The American Pundit

I’m pretty sure he would. The major news network actually willing to question his claims on a regular basis being absent would sure help his poll numbers. With just networks willing to whitewash his controversies and cover his butt around, he’d probably have a very large lead.

“I am convinced that if there were no Fox News, I might be two or three points higher in the polls,” Obama told me. “If I were watching Fox News, I wouldn’t vote for me, right? Because the way I’m portrayed 24/7 is as a freak! I am the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant liberal. Who wants somebody like that?

Does Senator Obama purport to own a gun? Does he not read the New York Times? Is he not the most liberal U.S. Senator today according to National Journal? Is he not politically correct? Did he not have his own presidential seal and convention temple built for him? I can’t comment on his drinking habits, but I’m pretty sure he’s not adverse to a latte.

“I guess the point I’m making,” he went on, “is that there is an entire industry now, an entire apparatus, designed to perpetuate this cultural schism, and it’s powerful. People want to know that you’re fighting for them, that you get them. And I actually think I do. But you know, if people are just seeing me in sound bites, they’re not going to discover that. That’s why I say that some of that may have to happen after the election, when they get to know you.”

Yes, Americans will be thrilled to learn after the election that Barry has deep ties to a domestic terrorist; was much more involved for those 20 years with Jeremiah Wright than he lets on; did work for ACORN; and all the rest. Obama’s entire political success is built on people seeing him in soundbites. It’s not soundbites that he opposes, it’s soundbites not beneficial to him.