<p>Even as someone who supports Obama '08, the McCain camp has me crackin' up!</p>
<p>Do you think the mainstrean media is obsessed with Senator Barack Obama? Is McCain being unfairly slighted on airtime and press coverage? Do you see this cult of personality in your community or at school? Does half of the MSNBC political analysis team need to come out of the closet?</p>
<p>FYI, the background music is "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" by Frankie Valli.</p>
<p>Personally, the Democratic candidates of the past (Kennedy, Clinton) have usually been more media-friendly than their Republican counterparts (Nixon, G.H.W. Bush, Dole).</p>
<p>I mean, c'mon, will McCain's rhetorically weak town halls or Obama's sold-out stadium speeches bring in the viewers and ad revenue?</p>
<p>Simply enough, Obama is just more likeable, regardless of his politics. If this is bad, things will be worse when Lousiana Governor Bobby Jindal goes for national office in the future. He's so laid back it's scary. McCain should wise up and pick him to win the Veepstakes already. But anyways, back to the "love affair"...</p>
<p>Chris Matthew's line about the "thrill going up his leg" creeps me out on a homoerotic level, and I won't be able to erase that from my memory since I have to read Hardball for AP Government. Ugh...</p>
<p>The cult of personality is definitely present at my school. Many kids are not informed on the issues, yet at least nine out of ten support Obama. Half our school was gone the day of the rally (at least in my classes, and I'm NOT exaggerating). My favorite reason for supporting him was because he was "hot." I don't mind people supporting a candidate, but I have yet to hear even a shadow of a valid reason from most of my peers.</p>
<p>This might be the only figure in the history of public affairs that could get away with being labeled as "hot" even as a 40 y/o man. His wife must be proud.</p>
<p>Yes, Obama definitely receives more attention from the media than McCain. But I guess that's to be expected. </p>
<p>I agree, it can be annoying when everyone at school is wearing Obama t-shirts and proclaiming their love for the man they know absolutely nothing about.</p>
<p>omg, i love how 70% of the youtube is MSNBC-Matthews, Carlson, Scarborough (all of whom I watch, well, except Carlson). I can't believe they couldn't find any footage of Olbermann though. I love MSNBC, so I'm not going to diss them (at least they have more personality then the boring CNN team (Blitzer, Cafferty, Brown, Dobbs), and are leagues better than FOX).</p>
<p>I think there's too much talk that this plays into McCain's advantage though. With more press coverage, comes more scrutiny. McCain has been making gaffe after gaffe (sunni awakening/surge, Czechoslovakia, SHI'A Iran training SUNNI Al Qaida, to name a few), and the press has been largely ignoring it while parsing every word that comes out of Obama's mouth. The media is a double-edged sword, and McCain is suffering in some regards and benefiting in others from the lack of coverage of his campiagn.</p>
<p>Really, I think it's McCain's fault that most of the media finds him not-newsworthy.</p>
<p>Ive been reading a book concerning the liberal bias in the media for AP Gov and Econ. its called "Bias: the Insider CBS Coverage" by Bernard Goldberg. In the book the author , Bernard Goldberg, was an Ex-CBS reporter and he talks about how the media has a liberal bias on all sorts of stories and news reports. He (personally) wrote an article concerning the liberal biasm in the media in the Wall Street Journal. After CBS saw this, they immediately went to fire him from the company. Dan Rather scorned him publically for his (Bernards) article because he felt Bernard backstabbed the media and his own company. Also it talks about how like during the 1995 impeachment of Clinton (i think) Dan Rather and Peter Jennings would purposely "sight out" the conservatives from the crowd (i.e. "Oh there goes Senator McCain, that highly highly conservative from Arizona") but wouldnt mention who was liberal. Also in the book he talks about how during the Reagans time (Conservative) homelessness was "propagandized" by the media who said that homelessness was up just cause a conservative was in the house but when Clinton came into his presidency , the media only did 2 stories AS A WHOLE on homelessness. So the media favored the democrats over the republicans on air.</p>
<p>This proves their is truly a liberal bias in the media</p>
<p>The simple fact of the matter is that America doesn't know what to do with a black presidential candidate!!</p>
<p>We've dissed and ridiculed every [white] presidential candidate since our democracy began...but in this age of political correctness, what do we do? We "can't" make fun or ridicule Obama because he is black and that would be a taboo thing to do. It's kind of interesting how our democracy is now taking away from our democracy! Our democracy that instituted political correctness and equality for all (not a problem at all with any of those things) is now limiting the characteristic presidential elections that have made this democracy what it is (whether for the good or the worse).</p>
<p>I have NO problem with people who know what obama stands for, have beliefs, etc...but I do get aggravated when people have NO reason to vote for obama (or mccain for that matter) other than "he's black" "i want to vote for the first black president!"</p>
<p>It definitely was a cult of personality; i personally feel the obama love has faded a lot since super tuesday</p>
<p>How anyone can try to stain the legacy of JFK is ridiculous. People always bring up the Bay of Pigs ordeal, but the bottom line is that the whole thing was an Eisenhower/CIA concept that Kennedy kind of shrugged his shoulders at as he was getting settled into office. Other than that, he was brilliant. He saved the world from imminent nuclear warfare with his remarkably poised reaction to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and laid the idealistic foundation for the social triumphs of the 1960s.</p>
<p>The mainstream media does not like Obama. With the exception of sections of the MSNBC punditry, the media (CNN/NBC/ABC in particular) is incapable of political discourse on a single subject for longer than about three minutes, and thus makes it difficult to fight the rhetoric of the party in power. For example, it is very difficult for liberals to forward their rebuttal of the inane "the surge is working," in the Bush era.</p>
<p>^I beg to differ. Ever since the primaries, NPR has reported on the Democratic race (first Hillary v. Obama) and now Obama way more than anything about McCain or the Republicans. In fact, one night I turned it off after their news coverage of the primary included a four-minute discussion of Obama (with a little Hillary thrown in there) followed by a 30-second report of the Republican results. I know that the Democratic race was fiercer, but they clearly didn't care about what happened to people not competing with Obama. It continues even now.</p>
<p>Liberal bias, conservative bias, who gives a ****? Have some fun!</p>
<p>Everyone, I want humorous posts relating to the video, not ideological tirades! There are other threads for you to relieve yourself! Haha, funny I say that...</p>
<p>Personally, Obama needs to educate his voters or else he's gonna start resembling Il Duce (Mussolini) and Comrade Stalin in political strategy. :o</p>
<p>And Tucker Carlson looks like he's been avoiding girls since the 9th grade.</p>
<p>Mant00n1, I disagreed with the statement that the mainstream media does not like Obama. In other words, I agree with you. Was your post an answer to mine?</p>
<p>Funny you say that, cause good ol Woodrow, the prodigal son of Princeton in its days as the Southernly Ivy, happened to be a known white supremacist who had a quote inserted in D.W. Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation.</p>
<p>A famous saying about JFK
Everybody loved him except the politicians/co workers.
Although an advocate of civil right, he didn't have the guts to push the issue, and LBJ had to follow through.
JFK's legacy isn't based on his policies, but the fact he was assassinated(and the kennedy curse).
Woodrow wilson did everything in his power to reach a fair treaty after ww1, and had others supported his ideas, ww2 may have been avoided. Wilson was an unexpected candidate as well, and a minority president, so he had to overcome a lot of adversity as well.
So many people answer the 'why do you support obama' with he will bring hope and change. The media is biased. If the anchors and exec's don't support the war, it is going to influence the stories they choose to cover. Likewise, their political ideologdy will play a substantial role in which candidate they support.
Interstingly enough, before this primary, McCain joked his support base was the media.
If a news station claims to be objective and fair, they have an obligation to be fair. I have been a rolling stone subscriber the past few years, and they pride themeselves of being objective, yet have a near crush on obama, and routinely misquote and unfairly attack others, but are never, ever critical of any of obamas many flaw. Likewise, they are their own business, so they can choose what stories to air. It is clear obama is getting more media attention. A big reason is he is relatively inknown compared to McCain. McCain has been around for a years, but obama has seemingly come out of nowhere, and many skeletons in obamas closet are slowly coming out.
European leaders are skeptical of obama, perhaps due to their history of very liberal politicians rising to power by mezmerising crowds with powerful speeches and promises of a rich, properious society during a time of econimic hardships. Obama also does not have enough foriegn policy experiance, and obama will likely follow the misteps of clinton administration in the first few weeks.</p>