Fawning Media Flocking To Travel With Obama To Europe
Apparently Obama and the media elite are just going to up and move the American Presidential election to Europe.
WASHINGTON: Senator John McCain’s trip to Iraq last spring was a low-key affair: With his ordinary retinue of reporters following him abroad, the NBC News anchor Brian Williams reported on his arrival in Baghdad from New York, with just two sentences tacked onto the “in other political news” portion of his newscast.
But when Obama heads for Iraq and other locations overseas this summer, Williams is planning to catch up with him in person, as are the other two evening news anchors, Charles Gibson of ABC and Katie Couric of CBS, who, like Williams, are far along in discussions to interview Obama on successive nights.
And while the anchors are jockeying for interviews with Obama at stops along his route, the regulars on the Obama campaign plane will have new seat mates: star political reporters from the major newspapers and magazines who are flocking to catch Obama’s first overseas trip since becoming the presumptive nominee of his party.
Summary: McCain gets “Oh and by the way John McCain was in Europe today” coverage from the media. Obama gets followed around Europe as though he were the reincarnation of Jerry Garcia and the journalists are all a bunch of Dead Heads.
Fair? Objective? Not even a little bit. But what else do you expect?
And I’m still trying to figure out why Obama is spending his campaign resources on campaigning in Europe. Seems to me the last Democrat candidate for President who campaigned on the love and adulation of Europeans didn’t fair too well when it came time for actual Americans to vote.
