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Daily Show on press idolatry: Call him 'Barack Oboner'
David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster
Published: Tuesday July 22, 2008


US News & World Report calls it a 'whirlwind of positive coverage'. Rasmussen ponders whether 'reporters are trying to help Obama win'. Even the New York Times is asking 'Has the press voted for Obama?'

The news media have devoted significantly more attention to the Democrat since Hillary Rodham Clinton suspended her campaign, according to research conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

And despite the intensive media saturation Obama's campaign is enjoying, NBC foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell calls out "what some would call fake interviews" due to the campaign's strangely heavy restriction on press access.

"You're seeing selected pictures taken by the military, questions by the military and what some would call fake interviews because they're not interviews from a journalist," said Mitchell during an interview on Hardball. "Politically, it's smart as can be, but we have not seen a presidential candidate do this, in my recollection, ever before."

Conversely, when McCain traveled to New Hampshire on Monday, his arrival was hardly noticed.

"In Manchester last night, there was just one reporter and one photographer waiting for McCain as his plane -- a white, blue and gold Boeing 737-400 emblazoned with his campaign slogan, 'Reform, Prosperity, Peace' -- touched down on the Wiggins Airways tarmac," wrote The Union Leader.

On Monday night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart cut right to the chase, mocking the extensive coverage of Barack Obama's trip to Iraq. Daily Show reporters Rob Riggle, Larry Wilmore, John Oliver, Wyatt Cenac and Ed Henry all joke that they have 'a boner' for Obama and follow the campaign to the Middle East, leaving just a tape recorder tethered to a crude stand to cover McCain.

Referencing press coverage of Obama playing basketball with the troops, Wyatt Cenac asked, "Did you see when the President hit that three-pointer?"

"Nothing but the net, right?" John Oliver chimed in.

"He's not ... He's not the President," rebutted Stewart. "Barack Obama is not the President."

"Uh, are you sure?" questioned Cenac.

Within moments, the whole cast of reporters were declaring a phallic affection of the presumptive Democratic nominee, at Rob Riggle's declaration that, "Barack Obama ... Kinda gives me a boner."

Toward the end of the clip, The Office's Ed Helms makes a surprise reappearance, stating to cheers from fellow reporters, "Seriously, they should call this guy 'Barack Oboner.'"

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Chief Judge at the War-Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg

That is funny.

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I read this and thought he had an erection in public.

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"I find no black men appealing, they look like giant monkeys." -LilithIshtar (some member of another forum I used to be part of)

Thanx that was fun

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Toward the end of the clip, The Office's Ed Helms makes a surprise reappearance, stating to cheers from fellow reporters, "Seriously, they should call this guy 'Barack Oboner.'"

Extremely poor judgement. Besides, I thought the Boner was the Republican majority leader in the Senate. Maybe the Democrats and Republicans need to compare the sizes of their boners? (Sorry, but I can't resist evil thoughts).

Yeah - I may be voting for Obama, but Stewart is a hoot no matter who he riffs on.

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It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.
-- Robert Houghwout Jackson,
Chief Judge at the War-Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg

What I find interesting is when I approach young people and ask them their most reliable source of news, they state that it is the Daily Show. What does that say about the condition and credibility of our news services?

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The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! - Frederick Bastiat

allot

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I think it can also be asked

What does that say about the condition of our young people?

While the mass media is full of it, I just can't buy that a person that had some
lets just call it experience wouldn't be able to find a better news source then a show based on entertaining satire.

I like the Daily show but I don't think its news unless of course you can't pay more then 15 seconds attention to any one thing.

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Walt Whitman
"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences."

Well, I'll vote with the young people here. Most news shows are spin, discussion, prognostication, and angst - with anything bloody and dramatic or involving celebrities as prime news. I prefer the obvious humor to the unintended - and there is less speculation.

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It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.
-- Robert Houghwout Jackson,
Chief Judge at the War-Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg