flush limburger is a giant steamin' wad

but YOU already knew that. wtf is he STILL doing on the air? he's so self-absorbed and a giant blowhard. he makes me cringe

Conservative media figures allege Obama's Hawaii trip is about discredited birth-certificate rumors, not his ailing grandmother

Conservative radio hosts Michael Savage and Rush Limbaugh and Obama Nation author Jerome Corsi -- who appeared as a guest on G. Gordon Liddy's radio show -- suggested or asserted that the true purpose of Sen. Barack Obama's current trip to Hawaii is not to visit his ailing grandmother, as Obama claims, but rather to address rumors -- widely debunked -- that Obama has failed to produce a valid U.S. birth certificate. However, as Media Matters for America has documented, the Obama campaign posted a copy of Obama's birth certificate on its "Fight the Smears" website and reportedly provided the original document to FactCheck.org, whose staff concluded in an August 21 post that it "meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship." A Hawaiian Health Department official also reportedly confirmed to PolitiFact.com that Obama's birth certificate is valid, and even Corsi's employer, the right-wing website WorldNetDaily, reported in an August 23 article that a "WND investigation into Obama's birth certificate utilizing forgery experts also found the document to be authentic."

On the October 23 broadcast of his radio show, Limbaugh said:

Who announces days in advance they're rushing to the side of a loved one who is deathly ill, but keeps campaigning in a race that's said to be over, only to go to the loved one's side days later? See, I think this is about something else.............

buzzflash chose a GREAT media putz of the week!

and this week, the 'honor' goes to cokie roberts. why? well the way i see it, she turned the meaning of one word, 'exotic' into the "n" word (or close) without actually SAYING the "n" word on national tv.

she faulted a man who was going to see his ailing grandmother (whom he hadn't seen in over a year)

hey cokie - WE ACTUALLY HAVE 50 STATES NOW YA KNOW

Cokie's Slanders on Obama and Hawaii May be Just What the RNC Ordered

Cokie Roberts

For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America.

Cokie Roberts went on attack this week, trying to portray Sen. Barack Obama's vacation to the state in which he was born and raised, and where close family members still live, as seditious. Instead, we think she came off looking like a bigoted tool of the RNC, which more than qualifies her to be this week's Media Putz.

Roberts began her attack on ABC's This Week on Aug. 10. She somehow managed to admit Hawaii's statehood, while in the same breath erroneously calling it "foreign."

"I know his grandmother lives in Hawaii and I know Hawaii is a state, but it has the look of him going off to some sort of foreign, exotic place. He should be in Myrtle Beach, if he's going to take a vacation at this point."

Then on National Public Radio's Morning Edition the next day, Roberts repeated the attack to host Renee Montagne:

"I know that he is from Hawaii, he grew up there, his grandmother lives there, but he's made such a point about how he is from Kansas and, you know, the boy from Kansas and Kenya and it makes him seem a little bit more exotic than perhaps he would want to come across as at this stage in the presidential campaign."

Basically, Roberts is attacking Obama for not making his vacation into a political stunt. He usually visits Hawaii yearly, for Christmas vacation, but had to skip last year due to the campaign. He recently lamented the fact that he hasn't seen his grandmother, who is unable to travel due to health problems for about 19 months...........

a giant WTF?

hawaii isn't a state? a presidential candidate can't visit his boyhood home without a fuss? a presidential candidate cannot visit his grandmother without a newscaster complaining? south carolina is a BETTER state than hawaii......because??????????????

really cokie, wtf?

Cokie Roberts slams Obama for visiting his Grandmother

From ABC's This Week on 8/10/08. Cokie Roberts: '...I know his grandmother lives in Hawaii and I know Hawaii is a state, but it has the look of him going off to some sort of foreign, exotic place. He should be at Myrtle Beach if he’s going to take a vacation at this time. I just think this is not the time to do that.'


While Cokie gives her best impression of a concerned objective observer(*cough*cough)...it's clear that she is trying a new spin on the 'Obama is an elitist' meme.

No mention of the fact that John McCain doesn't work weekends at all, and is no doubt relaxing with his young heiress wife in one of their at least seven homes, that they can easily get to in one of Cindy McCain's corporate jets................