MSM Is Now Obsessing About McCain/Palin Attacks and Race - Has The Page Turned On Economy?

[Median Democrat]

The bleating sheep of the MSM are trying their best to cover the side show of McCain Palin's attacks while ignoring the economy. This effort to ignore the economy is not even handed, since the MSM also ignores counter-attacks launched by the Obama campaign based on the associations of McCain/Palin. The Keating 5 are largely ignored. Troopergate barely registered a mention on CNN.

Instead, we have article after article once again dwelling on Obama's race, and McCain's race-baiting. Or, the article simply repeats the latest smears about Obama being a radical or a terrorist, which are often just recitations of earlier smears. Hey, if they are going to re-hash old material, then lets give the Keating 5 its due, or does the media only replay false attacks? I am not sure it is helping McCain in the end, because it is so apparent that McCain-Palin are trying to distract from issues like the economy, but if this is the case, shouldn't the media ignore the distraction and try to get straight answers from McCain-Palin regarding what are their proposals for the economy?

Instead, we have the media rabidly attending McCain-Palin events hoping to catch a supporter yell out a racial epithet when McCain asks, "Who is Barack Obama?" Worse, such coverage only encourages the McCain-Palin camp to try to top the outrageousness of earlier attacks. Last week, McCain-Palin painted Obama as a terrorist. Now, McCain-Palin plan to portray Obama as a baby killer. Of course, the media will now earnestly await what answers are forthcoming when John McCain/Sarah Palin ask, "Who is Barack Obama?" They will then feign surprise as their followers shout the answers they have been fed by McCain-Palin's latest attack ads.

Of course, how is this relevant to the issues? How does this help address the most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression? It doesn't. McCain is not about Country First, its about John McCain first. Hopefully, at the end of this campaign, John McCain gets what he deserves, whish is to be mentioned in the same breadth as Joe McCarthy and Jesse Helms in terms of promoting smears and attacks based on associations, innuendos, and race.

Sample coverage:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/11/AR2008101102216.html?hpid=topnews

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12rich.html?hp

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/722568.html

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1848755,00.html

[Drunken Irishman]

1. No, the economy will still dominate the news next week.

[FrenchieCat]

2. Not if I can help it.

Weird though....they seem to multitask much better than when the story was about a blond missing.
Now, they can insert a bit of economy into their Ayers Festival.

[Median Democrat]

11. I Still See This As Ground Game v. MSM Propping Up McCain

The MSM has pretty much ignored the Keating Five and also has largely given Sarah Palin a free pass on Troopergate. Instead, the media slavishly follows both McCain and Palin around repeating their lies and waiting for someone in their rallies to go David Duke on the nearest minority. McCain is behind on money, so the MSM decideds to prop him up by give him hours of free airplay for his various smears in a manner similar to the Swiftboat attack ads.

This is why I think the election will still come down to whether we have enough of a ground game to overcome the GOP's advantage with the media. There is no such thing as bad publicity, and the fact of the matter is that the media is still paying a lot of attention to McCain and Palin, as they recite their smears over and over again.

[Lasher]

3. People will be thinking of the economy if there is nary a peep in the MSM about it.

We kinda dwell on things when they start hitting close to home.

[tblue]

4. Either way, McC looks like a loser.

[book_worm]

5. No, people still care about the economy even if the msm wants to change the subject.

[Mojambo]

6. The economy is locked in as the number one issue. n/t

[BzaDem]

7. When the markets are open during the week, we will be back at the economy. n/t

[palintology]

8. There is a banking time-bomb about to explode ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7416577

[Essene]

9. This is the critical moment. THIS CANNOT TURN INTO A MATTER OF RACE

EVerybody needs to fully understand this.

I dont care how obligated we all feel to "confront racism." THis is not the time to get suckered into that.

Confronting them on negativity, hate mongering, etc... all fine, but the moment the obama campaign is seen to be "playing the race card," then the GOP have derailed things.

[ej510]

10. Win or lose america is exposed to the world.