August 24, 2008 Politico
Categories: MSNBC
Rendell: Obama coverage was embarrassing
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell was supposed to give “closing remarks” during this afternoon’s Shorenstein Center-sponsored panel discussion with all three Sunday show moderators — NBC’s Tom Brokaw, ABC’s George Stephanopoulous and CBS’s Bob Schieffer — but instead, he opened up a can of worms about bias in 2008 election coverage
"Ladies and gentleman, the coverage of Barack Obama was embarrassing," said Rendell, in the ballroom at Denver's Brown Palace Hotel. "It was embarrassing."
Rendell, an ardent Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter during the primaries, now backs Obama in the general election. Brokaw and Rendell began debating campaign coverage, including the on-air comments by Lee Cowan, and when MSNBC came up, Rendell went after the cable network.
“MSNBC was the official network of the Obama campaign," Rendell said, who called their coverage "absolutely embarrassing."
Chris Matthews, Rendell said, "loses his impartiality when he talks about the Clintons.”
At that point, PBS's Judy Woodruff, who was moderating the moderators event, said: "Why don’t we let Governor Rendell sit down."
That was met with applause from the crowd of big-time media figures, which included Arianna Huffington, Gwen Ifill, Al Hunt, and Chuck Todd.
Woodruff allowed Brokaw to respond, and in defending the network, he said that Matthews and Keith Olbermann are "not the only voices" on MSNBC.
I want to ask Ash what he thinks of Biden as Obama's VP pick.
ReplyDeleteAsh, what do you think of Biden as Obama's VP pick?
I almost made a nasty and crude remark about Ted Kennedy being in Denver, but controlled myself.
ReplyDeleteOver the last several years, Obama has espoused conflicting positions on issues that include, but are not limited to:
ReplyDeletelegislation banning handguns;
military funding for the Iraq War;
troop withdrawal from Iraq;
unconditional diplomatic contact with Iran's leader;
the troop surge in Iraq (before and after the fact);
presidential public campaign financing;
immunity for telecommunications companies;
same-sex marriage;
the dangers posed by Iran.
Americans prefer decisive leaders, but will accept one who changes his or her mind and explains why. Obama shifts his positions, and then offers convoluted explanations based on tortured logic as to how his varying statements are not mutually exclusive.
It will be particularly interesting, especially to conservative Republicans, to hear him explain his mercurial stances on abortion infanticide.
Americans tire of celebrities who falter.
Lee Cary
Is this week going to be better for Obama than the last?
It certainly better be, and probably will be. Everything really depends on the speech he gives. It's highly unlikely that he will muck it up. He's got that teleprompter there to help him, and has practiced before the mirror, and before Michelle.
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ReplyDeleteWe also found out that one of McCain's houses, a condo, is one that they provide for an elderly aunt of Mrs. McCain's.
How come Barry can't send his half-brother a $20 bill and almost double the guy's annual income. A $20 bill would almost double his brother's annual income, and McCain said to be so out of touch with the common man, uses one of his houses to house an elderly aunt.
So they're asking all these questions of McCain on his houses. Okay, I got some questions for Obama. How many huts and ramshackle shacks do your blood relatives own or live in?
Have you helped with payments or cosigned bank notes for any of those huts, thatched or otherwise?
If your hut-owning relatives ask you for a loan to make an addition to their hut or to build an outhouse, would you be willing to spend the five dollars necessary for an add-on?
Obama, what would be an appropriate hut-warming gift for a half-brother or grandmother?
A mosquito net?
Cortisone cream for bug bites?
(My answer: a Castro issue rice cooker)
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