Taylor Marsh is all a-twitter over the media going nutty over the faux “snub” during the State Of The Union (the video looks the same as on the night of the speech, no matter how many times you slow-mo it or change the headline). Should Sen. Clinton be the nominee I expect these same people to be up in arms when the press examines the trivial minutiae of Sen. Clinton (like “the cackle”) without a hint of shame about the role they played in further legitimizing this line of nonsense.
I’m still trying to figure what the root cause of this is. Is it that progressive female bloggers see the candidacy of Sen. Obama as illegitimate because he’s a man? Or that because he’s black but not female he needs to sit down and wait his turn? More than a couple liberal bloggers sound just like Fox News when the target is Sen. Obama.
UPDATE: This picture verifies what Sen. Obama and Sen. McCaskill have been saying. I hope the anti-Obama bloggers feel very stupid and very ashamed.
Taylor Marsh really is in the tank for Hillary and way beyond being reasonable about anything touching on Hillary. She’s a true Hillbot.
I didn’t see many people defending (or explaining away) that ridiculous New York NOW screed to Teddy Kennedy (”..the ultimate betrayal..” for endorsing Obama–that loony one).
Well, Taylor Marsh tries to explain it away–at least that’s what I took away from her piece on it:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-marsh/why-is-ny-now-so-ticked-a_b_83826.html
Watch for Obama to have some kind of pre-rehearsed joke about the snub at tonight’s debate.
Personally, I think Obama’s snub was for real and that it made him look petty and small.
Also, news out today doesn’t portray Ted Kennedy’s endorsement of Obama in a positive light either. Kennedy also looks petty and small if this article is accurate:
Kennedy’s Endorsement of Obama Had Family Roots
By Mary Ann Akers And Paul Kane
Thursday, January 31, 2008; A19
There’s more to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama than meets the eye. Apparently, part of the reason the liberal lion from Massachusetts embraced Obama (Ill.) was a perceived slight at the Kennedy family’s civil rights legacy by the other Democratic front-runner, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).
A source close to the family says Kennedy was privately irate at Clinton for her praise of President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s role in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Kennedy felt Clinton’s comments were an implicit snub of his brother, President John F. Kennedy, who proposed the landmark civil rights initiative.
Sources say Kennedy was upset about the tenor of events late in the campaign in New Hampshire.
On Jan. 7, in Dover, a Clinton supporter introduced the former first lady by saying: “Some people compare one of the other candidates to John F. Kennedy. But he was assassinated. And Lyndon Baines Johnson was the one who actually” signed the civil rights bill into law.
The Kennedy insider says Sen. Kennedy was deeply offended that Clinton remained silent and “sat passively by” rather than correcting the portrayal of his slain brother’s civil rights record.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/30/AR2008013003425_pf.html
Well, I’m going to see a bright side to all of the incompetent reporting about Obama and Clinton- you aren’t seeing much of this on the Republican side. And you know why? No one much cares about the Republican candidates. The press is just not into them.
That being said, these stories are salacious garbage that has nothing to do with finding out which Democratic candidate will be the best president. Once again, the media is making the news instead of reporting it.
I don’t see how that picture can verify what Sen. Obama and Sen. McCaskill have been saying. (“He was already facing in the other direction talking” when Clinton approached, said McNulty.)
The picture linked to shows Obama’s position after Clinton has arrived, so verifies nothing.
But, seriously, why the fuck should anyone care? Far from being an example of Obama’s character this whole molehill is serving as a Rorschach test on anyone who comments on it. People are seeing what they want to see.
Jesus Christ, what is this shit? The position of two candidates for office relative to one another is not a story, unless said position is one atop the other.
Good heavens!
The future of the most powerful nation on earth seems to have fallen into the hands of a clique of “popular” middle school girls.
Tell me, who do you think Obama will invite to sit next to him at lunch tomorrow?
Quaker in a Basement said: Tell me, who do you think Obama will invite to sit next to him at lunch tomorrow?
Exactly.
It’s a hopeless dream, I realize. But I really wish whenever any person or “reporter” tried to make something out of an irrelevancy like this the the general response was “WTF are you talking about, idiot?”
Y’know. Point out how ridiculous it is and make ‘em embarrassed for having even brought it up.