I apologize for the tardiness of this comment. First let me start by saying I love the View! I generally have to leave midway through to head to class but I try to DVR (I dont know how I survived without this) it whenever possible. DVR is also the reason why this comment comes so late as I was just able to watch Monday's(02.02.09) show.
My main reason for responding is for the guy who claimed/blamed the Media for Barack Obama being elected president and said they ruined Sarah Palin in the process. First off this guy was rude so that annoyed me to begin with but more importantly he skirted the issues, ignored questions he could answer and let Elisabeth fight his battles for him - which I understand I would too, she's feisty.
When asked why he blames the media when Sarah Palin doesnt seem to in the clip he showed he said, "look at the website," when asked why he doesnt stand up for Hillary the same way he does for Palin, he said "look at the website or wait three weeks and go see it." What? why are you on TV? its not like youre speaking for the movie or saying anything of importance, if I wanted to be told to wait for the movie you could have just shown the clip and had Elisabeth or Sherri say "wait for the movie"
One of his main points was that people/particularly the media idolized Barack and crucified Sarah...like she had nothing to do with the medias portrayal...he brought up a poll he did.
12 questions
a 12 question poll...seriously? when did that become enough for accurate information?
anyway his point for bringing up the poll was that one of the questions most people answered correctly was "Which of the candidates had a pregnant teenage daughter?" saying that people cared more about the goings on of Palins private life over her collegues'- but really? everyone knows Sasha and Melia...they're in the spotlight just as much if not more...theyre obviously not pregnant or teenagers...Biden? everyone knows he has sons...if he has a daughter thats news to me and most people I know...and McCain? he's 487 he would have to have been having sex at his centennial in order to have a teenage daughter..so even if I didnt follow the election by process of elimination Im going to get that right.
I agree that the media played a huge role in getting Barack Obama elected and did a lot to negatively affect public opinion of Sarah Palin. But for very different reasons. Barack Obama new how to use the media and take advantage of the different venues to reach the public, I saw just as many negative ads for him as I did for McCain (depending on what channel I watched) but there were many more positive ones for Obama because he chose to speak-its what he does.
Sarah Palin, probably should have chose not to more often. yes interviews are edited and altered to suit the needs of the station or correspondant but stuff people saw/heard...she actually did/said...same crap happened with Joe Biden- but somehow thats different.
since this is a random rant let me also say that Im still pissed about that Joe the Plumber nonsense! that fool wasnt even a plumber. booooo joe. booooooo
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