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| Why the press is turning on Obama |
| 2008-04-25 |
| Orrin Judd There are two dynamics at work here: first, contrary to rightwing paranoids, the media was always going to go after Senator Obama eventually--he's a target-rich environment and their job is blowing such up; second, while everyone gets that the Senator isn't like (and doesn't like) middle America, he isn't like these journalists either, but Ms Clinton is. There's a great bit from 30 Rock, after Tina Fey has pretended to be a drunk so she can listen in on a boyfriend's confessions at AA, where she reveals the deeper truths about herself, one of which is "I'm going to spend months pretending to support Barack Obama and then go into the booth and vote for Hillary." They like the idea that they're the kind of folks who would vote for a black guy in the abstract. They have little interest in the reality of this particular candidate, who none of them knew anything about until roughly six weeks go. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #6 "the MSM has sold their collective soul to the devil" Wouldn't they have to have one in order to sell it, John? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-04-25 19:03 |
| #5 He fucked with Big Arugula. He shouldn't have done that... |
| Posted by: The Big Arugula Lobby 2008-04-25 18:38 |
| #4 Are we the rightwing paranoids? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-04-25 17:39 |
| #3 Whenever I read a story involving the MSM, it comes across sounding sleazy and tawdry--maybe it is because the MSM has sold their collective soul to the devil. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-04-25 16:56 |
| #2 Orrin seems to be really big on ASSUME. His biggest assumption is that the MSM would attack BHO. |
| Posted by: tipover 2008-04-25 14:37 |
| #1 Cuz the only thing the media likes better then creating a media darling is ripping the same media darling to shreds. It shows how "objective" they are... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-04-25 14:24 |