Philly Inquirer Editor Hit Job On Obama

July 6, 2008 · Filed Under 2008 Election, Media · Comment 
 
This Sunday morning, Kevin Ferris once again goes talk radio all over the Philadelphia Inquirer opinion pages, able to spin Gen. Wesley Clark’s response to a question concerning John McCain’s readiness as president into a hyperbolic hit piece surmising that Clark “denigrated the uniform” and that Barack Obama will “use the uniform as needed, disgracing those who suffered or died wearing it.”
 
Wow.  Might as well pen Ferris in as Bill O’Reilly’s fill in right now. 
 
What Ferris chose to leave out was the context of Clark’s response where Face The Nation host, Bob Schieffer noted that Obama had not “ridden in a fighter plane and gotten shot down.”  Clark said, “Well, I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.”
 
Nor did he include Clark’s preface to his response,  Read more

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