Coverage is still one-sided, poor
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Jeff Adams
Published: October 24, 2008
Despite the recent story about John McCain’s visit to Prince William County, your one-sided coverage of the 2008 presidential election has been stale and tiresome. For months, we have been subjected
to front-page stories like the one about the guy driving around Prince William County with an “Obama for President” sticker on his beat-up old van, or the photo of people watching an Obama speech on
TV. Your fawning explanation of Obama’s association with Bill Ayers was completely predictable. What is next, a similar explanation of Obama’s long-term association with a screwball preacher like
Jeremiah Wright?
You might consider these articles interesting, but after an endless stream of them, they are boring.
Last week, your campaign coverage was juvenile as well as boring. I refer to the cartoon appearing on the Oct. 14 editorial page. It was a poorly drawn caricature of George Bush (with horns) and John
McCain.
There is a huge finger pointing at them with a caption stating that the Republican Party is solely responsible for the financial market collapse. This cartoon belongs on a high school restroom wall and not
in a newspaper. However, it is the logical continuation of the cartoons you have published over the past four years demonizing President Bush.
Before Obama supporters write letters denouncing me as a McCain supporter or worse, let me just say that I am a conservative with little use for a moderate Republican or left-wing liberal Democrat.
I only want even-handed, respectful coverage of the election.
In closing, I am not going to cancel my subscription to your paper. However, when my current subscription run out, I might not renew it. I wince at the thought of four years of your paper justifying the
failures of an Obama administration by blaming President Bush.
JEFF ADAMS
Manassas
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Posted by ( phdee ) on October 26, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Bush said in the 2000 campaign that McCain was mentally ill.
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Posted by ( rafaelva ) on October 25, 2008 at 10:00 pm
It appears, according to media reports, that Mr McCain, in the scramble to keep the southwestern states in his camp, has gone into full anti-Bush mode. Now it seems that Obama, according to McCain is the one who will continue the Bush policies.
This man, and his campaign is flat out scarey.
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Posted by ( QuestionAuthority ) on October 25, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Attention Republicans,
Contrary to what you may have inferred from years of watching Fox News, political coverage is not supposed to be paraphrased recitations of Republican talking points.
I know you’re upset and angry because Rush and Sean have you all wound up thinking that Obama is a terrorist socialist elitist with not experience who hates America and wants nothing more than to take your money and enlarge the government. The only way they can get you to believe this is for them to be the only sources of truth. The way they do that is to convince you that all those other thousands of news organizations are all biased.
The fact is that the McCain campaign is simply falling apart and the right wing extremists are using every nonsensical, extreme, bigoted reason they can dream up to keep the “sheep” in line.
I mean really, it wasn’t that long ago that Rush was ranting and raving that he would vote for Hillary before he voted for John McCain. Since when did McCain go from the guy that “true conservatives” would never vote for to the only hope for our nation?
The good news is that more and more common-sense Republicans aren’t buying it anymore. They’ve had enough of the lying, enough of the hate talk, and politics of fear; enough of the incompetence and mismanagement and corruption.
More and more common-sense Republicans are joining independents and Democrats and voting for the man with the best plan and the best judgment this year, Barrack Obama.
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Posted by ( jVA ) on October 25, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Waaaah.
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Posted by ( gwenandgary ) on October 25, 2008 at 9:34 am
Part of what you’re noticing could be blamed on this paper by extension, but the fact remains that John McCain just didn’t place the same emphasis on this area that Obama did in terms of campaign stops.
Mr. McCain’s whistle stop of a week ago to our area was far too little too late. The Obama campaign realized early on that Virginia would be a battleground state of sorts, and acted accordingly.
Whether you agree with his politics or not, the Obama campaign has done a better job so far of selling their candidate to the public than the McCain camp has. That, in and of itself, is a huge advantage, and may decide the outcome of this election.
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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on October 25, 2008 at 6:49 am
McCain’s appearance did not get good coverage because he did not bring his trophy running mate Sarah Palin. Lacking a good photo of Palin dressed in $150,000 worth of “borrowed” clothes, what was there to talk about?
We’ve hear McCain’s anger towards Obama for months now. What would be news making would some Straight Talk about what John would do, not what to fear about Obama.
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