You know, if someone from, say, Fox News had written that Obama’s campaign plane smelled bad, what sort of reception do you think that would have gotten?
(Via.)
Update: well, apparently someone is calling the reporter “racist” for not saying that the Obama campaign plane smelled like Chanel No. 5, or whatever. I don’t know who is saying that — it’s just a comment on a blog, without citation. I certainly hope the commenter doesn’t mean me. For what it’s worth, I don’t think the reporter was being racist, I think (or rather, thought) that his liberal credentials as a member of CBS News would get him a pass on what would get hoards of shriekers down on a reporter from a perceived “right wing” news organization such as Fox News. If the liberal news media Teflon shield is starting to wear down, maybe the Obama contingent is starting to eat its own like left wing organizations tend to do.
Update 2: well, there’s a comment on the original article about three comment pages in:
This is a despicable attempt by a McCain journalist to suggest that Obama would be an inferior president based on the state of his press plane. It suggests that “The black guy”s plane is disorganized and smelly so that means he”s going to be a disorganized and smelly president.”
(I can’t connect to individual comments on the CBS News blog page.) There are also some less coherent accusations of racism from other commenters, in all caps and such. On the whole the commenters to professional news blogs seems to be of rather lower quality than to “amateur” blogs. I wonder why that is.
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October 9th, 2008 at 8:53 am
The response would have been something like, “Faux News blah blah blah…racist blah blah blah…rightwing corporate media blah blah blah…”
And to think, these people call Sarah Palin “trashy”. Well, trashy people aren’t known for their hygiene or politeness, but yet the McCain campaign is said to be polite (even to the mostly hostile media) and has a clean plane. Apparently, the Obama campaign is rude, disorganized and has a smelly plane.
I think the way campaigns are run are good hints at what a presidential administration would be like.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Trashiness and lax hygiene seem to be Democrat traits, at least since the Clinton administration. Here’s an article about the different dress codes of the Clinton and Bush administration. Warning: it’s smirky and stupid and on Salon.com, but it does illustrate part of what I’m talking about.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:37 am
“I think the way campaigns are run are good hints at what a presidential administration would be like.”
Well, based solely on this article’s vocabulary, we have:
McCain: interesting, instructive, relaxing, struggles, smaller, better choreographed, energy, urgency, sharper, enjoys, likes to converse with voters, more helpful, generally friendly, more knowledgeable, useful, better designed, friendly, loquacious, clean, readily agreed to, understood, important, aggressive
Obama: big time orator, larger, more enthusiastic, seldom achieves that intangible bond with the people, fuller, more hectic, seemingly improvisational, often overwhelmed, overworked, un-informed, airily dismissive, not much sympathy, seldom banters, cramped, uncomfortable, smells terrible, often denied or ignored, apparently terrified, maddening, nobody seems to know, focused solely on victory
October 9th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I LIKE – interesting, instructive, smaller, sharper, more knowledgeable, aggressive
I’m NOT CRAZY ABOUT – more hectic, overworked, uninformed, airily dismissive, apparently terrified
Then again, I’m a “decided” voter, so this stuff is just entertainment for me at this point.
October 10th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
The Obamateur’s proposals stink, so why shouldn’t his plane?
Besides, I think it funny that his cheering section is getting a taste of what his administration would do to the entire country.