Yesterday the Florida TV interviewer annoying Biden with tough questions and the campaign’s cancelling the wife’s interview and cutting off further appearances at this (Orlando) station. Today more:
Obama’s Florida spokeswoman, Adrianne Marsh, also released a statement claiming the interview was “combative and woefully uninformed about simple facts.”
“There’s nothing wrong with tough questions, but reporters have the very important job of sharing the truth with the public – not misleading the American people with false information,” Marsh said.
Ah yes, and we the party will decide what’s true. TV interviewers, butt out.
“Senator Biden handled the interview well. However, the anchor was completely unprofessional.”
Kelly McBride, a faculty member at the Poynter Institute – a resource group for journalists in Florida, which owns The Saint Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly, told CNSNews.com that the interview was “a classic case of partisan journalism.”
Au contraire, it was classic hard-hitting, as I said, the way all candidates should be interviewed.
“I think it’s absolutely horrible journalism,” McBride said. “It’s an example of a loaded question where she is presuming the answer. She has no intention of exploring for the audience the positions of the candidate. It’s clearly partisan.”
Nope, and what prevented Biden from saying that, Ms. McBride? Her Poynter Institute is a mainstream media lapdog anyhow, with a trade publication whose ambit is entirely determined by the trade’s dominant conventional wisdom, incapable of radical critique. Do you expect The Hatter’s Journal to question hats?
The interviewer, Barbara West, had McCain at her disposal a few days later.
West’s interview with Biden on Thursday prompted McCain, who interviewed with her on Monday, to interrupt at the beginning of the segment and warn her not to be too tough on him.
“Now don’t say anything mean or I am going to be angry,” said McCain.
West opened the interview by asking McCain if he thought his running mate, Sarah Palin, was distancing herself from him because she thought their ticket would lose the election in November.
“Is that indicative that she believes her campaign is not going to win and she is positioning herself for the future?” asked West.
See what I mean? West’s clients are the public, not the candidate.
Blithe Spirit 
According to Rush Limbaugh, this is the second station being intimadated because of tough questions — imagine what would happen to news coverage by honest reporters under an Obama administration.
Is he scary, or what?
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True what Margaret related about Rush Limbaugh, but even more frightening is that the anchor’s husband’s life is being looked into, as was that of Joe the Plumber.
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Great post. I love how you juxtaposed the McCain question with the Biden nonsense, just to prove that not everybody has to run screaming from a hard question. Liberal illuminati just know that when holes are poked in their thin exterior, the light will be exposed.
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