New heights of stupidity

We're fighting multiple wars; our oldest and most established financial institutions are on the verge of collapse; we've fundamentally transformed and then dismantled our constitutional framework over the last eight years, etc. etc. But the Right and their media partners are striving to ensure that our election this year is going to be dominated and determined by whether John Kerry looks stupid in wind-surfing tights Barack Obama called Sarah Palin a "pig" ... Full Story »

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by Roland F. Hirsch - Oct. 9, 2008

This opinion piece has modest journalistic merit. It is extremely biased. The author does not accept that Obama obviously made the comments out of sheer frustration at how poorly his campaign is going, from the VP selection fiasco to the decision not to accept public money to the failure to develop any campaign message other than "change". Obama knew his remarks would be widely reported since they were clearly aimed at his opponents. The controversy was not manufactured by right-wing media, since Reuters and AP and MSNBC, all on the left, were the first to report it.

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