[lbo-talk] right has a crush on Obama

[B.]

This is odd considering Roger Ailes's (FOX News head)
predictable joke that made use of the similarity
between Obama's name and Osama's. (Osama bin Laden,
that is.) Personally, I haven't heard much love for
Obama coming from anywhere on the right, but maybe I'm
reading the wrong stuff and listening to the wrong
people.

On the other hand, McCain's new comment (using the
term "tar baby" --  
which Romney also used a little while ago:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070316/ap_on_el_pr/on_the2008_trail;_ylt=AuXpsWUi5hazAyimgoIPTbcXr7sF
) on top of his earlier "gook" stuff, isn't so great
-- and conservatives are still hand wringing that none
of these people are their guy? They're really Jonesing
for a new Reagan, it feels like.

-B.

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> <http://www.journalism.org/node/4582>
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
> 
> The fact that Hillary Clinton took something of a
> pounding last week  
> wasn’t big news. But an examination of the talk
> outlets revealed an  
> interesting twist to that pattern. Whatever the
> motivation, some of  
> those conservative hosts are not only using their
> microphones to  
> blast away at Clinton. They are also embracing, or
> at least saying  
> nice things about, Barack Obama, a liberal Democrat
> whose primary  
> virtue in their eyes may be that he can defeat
> Clinton for the  
> nomination.