Yahoo! Features Puff Piece on Biden
If Yahoo! hadn’t included this puff piece on Joe Biden as one of the top headlines on its main page, I likely wouldn’t have paid it much heed. Â After all, it is a Politico piece and not one from the supposedly unbiased “news” services.
Still, it was a striking piece of puffery and a reminder that the gaffe-prone Biden has pretty much gotten a free pass from the MSM while they scrutinize (and usually misrepresent) nearly every public statement and past action of his opponent for vice president.
This piece is, in many ways, the opposite of the recent New York Times hit piece on Sarah Palin.  Where the Times reporters based their article almost entirely on critics of the Alaska Governor, Politico writer Victoria McGrane only quotes supporters of the Delaware Senator, including a “Todd Wilhelm, a retired air traffic controller from Arizona who moved to Pennsylvania to help his union’s get-out-the-vote efforts there.”
Ms. McGrane doesn’t bother to tell us how much in the tank the unions have been for the Democrats. Â Someone tapped for thier get-out-the-voter efforts would be among their most hard-core loyalists. Â Kind of like getting a quote about Sarah Palin from a member of the National Rifle Association’s Moose-Hunting caucus.
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Are you sure that’s the right link?
The headline is “Blue-collar vote, one gaffe at a time.”
Comment by Mitchell Blatt — September 21, 2008 @ 7:07 pm - September 21, 2008
It’s the right link. The title belies the content, all puffery.
Comment by GayPatriotWest — September 21, 2008 @ 8:20 pm - September 21, 2008
Like what is? Candyland?
Comment by ThatGayConservative — September 22, 2008 @ 1:59 am - September 22, 2008
Yeah I love it when the party of “Dont question my patriotism” questions my patriotism because I dont want to get tax raped.
Comment by Vince P — September 22, 2008 @ 2:21 am - September 22, 2008
Obama secretly using PR Firm to produce videos that lie about Palin and then uses the Left wing to distrubute them, in violation of election laws.
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Our research suggests that a subdivision of one of the largest public relations firms in the world most likely started and promulgated rumors about Sarah Palin that were known to be false. These rumors were spread in a surreptitious manner to avoid exposure.
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- Evidence suggests that a YouTube video with false claims about Palin was uploaded and promoted by members of a professional PR firm.
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- The voice-over artist used in this supposedly amateur video is a professional.
- This same voice-over artist has worked extensively with David Axelrod’s firm, which has a history of engaging in phony grassroots efforts, otherwise known as “astroturfing.”
- David Axelrod is Barack Obama’s chief media strategist.
- The same voice-over artist has worked directly for the Barack Obama campaign.
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Comment by Vince P — September 22, 2008 @ 2:38 am - September 22, 2008