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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve harris who wrote (37034)	7/30/2008 6:04:03 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224750

The only time I watch CNN is when I'm in Europe and have no other choice...Beck is on the radio here in the morning, that's when I catch him... He was mentioned in Brad Thor's latest book..."The Last Patriot" amazon.com

To: steve harris who wrote (37034)	7/30/2008 6:30:40 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 224750

Outside look at Obama shaped by omissions NEW YORKER \| Controversial cover is brilliant satire -- too bad the accompanying article missed the boat July 28, 2008Recommend (5) BY LAURA WASHINGTON The Oval Office, 2008: An Afro-adorned beauty bedecked with an AK-47. The turbaned Osama stares from a picture on the wall alongside a turbaned, fist-bumping Obama. The New Yorker magazine's July 21 cover illustration was incendiary -- and brilliant. The satirical jab was calculated to incite predictable outrage from loyal Obamaniacs worldwide, not to mention selling oodles of newsstand copies. » Click to enlarge image Laura Washington Lost amid the hubbub over the fanciful cover was the lead article inside. In an exceptional example of the elite mag's hubris, the piece set out to tell the story of Barack Obama's political ascendance, Chicago style. They had the nerve to dispatch a "national writer" from Gotham to the Windy City to cover a political insider's beat. New Yorkers think they are the arbiters of all things worth arbitrating. So only the New Yorker would dispatch a hotshot Washington correspondent like Ryan Lizza to parachute into our town to assess Obama's political history. I'll give Lizza this -- he clearly spent a lot of time on his 15,000-word treatise, "Making It: How Chicago Shaped Obama." Speaking of "shaping," any news junkie knows the reader should beware: The stories that get left out can be more revealing than the reams of quotes, rosy anecdotes and chest-puffing rhetoric that get in. The sins of omission can be telling. Can anyone offer 15,000 words on black politics in Chicago and not address the role of the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson? Is it possible to accurately assess Obama's ascendancy and not place him in the context and narrative of America's most controversial and enigmatic black political figure? Where is Obama's connection to Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., an early Obama ally and the most influential South Side politician? The congressman gets a featherweight, passing mention in the piece. Tony Rezko is the media's Mr. Bigfoot, but what about Obama's ties to Allison Davis, the clout-heavy black developer and Obama's former law partner? One of my biggest beefs with Obama's adoring iconographers is their failure to link his fund-raising prowess to an ineffectual housing agenda. The money people who have long benefitted from Obama's affordable-housing agenda would like to be hiding under rocks. Still, they are pretty easy to find. The connections between Obama, Mayor Daley and Obama's top strategist, David Axelrod, are barely dusted off. In Chicago, we know those ties are exquisitely constructed and portentous. Reference Obama's 2007 endorsement of Ald. Dorothy "Mad Hatter" Tillman's doomed re-election bid. The same Tillman whose dismal 3rd Ward record long infuriated and frustrated South Side progressives. Daley wanted her there. Don't get me wrong, Axelrod is good. Most major news and magazine articles on The Amazing Origins of Obama are replete with Axelrod's fingerprints. The Consultant has carefully choreographed a cadre of Obama's colleagues, associates and peers who dance to the right tune at just the right spin. The Obama narrative is constructed artfully and guilefully. The national press has filled up its sails with wind gusts from the same old tired sources. Why should the New Yorker be any different? I guess Chicagoans should be becalmed by outsiders buying the blarney. In the end, you can't judge a magazine article by its cover. suntimes.com