I wonder if John Edwards decided to endorse Obama in order to get into better graces with the media. Or maybe he wanted to join the mad rush (and given the results yesterday from West Virginia, I do mean mad) of Democratic leaders, including a number of superdelegates, to their party’s frontrunner.
The MSM so wants this thing to be over and to have Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee that they’ve decided no one cares about HIllary’s landslide victory in West Virginia. It’s irrelevant because it doesn’t fit their narrative.
That’s not the only thing that doesn’t fit their narrative. They’ve borrowed the Obama campaign’s rhetoric that any thing John McCain or Republicans do or say to question the one-term senator’s qualifications for the White House represents an “effort to distract us.”
Note the similarity between Obama’s comment that McCain uses “the very same playbook that his side has used time after time in election after election” with the language from the Newsweek article I cited in this post: the GOP “has been successfully scaring voters since 1968.”
Both the Obama campaign the Newsweek reporters are using that same-old left-wing excuse to explain away the Democratic losses in seven of the last ten presidential elections. It was only in realizing the foolishness of this excuse that Bill Clinton was able to craft a winning strategy for two of the three elections the Democrats didn’t lose.
So much does that Newsweek article offer the Obama campaign’s version of one of McCain’s criticisms of the likely Democratic nominee that its reporters neglected to mention that what prompted one McCain campaign criticism, suggesting Obama is the preferred candidate of the terrorist group Hamas, “was top Hamas political adviser Ahmed Yousef saying the terrorist group supports Obama’s foreign-policy vision and hopes he wins” (Via Powerline).
Just as some in the MSM find any stories on problems Obama might have with his party’s base distractions from the news they want to report so too do they find distracting any criticisms John McCain, his supporters or others make of the likely Democratic nominee even if such criticisms are based on fact.
But, to them, any criticism of Obama must needs be mudslinging or speaking in “innuendo and code.”
According to National Review: when Obama’s campaign honcho, David Axelrod, was asked about the endorsement by the American Hamas group, he said how pleased he was that the group compared Obama to John F. Kennedy.
Regarding Newsweek: There have been some weeks that Newsweek has looked more like an Obama campaign brochure than a news magazine. Mentioning federal laws that prohibit corporate contributions to presidential campaigns, I wrote Newsweek and asked how much the Obama campaign paid for weekly publication of their propaganda handout. I never received a response — of course.
Seems to me that The Breck Girl is angling to be #2 again.
Of course, I’ve always thought of him as a #2.
Regards,
Peter H.
But when McCain suggested dealing with Hamas it was okay?
So sad to see the right wing grasping at straws. There’s really nothing left is there.
Houndentenor, please note the context McCain offered for “dealing with” Hamas.
Pretty clear from that context, he wasn’t talking about unconditional negotiations.