So I'm a little late getting to this one, but it's humorous:
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Newsweek
I was looking over the April 21st Newsweek this afternoon, and ran across an article on Obama titled "A Man at Home in the World." It had a picture of him at a rally in Kenya, and other picture of him on a poster in the city of Obama, Japan. I thought that this would be a wonderful article on how Obama is the most globalized candidate, the choice of the world, if they could vote. Wow was I mistaken.
After glancing at the exciting pictures, I began to read the pull out quotes and captions, which are larger and more obvious to readers than the article itself. Let's look at them and see what we can deduce about the article:
"Obama says he knows the globe better than his rivals. Does he know it too well?"
My thoughts: Of course "knowing the globe" too well is a serious problem that is going to hurt his candidacy and would devastate his presidency. It's not like we live in a globalized society where knowing other countries and cultures is important. Just kidding.
"Hearts and Minds: Obama, in Nairobi on a 2006 trip, says he knows intuitively about how others see America"
My thoughts: If someone claimed to "intuitively" know how others see America, that would sound arrogant. Too bad there are no such quotes or even references from Obama along those lines in the entire article.
"He played hide-and-seek in the local mosque, dueled with bamboo sticks, learned dirty words in Indonesian."
My thoughts:This pull out quote isn't even too bad, although it does just happen to reinforce the false notion that he is Muslim, which is one of the reasons many Americans refuse to vote for him.
"The more Obama-mania sweeps the world, the more suspicious his background becomes to some."
My thoughts: Who thinks it's suspicious? Obviously, they've neglected to mention that the "some" who are suspicious are largely non-educated Americans who still think he is a Muslim, and that all Muslims are suspicious.
"Too popular? A poster in the town of Obama, Japan"
My thoughts: Yes, being too popular in the world is a serious problem. As it is, America and its president are way too popular and this has forced us to build way to many alliances with countries all over the world, so much so that we can barely keep up with all of the countries that want to be our friends. Just kidding.
And that is every single pull-out quote and caption in the article. The article was about as fairly balanced as well. I guess what is frustrating me is that the media appear to be doing the same thing to Obama that they did to Kerry. They took a clearly superior candidate and tried to suggest that his strengths are weaknesses. For instance, John Kerry's patriotism and heroism in the Vietnam War was turned into anti-Americanism and lies about his combat service. I see the same thing happening here with Obama's global and multicultural experiences. I would consider trying to find the article online and linking to it so that you could read it with disgust too, but I don't want you to accidentally click on an advertising link and give them money.
After glancing at the exciting pictures, I began to read the pull out quotes and captions, which are larger and more obvious to readers than the article itself. Let's look at them and see what we can deduce about the article:
"Obama says he knows the globe better than his rivals. Does he know it too well?"
My thoughts: Of course "knowing the globe" too well is a serious problem that is going to hurt his candidacy and would devastate his presidency. It's not like we live in a globalized society where knowing other countries and cultures is important. Just kidding.
"Hearts and Minds: Obama, in Nairobi on a 2006 trip, says he knows intuitively about how others see America"
My thoughts: If someone claimed to "intuitively" know how others see America, that would sound arrogant. Too bad there are no such quotes or even references from Obama along those lines in the entire article.
"He played hide-and-seek in the local mosque, dueled with bamboo sticks, learned dirty words in Indonesian."
My thoughts:This pull out quote isn't even too bad, although it does just happen to reinforce the false notion that he is Muslim, which is one of the reasons many Americans refuse to vote for him.
"The more Obama-mania sweeps the world, the more suspicious his background becomes to some."
My thoughts: Who thinks it's suspicious? Obviously, they've neglected to mention that the "some" who are suspicious are largely non-educated Americans who still think he is a Muslim, and that all Muslims are suspicious.
"Too popular? A poster in the town of Obama, Japan"
My thoughts: Yes, being too popular in the world is a serious problem. As it is, America and its president are way too popular and this has forced us to build way to many alliances with countries all over the world, so much so that we can barely keep up with all of the countries that want to be our friends. Just kidding.
And that is every single pull-out quote and caption in the article. The article was about as fairly balanced as well. I guess what is frustrating me is that the media appear to be doing the same thing to Obama that they did to Kerry. They took a clearly superior candidate and tried to suggest that his strengths are weaknesses. For instance, John Kerry's patriotism and heroism in the Vietnam War was turned into anti-Americanism and lies about his combat service. I see the same thing happening here with Obama's global and multicultural experiences. I would consider trying to find the article online and linking to it so that you could read it with disgust too, but I don't want you to accidentally click on an advertising link and give them money.
Obama and the Media
I tried to post this yesterday, but Clipmarks seems to be acting up.
clipped from editorialcartoonists.com
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
Jeremiah Wright
I stole this video from my dad's blog because it's revealing of whom Jeremiah Wright is and also of what the media is doing.
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