Huffington Post is my home page when I go on the web: it always has the latest headline news as well as the liberal sensibility that I like. But I do think that they over-sensationalize in their headlines -- and sometimes in their criticisms, or in how they make a mountain out of a molehill from the other side. Two current cases in point:
1. They seem to delight in finding yet one more important person who mocked Michele Bachmann, in her self-appointed SOTUS response role, for "not even looking into the camera." Clips are shown with Michele reading her speech, while obviously looking into a different camera than the one being broadcast.
This was not an error on her part. Her video response was sponsored by the Tea Party Express, which had supplied the camera, and it was to that camera she was speaking. CNN chose to also air it live (with their own camera), so what we saw was the CNN video of her speaking to the other camera.
Drop it. It's a non-issue, much as I like to ridicule Michele. I'm trying to be fair here.
The important issue is what she said, not to which camera she said it. But that's another whole story and not worth the time to detail.
2. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) is trying to make a political issue out of the fact that Nancy Pelosi declined his invitation to sit together at the SOTUS. Huffington Post headlined the article with "Nancy Pelosi Declines Eric Cantor's State of the Union Proposal." Well, she did decline -- because Eric asked Nancy for the date at the last minute, and she already had a date with another Republican colleague whom she had invited.
But, again, Eric is now painting himself as trying to reach out to her in a cooperative spirit, and she is spurning his efforts. Get over it, children.
Ralph
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Rachel Maddow is very critical of CNN for airing the Bachmann's speech live and saying that CNN is "in bed with" a sleazy group, the Tea Party Express.
ReplyDeleteShe says that the T. P. Express, rather than being a grass roots organizing group, is but a way to raise money chiefly for the consulting firm that started it. The Express is "sort of a scam," she says. It is to be distinguished from the Tea Party itself.
But it's the Tea Party Express that CNN is partnering with to sponsor a presidential debate this fall. That's what she means by being 'in bed with' a sleazy organization.