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August 2008
Saturday August 30, 2008
McCain's VP pick makes me feel like Chris Matthews does when he hears Obama.
Posted by: racinenativemn at 12:32AM CST on August 30, 2008
I feel so energized since Sarah Palin was picked. Ive been really giddy all day. I can't get over the fact that my number 1 pick for the last couple of weeks was selected. I told a lot of people who I wanted to see and they always responded with who's that. well now they know.What an exciting race! Good Luck Obama/Biden you're gonna need it.

Friday August 29, 2008
John McCain's not so senile vp pick...Alaska Governor Sarah Palin..Who would you like to see?
Posted by: racinenativemn at 7:48AM CST on August 29, 2008
Ive been saying it for weeks now. My number one vp pick would be Sarah Palin. A smart move by McCain if that's so. A smart, beautiful young woman with executive experience. So who would you like to see?

Is George Bush still president? The news dems hate to hear. Gross domestic product, or GDP, grew at a 3.3 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter, its fastest pace in nearly a year, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.
Posted by: racinenativemn at 2:23AM CST on August 29, 2008
Everywhere I go, Malls or movie theatres furnature stores or convinient stores. gas stations and restaurants, it all seems to be packed and booming. People driving better cars than me complaining about not having health care, while also having internet access and cable is ridiculous. My parents gave up a lot so my brothers and sister could get braces and health care costs for our family of 8. it seems nowadays everyone wants everything at the expense of someone else while spending on stuff that one certainly does not need to survive. 

DNC Vs. RNC and the Minnesota star tribune newspaper...
Posted by: racinenativemn at 2:01AM CST on August 29, 2008
I live 35 minutes northwest of where the RNC convention is being held. I'm curious on how the MN star tribune is going to cover the convention. i usually dont read the paper but in my lounge at work its it always sitting there so i decided to read it, all this week as a matter of fact. Glowing headlines of the DNC convention filled with glorious pictures and positive news. 4-6 good articles all this week surrounding the front page.No questions critical of the speeches given. I wonder if Minnesotas biggest newspaper is going to give the RNC the same coverage. I don't think so but i could be wrong. I didnt think the MN star trib. would do a story on Iraqs success but there it was buried on page 12 today.  Im so tempted to go down to the convention in St. Paul, but I think its going to be too crowded for my liking.

Wednesday August 27, 2008
Michelle Obama and Saul Alinsky's book Rules for Radicals
Posted by: racinenativemn at 12:36AM CST on August 27, 2008

GOTTA LOVE MARK LEVIN!

Michelle Obama quotes lines some radicalFar Left book in her DNC Convention speech.

What to make of Michelle Obama's use the terms, “The world as it is” and “The world as it should be?” From whence do they originate? Try Chapter 2 of Saul Alinsky’s book, Rules for Radicals. In last night's speech, Michelle Obama said something that peeked my curiousity. She said:

"Barack stood up that day," talking about a visit to Chicago neighborhoods, "and spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about “The world as it is” and “The world as it should be..."

And, "All of us driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won’t do – that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be."
Here’s an excerpt from Chapter 2 of Saul Alinsky’s book, Rules for Radicals:

"The means-and-ends moralists, constantly obsessed with the ethics of the means used by the Have-Nots against the Haves, should search themselves as to their real political position. In fact, they are passive — but real — allies of the Haves…The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means... The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be."

Monday August 25, 2008
Who's Ready for a Barack Obama media lovefest?
Posted by: racinenativemn at 9:53AM CST on August 25, 2008
The highlights tonight at the convention is going to portray Baracks life and I know the media is going to fall in love with him all over again. He could use a couple of points in the polls I guess. But who wants to bet the media focuses on how much BO is like you and me when thats not the case at all. Do you think any networks besides that evil Fox News with ask any real questions? Anyone wanna play softball?

Sunday August 24, 2008
Barack:I'd like to introduce the next President of the US-Joe Biden..whoops??
Posted by: racinenativemn at 1:13AM CST on August 24, 2008
Maybe he's wondering how he came to be where he's at in this evil country. Leg tingling!

Saturday August 23, 2008
Obama/Biden that's the ticket
Posted by: racinenativemn at 12:30AM CST on August 23, 2008
You think McCain has a temper check out the vp nominee. This is going to be fun to see unfold.

Friday August 22, 2008
Obama's success and the media. Read this article.Think about why the media is doing this.Explore other options besides the mainstream. try talk radio!
Posted by: racinenativemn at 9:08AM CST on August 22, 2008

Media Research Center:

  • The three broadcast networks ran 462 positive stories about Obama — 34 percent of the total — compared with only 70 stories (5 percent) that were critical.

  • NBC Nightly News was the most lopsided, with 179 pro-Obama reports, more than 10 times the number of anti-Obama stories, 17. The CBS Evening News ran 156 stories in favor of Obama, compared to just 21 anti-Obama reports. ABC’s World News was the least slanted, but still tilted roughly four-to-one in Obama’s favor — 127 positive stories to 32 negative reports.

  • Barack Obama received his best press “when it mattered most, as he debuted on the national scene,” the MRC report observed. All three networks lavished him with praise when he was the keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic Convention, and did not produce a single negative story about Obama prior to the start of his presidential campaign in early 2007.

  • Obama’s relationship with convicted influence peddler Tony Rezko was the subject of only two full network reports, one each on ABC and NBC, and was mentioned in just 15 other stories. Also, CBS and NBC initially downplayed controversial statements from Obama’s long-time pastor Jeremiah Wright.

  • Obama’s best press of this year came after he won the North Carolina primary on May 6. After that, 43 percent of stories were favorable to Obama, compared to just 1 percent that were critical.

  • The networks referred to Obama as a "liberal" only 14 times in four years, while on twice as many occasions reporters referred to him as either a "rock star," "rising star," or "superstar" during the same period.

  • Of 147 average citizens who expressed an on-camera opinion about Obama, 114 were pro-Obama, compared to just 28 that offered a negative opinion, with the remaining five offering a mixed opinion.

    Brent Bozell said in a statement: “This study proves emphatically and without question that the Big Three networks had a horse in this year’s Democratic primary race. And that with their wall-to-wall, 24-hour daily assistance, NBC, ABC and CBS provided Sen. Barack Obama’s margin of victory.

    “As the liberal media’s ardor with Sen. Hillary Clinton evaporated, so too did the inevitability of her victory. The press fixated their infatuated gazes on Sen. Obama, and afforded him the crucial coverage and support he needed to win.”


    • Saturday August 16, 2008
    America is not in bad shape unless your an american-An indian perspective
    Posted by: racinenativemn at 2:42PM CST on August 16, 2008
    I've recently became good friends with a group of people at my work from India - Vijay,Jesub,and Niraj.They all came here in 2005. Ive been learning a lot about Indian culture and talking about American culture. Last week at an Indian restaurant we got on the subject of people's attitutes and Vijay pointed out how negative and worrysome americans are and how things in this country are great. He can't understand why people are always so negative in such a great country. The U.S. is defidently the place to be. With politicians telling you everything is so bad and the media focusing on it, it seems kind of hard to get on your feet. But in the words of my new friends-Americans Lighten up and relax this is the place to be and you can accomplish anything.

    Wednesday August 13, 2008
    The media's love for Obama. Talk radio reports the news before the networks.
    Posted by: racinenativemn at 9:30AM CST on August 13, 2008

    The three major network news outlets “censored and manipulated” Barack Obama’s longtime pastor Jeremiah Wright’s sound bites to cover up his extremism, a new study by the Media Research Center charges.

    In a report scheduled for release Wednesday, the MRC states: “Rev. Wright’s noxious recorded sermons suggesting that America deserved 9/11 and that the federal government created AIDS as a tool of black genocide were widely viewed on YouTube and discussed on talk radio and cable TV. But what about the network news shows, the programs most watched by the least politically involved viewers?...

    “A Media Research Center study of ABC, CBS, and NBC news broadcasts from the formal announcement of the Obama campaign on February 10, 2007 through July 15 reveals that a viewer watching only broadcast TV news would have received a much more limited (and even censored) version of Wright’s sermons.”

    Among the key findings of the study:

  • A Fox News Channel report on March 1, 2007, delved into the “black value system” of Rev. Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. But the name of Rev. Wright did not surface on the Big Three networks until a year later, on CBS on Feb. 28, 2008.

  • The first story with excerpts from a Wright sermon did not air until two weeks later, on ABC on March 13. By that time, 42 states had already voted in the primaries.

  • Snippets of Wright’s sermons drew only 72 seconds of evening news coverage in all of March, an average of 24 seconds per network.

  • None of the Big Three aired any of Wright’s 2003 sermon accusing the federal government of hiding the truth about their “inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color,” and all three “mostly ignored” his remarks calling the 9/11 attacks “America’s chickens coming home to roost.”

  • On March 18, the evening news shows carried nearly six minutes of highlights from Obama’s “race speech” that day, in which he discussed race in America and defended his relationship with Wright, saying: “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can disown my white grandmother.” That was about five times the air time they devoted to Wright sound bites in the entire month of March.

  • Wright’s April 28 comments at the National Press Club reiterating his claims about an AIDS conspiracy and America deserving 9/11 went virtually unreported, with the AIDS comments receiving no air time and the 9/11 charge just 23 seconds. The same Big Three aired nearly six minutes of clips of Wright’s “softball interview” with Bill Moyers on PBS, the MRC disclosed.

    The report concludes: “In today’s rapid-fire political atmosphere of cable news, talk radio, and the Internet, media analysts can easily make the mistake of believing that the leading network news outlets were tough on a candidate because of the general perception of how the entire media — Old Media and New Media — brought a controversy to the public’s attention.

    “But voters who sampled only a light menu of news from Big Three network TV could easily have missed the depths of Reverend Wright’s outrageous remarks. No one could find in these stories a scouring scrutiny of Obama’s decades of membership in his controversial church.”


    • Friday August 8, 2008
    Anyone gonna root for the Jets??
    Posted by: racinenativemn at 12:50AM CST on August 8, 2008
    With this whole Favre thingy and people angry at the GB management are you going to root for the jets this year? They dont play the Pack at all. Do you root for both teams? I'M still not sure if I want Favre to win a superbowl or have a crappy season and retire for good. or maybe I just shouldn't care at all. I love the Packers and am definately rootin' for them this year. But should i care about the Jets? I shouldn't really care but for some reason it keeps bothering me.

    Thursday August 7, 2008
    It's official Brett Farve's gonna play for the jets.
    Posted by: racinenativemn at 12:11AM CST on August 7, 2008
    What do you think? How well do you think he'll do? Well a sigh of relief for me in minnesota. at least he's not on the vikings.

    Sunday August 3, 2008
    Brett Favre saga continues...
    Posted by: racinenativemn at 2:43PM CST on August 3, 2008
    So how do the people down in Wisconsin feel? Up here in Minnesota the sotans are driving me nuts talking  about Favre going to the vikings. I love Minnesota but these once-in-a-while-im-a-die-hard-viking-fan people are annoying the crap out of me. So what are your thoughts on Brett?

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