Posted on 09/24/2008 5:51:26 PM PDT by Kaslin
Election '08: The press spent so much time sniping at Sarah Palin for her visits with global leaders that in the end it babbled about itself. What it missed was news on John McCain's foreign policy. Who are the real rubes?
Not those nations with the most money, prestige or radical think tanks lobbying Congress on their behalf. Just friends.
What's more, by visiting with leaders of Colombia, Afghanistan, Georgia, Iraq, Pakistan and India, Palin and McCain showed that premium attention will be paid to the friends undergoing the biggest tests and trying hardest to embrace markets.
Dictators and terrorists won't miss that memo. They will adjust their calculations accordingly. But the media are another matter.
Palin met Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday. Yet not one media outlet caught this undercurrent of McCain's foreign policy to stand by committed allies, derived from President Bush's drive to spread democracy.
Instead, outlets from AP to Newsday to even Fox News busied themselves hollering about access. They made themselves the story. Then they conjectured that these were "tutorials" and "burnishings of resumes" instead of messages to the world.
Obsessed with pink sofas and Alaska-shaped earrings, and on lookout for a mispronounced word, they complained that they got only a briefing, not a seat at the table. In the end, their braying only underlined their lack of interest in foreign affairs.
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Those responsible have and deserve the utter contempt of decent people everywhere and for all time.
The internet is making the MSM totally irrelevant.
I read McCain's article in The Australian and, guess what, they chose to emphasise the ghastly emissions trading scheme both he and our own fearly leader, Kevin Rudd, are touting. It was just infuriating.
With any luck, the financial melt-down will at least have the beneficial side effect of putting that nonsense on hold.
That the public ever bought the lie that the press was anything but a propaganda machine is a more dangerous fact. The media is not, and never was trustworthy.
I’m not sure I agree with CNN being shown as “speak no evil”. LOL
Maybe I am naive. I thought that once there were people in the “newsmedia” who strove to inform the public of truth for its own sake.
We can absolutely forget about ever reading/hearing another fair word about Sarah Palin on or in any news outlet in America after today. She is so deeply buried on their sh*t list that she will never get fair coverage again.
Talk about the "Washington herd"!
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