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CNN repeats smear of Obama supporters as "creepy" and "cult-like"
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| News Date | Saturday, February 16, 2008 01:55:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Summary: CNN's Carol Costello said that audience response at a Barack Obama rally is "a scene some increasingly find not inspirational, but 'creepy,' " quoting columnists who have likened Obama supporters to members of a cult or described their enthusiasm as "creepy." On-screen text during Costello's report read: "OBAMA-MANIA BACKLASH" and "PASSION 'CULT-LIKE' TO SOME." Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer similarly cited other writers to make the same assertion: "ABC's Jake Tapper notes the 'Helter-Skelter cult-ish qualities' of 'Obama worshipers,' what Joel Stein of the Los Angeles Times calls 'the Cult of Obama.' "
On the February 15 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer described "so-called Obama-mania": "Obama has some very passionate supporters out there and some are suggesting some may be a little bit too passionate." Contributor Carol Costello said that audience response at an Obama rally is "a scene some increasingly find not inspirational, but 'creepy' " and then cited columns by Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein, conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks, and Time columnist Joe Klein, all of whom likened Obama supporters to members of a cult or described their enthusiasm as "creepy." On-screen text during Costello's report read: "OBAMA-MANIA BACKLASH" and "PASSION 'CULT-LIKE' TO SOME."
Costello reported that "some" find it "creepy" that Obama supporters "wildly respond" to him, "chanting enthusiastically." But "chanting enthusiastically" at political rallies is common; rallies for John McCain in recent weeks have frequently featured supporters chanting "Mac is Back!" |
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