[Darlin']

CBS has a poll question about whether or not ads about Obama's celebrity are fair. (oh, boo hoo) As of now the, No, its not fair group has a big lead in votes.

If you have a moment, please click the link, then scroll about about one quarter down the page, you'll see the poll on the right side. Its non-scientific, of course, but if the results are favorable to Obama you know the press will assume it validates their hero worship and dogged devotion to Obama.

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[Darlin']

For the Record... McCain was not the forst to compare Obama to Paris Hilton

Newsbusters tracked down the original observation or comparison and it made by Obama himself in an interview with the Washington Post in February of 2005 .... That was over three years ago when he was barely a blip on anyone's radar outside the Beltway. Apparently, that quote was later picked up by Time Magazine at the end of February, 2005.

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McCain Not First to Compare Obama to Paris Hilton
By Seton Motley, August 4, 2008 - 14:30 ET

The uproar of the media, serving as adjunct PR firms in defense of their beloved Sen. Barack Obama in response to Sen. John McCain's video comparing the Illinois Senator to Paris Hilton, was deafening. The ad was described as "nasty", "childish" and "juvenile", a "strange" "nuclear attack" for having dared to compare their anointed one to the brainless celebutant hotel heiress.

Sen. McCain and his camp responded that it was all in good fun, and was made only to point out the ridiculous Tiger Beat-squealing teenage girl nature of the over-the-top, all-encompassing coverage thus far afforded Obama by his Paparazzi.

But it appears that someone years ago beat Sen. McCain to the comparison punch.

Would all of this overwrought press hysteria be rendered even sillier were it to turn out that Sen. McCain was in actuality quoting Sen. Obama? Methinks that it would.

A February 24, 2005, Washington Post article begins:

There's nothing exotic or complicated about how phenoms are made in Washington, and, more to the point, how they are broken.

"Andy Warhol said we all get our 15 minutes of fame," says Barack Obama. "I've already had an hour and a half. I mean, I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse."

That is pretty much the who and the why of Sen. McCain's explanation of his ad, is it not? It turns out he wasn't mocking Sen. Obama so much as channeling him. Or making a mini-documentary out of the Post's article.

Either way, it is just another example of the elite media not liking a Leftist's own words being used against him in the court of public opinion.

Update: Time magazine had the quote as well. From their Verbatim section:

For the week of Feb. 28 - Mar. 6, 2005