dbackjon wrote:SeattleGriz wrote:
The present eh. Well I guess everything that was done in the past should be forgotten about, but for some reason I don't think the Conks will get that treatment. As for votes, those who were going to vote for Obama were always going to vote for Obama.
This won't add to Obama, it will only take away, as the media is portrayed as not having done their jobs and suckered the American people - that was Brietbart's point. You may know a lot about Obama, but I would be willing to bet a good amount of people don't, and some of this stuff won't sit well.
No one, other than irrational Obama haters, cares who he hugged in College. And yes, Conks got many passes - look at Bush/Rumsfeld/Hussein connections.
It won't take away a single vote from Obama - those that believe this drivel would never vote for Obama, under any circumstances.
Media does it's job, mostly. It reports the news. Not crack-pipe conspiracy plots. That is not news. It is delusional fantasies of the irrational.
As usual, you are completely missing the point. Breitbart's argument all along has been that the MSM never properly vetted Obama. The video that you refer to being shown in 2008 on PBS was brief, clipped, AND no audio, only a voiceover. A candidate's associations are important, and as much as you would like to play down Bell as just another Harvard professor, there are real issues with the man. Videos like this were intentionally obscured by the major media outlets, because they were carrying a lot of water for Obama. Nobody should be OK with this. Let's face it, Obama has not exactly turned out to be the President everyone wanted him to be. I think he still would have beaten McCain even if the media had fully explored his past, but at least people would have had more of an informed decision to make.
I personally think that people evolve. Obama was in college at the time, and almost certainly had some radical views, which would not put him out of step with 99.9% of all college students. I think he is more measured and mature now, and probably does not subscribe to a lot of what he did back then. BUT.. as was stated in the clip with Pollack- none of this is the media's place to decide, it is for the people, and the media failed in its first and sacred purpose to investigate and report.