I'm not sensing that this Obama Special Olympics joke is getting much traction in the MSM

[bluestateguy]

At best it seems to be a one day story, and a secondary one at that.

[tularetom]

1. Nah, it's too easy to dig up GOP cracks about disabled people

And the more they pick at Obama for saying what he did the more stuff will come out about nasty things limpballs or oreilly or some other asswipe has said.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Just heard it on 3 different news shows this morning

No traction at all!

:sarcasm:

[wndycty]

3. Reporting on it is not traction

:kick:

[Phx_Dem]

9. I head it reported to and both anchors glossed over it and indicated

it didn't seem to be a big deal.

No sarcasm.

[hedgehog]

4. Lest we forget:

http://impolitical.blogspot.com/2006/10/watch-limbaugh-mock-michael-j-fox.html

[ShortnFiery]

5. The WHORES in the CORPORATE M$M are giving it a good try, but no cigar.

:evilgrin:

[TechBear_Seattle]

6. Thereby proving a liberal bias in the media

I can already hear Limpballs and O`Lielly gearing up. :eyes:

[Phx_Dem]

7. Nah, even Alex Witt said it didn't seem to be a big deal.

Aside from that, I've heard nary a word about it this moring. I'm surprised Drudge doesn't have a FLASHING RED LIGHT with a huge banner. Most comments I've read on Huff Post and other sites are unriled. Several people state they have family members who participate in Special Olympis and they were not offended. He was being self-deprecating and he shouldn't have mentioned Special Olympics, but it was not a big deal.

If anyone was offended, good for them. Do they seriously think President Obama would make fun of handicapped people? Please.

Even Chuck Todd thinks it's a yawner.

[Connie_Corleone]

8. That's because he apologized before the show came on last night.

And most people barely even noticed until they heard a story about it.

Also, most people can tell he wasn't making fun of special needs people. He was poking fun at himself.

[pot luck]

10. When I switched over to MSNBC,

Alex Twit and some Politico stooge were discussing it. When Twit read the Twitter comments about it, the majority were complaining about the focus on this instead of more important topics. The M$M are trying, but the viewers don't seem to care.

[meli224]

13. finally twitter was looked at

in a useful way. They both looked liked morons talking about it when the people on twitter were telling them to worry about the economy.lol

[ksoze]

11. Getting plenty of attention in the freepers padded room forums...

Brain twisting comments like:

"I saw the comment. It was really crass and tasteless. Pres. Bush may not have been the best-spoken man that there is, but OB is a graceless national embarrassment."

Again, let them at it - the more they hang in freeper land and twist their Budweiser drenched colons over anything Obama, the more they stay off the streets or hurt themselves leaving the house.

[WeDidIt]

12. It's definitely NOT for a lack of trying

They;ll trot out Palin some time to try and gain more traction.

The MSM is in "take down Obama at all costs" mode every bit as much as they were in "protect Bush at all costs" mode for eight years.

[jenmito]

14. Alex Witt (MSNBC) was just SHAMELESS! She asked a Politico reporter how she thought

the interview went. The woman said she thought it went well, that Obama got his points out about the economy, Geithner, etc., and he had some pretty good one-liners like the one about American Idol, and then Witt asked, "Was there any one thing that stood out about that interview? It doesn't have to be anything that was supposed to be serious or anything..." and THEN the woman mentioned the Special Olympics joke, and Witt said, "Since you brought it up, we'll play a clip of it..." I couldn't BELIEVE her!

[Peacetrain]

15. Well we sort of knew this was going to happen..but the President

by addressing it immediately as we did here in DU, took the steam out of it. Everyone makes verbal errors, and if you own up to it, then people understand.

They keep harping on it, it will work with the 20%, but with the rest of the country, it will just become a big geez get over it already.. and then ALL the verbal gaffes of the far right will start to re-emerge

[LynneSin]

16. That's because Obama handled it as an adult

He made a mistake and made the apologies

[LanternWaste]

17. I agree...

This story will get one news cycle and then all the pasta flung at the walls this morning will slide down, and the vultures look for the next righteous rage...

[TexasObserver]

18. I'd like to talk about the Obama Special Olympics joke issue.

Would someone care to start the discussion?

[Baikonour]

19. Of course it isn't. That's because the media isn't liberal.

And it's the liberals making a huge deal out of it.

[Jennicut]

20. I watched CNN this morning and there was nothing about it.

[cherokeeprogressive]

21. That may be true. Here though, it's a 4x4 with snow chains on all four tires. n/t