Fox News’ mega-ratings winner Bill O’Reilly defends Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama against charges from GOP Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s camp that Obama talk about a pig with lipstick was a reference to Republican Veep candidate Gov. Sarah Palin. O’Reilly also takes (another) swipe at NBC News — and warns McCain about the impact this kind of campaigning could have on independent voters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGGW32-zJfk
This signals that the charge — although it may still be effective — has now jumped the shark. (Or the pig..)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.