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CNN Pulls a Fox SNEAKY
Bad times ahead with cable news deciding yet another bad president for us.
Remember how after the Gore/Bush debate, they were swooning how Bush looked so "presidential," and Al Gore looked so "angry?"
And how seriously cable news took the claims of the Swiftboaters. So seriously that they had them on night after night.
I just watched distortive TV propaganda under the guise of a show called "Ballot Bowl"
The first reporter (didn't catch his name) quickly glossed over the scandalous Obama comment by not giving the full quote. All the CNN viewers heard was Obama said PA people were bitter.
Candy Crowly quickly corrected this and hastily went over the full quote. Even this was a little muffled. An elderly person would have had a problem understanding.
When CNN WANTS you to hear something, they speak real . . . slowly . . . and . . . clearly.
Then CNN played the INAUDIBLE, source tape. It could easily have been enhanced in the editing bay. They did not do this, obviously because CNN did not want their viewers to hear it. The text was shown on the screen over the audio, but oldsters, and people with reading or visual problems would not follow.
What was clear as a bell was an audio enhanced tape of Obama's response. The high tones were enhanced so that no one would have trouble hearing it.
Obama spoke seriously, and clearly. He talked on and on. And on. He looked so presidential. Who would believe he'd just called PA voters a bunch of backwater slugs?
Finally, CNN aired HRC commenting. Once again, if a viewer did not quite understand the previous audio clip, he would not understand exactly what she was commenting on.
Especially when the male news reporter began blurring the subject by harping on Bill's Bosnia gaffe.
This Clinton gaffe has nowhere near the serious implications of Obama's comments.
In a moment of honesty, Obama clearly told Americans that he does not understand us.
He has lived in South Side Chicago most of his adult life, and views us from that narrow perspective.
He needs time to expand his horizons, and his range of friends.
How can he lead a country when he feels such disconnect with its people?
To its credit, CNN did air a little of a Bill Clinton speech that allowed him to refute Obama's sick claim that people were no more prosperous under Clinton than under Chimp Bush.
It's a little sad that CNN viewers pay through the nose to get news from a station that is only out to manipulate them for its own purposes.













Comments (17)
The source tape was from someones pocket recorder and is very muddy from the start. Those sort of tapes always sound muffled and require print. Candy clearly read it out loud. I think you are searching too hard to find something here. The reality is that they will play that tape clip, with print, over and over and over again, even though it is just a poorly worded comment on what voters cling to in the voting booth because they are jaded over voting on economics.
The real condescention is from a candidate who has repeatedly been shown to lie to the voters (sniper fire, macedonia, nafta, spoke out against war before Obama). She assumes the voters are stupid enough to buy all that. Now that is condescending.
April 13, 2008 6:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
She did not CLEARLY read it out loud.
April 13, 2008 6:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
No need to worry all, just tune in to CNN and wait a few minutes. They will repeat it again and you can judge for yourself. And if you step out of the room to make a sandwich and miss it just sit right back down. You'll see it again before you finish your sandwich. Because actually they are making a HUGE DEAL out of this, not trying to gloss it over and have put it on the ad infinitum CNN loop.
April 13, 2008 7:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
what good is a loop if they don't fix the audio track so people can hear it? Any student taking audio 101 could do the job. Cnn has hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment, and an army of editors who could take care of it within minutes.
April 13, 2008 7:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed. I don't know how you can reasonably accuse CNN of trying to muffle this nontroversy, not with their banners exclaiming "EXPLOSIVE COMMENTS BY SENATOR OBAMA", like he'd told us all to go f*** ourselves. And the way CNN gratuitously inflates this kind of irrelevant gaffe is the same kind of manufactured, zero-sum conflict that makes substantial debate and responsible journalism so difficult in this country.
Seriously, I know you hate Obama and all, but can we please, please try to keep the discussion on the subjects that will actually affect our country (examples include Iraq, economic policy, the housing crisis, poverty, our devastated inner cities, the health care crisis, rural poverty, crumbling infrastructure, global warming, etc., but do not include Rev. Wright, Bosnian snipers--unless you're Sinbad--, generalizing about white people, and anything else covered by Fox and Friends)? Or if not, can we at least be funnier?
April 13, 2008 6:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Stop attacking me.
I did not ask people to vote for me then turn around and trash them to my rich, fancy friends.
The subject is CNN deceiving its viewers.
April 13, 2008 6:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
i am from a small town in ohio and i lost my job this year along with a thousand other people when our factory closed up and moved south of the border and i think not only does obama get "it" he really truly believes we can change things in this country for the better so if you think that makes him an elitist thats your opinion but i notice most dems seem to think he's on to something
April 13, 2008 7:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
and i bet u love ee cummings.
April 13, 2008 7:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
So you're bitter? I can understand that, I'm angry myself. Do you go to church? Its not surprising, then, you got bitter, you cling to religion as a way to explain your frustrations.
I'm not much of a church goer. Haven't been inside a church in years. But I do hunt. Its really not surprising, then, that I get bitter, I cling to my guns as a way to explain my frustrations.
Its really great to have a candidate who understands us isn't it. You and your church going and me and my guns. The way we get bitter and cling to them to explain our frustrations.
"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
What a nice long list of people that Obama understands. Their bitterness, their views, and they way they cling to them to explain their frustrations.
April 13, 2008 7:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm bitter, but I don't cling to religion and I don't have a gun. I do cling to chocolate. I like milk chocolate. It makes me feel inferior to know that milk chocolate isn't cool, and that if you really understand chocolate, you eat dark chocolate. It's like I'm not evolved. I wish Obama had included people like me in his talk. It was insensitive to leave eager eaters out in the cold. Maybe we will be in his discussion tonight. I hope so.
April 13, 2008 7:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
CNN = Clinton News Network
April 13, 2008 6:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
TPM = Troll Points Memo
April 13, 2008 6:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hunter--it seems the Obamabots got you surrounded. Anyone with 1/2 a brain knows that CNN and MSNBC are the Obama networks. And, you are absolutely right, spot on, in your analysis. Look, I teach political science, the Media, in college, and YES, they are extremely biased for Obama. The problem here is that half of his following are college kids who have absolutely no point of reference of history, or reality for that matter, so naturally, they refuse to accept what you are saying is reality. These poor dilettantes are going to be in for a huge reality check soon. They do NOT know that the REAL Democratic Party will never allow the kids or the latte elites or the political dilettantes to take over the Party -- the are oxymoronic to the Party. And, they will invariably LOSE.
The MSM -- CNN and MSNBC will side, once again, with the Republican nominee because it is in their best interest and survival. Wake up, children.
April 13, 2008 8:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
ginamc, I just put a blog that I think you will like up on my favorite blogs site. I'm going to take it down in a bit because I don't want these bozos to start swarming it. The writing is unusually good, and it is well monitored to keep out the mites.
April 13, 2008 8:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
And you're a teacher? Wow, so you're saying your students live in an alternate universe and essentially are stupid? Obama has gained the votes of MORE THAN HALF of all democrats voting to date, even if you include FL and MI. That figure also doesn't include hundreds of thousands of votes from caucus states that do not report popular vote but only delegates. So to say that half of his supporters are college kids is a very uneducated and way off guess.
The thing is that when there is negative stuff to broadcast about Obama it receives very intense media attention and the same goes for Clinton. It's just that Hillary keeps on giving more material.
April 13, 2008 9:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
My neighbor is a professor and says many of his students should never have graduated highschool. He gets kids who cannot read, much-less write a paper. They download papers from the web and present them as their own, get caught, then pitch a fit.
Colleges would admit meerkats if they paid tuition.
April 13, 2008 10:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
thanks for lumping me in with the college crowd but i happen to be a 36 year old single parent who has watched many people including myself lose there jobs thanks to unfair trade deals obama doesn't speak above me he doesn't speak down to me he speaks TO me and he also lets us know we have to be part of the solution and last time i checked that was how govt. was suppose to work
April 13, 2008 11:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
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