More Obvious Bias From ABC

Remember the rash of stories in the media about the McCain campaign allegedly over-reporting the size of crowds at their events? How dare they say 23,000 if it was only 15,000 in Virginia, etc!!

Check this out - Obama in VA: Suddenly I guess crowd size doesn't matter so much when it comes to Obama - could be from 10 - 20 thousand, give or take! What a freaking joke.

before a crowd of 10,000 to 20,000 people who had been waiting hours in the mud to see them.

Comments

[SacTownMan]

The ABC article sounded like a freakin Skin-A-Max movie. The wet shirt clinging to his body. I'll bet Chris Matthews was having a PeeWee Herman moment over that one!

[Lala]

More freedom of speech attacks courtesy of Zero.

http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/092008/09272008/413770/index_html

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Mr. Obama, the Democratic nominee for president, is scheduled to speak at a rally at the university today. The public is invited to this forum, on property it, the public, owns. However, signs and banners will not be allowed, according to the organizers and compliant campus officials. Suddenly, UMW is a First Amendment-Free, or at least a First Amendment-Crippled, Zone, subject to the self-serving preferences of politicos. Why does an Obama rally--or a McCain rally or a Nader rally--justify taking a little off the top of Americans' most fundamental rights?

A UMW spokeswoman says that the Obama campaign required the sign-and-banner ban. That campaign tells us that the ban is for "security" reasons. But a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service, responsible for protecting presidential candidates, says that the service has no objection to signs at rallies, provided that no "part of the sign could be used as a weapon"--e.g., a heavy metal pole or a sharpened stick. Finally, the McCain campaign tells us, "We encourage people to make signs at our events."

[jaime]

Like the time an old woman was arrested at a supposedly open town hall?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lyaMrS0hzk&feature=related

[seekeronos]

While that does seem unusually harsh and disproportionate, she _was_ asked to move a few times before the LEOs got involved.

There's a difference between a little old lady with a nondescript sign and a gaggle of Code Pink geese, but seeing as the Code Pinkos make such a nuisance of themselves, I reckon the LEOs weren't taking any chances.

The Democrats aren't innocent though - they had some newsie in Denver who was covering an item somewhat unfavourable to the Dems, who was pushed into traffic by members of the Boulder County Sheriff's office and then cited/arrested for obstruction of traffic.

The Red Chinese almost have it better than us when it comes to protesting political speech.

I bet we'll roll out the tanks in 2012, T-Square style.

[Libertarian Girl]

The same tactics were used on Ron Paul- the media would say that his campaign reported crowds of a certain number while some media outlet reported crowds a few thousand people lower, completely ignoring the fact that for a non-mainstream candidate to draw crowds even above a thousand is a major feat.