Showing posts with label Christine Flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christine Flowers. Show all posts

Saturday, February 16, 2008

When a 'reporter' ceases to report and starts making it up

As she goes along. I mean, it's worked so well for seven years, why change?

Will Bunch of Attytood
:
Daily News op-ed columnist Christine M. Flowers has a piece up that is sharply questioning about Barack Obama and his qualifications to become president. Ironically, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post also has a new article today, and it totally takes down the kind of attack piece that Christine wrote here in Philly.
The post cites several negative statements by Flowers then alternates with what the (amazing!) Google brings up. Just a click away from the truth, Ms. Flowers. Makes you look like a complete Bush bobblehead.

Bunch finishes:

.... her great "unanswered" questions about Obama were all easy to answer, in a matter of seconds every time, by using this magical device called The Google. You really should try it sometime, Christine. The point is, Christine M. Flowers and the many others who are constructing this story line don't even want to try to learn the answers, because that would kill their best line of attack for the fall.

Actually, this has been the most entertaining subplot of the whole campaign -- the quest for an anti-Obama story line. So far, they're tried to turn enthusiasm into a cult, and now they're raising unanswered questions -- a great tactic as long as you don't look the answers up.

I guess they really don't know what voter excitement looks like, having had to manufacture fake riots and rallies for the Bush elections. So here come the idiot words: cult and personality following, etc, etc.

Barack Obama must be scaring them silly.

Update: Via Atrios of Eschaton, D at Lawyers, Guns, and Money:

John Dickerson, while ruminating on the possible limits of Barack Obama's "hipness," asks a profoundly stupid question:

More generally, shouldn't Democrats who have complained that George Bush was elected on the strength of a popularity contest be nervous that this blossoming Obamadulation is getting out of hand?
Read the hilarious response.