Obama States That He Is the Beneficiary of Unusually -- and at
Times Undeservedly -- Positive Press Coverage

     Recently, the McCain Campaign ran a TV ad that points out
that Obama is a favorite of the media.  

     This is a fact that has been known by Obama, himself, for a
long time, for at least 5 years.  As a matter of fact, Obama has
written about this very thing in his second book, The Audacity of
Hope, by Barack Obama, 2006, First Edition, Crown Publishers, New
York, New York, ISBN-13:978-0-307-23769-9, ISBN-10:0-307-23769-9,
www.crownpublishing.com.  

     I have read that book, and for those of you who have neither
the time nor the inclination to read the book yourself, I provide
you with a quote below.  

     Please note that the words that are capitalized in the quote
below have been capitalized by me for emphasis, not by Obama.  

     On page 120 of that book, Obama states the following:  

     "But for the politician who is worried about keeping his
seat, there is a third force that pushes and pulls at
him, that shapes the nature of political debate and defines the
scope of what he feels he can and can't do, the positions he
can and can't take. Forty or fifty years ago, that force would
have been the party apparatus: the big-city bosses, the
political fixers, the power brokers in Washington who could make
or break a career with a phone call. Today, that force is
the media.
     A disclaimer here: For a three-year span, from the time that
I announced my candidacy for the Senate to the end of my first
year as a senator, I WAS THE BENEFICIARY OF UNUSUALLY -- AND AT
TIMES UNDESERVEDLY -- POSITIVE PRESS COVERAGE. No doubt some of
this had to do with my status as an underdog in my Senate
primary, as well as my novelty as a black candidate with an
exotic background. Maybe it also had something to do with my
style of communicating, which can be rambling, hesitant, and
overly verbose (both my staff and Michelle often remind me of
this), but which perhaps finds sympathy in the literary
class."  

     It is clear, that then and now, the media favors Obama, and
that Obama knows it.  And, knowing it, it is not surprising that
Obama and his campaign take advantage of that media favoritism as
much as they can.  In my opinion, they use media favoritism as an
integral part of their campaign.  Media favoritism trumps
lobbyists.  
     
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