Bad Reasons
Here's Tim Cavanaugh with a rare honest endorsement.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:34 AM
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14 Comments:
At the presidential level, this is all wasted effort, the end result of which is always an endorsement any attentive reader could have predicted
Speaking of attentive, somehow he missed the Obama endorsements from the Chicago Tribune and numerous other right-leaning papers who haven't endorsed a democrat in at least 50 years.
I remember the Sun Times being the right leaning paper in Chicago and teh Tribune beingthe left leaning paper in Chicago. Did that change?
Yeah, I was surprised by all the surprise about the Tribune naturally picking a guy who not only agrees with their politics, but is a favorite son.
The main point is this endorsement talks about how no one cares about endorsements, which is correct. In this election, it's a class thing anyway, with the media elite often going across the aisle to project their class fears. Pretty shameful, when you think about it.
The media elite is no match from the anonymous comment blogposter elite
How many presidential candidates from Illinois has the Chicago Tribune not endorsed in the last 50 years?
This is the first democrat to be endorsed for president by the Tribune in its 161 year history. No idea if any previous non-endorsees were from Chicago.
I can't find a list of Tribune endorsements every year, but I notice the Sun Times also endorsed Obama. The LA Times, which had a policy of not endorsing candidates, has endorsed Obama this year.
New Slogan:
Obama - Candidate for a dying industry.
According to the NYTimes,
"Mr. Obama, of course, represents the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago, the Tribune’s home turf. But Gov. Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic nominee in 1952 and 1956, was also from Illinois and failed to secure the paper’s support when he ran against Dwight D. Eisenhower, as did Senator Steven Douglas, a Democratic nominee in 1860.
How times have changed. Newspapers used to represent their readers, now they represent the media elite.
How times have remained the same: it's easier to blame a bogeyman than accept that someone has come to a different conclusion than you by rational analysis.
A cool, dispassionate look at the evidence shows Obama endorsements come from a feeling, and a sense of place in the world, not in rational analysis.
Because nobody could rationally come to the conclusion that Gov. Palin is unqualified to be president? 'Cause that seems to be one of the big bases for the newspaper endorsements, Colin Powell's endorsement, a half dozen conservative columnists' endorsements, etc. etc. etc.
Because nobody could rationally come to the conclusion that Gov. Palin is unqualified to be president?
First, she's not running for President, Obama is, so it's nutty to guarantee the one not ready gets in. Second, most of Colin Powell's reasons were obviously a sham to give him cover. Third, she's mostly a make-weight argument. Fourth, for those who think she does make the difference, it's usually a case of the media elite snearing already referred to in early comments.
Anon, just wondering if you realize that, to a person who believes she's unprepared, your response reads like the perfect parody of someone who won't accept that fact, don't you? Fifty nine percent of Americans believe that -- can you imagine what the media could accomplish if they turned that awesome brain warping power to support the forces of good?
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