Inside Cable News is reporting a story about a website set up to promote a boycott of MSNBC, the cable network, and NBC News over what they see as the unfair treatment that NBC and MSNBC gave New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton during the race for the Democratic Party nomination, a nomination that Barack Obama won.
But a little trip to Whois.net is very revealing, in a strange kind of way. The site is registered via a company that specialises in hiding the identities of those who register with them. This leads me to believe that this site is a hit job, put together by someone who has something to hide.
Perhaps it's a hit job by Clinton supporters who dislike Obama, or by Republicans trying to damage Obama by association, or perhaps it was a Fox News or other similar Murdoch organ attacking GE through it's NBC subsidiary and also attacking Keith Olbermann through MSNBC. Remember there were reports about high level meetings between top brass at Fox News and GE, over the whole Keith Olbermann vs Bill O'Reilly feud.
Whatever it is, the company that it is registered with, called Domain Privacy Group Inc., is based in... Toronto, Ontario, Canada!!! And according to Whois.net, the domain was registered on Super Tuesday, February 5 2008. The first allegations of bias against Clinton at NBC and MSNBC came on February 7th, two days later! I smell a rat. This seems to be a pre-determined plan, which was designed to try and overturn the positive sentiment towards Obama, not just in the media, but in the country. So far, that campaign, mostly by the likes of Rush Limburger Limbaugh, has failed.
Whoever is behind this, they should do the honourable and decent thing and come clean about it. Own up to this website. But I seriously doubt anybody will, cos their motive will be revealed to be dishonourable and malevolent. This kind of sniping, whether it relates to Obama or the media, in unnecessary, unwarranted, and most of all, a blatant, out and out lie!
They want you to...
"...FIGHT BACK against the completely unacceptable, unprofessional, reprehensible, over-the-top actions, attitudes and behaviors of MSNBC/NBC and their on-air employees and talking head pundits..."
Take out MSNBC/NBC and replace it with Fox News Channel, and you'd be nearer the mark.
This kind of hit job is unacceptable, reprehensible, over the top and completely shameless. It does nothing for political discourse and as for attacking the media, well, what an easy target for you to pick. Your candidate, Hillary Clinton, was behaving in a manner that was more like a Republican, than a Democrat. And whoever you are behind this website, if you consider yourself to be a Democratic Party supporter, I urge you to pull your website now. It does nothing for party unity, and even less for your country.
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