You probably don't want to go there...

A video/audio recording of Sen. Obama has been making the rounds (not surprisingly - at all - Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity ran with this non-story on the same day) recently purporting to reveal many 'gaffes' on the campaign trail, supposed to demonstrate something negative about the Senator, though I'm not sure what. He stutters a couple of times, incorrectly identifies a handful of cities, accidentally refers to an asthma inhaler a breathylizer, and loses his train of thought discussing the cost of a program.

The Senator is, of course, talking a great deal lately. And, as any human being would when asked to speak extemporaneously for several hours a day, he has missed a beat or two. Conservatives may not want to get into a discussion of silly-sounding politicians. Nor silly-sounding candidates.

All of these are non-issues. Obama knows what an inhaler is; Sen. McCain knows who Vladimir Putin is. Speech, unlike blogging, has no backspace button. Those hyping these events are trying to score lazy cheap shots.

This just in: Conservative media believes that liberals suck.

Listening to a Christian radio station on the way home from school got me to wondering. The host was attacking Sen. Obama for being 'pro-abortion;' he rolled out the usual quotes and attacks for the benefit of his listeners, Obama thinks babies are punishments, blah blah blah.

I have a feeling that the listeners and watchers of Conservative Christian radio stations, Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingraham, Fox et al. are people who would never have voted for Obama in the first place. Christianity's a big tent, and it's a safe bet that Christian Democrats/non-Republicans aren't listening to this station's political hour. So one has to wonder exactly what they believe repeating 'Obama sucks' for the next six months is going to accomplish.

McClellan

It seems to me that books written by administration insiders critical of that administration are hailed as a Great Work of Truth by liberals/Democrats if written by conservatives/Republicans, and hailed by conservatives/Republicans as a Great Work of Truth if written by liberals/Democrats.

An insider book critical of a Republican administration will be met with widespread derision in all conservative media, whether the work has any merit or not, and the former loyal soldier will be vilified by the O'Reilly-Limbaugh-Hume axis that used to sing his praises, or at least accord him the respect due to a loyal soldier. I imagine this holds true for Democratic administration insiders as well (Although the Olbermann-Colmes-Franken axis just doesn't seem to have quite the same oomph), though it's been a while since we've had one so it'd be hard to say for sure.

Many (most) of the blowhards passing judgment will not have read the book, and will cheerfully openly admit this fact.