Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media Read Online Free

“Obama, on the floor of the Illinois state Senate, said that woman had an absolute right to abortion, to kill the baby even if it survived that abortion.” In fact, during the floor debate on the bill Corsi was discussing—which opponents said was unnecessary, as the Illinois criminal code unequivocally prohibits killing children, and said that it posed a threat to abortion rights—Obama never said any such thing, as Media Matters noted in response to similar false claims by Corsi in several media appearances.
    Beckel later brought up several controversial comments by Corsi:
    â€œCan I give you a couple other Corsi comments just so that people can understand the person writing this book? Corsi on Muslims: ‘Ragheads are boy-bumpers and clearly are woman-haters.’” Beckel further said, “Corsi on—you called ‘John Effing Commie Kerry. He married Teresa then he became a Jew.’ You say about Hillary Clinton, ‘Fat Hog’ Clinton.” Later in the discussion, Beckel asked Corsi, about his comment about Hillary Clinton. Corsi had said “Anybody asked Hillary why she couldn’t stop B. J. Bill being satisfied? She’s a lesbo.” Beckel asked, “When did you say that?” Corsi responded, “Bob, I never defend these comments. They’re ancient history,” and claimed, “Ad hominem attacks on me are a fairly low way of trying to get to the substance of what I’m saying.” Beckel later stated, “Doctor, I have looked through a good part of your book. All I can tell you is, you say you have 600 sources. Most of those sources are people who have right-wing agendas who are against Barack Obama.” Beckel also said to Corsi: “[I]f you’re holding yourself out here to be an expert on Barack Obama and say the kinds of things you’ve said, you have to understand why some of us question not only your standing, not only the accuracy of your book, but also your history.”
    Mary Matalin, editor of the book, defended this scurrilous rubbish. The fact that she is awarded hours of TV time to criticize the president is a disgrace and shows how low Jonathan Klein, CNN president, will stoop to get ratings.
    With the election of a black president, the media have become a sort of white power government in exile taking its lead from Fox News. When President Obama and his team began to treat Fox News as an arm of the Republican Party, the “mainstream” media rallied to defend Fox and even suggested that their criticism of Fox would only serve to improve Fox’s ratings. Wrong again.
    Eric Boehlert of Media Matters wrote:
    â€¦we saw nearly universal agreement among media elites that the White House decision to publicly call out Fox News was monumentally dumb, thin-skinned, short-sighted, and uncivil. [Paging the etiquette police!]
    Everyone said so. Therefore pundits were certain that Fox News’ ratings were way up and that Obama and his aides had made a huge tactical blunder. The ratings angle simply provided statistical ammunition for what the Beltway press corps already knew to be the truth: Fact-checking Fox News, in the immortal words of The Washington Post ’s CW-loving Sally Quinn, was “absolutely crazy.”
    Except it turns out none of that was true. There was no viewer stampede toward Fox News.
    From Fox, MSNBC, where a man who has a history of making racist and anti-Semitic remarks, Pat Buchanan, has been given unlimited time to criticize the president, to CNN, that features a man who designed a racist ad for Senator Jesse Helms, Alex Castellanos, and a professional scapegoater of African Americans, William Bennett, Obama faces a rogue’s gallery of pundits with a history of racist comments and campaigns against blacks. Bennett was rewarded with a regular CNN spot after his remark that if you were to abort black babies the crime rate would decline (apparently unaware that seventy percent of