MSM, Obama and the lie of omission
May 21, 2008 6:26 am American PoliticsWe were told by the MSM that Obama drew a record crowd of 75,000 for political rally in Oregon on May 18th. Even Obama was impressed and the great orator began his speech with “Wow! Wow! Wow”. Even your jaded correspondent was suitably impressed. Alas the truth is something else.
The referenced post states that “Unmentioned in national reporting was the fact that Obama was preceded by a rare, 45-minute free concert by actual rock stars The Decemberists. The Portland-based band has drawn rave reviews from Rolling Stone magazine, which gave their 2005 album Picaresque four and a half stars (out of five), and another four and a half stars for 2007’s The Crane Wife.” The report goes on to state that “They even closed out with a sing-along entitled “Sons & Daughters”, which had the masses joining the band to declare “Here all the bombs fade away…”
Well that certainly explains the size of the crowd.
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Arran Gold
Lore_Weaver :
Date: May 21, 2008 @ 8:10 AM
Meh,
It’s not like the people left. I mean, Obama’s speech should’ve been interrupted by masses of uninterested people leaving then, right?
For all we know, they planned it like this on purpose.
Arran Gold :
Date: May 21, 2008 @ 4:33 PM
Lore,
You raise a good point but that presupposes that we have a crowd estimate for the concert which we do not. But we do know that the band Obama’s campaign chose to precede him “often opens its own shows with the National Anthem of the now-defunct Soviet Union”. http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200805/COM20080521e.html
Curious choice indeed but as we know, they are with the other side.