WPost Calls Out 'Uppity' Obama

At this pivotal moment in American history, the major U.S. news media is back to its old game of drawing sweeping character judgments about a presidential candidate based on misleading "quotes," a sickening replay of other recent elections. Full Story »

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by Margaret Yonco-Haines - Jul. 30, 2008

Parry describes a pattern of behavior at the Washington Post and other so-called mainstream media, in which candidates and office holders who are not considered "Beltway insiders" are accused of being presumptuous and even delusionary - and in the case of Barack Obama, "uppity" - or else described in an unnecessarily demeaning way. These accusations are based on quotations taken out of context or even misquoted in order to make the intended point.

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