MSNBC - Dan Abrams - Is the media selling us Barack Obama?

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1. Ruben Bustillos on February 4th, 2008 8:20 pm
   

   Abrams I have not watched your program very much until tonight-4Feb. You made me a believer. Your media topic favoring Obama is right on but it is MSNBC that is the worst of all. Especially Scarbourgh, Olberman, Matthews and Tuckie-the cry baby. Scarbourough and Tuckie flagrantly critical Hillary. This criticism include Blitzer and Beck from the other organizations. They too have made race an issue polarizing blacks into Obama’s corner. Also whites who are more afraid of being called racist than voting on qualifications. I will make it a point to watch your program. It is refreashing. Thanks
2. dana b on February 6th, 2008 2:15 pm
   

   Dan,
   You are a truth teller and my hero this political season. Thank you for letting in a bit of light and air to the media love affair with Barack Obama.
3. Ed on February 7th, 2008 6:58 pm
   

   Thanks. Now we can agree that Obama is the true underdog and the media is inflating his competitive position and him winning the delegate and state count on Super Tuesday was an upset.
4. Bill Scheel on February 12th, 2008 9:40 pm
   

   First off I gotta say Dan your the man.Extravagant maybe but I dig you..The press dont have anything to do with Obama’s success. He has got my vote. And I am willing to bet one weeks pay that he wins{after I run it by the wife} But what I really want is your opinion on the 21 year old super deligate guy? He was in the crowd behind Obama during his speach..He very much seemed to have madeup his mind on the questions he wouldnt answer for you the other day..Whats your take Dan?
5. Carole Kaufman on February 19th, 2008 12:46 am
   

   As a Hillary supporter, I was very pleased to hear you iterate how biased the media is against her. I find it very unfair that Obama is blessed with great press, while she is constantly vilified. However, I was a little disappointed when you “poo-pooed” (fancy word)her campaigns allegation that Obama plagarized his last speech. She has been accused of taking his “line”- a candidate of change etc. These are common sentences, not exotic prose. Did not Sen. Biden have to drop out of a race because it was found that he copied someone elses work? Why has it been decided that it is OK for Obama to repeat almost verbatim without acknowledging the source, when it was not OK for previous politicians, and is certainly not OK for Hillary. For Obama to say it was
   a mistake, as he did when he allowed Mrs R to buy the property next to his house, and have the matter drop with no other reprecussions seems to be very naive. The Reps. will certainly make hay of it.
6. Mercedes Burtle on February 27th, 2008 10:10 pm
   

   Your show is great because you are not bias. I
   have complained to msnbc and also cnn for being
   so anti-clinton. I have quit watching Hardball, Tucker
   Tucker Carlson and Keith Oberman because of the
   so called “stratagists” which 90% of the time
   are Obama supporters and they show it. I am 77 yrs.
   old and was raised in the depression and know a good president is like..Delano Roosevelt and Bill Clinton cared about working people and brought the country out of some bad times. This race is gender and race motivated. Blacks will support Obama and men do not want a woman president. Older women like Hillary because they were raised in my generation and feel like I do. I never hear any negative remarks about Obama and the media is very much pro Obama so I refuse to
   watch these shoes anymore. Thank you for being
   fair and balanced. I will continue to watch
   your show. Thank you
7. Dorothy Mangino on March 5th, 2008 8:52 pm
   

   I really thought you were Hill’s campaign manager tonite. Barack got to start playing her game and get nasty.
8. Marie Straub on March 6th, 2008 11:58 pm
   

   Dan, You are the only person who is even trying to be fair on MSNBC. When I first started watching this network I felt it was so refreshing compared to some of the others that I had been tuned in to. I find Chris Matthews so difficult to listen to. He talks over the voices of the persons he asks the questions of. He promised after New Hampshire that he would “NEVER underestimate Hillary Clinton again!”. Yet he denegrates her all the time and says she is too far behind, and Barack is the obvious winner. Who is this Barack Obama???? So far as I see , he is an attractive man, who wears good-looking suits, and gives awesome patriotic speeches. He could have won any debate on Denzel Washington’s debate team in the movie. But, really, who IS he? I feel like I know nothing about the man. I feel like he arose out of Illinois and someone pointed him out as the new “Messiah”, who someday would be president and it “stuck”. The man hung around with a known crook (Rezco) and accepted not only campaign contributions from him…but also land,adjacent to Rezco’s own land…with a big mansion on it and he moved in there. Hmmmmm …a little suspect wouldn’t you say? People don’t give other people big stuff like that, without expecting something in return. That trial is going on right now…we should keep an ear tuned into that process and his relationship with that man. Why has no one questioned Obama on his cocaine use? Is not using cocaine against the law? (Yet the media crucified Bill Clinton for “not inhaling”!) You are so right. The media is pushing this man down our throats. I want Hillary Clinton to be our next President. She is the best candidate for the job…hands down. Why do the news media treat her so unfairly? She is brilliant. She has savvy. She can think on her feet, She learns fast. She has great knowledge that Obama has yet to learn. Let Obama sit and learn from her. Let him run when her term(s) are over. By that time, we all will know him better, and maybe he will be out of the infantile stage of government, and will be able to step forward to run for president. In the meantime…I think, you all at MSNBC should have a meeting or two about impartiality and about being fair to the candidates. If a person who you invite on the show can’t be fair when he/she is being interviewed….don’t ask them on.The more the media gangs up on Hillary….the more I think the media is “sleazy”. I think a lot of people see this side of the media…and,I for one am learning to turn off the TV when I see that side of them. I’ll go for days without watching…to give my brain a rest and my anger a chance to cool off. Keep up the good work, Dan, and see if you can bring your network people around. I hate to see one of the formerly best networks with some of the all-time greats like Tim Russert, Tom Brokaw, Brian, Keith, Joe, Mikka,etc. so narrow-minded. (Incidentally, I have been impressed with Pat Buchanan’s fairness to Hillary. Good for him.) Personally I think electing Barack Obama right now would be a big mistake for America. How could anyone prove otherwise. Most people don’t know anything about the man. He reminds me of the evangelist preachers in the South. Be careful, America.We just went through two terms of a “big mistake”!
   Thanks, Dan. I hope I get to meet you some day, to shake your hand!

   Marie Straub Michigan
9. Maryann on March 11th, 2008 7:33 pm
   

   Lets just face it….the polls are reflecting the constant Republican Show hosts in telling Republicans to Vote for Hilary in the Primary and then Turn around and Vote for McCain in November. This is why I believe the Polls are not reflecting the truth. The truth is the Media has given Hilary’s SNL clips and her Red Phone ad alot of air time free. Also her complaint early on that the Media was favoring Obama when he was the front runner a scare threatening MSNBC that they may not let them air the Debate due to remarks made about her Daughter Chelsea. She got alot of preference by the Media. Hilary actually surpressed the surge of Obama’s wins every time she made complaints like this. I think those who favor Hilary’s politics will see things through their own perception but never once have I heard Obama say” hey there I am in front on every count, where is my attention from the Media”. I know it is hard to see your candidate losing but lets state the truth…. it hurts to be losing. By the way the I found a Rezko photo with Hilary and Bill together from a long while ago. We never see that now do we? I think electing Barack Obama is the Best thing that ever happened to the Political Arena.
10. mercedes burtle on March 12th, 2008 4:15 pm
    

    I am furious with MSNBC for the anti Clinton bias they express on every show everday to the oint the only show I watxch is yours. Youm are the only one that is fair. I am a Florida voter and in favor of a revote. Every time someone makes a negative remark about Obama they all panic and take up for him. If he needs that much support and cannot stand the heat he should get out of the kitchen. I believe he is ahead because of the blacks that want a black president and chovonist men that do not want a woman in the white house. I am sick of all the so called “strategists” that are on these shows talking like they can predict the future. I wish they would all get a life and get off the air. Thanks for doing a good job.
11. 24hrlib on March 15th, 2008 11:11 pm
    

    Since it seems that half the Dem votes leans Obama and the other half Clinton. I’d say we the people don’t have enough majority to like either of them in the White House. Please, Dan, talk the real story. I’m sick of the petty pandering and silly slaps the two campaigns direct to each other. Talk about the alternatives. What could and should happen at the Democratic Convention in August. Let’s face it the two media darlings are both dividers. In a time when we need a uniter. GORE/EDWARDS ‘08!!

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