Jul 23 2008
Who’s the media really carrying water for?
I just have to laugh at the incessant whining from the McCain campaign, about how “the media loves Obama”. Is Obama getting more minutes on the news? I don’t doubt that, as what he’s doing lately does make for a more newsworthy story, regardless of the political persuasion (first major presidential candidate of color repeatedly bucking the odds and generating lots of enthusiasm, most lately on his Middle East trip vs. stodgy old fart with flappy cheeks who’s one minute away from crapping his drawers, getting everything wrong so quickly you can’t keep score anymore).
Plus, with all that extra media coverage of Obama, don’t forget how many non-story/inflated b.s. sensationalist stuff was in that coverage… Rev. Wright, Bittergate, a bad bowler who just can’t relate to the hicks in Appalachia, etc.
The press, with all of McCain’s whining is still his “base”, and as he continuously goes more and more off the deep end into some factually-challenged twighlight zone, we’re seeing them actually cover up for him. This makes the press coverage of Bush in 2000 that downplayed he had the intelligence of a fourth grader look like nothing, by comparison. How perverted is it getting? McCain completely screwed up his facts regarding the timelines of the surge and events surrounding it. CBS actually went ahead and cut out his horribly mangled answer and inserted the answer to a different question. Yeah, you just can’t make this stuff up, I tells ya’. Your ‘liberal’ media at work:
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