Crowning Obama

Crowning Obama



By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, August 29, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Media Bias: The biggest surprise of the Democratic convention? The spectacle of journalists applauding Barack Obama's acceptance speech. OK, maybe not the biggest surprise. But certainly one of the biggest disgraces.

Andy Barr reported on The Hill's blog that "several members of the media were seen cheering and clapping for" Obama as he accepted the Democratic nomination Thursday.

"Dozens of men and women wearing green media floor passes chanted along with the crowd," Barr also noted, adding that "two members of the foreign press exchanged opportunities to take each other's picture while wearing an Obama hat and waving a flag" while "several others nearby screamed 'woo' during some of Obama's biggest applause lines."

IBD's own reporters covering the convention confirm Barr's reporting.

Barr did not name names, but he didn't have to. Who can forget MSNBC's Chris Matthews gushing about "this thrill going up my leg" and the "feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama's speech"?

On Thursday night, Keith Olbermann, also of MSNBC, lashed out at an Associated Press reporter because he wasn't pleased with his coverage of Obama's speech. According to the trade journal Editor & Publisher, Olbermann "was outraged that the AP's (Charles) Babington had written, in his analysis of the speech, just off the wire, that Obama had tried nothing new and that his speech was lacking in specifics."

Olbermann finished his tirade by insisting that Babington "find a new line of work."

The we-must-get-Obama-elected agenda isn't limited to a couple of TV personalities. The bias runs the media gamut.

Time magazine has featured an Obama cover story seven times this year while McCain has made the front twice. From June 4, the day Obama clinched his party's nomination, through Aug. 17, a little more than a week before the convention began, the Washington Post carried three times as many front-page stories on Obama as it did on McCain. And in July, the New York Times refused to publish McCain's rebuttal to an op-ed written by Obama.

So the response to Thursday's historic speech really comes as no surprise. It's quite clear the national media are focused singularly on ensuring that Barack Obama is coronated on Jan. 20, 2009.



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