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    Howie Kurtz's Lament: Obama Worship Detected In Media!
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    Image of taftsearlobe33 taftsearlobe33
    11/17/08

    In reply to Howie Kurtz's Lament: Obama Worship Detected In Media!
    call me crazy but I have always thought we should wait till the new president actually does anything important before we start praising him. I mean he isn't even in office yet but you wouldn't be able to tell that by the amount of coverage he has gotten.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    11/18/08

    @taftsearlobe33: Praising is how you and Kurtz parse it. Covering is what the media does, probably because this is kind of a crucial time for whomever occupies the office, world history-wise and all.
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    Image of Trixie from Toronto Trixie from Toronto
    11/17/08

    In reply to Howie Kurtz's Lament: Obama Worship Detected In Media!
    His own paper's ombudsman recently came out to say the Post was biased in its coverage, and ran more negative stories about McCain than Obama during the campaign. Which kind of pissed me off. McCain ran a terrible campaign. He screwed up more. He picked a running mate who screwed up more. Obama, on the other hand, ran a flawless campaign and his running mate managed only to screw up a couple of times (all of them duly covered by the post).


    So if one candidate runs a brilliant campaign and another runs a disastrous one, isn't it likely that more negative stories are going to appear about the crap one?

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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    11/17/08

    In reply to Howie Kurtz's Lament: Obama Worship Detected In Media!
    There is always a level of excitement when a new president is coming to town - new aides to profile...


    You know you've been hitting the Washington cocktail circuit way too long when you find yourself writing shit like that.

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    Image of Multiphasic Multiphasic
    11/17/08

    In reply to Howie Kurtz's Lament: Obama Worship Detected In Media!
    My favorite Kurtz column was the one where he tried to get sent home by eating a jeep.
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    Image of fileunder fileunder
    11/17/08

    @Multiphasic: Holy Toledo, I never noticed the resemblance before!
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    Image of Unfun Unfun
    11/17/08

    In reply to Howie Kurtz's Lament: Obama Worship Detected In Media!
    I can't make fun of anyone with a hairdo that tragic.
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    Image of Senor_Wences Senor_Wences
    11/17/08

    In reply to Howie Kurtz's Lament: Obama Worship Detected In Media!
    If McCain had won, the news media would be far too busy covering the blood in the streets to do any of these "How wonderful the new president is!" stories.
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    11/17/08

    In reply to Howie Kurtz's Lament: Obama Worship Detected In Media!
    To put his point another way, "everybody cheered that the winner won. But would they have cheered if the loser had won?"


    One word for you, Howie: DUH.


    If the loser had won, he wouldn't have been the loser. Ergo, yes, people would have cheered for him, because the situation would be exactly reversed. The whole question is a non-sequitur.

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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    11/17/08

    @badasscat: It's not just that people cheered when the winner won; it's that the media cheered when a candidate's election had historical significance that reverberates throughout the whole world, and when the people of the self-proclaimed "greatest nation on earth" overcame one of their most persistent issues to break down the ultimate color barrier.


    But since Howie is nothing if not a Republican, he can't see it that way. He can only see it as, "boo, the Democrat one. Why are people so happy?"


    Yes, he's that simple minded.

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    Image of Multiphasic Multiphasic
    11/17/08

    In reply to Howie Kurtz's Lament: Obama Worship Detected In Media!
    What I find truly appalling is that the media is not just content with celebrating Obama as our new president, they're determined to anoint him Commander in Chief as well.
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    11/17/08

    In reply to Howie Kurtz's Lament: Obama Worship Detected In Media!
    If I learned anything from Kevin Smith, it's that Jesus was black. Obama is also black. Therefore, Obama is Jesus. Any logical person would reach the same conclusion.
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    11/17/08

    In reply to Howie Kurtz's Lament: Obama Worship Detected In Media!
    "Howie's method is to list every example of a media outlet celebrating [fill in the blank], then to wrap it all up with a conclusion that you may not have considered yet."


    That's basically Gawker's method, too.

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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    11/17/08

    @Kid_Twist: We also make jokes sometimes.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    11/17/08

    In reply to Howie Kurtz's Lament: Obama Worship Detected In Media!
    I, for one, will be excited when conservative hacks like Howie Kurtz get ignored in exactly the way they should.
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    Image of Gosukusan Gosukusan
    11/17/08

    In reply to Howie Kurtz's Lament: Obama Worship Detected In Media!
    Wait, what happened to the gay post? Is Kurtz gay too?
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    Image of Gosukusan Gosukusan
    11/17/08

    @Gosukusan:


    Oh I see, he's a COMEDIAN!

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    Image of Meg Meg
    11/17/08

    @Gosukusan: It's gone! Much like the TV post from last night. And, come to think of it, Pareene has been MIA, too. Perhaps Gawker is trying to avoid being accused of liberal bias.
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    Image of Gosukusan Gosukusan
    11/17/08

    @Meg:


    I think Smails last comment must have caused it to auto-destruct.

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    Image of TheHonJudgeSmails TheHonJudgeSmails
    11/17/08

    @Gosukusan: I was thinking the same thing...
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    Image of Gosukusan Gosukusan
    11/17/08

    @TheHonJudgeSmails:


    Wow, nice work! I saw that and figured there'd be about 35 angry replies. But nuking the whole post?!

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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/17/08

    In reply to Howie Kurtz's Lament: Obama Worship Detected In Media!
    unicorns! for everyone! except howie!
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