Who will the media set their sights on next?

liberal N proud

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Wed Jan-30-08 11:49 AM
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Who will the media set their sights on next?

Edited on Wed Jan-30-08 11:51 AM by liberal N proud

Who will they remove from the process next?
They have narrowed it down to the two candidates on the Democratic side so now who will they ignore?

Or, is just so they can keep Clinton and Obama at each other without the distraction of someone who keeps brining up ISSUES?

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bdamomma

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Wed Jan-30-08 11:50 AM
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1. Obama they will keep on playing the racecard.

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Tarc

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Wed Jan-30-08 11:51 AM
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2. The media hasn't removed anyone; the voters have

For fuck's sake, drop the :tinfoilhat: bullshit already.

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K Gardner

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Wed Jan-30-08 11:53 AM
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3. They have already started the process of marginalizing Obama. I noticed it this

morning and thought it was very strange. MSNBC all but wrote his obituary. Tweety did a whole crazy "Mozart" speech on how the democratic estalishment kills dreams, kills the dreamers. We can expect to hear nothing but Hillary from here on out and Obama will be the next invisible candidate. I am done with it.

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Buzz Clik

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Wed Jan-30-08 11:53 AM
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4. Wait. The previous infinite loop from the Edwards camp was that he was being ignored by the media.

Edited on Wed Jan-30-08 11:53 AM by Buzz Clik

Now you're saying the media killed his candidacy.

Sorry, but those two positions are mutually exclusive.

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liberal N proud

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Wed Jan-30-08 11:56 AM
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5. Ignoring = no coverage = no voters = dead candidacy

Simple as that.

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Buzz Clik

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Wed Jan-30-08 12:21 PM
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7. I disagree with all of it. Blaming the media on a dead campaign is ducking the real problem.

For whatever reason, Edwards simply didn't connect with the voters. I like Edwards and I like his positions on just about everything. However, he is not my number one choice (he's my number two, actually). I am fully acquainted with Edwards, and I didn't need the media to influence me one way or another. However, I certainly could have turned to them for their opinions.

I will agree that in the past 10 days, Edwards has lost some of the attention he was getting. But, he also had not won a state or even come close.

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liberal N proud

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Wed Jan-30-08 12:30 PM
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8. He didn't have the opportunity to connect

Hillary and Barack are celebrities, the media played to them because they are the first black and the first woman to have a viable chance at the nomination. Edwards was a third wheel as far as the media was concerned.

You can't connect with the voters if you can't get your message out. The media made it clear early they would not cover him just as they did Kucinich.
If he had remained in the race, my guess is that the media wouldn't have allowed him to participate in a debate.

But move blindly along and accept your fate allowing the corporate media to spoon feed you your choices in life.

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Tarc

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Wed Jan-30-08 02:01 PM
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9. what a crock of shit

This is the same nonsense that pored out of the Kucinich campaign after it snuffed itself out. Edwards has had more than enough opportunity to give his message to the America public.

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liberal N proud

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Wed Jan-30-08 02:47 PM
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10. It is the shits that the media gets away with it

And that people patronize their actions.

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Neshanic

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Wed Jan-30-08 12:00 PM
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6. Nobody really. The table is set. Now they wait for cues. Handshake stuff.

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