Monday, September 08, 2008

How about some tar and feathers for the MSM?

Small-town residents boo media with McCain

CEDARBURG, Wisc. -- Hundreds of angry people in this small town outside Milwaukee taunted reporters and TV crews traveling with Sen. John McCain on Friday, chanting "Be fair!" and pointing fingers at a pack of journalists as they booed loudly.

On the first leg of the "McCain Street USA" tour -- which will take the Republican presidential nominee and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, to small towns across the heartland -- the 30 or so reporters and crew were walking back to their buses to join the McCain motorcade when hundreds of townspeople started yelling.

"Stop lying! You are all liars! Tell the truth!" one woman yelled from the front of the pack.
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The scene was reminiscent of one that occurred spontaneously at the RNC, when Mrs. Palin accused political pundits and columnists of misinformation. With thousands of red-meat Republicans in the huge Xcel Center in Minneapolis, the crowd turned ugly. Hundreds began pointing at a group of reporters and booing -- some chanted "CNN!" while others yelled "MSNBC!"
Of course they got the name of the former wrong, since CNN is now officially the Obama News Network:

Obama News Network logo

As for MSNBC, I see that some of the more conventionally biased news staff managed to get Chris "Tingle Leg" Matthews and Keith "Rabid Dog" Olberman removed as "news anchors" for political events since they are spoiling the usual con that the MSM are unbiased. Funny, I thought all along was that their title was "Obama Cheerleader."

(Hat tip: American Digest)