CNN, the most trusted name in - doodling?
In a showcase piece of just how far the network has sunk journalistically speaking, they have produced a segment that could only be described as childishly one-sided. The title of the piece - Palin Fantasies Revealed in Doodles.
The reality is that the analysis of these doodles reveals more about CNN's fantasies than anything else. It is a piece so laden with PDS overtones, so bereft of integrity, that one has to wonder how it can possibly be offered up by CNN as news.
Reporter Jeanne Moos compares two doodles, one done by President-elect Barack Obama, and one by Governor Sarah Palin, back when she was running for mayor. She manages to find some people on the street to comment on the two doodles, and the results are incredibly biased toward one side. And guess who gets the positive coverage...
Link and embedded video below the fold.
The Obama doodle received the following comments:
"The guy is intelligent."
"This actually looks done well. Except for the hair, I don't like the hair."
Apparently, a man with yellow hair criticizing Obama's ability to draw hair constitutes a scathing review. That's as bad as it gets for Obama.
The Sarah Palin doodle naturally receives much harsher criticism:
"She's fantasizing about her win. It's me, check this box!" says one woman condescendingly.
"It looks confused and talky. Like she's talking too much."
"It looks like somebody who's in prison who would write, on like, their wall."
To her credit, Moos does show her hard-hitting journalistic style by questioning the woman's use of the word talky. And to the woman's credit, she does educate Moos on the fact that ‘talky' is indeed a word, and defines it for her.
I wonder if a person criticizing Obama's doodles as looking ‘like somebody who's in prison' would go over well.
Moos contributes her own mocking tone in the video, by snidely commenting on some of the slogans Palin was brainstorming about on her doodle. She offers a clear level of sarcasm when displaying Palin's writing, which says:
"Time for a change."
"You would be my boss."
Yea, because we all know how ridiculous a slogan like ‘time for a change' is.
Moos then brings in a handwriting expert who exposes her level of bias without a hitch. On the Obama doodle, CNN's graphologist states:
"He is economical, and clear, and to the point."
Bear in mind that she is analyzing a piece of paper featuring drawings of the faces of some of the most liberal members of the Senate. How she makes an assessment that Obama is economical from this is well beyond my level of understanding. But then, I'm not a graphologist I suppose.
When analyzing the Palin doodle, the graphologist has this to say:
"She's smart, but she's very scattered and all over the place. She wants everyone to recognize her and know who she is. It's like a teenager's writing."
Palin is like a teenager, and Obama is economical? Seems like a fair assessment.
No, it wasn't Palin's fantasies that were revealed in this segment, it was CNN's intellectually devoid ability to present the public with ‘news.'
CNN and Jeanne Moos - like a teenager's reporting.
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How many vice-presidential
November 19, 2008 - 07:47 ET by NewsbusterbrownHow many vice-presidential candidates have had as much coverage after he or she lost?
The old media are scared of Palin in 2012. Anybody who says differently is not telling you the truth.
“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)
Unanswered doodle question
November 19, 2008 - 08:04 ET by Mica the MagnificentWhat is that drawing next to the presidential seal?
Is that a mushroom cloud or a partial drawing of a male sex organ?
Either way, it's creepy.
I agree. It's really
November 19, 2008 - 08:22 ET by steviep831I agree. It's really creepy. I mean just look at the sexual tension BHO expresses in Shumer's nose... And the way the Presidential seal isn't perfectly round... it's a statement that he thinks the office of the President is imperfect... So telling of an image.
</sarcasm>
EDIT: BTW, am I the only one that thinks this was probably drawn by someone else other than Obama? Seems too... planned.
I didn't even watch the
November 19, 2008 - 08:07 ET by motherbeltI didn't even watch the video, but I did see that it's posted under "Breaking News"
The last "Breaking News" video that I watched on that CNN page was the one with the female journalists swooning over Obama in a pair of jeans.
CNN needs to get a grip.
Sheesh.
I bet we'd have gotten the same results
November 19, 2008 - 08:19 ET by c5thenIf they reversed who the author of the doodles were. CNN is so biased that I stopped watching it years ago. They should change thier slogan to "The view from the Left".
Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!
Alan Keyes / Sarah Palin - 2012
"No Bias, Just Doodles"
November 19, 2008 - 08:20 ET by CapeCodScottWhat a waste of space on my tuner
www.ScottOnCapeCod.com
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation"... until they get fed-up enough to finally say something about it!
First of all, they're
November 19, 2008 - 08:59 ET by JerryFirst of all, they're showing a Sarah Palin doodle where she was obviously WORKING, with a page FULL of notes and plans. They compare that to an Obama doodle where he was obviously DOING NOTHING but drawing (sadly, he has a record of doing NOTHING), and then he SIGNED the doodle? Doodles? Just Doodles?
Secondly, let's judge the doodles on CONTENT. Could there be 4 more dispicable characters than the Fanatical Four of Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, and Shumer? What? Osama and Fidel weren't available?
Thirdly, the press certainly didn't do any comparisons on Executive experience, or job performance, or business and personal associates, but they now want to compare DOODLES???? I guess any small edge is better than no edge at all.
When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).
BHO: "Would Like to Come to the Oval Office & See my Etchings?"
November 19, 2008 - 09:22 ET by CapeCodScottGood thing Clinton couldn't draw...
www.ScottOnCapeCod.com
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation"... until they get fed-up enough to finally say something about it!
OHMIGOSH
November 19, 2008 - 09:42 ET by BuzzguyI was all for Sarah Palin until I saw this CNN "Breaking News"!
How could I have been so blind? These doodles have raised the curtain on some real political ugliness.
On the part of CNN.
Is Jeanne Moos that
November 19, 2008 - 10:30 ET by suzycreamcheeseIs Jeanne Moos that butterface that's been banging around the news industry since the '80s? I didn't even know she was still working. I still cringe when I hear her voice echoing in my head--shades of Susan Estrich.
They're joking, right?
November 19, 2008 - 10:46 ET by mizflame98CNN is comparing the brainstorming scribblings of Palin to daydreaming work-shirking drawings of Obama?! Uh...yeah.
Perfect Demotivator for the Obama Administration
http://www.despair.com/government.html
Palin doodles about work
November 19, 2008 - 12:03 ET by HockeyKidPalin doodles about work she's facing, and Hussein's thinking, "Hey, if this politics thing doesn't work out, I can have my own comic strip!"
Two can play at your game, Jeannie Moos (oh, the kids must've been so cruel about your name...)
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Barrydoodles
November 19, 2008 - 20:26 ET by nkviking75Bear in mind that she [the graphologist] is analyzing a piece of paper featuring drawings
of the faces of some of the most liberal members of the Senate.
Hey, Barry wasn't in the Senate much, but when he was, he had to do something to stay awake.
Welcome to the era of unity, you racist!
Obama doodle
November 22, 2008 - 16:47 ET by BaldyAnyone notice the ONLY people Obama drew in profile are Jews? I wouldn't think much of it except for his name, his obvious affection for the Arabs currently called Palestinians, and his choice of advisors.