Obama campaign cuts off WFTV after interview with Joe Biden posted by halboedeker on Oct 24, 2008 11:12:15 AM Discuss This: Comments (60) | TrackBack (0) | Linking Blogs | Add to del.icio.us | Digg it WFTV-Channel 9's Barbara West conducted a satellite interview with Sen. Joe Biden on Thursday. A friend says it's some of the best entertainment he's seen recently. What do you think? West wondered about Sen. Barack Obama's comment, to Joe the Plumber, about spreading the wealth. She quoted Karl Marx and asked how Obama isn't being a Marxist with the "spreading the wealth" comment. "Are you joking?" said Biden, who is Obama's running mate. "No," West said. West later asked Biden about his comments that Obama could be tested early on as president. She wondered if the Delaware senator was saying America's days as the world's leading power were over. "I don't know who's writing your questions," Biden shot back. Biden so disliked West's line of questioning that the Obama campaign canceled a WFTV interview with Jill Biden, the candidate's wife. "This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election," wrote Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign. McGinnis said the Biden cancellation was "a result of her husband's experience yesterday during the satellite interview with Barbara West." Here's a link to the interview: http://www.wftv.com/video/17790025/index.html. WFTV news director Bob Jordan said, "When you get a shot to ask these candidates, you want to make the most of it. They usually give you five minutes." Jordan said political campaigns in general pick and choose the stations they like. And stations often pose softball questions during the satellite interviews. "Mr. Biden didn't like the questions," Jordan said. "We choose not to ask softball questions." Jordan added, "I'm crying foul on this one." http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2008/10/obama-campaign.html
It's a disgrace that the majority of the media aren't even asking Obama and Biden real questions, they just take their word that they're going to be nice and bring change. No questions about Ayers or Wright, or even questions about their socialist programs.
Exactly. The media keeps delving into how much Sarah Palin's dresses cost, when they really should be investigating the radical past of Obama. This guy is so far out of the mainstream that it's scary, and yet the media is helping him deceive the voters.
Define radical. That'd be a start. Do you believe he's a terrorist? Do you believe he will appoint William Ayers to his cabinet or will as an adviser? Do you believe he's Muslim? If so, is that a problem? Why? Are all liberals un-American? Are all conservatives un-American? What is un-American? Personally I don't believe any of the above, but I also could care less how much Sarah Palin's clothes cost. The real problem the media has is it's bias towards one candidate. FOX is for McCain and does the best job it can of painting Obama out to be well someone I'm guessing the paranoid believe he is. Stations for Obama talk about this stupid clothes thing and talking about her family like they did earlier. The best thing media can do is lose their bias, but that of course will never happen.
And here's a link to the same reporter really taking it to John McCain with equally tough questions: http://www.wftv.com/video/17712615/index.html Oh noes, the media takes it so easy on Obama!
It's a disgrace that you buy into the socialist bullshit spewed out by the McCain campaign when McCain himself VOTED FOR THE NATIONALISATION OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTES and PROMISES TO NATIONALIZE FAILING MORTGAGES! Add into account that this goes so against the politics he has run before, and you can start really questioning his judgement and his political beliefs. Your response? Secondly, "redistribution of wealth" is what taxes is all about - making something out of that money so that everyone can enjoy it. Some things a free market just can't supply on it's own.
a very simple response is that regardless of if mccain's policies are also "socialist" in ways, obama's are moreso. so obama should be considered closer to "socialist" than mccain and if that's something you are against, you'd lean towards mccain on those issues even if you disagree with both of them.
This is a bunch of bull. Neither side has been asked tough questions, and when Palin is asked relatively simple questions she avoids them anyway. So why are you guys complaining?
Fox isn't biased. The problem is that no other media outlet with any sort of credibility is running anything about Obama's past other than the cookie cutter garbage put out by his campaign. Just because Fox is being fair and asking tough questions of Obama doesn't mean they are biased, is it McCains fault that his closet isn't nearly as dirty as Obama's?
Keep in mind that most of the criticism that is aimed at Fox is either coming from other networks jealous of their ratings success, or liberals who balk at the idea of having a network that doesn't preach the same message as the others. It isn't coming from reform minded people that want fair and open coverage of all candidates regarded of political affiliation.
fox definitely is biased. no reason to pretend otherwise. just like there is no reason to pretend the other stations aren't biased as well.
What bothers me most about these things is the obvious fact that the women wouldn't know what to say if they answered the questions the way the questions are biased. It looks like it would look if I asked some scientist a question that another scientist wrote for me that I did not comprehend in any shape or form. Hey blondie, you sure stuck it to old Biden there didn't ya? Sure did, who was he again?
I also think that Obama should go on there and rip that bitch up. I detest Obama but that dude is about 4.7 trillion times smarter than that women could ever hope to be. Well, 4.69 trillion to be exact.
LOL Link Link Here's the link to the entire thread. http://sportstwo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111254
Fox is bias. Just because your a republican doesn't mean you can't admit it. Same with dems and MSNBC. I mean I get defending a candidate, but a news organization?
