News Media And American Political Parties And Presidential Candidates: Meant To Put Candidates’ “Feet To The Fire!”

The job of the news media–radio, television and cable, print, internet—is to expose the hypocrisy and shortcomings of our political parties and leaders, and particularly their Presidential candidates!

It is NOT the job of news media and journalism to “cozy up” to any public figure, but rather to hold their “feet to the fire!”

Only in a dictatorship are news media the lackeys of the government and its leaders!

So if a politician at any level or a Presidential candidate cannot handle being exposed and shown for what he or she really is, tough on them, and if unable to handle it, then the answer is to withdraw from competition to be our leaders.

So there is no sympathy or empathy that should be visited toward Donald Trump, Dr. Benjamin Carson, Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders or any of the multitude of other Presidential candidates.

And anyone who, somehow, believes, that Barack Obama has not faced the same scrutiny is a liar and a propagandist!

So, in summary, if one “cannot stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!”

27 comments on “News Media And American Political Parties And Presidential Candidates: Meant To Put Candidates’ “Feet To The Fire!”

  1. Ariel Leis November 9, 2015 7:05 pm

    “And anyone who, somehow, believes, that Barack Obama has not faced the same scrutiny is a liar and a propagandist!”. Oh really? Let’s see. I have proposal. The media is going after Dr. Carson for supposedly making false claims about his college record. So isn’t this the perfect time to demand fair, unbiased and equal treatment of Obama’s college record? As any good trial lawyer would say, “The media opened the door to this one.” If you can investigate Dr. Carson, then you must investigate Obama’s claims about college as well.
    Apples to apples. The media is trying to disqualify Dr. Carson’s right to the presidency based on his college records. Why did they never check Obama’s college records? Why are Obama’s Columbia records STILL sealed seven years into his presidency?
    The media anxiously called West Point demanding to verify Dr. Carson’s claims, but never called Columbia to verify Obama’s claims. Why? If claims about college from 30 or 40 years ago are important for Dr. Carson, why not Obama?
    Did Obama make false claims about his college experience? No one can prove it (yet) because his college records are sealed. Why? What is he hiding? If it matters for Carson, it should even more for a man already sitting in the White House with his fingers on the economy and the nuclear button.
    It’s time to DEMAND that Obama release his Columbia college records.
    The world’s most prominent brain surgeon certainly doesn’t need to exaggerate any claims about his education. Dr. Carson claimed he was “offered” a scholarship by a well-known Army general if he applied to West Point. He wanted to be a doctor and chose not to. Was it an actual scholarship offer, or just a casual conversation? Politicians exaggerate or remember things to their benefit all the time. But his claim, however interpreted, didn’t cost taxpayers a dime.
    The same can’t be said of Obama’s whoppers. Obama’s lies about Obamacare alone have cost American taxpayers millions, even billions in higher premiums and medical costs. Like millions of others, I lost my insurance based on Obama’s lies, and now I’m paying far more and getting far less. Obama promised the world and delivered disaster.
    Now THAT’S a significant lie.
    Jonathan Gruber, the architect of Obamacare, even admitted fraud was committed to fool the “dumb voters.”
    Why are Obama’s college records sealed?
    Fair is fair. If what a young man claims happened at college many years ago is important for Carson, then it’s important for Obama too.
    If the media thinks Dr. Carson’s claims about his college experience 40 years ago are relevant, then clearly Obama’s college claims are relevant too. It’s time for all of us to demand Obama release his Columbia college records. It’s time for the media to scrutinize Obama the same way they are scrutinizing Ben Carson, Donald Trump, and every other GOP Presidential candidate.
    Dr. Carson’s claims haven’t cost taxpayers a dime. But Obama’s presidency has cost all of us dearly. If it was all built on a lie, on fraud, we have a right to know.

  2. Southern Liberal November 9, 2015 10:15 pm

    I second what the Professor said!

  3. Princess Leia November 9, 2015 10:16 pm

    Got my popcorn ready for the clown show tomorrow night!

  4. Ronald November 9, 2015 10:35 pm

    Thanks, Rustbelt Democrat, for again proving that Ariel Leis is a BS artist, who loves to distort and make up his own history.

    One wonders how one can spend so much time and effort in promoting mistruths, and it is clear that he must be getting paid to be a troll!

  5. Ariel Leis November 9, 2015 11:10 pm

    I never ever stated that Obama’s college record were sealed by a COURT ORDER!! I specifically wrote why doesn’t the media DEMAND that OBAMA RELEASE his Columbia college records. If they took the trouble to ask West Point about Carson, why aren’t they curious about Obama’s college records???? Again the media should demand OBAMA to release his records. Don’t try to put words in my mouth. I never talked about his selective service record or his “thesis”. So you can take your link and shove it! It simply does not apply to what I am asking.

  6. Ariel Leis November 9, 2015 11:24 pm

    Question: Dr. Carson do you know the un-repentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers
    Dr. Carson: No I don’t
    Question: How about his wife, the other un-repentant domestic terrorist Bernadine Dorn?
    Dr. Carson: I don’t know them either.
    Question: So you haven’t launched your political career in the living room of their house?
    Dr. Carson: No I haven’t.
    Question: How about card carrying communist Frank Marshall Davis, was he your mentor or “Uncle Frank” ?
    Dr. Carson: No he was not.
    Question: And when you were in college did you chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors
    Dr. Carson: No I didn’t
    Question: Did you attend for 20 yrs the anti-semitic & anti-american church of Reverend Wright?
    Dr Carson: No I haven’t.

  7. Former Republican November 10, 2015 6:57 am

    In Ariel’s first post he asked: Why are Obama’s Columbia records STILL sealed seven years into his presidency?

    Yes, the link that Rustbelt posted which tells the truth does apply.

  8. Princess Leia November 10, 2015 9:00 am

    Thanks for that Pragmatic. As that article says, it ties back to birtherism.

  9. Southern Liberal November 10, 2015 9:02 am

    After his nutty pyramid comments, I’m surprised he still has followers.

  10. Ariel Leis November 10, 2015 12:35 pm

    Again, Lansing asked Carson for his college records. Why won’t she and the media ask Obama for his college records? Fair is fair.

  11. Ariel Leis November 10, 2015 12:53 pm

    Shall the media ask Hillary Clinton about 18 U.S. Code § 793 – Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information? Paragraph (f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—
    Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793

    Hillary Clinton was responsible for ascertaining whether information in her possession was classified and acknowledged that “negligent handling” of that information could jeopardize national security, according to a copy of an agreement she signed upon taking the job.

    A day after assuming office as secretary of state, Clinton signed a Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) Nondisclosure Agreement that laid out criminal penalties for “any unauthorized disclosure” of classified information.

    Experts have guessed that Clinton signed such an agreement, but a copy of her specific contract, obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute through an open records request.

    “I have been advised that the unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized retention, or negligent handling of SCI by me could cause irreparable injury to the United States or be used to advantage by a foreign nation,” the agreement states.

    Clinton received at least two emails while secretary of state on her personal email server since marked “TS/SCI”—top secret/sensitive compartmented information—according to the U.S. intelligence community’s inspector general.
    http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150814/us-clinton-emails-06f20cb060.html

    The State Department said in September that Clinton’s private email system, set up at her Chappaqua, N.Y., home, was not authorized to handle SCI. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/05fa957001724980b195a19031c084b9/us-clinton-email-storage-safe-not-secure-some-messages

    Hillary Clinton’s NDA:
    http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/HRC-SCI-NDA1.pdf

  12. Ronald November 10, 2015 1:46 pm

    Former Republican, you are correct.

    The media has never been able to destroy any politician, and those politicians who fail to survive, it is because it is their own fault and hypocrisy.

    The press exposes the truth and we, the public, have a right to know.

    If one is weak and lacks credibility, we are informed, and thank goodness for that reality.

  13. Ariel Leis November 10, 2015 3:27 pm

    Problem is, that the liberal media is specifically lying with respect to Dr. Carson, and it has an evident double standard. But of course the fanatics on the left will simply not see that. The liberal media must not drive the direction of America and must not be allowed to destroy candidates. Americans and our principles must drive this election, and conservatives can’t let the fake media win with fraudulent stories about candidates such as Ben Carson. Some of the Republican candidates use the lies of left to pile on Ben Carson and we shouldn’t accept it. Republicans should support each other and not peddle the hatred of the left.

  14. Princess Leia November 10, 2015 3:45 pm

    It’s conservative media that lies and they have been doing so consistently ever since Obama was first elected in 2008.

  15. Southern Liberal November 10, 2015 3:45 pm

    Conservative media is trying desperately to drive the direction of American right off a cliff.

  16. Rustbelt Democrat November 10, 2015 4:04 pm

    coughTruthhasaliberalbiascough

  17. Ariel Leis November 10, 2015 6:27 pm

    Lefty: You are so far left that you see the lunatic leftist fringe on MSLSD as going right!!! You see us conservatives who are more or less in the middle as far right. So you see, your problem is that you want your leftist view to be the middle mainstream view, and it clearly not. Just like the Democrat party, they moved left believing they are moderates center.

  18. Southern Liberal November 10, 2015 6:49 pm

    LOL! Our troll is so far right that anything even in the middle looks left to him.

  19. Princess Leia November 10, 2015 7:07 pm

    Rational Lefty is correct. If the media were truly liberal:

    News shows would be more in favor of unions instead of big businesses.

    You would have more arguments against austerity instead of in favor of it.

    Pro-environmental issues would not be ignored.

    Anti-war protests would not be ignored.

    In 2011, The Progressive Caucus’s People’s Budget would not have been ignored in favor of Paul Ryan’s budget plan.

    Far right views would not be treated as mainstream.

  20. Southern Liberal November 11, 2015 7:34 am

    Many times top news stories are about celebrity scandals. No wonder many of the electorate is so uninformed.

  21. Rational Lefty November 11, 2015 7:35 am

    To add to that Leia, Occupy Wall Street would have been taken more seriously and given more coverage than some Tea Party rally.

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