Media Like a One Note Musical Concert

The media seems to only have a single note in their musical concert when it comes to any criticism of Barack Obama - and that note is flat: cry racism. Sarah Palin is launching off her impressive debate performance to land heavy criticism against Obama on the campaign trail. She referred to the association of Barack Obama to Bill Ayers as "palling around with terrorists". According to AP:

"Our opponent ... is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country," Palin told a group of donors in Englewood, Colo. A deliberate attempt to smear Obama, McCain's ticket-mate echoed the line at three separate events Saturday.

"This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America," she said. "We see America as a force of good in this world. We see an America of exceptionalism."

Sarah Palin draws a great ideological distinction between the two tickets by pointing to how very different the two view America. The McCain-Palin ticket strongly support American Exceptionalism. Instead of viewing America as a blessed nation grounded in its rich political and religious history, Palin alludes to the liberal approach to pointing out the many problems and flaws with America, embracing blame for hatred of the US by Islamic radicals and seeing the US as inferior to European countries. Palin sees Obama's selection out of nowhere by Bill Ayers to serve on the board at CAC and Ayers hosting Obama's launch into politics at his home as "palling around with terrorists" because of their common world view.

Only in a liberal logical pretzel could the Associated Press take drawing an idelogical distinction to mean Obama is "not like us" in a way that has racial undertones. Sarah Palin did not even use the words "Obama is not like us". AP had to convert her words into that simple sound bite to even remotely connect them to a racist connotation.

The chronically incurious media when it comes to any area of Obama's life that might look bad for him, casually brushes away the Bill Ayers connection with the statement that Obama "denounced Ayers' radical views and actions". I have seen them over and over again make that claim. I have tried to Google any link that has the wording of this denouncement but can only find references claiming that he has. Taking their word for it, I think there are still questions remaining:

- Why when Obama was first asked about Bill Ayers did he try to claim he was just "a guy from my neighborhood" instead of a guy that selected him from nowhere to server on the CAC board with him?
- When did Obama first meet with Bill Ayers? Obama and Ayers were in the same vicinity when Obama attended Columbia (where we have very little information about him). Did they meet or run in the same circles at this time?
- When did Obama learn of Ayers radical past? Before or after he served on the board with him?
- Why did Obama choose Bill Ayers home to launch his political career?
- Does Obama think that justice was served when somebody like Ayers has never served a day in jail for his crimes?
- Does Obama think that Bill Ayers can go from his radical past to a current respectable position with or without having paid for or even repented of his crimes?

I think that if the media grilled Obama half as strongly as they grilled Palin on the ridiculous book banning claim that we would hear some interesting answers.

The one note media is getting old. Basically, unless we all just sit back and allow Obama to be coronated, we are branded as racist. A couple of weeks ago the media was fretting about an Obama loss due to racists that will not vote for him due to his skin color. I have yet to hear the media fretting about the many who will be voting for Obama (and therefore against McCain) because of his skin color. I doubt we will hear much about that.