So what lead to this question? It comes from Obama's love for the movie "The Godfather".However, The NY daily news must also be "smearing" Obama because one of their writers wrote it! NOT FOXNATION!! I wonder why Media Matters didn't cite the original source and leaves that out????
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"Naturally the echo chamber picked this up and ran with it. The News Corpse gang called it a "blatant association of Obama with a famous fictional crime family", and promptly reposted their claim on Keith Olbermann's blog of choice, the Daily Kos. And what Media Matters Fox attack isn't parroted by the newshounds? This time Ellen did the echo chamber honors, cackling that this "demonizes" Democrats, and shows that "it's OK to demean your opponent if he's President Obama".
But wait? Doesn't something about this sound eerily familiar? It did to Chris Golas, who blogged about a similar comparison, when Keith Olbermann spent an entire segment of his show likening the Bush family to the Sopranos:"
Media Matters double standard, lousy research
http://chrisgworld.blogspot.com/2009/08/media-matters-double-standard-lousy.html
http://homepage.mac.com/mkoldys/blog/user_files/sopranos.jpg
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"Hmm. Did Media Matters expose this "smear" comparing Bush to organized crime? Did the Daily Kos blast this "blatant association" of the President with a crime family? (Surely they would have had space to do so, even with the hundreds of references to the "Bush mafia" on their site.) And what of Ms Brodsky and the newspoodles? They too only seemed to object to this comparison when Fox did it."
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=en-us&num=100&newwindow=1&q=site%3Adailykos.com+%22bush+mafia%22&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
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"Except of course that Fox didn't make the comparison. The evil, reprehensible "going to the mattresses" quote? Not written by Fox Nation at all. It is from the New York Daily News, an article by Michael Goodwin that Fox Nation merely linked to:"
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'We could call it doubling down on a mistake. Or drawing a partisan line in the sand. But this is Barack Obama and his favorite movie is - I'm not making this up - "The Godfather," so let's stick with the mob theme. The Obama Family is going to the mattresses.'
The Obama Family wages war: On health care, Prez tries to make us an offer we can't refuse
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/08/23/2009-08-23_the_obama_family_wages_war_on_health_care_prez_tries_to_make_us_an_offer_we_cant.html
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"Oddly, none of the above cites offered any denunciations of the Daily News or of Mr Goodwin for publishing the piece. Only of Fox for linking to it. Now why would that be?"
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"We should add that this is nothing new for Media Matters. They have repeatedly gotten their panties in a bunch over any suggested association of the President with facism, particularly if it comes from Glenn Beck. And yet, it's hard to get more blatant and direct then yelling at the President "You're a fascist!", as this video recalls:"
Dean and Olbermann on Name-Calling: Then and Now!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkYmS5ylCrk
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"Yet not a word from Media Matters when Keith Olbermann does it. Why would that be?"
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Fox Haters Week in Review
http://homepage.mac.com/mkoldys/blog/wll273368806.html
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