Following Drudge, media outlets seize on Obama decision -- years ago -- to stop wearing flag pin

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200710060001?f=h_top

Summary: Several media outlets -- following the lead of Internet gossip Matt Drudge -- have presented Obama's comments on not wearing an American flag pin as a recent decision made by the candidate, and not an explanation of something he chose to do several years ago. CNN, ABC, and Fox News have reported on the "controversy," providing a platform for several conservatives to attack Obama's patriotism. As NBC News' Chuck Todd put it, "this was the media getting a classic case of the Drudges."

[still_one]

1. It is quite a sad commentary, but this non-event will most likely put Obama out of the race

They expect you to conform to what THEY consider is patriotic, and if you don't, then you are not

The fact that the pathetic media in this country helped propel us to invade a country based on lies and misrepresentations, should tell you what garbage they really are

It will be quite difficult to overcome the LIES of the media, and overcome this gross distortions, since the populous does not make a very strong effort to be informed

[tritsofme]

3. This is what puts Obama out of the race?

Please!

Hillary has been leading him for months.

You were right about this being a non-event.

[still_one]

4. You misconstrued my point, which was that it was political suicide, because of the distortion

In 2004, we had the press able to present a person who went to Viet Nam as a coward, and a person who avoided the draft, and was AWOL as a hero.

What does that say about the state of affairs of what has happened to our country

[Horse with no Name]

6. You are probably correct, but Obama isn't an isolated incident

It is John Edwards hair or his house or his light bulbs or his exploiting his wife's breast cancer.
It is Obama doesn't wear a flag pin or he went to a Muslim school or he isn't a Christian.
Yet as much as the RW HATES anything Clinton, she is escaping rather unscathed.
My take on it? Marginalize any candidate that could possibly win the Presidency. Entice us to eat our own.
They WANT Hillary as our candidate because THEY feel they can eviscerate her in the General and I am not so sure they aren't correct.

On edit:
They are also attempting to marginalize Gore "just in case". His house, his travel, his award, etc.

[Xipe Totec]

2. False patriots

They are flag waving morans and nothing more.

[zbdent]

5. Why don't the media outlets just say that their readers/viewers should

go to Drudge for the news first???

[moondust]

7. Any news on his socks?

Red, white, and blue? What color are McCain's socks? This is a very, very important indicator of one's true patriotism--not to be confused with a cheap little ostentatious lapel pin that was made in China.

:shrug: