This is what's wrong with our media

By Libby

Pushing what appears to be an emerging meme, that McCain is just an unwilling victim of his strategists, Chuck Todd says the McCain campaign's current strategy is great, and the only problem is that John isn't comfortable being a smear artist. Here's a couple of his 'pearls of wisdom.'

If you were to diagnose the best way to go at Obama in the midst of this disastrous Republican environment, you might come up with the tactics the McCain brain trust unveiled this week: Paint Obama as a bit full of himself, over-confident, elitest and out of touch. ...

Making light of Obama's pop icon status and trying to use it as a way to undermine his serious presidential credentials is a good one.

Good for whom Chuckles, besides the overpaid media elites like yourself who are too damn lazy to delve into issues and prefer to natter on endlessly about the dynamics of the horserace instead of fact checking on erroneous campaign claims and putting together compare and contrast pieces on policy. Instead we get 'deep analysis' like this.

Then there’s the common touch issue – something Obama has struggled with. While he’s terrific in a big crowd and seems to feed off the emotion of a large rally, he’s not as nimble or as approachable when he’s in a smaller format. I’ve always been surprised by his awkwardness in this campaign – when I see his inability to touch a shoulder or put an arm around someone when they’ve asked a personal or emotionally-charged question. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were masters of the common touch.

Geez Chuck, you think that has anything to do with the fact that he's black and you and your cohorts are doing everything you can to promote the "scary Negro" meme for your buddy McCain? It's no stretch to imagine what would happen if Barack was photographed with his arms around a couple of white women. Hell, McCain is already trying to invent such poses to plant the false fear that Obama wants to sex up yer wimmen.

Every day I'm more convinced that the best path to reclaiming our government is to break up the media conglomerates and get rid of the gossip mongers that are currently posing as news analysts.