And the Name-Bashing of Barack Obama Begins …Paul Hogarthbyline‚ Jan. 04‚ 2007When the Mark Foley pedophile scandal hit Republicans last October, Fox News came up with a deeply cynical method of damage control – it labeled Foley as a Democrat on its various news shows. On January 1st, CNN made a similar mistake of a dubious nature -- one that foreshadows the demonization of the Democratic Party’s rising star and a likely presidential candidate in 2008. In a segment describing the ongoing failure to capture Osama bin Laden, CNN featured a graphic of the al-Qaeda terrorist leader along with the headline – “Where’s Obama?” Liberal blogs like Daily Kos immediately pounced on this glaring typo, and CNN’s Wolf Blitzer publicly apologized the next day. But the damage was done. Then on January 3rd, Yahoo News featured a headline "Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida," along with a headshot of Barack Obama. If the right wing has its way, we’ll be seeing more “mistakes” like this. |