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One little-known fact about the world of journalism is that news organizations prepare obituaries of famous people while those people are still alive, so that packages of material will be ready to go when a death is announced.
Over the past week, journalists have been writing articles that have the quality of these sorts of pre-obituaries only the event theyre anticipating isnt the last breath of an individual but the defeat of President Obamas re-election bid.
Even more striking, these journalists arent conservatives indulging in their deepest wish, but rather liberals who admire Obama and want to see him win a second term.
Al Hunt, who was for decades the voice of liberal conventional wisdom as the Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, declared yesterday in his Bloomberg column that Obama needs an intervention"
n.Read more: Democrats gripe on Obama campaign—John Podhoretz - NYPOST.com
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I'll look for Al Hunts comments to see if the context is meaningful.
It's not quite as bad as Walter Cronkite (but it is close).
All you are seeing left are the Bob Schrum's of the world....isn't that comforting
Over the past week, journalists have been writing articles that have the quality of these sorts of pre-obituaries only the event theyre anticipating isnt the last breath of an individual but the defeat of President Obamas re-election bid.
Even more striking, these journalists arent conservatives indulging in their deepest wish, but rather liberals who admire Obama and want to see him win a second term.
Al Hunt, who was for decades the voice of liberal conventional wisdom as the Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, declared yesterday in his Bloomberg column that Obama needs an intervention"
n.Read more: Democrats gripe on Obama campaign—John Podhoretz - NYPOST.com
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I'll look for Al Hunts comments to see if the context is meaningful.
It's not quite as bad as Walter Cronkite (but it is close).
All you are seeing left are the Bob Schrum's of the world....isn't that comforting