“When
NBC News first assigned me to the Barack Obama campaign, I must confess
my knees quaked a bit....I wondered if I was up to the job. I wondered
if I could do the campaign justice.” NBC reporter Lee Cowan in an article for “The Peacock,” an NBC
advertising supplement included in the March 23-29 edition of the
American Profile magazine newspaper insert. [59 points]
Runners-up:
“I
think there is a problem, though, with the media gushing over him [Barack
Obama] too much. I don’t think he thinks that he’s all that, but the
media does. I mean, the coverage after, that I was watching, from MSNBC,
I mean these guys were ready to have sex with him.” —
HBO’s Bill Maher on Real Time, August 29, the night after the end
of the Democratic convention. [55]
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Host
Howard Kurtz:
“Are journalists rooting for the Obama story?” The
Politico’sJohn Harris, referring to the Washington Post:
“It wouldn’t surprise me that there’s some of that.... A couple years
ago, you would send a reporter out with Obama, and it was like they
needed to go through detox when they came back — ‘Oh, he’s so
impressive, he’s so charismatic,’ and we’re kind of like, ‘Down, boy.’” —
Exchange on CNN’s Reliable Sources, January 13. [45]
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“If
you were going to events during the primaries, what you saw was that the
executive editors and the top people at the networks were all rushing to
Obama events, bringing their children, celebrating it, saying they were,
there’s this part of history....The American people are smart, they can
see this. That’s why Obama’s on every magazine cover....There’s no
question in my mind the media has been more supportive of Senator Obama.” —
National Public Radio’s Juan Williams on Fox News Sunday, October
26. [33]
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“Even
in the conversations we have as colleagues, there is a sense of trying
especially hard not to drink the Kool-Aid. It’s so rapturous, everything
around him [Barack Obama]. All these huge rallies.” —
Correspondent Lee Cowan, who covers Obama for NBC News, as quoted by
New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg in a March 1 story.
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