Acceptance of Arrogant Obama Critique Says a Lot About the Media |
| Published: July 31, 2008, 5:11 pm |
| Tags: 2008 presidential, campaigns amp amp elections, barack obama |
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After months of adulatory press (minus a few weeks of Jeremiah Wright), have the national media finally begun responding to a large-scale critique of Barack Obama? Yes, argues Politico reporter Carrie Budoff Brown in a piece which she alleges that the Illinois senator is now being hit for being too arrogant: Barack Obama's critics laid down the foundations of the strategy months ago: The Republican National Committee started the Audacity Watch back in April, and Karl Rove later fueled the attack by describing the first-term Illinois senator as coolly arrogant. It wasn't until the last week, however, that the narrative of Obama as a president-in-waiting and perhaps getting impatient in that waiting began reverberating beyond the inboxes of Washington operatives and journalists. Perhaps one of the clearest indications emerged Tuesday from the world of late-night comedy, when David Letterman offered his Top Ten Signs Barack Obama is Overconfident. [ Full article ] |
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