The Potemkin Candidate Benefits From Leni Riefenstahl's Heir

In Israel, Barack Obama was twice given thechance to answer the question, "Can you ensure that there will beno second Holocaust?" Both times Obama declined to answer. TheAmerican media did nothing to engage Obama on the issue.

Obama has likewise stripped the American flag from the back ofhis new 757 in favor of his campaign logo. The Americanmedia has done nothing.

Obama, speaking at Israel's Holocaust Memorial alludedto World War 2 by saying we stopped evil by "speak[ing] out in onevoice." First, that's not true and second, he totally ignored thesacrifice of soldiers and sailors who were the people who actuallystopped the evil not by speaking, but by fighting. The Americanmedia did not note this glaring omission.

Patrick Ruffini notes Obama is now on toGermany for a great propaganda show. He'll have film makers thereto shoot commercials for his campaign.

This event is supposed to not be a political event. Obama is, Iwould presume, subsidizing his travel with U.S. Senate funds andthus cannot really have a political trip. Nonetheless, Obama ispassing out the poster above, attempting to use Germans as part ofhis propaganda.

No, Obama and his campaign are not the heirs of LeniRiefenstahl, Hitler's propagandist.

It is more and more clear the media is the heir apparent.

Throughout Obama's Middle East and European trip, the media haswillingly participated in a show and orchestration of propaganda,passing out staged and orchestrated images of Barack Obamaattempting to boost his image.

The media covers Obama as if he isPresident.

NBC refers to Obama's trip as a "tour ofduty."

Most importantly, only Andrea Mitchell admits that what we are seeing is carefullystaged. The scenes of Obama with the troops, the interviews,everything is phony. He is a potemkin candidate and the media isplaying along.

Why is it that no other major members of the media havementioned this?

Why is the media willing to give Obama a pass on his Berlinrally -- not asking the tough questions about why his campaign ispassing out fliers for people to attend a non-political speech?

Why? Because the media has become the self-appointed propagandamaster for Barack Obama's campaign. The media has become LeniRiefenstahl. Therein lies the danger. By becoming Obama'spropaganda master, the media is failing to ask the tough questionsin its quest to do their candidate no harm.

And that is a disservice to the public. Of course the publicalready knows it. And that is the Achilles heel John McCain canexploit.