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February 26, 2008 05:38 PM UTC

Obama gives media Bush treatment

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by: Another skeptic

Unlike John McCain, who still sits with the media on his campaign bus and jokes with them on airplanes, Barack Obama has become as remote as Bush and Kerry.

He’ll not only be as intellectually dishonest as Clinton, but as secretive and unavailable as George Bush.

Lovely.

From Politico.com:

Reporters covering Obama can no longer move freely among the thousands of zealous supporters at his events – unless the reporter receives a staff escort through the security gates. (In one city, that meant using a port-o-potty outside because the route to the indoor plumbing ran through the crowd.)

And the traveling press corps has been shut out of monitoring Obama’s satellite interviews with local media outlets, which is a normal practice on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign.

On top of that, the traveling media has been tussling with Obama aides to keep conversations with the candidate on his campaign plane on the record.

In any other campaign year, the media strategy might not raise eyebrows since it is standard practice for a front-runner. But this is a year when the likely Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, has set a new standard for press accessibility, creating a potentially stark general election contrast between a reticent Democrat and the most accessible GOP nominee in decades.

McCain sits with reporters on his campaign bus. He jokes with them on the plane. He talks until they have no more questions to ask. The open-book policy creates a rapport that works to his advantage: A reporter who knows a candidate is more likely to give the benefit of the doubt.

One thought on “Obama gives media Bush treatment”

Aristotle says:

February 27, 2008 at 5:22 am

There’s nothing to add to my subject line since this is par for the course with an AS diary. But I will remind him of the time that he used a global warming story to support his claim of media bias, which was like a defense attorney bringing his client’s smoking gun to his murder trial. Good times…

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