Posted by
Mike Bates on Sunday, July 20, 2008 1:33:05 AM
Last night's CBS 2
Chicago's newscast led off with a segment on Barack Obama's visit to
Kuwait. The station's Web site includes a written report headlined "Soldiers Overjoyed To Meet Obama In Kuwait."
The accompanying video is titled "Troops In Kuwait Thrilled By Obama
Visit." Obama was "applauded thunderously" by "excited soldiers,"
according to Carlson. How the media determined the troops were both
overjoyed and thrilled isn't detailed. President Bush and others have
been greeted by our troops with similar enthusiasm, but I doubt that
overjoyed or thrilled were used in describing it.
This typifies the caliber of detached, objective reporting we've
come to expect when Mr. Wonderful is the subject at hand. The
mainstream media will be tossing bouquets - and probably their undies -
in the direction of Obama.
Carlson did mention on her video report that Obama's campaign hopes
his overseas trip will "overcome criticism that he lacks experience in
world affairs." He needs major help in that area. As noted on CNN.com earlier this year:
At a campaign stop in November, Obama told an Iowa
audience that "probably the strongest experience I have in foreign
relations is the fact that I spent four years living overseas when I
was a child in Southeast Asia."
Can you imagine? Four whole years as a grammar school student
provide him, by his own admission, with his strongest experience in
foreign relations. I'm certain his supporters are overjoyed and
thrilled by it all. As well as the mainstream media, of course.
It's going to be a very long week.