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What Is CNN?

In my post yesterday I was unsure whether a glaring omission in a CNN news story was based on ?sloppiness or bias.? But after looking at Jack Cafferty?s CNN article today, I?m not even sure what CNN is. I always thought it was a news organization, but this piece is much more like a bad opinion piece than news.

Cafferty can?t understand why Obama is not walking away with the race, unless....

Race is arguably the biggest issue in this election, and it's one that nobody's talking about.

The differences between Barack Obama and John McCain couldn't be more well-defined. Obama wants to change Washington. McCain is a part of Washington and a part of the Bush legacy. Yet the polls remain close. Doesn't make sense?unless it's race.

I suppose that?s true ... if you?re a Democrat or a CNN reporter (but I repeat myself). No one except a racist, of course, could oppose Obama because he?s inexperienced; because he accomplished little as a state senator except blocking passage of legislation to protect babies accidentally born alive after a botched abortion; because he was a member of the silent majority in Rev. Wright?s church for 20 years, passively soaking up anti-American drivel; because, unlike Sarah Palin, he worked with rather than against his local corrupt political machine and still refuses to support ethics legislation it opposes; because of his association with unsavory characters like Bill Ayers and unsavory organizations like ACORN; because he has no executive, or much of any other, experience; because, unlike McCain, he has never, ever opposed his party on any issue, much less a major, controversial issue; because his only accomplishment in the Senate is completing the second volume of his autobiography, the most recent step on his apparently never-ending quest to construct an identity; because he opposes the bedrock principle of treating all Americans ?without regard? to their race, ethnicity, or gender, favoring instead preferential treatment of his own group; because of a belief that his higher taxes will hurt the economy; because of a sense that he?s all talk; or, as has just been revealed, because he has attempted to delay the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq because such a delay is in his personal political interest.

Well, you know those racists. They never pay attention to ?issues.?

Full post as published by Discriminations on September 17, 2008 (boomark / email).