The WORM Turns on Obama
By SusanUnPC on July 25, 2008 at 1:15 PM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, David Axelrod, Media
It began this morning when I received a link to this New Republic story, “End of the Affair.” There’s so much in this article, but take note of this paragraph. What does he have to hide?
Reporters who have covered Obama’s biography or his problems with certain voter blocs have been challenged the most aggressively. “They’re terrified of people poking around Obama’s life,” one reporter says. “The whole Obama narrative is built around this narrative that Obama and David Axelrod built, and, like all stories, it’s not entirely true. So they have to be protective of the crown jewels.” Another reporter notes that, during the last year, Obama’s old friends and Harvard classmates were requested not to talk to the press without permission.
It’s clear that Obama’s Orwellian campaign is airbrushing the fairy tale for popular consumption. Thing is, most voters see through “tall tales.”
Then I popped over to Memeorandum.com, and saw this monster list of stories:
Check out all of these stories and blog reports via Memeorandum.com.
Here’s more from The New Republic story:
Much of this is certainly the run-of-the-mill complaining of campaign reporters who can’t get enough access. Still, the campaign hasn’t helped itself, approaching reporters with a sense of entitlement. “They’re an arrogant operation. Young and arrogant,” one reporter covering the campaign says. “They don’t believe in transparency with their own campaign,” another says.
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As tensions escalate, the risk to Obama, of course, is that reporters will be emboldened to challenge his campaign ever more aggressively. At the same time, McCain has demonstrated a longstanding ability to deftly manage the press. After all, it wasn’t long ago that McCain, short on cash and trailing in the Republican primaries, re-launched his campaign in New Hampshire by courting the press, “my base,” as he once proudly put it. In June, the McCain camp unveiled its redesigned campaign plane, a Boeing 737 that recreates the Straight Talk Express bus, so reporters can assemble with McCain and shoot the breeze.
Now, Obama may be handing McCain a shot at winning back his “base.” Of course, making ads that paint the media as Obama’s stooges may not be the best way to accomplish that. But the press wants to put its love somewhere, and, right now, that love is up for grabs.
Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lynn Sweet has been complaining vociferously about the media’s lack of access to Obama. She has described the wall surrounding Obama.
It is clear that the SOLE portrayal of candidate Obama that his campaign wishes us to see is when he is in front of a teleprompter.
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