Here’s the quote at the heart of this “controversy”
“You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them,” Obama said. “And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
The comments made by Sen. Barack Obama in San Francisco were made a week ago, so why is it they’ve only caused a stir now?
First, national gallup polls have shown Obama significantly ahead of Sen. Hillary Clinton for a while now.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/106432/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Leads-Clinton-49-42.aspx
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/24082568#24082568
It is in the best interests of the media to keep this story going as long as they can because it boost their views. Controversies, however negligible, gain viewership, and the media therefore exploits whatever it can whenever it can (to the degree that they can get away with it) because it’s good for their business. As for Clinton and McCain, they both trail Obama and are on the look out for anything they can find to bring him down in the polls. The truth is, there’s so little dirt on Obama, that they have to magnify statements like this, or the fact that Obama drank orange juice over coffee, to try to show why he should not be our next President.
Second reason this is getting covered is that Obama is doing better in Pennsylvania than he was expected to. He is closing the gap, and a few pundits have even predicted an upset in Pennsylvania. If Obama wins, the race is virtually over.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/pa/pennsylvania_democratic_primary-240.html
And the last reason this story is getting covered is because former vice president Al Gore and former president Jimmy Carter have been in talks about coming out together to ask Hillary to drop out of the race for the good of the Democratic Party. This is huge news, but would help to end the battle the media is profiting off of covering, it would help viewers focus more on John McCain (who has largely been getting a free pass), and it would help take Hillary out of the race.
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/It39s-Obama-stupid-Carter-and.3976738.jp
And it certainly keeps the focus off the deadly deeds of Zbignew Brezinkski, does it not? And the Wall street whores of finance. And the truth about global warming, too, eh?
We are all just prisoners here of our owo device, as the song goes.
Don’t look too closely behind the curtain .. or you might see things you don’t wish to see.