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Waaaaaaaah
Awwww.
The poor wittle McCain campaign is upset about the media being in the tank for Obama. Check this out:
Almost all of the clips are from MSNBC, of course. (The McCainiacs are so obsessed with Chris Matthews, you have to wonder whether he gives them a shiver up the leg.) Steve Doocy is the only Fox representative; of course Fox’s (and Doocy’s for that matter) fawning coverage of all things conservative pretty much cancels out the prObama bias at the peacock network. Most of the CNN clips are just factual statements of what other media are saying. Except, of course, for Lou Dobbs, that whiny Four-Seasons-regular great champion-of-the-little-people-as-long-as they’re-not-immigrants.
So let me get this straight. A campaign that is largely predicated on the media’s fascination with and affection for McCain’s “straight talk” is now whining about media bias. A campaign that has spent most of its existence living off of favorable press coverage has suddenly noticed that it’s not the only one.
The reality here is that both candidate have benefited from less-than-critical coverage. Since the primary season ended, however, the dominant meme has been McCain as wise, patriotic everyman and Obama as cool, charismatic rookie. That’s not necessarily a bias in Obama’s favor.
My theory is that McCain’s handlers have concluded that the Dobson-Limbaugh-DeLay base of the Republican Party needs shoring up. So this, along with other recent commercials are red meat for the trogs. That’s the only explanation possible, since this can’t possibly have any influence on most of the public. In fact, as Michael Deaver once said about Ronald Reagan, bad media coverage almost always comes across as good media coverage to the average viewer.
One other theory: they think that this will do for them what that SNL skit on favorable coverage of Obama did for Hillary: force the media to provide more balanced coverage. And look how well that turned out for her.
Okay, I have to admit that there is one other possibility.
They’re a bunch of pathetic whining little whiny whiners.
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