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Turning a Blind Eye: What We're Not Seeing in the News

Yesterday, at a campaign rally in Florida, Barack Obama accused the John McCain campaign of using "careless, outrageous comments," in an effort to denounce "say-anythig, do-anything" politics.

He's right about one thing. With such an important election just two weeks away, we should be able to look past the hateful and benign words and attacks, and stick to the important issues this election should be about: the economy, national security, foreign policy, health care, education, social security, upholding the constitution (I'm talking to you, Fairness Doctrine), and even a candidate's past associations.  I could fill an entire post with a simple list of issues barely being addressed by either campaign.

However, Senator Obama is wrong about everything else. 
 
 
Lately, if you turn on a TV or open a newspaper, McCain supporters are depicted as menacing creatures who live in dark alleys and feast on small children. Whether it's a no-name newspaper reporter falsely accusing McCain suppoters of screaming "kill him" at a rally or Senator Obama's own constant accusations of a "100% negative" McCain campaign, everywhere you turn, anyone who backs McCain is the bad guy.
 
Accusations range from the just plain tasteless to the downright despicable. I'll be the first to admit, there are, as the old saying goes, a few bad apples in every bunch. Neither candidate can denounce and repudiate each and every person who resorts to the lowest form of poitics, but for Senator Obama to imply it's one-sided is misleading and simply not true.

 
The mainstream media is quick to point out one idiot at a McCain event. And they do it over and over and over again. By the end of a two day news cycle, it seems as though one person's derogatory comments turn the entire event into some nasty, negative gathering of people who's one purpose in life is to come up with offensive phrases.
 
But where was it reported that Obama supporters wearing t-shirts calling Palin a derogatory term for female genitalia?  Where were all the disgusting
abortion-related comments Obama supporters used in relation to Palin's underage children?
 
I'd like to know where the outrage was when MSNBC ran an advertisement grotesquely focused on John McCain's medical history - an ad funded by two liberal political action comittees.

Where was the endless chiding of the New York Times for its vile, inappropriate front page hit piece on Cindy McCain?

Why weren't isolated incidents such as people painting "KKK" on a car sporting a McCain/Palin sticker or a South Carolina GOP campaign headquarters being vandalized played throughout the day on the cable news cycles?

Why were the racist, antisemitic, and devisive remarks from John Lewis, Jesse Jackson, and Jack Murtha dismissed with a statement or two and conveninetly forgotten the next day?

How is it that Jon Stewart's degrading words about Sarah Palin go unnoticed but every word Rush Limbaugh utters is put under a microscope?

Where is the "in depth look" at the nasty comments from liberal entertainers such as Sandra Bernhardt, Ludacris, those nice ladies at "The View," and Madonna (who's comments now makes the Dixie Chicks look like school girls)?

Senator Obama is right about the "say-anything, do-anything" politics being part of this election, but he needs to take a long hard look at his own supporters, including the mainstream media.  As another old saying goes, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Of course it's a little harder to break a glass house when it's guarded at all costs by Keith Olbermann, Katie Couric, and friends. 

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