or A Case of Serious Logic Problems.
For the past couple of weeks, watchers of CNN have been bombarded with serious doses of misguided commentaries by Campbell Brown and her self-styled “No Bias, No Bull” segments which are probably the most biased and bull-filled on TV, second only to Fox News. Now, her rants are about Obama’s gentle reminder to the media to abandon their obsession with the politics of division and Senator Hillary Clinton and focus more on what really matters to the American people. In this commentary, Ms. Brown apparently took umbrage at the President-Elect’s chiding of the press for trying to create unnecessary drama by dredging up the old campaign-era “hostilities” that existed between candidates Obama and Clinton.
She conveniently played a video snippet of Obama saying: “I mean – I think this is fun for the press to try to stir up whatever quotes were generated during the course of the campaign. No, I understand. And you’re having fun.”, and deviously left out the salient point Obama was trying to make that Campbell Brown and others like her believes it is fair to bring up the disagreements between the two during the campaign and even goes further to insinuate that Obama is not keeping his campaign promises because he “did not mean” them. The argument is that since Obama had a lot of questions about Hillary Clinton’s qualifications on foreign affairs, he should not have offered her the job of Secreatary of State. If that logic is correct, then curiously absent from this “outrage” of Ms. Brown’s is the argument that by extension, since Obama had so much to say about how bad the Bush administration was, he should not even be speaking to President Bush right now, or offer anyone who had anything to do with the Bush administration a job. If that sounds ridiculous to you, it is. Is Campbell Brown now trying to tell the American people that a U.S. who was very close to winning the nomination of her party and could well have been in Obama’s position today is not qualified to be the Secreatry of State? I know she is married to a Republican, but at least she should have the decency of separating her partisanship from her job.
Campbell Brown's Righteous Indignation….
or A Case of Serious Logic Problems.
For the past couple of weeks, watchers of CNN have been bombarded with serious doses of misguided commentaries by Campbell Brown and her self-styled “No Bias, No Bull” segments which are probably the most biased and bull-filled on TV, second only to Fox News. Now, her rants are about Obama’s gentle reminder to the media to abandon their obsession with the politics of division and Senator Hillary Clinton and focus more on what really matters to the American people. In this commentary, Ms. Brown apparently took umbrage at the President-Elect’s chiding of the press for trying to create unnecessary drama by dredging up the old campaign-era “hostilities” that existed between candidates Obama and Clinton.
She conveniently played a video snippet of Obama saying: “I mean – I think this is fun for the press to try to stir up whatever quotes were generated during the course of the campaign. No, I understand. And you’re having fun.”, and deviously left out the salient point Obama was trying to make that Campbell Brown and others like her believes it is fair to bring up the disagreements between the two during the campaign and even goes further to insinuate that Obama is not keeping his campaign promises because he “did not mean” them. The argument is that since Obama had a lot of questions about Hillary Clinton’s qualifications on foreign affairs, he should not have offered her the job of Secreatary of State. If that logic is correct, then curiously absent from this “outrage” of Ms. Brown’s is the argument that by extension, since Obama had so much to say about how bad the Bush administration was, he should not even be speaking to President Bush right now, or offer anyone who had anything to do with the Bush administration a job. If that sounds ridiculous to you, it is. Is Campbell Brown now trying to tell the American people that a U.S. who was very close to winning the nomination of her party and could well have been in Obama’s position today is not qualified to be the Secreatry of State? I know she is married to a Republican, but at least she should have the decency of separating her partisanship from her job.