Obama World Tour!!

July 20th, 2008 at 9:33 pm by Cranky

So Obama’s World Tour will enjoy having roadies provided from the Big Threee networks. Carrying water is just the start of it.

Barack Obama’s stock as a superstar candidate rose even further yesterday amid reports that the anchors of all three US television networks were planning to catch up with him on his first overseas trip as a presidential candidate.

The Obama camp has been besieged with requests from reporters to get aboard his plane for his swing through five countries in the Middle East and Europe and yesterday it was reported that the evening news anchors from ABC, NBC and CBS were planning to interview Obama during his trip.

Bono was quoted as saying “what the fook?”

Of course you’ve heard already heard of the exasperation raised from the McCain camp and the Rightosphere.

The media spotlight on Obama led to grousing from his Republican rival, John McCain, whose own visit to Europe and the Middle East in March received much more low key media coverage. No anchors accompanied McCain on his tour.

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His aides made a similar point even more sharply. “Let’s drop the pretence that this is a fact-finding trip and call it what it is: the first of its kind campaign rally overseas,” Jill Hazelbaker told reporters yesterday.

The sniping came as the New York Times cited research by the Tyndall Report, which monitors newscasts, which found that America’s networks devoted 114 minutes to covering Obama in the last month and just 48 minutes to McCain.

A ratio of 60:40 coverage would be media bias, but 70:30 is an embarassingly slobber-imbued imbalance.

In related news, Michelle Malkin announced a t-shirt contest. Here’s my entry:

UPDATE:
We made finalists! Thank you Michelle and Kudos to you for your discerning tastes.

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6 Responses to “Obama World Tour!!”

1. Brian Says:
   July 20th, 2008 at 11:03 pm

   Howard Kurtz was also echoing what I’ve been thinking for the longest time. That we’re close to the end of the first six months of the Obama Presidency.

   As far as the media is concerned, they made him President back towards the start of the year and it’s been nothing but hugs and kisses ever since.

2. Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator Says:
   July 21st, 2008 at 1:22 am

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3. Nigel Says:
   July 21st, 2008 at 12:48 pm

   Congrats Cranky, Michelle has you as a “finalist”…

   Now I need one o’ them shirts…XXL please.

4. Howard Says:
   July 22nd, 2008 at 11:26 am

   How about focusing on who has the experience, judgement and character to protect us and bring prosperity to Americans … not someone who in the eleventh hour, finally tries to establish foreign policy credentials, in a one week visit, as a transparent political ploy to get himself elected. Where was Obama, when he was supposed to chair the congressional committee on Afghanistan, and never had a single meeting. Why did Obama vote ‘present’ over 100 times in the senate? Even if he stages a political rally in the Roman Coliseum, he’s still just an inexperienced politician, who is not qualified to be President of the United States of America !!!

5. Gordon Says:
   July 22nd, 2008 at 4:58 pm

   What fun is it to simply point out that he is an extreme Liberal an inexperienced one-term Senator?

6. Obama’s “victory” tour « Rants and Raves Says:
   July 26th, 2008 at 10:49 pm

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