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    A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (and Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between ckck Obama and the Mainstream Media
    A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (and Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between ckck Obama and the Mainstream Media
    A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (and Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between ckck Obama and the Mainstream Media
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    A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (and Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between ckck Obama and the Mainstream Media

    Written by Bernard Goldberg

    Narrated by Alan Sklar

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    Do the mainstream media have a liberal bias? Sure they do, says CBS veteran and New York Times bestselling author Bernard Goldberg. But the media crossed an important line in the 2008 presidential race, moving from their usual unthinking liberal bias to crass partisanship of the crudest kind, practically acting as spin doctors for the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. In A Slobbering Love Affair, his most provocative book yet, Goldberg demonstrates how the media launched an unparalleled effort to ensure the election of the man they regarded as the One. From the thrill Obama sent up Chris Matthews's leg to the outrageously slanted "news" reports of the New York Times, Goldberg shows in exacting detail how the media, abandoning even the pretense of objectivity, moved from media bias to media activism. With his trademark blunt, honest insider's perspective, Goldberg reveals:

    -How the media ignored, downplayed, or sanitized the rantings of the Reverend Jeremiah
    Wright, Obama's long-standing "spiritual" adviser, and the radicalism of former terrorist (and Obama associate) Bill Ayers

    -How the Obama campaign, while claiming to be "post-partisan," kicked reporters off Obama's plane after their newspapers endorsed McCain

    -Why Obama's election makes it more likely conservative talk radio will be stifled by a new "Fairness Doctrine" that has nothing to do with fairness at all

    -Why the liberal media preferred Obama to Hillary

    -What we can expect from the media's coverage of Obama's presidency

    -BONUS: An exclusive interview with Rush Limbaugh on the unholy alliance between Obama and the mainstream media

    A blistering takedown of the media's slavish support for Obama, A Slobbering Love Affair highlights how the mainstream media has not only surrendered its integrity and objectivity but could even endanger our democracy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 9, 2009
    ISBN9781400182046
    Author

    Bernard Goldberg

    Bernard Goldberg is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Bias, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, and Arrogance. He has won eight Emmy Awards for his work at CBS News and at HBO, where he now reports for the acclaimed program Real Sports. In 2006 he won the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, the most prestigious of all broadcast journalism awards.

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    • 5/5
      The author, Goldberg, focuses on 2 of Obama's mentors. One of these mentors is Bill Ayers and the other is Jeremiah Wright. He doesn't focus as much on Al Sharpton who logged over a hundred White House visits which does not include how many times Obama and Sharpton met outside the White House. With these three unsavory characters having a large influence on our elected president's psyche, it's no wonder We the People got 8 years of a floundering economy, a horror show of a health care plan, and an even worse foreign policy, just to name a few disappointments. One of Goldberg's central points is that the mainstream media was so eager to elect Obama that they were willing to completely disregard his background. for those who have seen Goldberg on TV, you'll quickly recognize Goldberg's wit. This book is worth a read because the facts are verifiable mixed in with quite a few giggles.
    • 3/5
      Tells it like it is though we wish it weren't so. 
    • 4/5
      Bernard Goldberg’s brief but memorable A Slobbering Love Affair recounts the myriad ways in which the USA’s mainstream media lionized – indeed, nearly deified – Barack Obama as he ran for president in 2007-2008: the gushy, embarrassing news stories; the ‘journalists’ swooning on camera; and perhaps most serious, the utter lack of interest in Obama’s background, character and associations, i.e. the media’s refusal to do their jobs and investigate. Goldberg’s tone is sardonic; at times it borders on despairing. How can the great majority of journalists, whose role is so central to the American system, sell their integrity so cheaply? Goldberg suggests it’s a combination of these liberal journalists’ desire to ‘effect change’ and ultimately to feel good about themselves. Recommended.
    • 5/5
      The facts about how the mainstream media helped to orchestrate the election of Obama as president of the United States. This book is not only good investigative journalism, it's something we don't often get from media hacks: The Truth.
    • 2/5
      There's certainly a strong case that the mainstream media favored Obama in the 2008 US Presidential election. A large number of studies show the imbalance in reporting, and for example, the Washington Post ombudsman wrote "Obama deserved tougher scrutiny than he got" in analyzing their own coverage. Even scarier, people such as Tom Brokaw admitted after the election that we really don't know much about Obama - even after he had been covering the candidate for almost two years. This trend in the mainstream media is a dangerous slippery slope and the American people deserve better. Bernard Goldberg's A Slobbering Love Affair makes these points, but does so in a way that is seemingly designed to offend as many people as possible - or play solely to the right wing. It's unfortunate that he chooses to do so, since there are legitimate discussions we should be having about the relationships between the media and politicians and the media and the public. But that discussion is not to be found here, and the useful information is buried in polemic.