“The Chicago Tribune did something today it had never done before -- it had not endorsed a Democrat for President, not even Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson in his two runs,” CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric touted Friday night before heralding the endorsement of the candidate from the paper's circulation area: “But today, the Trib endorsed Illinois Senator Barack Obama. It said he's better suited than John McCain to restore a quote, 'common sense of national purpose.'”
The endorsement editorial posted Friday afternoon, but presumably to appear in Sunday's newspaper, acknowledged the paper's admiration for the hometown Senator is nothing new: “On Dec. 6, 2006, this page encouraged Obama to join the presidential campaign. We wrote that he would celebrate our common values instead of exaggerate our differences. We said he would raise the tone of the campaign. We said his intellectual depth would sharpen the policy debate. In the ensuing 22 months he has done just that.”
Neither Friday's NBC's Nightly News nor ABC's World News considered the endorsement newsworthy.
The editorial, “Tribune endorsement: Barack Obama for president,” oozed in its conclusion:
It may have seemed audacious for Obama to start his campaign in Springfield, invoking Lincoln. We think, given the opportunity to hold this nation's most powerful office, he will prove it wasn't so audacious after all. We are proud to add Barack Obama's name to Lincoln's in the list of people the Tribune has endorsed for president of the United States.
Obama is up 3-to-1 in newspaper endorsements (by 4-to-1 in circulation), according to the latest Editor & Publisher count as of today (Friday):
The Obama-Biden ticket maintains its strong lead in the race for newspaper endorsements, picking up 12 more papers in the past day, including the giant Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune on Friday afternoon. This brings his lead over McCain-Palin by this measure to over 3-1 so far, at 51-16....The readership of the 51 newspapers backing Obama now stands at 6,299,363 daily circulation. He gained two biggies yesterday in The Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle....
The Mountain Valley News in Colorado adds to McCain’s endorsement list, bringing his total to 16 newspapers. The daily circulation of his newspapers now stands at 1,502,163.
Couric's short item, in full, on the Friday, October 17 CBS Evening News which she anchored from Charlotte:
One other Campaign '08 note, the Chicago Tribune did something today it had never done before -- it had not endorsed a Democrat for President, not even Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson in his two runs. But today, the Trib endorsed Illinois Senator Barack Obama. It said he's better suited than John McCain to restore a quote, “common sense of national purpose."
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
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The readership of the 51
October 17, 2008 - 20:22 ET by MidAmericaThe readership of the 51 newspapers backing Obama now stands at 6,299,363 daily circulation.
That's pathetic. 51 newspapers don't have half the audience that Rush has every day.
MA... What an excellent
October 17, 2008 - 20:32 ET by bigtimerMA...
What an excellent point!
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Thugs
October 17, 2008 - 21:30 ET by 10ksnookerEndorsing thugs, what a surprise.
Then why isn't rush having
October 18, 2008 - 04:30 ET by blingbling65Then why isn't rush having the same impact as those 51 papers this time?
He needs to do something and soon because we're loosing this thing.
Er, where you just realizing
October 18, 2008 - 07:39 ET by euchernewspapers are in the tank for Obama?
That's kind of like saying "NBC, CNN and PBS have endorsed Obama," isn't it?
This just in: Couric
October 17, 2008 - 20:42 ET by TN MomThis just in:
Couric meant to say 'Obama will restore a sense of National Socialism'
yah
October 17, 2008 - 21:04 ET by Interested and concerned CDNRestore a "common sense of national purpose"
How can anyone NOT equate this with Communist China, North Korea, Venezuela et al?
the msm reports an
October 17, 2008 - 21:01 ET by gopstevethe msm reports an "endorsement" like a shock and worthy of gold...well, look gamblers, bet the house that the NYT and WaPo will endorse the Dem in 2012 for prez....
Are we supposed to be
October 17, 2008 - 21:22 ET by motherbeltAre we supposed to be surprised that Obama's hometown newpaper endorses him?
Supposedly on Sunday Colin Powell will too. Another shocker.
Evening mb... Yeah real
October 17, 2008 - 21:37 ET by bigtimerEvening mb...
Yeah real shocker indeed...
Btw...I posted also about Powell endorsing Obama supposedly on MTP Sunday ...some of us posted back and forth about this too.
Not going to repeat what I already said...but I think by the one of your post we share the same sentiments.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
bt the subject came up in
October 17, 2008 - 22:02 ET by motherbeltbt the subject came up in the Ayers thread too and I said this (crossposted just for you LOL):
Powell never really was a Republican. More of a semi-moderate Democrat
who managed to get along with both sides. And he's not immune to the
race issue, either.
I don't think he's ever endorsed a Presidential candidate before, has he?
Frankly, I will lose respect for him if he does...it will just seem like he has been waiting for a black candidate to endorse.
There. I said it. Someone had to.
Also, a lot of the media are pushing this, saying they have polls
that show a lot of people would be swayed by Powell's endorsement.
Give me a break. No one is going to decide their vote on what Colin
Powell says. I simply don't believe it.
More of their push-reporting. If Powell does endorse Obama, the race will be declared over by the MSM.
mb... I am cracking up
October 17, 2008 - 22:08 ET by bigtimermb...
I am cracking up laughing here...we are both cross-posting now...
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Believing in Powell
October 18, 2008 - 01:08 ET by austinhookNo one is going to decide their vote on what Colin
Powell says. I simply don't believe it.
Well, seems virtually everyone believed in the Iraqi WMDs and Saddam's sponsership of Al Quaida after Colin Powell explained it in the UN, and most everyone here on Newsbusters still does, so why ignore his advice now? Hey, let's suppose he endorses McCain-Palin, that would mean... uh, ...well... I'm not sure what that would mean....
"Well, seems virtually
October 18, 2008 - 02:09 ET by ckc1227"Well, seems virtually everyone believed in the Iraqi WMDs and Saddam's
sponsership of Al Quaida after Colin Powell explained it in the UN"
Actually, that belief most likely comes from the images of the dead who were killed by Saddam's imaginary WMDs that he never had, and Saddam himself pretending that he did. Funny though, I don't remember Powell saying Saddam was sponsoring Al Queda. He must have written it in the Constitution right next to the right to an abortion, and just before the right to have me pay for your health care. Or, more likely, in typical lib fashion, you made it up.
By the way, an endorsement isn't advice.
"Hey, let's suppose he endorses McCain-Palin, that would mean... uh, ...well... I'm not sure what that would mean.... "
It would mean he endorsed McCain-Palin.
The real question is if Powell endorses Obama, will he finally, once again be a real black man, or is he destined to forever be Bush's Uncle Tom House N*ggar in the eyes of the left?
Obama's Economic plan: more taxes, more spending, more regulation. Prosperity here we come.
austinhook.....
October 18, 2008 - 06:06 ET by motherbeltI think McCain and Palin would be honored, but I don't think any Joe or Jane Sixpack would change their mind about who to vote for then either.
Surprised?
You know, it is possible to believe something regardless of whose side it benefits.
The real question is if Powell endorses Obama, will he finally, once
again be a real black man, or is he destined to forever be Bush's Uncle
Tom House N*ggar in the eyes of the left? - ckc1227
Yeah, he will have redeemed himself and will be accepted as an "authentic" black again. Prodigal son, you know.
So why
October 17, 2008 - 21:36 ET by 10ksnookerDo we need a 'common source of national purpose'? Isn't the purpose of the USA already understood --- Nation of laws not moo-Siahs, freedom, liberty and each choosing to pursue happiness however they want within the laws of man. Be all you can be, not what the government orders you to be.
And how do they take our God given freedoms away? And what about the consent of the governed? We just supposed to forget about that...
Well said! Obama Will
October 17, 2008 - 22:06 ET by Clear thinkerWell said!
Obama Will Continue Americas Wealth Re-distribution
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That video is downright
October 18, 2008 - 06:14 ET by motherbeltThat video is downright scary, CT....
Neal Boortz has the lowdown on their plan:
Democrats' Secret Plan for America
And it looks like now they will have the means to do it.
Katie from Misleading Sinister Media growls
October 17, 2008 - 22:16 ET by wdhorningSarah Palin is being attacked for not having enough background to be Vice President, yet she has far more executive experience than the other three put together, and she is a good leader, well read on national issues, and most of all, she loves the USA, unlike Barack Obama, who I believe loathes this country, as proven by literally dozens of proofs. (IHMO, he is even conspiring to enslave us all under communism one day, with himself as its dictator leader.)
As for a "common sense of national purpose" you have to be kidding me. Slighty more than half this country is right of center, and Katie is asking that right to be in tune with the greastest threat to this country's economic future, namely a socialist Democrat Congress and a Communist president? How the hell to you expect right of center people to "embrace" a lover of terrorists and a communist as president?
Katie should be our first person on Mars. Can we get it on the launch pad tomorrow for the next Mars shot?
M.S.M. -- great, wdhorning !!!!!
October 17, 2008 - 22:19 ET by MrShyM isleading
S inister
M edia
That's really great !!!!! (haha :))
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I can't think of any better
October 17, 2008 - 22:33 ET by dream onI can't think of any better place to put this link, I found this at zombietime, of all places, it's long, but a very revealing read:
http://www.zombietim...
No that is definitely an
October 17, 2008 - 22:42 ET by motherbeltNo that is definitely an interesting article!
It is also believable when it comes to polling.
However, one has to wonder if that subconscious "conditioning" will hold sway when one is in the privacy of the voting booth?
Will the voter vote his or her real feelings, or still feel the need to "go with the group"?
This endorsement will make me switch my vote..
October 18, 2008 - 00:26 ET by ScandimanNOT!
Ms Kaite is just a democrat whore. How does this change anyones opinin?
It's almost laughable...
October 18, 2008 - 08:59 ET by Graig36That everyday the whole cast of has been MSM "personalities"(in the case of Katie Couric-- the soon to be next ex-anchor) try to outdo each other in who can be the most partisan and most outrageously in the tank for Obama. Like Hannity says, media died this year. I'm glad FoxNews actually drew more viewership then CBS news (2 weeks ago I think) for the first time in history-- very telling... What will they say next??
... and will the MSM be curtailed by the fairness doctrine also??... I'm talking to you Pelosi???