The media continues to demonstrate its back-pocket shilling for Obama, proving that it has zero objectivity when it comes to his candidacy for President.
Today, USA Today and countless other media outlets ran this story (or something very much similar):
John McCain has been using “smear” tactics, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama says today in a pre-recorded interview that will go on the air during CNN’s The Situation Room (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. ET).
Specifically, says Obama, it is “offensive, and I think it’s disappointing” for McCain to say that Hamas would prefer that Obama be elected in November.
“John McCain always says ‘I am not going to run that kind of politics,’ and to engage in that kind of smear is unfortunate, particularly because my policy toward Hamas has been no different than his,” Obama tells Wolf Blitzer.
Obama says of Hamas that “I’ve said it’s a terrorist organization and we should not negotiate with them unless they recognize Israel, renounce violence, and unless they are willing to abide by previous accords between the Palestinians and the Israelis. So for him to toss out comments like that I think is an example of him losing his bearings as he pursues this nomination. We don’t need name calling in this debate.”
CNN’s Political Ticker blog has a report here, and CNN has put some video clips here.
On last night’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, McCain said “a spokesperson from Hamas said they wanted Sen. Obama. … It’s indicative of how some of our enemies view America. I guarantee you they’re not going to endorse me.”
Obama thinks it’s a smear; specifically that Hamas wants Senator Obama to win the election. The implication is that it’s something untrue that would hurt the integrity of Senator Obama’s campaign.
There’s only one problem. None of the media outlets reporting that Obama is calling it a smear have bothered to mention that it’s true.
ABC News (WABC in NYC) did an interview with one of Hamas’ political advisers. In the interview, they asked him if he’d be willing to meet with either of the Democrat candidates to which he responded…
“We don’t mind–actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle, and he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community but not with domination and arrogance,”
None of the outlets reporting the story even bothered to mention that what McCain said was actually true. Not a single one of them.
I’m sorry, but that’s either obvious blatant bias or the worst case of lazy reporting ever; especially considering the information took me all of eight seconds to find.