Friday, April 25, 2008
Obama's Reverend
I recently read an article about how Obama's reverend to his church felt unjustifiably accused. He said that the sound bites were not what the whole speach was about and how he is someone who will speak out against the goverment. But is it too late for Obama. Did this man hurt his chances of winning the primary and even the presidency? The GOP in North Carolina is going be running anti Obama commercials of him with his reverend. Will Obama being connected with this church and pastor hurt him is the big question becasue he was apart of the church for such a long time and he never spoke out against what they said. So either he truely believes it or he just was to lazy to change churches. I feel that if he does win the democratic primary, the republicans will rip him up for this and it will hurt him in some states.
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Someone brought this show to my attention; on the Bill Moyers Journal tonight (Friday, April 25) at 9 pm on KQED channel 9, "Bill Moyers interviews the Reverend Jeremiah Wright in his first broadcast interview with a journalist since he became embroiled in a controversy for his remarks and his relationship with Barack Obama."
This will be replayed again on Sunday at 3 am.
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It's stereotypical but true: it's all about the "sound byte". When a news story is 5 minutes long at the most on TV, radio, or anywhere else, there isn't much time for logical debate covering the intricacies of an issue-pick one thing, and cover it. Also, the media picks (for good reason) those bits that are most immediately interesting, i.e. "9/11 was America's fault!!!".
Well, look at how the media totally twisted McCain's "we can be at war for another 100 years".... another example of tweaked sound bytes
Its true, sound byte are what the media looks for.
But hasn't the reverend become the "former pastor of Obama's church"? I saw on the evening news that he is no longer the pastor.
Obama and his campaign wishes for this issue just die, but if he does win the nomination, the GOP "shark tank" is going to have a "happy feeding" until November.
Well, it is a while off, so maybe the issue will just die off by the time the primaries are over. Still, it seems like just because Obama was associated with the guy through church people think he's bad. I can't control what everyone I know thinks and does. It's unrealistic to think that everyone any one person is connected to will be good.
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