Obama friendly media
Obama laid out a pretty huge clanger that came to light today, but, I think, what's as interesting is the way the media are handling it.
Notice that alot of the media websites are freely providing Obama exculpating context with some even embedding the Obama campaign's YouTube response in their posts.
If you want the Obama friendly media, it's out there tonight.
Sat Morning: Wow. The AP headlines the "Indiana is important story," but no headline in this in the top ten. The WaPo has it buried as a little blurb "Critics Paint Obama as Elitist" underneath an article on McCain. USAToday carries an AP piece that focuses on the "bitter" (non-controversial) part. The word Obama isn't even on the NYTimes web front page!
I understand what he said does have a broader context, etc, etc, and maybe it's not perceived as big by the media because it falls into the campaign's "themes" in a way, but still.... it's a pretty bad moment, and it looks like he's getting a pass.
Wow.
Notice that alot of the media websites are freely providing Obama exculpating context with some even embedding the Obama campaign's YouTube response in their posts.
If you want the Obama friendly media, it's out there tonight.
Sat Morning: Wow. The AP headlines the "Indiana is important story," but no headline in this in the top ten. The WaPo has it buried as a little blurb "Critics Paint Obama as Elitist" underneath an article on McCain. USAToday carries an AP piece that focuses on the "bitter" (non-controversial) part. The word Obama isn't even on the NYTimes web front page!
I understand what he said does have a broader context, etc, etc, and maybe it's not perceived as big by the media because it falls into the campaign's "themes" in a way, but still.... it's a pretty bad moment, and it looks like he's getting a pass.
Wow.
posted by mikevotes at
9:40 PM
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Did Obama tell a lie? Was he confused about the difference between Shi'a and Sunni muslims? No, he merely made an astute observation that McCain and Clinton have both jumped on (proving there is no difference between the two) proving how really out of touch these multi-millionaires really are.
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Lew Scannon, at 3:13 PM
You'll notice that I didn't really post on the content because once you read it in full context, it's really not too much of anything.
BUT, in the 24 hour media world, people have been hung on far less than that little bit that was clipped out.
I'm just really surprised that the media is doing the work of contextualizing his comments, normally something that would be left to the campaign.
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mikevotes, at 3:31 PM
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