{"id":234,"date":"2008-07-30T16:30:27","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T20:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/07\/30\/media-sheep\/"},"modified":"2008-07-30T16:30:27","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T20:30:27","slug":"media-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/07\/30\/media-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll be making a big announcement very soon — probably on Friday.\u00a0 But in the meantime, here’s my Media Sheep<\/em>, inspired\u00a0in part by this Carpetbagger Report post: In context, Obama\u2019s humble; but out of context\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, we\u2019ve reached a point at which reality no longer matters. A reporter found an anonymous source who took Obama\u2019s comments out of context, changed the meaning entirely, and all of a sudden, we\u2019re off to the races. As Vincent Rossmeier noted, \u201cOf course, the simple fact that the quote isn\u2019t accurate isn\u2019t going to stop some on the right \u2014 and in the media \u2014 from using it as fuel for the emerging narrative about Obama.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Media Sheep
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

McCain’s a straight talker.
\nIgnore all his lying.
\nObama is pompous.
\nHe’s humble?\u00a0 Not buying!<\/p>\n

That’s the agreed-upon narrative.\u00a0 See?
\nFacts don’t support it?
\nSo scrap them with glee.<\/p>\n

McCain contradicts
\nAll his stated positions.
\nJust brush this aside.
\nHe’s above all suspicions.<\/p>\n

Minor adjustments in views from Barack?
\nPaint them as flip-flops
\nAnd go with the flock.
\n\u00a0
\n(For extra points, tell me what song parody this could be turned into with a bit of tinkering.)[tags]John McCain Verse, Barack Obama Poem, Straight Talk, Press Narratives, Flip-Flops, Media Humor, Presidential Campaign Satire, Election Humor[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll be making a big announcement very soon — probably on Friday.\u00a0 But in the meantime, here’s my Media Sheep, inspired\u00a0in part by this Carpetbagger Report post: In context, Obama\u2019s humble; but out of context\u2026 Of course, we\u2019ve reached a point at which reality no longer matters. A reporter found an anonymous source who took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,72,21,40,26,154,7,3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-john-mccain","category-media-satire","category-political-commentary","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}