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The woman who called 911 to report a possible break-in at the home of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. makes no mention of race.

Cambridge police released a recording of the call Monday after more than a week of controversy over Gates’ arrest on a disorderly conduct charge on July 16.

The caller, Lucia Whalen, says she saw two men pushing on the door of the house. She tells police she is not sure if the men live there or not. When pressed for a description by a dispatcher, she says one of the men may have been Hispanic.

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Police dispatch audio -

The woman who called 911 to report a possible break-in at the home of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. makes no mention of race.

Cambridge police released a recording of the call Monday after more than a week of controversy over Gates’ arrest on a disorderly conduct charge on July 16.

The caller, Lucia Whalen, says she saw two men pushing on the door of the house. She tells police she is not sure if the men live there or not. When pressed for a description by a dispatcher, she says one of the men may have been Hispanic.

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Right-wing congressman Peter King (Rep-New York) tells the media to “stop covering low-life Michael Jackson and start talking about the sacrifices of average citizens like police officers, firefighters and teachers.”

Fans of Michael Jackson and his legacy stand united against Peter King’s hateful words. Click on the link above to show Peter King that true MJ fans won’t stand for the smearing of a pop sensation!
http://www.actblue.com/page/jacksonfansagainstking

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Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh responds to President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court:

“Here you have a racist - you might want to soften that, you might want to say, a reverse racist… Obama is the greatest living example of a reverse racist, and now he’s appointed one.”

Audio provided by MSNBC… sorry, Rush!

May 26, 2009.

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Cable talking heads accuse broadcast networks of liberal bias — but a think tank finds that ABC, NBC and CBS were tougher on Barack Obama than on John McCain in recent weeks. Haters of the mainstream media reheated a bit of conventional wisdom last week. Barack Obama, they said, was getting a free ride from those insufferable liberals. The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, where researchers have tracked network news content for two decades, found that ABC, NBC and CBS were tougher on Obama than on Republican John McCain during the first six weeks of the general-election campaign. During the evening news, the majority of statements from reporters and anchors on all three networks are neutral, the center found. And when network news people ventured opinions in recent weeks, 28% of the statements were positive for Obama and 72% negative. Network reporting also tilted against McCain, but far less dramatically, with 43% of the statements positive and 57% negative, according to the Washington-based media center.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-onthemedia27-2008jul27,0,6802141.story
As we have observed throughout the last several years, the notion of fairness in journalism has been guided by a miscalculated rule that in order to report good news about a liberal or a liberal success, news reporting has to be counterbalanced either with unearned praise for conservatives or trumped up and parroted negative news about the aforementioned liberal or liberal success. Oh, and the reverse doesn’t apply. That’s the rule.

And so now that Senator Obama’s Berlin address is in the can, get ready for the backlash from the very serious corporate media. Get ready for profuse around-the-clock praise of Senator McCain and/or unfair, invented criticism of Senator Obama. Because reporting the news, however accurate, about Senator Obama’s successful trip to the Middle East and Europe isn’t news. It’s obviously biased reporting against the McCain campaign.

That’s all we’ve heard from the McBush Republicans this week: griping about the press coverage of Senator Obama’s trip, as if such an epic event isn’t newsworthy. Although I’m sure the McBush camp would’ve been thrilled about such wall-to-wall coverage if Reverend Wright had been spazzing out on the wing of the Obama campaign jet, ripping it to shreds Twilight Zone style — Rezko and Ayers running around in turbans spray-painting “clinging to guns” on the side of General Petraeus’ helicopter.

On Tuesday’s edition of Morning Joe, Mika Brzeznski, Andrea Mitchell and Very Serious Mark Halperin (who publicly encouraged Senator McCain to convince people that Senator Obama is a terrorist) agreed that after three days of reporting the actual news that Senator Obama’s overseas visit was successful, they should deliberately attempt to “trip him up” — to “hold him accountable.” Oh yeah? For what? We’re gonna hold him accountable for not screwing the pooch on this trip — the rat ! We’re very serious! Barack’s a Muslim terrorist [Halperin only]!

Then CBS News, showing its obvious penchant for wanting Senator Obama to win, edited out Senator McCain’s laughable error with regards to the Anbar Awakening — another in an on-going syllabus of McCain ignorance, which further proves that he’s really not the Mighty Old Man of Awesome Foreign Policy Experience and Balls. Suggesting that there’s such a thing as an Iraq/Pakistan border in a Today Show interview on Monday didn’t help either.

But as the rule goes, the only way the corporate press (Olbermann, Maddow and the like excluded) can make a beef about these things would be to find a similar gaffe or mistake by Senator Obama and report on that first. And since nothing recent exists… Pass! Next!

And today, the word of the day in the corporate press is… “presumptuous.” Used in a sentence: Senator Obama is being presumptuous during his trip — acting all presidential and dignified. How dare he be presidential while running for, you know, president. Presumptuous. During the live CNN web feed of the Berlin address, an anchor used it to describe the event. Joe Klein used it in a blog post today. Of course Joe attributed it to racist voters rather than very serious reporters — racist because it’s presumably a synonym for ‘uppity’ and we can’t accuse the press of such awfulness. And Candy Crowley used it in her post-address analysis on CNN. That’s a lot of coincidences. “Presumptuous” must really be a popular word. Odd that it’s being used so often by people who want Senator Obama to win.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/the-barbeque-media-wants_b_114843.html

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Rush Limbaugh calls Sonia Sotomayor and President Barack Obama racist and reverse racist, then says Republicans are an oppressed minority in need of a civil rights movement.

Read more about it here–
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200905270029

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Barack Obama battled charges that he was reinventing his plan for withdrawal from Iraq Thursday, carving out a nuanced military policy after saying earlier in the day that he might “refine” flip-flop his Iraq approach.

The earlier statement was widely interpreted as a willingness to revise his long-stated plan to withdraw all brigades within 16 months of taking office, and opened him up to Republican attacks.

But the backlash led Obama to call a second press conference, where the fanatical leftist said he was not talking about refining his 16-month timetable (flip-flop #2).

GOP criticism Thursday initially came from the Republican National Committee, which in a statement said: “There appears to be no issue that Barack Obama is not willing to reverse himself on for the sake of political expedience.”

But his second press conference touched off a new round of recriminations.

The RNC repeated its charge, and McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said Obama has “reversed” his position.

“Now that Barack Obama has changed course and proven his past positions to be just empty words, we would like to congratulate him for accepting John McCain’s principled stand on this critical national security issue. If he had visited Iraq sooner or actually had a one-on-one meeting with General Petraeus, he would have changed his position long ago,” Rogers said in a statement.

During the Democratic primary, Obama said repeatedly that he would end the Iraq war in 2009.

Obama’s Web site says he would immediately begin removing troops from Iraq upon taking office. It says he would remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all brigades out of Iraq in 16 months.

Obama has scheduled a trip to Europe and the Middle East that includes stops in Jordan, Israel, the United Kingdom, Germany and France. Obama’s campaign announced recently that he also plans to head to Iraq and Afghanistan over the summer as part of a congressional delegation, answering complaints from John McCain and other Republicans that he has not visited the region since January 2006.

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