It’s Not The Whole Reason Obama Was Elected, But It’s A Big Chunk
I’m betting that you’ll be seeing this video popping up quite a lot around the blogosphere over the next couple days. John Ziegler pulled aside twelve Barack Obama voters and asked them a few question. He filmed the results, which will likely come as no surprise at all to any of you.
At that point, he had the same kind of “man on the street” interview as you might see on the Tonight Show or Sean Hannity’s show. Ziegler took it one step further, though. He commissioned a phone poll of another 512 Obama voters and asked them the same question. The results are pretty pathetic. In a nutshell, the vast majority of them knew all about the rumors and ginned-up scandals concerning Sarah Palin but none of the facts that might have reflected poorly on Barack Obama or his running mate.
For instance, over 77 percent could identify Palin as the woman who had $150,000 spent on clothing for her but less than 12 percent knew that Barack Obama said that his proposals would drive up the cost of electricity and bankrupt coal companies.
It’s pretty sad that the MSM couldn’t bring itself to fairly report on the campaign. Media bias isn’t the entire reason that Barack Obama was elected – John McCain certainly comes in for a good helping of it as well for running an incompetent campaign and the GOP gets some as well for not doing more to push the stuff the MSM wasn’t – but it is a significant part of the problem. it is difficult to have a truly representative democracy when the free press is unabashedly in the bag for one of the candidates.
Other Posts of Interest:
- But Don’t Call It Media Bias
- Gutless Gutman (UPDATE: Here’s Why He Hasn’t Been Canned by Obama)
- McCain Defends Plumber Joe. Barack Obama Still Hasn’t.
Category: Featured, Oh, THAT liberal media., Sarah Palin, The Obamessiah
A non-political message board I'm on all the time has a forum for people who homeschool their kids. I was reading one of the threads in that forum a couple of days ago where the homeshoolers were defending their choice, saying that was the best option for their child & how the public school systme is a failure, how it is no-body's business to tell them how to raise their child, etc. Again, this is not a political message board at all. (In fact, if you post anything political, the mods will delete it & ban you.) But they did allow people to use their candidate's picture or something like that as their avatar or in the signature. Several of these people who were defending their home-schooling rights had Obama logos as their avatars. I realized then that the Obama supporters really have no idea what he stands for or plans to do. Sad….
That's food for thought. I've been doing a lot of pondering (nothing formed well enough to make a good blog post, though) about the election and what conservatives do from this point on.
The more I think about it, the more I believe that a good number of people who voted for the P-E did so not because they knew anything but the most superficial facts about him but for two reasons:
1) He wasn't one of old names we've seen for the past ten years and he said he could bring something new and exciting to Washington.
2) He's black and, well, history, right?
It wasn't so much that these folks were voting for the best of the nation, because they quite obviously weren't. They were voting so they could feel good about themselves and if he happened to end up doing well, then bonus!
Republicans failed mightily by not overcoming Obama's novelty and his historicity (I think that's the word I want). They could have done it, but they didn't.
America voted for an evil man just because he made us feel good about ourselves.