More on the ABC debate - misplaced priorities

So Clinton finally wins PA - seems the outrage over the ABC debates was so last week. Remember the discussion of boycotts and so on. Well -Via dkos check out his article in the New Yorker and ask yourself what reallly is important (my bold)

In the seven weeks since the previous Clinton-Obama debate, the death toll of American troops in Iraq had reached four thousand; the President had admitted that his “national-security team,” including the Vice-President, had met regularly in the White House to approve the torture of prisoners; house repossessions topped fifty thousand per month and unemployment topped five per cent; and the poll-measured proportion of Americans who believe that “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track” hit eighty-one per cent, a record. Yet for most of the next hour Gibson and Stephanopoulos limited their questioning to the following topics: Obama’s April 6th remark about “bitter” small-towners; whether each candidate thinks the other can win; the Obama family’s ex-pastor, Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.; Clinton’s tale of sniper fire in Bosnia; Obama’s failure to wear a flag lapel pin; and Obama’s acquaintance with a college professor in his Chicago neighborhood who, while Obama was in grade school, was a member of the Weather Underground.

Got that? We want our media to be better than that.

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2 Responses to “More on the ABC debate - misplaced priorities”

  1. ladkiddo says:

    AMEN

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  2. But they were all wearing flag lapel pins when they were approving torture. That’s the important thing.

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