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Obama's Bottom 10 VP List…Video
June 05, 2008 9:21 AM
We did it for Nightline last night, produced by the brilliant Talesha Reynolds. Amazing graphics from our folks in New York!
Watch HERE.
- jpt
June 5, 2008 in Obama, Barack | Permalink | Share | User Comments (39)
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It is deceptive against Obama and would also be against McCain. How low can you sink.
Posted by: Steve | Jun 6, 2008 10:42:21 PM
A new journalistic low! I thought the media was supposed to cover "the news" and not make the news. You're a disgrace to your profession!
Posted by: Donna G. Campbell | Jun 6, 2008 10:15:18 PM
This from the station that brought you the Path to 911, the incredibly bad debates, and recently cut off Obama's end of the primaries speech just when Obama began criticizing McCain. As others have said, this isn't funny, it's more of the same from the corporate bought media.
Posted by: Lucy | Jun 6, 2008 10:10:30 PM
This is news? No fact checking. No journalistic integrity.No unbiased coverage. Just salacious- ratings- getting -Jerry Springer- type crap. I'm so sick of it! If I want to watch political commedy, I'll watch John Stewart. At least he is billed as commedy, and not the REAL news. I don't think there IS real news anymore.
Posted by: Norma Asbury | Jun 6, 2008 9:48:38 PM
A waste of airtime...and a shame that ABC would allow this type of story.
Posted by: RobynShack | Jun 6, 2008 9:47:30 PM
Looking forward to the McCain list ...
Posted by: JoePhilly | Jun 6, 2008 9:24:32 PM
Wow, a new low, even for ABC. Couple this with a lack of fairness and "equal time", and the horrendous sham of a debate hosted by ABC, and it's no wonder you guys are seen as pathetic right wing shills.
Posted by: Matthew | Jun 6, 2008 8:45:43 PM
The worse. Will never watch ABC again. Never Again!
Posted by: Disgusted | Jun 6, 2008 8:26:51 PM
So when will we see McCain's list? He has more than enough for you to choose from.
You're supposed to be news aren't you? Not a late night comedy sketch?
I hope you're half as ashamed of yourselves as I am ashamed of you.
Posted by: Calli | Jun 6, 2008 7:59:38 PM
"RL in Illinois" said that everyone at his work thought this was hilarious. Apparently RL stands for Rush Limbaugh!
Seriously, this was a pathetic smear-job that was thinly veiled in a humor segment. It was terrible. And who cares if they haven't had a similar segment about McCain and his many skeletons?
Showing more propaganda and BS about EITHER party is not Nightline's job. Hiding political propaganda in supposedly humorous skits is best left for Fox News and Comedy Central, not ABC.
Posted by: Cheryl | Jun 6, 2008 5:14:57 PM
How transparent can you be? As others have already noted, if equal time had been apportioned to airing a McCain list you might have garnered a little more credibility. As it stands, this was nothing short of a pathetic smear masquerading as news entertainment.
Not to worry though. ABC had already lost this viewer and many more of my friends and family after the last farce your network advertised as a presidential debate. Considering the ratings hit the network ultimately took for that, it's unfortunate you don't seem able to learn from your mistakes.
Posted by: Mireille | Jun 6, 2008 2:44:22 PM
That was embarrasingly biased and not funny. It was a smear job that rehashed most of the negative talking points on Obama. Honestly, that script could've been written by Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh.
Something tells me the people who thought it was funny comprise the 25% or so who think Bush is a good president. Either that or they're friends of the people who produced this terrible segment.
Posted by: Tom | Jun 6, 2008 12:51:54 AM
Everyone at work who listened today found it hilarious.
Posted by: RL in Illinois | Jun 6, 2008 12:00:08 AM
Obama asked Caroline Kennedy to choose the VP for him.
Is she involved in politic?
What does she know about politic?
Is this election about Kennedy reincarnation?
Posted by: catleya | Jun 5, 2008 4:05:42 PM
"I'm not watching it. Why wasn't there equal air time for McCain's bottom VP list?"
Would you have watched one about McCain's bottom 10 without even thinking about demanding one for Obama? Yeah, I thought so.
Tolerance... its not just about bigger colony insects, you know.
Posted by: sherlock | Jun 5, 2008 2:09:30 PM
Yeah I would say just to keep it even you need a mcCain list too.
Which actually would be funnier...and perhaps more hurtful...
I think you may not even need to many graphics since the funny characters that are most hurtful to McCain actually have real photos of the two arm and arm often.
He and the lobbyists...
He and female lobbyists he has been rumored to have relationships with
He and Charles Keating
He and GW
Posted by: dl | Jun 5, 2008 11:58:47 AM
I'd love to see a bottom 10 McCain VP list. The one you did for Obama was very well done.
Posted by: Mike | Jun 5, 2008 11:20:40 AM
I'm not watching it. Why wasn't there equal air time for McCain's bottom VP list?
Posted by: katrina | Jun 5, 2008 10:12:32 AM
And that's the truth. Too, too funny. Can you do it on Letterman or the Tonight Show? Please send it to Matthews and Olbermann.
Posted by: RL in Illinois | Jun 5, 2008 10:08:26 AM
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