Obama Outwits the Bloviators

Obama Outwits the Bloviators



By FRANK RICH
Published: August 30, 2008


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The main reason McCain knuckled under to the religious right by picking Palin is that he actually believes there’s a large army of embittered Hillary loyalists who will vote for a hard-line conservative simply because she’s a woman. That’s what happens when you listen to the TV news echo chamber. Not only is the whole premise ludicrous, but it is every bit as sexist as the crude joke McCain notoriously told about Janet Reno, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton.

Given the press’s track record so far, there’s no reason to believe that the bogus scenarios will stop now. The question of why this keeps happening is not easily answered. Ideological bias, unshakeable Clinton addiction and lingering McCain affection may not account for all or even most of it. Journalists are still Americans — even if much of our audience doubts that — and in this time of grave uncertainty about our nation’s future we may simply be as discombobulated as everyone else.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/opinion/31rich.html?hp

No. And the NYT was in the thick of the distortion.

Hell, Bob Herbert was spinning the "Clinton Vandalism of the White House" story as late as two months ago. It was proven WRONG by the FBI and GAO and Herbert's still using it to trash the Clintons.

Any paper with Dowd and Herbert - the two who most thoroughly trashed Al Gore - has nothing to say here.

This idea of a mainstream press blinded by it's own omnipotence. A sort of permanent giant, purple blob in their eyesight from too many camera flashes.
I suspect many things about the people inside the world-striding corporate media....but the idea of them suffering some kind of job-related injury to their perceptions just ain't one of them. :thumbsdown: