2008 Election CoverUps

The Barack Obama Gaffe-o-matic machine

July 2008

The Junior Senator from illinois is a rich source of material for the "Gotcha" press. but they seem strangely uninterested.

By Andrew Peterson
For CoverUps.com

Kudos to Investors Business Daily for their excellent editorial exposing the media's shameless willingness to overlook Barack Obama's endless stream of campaign gaffes. One wonders what Dan Quayle, George Bush, and John McCain (all of them Republicans – imagine that!) think of this gaffe gap.

No doubt they long ago learned to take their lumps and keep going. Still, the IBD editorial writers have compiled an impressive list of Obama-isms which the media have tactfully refrained from hammering Obama on.

We beg your pardon for having the temerity to list some of them here

Consider his claim during a news conference Wednesday in Israel that "just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran."

His committee? Obama isn't even a member of the Banking Committee, let alone its chairman. So was it a self-promoting lie or a misstep? Only he knows.

In other cases, however, it's clear the junior senator from Illinois has erred. It was Obama — and not a too-old-to-serve John McCain or a too-dopey-to-take-serious George W. Bush — who once said he'd visited 57 states, not including Alaska and Hawaii, and still had "one left to go."

It was also Obama who said Tuesday from Amman, Jordan: "You know, it's always a bad practice to say 'always' or 'never' " — a statement only Yogi Berra could fathom but which those aboard O-Force One seemed to regard as incontestably profound...

How else to explain his "Face The Nation" comment that the leaders he would meet in the Middle East and Europe are the ones "who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to 10 years"?

Our Take

In all seriousness for a moment, one of the media's most feared weapons is its power to humiliate – and they've shown little restraint in using this weapon with special zest against Republicans for as long as we can remember. And they have every constitutional right to do so.

But as a member of the New Media, we at CoverUps have the right to hoist the old media on their own petard. This is a right we intend to exercise zestfully from here on out.

Link to article.