WPost Calls Out 'Uppity' Obama

At this pivotal moment in American history, the major U.S. news media is back to its old game of drawing sweeping character judgments about a presidential candidate based on misleading "quotes," a sickening replay of other recent elections. Full Story »

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Denise Clendening
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by Denise Clendening - Oct. 1, 2008

This is a thoughtful and insightful analysis of the deliberate media distortion of statements made by Democratic candidates. The links provided help support the analysis of the media’s misrepresentation of statements that result in the warping of the record to the point that what is reported has been the exact opposite of what was said. The media’s willingness to perpetuate the alteration is distressing. The recent WaPo deliberate distortion of Obama’s statement is to frame Obama as being ‘uppity’ is racist and should not be tolerated. There is another story today, link below, that shoes more of the deliberate bias against Gore.

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