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Right now if you visit the Huffington Post you will see the following:
Clinton is maxed out on big donations, cannot keep up with small donations, a supposed insider reports.
MEANWHILE
If you goto Drudge you find this:
Clinton is scoring big with lobbyists and individual campaign donations according to a “secret spreadsheet” smuggled out of the campaign.
So which one is it?
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… doesn’t mean you have to use it. Sorry but I felt like tossing out my opinion for a moment.
As you know MSNBC hosted the Don Imus program up until the I-Man went a little nutty and got himself thrown off. The channel quickly replaced the program with an innovative and completely different morning idea. They ran the news. Yeap, sounds crazy but a news network ran news.
The problem is, they spent all this money on a studio. You just can’t pack a couple of neon desks and microphones up, that would be crazy. Thus Gregory Live starring David Gregory was born.
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It was the biggest topic in the campaign news for at least twenty-four, maybe forty-eight hours this week, U.S. General Pace remarked that homosexuality was “immoral” and suddenly every news reporter was flocking to find out what all the candidates thought. Did Senator John McCain, the only major candidate to have served, agree with the general? Did Mitt Romney, the candidate now being championed AND questioned heavily by the Religious right, have the answer that would make them happy? The General was speaking about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell a popular issue in other elections. What did each candidate really think?
If you wanted to find out and get your news straight from the horses mouth then heading to any of the candidates Web pages certainly wasn’t the way to do it.
I am one step above the casual Web viewer when it comes to using the candidates sites. I subscribe to RSS when possible, get campaign e-mail and check out various other sites which monitor the candidates blogs. Nowhere, not in those immediate hours and rarely afterward did I see anything at all addressing the issue of the day. The sites had plenty of virtual networking available, I could watch old video footage, see Hillary have a conversation from three weeks ago. I could do a lot, I just couldn’t find out what the candidates were thinking, in real time, about an issue immediately relevant to the news.
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Edwards campaign cited the participation of FOX News along with scheduling conflicts for the non-participation of the candidate in debates to be held in Nevada on August 14th. The decision is quickly being hailed in the liberal blogosphere which is organizing a movement to delete FOX’s participation altogether.
My personal take? I understand why Edward’s is making this move. He is trying to play to the liberal base of the party. Regardless of its ‘Fair & Balanced’ mantra I have rarely been able to find anything but a conservative slant on FOX. When there are Democrats and liberals I usually shutter for them as they tend not to be seasoned party veterans who understand the nuance of their arguments. It reads quite simple, Republicans are in Control and Democrats have no idea what they are talking about.
That is a gross generalization of course but it is, in my opinion the truth.
So what should Democrats be doing to combat a 24/7 news network that they perceive is against them?
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The big media event this weekend happened in Selma Alabama where (gasp!) Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama spoke at the same event, in the same city, and on the same day! Pull out the fire hoses friends, the media suspected things would get hot!
Now you may have missed the endless barrage of articles with the word “faggot” in the headline this weekend, thank you Ann Coulter, but I bet you saw the endless barrage of headlines referring to the latest Clinton/Obama smackdown.
If you followed the actual event you were seriously let in for some massive and jaw dropping, disappointment. Yes friends, two politicians speaking at an event honoring civil rights might sound like a rock em’ sock em’ display of fiery force to some editors but it sure is a boring sight to witness in reality. So why did they write with such gusto that big things were going to happen? Well, what else would they write about?
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