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Posted
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 4:18 PM
| By
Christopher Beam
Pushing back against Hillary Clinton’s “Bitter” Tour 2008,
Barack Obama has a new
spot that uses her speech in Pittsburgh yesterday—the one with the
“boos”—as its hook.
First thing you see is Clinton
telling the audience that people were “disappointed by recent remarks that
[Obama] made.” Cue the digitally enhanced booing. “There’s a reason people are
rejecting Hillary Clinton’s attacks,” a friendly narrator tells you, and so on.
The problem is, as we pointed out yesterday, reports of
booing seem
exaggerated. There were audible murmurs, but she most certainly didn’t get
the Bill Buckner treatment the Obama spot suggests.
At least one group isn’t happy about the coverage, and that’s
the Alliance for
American Manufacturing, which hosted the event. They sent out this press
release, with a quote from AAM executive director Scott Paul:
“It is unfortunate that media coverage of AAM’s forum has
focused on determining whether Sen. Hillary Clinton received ‘boos’ for remarks
she made regarding her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama. AAM hopes that in the
future the press will provide voters with intelligent and meaningful coverage
of the issues and stop reporting to the lowest common denominator.”
Naturally, the group wants to maintain good relations with both candidates. That means making sure their events aren't portrayed as partisan circuses. But come on, "intelligent and meaningful coverage of the issues"? Has this guy watched cable news recently?
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