NBC's Williams Suggests Obama Likely to Be 'Swift-Boating' Victim |
| Published: October 31, 2007, 1:55 am |
| Tags: 2008 presidential, barack obama, brian williams, msnbc |
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During Tuesday night's Democratic presidential debate on MSNBC, NBC anchor Brian Williams posed a question to Barack Obama which managed to simultaneously impugn Republicans as executors of disreputable campaign practices and portray Obama as a likely victim of it -- all based on Mitt Romney flubbing Obama's name and memories of the Bush campaign's attacks on John McCain in 2000. Explaining that his question would be about religion and misinformation, Williams, who co-moderated the debate with Tim Russert, raised how Romney misspoke twice on the same day, confusing your name with that of Osama bin Laden, as if, apparently, that was some sort of effort to suggest Obama is Muslim. Williams proceeded to highlight how your party is fond of talking about potential swift boating, before he got to his charged political point in the form of a question: Are you fearful of what happened to John McCain, for example in South Carolina a few years back, confusion on the basis [ Full article ] |
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