Monday, October 11, 2010

Book thrown at President Obama. US State Run Media largely silent!

Amazing.  Just mind boggling.  On a day when a book was thrown at the President of the United States, and just missed the President by inches the US State Run Media ignored this story.  The media, who get their stories and talking points, from the White House chose to ignore this story.  Were this President Bush we would be talking about this for weeks.  When President Obama gets a book thrown at him, at a public event the US Press ignores it and chooses to write about hope and change.


Amazingly, out of 1,078 articles written about the event by Sunday Night only two mentioned the book throwing.  And one of them, and the first was the British Press, The Daily Mail.  If this doesn't expose the Liberal US Media for what they are... shrills for the Democratic Party nothing will.  From The Daily Mail:
This is the astonishing moment a book was apparently hurled at the head of U.S. President Barack Obama during a campaign rally in Philadelphia.
The flying missile narrowly missed hitting the President yesterday.
It is not clear what the book was, where it came from in the crowd, or why it was thrown at Mr Obama - who did not appear to notice the danger.
Duck, Mr President! A book narrowly misses Barack Obama's head after it is thrown on stage during a rally in Philadelphia today
Duck, Mr President! A book narrowly misses Barack Obama's head after it is thrown on stage during a rally in Philadelphia today

But it is expected that there will be fallout from the security breach as the Secret Service investigates how close the President came to danger.
The rally was clearly an eventful one - other images showed a naked man being led away in handcuffs by police.
It is not clear if the man was involved in the book-throwing incident - or why he was not wearing any clothes.
The bizarre incident recalled the moment in 2008 when an angry Iraqi journalist hurled a shoe at then-U.S. President George Bush during a press conference in Baghdad.
The surprisingly nimble Mr Bush ducked the shoe - and the moment became immortalised with online parodies and internet video games.
But the incident was also marked with controversy as U.S. media questioned why the Secret Service - whose members are supposed to be willing to take a bullet for the President - were not close enough to Mr Bush to deflect the attack.
It is expected that the same questions will be asked about yesterday's incident.
It came as Mr Obama tried to rally voters in Phildelphia to use to three weeks left before congressional elections to go to the polls.
The Video the State Run Mainstream Media refuses to show
Book being thrown at President Obama:
UPDATE:  Book thrown at President Obama is an "Unscripted Moment"

3 comments:

Jenny said...

Well, the MSM (or should I say LSM) is certainly shrill, but they are shills for the Democrats. Excellent reporting, CC. This truly does boggle the mind. But the minds of progressiliberals the world over (to the extent they have minds) are going to boggled by the US midterm elections. Happy days are almost here again.

Betsy Banks Adams said...

Strange that I had not heard or seen this --even on Fox News.... Gee--when that guy threw a shoe at Bush, everyone in the world saw that clip for 1 yr. after it happened... Our media drives me CRAZY.....

Thanks Steve.
Betsy

sofa said...

seen in comments elsewhere:

Obama was standing too far to the Left ...