Painting Senator Barack Obama as "THAT GUY" Nobody Knows

[K Gardner]

I was truly amazed to tune in to MSM coverage yesterday to watch Biden coverage and see that the pundits are still pushing the "we don't know who Obama is" meme and, more disturbingly, still referring to Senator Obama as "THAT GUY".

This was one of the more reckless and disgusting tactics I noticed months ago, before I turned off the media-regurgitated bile. I am surprised they haven't been called on it, and that it is still going on. It is one of the most blatant forms of disrespect and dehumanizing/alienating I have ever seen. To the casual listener, this remark might slip by; but if you spend months listening to a candidate for President of the United States referred to as "this guy", it sinks in.

Just listen to Pat Buchanan or Joe Scarborough or McCain Surrogates throw a right-wing jab at Obama and preface it by hissing through their teeth: "Nobody knows who this guy is.." "That guy is running for President of the United States.." "People got to try to figure out where this guy is coming from.." "They're afraid of this guy!"

They use it like a curse word. They avoid using his name or his title or even his gender. It is a planned tactic to try to make Senator Barack Obama seem less of a real person - and more frightening, unknown. I find this the most disturbing and insidious of all the attacks being leveled at Barack Obama right now: nonuse of his name and referring to him as if he is a common criminal or other person of questionable moral turpitude. When else does one hear people refer to the subject of an article or TV show or in conversation as "this/that guy" ?

And after nearly 20 months, umpteen debates, the primaries and campaigning in every state PLUS wall-to-wall media coverage and multiple covers on every magazine in existence: "No one knows who this guy is."

Is anybody really buying this tripe? Who doesn't know who Obama is by now.. even if they only know what Fox News painted "that guy" as, they DO know him.

After the convention, will they still be saying, "Nobody knows that guy!" ?

Senator Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States. He will be Leader of the Free World. Even a Republican hack should not be allowed to hiss "that guy" monikers at him without being called on it, and most certainly, the hired pundits on CNN and MSNBC should NOT be allowed to continue referring to him this way.

Am I the only one who's noticed this and is highly offended/disturbed by it? And is there any point in protesting it?

[tyne]

1. The next time

a pundit pushes that...a Dem should ask either the msm peep or McCain pundit, "do you know how many children McCain has? Ah...well, no, I don't"

The American public doesn't even know how many children the man has. They really don't know much about him except that he was a POW and is a "Maverick". This, "the American public knows John McCain" is bullshit.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Well, nobody knows how many mansions and servants McCain has.

Not even McCain !!!!!!!!!

bwahahahha... what a lazy-head out-of-touch married-into-money grab-assing multimillionaire !!!

Oh... POW POW POW nevermind

[Kahuna]

3. I cringe every time I hear Obama referred to as a "guy." He's not

as "guy." He's a "man." The same way that McCain is a man.

[EV_Ares]

4. It is despicable but get a load of what the MSM is doing today with these leads:

I guess many Americans just do not know any of the democratic candidates do they. Such bs. I mean how many people really know McCain? Evidently, the more you find out about him, the less you find out you know him at all.
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Poll: Biden Still Unknown to Many - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
... 2008, 10:30 am. Poll: Biden Still Unknown to Many. By Megan ... A recent Times poll shows that Biden is unknown to a majority of Democratic voters surveyed. ...
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/.../poll-biden-still-unknown-to-many - 83k - Cached

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/poll-biden-still-unknown-to-many/



Poll: Many Americans Don't Know Biden, CBS News Poll: Senate Veteran ...
... presidential candidate Joe Biden, a new CBS News poll finds. ... CBS News Poll: Senate

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/18/opinion/polls/main3272744.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_3272744

[K Gardner]

5. Yeah.. I tuned in to hear the "nobody knows Biden" crap, aired after a long intro on GAFFES, and

just turned the garbage off. Who is really UNDECIDED right now? I mean.. really...

[EV_Ares]

6. You know in all of our complaints and bitching which is certainly justified. If the dems pull this

out and get the peoples' White House back and make the necessary gains in the senate and the house. I think the media should be a top priority. I mean, it is getting more blatant in their bias and with no consequences. Hell, how can you win elections when the media even if they don't lie will report the republican talking points, nothing negative, dig up all the negatives and dirt on the dems, twist and turn everything. I mean this "Obama has to define himself, nobody knows that guy" is bs. That is a media created question. All of this crap about the people need to know this, the people want to know.......... is just the media.

It is time that the dems take them on and call them on this crap. I have always felt there was more danger in what CNN did than Fox because Fox is known for it being a republican talking machine but CNN is supposed to still and is thought by many to be non-biased in their news and this kind of stuff makes them more dangerous.