pajamasmedia.com - 8/21/2008
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August 21, 2008 THE OBAMA / BILL AYERS / ANNENBERG STORY has broken out into the Legacy Media now. Tom Maguire comments: "Hard to believe that with our aggressive national media covering a Presidential campaign that Obama and Daley could mange this cover-up in plain sight. Yeah, real hard." I caution those who are excited about getting into the archives, though: It probably won't ...
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Helping out Leno and Letterman
QandO —
... this study on how TV humorists are treating the major presidential candidates. Comedy Central is the equal-opportunity choice, making fun of all sides about equally. That increases my respect for Jon Stewart another notch. Leno and Letterman don’t seem to have found their mojo on going after Obama. Perhaps it’s because the guy comes across as pretty humorless, so he’s just not that easy to make fun of. On an apparently unrelated note, Insty’s link just above that one says the Obama-Ayers connection is ...
Is This What Katharine Seelye Calls Journalism?
Ankle Biting Pundits —
... Not one journalist traveling with Obama yesterday (Not one!?) thought to ask about the Ayers/Annenberg cover-up or his ...
Some things can't be vacuumed
Classical Values —
Some things can't be vacuumed The Chicago Annenberg Challenge Ayer/Obama affair (discussed infra ) is finally receiving national attention . More here and here . (Via Glenn Reynolds .) While Glenn thinks the files have probably been "vacuumed of any seriously embarrassing matter," I think it's an embarrassment that a candidate for national office worked closely for years with an unrepentant terrorist. Let me admit my bias here. Contemplating Bill Ayers and his evil wife makes me sick, and regular readers know that I don't say this about ...
Chicago, Chicago, Dat Toddlin' Town
The New Editor —
Glenn Reynolds:
THE OBAMA / BILL AYERS / ANNENBERG STORY has broken out into the Legacy Media now. Tom Maguire comments: "Hard to believe that with our aggressive national media covering a Presidential campaign that Obama and Daley could mange this cover-up in plain sight. Yeah, real hard."
I caution those who are excited about getting into the archives, though: It probably won't happen, and by now I'm sure that the files have been vacuumed of any seriously embarrassing matter anyway. This is Chicago.Da Cidee Dat Wirx... ...
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