Yeah, they’re the ONLY ones.

Why don’t you defend this:

1. Fort Hood tragedy…as sitting Commander-in-Chief he doesn’t bother to visit “his” troops. He waits an entire day before giving a statement about the shootings, but only after giving two minutes of “shout outs”.

2. Despite being invited to participate as representative of the country MOST instrumental in the fall of the Berlin Wall (yes, even MORE instrumental than formerly-divided Germany itself), Obama decides he cannot attend because it is more important to give a pep talk to the Dems against “Tea Baggers”. Yes, he resorted to a crude sexual reference to describe the opposition to the “historic” 2,000 page health care legislation which nobody in congress has actually read, in which contains jail sentences against those who don’t comply, and has no chance of passing the Senate. Couldn’t Nancy take care of her own House?

(Which begs the question…if the legislation was so needed, then why did it only get 215 votes?)

The Germans understandably feel slighted. Barack has spent the majority of his Presidency pissing off our friends and trying to make friends of our enemies.

So give me your treatise on how Presidential Barry really is…and try to do it without resorting to references to Bush. It’s time Barry’s Presidency stands on its own…

Yes, it’s a way of passing off an opinion. Fox does it rightward, CNN/AP go leftward. But somehow CNN/AP are considered a “real” news organizations these days and FOX is not. I see it too, but it’s the double standard that is the issue with me.

Is there unbiased journalism out there? If so, where?

Free speech and opinion are fine. I hope one day that every major news network and newspaper will learn to keep them separate.

Until then, I’ll alert Media Matters that we have an eager beaver wanting to give an oral presentation to David Brock’s gloryhole.

You know it’s funny how Fox “News” dresses up an opinion piece and calls it a news story.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/08/obama-draws-criticism-sitting-berlin-wall-anniversary

Don’t they pay Newt Gingrich to opine on their network? How is quoting Newt in a “critics say” story considered to be news? This is exactly why Fox can’t be taken seriously as a source for journalism. Fine, if they want to run editorials all day, but there’s no boundary between their op-ed material and the supposed “news” part.

This supposed news article references unnamed critics six times in these ambiguous quotes:
“…drawing heated criticism from those who say…”
“…drawing heated criticism from those who say…”
“Some question whether the decision…”
“But some saw Obama’s decision…”
“Why then, critics asked…”
Who exactly are these “some” people who are “saying”? It reads like they’ve sources all kinds of people who are in a state of uproar over this, but they give names to two actual critics. Newt Gingrich and Rich Lowry, both in quotes from editorial pieces. Oh, and there was a reference to an unnamed writer in ‘Der Spiegel,’ too, to be fair.

The article does reference the White House’s cited reason for not going on this trip, but also ventures nine instances of pure opnion or conjecture as to Obama’s reasnoning on the trip, hidden-agenda politics, or on other supposed values related to presidential travel priorities.

Free speech and opinion are fine, but what’s the need to dress up op-ed as journalism? Surely Fox doesn’t think that their audience would be blind to this and can be so easily manipulated. Surely not. That would be cynical.

The Barack can get in some crossbow practice with his wookie life partner while;

The Hussein can comfort the family of the Ft. Hood gunman and stand up for the real victims – The Muslim community;

Finally, the Obama could make the trip to Moscow to tsk, tsk those ungrateful Germans celebrating their egregious act of vandalism and property damage.

What, you expect him to be at two places at once?

Let me say this slowly and clearly for you to understand…The…man…CANNOT…be…two…places…at…once.

He simply cannot.

OK, actually he probably could seing how he IS Barack Obama and since he has found a way to walk on water, he likely has found a way to break through the time/space continuum. But let’s keep our eyes on the ball here…walking on water and fundamentally transforming the US takes a LOT of energy and the man simply needs to recharge his batteries.

Besides, we’ve sent Hillary Clinton over there where she will regale the attendees with her story of the time she visited the Berlin Wall and had to run quickly into a bunker to avoid the ICBM that Nikita Khrushchev launched at her.