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March 15, 2005

Kerry Can't Figure It Out

A Kerry quote from his February 28, 2005 Distinguished American Award fête at the JFK Library:

A lot of the mainstream media were very responsible during the campaign. They tried to put out a balanced view, and they did show what they thought to be the truth in certain situations of attack. . . . But it never penetrated. And when you look at the statistics and understand that about 80 percent of America gets 100 percent of its news from television, and a great deal of that news comes from either MTV, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Jay Leno, David Letterman, you begin to see the size of the challenge. . . . And so I don't have the total answer. I just know it's something that we've really got to grapple with.
As P. J. O'Rourke pointed out, MTV, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Jay Leno and David Letterman weren't exactly hurting Kerry's campaign, yet he still came up short.

i guess what Kerry was trying to say was that he couldn't get his message out. Of course it couldn't have been the message itself. No way. Not that.

Hat tip to Roscoe.

Posted by annika, Mar. 15, 2005 |
Rubric: annikapunditry



Comments

Did he have a message?

Posted by: Paul on Mar. 16, 2005

What exactly is the "challenge" we have to "grapple with?" Imagine for a moment if Bush said this....Media types would be doing cartwheels on the WH lawn screaming about the President's implied endorsement of censorship.

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Posted by: Robert Mac-Lelland on Mar. 16, 2005

Rrriiiight. While Robert is bitching about conservatives in the media painting all liberals with the "pussy" brush, he has been hypocritically labeling us as fascist "reich whingers" for the past several months if not his whole life.

"Eliminate the Reich Whinge!"

I think Annika needs to inform Mac about his problem with psychological projection again or at least cut off his balls so that he can't breed more lemmings to make life miserable for the rest of us.

Posted by: reagan80 on Mar. 16, 2005

It's like I said to my friends at work the day after the election. "I've got good news and bad news. The bad news is Bush won the election, the good news is Kerry lost".

Posted by: Andy on Mar. 16, 2005