Here is a summary from Media Matters:
In recent months, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has been the target of attacks, smears, and innuendo throughout the media. He has been called a Muslim who attended a madrassa and has heard his Christian church in Chicago accused of having a "separatist" doctrine that "contradicts the basic tenets of Christianity"; he has been accused of lying about issues he first addressed in 1995; the media have misrepresented or ignored his past statements to accuse him of dishonesty; he has fended off baseless accusations of scandals; and he has heard playground insults mocking his name and has even listened to media figures question his racial identity.
I'm sorry...but change the name and tweak the accusations and you have the political life story of any major "player" in Washington. Hasn't Bush been the target of attacks, smears, and innuendo throughout the media? Hasn't his religion been questions and mocked and misrepresented? Hasn't he been accused of lying about issues that he hasn't lied about, had his statements misrepresented, had major "corporate" media outlets blatantly attempt to lie and distort in order to smear him? Hasn't he heard playground insults mocking his name and even listend to media figures question almost every aspect of his life?
Hillary Clinton has sufferred the same at the hands of the Right - as did her husband, as did John Kerry, John Edwards, Nancy Pelosi, etc. etc. etc. Condeleeza Rice and Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Newt Ginrich, etc. etc have sufferred the same at the hands of the Left.
You may want to see Barak as some sort of SuperHero battling corporate interests whereever he goes...but the medias reaction doesn't seem to be anything more than the media continuing to play God as it always wants to...
We show pictures of Condi Rice as a black nursemaid and Obama gets GQ pics of himself in swim suits...Colin Powell is called an Uncle Tom and this site gets upset because Obama was once called Osama Obama by TED KENNEDY and others have since brought it up or made issue that his middle name is Hussein (I wonder if the political columnists would have been above making comment if Bush's middle name had been Hitler or Judas...or if Tom Delays middle name had been Osama - somehow I doubt it.)
At the moment, the media loves Barak Obama - if you can't see that then you are blind. They also love Giulianni - hence why it isn't making an issue of his divorces or his political platforms. The media liked Howard Dean until they realized he couldn't win...then they executed him with the "Scream heard round the world."
The media did that....not the right-wing.
If you are unhappy with Barak Obama's treatment (and truly you are crazy if you are upset with his treatment - every 'scandal' the media looks into is nothing more than a hyped nothing that the media barely covers one day, so it can turn around and say - 'we investigated this story we hyped yesterday, and it was nothing more than a right-wing smear' hint-hint: you should like Barak even more). You really should turn your partisan eyes away from the right-wing...who is sitting comfortably with a lead in almost every poll (even if their candidates aren't "ideal," they will take their less-than-ideal republicans over the ideal democrats any day...and so will more than enough democrats the polls seem to indicate!) waiting while the HILLARY campaign loses sleep over Barak, and turn them to the media - who picks its darlings and coddles them one minute, only to smash them agains the rocks the next.
