Just as a quick follow-up to both Terry Trippany and Warner Todd Huston's posts, at least one major political reporter is chagrined by the MSM's penchant for selecting photographs of Sen. Barack Obama that make him appear rather, um, messianic.
From Jake Tapper's Political Punch blog at ABCNews.com:
There is Born to You This Day in the City of Chicago a Savior
June 02, 2008 10:19 AM
And His name is Barack the Democrat.
General election project for Political Punch readers: Let's keep track of how many Holy images of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, make their way into print.
(And bad ones, if any. And of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., let's keep track as well -- photos of him looking heavenly or, conversely, old and feeble.)
- jpt
Apparently Tapper's been getting some complaints that his post was anti-Christian or anti-religious, so he added an update to emphasize for the sarcasm-challenged that his target is the media, not religious folks:
UPDATE: To anyone who thinks I am mocking God or religion with this post. I am not. I am mocking the images some in the media are using to portray Sen. Obama. Such as the Reuters photo above. Or this DaVincian New York Magazine image. Or this cover of Rolling Stone. No disrespect towards God or persons of faith intended at all. The jesting is not aimed at religion, God, or Sen. Obama -- but rather those pushing these Holy Images of the Illinois senator who is, after all, but a man.
—Ken Shepherd is Managing Editor of NewsBusters
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Is there anyway we can
June 2, 2008 - 11:15 ET by taterIs there anyway we can change the halo to a big red circle and then a red line across Barry's face? You know like a no smoking sign.
"They need to have a course in college called common sense and everyone should take it. Problem is there isn't too many people that could pass or teach it." -my grandfather
Swiftboat vets write about
June 2, 2008 - 11:21 ET by gopsteveSwiftboat vets write about Kerry, they are villified...(after they couldn't be ignored further)
McClellan turns on Bush, he is a hero
No media bias to see here
Or one of the exact same guys
June 2, 2008 - 11:28 ET by sarcasmoWrites about plans for a NAU, and "journalists" like CNN's Toobin ignore him completely and suggest it's all "a conspiracy theory."
JMR
The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.
I look at that and see a
June 2, 2008 - 11:36 ET by Dan The Man 2I look at that and see a perfect looney toons halo. Perhaps some enterprising individual can do one. Imagine the howling if one was published somewhere? But, is it any different than one like the messiah?
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.
Well, from what I read from
June 2, 2008 - 12:58 ET by bigtimerWell, from what I read from this Tapper is correct.
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
He is correct; here is more
June 2, 2008 - 17:04 ET by motherbeltHow about this
this and this
The first one is AP; the second didn't have an attribution.
Even when they're not surrounding him with light, the framing of the shots carries a message:
here here here from Reuters, and from AP, this
Messiah?
June 2, 2008 - 13:29 ET by BarkerOn the one hand, Obama lauds the efforts and sacrifices of the U.S. military, while on the other hand, he's trying to make the case that those same efforts and sacrifices have only "strengthened our enemies and have not made us safer".
When I look at that photo of Obama, the words "duplicitous" and "dirtbag" come to mind, not "messiah".
cliche
June 2, 2008 - 13:09 ET by opnpt0I always heard that cliche "looking down your nose at someone" and never thought much about it till I saw pictures of Obama.
http://greatestofalltimetourney.blogspot.com/
Holy Obama
June 2, 2008 - 13:15 ET by mattmHoly Obama
God has one "hell" of a sense of humor sometimes
June 2, 2008 - 13:24 ET by TruthMongerhttp://nymag.com/news/politics/30634/
absolutely love it - so is Obama mania a blatant cry for Jesus or what?!
i think Freud would call this "very extreme penis envy"
Jesus sure has something the libbies (and Satan) want - desperately:)...
mattm... OMG! "Never
June 2, 2008 - 14:50 ET by bigtimermattm...
OMG!
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
" To anyone who thinks I am
June 2, 2008 - 14:39 ET by Chris Norman" To anyone who thinks I am mocking God or religion with this post. I am not."
Please don't tell me that some nut has accused you of this! On the contrary, it's obvious that those who are casting Obama as a messiah are the ones who are trivializing Christianity - intentionally or not.
OK, OK, now I get censored----
June 2, 2008 - 14:55 ET by misterbillHis head always has that glow when he pulls it out of his ass!!!
So, that's twice a day for five minutes each time!!!!
Check this one out...
June 2, 2008 - 15:15 ET by DooperCan you believe the subliminal message they're putting out? That somehow Obama is smarter than all of us. Unbelievable!!
http://www.comcast.n...
Dooper... His speech
June 2, 2008 - 15:24 ET by bigtimerDooper...
His speech Sunday was as arrogant as you can get as far as I am concerned...I am NO fan of Hillary, I detest the witch... but I would be furious too.
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
I was actually making a joke...
June 2, 2008 - 15:47 ET by Dooperin reference to the photo. But then, maybe it WAS on purpose to put a lightbulb over his head. Hmm....
Check this one out...
June 2, 2008 - 15:17 ET by DooperLightbulb...get it?
http://www.comcast.n...
Story's been taken
October 13, 2008 - 12:43 ET by HockeyKidStory's been taken down--funny thing, eh?
How about the one with him
June 2, 2008 - 16:46 ET by msh1973How about the one with him standing in front of Superman...that just cracks me up. Pathetic!
I'm waiting for a new
June 2, 2008 - 17:36 ET by Chris NormanI'm waiting for a new version of the famous picture of Christ knocking on someone's door - now featuring Obama.