On Jul 6, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Robert Naiman wrote:
> When Obama announced that he was not going to take public funding in
> the general election, so as not to be bound by the spending limits,
> Robert Parry had an op-ed in Consortium News noting that while
> liberals were tinkering with the campaign finance rules, the right was
> using its resources to carry out a long march through the the media
> institutions.
I don't get the reasoning behind this. Was it right-wing to hammer Obama for his Barackflip on public financing? One of the major pieces of legislation on campaign finance is called McCain-Feingold - does that make McCain a liberal? And how is the media particularly right wing? It's mostly centrist and status quo - socially liberal and fiscally conservative. They reflect elite thinking, which, if anything, has gotten somewhat less right wing in recent years. Until recently, Obama's gotten pretty sympathetic coverage. Sure, they like McCain too, but mostly because he's funny in unexpected ways. (How many politicians would call Leisure World "Seizure World"?)
Doug