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Monday, July 21, 2008

No Outtakes for Obama?

Posted by: Carol Platt Liebau at 10:06 PM

Via Newsbusters: Andrea Mitchell has made it clear that the glowing photo-ops coming from Barack's trip aren't the products of journalistic investigation, but rather simply selected hand-outs from either the military or the Obama campaign.

Since when did the MSM complacently and quietly (except for Mitchell, it seems) serve as nothing more than a propaganda arm for a presidential campaign -- much less the military? But has any other member of the media objected to the fact that it's quiescently beaming home simply the information that the Obama campaign wants to offer it?

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SAM writes:	Monday, July, 21, 2008 11:00 PM
In the Meantime
McCain and his campaign advisers roll over and take this nonsense without a fight. McCain's turning out to be even more effeminate and intellectually inept as Obama. I didn't think it was possible. I now wish I were 72 like McCain, so I wouldn't have to live in the aftermath of an Obama presidency. Paging the McCain campaign; it's time to wake up, though it's likely too late.
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thenewpatriot72 writes:	Monday, July, 21, 2008 11:06 PM
SAM
That was funny. I couldn't say it better!!!
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My Pet Goat writes:	Tuesday, July, 22, 2008 1:15 AM
Bon Mots
Did it ever occur to you Bush-ies that Obama can't match Bush on the Bon Mots, so it's difficult to make fun of him? (In French, just to drive you people crazy.) Who could ever match W for foot-in-mouth disease! I'm gonna miss that -- but only that.
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soothsayer writes:	Tuesday, July, 22, 2008 3:52 AM
A modest proposal . . .
Why didn't they just pay Armstrong Williams to write favorable stories, as the current administration did?
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Ana Mus writes:	Tuesday, July, 22, 2008 8:55 AM
don't let photo ops with
troops fool anyone. Remember the men and women in the military are taught to show respect and in the video where Obama is eating breakfast with the troops it appears only the ones seated next to him show any type of interest in him. I only see one soldier taking a picture of Obama and that is one of the black soldiers. The soldiers sitting next to Obama at the table are black as well. Guess the military wouldn't let them stage that one. The soldiers do not seek out Obama in that video either, Obama has to approach them.
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Dread writes:	Tuesday, July, 22, 2008 11:50 AM
Hmm...
[Since when did the MSM complacently and quietly (except for Mitchell, it seems) serve as nothing more than a propaganda arm for a presidential campaign -- much less the military?] See Bush Administration c. late 2001 - 2008.
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