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DEL.ICIO.USWill media cover McCain fairly?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Alleged media bias in favor of Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. Hillary Clinton made its way into a Saturday Night Live skit, a skit Clinton actually mentioned in a debate with Obama. Yet ABC news was later accused of hammering Obama during a later debate with overly harsh questions such as whether Obama wears a flag lapel pin. Now that Obama appears to have the Democratic nomination, will the media favor Obama or McCain?
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By AH
June 3, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this
Is this a question that anyone has any doubt about the answer?
By RK
June 3, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this
Only mindless liberals think the AJC is an unbiased news source..
By Copyleft
June 3, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this
Of course they will. All that’s needed is an honest depiction of McLame’s stubborn stupidity on vital issues, endless flip-flopping, and deteriorating mental condition to see why he shouldn’t even be allowed to represent and govern the fantasy land that Bush supporters inhabit, let alone America.
By Dusty
June 3, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this
Copyleft@11:50
Did your “deteriorating condition common to liberals” fail to notice that McCain has a clean bill of health from his doctors? That YOUR form of “deterioration” appears most frquently in the form of lies?
McCain has ALREADY served this country well and long and bravely and honorably and like a patriot.
Your fellow, Obama, spends time severing (flip flopping)his ties with people who do not like America, although he hasn’t left his wife yet. He has the experience of a neophyte.
Obama would be a better candidate for the show “So you think you can dance?”. Even I would vote for his graceful dance abilites but NO VOTE for anything in government.
It is almost laughable (and sad) that he is even being considered as presidential material.
By gttim
June 3, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this
Flip Flopping? McCain has flip flopped on every single issue! Plus he cannot figure out how many troops are in Iraq, he does not know the difference of the different ethnic groups in Iraq, he has no knowledge of economics- no wait, he does- and he hated the religious right in 2000 but embraces them now.
Will the press cover him fairly? You must be on crack! All media is owned and run by large conservative corporations who only report what they want you to know. They only care about making life better for their corporations. The love the GOP because the GOP is the most corrupt party and the most easily bought.
Thousands of article and reports covered Kerry’s past in 2004. There was almost a blackout on Bush’s past. Kerry’s wife did not want to publish her tax returns and the press went nuts. McCain’s did not want to, and the press was quiet. If not for liberal bloggers, there would have been no stink made about it. A preacher from Obama’s church says a few controversial things and it is played thousands of times on TV. McCain courts the endorsement of the minister John Hagee, and there is almost a blackout on all the videotape of him saying the most despicable things about the holocaust, Catholicism, Hurricane Katrina, Judaism, and Islam.
Will the press cover McCain fairly? When pigs fly!
By asfdgieur
June 3, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this
John McWho? Oh, yeah….whitey.
By TODD
June 3, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this
CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG AND STOP LETTING THE BIAS MEDIA FEED US HATE!
By luangtom
June 4, 2008 2:32 AM | Link to this
Now that Obama is THE candidate, let us begin to ask how he will expedite the World Poverty Act through the Congress. This will mandate our paying taxes to the UN for their programs and needs. Obama is a senate sponsor of this bill. Then, let us ask where he DOES stand on Second Amendment rights. He did not exhibit any support of it in the laws he promoted in Illinois, nor in the Senate and co-sponsoring of the re-inroduction of the Assault- Weapons Bill and even more and stronger restrictions. Oh, it is gonna be interesting to hear him talk his way out of these questions and others. Flip-flop, flip-flop….
By Copyleft
June 4, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this
Why would he have to “talk his way out of” such eminently sensible positions, Luang? You’re forgetting that America is a LIBERAL country; he’s taking the positions America wants, which is why he’s winning the presidency.
By Charles
June 4, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this
Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!
Is this a SERIOUS question?
We’re talking about the mainstream press who has raked President Bush (who kept his Oath of Office) over the coals for defending our Nation against radical Islamic terrorists. We’re talking about the mainstream press who avoids looking at Barack Obama’s past until the new media brings them to light - but attacks President Bush with falsified stories (i.e. Dan Rather and “Memogate”).
The answer to your question is not ‘no’ but HELL NO!