Posted on 07/16/2008 5:58:52 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Media Stars Will Accompany Obama Overseas By JIM RUTENBERG
WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain’s trip to Iraq last spring was a low-key affair: With his ordinary retinue of reporters following him abroad, the NBC News anchor Brian Williams reported on his arrival in Baghdad from New York, with just two sentences tacked onto the “in other political news” portion of his newscast.
But when Mr. Obama heads for Iraq and other locations overseas this summer, Mr. Williams is planning to catch up with him in person, as are the other two evening news anchors, Charles Gibson of ABC and Katie Couric of CBS, who, like Mr. Williams, are far along in discussions to interview Mr. Obama on successive nights.
And while the anchors are jockeying for interviews with Mr. Obama at stops along his route, the regulars on the Obama campaign plane will have new seat mates: star political reporters from the major newspapers and magazines who are flocking to catch Mr. Obama’s first overseas trip since becoming the presumptive nominee of his party.
The extraordinary coverage of Mr. Obama’s trip reflects how the candidate remains an object of fascination in the news media, a built-in feature of being the first African-American presidential nominee for a major political party and a relative newcomer to the national stage.
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Oh. It figures it would come to that. The clown doesn’t have the balls to take a serious trip and meet directly with the ground commanders and those in the field with no side distractions. He is a damn coward and one hell of a sneaky bastard.
LOL. Now if only the ‘patient’ looked like Chrissy Matthews..... with a tingling feeling up his leg.
LOL.... or maybe these great “anchors” are merely small lifeless asteroids heading for oblivion.
Scarlett Johansson?
Will Chris Matthews be there tossing rose petals in front of the Obamessiah?
The MSM makes the girls in Ed Sullivan’s audience when Elvis and The Beatles played the show look mature and reserved.
I wanted to avoid “brown dwarf” and most especially “black hole”. Especially in Dallas County.
You don’t have to like it to lick it.
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