An otherwise charming Pat Healy piece on Palin’s rhetorical style and campaign gets a little detail wrong:
“Man, I love small-town U.S.A.,” Ms. Palin told several thousand people on a field in Ohio, “and I don’t care what anyone else says about small-town U.S.A. You guys, you just get it.”Ms. Palin did not identify who “anyone else” was. But listening to her campaign speeches three weeks before the presidential election, an informed voter would not need two chances to guess between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain. (The posters reading “Barack Bin Lyin” at the McCain-Palin rally in Virginia Beach might be a hint, too.)
Healy isn’t giving enough credit to these sign-wielding sophisticated satirists. Unless he saw a different sign, their slogan was much, much, more clever. You see it was based on three rhyming words, not just two!
(AFP photo via The Politico’s Jonathan Martin)
Smears? You mean Hussein Obama hasn't been lying? Hel-loo-oo!
CJR, back in the day, what you're doing was called "stonewalling".
Just a thought: since CJR is a professional journal published at an academic institution, has it published any studies recently of Pravda? You know, that state organ of disinformation? It's a big part of the history of journalism, that proud profession you guys belong to. And, y' know, in this global world it would be sorta provincial to exclude Pravda from CJR's scope just because it wasn't published in the U.S. I think we could even learn something about our own journalism by looking at Pravda. I really do.
Posted by The Postliberal on Tue 14 Oct 2008 at 11:12 AM
Another day in CJR-Land, another day without an ACORN story...
Go figure.
The MSM will trip over itself to find every nut with an off-color anti-Obama poster, but will, of course, utterly ignore the filthy hate that permeates the left.
Such is the pitiful state of "professional journalism"
Posted by padikiller on Tue 14 Oct 2008 at 11:33 AM
Beneath the large oak, as padikiller and The Postliberal pelted the innocent negroe with accusations of being a "terrorist," the many acorns that fell on their heads prompted them to rest. As the boy recovered his thoughts and said that a greater lynch mob would be needed to restrain him, the two lazy whites decided to pursue easier targets—such as the local news-journal. After all, it's easier to turn an abstract into a whipping boy than someone who can actually defend himself.
Posted by owlandbear on Tue 14 Oct 2008 at 12:21 PM