This is scary because many in the media will continue to allow that Republican lie to be told, Stephanapoulos should understand this. He saw the Republican lie machine in 1992.

yeah, but Geoge " turncoat " Stephanoupoulos has turned into a republican sYmphatiser , probably so he can have the job he has now. Just a guess. These people who do not honor their journalistic degree will end up rotting in some forlorn history book.

I agree..  George does a better job than Sean Hannity though.  However, I think that if they had 15 seconds, they would have been called on it. 

George does a better job than Sean Hannity though. 

I have a five-month-old miniature daschund puppy that knows more about journalistic integrity than George Snuffaluffagus OR Sean Insanity.

I think you're underestimating your puppy.

I think you're underestimating your puppy.

Maybe your right.  My puppy knows only to poop on the wee-wee pad.  Snuffaluffagus and Insanity spread their crap far and wide.....

The interesting thing is Republican Graham is NOT talking to anyone with sense, who knows better.

Graham is instead trying to "firm up the base" of Republican voters who believe any damn thing that's said on TV which is negative about Democrats.

Graham doesn't fear a FACT CHECKER: He knows he's lying. All he fears is that the GOP "base" might become smarter. He's betting against it ... and sadly, he's probably right. The GOP seem to hold a 25 - 30% base whose distinguishing characteristic is that everything they think they "know" is WRONG. They've been misled, and they remain misled.

They've been misled, and they remain misled.

They've also been given an outlet to vent their fear and hatred of anyone who is not like them, i.e. minorities, women, gays, Arabs, etc.

So this will be the strategy to "minimalize" the enormous popularity of the Obama candidacy. Simply have the Repub talking points parrot as a guest and never challenge any of their assertions.

It's all the Regressives have, since they're on the wrong side of just about every issue.

6/8/08 

Please e-mail G. Stephanopolis,

George!!

For God's sake!  Obama did not "borrow money from Rezko to build his house."

Come on, Man!!  This is just blatant right-wing talk radio lies.  You're better than this. 

You can't just sit there like a wimp!!!  You can't just sit there and suck up to your corporate masters.  Does G. Will just sit there?

George, you're not a bad guy.  I know you want to be fair.  But you've gotta be on your toes.  You can't just sit there!!!

Even if Obama had borrowed money from somebody who was going to jail, what's wrong with that? Seems like a good choice, as inmates don't have a lot of clout as far as policy.McCain's sponsors are running free, and connected.

Pretty sad, when even in Grampy's fictional propaganda scenarios, he comes out worse.

yep, didn't take long for it to start. by the time the GE is done, union steelworkers will have built obama's house from scratch, paid by rezko under the table.

this is only one of many issues that the republicans will use, there are so many to pick from. be prepared to be bombarded by republican 527's.

cpinva,

You do realize that there are right-wing interns and idea thiefs lurking around here.......

I fear you may have given a feesable idea for them to run with...... since the right wing collectively have little in the way for originality.

Geez - is this all they got?  Sen. Obama is a church-going Christian - so the right wingnutz attack his pastor.  They attack him based on a guy who lives in his neighborhood.  They attack Sen. Obama with the scarey Black man Muslim - and spread rumors that Sen. Obama himself might be a Muslim.

Their problem is the Americans who are going to vote and win this election in November just don't care about this silly stuff.  This election is a stark choice between the old politics of personal destruction and the new politics of hope and change for the better.  Sen. McCain does not yet understand this.  He might after he gets waxed in November...

Stephanopolis and other media personalities don't challange outrageous statements by politicians, because they are entertainers, not journalists. Walter Kronkite was the last journalists to appear on television. Now we have Katie Couric.

How desperate.

Kerry is talking about campaign advisers who have a direct hand in crafting policy in the McCain camp, so Graham has to resort to this stupid, stupid bottom of the barrel guilt by association crap. Sheer desperation.

It's gonna be a real ugly defeat for the Republicans this year.

TPM Muckracker put this issue to rest for me. It has a picture of the Obama residence and the adjoining tract which has been the cause of the controversy. The previous owner of the house wanted to sell the tract, which looks like an oversized dog run, concurrent with the sale of the house. The Obama's could not afford to buy the tract and the house.

Rezco bought the tract and then sold it with a neighboring house. Not much here for the objective observer.

That's not exactly what happened. You are right that the owner wanted two sales on one day. There were two properties for sale. Obama wanted one and the seller said he wanted both properties to close on the same day. Rezko is a land developer so Obama called him and asked him if he was interested in the undeveloped land. So Rezko's wife ended up buying it. Afterwards the Obamas asked if they could buy 10 feet of the land to make their backyard bigger so Rezko's wife sold it to them for what it should have cost. 

This is a non-story. Obama did not gain anything other than a house and some land for what they were worth. End of story. 

 

 

Obama survived Reverend Wright and a host of othrer controversy.  This Rezko thing has got to be the biggest reach at character assasination yet.  Yawn.  I think I'll youtube O'Reilly doing it "live" again.

 

 Chicago Tribune's Eric Zorn has a column on this here http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/

 Note Rezko was just convicted of everything Pat Fitzgerald could come up with after years of unlimited investigation, and Obama was mentioned only in passing, and this deal not at all.   If there was a hint of impropriety, I'm sure it would have come up.

 In passing, note that the way Kerry droned on before this issue came up left me hoping he'd take a long cruise between now and November.  I don't see him campaigning for Obama as an asset.

 Equal Time