Media jumping on Repubs bandwagon on "public financing" issue...

[kentuck]

I've noticed it on several of the network shows and on the cable shows. The Repubs want to make a big deal out of Obama's decision to skip public financing and the media, as they have done so many times in the past, pile on Obama because the Repubs think that is a big issue. Would they have made a big deal out of it if the Repubs had not chosen to make it so? I doubt it. This has been a big problem with the media for a long time now. They seem to take their marching orders from the RNC.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. They seem to take their marching orders from the RNC?

They don't just seem to do this, this is what they do. Some even admit it every now and then.

[anonymous171]

2. Of course. Now he can fight them. The GOP and the MSM thought they were going to have it easy.

You know, just replay a couple of 527 ads repeatedly on talk shows, just like they did with Kerry. But Obama screwed it all up with his decision.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

3. The irony is that by doing that they are proving Obama right for rejecting it.

Obama would be hobbled with only the public funds, while McCain gets the same amount AND the media in his corner.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

4. I THOUGHT THAT BUSH WAS THE FIRST TO NOT USE PUB FIN IN 2000

IS HISTORY BEING RE-WRITTEN??????????????????????????

EVER HEARD OF THE FIFTH COLUMN???????????


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_column

[stray cat]

5. When will the GOP stop accepting lobby money?

[gateley]

6. I was watching Lindsey Graham

beating this to death this morning on Meet The Press.

I was thinking that the vast majority of Americans won't even pay that much attention to it.

Those who are against Obama can add it to their list of "why not to vote for him" crap, but I don't think it'll change anybody's minds.

To those who are uncommitted, I don't think this is a deal breaker.

[EV_Ares]

7. Not surprising is it. The media I think is trying to make it a big issue because I don't think

the public really cares one way or another. They don't have a lot of faith in the system period when it comes to money. They know the republicans are probably worse in that area anyway. I just hope Barack just hammers back at the media and forces them to cover the election the way they should or at least try. I am glad he is going this route on the campaign financing instead of fall lng into the trap the republicans tried to make him do.

[Cha]

8. Of course, they are..they're mccain's base and

the longer this General Election goes along the more everyone will actually realize that.

Just like they were bush's base and the War On Iraq's base.

[Upton]

9. Nothing much happening now

media has got to harp on something. Nobody going to base their vote on that alone anyway.

[tularetom]

10. I don't think this one's going to stick

Sure there are a few public policy purists who will deplore Obama's decision and of course the faux outrage among the punditry and the wing nut blogs will be noticeable. But the reaction of most Americans, including me is, so what.

If anything the decision is a positive one since it saves taxpayer dollars.

And I realize Obama did not "flip flop" on the public financing issue but so what if he did? We have a useless war that's bankrupting our country, ginormous trade deficits, loss of middle class jobs, crappy health care, and a sick old man running around promising four more years of the same old shit.

Nobody will give a rats ass.

[Vinca]

11. It would be nice if they would give equal time to McCain's opting out of,

then back into - or was it the opposite way around - public financing. At the beginning of the primary season he opted in and obtained a loan based on the promise of public funds. After winning the primary, he sent a letter to the FEC and said he'd changed his mind. Unfortunately, you can't do that quite so easily. Technically, he's been taking donations he shouldn't be taking based on his original public financing, a crime punishable with a fine and jail time. Now, of course, he's opted back in. Nowhere is this mentioned during the rabid coverage of Obama's financing decision. Not only did McCain flip flop, he broke the law as well. Make that into, out of, into.

[kentuck]

12. Right on!

That's exactly what he did! He opted in so he could get an advance loan on his public finance funds. Then he started taking money from everyone, which was not legal. Now, when he saw that he was not going to be able to raise enough money to compete, he opts back in to get the $84 million in public funds.

[democrattotheend]

13. Aren't the Republicans the ones who have tried to gut public financing for years?

I know Mitch McConnell is always trying to pass amendments that change the checkoff to a natural disaster relief fund instead of public financing for campaigns.

[asjr]

14. Until we are rid of CBS' Bob Scheiffer the media

will still be pounding it. I wish I could turn him over my knee and use a leather strap on his sorry ass.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

15. I don't think we ought to take the ignorance and apathy of the American public for granted!

The Obama campaign needs to fight back against the charge that he is a flip-flopper or he will lose this election!!

John McSame is the REAL flip-flopper with a very long list of flip-flopping LIES!! I know that the media is allowing him to get away with it all, but by Obama not fighting the smears, it is a form of swiftboating that may work against Obama.

He needs to address this issue head on.

[Willo]

16. We need a major petition to show the truth.

That states the truth about the loopholes in public financing, why Obama turned it down and most importantly
signed by the people saying they support his decision.

That covers the three-part lie the media is pushing.

Where is the best place to get one started?

[ladjf]

17. The media does what is told to do by the people that "own" the

media.