“It’s a time-honored marketing ploy and every time they bash the media it means they’re not talking about a vision or a plan. But the best antidote to cynical marketing is solid reporting.”
-- CNN President Jon Klein, responding to the McCain campaign's criticism of CNN's coverage of Sarah Palin
Saturday, September 06, 2008
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Poor, poor Sarah. So smart, so capable, so ready to lead, so Executively Experienced™...that they have to lock her in a media-proof bubble until they cram a couple of semesters of Debate Camp in her think-hole so they can pretend this moose-eating asshat is ready to be The Veep. And it's all the media's fault. Right.
Awww, someone wants his job back. :p
That would be nice if the Conservative News Network would indulge us occasionally with some real journalism.
It's absolutely amazing that everyone is bent out of shape about the lack of experience the Republican's VP choice has, while ignoring the lack of experience the Dems PREZ choice has.
As far as a "media proof bubble," the damn media is scared/unwilling to report jack shit about Obama. Get back to me when we start hearing about Barry's kids and spouse on the news.
Dear God, would somebody please fucking reiterate to Anonymous here what I've been saying for the past week?
Please? I'm too tired.
Still thinking in bumper-stickers.
It doesn't make a difference what we reiterate, they're still stuck in sloganeering mode.
Anyone catch Biden on Meet the Press Sunday? As usual, it was captivating to watch him speak. An engaging straight shooter. No robotic chanting "USA USA." No silly canned jokes about lipstick on dogs. No beady-eyed condescension. A thoughtful and comprehensive dialog about where we are as a nation, and where we seem to be going.
And Palin's Sunday morning appearances were... what? Oh, yeah. The McCain campaign isn't letting anyone speak to her unless it's a fluff piece about her favorite cookie recipe, or one of her virtually identical stump speeches someone else wrote for her. The McCain campaign canceled her scheduled interviews with media who have the audacity to actually ask questions and try to present information. You know, stuff the rest of us might want to know about the potentially second most powerful person on the planet.
Obama has been vetted for the last two years. What's left to dig into? The press has done its job so far; the laughable non-story about Reverend Wright came and went; the Rezko thing is old news; the Obama is a baby-eating Muslim emails are understood for what they are by anyone with an IQ higher than a toadstool. What else?
There is a wealth of information about Obama, and his political career including his ongoing service as a sitting member of the Senate, thanks to his willingness to address people's curiosities about him. There are a great many questions about Mrs. Palin that really ought to be asked and answered with crystal clarity before anyone should be asked to push a button and put her one metastasized melanoma -- or just a simple heart attack -- away from the controls of the largest nuclear arsenal on the planet.
Everyone is entitled to know everything that can be learned about both the candidates and their running mates. Asking reasonable questions about a person who only a week ago 99% of Americans had never heard of hardly approaches getting bent out of shape; canceling interviews and obscuring critical inquiry with loud, repetitive, cliche protestations, comes much closer to it.
I've seen Obama and Biden discuss, in great detail, the vision of their administration, the challenges it will likely face, and the ideas they want to explore as our elected leaders. In contrast, McCain gives us schoolyard nanny-nanny boo-boo riffs, long irrelevant anecdotes about Vietnam, and brief but controlled glimpses of a complete stranger whose best attempts at public speaking sound like the kind of wisdom you hear if you push the little red button stamped on a magnetic Jesus Fish.
The unfortunate thing about your buddy Jon Klein is that when he talks it's mostly in the opposite land that he lives in. He says CNN must differentiate itself from Fox then copies every damn thing they do, especially at 10 pm to try to get the same ratings but it doesn't work. And hell ya he should know about marketing ploys, only he calls him Anderson Cooper.
Jon Klein must be an idiot savant but mostly just idiot as this is the same man who had himself paged 3 times at the White House Correspondence Dinner back in April to market himself. Idiot.
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