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Stanley Kurtz on Obama’s “lost years”

August 3, 2008 - 8:56 am - by Roger Kimball
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2008-08-03 11:58:42

“What they portray is a Barack Obama sharply at variance with the image of the post-racial, post-ideological, bipartisan, culture-war-shunning politician familiar from current media coverage and purveyed by the Obama campaign.”

There’s the key passage right there. The media portrays Obama the way they want to see him, not as he actually is.

Why aren’t there more calls for him to face McMcain one-on-one? Why isn’t there more media reporting on Obama’s incredible misstatements on a wide range of topics? (Many of these are catalogued on Power Line.) Why don’t interviewers challenge him on his current statements that are completely at odds with his long-held positions in the past?

Obama is nothing but megalomania – nothing.

Scott