One reason Barack Obama selected Joe Biden as his running mate is that Obama's advisers “think the press loves Biden and so the press will sort of go easy on him on the past gaffes and when he's contradicted Obama,” CNN's Jessica Yellin revealed minutes before midnight Friday night, just an hour ahead of CNN and other media outlets reporting Joe Biden was, indeed, Barack Obama's pick.
Speaking by phone with anchor John King, Yellin recounted that “if it is Joe Biden” what “one of Barack Obama's close advisers” who “was a strong advocate of Biden” told her were the arguments in his favor, ending with how the media “loves” him:
[T]he reasons they think Biden would be strong is because, one, he's a great attack dog, in the view of this person. He's beloved in Pennsylvania where they think that they need to do well, and this advisor thinks that Biden can truly help to deliver that state. And in their view, they think the press loves Biden and so the press will sort of go easy on him on the past gaffes and when he's contradicted Obama. I'm not so sure on that last point, but that is at least one view close to the Obama camp.
“I'm not so sure on that last point” about how the media will “go easy on him.” Well, let's read and watch over the next two months and see who is closer to accurate: the Obama adviser or Yellin.
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center





















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The press loves a Democrat
Sun, 08/24/2008 - 20:04 ET by GregEThe media loves a Democrat Senator who has been in the Senate for 38 years? Really?
Just how many degrees does Yellin have, and from where, to have been able to formulate such a stunningly profound hypothesis?
The media love him because
Mon, 08/25/2008 - 07:48 ET by motherbeltThe media love him because he is always willing to shoot off his mouth for them.
Which could be a definite advantage for McCain.
Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.
Sun, 08/24/2008 - 20:04 ET by lareeShouldn't we start calling Biden by his middle name LOL, finally this election season, is going to start being fun.
Yellin's not
Sun, 08/24/2008 - 20:11 ET by bigtimerYellin's not Jellin'....
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
They will go easy on him and it's telling
Sun, 08/24/2008 - 20:25 ET by Dee Bunkhow the Obama campaign knows it.
Philly voter fraud
Mon, 08/25/2008 - 05:25 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsHe's beloved in Pennsylvania where they think that they need to do
well, and this advisor thinks that Biden can truly help to deliver that
state.
I think Obama has a lock on PA because of the everpresent voter fraud in Philadelphia and the street money. . .errr canvassing cash he will be passing out.
D
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DFTT
Mon, 08/25/2008 - 05:32 ET by Cool ArrowA nd Biden has a plan to upgrade Philly school test scores. He says the problem is that Black people are underachievers.
I ♣ my seal
Wait...the Media will go easy on him?
Mon, 08/25/2008 - 07:41 ET by cjbreischOh yeah. He does have a (D) after his name, doesn't he?