including links (BTW-thanks Dkos diarists!) about Clinton that should be questioned and scrutinized by the media. The voters deserve to have all the facts and not just the BS spin Hillary’s campaign, her pathetic surrogates and the Republican pundits have been pushing.
Here are links to media contacts from Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting and in spreadsheets I put together with some of the TV stations and newspaper contacts in North Carolina. (I didn’t have time to do Indiana, sorry.) Please call and/or email the media and see if we can get the media to run these stories and raise questions about Clinton and her campaign for a change. Thanks!
Here we go:
1) Illegal Robo-Calls Disenfranchising Voters Linked to Clinton campaign/supporters. MAKE SURE THE MSM COVERS THIS STORY! This is so disturbing. Their focus in NC was on suppressing the African-American vote. I am disgusted that "Democrats" (well, whatever Clinton and her friends are) would sink to these Bush/Cheney/Rove tactics. The DNC MUST do something about this.
*Here's a great diary from this morning that I've added:
NC Robocalls: NPR uncovers more Clinton ties, shady dealings with WVWV (Updated)
BREAKING: Source of deceptive NC robo-calls exposed
Women's Voices UPDATEDx2: Chance to respond?
NC Robo-calls: Hillary's Campaign Manager on board of group making calls
From Facing South:
Yesterday, N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper publicly denounced the group's tactics, declaring their anonymous robo-calls to be illegal and ordering that they be stopped.
Did Women's Voices Women Vote mislead N.C. elections officials?
Same firm does voter contact work for robo-call group, Clinton campaign
2)The Clinton campaign's Sidney Blumenthal feeding lies about Obama to the Right-Wing pundits!!! These are the tactics of her campaign - straight out of the Rove playbook. Make sure people know about this.
Sidney Blumenthal Uses Former Right-Wing Foes To Attack Obama
3) Gas tax proposal BS – She’s been pandering to voters with this and it appears to have worked! Let’s tell the voters just how she has fooled them.
Gas Tax Holiday = Cheap Votes
Clinton-McCain gas tax holiday slammed as bad idea
Clinton Gas-Tax Proposal Criticized
4) Magnequench Plant – Typical Hypocrisy from the Clinton’s, blame someone else for what you’ve done.
ABC’s Tapper "Clinton Decries China’s Acquisition of Indiana Company – Ignoring Her Husband’s Role"
McClatchy’s Thomma "Clinton blasts Bush for project Bill OK'd"
Clinton Criticizing Closure of Indiana Factory That Clinton Helped Close
ABC Digs Into Clinton Trade Hypocrisy - Clinton Campaign Responds With More Deception
5) What about the $109,000,000.00? Where did the money come from? Speeches?!?!
Pushing trade, helping governments and companies make deals...what else has Clinton done since he left the White House?
There is so much I could link here but please just add links in the comment or just forward your favorite to the MSM.
Remember when Dubai wanted to buy all of our ports? This was actually being considered. Bill Clinton was helping Dubai negotiate, putting the safety of the American people at risk.
Bill Clinton advises Dubai as Hillary attacks its US ports deal
Clinton aides had hand in Dubai deal
Not just Colombia: It's also the U.A.E.
Don’t forget they still haven’t answered any questions concerning their taxes and some 18 million unaccounted for. They filed an extension so they wouldn’t have to reveal their taxes for last year. What are they hiding? How much did they make and how did they make it? Make the media ask.
Mothership: Clinton Tax Returns Out $109 Million!
Breaking: Clintons earned $109 Million 2000-2007
6) Who are they calling elite? Who’s out of touch?
Once again $109,000,000.00 – what blue-collar worker wouldn’t connect with or have something in common with Bill and Hill and their mountain of cash?
The Clinton’s haven’t pumped their own gas in more than 20+ years. (They’ve just expelled their own! Her speeches must be among the worst things for the environment.)
Hillary can’t work a coffee-machine! When was the last time she’s ever had to get her own coffee?
Chelsea is stumping for Hillary and talking about how her mother understands the difficulties of the middle-class voters. No one however is allowed to ask Chelsea any questions about anything other than her mother’s policies. It would be nice to ask how a 28 year old gets a job that pays her a $200,000 salary? How many Americans will work their entire lives and never make that kind of money in one year? Come on, not even over six.
2006 – Profiles Chelsea’s switch from a $120,000/year position to a job with a $100,000 base and a possible $150,000 bonus
2008 - $200,000/year
7) What about Hillary’s church? Please read!!! This is more disturbing than the worst of Rev. Wright played on a continuous loop – I swear!
Hillary's Nasty Pastorate
Hillary's Prayer: Hillary Clinton's Religion and Politics
How Hillary Clinton turned herself into the consummate Washington player
Jesus plus nothing:
NBC News on Sen. Clinton & "The Family"
8) Earmarks
These are a couple of good links showing how Hillary has abused earmarks for campaign contributions in the past and how she’s currently asking for an incredible $2.3B in earmarks now.
Clinton By Far Worst Abuser Of Earmarks
Clinton: $2.3B in earmarks
9) – 12) Why was Hillary given a pass on Snipergate? On NAFTA? On her vote to invade and start a war with Iraq? On her vote to authorize Bush to attack Iran (Kyl-Lieberman)? On her recent mention of obliterating Iran?
Hillary only said that she "misremembered" the Bosnian sniper incident. That was her feeble excuse. Why was she allowed a pass on this? Misremembering may concern some small detail; the exact date of the event, what one was wearing, etc. Misremembering has never included details of which nothing similar HAS EVER OCCURRED IN YOUR LIFE and you therefore have never experienced. Due to the danger...an emergency corkscrew landing? Sitting on flak jackets? Sniper Fire? Running to armored cars? My guess is SHE DEFINITELY INHALED.
Her White House schedules, when finally released showed she did act on behalf of and pushed for NAFTA. She so easily swept the facts under the rug and the media allowed her to do it. Why? She has outright lied about these facts concerning her stance on NAFTA and no one has confronted her on this. Demand a better answer.
UPDATED: Papers Expose Lies of Clinton, Emanuel & Gergen On NAFTA
She never said she was wrong to vote for the war. She has only said it was Bush’s fault. She thought he would have made a better decision. Then she said she was against the war before Obama was and that she has voted more strongly against it than Obama? WTF? Where is the media on this? Once again absent. Make her answer something substantive.
Her vote on Kyl-Lieberman is another example of her true thoughts and intentions. It is ignorantly pushing for an unjustified war with Iran. How many more Americans must die for nothing? Her recent comments about obliterating Iran attests to her Bush/Cheney-like madness. What is her problem? Why does she want to sacrifice more Americans and put our country in further danger?
She would just attack as she claimed, no questions need be asked, no intelligence scrutinized? Sound like anyone we know? We’ve lived through hell...all for an unnecessary war. Sure, why not bring on another. It's not like we don't have the money...oh. Looks like China can own us outright. Won’t that be nice?
Globe Editorial Calls Clinton "Hillary Strangelove"/Nuclear Madwoman
We’ve had eight years of lies, dirty tricks, the destruction of families, the needless deaths of thousands, the use of fear to manipulate, the loss of our standing in the world, the trashing of the reputations of honorable men, the immorality of ignoring the needs (and lives) of our veterans, dismissing the Constitution, imprisoning innocents without evidence and/or trials, rejecting human rights, excusing and defending torture, discounting the right to privacy, denying equality, disrespecting other cultures, unethical lending practices leaving so many Americans homeless, the collapse of our economy, the loss of our jobs, the growing number of people living in poverty, countless children now going hungry, our environment suffering, disregarding natural disasters, the government creating man-made disasters, the indifference over our citizens who were begging for help standing on their roofs, slighting the poor but lining the pockets of the rich, boosting big-business and bailing out billionaires.
No more. No more "old politics", false promises and Washington Insiders. No more giving into lobbyists and special interest groups with a "wink" all for a quiet campaign contribution and other favors. Enough. We’ve had enough.
We must demand CHANGE. We must BELIEVE we can attain it. We must HOPE that tomorrow will be different. That is why we must support Barack Obama and ensure that he will be our next President.
PUSH THESE STORIES TO THE MEDIA!!!!!!!!!!
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I just want to say thanks to all the great Dkos diaries and writers who are fighting for truth and fairness! The wealth of information posted in the diaries linked above is phenomenal.