When Fox News anchor E. D. Hill suggested that Barack and Michelle Obama may have engaged in a "terrorist fist jab" at a recent campaign event, condemnation (and mockery) of Hill's comments was swift, and forced her to offer an on-air quasi-apology.

While Hill's apology was unusual (though not unprecedented -- just a few weeks ago, a Fox analyst apologized for joking about assassinating Obama), her original comments were sadly typical of the media's treatment of Obama. Since he began running for president, news reports have relentlessly suggested that Obama is different; that he isn't like you; that he isn't on your side.

Sometimes, like Hill's "terrorist fist jab" comment, those suggestions have been obvious, and clearly offensive. Other times, they have been comparatively subtle and seemingly pointless -- Chris Matthews' deep concern with Barack Obama's decision to order orange juice in a diner and what it says about his ability to connect with "regular people," for example. But they have two things in common: They portray Obama as weird -- un-American, even -- and they do so based on little more than the fevered imaginations of some journalists and the vicious lies of right-wing partisans.

Rush Limbaugh says Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden are "on the same page." Other conservative commentators have suggested an affinity between Obama and Hamas -- despite Obama's denunciations of the organization, and its description of Obama's policy positions as "hostile to us." Conservative columnist Mark Steyn has described Michelle Obama as "Kim Jong-Il dressed up with a bit of Oprah Winfrey dressing."

Michael Savage claims to "doubt" that Obama "would take our side" after a terrorist attack, adding that Obama would "march thousands of us into the hands of the enemy in order to gain what they would think would be a long-term peace. I think that they would gladly take the guns of the American military and turn them first on the American patriot, rather than turning the guns of the American patriot on the enemy within." Savage also asks, "Why are there no queries being provoked about Saddam Hussein -- I mean, Barack Hussein Obama?" Tucker Carlson has compared Obama's campaign to the Khmer Rouge, the brutal Cambodian regime that led to the deaths of nearly a quarter of that nation's people.

redtide:

obama is an evil bastard who hates the US and cannot wait to punish it

O'Lielly luvs ya for that....lol

its almost exactly the same...the peasants who would support obama are the same simple minded, angry, racist, haters that thought hitler would bring 'change'.

Jerico:

its almost exactly the same...the peasants who would support obama are the same simple minded, angry, racist, haters that thought hitler would bring 'change'.

You are completely off base.

Obama supporters are happy with their/our candidate.

It's you idiot cons that have dug yourselves into an arrogant hole, have nowhere to go, and are pissed to the point of hysteria, and deal with it by massive subject changing.

;-)

Hello Aflac. I believe you will agree with me on the following - Obama will lose for two reasons - we still have enough whites refusing to vote for a negro and lies by the other side will defeat the man come November. I'll work for Obama and HOPE I'm wrong about members of my race refusing to vote for a fellow American just because of his color.

Just might be for the long run best to let Sen. John McBush win what with the coming depression high gas prices will cause(we now hear from the right - dems won't let us drill for oil -oh yes -what about new wells in Texas and OK - wells come in and capped off)..

For the USA GO OBAMA _-GO!