{"id":937,"date":"2008-02-09T09:20:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T14:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=937"},"modified":"2008-02-09T09:20:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T14:20:30","slug":"sound-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"Sound Familiar?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This famous political wife was a corporate lawyer.
\nShe served on the Board of Directors of a company that paid its CEO over $26 million in the same year it laid off 150 workers from a processing plan.
\nAn executive at a $100 million hospital consortium criticized for price-gouging, she received a raise that boosted her salary to over $316,000 after her husband was elected to public office.
\nThe woman is Michelle Obama, former associate at the Chicago law firm Sidley & Austin; board member of TreeHouse Foods; and vice president of the University of Chicago Hospitals.
\nThis is not to criticize either the Senator or Mrs. Obama for the fact that they have been both hard-working and very, VERY fortunate. Rather, it’s to criticize the msm because a) Hillary Clinton has been pilloried for having a resume almost identical to Mrs. Obama’s and b) Mrs. Obama’s lack of progressive credentials has essentially been buried by the usual cast of left-wing characters.
\nTo its credit, the Washington Post<\/a> did run an article last December on the media bias in favor of Obama. Joe Kline<\/a> of Time magazine commented on the Obama campaign’s “creepy…mass messianism” and David Brooks, one of the token conservatives at the New York Times, commented wittily<\/a> that “Obama’s people are so taken with their messiah that soon they’ll be selling flowers at airports”*.
\nRobin Morgan’s reprise of her famous 1970 essay “Goodbye To All That” is a passionate reaction to the anti-Clinton bias that the mass media has been pushing at us for so long. It’s worth a read<\/a>.
\nAnd I was glad to note that someone else (although I’ve lost the link) agrees with me about this election season’s great irony: of all the networks, cable or otherwise, Fox News has done the best job of covering the Clinton and Obama campaigns in accordance with its much-criticized motto, “fair and balanced”.
\n*Mr. Brooks does a masterful job of explaining Obama’s appeal to higher-income folks versus Clinton’s support among blue collar families as the difference between what he calls the dialects of self-fulfillment and struggle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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