The press and Obama

John McCain's campaign website is now hosting videos where they basically complain that Obama is getting a free pass from the press. Heh, there's a huge problem with that ruse... The main one being that it is utterly hypocritical.

McCain is considered a foreign affairs expert, and every time that his name is mentioned, the news people act like that's obvious. I don't even see how it's a fact. Why is he an expert? Because he was a prisoner of war several decades ago? That's the only reason I can come up with. In the last year ALONE, he's made so many gaffes that often get ignored because he's the "expert." He doesn't know the difference between Sunni and Shia (you know, the main sects in Iraq), he got Nazi Germany confused with Communist Russia, he talked about Czechoslovakia which hasn't been a country since I was in elementary school (on two separate occasions), and he continues to say entirely undiplomatic things about Iran (a country in which we are negotiating with). I mean, if that's the expert, I'd hate to see the amateur.

The second problem with the ad is that, while Obama has gotten more coverage, not all of it has been as glowing as McCain likes to say it was. Jeremiah Wright was the LEAD story for several weeks. Hell, when a Catholic priest started talking at a service Obama wasn't even at, it was a headline for a week. I'm sure with the amount of gaffes that McCain's made, he'd hate to be in the spotlight like Obama's been in...