Garrison Keillor often writes with a sharp pen. Here’s what he recently wrote (at Salon.com) about McCain’s attempts to brand Obama an elitist:
And it’s an amazing country where an Arizona multimillionaire can attack a Chicago South Sider as an elitist and hope to make it stick. The Chicagoan was brought up by a single mom who had big ambitions for him, and he got scholarshipped into Harvard Law and was made president of the law review, all of it on his own hook, whereas the Arizonan is the son of an admiral and was ushered into Annapolis though an indifferent student, much like the Current Occupant, both of them men who are very lucky that their fathers were born before they were. The Chicagoan, who grew up without a father, wrote a book on his own, using a computer. The Arizonan hired people to write his for him. But because the Chicagoan can say what he thinks and make sense and the Arizonan cannot do that for more than 30 seconds at a time, the old guy is hoping to portray the skinny guy as arrogant.
Good luck with that, sir.
NO! That is NOT what he wrote, it is a portion of what he wrote. While your piece seems not to have a sinister intent, I have to say that it is important to be totally accurate about such quotes.
I'm very sensative to that right now because I have seen e-mail after e-mail after e-mail that claim to repeat what a certain person said. Almost all of them are supposedly what Obama said.
Each takes the quotes out of context. All do that in a way that is intended to encourage the reader to misintrepret what really was said and why.
If Obama is really that bad, a person would simply need to give the references to what he said and let his FULL statements hang him. The fact that they have to resort to dishonest reporting tells me two things. First is that Obama isn't really too bad of a candidate. Second, that too many of his opponents are dishonest. It is even more ironic since they portray themselves as being totally honest in every way.
Obama detractors: how about being totally honest…for a change.
Mia: I'm confused. This post contains an excerpt from Keillor's article. These are Keillor's own words.
As far as McCain's tactics, it's plain as day to me that he is being painted as too smart and too uppity. That's the McCain strategy. If you don't believe me, listen to these conservatives (and moderates) plainly admitting it here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/03/gergen-m…
Mia: Here's another new McCain that paints Obama to be an elitist/celebrity. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWXqpHEsrxc&eurl=h…