Snippets in the News – May 22nd 2008

• CNN is having difficulty recognizing Senator Obama as a viable candidate for the Presidential Election of 2008. Mark Casey writes …

I’ve noticed that CNN’s political coverage this year has been heavily, indefensibly, shamelessly biased toward Hillary Clinton. That’s to be expected — after all, two of her top political advisers, James Carville and Paul Begala, are former CNN employees, and continued their “political coverage” for the network even while they were Hillary employees, until the network got complaints and had to boot them.
But I’ve been keeping tabs on CNN more closely in the past two weeks, since Barack Obama has all but locked up his place as the Democratic nominee, even by Carville’s own admission. One would think that they’d probably give a little less publicity to Senator Clinton, since she’s nearly out of the presidential picture, right?
Wrong. Let’s look at a rundown of just the last forty “blogs” on their faux-news gossip column “The Political Ticker” — and I assure you that it has been no different for the past two weeks …
What’s more, most of the time CNN uses their “Political Ticker” to back up their front-page political posting. So the bias in the ticker is equal to the bias they feature on their front page. …
What I’m saying is, readers should take their “coverage” with a grain of salt. They’ve got some cards they’re not showing.

Comments on Election 2008 – May 22nd 2008

Robert Novak comments:

While the McCain campaign feels it has secured the party’s conservative base, we feel that is not the case. There remains substantial resentment from a wide variety of elements. The McCain problem here is that he does not recognize he has this problem.
The love affair between John McCain and the news media is over. The time when McCain described the press as his base is finished. The journalists feel the bad McCain of 2008 is not the good McCain of 2000, and McCain’s advisers feel the journalists are in the bag for Obama.

Journalists are like lovers – fickle, especially when the affair is a one-night stand or a fortnight torrid event that fizzles out.

Senator McCain rode the press wave hard, and now that the wave has expended itself upon the shore, that is where McCain can be found – alone on the beach. Despite his previous limelight coverage as a “maverick” – he has become ensnared with the new nickname of “McBush” – a term created by his Democratic opponent, Senator Barack Obama – the prophet of the media and the savior of the people who believe his rhetoric.