The latest ABC smear against Obama..

[cbc5g]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/just-hours-late.html

Just Hours Later, Obama Campaign Uses Berlin Speech to Raise Campaign Cash

July 24, 2008 7:35 PM

Shortly after 6 pm Central time -- just a few hours after Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, gave his speech in Berlin, which his campaign insisted was not political -- his campaign manager, David Plouffe, sent out a fundraising solicitation using the speech to raise campaign cash.

"As you may have heard, Barack has been in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia this week," reads the email, with a big red "DONATE" sign. "Today, he spoke in Berlin, Germany. In a city where a wall once divided the free from the oppressed, he talked about tearing down the walls that divide all peoples so we can address our common problems -- the threats of terrorism and nuclear weapons, global warming and genocide, AIDS and poverty. Watch Barack's historic speech and share it with your friends."

The letter offers a link to the video and asks recipients to please "forward this email to your friends, family, and colleagues."

This is certainly going to be used as ammunition for those critics who wondered about the true purpose of this "non political" trip.

- jpt

[Virginia Dare]

1. BREAKING NEWS!!! The Obama campaign is being political..

what a shocker....:eyes: It would be funny if it weren't so pathetic.

[SoonerPride]

2. good lord the comment section is disgusting

freeperland part deux

americans suck

or at least some of them do

[mucifer]

3. yeah, they should send out an email saying "our campaign sux give all your money to mcstupid"

[Supersedeas]

26. the hit pieces just keep rolling.

[madaboutharry]

4. The requirements for a job in journalism apparently

are not to stringent.

[earthlover]

13. too

[madaboutharry]

19. Right, too.

n/t

[otohara]

5. Jake Tapper

I swear the guy is bi-polar. Huge ego -

[book_worm]

6. The media has nothing so they have to try and create situations.

[cbc5g]

7. Whats most pathetic is that all their e-mails have a donate button and it didn't outright ask for it

[rzemanfl]

8. I donated right after the speech through DU, didn't need an email.

I still refuse to give ABC a hit after that frickin' movie.

[Barack_America]

9. They're beyond pathetic. I read an article about Obama's overseas trip, Berlin speech, etc.

And Americans' views of it. The concluding remarks of that article? They asked a woman at a McCain event what she thought of Obama's trip. Can you believe she was critical of it?

I mean, seriously, at least TRY to act like real journalists.

[tekisui]

10. America is going to leave the media behind.

Along with the mouth breathers.

[burythehatchet]

15. I agree. None of their crap is working. In fact, almost everything backfires

That is the beauty of this campaign. I have never seen as great a political strategist as Barack and the Republick media is befuddled. Expect the attacks to go way over the line and expect none fo them to work.

[Yukari Yakumo]

23. They already are.

The average age of the average watcher of the nightly news is rapidly approaching retirement age. Viewership is down; CBS is down to 20 year lows.

[Thrill]

11. Just for that. I'm sending 20 bucks!

[high density]

12. Erm, so?

He's a politician running a presidential campaign. How does Jake Tapper write this stuff with a straight face?

[hedgehog]

14. I thought that the Obama campaign paid for the Berlin leg of the trip

and that it was explicitly part of the campaign. Isn't that the excuse the Pentagon gave for not allowing Obama to visit wounded soldiers in Germany?

[Doctor_J]

16. I don't remember any outrage when * used 3,000 WTC dead to raise money

ABC = All Bullshit Cons

[zbdent]

17. I'm sure John McCain just wanted to go bike riding with

Lance Armstrong because he likes to exercise in his suit ...

[Cha]

18. Yeah, it takes cold hard cash to beat you

m0+&3%f^(#3@$

[tyedyeto]

20. Who said the entire trip was non-political?

The first segment was govermental, but ever since his new plane caught up with him in Jordan, the campaign was paying and then it became political.

The reason he cancelled visits at military hospitals in Germany was because he was now on campaign funds and didn't feel it was proper to go there.

[mucifer]

21. Problem is that this crap works. This is why the polling is so dam close

[AtomicKitten]

22. Breaking News!! Jake Tapper harvests low-hanging fruit.

[TheDonkey]

24. WE'VE bEEN HAD POEPLE!!

[Frank Booth]

25. Fuck ABC, Drudge and Jake Tapper.

For those who dare wade into Drudge, notice how of all the news networks, he links to ABC more than any others? It's not close. ABC outpaces even Fox by a mile. Tapper pieces are especially prominent. It's clear it's coordinated.

[K Gardner]

27. Nightline devoted one small Tapper segment to the Berlin trip, then did an Expose on POPCORN. I'm

not kidding. Popcorn.. are we being charged too much in the theatres? How do theatre owners make their living off of popcorn sales? How much popcorn is in a bag v bucket? Is it really really bad if you bring your own and shouldn't you feel guilty? I only watched it because I was too incredulous to change the channel. Hellooooo.....