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By Jonathan Martin 01:18 PM
McCain camp targets media “love” for Obama.
(GREAT VIDEO)
July 22, 2008
Categories: McCain
McCain camp targets media “love” for Obama
The McCain campaign is picking up where Saturday Night Live left off: Guilting reporters for purportedly being soft on Barack Obama.
They’ve begun a contest on their website under the headline: “The Media is in LOVE with Barack”
“Pick the best song for their devotion,” they ask readers, offering the same compilation video of TV news clips gushing over the Democratic candidate set to two different love ballads.
Asked why they are engaging in media-bashing, McCain spokesman Brian Rogers replied: “Love for ‘The One’ is in the air.”
McCain aides have begun to poke fun at Obama’s rock-star image by referring to him with the faux lofty phrase.
NBC and MSNBC come in for special criticism in the video, with Chris Matthews taking the brunt of the attack.
“He’s sorta a gift from the world to us in so many ways,” Matthews is shown saying — three times in a row.
While McCain aides have grumbled for months about treatment of Obama, this is the most outward effort to tweak the media and perhaps evoke a little guilt.
That video is hilarious! I hope they do more.
The networks and mediots need to have this rubbed in their faces.