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Believe it the Danville R@B, has went on a full time blitz against Palin. This lady is driving the liberal press batty, so get prepare for many letters that come straight from groups like media matters.
The R@B who has done a hatchet job on Palin, since day one when her name came out. Yesterday said she owes it to us to answer our questions! If I was Palin, I tell the liberal media, to kiss my caribou.

I understand that Obama said on ABC, my Muslim Faith. Anyone see it. Before any of you liberals tell me it was a slip up, so was Palin daughter getting pregnant, the press has had no trouble ripping her. More fair and balanced news coverage?

How' bout some Bomb-head Mo cartoons for balance?

Hugh, no way. I like to see all candidates treated fairly. Sadly the liberal media, has no shame.

Dog, I've seen the youtube of the "Muslim faith". Only an idiot would listen to that and suggest that it is an unintended slip-up revealing his true faith. Yet type in "my Muslim faith" and you get thousands of idiots who suggest just that.

He is pointing out that John McCain has not sunken to the level of the thousands (millions?) of morons who suggest he is anything other than what he says he is.

And yet this will gain traction to the wing-nuts who cannot spend thirty seconds to pay attention to the real truth. Rather they'll watch the 11 second version that attempts to remove the context of the conversation and try to twist it around to something it isn't.

Idiotic.

Oh, and to be clear, is this the same "liberal media" that did two full weeks of "news" about Jeremeiah Wright, yet has said not one peep about the church that Sarah Palin attends?

More interesting to me was the interviewer (Stephanopolous) guiding Obama. Why would an interviewer need to lead such an academic guest through his answers? Isn't that the point of the interview?

"Oh, and to be clear, is this the same "liberal media" that did two full weeks of "news" about Jeremeiah Wright, yet has said not one peep about the church that Sarah Palin attends?"

Howie, a decent case could be made that the "same" media was dragged into reporting details about Wright's sermons by the talk radio guys (sort of community organizers, if you will). Sermons which, you'll recall, Obama agreed were divisive. If not, here's a link- March '08:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/14/obama.minister/

And Wright agreed as well- April '07:
“If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me,” Mr. Wright said with a shrug. “I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/us/politics/30obama.html?pagewanted=1

What an odd conversation to have with your preacher...

Should the pond be dredged for Palin? Perhaps, and if Air America can get traction I'm sure it will be. I hope we waste these next couple of months on substance, though, before we decide which couple to vote off the island.

That's what this election is amounting to, it seems.

Obama/Biden BFF '08

Roger,
Stephanopolous was not trying to guide him. Rather, he wasn't listening to Obama, as he erroneously tried to correct what Obama was saying. So Obama corrects him.

Oh, and I love how the "liberal media" is reluctantly dragged into the conversation about Wright. Nice spin there. The media will expose anything they think will sell air time -- that's it.

As liberal scholar Pat Buchannan has said for years: the liberal media is a hoax exploited by the right when convenient to avoid the actual topic.

I appreciate the "spin" comment. I don't get it much, and don't use it on anyone. It's a neat word, a lot like "racist," where it can be brought out and any actual arguments can be ignored because of higher stance over the other party's (individual, not (D) or (R)) bankrupt moral tendencies.

I was going to note the Fairness Doctrine not applying to newspapers and use the recent John Edwards reporting in a response, but since you've established your high ground I guess we can discard any actual and historical examples.

I like your posts, Howie. You're in the top three of (D) actual thinkers/posters/conversationalists here who actually seems to want to discuss things, but I really expected more.

You nailed it on the air time, btw. You seem to have answered your own prior question.

And I liked my community organizer comparison, even though I think it prompted the spin jab. Bringing unknown and ignored concerns (that the majority people in other communities don't think are important) into the public eye is part of it, right? John Stewart in a way, Al Gore in a way. The talk radio guys are egotistical blowhards who think they are critically important in "saving" something, and that seems to keep them in line with another popular community organizer...

Regarding Stephenapolous guiding Obama, I'm not saying it was pre-arranged and scripted. I'm saying the answers were helped along through (annoying) interruptions. To say he wasn't listening assumes "my Muslim faith" was what Obama meant to say (vs something like "hasn't claimed I'm a Muslim"), which, by correcting himself, shows it wasn't. Stephenapolous helped him when he saw the slip. The transcript is out there to read.

I remain excited about the (now only) three debates.