CNN hires-on with McCain campaign... officially adopts campaign's "hockey moms" terminology

[krkaufman]

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CNN hires-on with McCain campaign... officially adopting the campaign's "hockey moms" terminology ... and echoes their "Wal*Mart moms" usage, as well.

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I must be an exceptionally slow learner, 'cause the media has surprised me yet again with their unprofessionalism & incompetence.

I had *just* flicked over to CNN, only to hear John King state, while discussing target McCain voter demographics with Wolf Blitzer & sidekick (Gloria?)...

"Another big constituency ... are what they're (McCain campaign) now calling 'hockey moms.' We used to call them 'the soccer moms'; we're calling them 'hockey moms' in this campaign because of Sarah Palin."

So CNN is adopting the McCain camp terminology for the previously-labeled "soccer mom" demographic, and is jumping on-board with the new McCain camp "Wal*Mart mom" term. (To King's minimal credit, he at least qualified his use of "Wal*Mart moms" as McCain campaign terminology, and didn't, within this particular segment, commit it into the official CNN lexicon.)

Given much of the political battle is about creating bonds between voters and a candidate, it comes across to me as the height of unprofessionalism for CNN to adopt McCain campaign terminology in their coverage, effectively doing mass media canvassing for McCain.

Good to see our media standing strong and holding fast to their objectivity.

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[zbdent]

1. So, will CNN adopt the voter demographic designation

"arrogant moronic pondsuckers" which also vote Repugniconvict?

[GETPLANING]

2. Don't they mean, "Bullhockey-mom"?

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[PatrynXX]

4. as in

as long as your a Hockey Mom of my town... hey your a hockey mom. However if your a hockey mom somewhere else in Alaska, screw you. Not wasting the money on your leaky roof.

[d_b]

3. of course

there is always some bullshit demographic that came out big when the election is stolen. nascar dads, hockey moms, soccer moms, security moms, MASH watching uncles, etc.

[Bread and Circus]

5. Do those retards realize that a lot of rural folks don't even have a hockey rink within an hour's...

drive?

There's a reason why they coined the phrase soccer mom's, and that's because it's really prevalent throughout the country. Hockey isn't.

[CitizenPatriot]

6. my letter to them

for the love of God, please prove that you are still worth watching. I have slowly started tuning in again after seeing a sliver of journalistic reporting beginning again...and then I hear your anchors spewing McCain's campaign rhetoric again as if it is mainstream culture. Are we really going to do this again? Please try to maintain the standards you and msnbc were just barely cresting weeks ago. You got a lot of new viewers in the past few weeks, when those of us who aren't extreme conservatives finally saw some objectivity instead of spin in your coverage.

I hope you don't fall prey to the attacks of the McCain campaign. I live in the deep south, and everyone around me is a Republican. They have all been saying if Palin can't take an interview and answer some questions, she shouldn't be running. No one thinks the press has been sexist at all - that is a transparent attempt to blackmail the media. I just hope that this election, it doesn't work.

Please stop playing ball with political candidates and doing whatever it takes to appease them after they've blown off the Larry King show.

Thank you,

(cc'd to media matters)

[defendandprotect]

7. Red Neck Mom . . . that's what she's dubbed herself--!!

[Norrin Radd]

8. "Assholes" is a more accurate epithet.