Furtive Glances - "Media Blackout" Edition
The mainstream media has made a big deal about a lot of things during this presidential campaign. For example, let's just think about Joe the Plumber. For having the temerity to disagree with Mr. Obama's proposed tax policy - and with the candidate's belief that he knows just how to "spread the wealth around" Joe Wurzelbacher has been subjected to what is essentially opposition research by the "objective" media. They've crawled into his tax records, investigated his licensing, and accused this guy, who was randomly approached by a presidential candidate looking for a photo op with the common man, of being a Republican plant. Are they kidding?
I thought it might be nice to run down some of the other stories that you likely won't see on the front page of the NY Times - or any other large media outlet for that matter.
- Did you know that in 6 Alabama counties there are more registered voters than voting age adults? I wonder how something like that could have happened? This story is actually an AP story in USA Today, but it'll disappear down the memory hole within 24 hours.
- What, you mean you can't be a temporary visitor to Ohio, register, and vote there, even if you're an Obama campaign worker? Voter suppression!!!
- Ho hum, another member of the vast right wing conspiracy states that a withdrawal timetable from Iraq wouldn't have been wise.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright said Thursday the Iraq war has created damaging consequences for U.S. diplomacy, but Washington should not agree to a specific deadline for withdrawing troops in the midst of conflict - something proposed last year by the candidate she now supports, Sen. Barack Obama.
"I never was for a date certain," Mrs. Albright told editors and reporters at The Washington Times. "In Bosnia, we gave a date certain, and then we couldn't get out and that undercut our credibility."
[...]In early 2007, he proposed a Senate bill that would have removed all combat brigades from Iraq by March 31, 2008. "The days of our open-ended commitment must come to a close," he said at the time.
More recently, he has conditioned the pace of a pullout on realities on the ground.
That's called "moving to the center" for the general election. It's also called being wrong when it mattered most.- Some people are so wound up by their fervor for their candidate that they will, for example, take a sign supporting the other candidate and smash it into the holder's face. Probably some racist, I'm sure it was justified. Full story at Pajamas Media.
Didn't know about any of these? I'm shocked, shocked.
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