CBS reporter Dean Reynolds wrote a brutally funny parody the other day (at least, I think it was intended as such), casting himself as a foolish, self-centered, egotistical reporter (think 'Ted Baxter') who is blind to the larger issues in the presidential campaign, but can only see the matters that affect his own comfort and pleasure.
The parody is a bit heavy handed at points, especially when he attempts to make connections between how the Obama campaign's failure to coddle him could end up hurting the campaign (hmmm, how might that be? Journalistic pay-back?).
"Maybe none of this means much. Maybe a front-running campaign like Obama's that is focused solely on victory doesn't have the time to do the mundane things like print up schedules or attend to the needs of reporters.As I say, that last bit fudges up the otherwise subtle humor of his parody. Still, in the midst of a campaign wherein the Republican candidates are whipping up anger and hatred toward Obama & the press, it is nice to see that Mr. Reynolds has kept his sense of humor intact. Maybe for a followup piece, Dean can write a story about the reporter who gets transferred from Obama's 'messy' plane, to a McCain rally.
But in politics, everything that goes around comes around."
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Wait a minute — it's your post that's tongue in cheek, right?
The strangeness of everyday reality is making it more difficult for me to detect irony.
I'm not tellin'
;^)
We are living in a world that has gone way past parody...
Since when is trying to get the truth out about Obama's connections with sleazy characters like Rezko, Wright and Ayers "whipping up anger and hatred"? Since the pathetic mainstream media that is totally in the tank for Obama won't do it, somebody has to.
sjj --
The comment about 'whipping up anger & hatred' was connected to Palin & McCain's efforts to make Obama seem like a terrorist. That behavior of McCain/Palin is morally wrong, and a tactical mistake as well.
sjj, I couldn't agree with you more. McCain and Palin never implied that Obama is a terrorist. They simply stated the truth - that Obama had a long time association and friendship with the unrepentant terrorist Ayers. Reversing the situation, if McCain had been friends with a right-wing radical like say, Timothy McVeigh, something tells me you wouldn't be saying it was "morally wrong" for Obama to expose that.
Welcome, tts.
But actually, you don't need to invent a hypothetical example - McCain actually is closely associated with someone who publicly, on record, gave advice to people on how to shoot at U. S. Law enforcement officers - that man's name?- G. Gordon Liddy.
Any anger and hatred that the McCain camp is whipping up pales in comparison to the vile and disgusting personal attacks spewed by the loony left toward Sarah Palin.
sjj --
That's an interesting perspective, but one that most citizens of the U.S. don't agree with.
Recent polls indicate that most folks think McCain's campaign is too negative, while Obama's is talking about important issues like the economy.
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