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UnionLeader.com - New Hampshire news - McCain returns to NH with visit to Rochester - Tuesday, Jul. 22, 2008

McCain spent most of the day in Maine, where he joined former President George H.W. Bush in Kennebunkport and later campaigned in Portland with the state's two Republican senators.

In Manchester last night, there was just one reporter and one photographer waiting for McCain as his plane -- a white, blue and gold Boeing 737-400 emblazoned with his campaign slogan, "Reform, Prosperity, Peace" -- touched down on the Wiggins Airways tarmac.

Contrast that with Obama and his entourage, including anchors from ABC, CBS, and NBC...

You know, I understand that most reporters are liberals - but this is just crazy. This isn't just being in the tank for Obama, it's having gills surgically implanted and your lungs removed.

The comments are interesting... there's some who don't see anything wrong with what the media is doing, some nominal Democrats who think it stinks, and a lot of other people who think it's blazingly unfair.

Why should the press cover McCain? They have already declared Obama the winner and it doesn't matter what the American people think.

They believe it is their duty and right to tell the people who the best person is to lead the free word and to hell with trivial things like fairness or the peoples right to know about the candidates running for the highest office of this great country.

To the main stream media an actual election in which the people decide the outcome of this presidential campaign is a waste of time and money and they think they know what's best for us.
- Jim Kijek, Lexington KY

That more of the media did not show up for McCain should come as no surprise. They are all packed elbow to elbow in the Obama cheering section.

The New York Times even refused to print McCain's editorial response to Obama's outrageous editorial statements on Iraq and Afghanistan. Like an arrogant liberal college professor speaking to a freshman student, the editor at the NYT tells McCain to "re-write the article and re-submit it"

But, I guess they are just living up to their motto, "all the news that's fit to print". If it doesn't agree with their position (bent over for Obama), it's obviously not fit to print.
- Bob Garlington, Humble, Texas

All you right wingers quit complaining. You are all jealous because John McCain doesn't have a message other than repeating the Bush doctrine which has led to the world hating us, global warming, the housing crisis, and this energy crisis. Once Obama is elected, puts his justices in place and has a Democratically controlled congress there will be no stopping us putting this country on the right course forever. We'll get rid of the right wing media bias by reenacting the Fairness Doctrine and making our country safer by passing gun laws that will keep so many guns from being circulated for starters.
We need more people who think like Obama does to fill our cabinets, committees and government agencies to enforce his philosophy.
Get an education!
- David Martinez, San Franciso, CA

Only one or two newsgroupies for McCain? Not like the fauning mainstream newsgroupies like O'bama has? Now that's what I call Fair and Balanced!
- The Mikester, Farmers Branch, TX

An absolute disgrace. When three so-called "distingushed" news anchors (from NBC, CBS and ABC) accompany the democratic candidate for his 1st trip overseas, yet continue to neglect to cover the Republican candidate, it is quite obvious the aforementioned media outlets are liberally biased and are part of the George Soros liberal conspiracy to have the main stream media help elect a democrat, no matter what the cost...no matter what the inexperience, and no matter what radical islamic fundamental beliefs he comes from, all whilst continuing to play the race card.
Barack Hussein Obama is an empty suit who will bring nothing but reverse discrimination to our country and we should vote accordingly. McCain isn't my #1 choice, but he's a hell of alot better and more experienced, than the guy who gives good speaches, promises alot and speaks so well.
I wish folks like Glenn Beck or Mike Huckabee were our choices!!!
- Jack, Thassee

For anyone who knows anything about Journalism, it is the news media;s job to cover both sides of anissue of election, not McCain's or Obama's job to convince/get them to cover theirs. Obama may be doing a better job of wooing the media, but that still doesnt remove the blame from the media's side of just being ridiculously pro-Obama, and not so much anti-mccain as more indifferent and ignoring towards him
- Mike, Kansas

The media is disgusting! Talk about hipocracy! For such a liberal establishment that is supposedly so "tolerant and inclusive," it just goes to show you how they're all just full of crap!
Liberals (ummm, democommunists) are just made up of hateful intellectual wannabes who are too stupid to realize they're just a bunch of sheeples. They're following a loser who just wants to be president despite the fact that he's not even near qualified for the job! Never mind he'll run this country straight into the pit! But liberals are too intellectual and refined to know better.. Whatever!
- Ray, Colorado Springs

The "swarm" of media surrounding Obama and following his every move has been traveling with him. His campaign now takes part of "the swarm" with them to guarrantee maximum coverage. We have entered the phase of the general election where the media has cast objectivity out the window and are now unapologetically biased. The loss of a free and unbiased press will lead to the demise of the democracy.
- Jack, Des Moines, IA

Funny thing is - even with all the fawning coverage of Obama, and the slight coverage of McCain - they're dead even in the polls right now. Of course, right now they don't mean much at all...

The real problem I see with Obama is the more he shows himself, the worse he looks. Right now, he's got a carefully crafted image, and the media's doing what it can to protect it.

But sometimes it doesn't quite manage...

In case you don't want to follow the link - here's what happened. The question asked from ABC News was...

"If you had to do it over again, knowing what you know now, would you support the surge:"

"No, because keep in mind that question, you wouldn't ... but keep in mind that kind of hypothetical is very difficult to know hindsight is 20-20 ... later ... but I think that what I'm absolutely convinced of is that at that time we had to change the political debate because the view of the Bush administration at that time was one that I just disagreed with."

And the left calls Bush inarticulate. I don't know about you, but I'm getting tired of needing an interpreter to understand stuff like the above.

J.