Posted by
Marc T. on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:12:55 PM
A video tech was reprimended for putting up picture of Osama Bin Laden when Chris Mathews on Hardball were refering to speeches of Barack Obama. This is wierd coming from probably the most liberal news network MSNBC. This is the second punishment handed down from this liberal network to an employee over a gaff of judgement when it pertains to a Democratic candidate. David Schuster (a major lefty reporter) got in trouble a couple of weeks ago over a statement refering to Hillary pimping out Chelesa for campainging for her. I wonder if MSNBC would do the same if these mistakes were critical about a Republican candidate. I bet someone will spin this into the good old standbye; that this gaff is part of a "right wing conspiracy" and the republicans have moles planted at the network, trying to sabotage Democrats. You might think that someone actually spinning this is far fetched, I might have thought so 10 years ago, but I learned that there are a lot of conspiracy minded people out there with a voice and a pulpit.
This gaff also brings up another problem for Obama, albeit a very small one, there are voters out there (yes idoits do vote, which scares me) who see the name Barack Hussein Obama and either see Osama Bin Laden or Saddam Hussein or at least people from the same part of the world. They will actually associatge Obama with Terrorists. Now these people are either very stupid or very closed minded.