The right wing operatives who launched howobamagotelected.com--a site dedicated to exposing how the liberal media's bias scored a victory for President-elect Barack Obama--have indeed exposed an undeniable truth about our nation: Some folks are not so sharp.
According to the site, a film crew making a documentary called "Media Malpractice... How Obama Got Elected" sat down with 12 Obama supporters on Election Day and asked them a series of questions concerning the months and months of media coverage leading up to that historic Tuesday. The site's homepage claims, "these voters were chosen for their apparent intelligence/verbal abilities and willingness to express their opinions to a large audience."
Apparently, they were also chosen from the University of Phoenix Online Course in Method Acting.
Ultimately, though, left-wingers should not scoff too much while watching this video. In fact, it may seem all too familiar, waking up after Election Day with the realization that scores of misinformed voters have elected into the nation's highest office a man with "limited experience," "radical alliances," and "extreme positions."
Or, how about it happening twice in the last eight years?
B. Brandon Barker's writing has appeared in Global City Review, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (St. Martin's Press), Verbicide, The Feed and online at McSweeney's. He's also the author of the novel Operation Emu. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, he was born in England, raised in Arkansas and now lives in Virginia.
It wasn't just the media, it was mostly the color of his skin.
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BILL
10:27AM Nov 18th 2008
ODD HOW THE MEDIA WILL JUMP ON SOMETHING IF THEY THINK IT MAY BE A STORY OF A COVER UP, BUT WHEN THEY ARE INVOLVED THEY PULL THE SHEET OVER THERE HEAD TO HIDE....WE NEED A HONEST MEDIA, NOT RUN BY A GROUP WHO WANT TO RUN THE NATION FROM A SMOKE FILLED ROOM...
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John
10:27AM Nov 18th 2008
Patricia, What?!?! How old are you? 14?
John in Philadelphia
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the raven.........
10:30AM Nov 18th 2008
IF YOU ARE SMART.............YOU WILL TURN OFF THE NATIONAL NEWS AND ONLY READ THE LOCAL NEWSPAPERS FOR LOCAL NEWS ONLY. ONLY FOX NEWS IS FAIR AND BALANCED
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John Douglas
12:00PM Nov 18th 2008
The mainstream media (and their puppet local stations) are the enemy of this country. They are not objective media, they are propaganda machines.
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Brenda
10:32AM Nov 18th 2008
LOOK, LET'S MOVE FORWARD. OBAMA WAS JUST AS QUALIFIED AS ANY OF THE OTHER CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. HE IS NOW THE PRESIDENT ELECT AND NOTHING CAN CHANGE THAT, EVEN ALL THE NEGATIVE TALK AND THE VERBAL ABUSE WON'T CHANGE A THING. LET'S JUST GET OVER IT AND STOP BEING SO NEGATIVE ABOUT EVERYTHING, IT'S OVER, MOVE ON.
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Joseph M. Krebs
10:34AM Nov 18th 2008
STUPID people are EASY to CONTROL!!!! Since the 1960's America is FALLING BEHIND IN EDUCATION!!!!!
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Joseph M. Krebs
10:34AM Nov 18th 2008
STUPID people are EASY to CONTROL!!!! Since the 1960's America is FALLING BEHIND IN EDUCATION!!!!!
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daytradervin
10:42AM Nov 18th 2008
Minnesota Senate Election
This is a state that elected a wrestler (how'd that work out for ya) then voted for president a guy who has never run anything in his life, never attended a foreign policy meeting and has limited (at best)in congress. The populus has also elected any number of incompetent fools (too numerous to mention) and now, not to be outdone they and the DNC along with ACORN are electing a foul mouthed clown whose only credentials include writing dirty stories for Playboy, working on and investing in a failed radio station (no one would listen) and bad mouthing and threatening anyone who dared to disagree with him. You trully deserve this guy, the only thing left to do is to "neuter" all of the residents of this state and prevent any of them from leaving and poluting the remaing 49, with exception of MA, that place has long since gone straight to hell. Enjoy bozos relax and watch your "newest" blunder take your pitiful state further down the drain.
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MichaelM
11:57AM Nov 18th 2008
Not only the media but also the way his fundraising arm collected unnamed sources of money from the internet. I wounder how much was collected from outside of our country. I also find it amazing that the price of gasoline was astronomical prior to the election and now I have seen it as low as $1.87 in the state of Ohio. Could it be that our Great Country is no longer controlled by the people who vote?
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SPacificGrove
10:37AM Nov 18th 2008
You just don't "just" win a landslide.....The GOP was bludgeoned overall because they simply ran out of ideas to present to the average American voter....Clearly the best candidate won the presidential contest by nearly 9 MILLION votes (and rising), and getting over 365 electoral votes (270 needed).....The right wing needs to get off of the denial/blame mode and do some real soul searching about their party's brand: smaller gov't, fiscal responsibility and accountability, defending our Constitution, staying out of foreign conflicts, keeping the gov't OUT OF the private lives of its citizens...These used to be the "old fashion" republican values until they were hijacked by the neo-conservative fringe and their evangelical partners....
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John Huckleberry
10:37AM Nov 18th 2008
First off, as a press agent for over 400 companies, the media is owned over whelming by conservative interest. Second, votes got Obama elected because of the economy and the mistakes President Bush made. Get the story right and stop repeating made up stories, mho. John Huckleberry CEO Hollywood Tonight LLC
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John Fung
2:07PM Nov 18th 2008
Okay, so what is the point? My guess is that you could ask any person voting for McCain who John Boehner is. Or who Jon Kyl is. They would have no idea. On the other hand, if you were to ask them if who the Muslim candidate was, or who was the socialist on the ballot, you would get them to identify Obama. The fact is that the American public is dangerously ignorant about current affairs and government. The media works both ways, don't tell me that Fox is fair and MSNBC is not. If you believe that, you are as ignorant as those you make fun of.
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Keith
11:07AM Nov 18th 2008
It's scarey how well informed our electorate in the United States is. Even more frigthening is the lack of certainty in what they know or believe.We're not Americans anymore... We're a flock of SHEEP being led to the slaughter and nobody gives a care! Wake Up America!!! Every politician says we need to take back our nation. But it isn't for a political party we need to take it back for, IT'S FOR OURSELVES!!!
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John Fung
10:38AM Nov 18th 2008
Okay, so what is the point? My guess is that you could ask any person voting for McCain who John Boehner is. Or who Jon Kyl is. They would have no idea. On the other hand, if you were to ask them if who the Muslim candidate was, or who was the socialist on the ballot, you would get them to identify Obama. The fact is that the American public is dangerously ignorant about current affairs and government. The media works both ways, don't tell me that Fox is fair and MSNBC is not. If you believe that, you are as ignorant as those you make fun of.
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JOSEPHINE
1:27PM Nov 21st 2008
Are you telling us that majority of these people voted without knowing what are they voting for? Is this how uneducated America is ? What a shame!!!
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Vince
10:41AM Nov 18th 2008
Minnesota Senate Election
This is a state that elected a wrestler (how'd that work out for ya) then voted for president a guy who has never run anything in his life, never attended a foreign policy meeting and has limited (at best)in congress. The populus has also elected any number of incompetent fools (too numerous to mention) and now, not to be outdone they and the DNC along with ACORN are electing a foul mouthed clown whose only credentials include writing dirty stories for Playboy, working on and investing in a failed radio station (no one would listen) and bad mouthing and threatening anyone who dared to disagree with him. You trully deserve this guy, the only thing left to do is to "neuter" all of the residents of this state and prevent any of them from leaving and poluting the remaing 49, with exception of MA, that place has long since gone straight to hell. Enjoy bozos relax and watch your "newest" blunder take your pitiful state further down the drain.
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Billy Williams
10:42AM Nov 18th 2008
Prayer elected Obama.
Blacks were praying that God would elect a black man as President and Whites were praying that God would save America.
God answered the prayers of both Blacks and Whites.
If right wing conservative republicans want to elect their idiots, they need to pray and ask God to damn American.
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Jarret Anson
10:42AM Nov 18th 2008
Ha, it's taken us this long to realize how stupid people are? Who do you think makes up at least 60% of the polls every four years? The ignorant, you know those who vote for issues like God and abortion only, those who vote one party because mommy and daddy did. This isn't news people ask those who actually vote on all the issues, they could have told you this was clear as day to them. America is full of stupid people; always has and will be.
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KC
10:44AM Nov 18th 2008
Of course the media helped get him elected. They never asked the hard questions and when one of their own did (Brian Ross-Rev. Wright exposure) it was treated as if religion was all of a sudden a sacred cow and the reporter was at fault. Where was the sacred cow when Bush proclaimed his "Born Again" alliances. They constantly berated Bush for "using" his religion. They demonized Clinton, while putting Obama on a pedestal. I have yet to see a late night talk show make a joke about Obama and yet they still ridicule Clinton and McCain. They would not even use the word arrogant when discribing Obama for fear they would be considered "racists", yet they'd use all sorts of sexual pejoratives about Hillary. Did they get him elected, how could I think otherwise.