I believe I remember David Gergen providing commentary after Obama’s speech but it was fairly glowing, not partisan rebuttal. Afraid I didn’t stay long enough to catch Tucker.
Here’s a little more on the respective networks remarks…
If McCain didn’t want to stir up the press, he could have picked a more boring evangelically-correct candidate like Pawlenty. That was the whole damn point of putting Palin on the ticket.
But press attention is a double-edged sword; it doesn’t mean they’re going to sit around and talk about what a maverick-licious move this was from Mayor McMaverick of Maverickton. It means that once her baggage starts rolling out they’re going to jump on it like hungry dogs on a Porterhouse.
They had to know that. They had to expect aggressive and even hostile press, especially if they were going to trot out weak talking points like “She’s the C-in-C of the Alaska National Guard!” and “Of course she has foreign policy experience–Alaska is right next to Russia!”. They might be able to float those by when there’s no chum in the water, but as it is they knew they were going to have to defend those points. This guy was bobbing and weaving so hard that even if (as Sam Stone points out) there was a legitimate answer to her question, he clearly wasn’t going to give it.
The real media bias is toward the sensational story, and you can’t use that one day and bitch about it when it bites you in the ass the next day. I guess you can; it just makes you look like a whiny-ass titty baby.
Were you also planning to spare Tucker what’s-his-name, so that she could literally give him a spanking? 
How would that benefit me?
If I spare Campbell for naked spanking duty, she’ll be GETTING spanked.
ETA: Sorry, Kim forgot to log out. This is Skald.
Did you forget to log out your wife’s user name, Skaldy?
You’ll pay for that Skaldy, Diogenes. Oh, how you’ll pay.
Isn’t this the same Campbell Brown who is married to Republican strategist and Fox News analyst Dan Senor?
Just sayin’
And Starving Artist, your very own cite states that there was:
*once a fond relationship between the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and the media. Starting in the 2000 Republican primaries, the Arizona senator became a media sensation by chatting up the press in the back of his ``Straight Talk Express’’ campaign bus. The national press corps freely mingled with McCain for hours on the bus, with no topic off limits. *
Were you complaining then about the medias adulation of McCain. I doubt it.
I don’t know that I’d say accessibility = adulation. But be that as it may, here (for the edification of anyone open to it) is a perfect example of the type of fawning media attention I was talking about upthread which is typically afforded Dem/lib candidates/personalities and the type of critical, skeptical and assusatory attention afforded Republican/conservative ones: Link
US Weekly? Really?
Maybe John McCain misses his donuts?
Frankly I think this is a really stupid approach for right-wingers. They come across as whiny bitches. Yes, it might get other right wingers excited, but everyone else seems to think they’re just crying for no reason.
First of all, notice the timeline. This was apparently during the period of time mentioned in my quote above when McCain was enjoying a fairly good rapport with the press…you know, prior to Obama’s actually gaining the nomination.
Also, that was all going on behind the scenes. It’s what the public sees and hears, especially since the Obama gained the nomination, where McCain is getting the shaft by the media.
Which days were those, now?
So…are you just ignoring the study by the think tank that shows that Obama was subjected to negative media coverage at a rate of 2.5 to 1 versus McCain or are you just such a blinkered partisan hack that you somehow managed to miss it?
“Oh boo hoo, the mean old pwess is picking on my fwiend McCain, except it isn’t twue and I’m a big fucking liar!”
US Weekly? Are you fucking kidding? Their home page has a poll on whether or not you think the teen pregnancy will affect Palin’s chances (90% think not fyi) and a poll on what you prefer Jennifer Aniston in movies or television. There’s also a poll as to who you prefer in the same dress: Hillary Swank or Ashley Tisdale. That’s some in depth reporting from this stalwart of the journalism profession. What a rock solid cite that is. It’s a good thing that the Weekly World News went under, or victory would be yours.
Cool! Pubbies are damned if they do and damned if they don’t! Keep quiet and allow the media to annoint the Dem-of-the-Day, or publicize it and be whiny bitches.
Sucks to be us, huh?
Fortunately, McCain seems to be secure enough in his manhood not to be put off by characterizations of whiny-bitchiness (and isn’t that rather an unfortunately sexist characterization, given the leftiness of this board and all? Oh, yeah, what was I thinking; blacks can call each other the n-word, so I suppose you guys can get away with PC violations that you would castigate others for. :rolleyes:)
And on preview, Miller, your question is answered in post #25.
Yeah, Us Weekly. Conservatives, as far as I can see, have been using it as more of a symbol of what all media outlets except Fox News would be like if they had the honesty to do “what they really think and want to do.” Y’know, advancing the “MSM is biased badly against conservatives” theme.
Not 1/200th as much as it sucks to have you in office.
Typical. I already expected whinging regarding the insignificance of US magazine’s cred. But it’s still part of the mainstream media in this country, and it purports to present actual news with stories like this. US is owned by Jann Wenner, publisher of Rolling Stone magazine, which in itself is a big-time Obama booster, and the drip, drip, drip of this kind of coverage from virtually every media outlet sans Limbaugh and Fox definitely takes its toll with the average voter in this country. You know it and I know it.
As I said, I think it’s a stupid approach. I don’t think it will win you guys any votes or convince people you are a strong party. In fact, I think it will do the opposite.
Piss off. Palin has been the candidate for under a week and already you’re crying liberal media and attack journalism? This is standard for any politician. And whiny-bitchiness is just as sexist as your over enthusiastically running to protect the damsel in distress.
Now that we’ve covered that, feel free to stop being a well poisoning jackass and making unfounded assumptions.