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[shawa]

A prime example of our two-faced media!
Liberals will stoop to anything to smear BRILLIANT Republican Minorities,
while turning a blind eye to misdeeds of prominent minority politicians
on the Dem side.
(even downright racism)
Oh, I forgot, only those mean Conservatives are racists.

The last paragraph says it all.

http://www.investors.com/editorial/issues.asp?v=12/31

Friday, December 31, 2004

Tale Of 2 Candidates
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Politics: Two minority candidates in 2004 rose from modest circumstances to election to Congress. But only one is on the cover of Newsweek, has a multimillion-dollar book deal and has appeared on Letterman. Why?

Barack Obama started the year as a little-known state senator competing in a crowded U.S. Senate primary in Illinois. The son of a black economist from Kenya and a white teacher from Kansas, the eloquent and literate Obama found himself in August the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention, a spot usually reserved for governors and other high party officials.

His is a compelling story of the American dream.

But so is the story of Bobby Jindal. Who is Jindal, you ask? That you have to ask tells a lot how the media cover minorities in politics. He's a freshman Republican congressman from Louisiana. His parents emigrated from India a few days before he was born, making him the first Indian American in Congress.

True, freshmen congressmen are not necessarily front-page news. But one suspects that had Jindal been a Democrat, this 33-year-old Brown University Rhodes Scholar, who became head of Louisiana's $4 billion Health and Hospitals Department at age 24, president of the University of Louisiana system at 27 and a top adviser on health policy to the president at 29, would not be a political trivia question.

As head of Louisiana's health care system, he was able to turn the state's $400 million Medicaid deficit into a surplus.

His record of achievement in that state almost propelled him into the governor's mansion. He might have made had it not been for media bias and Democratic hypocrisy.

Obama is hailed by Newsweek as one of 10 "who will shape our world in 2005" and who will "inevitably make most short lists for vice president" in 2008. But when Jindal was running for governor of Louisiana, New York Times editorial writer Adam Cohen, in a so-called profile, hinted that Jindal's "freakishly impressive" resume wasn't the most important thing voters needed to know.

To Cohen, Jindal was the "dark-skinned son of immigrants from India." Dark-skinned. Not brilliant. Not accomplished. Dark-skinned. Cohen wasn't alone. An October 2003 article in the Los Angeles Times article also referred to Jindal as "dark-skinned," as did two dispatches from The Associated Press, lest hicks forget.

A TV ad in the final weeks of the campaign echoed this theme, with what Republicans insist was a picture of Jindal touched up to make his skin look darker than it was and with disheveled hair, titled "Wake Up, Louisiana." At the end, the announcer solemnly intoned: "They hope we won't wake up until it's too late."

The usual suspects who complained about Willie Horton and routinely paint the GOP as being insensitive to minorities and guilty of tokenism were silent about the coverage and the campaign.

Jindal is no token. But he's as conservative as Obama is liberal. The political differences between the two candidates are profound.

Take affirmative action, which Obama embraces. Jindal always left the space for "race" on applications blank and attacks the division of people along racial lines. And he won in the Deep South.

The media and the Democrats fear Jindal, just as they fear Condoleezza Rice, Justice Clarence Thomas and other conservative minority Republicans who rise to prominence on merit. It threatens their hold on African Americans and other minorities and threatens their Big Lie that Republicans are the party of David Duke. They're not. They're now the party of Bobby Jindal.

http://www.investors.com/editorial/issues.asp?v=12/31

[blue9t3]

They can keep thier favorite son Obama, I can see the new and improved libber line up- Hildabeast,Dean,Obama,Moore. I hope they bet the whole enchillada believing this is what America wants.
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[scotty61]

Just goes to show that much of the left media never matured past the high school stage. They have their "in-crowd" and no one else matters. They are so in love with themselves that they are in capable of seeing their own hypocrisy. This is why when ever they do one of their introspective looks at bias in the media they find none.
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John Kerry. A Neville Chamberlain for our times.