Andrea Mitchell is not, of course, a tool for the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. That doesn't prevent her from properly pointing out that Barack Obama's world tour is the Potemkin Publicity Stunt To End All Potemkin Publicity Stunts. The thing that interests me is whether at some point in time, other journalists will remember what it is like to be prideful of their profession and skeptical of the latest messianic political campaign to come down the pike. It is obvious that the Obama campaign is manipulating the media--indeed, the campaign is being utterly open and notorious about doing so. It will perhaps stop doing so and start treating the media--and through the media, the voting public--with more respect and decency once the media calls the Obama campaign on its shenanigans. I await the moment when people join Andrea Mitchell in doing just that.
Then again, it is entirely possible that The Onion is, once again, entirely relevant here.
We can hope
Whitehorse July 22nd, 2008 at 11:16 p.m. (link)
that as many as possible in the MSM will wake up to the fawning coverage given Obama, & remember that he can be too busy with a waffle to answer their pesky questions. Obama is a facade, & all facades eventually crumble. I pray that this crumbling happens before he is elected & keeps him from being elected.
Rush made a great point on his show today about the positioning by the MSM of Obama as the "inevitable" presidential winner. Hillary was the last inevitable one, & we can & must work to make sure that Obama presidential aspirations fall beside hers.
JamesLBurns
JamesLBurns July 23rd, 2008 at 12:10 a.m. (link)
I have to say, my first thought on reading A. Mitchell's quotes and other stories about the campaign effectively creating the video and feeding it to the media is: illegal campaign contribution. Seems to me that if a campaign creates a video on its own, forwards that video to a network, and the network runs that video it's called a commercial. If the campaign doesn't pay for that air time, that's the network providing services (very valuable services at that) for free.