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New York Times: In Midsummer, Spring Training for the Fall Race (8/11/08) by Adam Nagourney
In a prime example of the most obnoxious kind of campaign reporting—the chin-stroking analysis of campaign "tactics" and such—Nagourney explains the wisdom of John McCain's attacks over the last couple of weeks, and how he thinks they'll keep working. It's not clear how Obama speaking at a football stadium will show he's elitist, but Nagourney seems to be giving the McCain campaign some advice with his "think tail-gate parties" line. Yep, nothing screams "effete" like tailgating in the parking lot of a football stadium.
Bizarrely enough, if tens of thousands go to hear Obama speak in the U.S., that supposedly reinforces the Republican message that he's different from many Americans. It's true that most Americans don't have tens of thousands of other Americans listening to them speak, but that hardly seems like a reason to vote against a presidential candidate—as Yogi Berra could have said, "Nobody's going to vote for him because he's too popular."
See the latest issue of FAIR's magazine Extra!: Obama the Snob?: Hanging the 'Elitist' Label on Another Democratic Candidate (7–8/08) by Peter Hart
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