That’s not really news, we all know John McCain cheated on his first wife. But Alan Colmes actually had some fun with that fact on Hannity & Colmes. Thanks to Andrew Sullivan for pointing out this hilarious video:
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Obama’s Bounce
Looks like Barack Obama is getting the expected bounce from his trip. Gallup’s Daily Tracking Poll now has the race at Obama 48% - McCain 41% and Rasmussen’s Tracking Poll has the race at Obama 46% - McCain 40% (or 49%-43% with leaners). Despite the McCain campaign’s best effort to ridicule Obama’s trip, the results are becoming clear: Obama looked like a President, and is reaping the benefits.
Howard Kurtz discussed the media coverage of the trip yesterday in his Washington Post column, and I think he hit the nail on the head. Though the actual coverage has been fairly mixed (Fox News has done it’s best to counter the trip, Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC has surely taken every opportunity to attack Obama over the past week) the images tell a different story.
In short, though Obamapalooza was not quite the lovefest that some expected, news outlets provided a spotlight so bright that their own people were left in the shadows.
“The pictures bring people into the story,” says Jerry Rafshoon, who was President Jimmy Carter’s media adviser. “In the television age, the more people who can see him in the role of commander in chief, the better it is for him.” By contrast, Rafshoon says, when John McCain was seen riding around Kennebunkport in a golf cart with former president George H. W. Bush, “you’re seeing him with his generation, the older generation. They looked like the past.”
A picture is worth a thousand words.
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