Friday, July 18, 2008
Thanks Dan...
Good old senior member of the journalism business, Dan Rather just handed the McCain campaign a gold plated gaffe. When discussing Jesse Jackson's Fox News comments, with Tiki Barber on MSNBC, he mentioned how one has to be ready to have anything taken out of context due to Internet video, and how people now have to be careful what they say. He then failed to follow his own good advice by lauding Jesse's history as a trailblazing black politician whose prior success helped pave the way for "Osama bin Laden".
Er, who? Gee, did you happen to mean Barack Obama? Even more strikingly no one on the show reacted. It's as if they didn't notice an error at all, sure Obama, Osama, anyone could confuse those two. It's bad enough that we have to deal with right wing funded media outlets making this "mistake" on a regular basis, without having supposedly neutral parties doing it as well. Now everytime some right winger does this, they'll just say they pulled a Rather. Clearly it must be ok to confuse the two even the media does it! So thanks Dan, for handing the Republicans a get out of jail free card for equating Obama with terrorism.
Er, who? Gee, did you happen to mean Barack Obama? Even more strikingly no one on the show reacted. It's as if they didn't notice an error at all, sure Obama, Osama, anyone could confuse those two. It's bad enough that we have to deal with right wing funded media outlets making this "mistake" on a regular basis, without having supposedly neutral parties doing it as well. Now everytime some right winger does this, they'll just say they pulled a Rather. Clearly it must be ok to confuse the two even the media does it! So thanks Dan, for handing the Republicans a get out of jail free card for equating Obama with terrorism.
