The Sun-Times headline on their web site Obama index page (there is no Clinton or McCain index, by the way) has Sen Obama’s resounding defeat in Puerto Rico titled
Obama moves closer to victoryThen, clicking through gets us to a more measured headline
Obama loses Puerto Rico, but moves closer to victoryWhich upon further reading, “showed Clinton with 261,916 votes, or 68 percent, to Obama’s 120,929, or 32 percent” which is a massive defeat, in a State where some predicted Obama to win.
There were probably 100 ways to read the Clinton landslide in Puerto Rico. The Sun-Times took a partisan viewpoint, threw out the 99 obvious ways of looking at the results, and chose the one which fits their one-sided political leaning.
We offer a full round of applause to such a throwback to a more deliberate time when journalists and editors did not even pretend to be fair-handed.
Bill Baar says:
Well, in a weird way the headlines are right... the defeats move Obama closer to victory by simply getting voters out of the way so the super delegates can call it.
tom says:
These type of partisan headlines are not limited the Chicago newspapers. Hillary Clinton as won what 9 of the past 11 primaries. All the time the media is calling it over. The media ingeneral is repaeting how she should resign. Yet she is anialating him in the voting booths. Now the rules committee of the DNC has taken the unprecedented step of actually taking delegates away from Senator Clinton. Are you kidding me? Obama new that he could not win Michighan form polling. Therefore, he did not put his name on the ballot. Voluntarily. There were many things the rule committee could have done to Michgan and Floridae besised not counting the votes of US citezens. Punish the polititian not the voters and ultimately the whole country by allowing an inferior candidate to win the nomination thorugh what amount to shananighans. Lastly, Senator Obama sat and listened to twenty years of racist sermons of reverend Wright and only now with the heat of the public spotlight does he renounce the reverend whom he publicaly embraced. This is not the person that I want for my parties nominee and it is not the President that I want for my country. I haven't even touched on his total lack of experience. It is time for the media and the Not so Super Delegates to listen to the votes. HRC should be the Domcratic nominee!
Skeeter says:
The Boston Red Sox were within one out of being eliminated from the ALCS and losing the pennant to the New York Yankees in four straight games. Boston rallied to win the game in extra innings and proceeded to win eight consecutive games defeating both New York and St. Louis to be crowned as the World Champions of Baseball.
It ain't over until the last out is made.
Obama cannot win the nomination out right, so he will have to appeal to superdelegates to put him over the finish line. Months earlier, when it appeared that Clinton could secure a victory by appealing to the same superdelegates, the Obama camp called such a path to the nomination illegitimate. What hypocrisy.
carolW says:
Yup, that's about right. That's exactly why I quit reading The Sun Times.