The Corporate Media Take on the Election

Humorous but maddening article over at HuffPo about how the presidential race has gone for the last two weeks. It seems Tim Downing took a self-imposed media vacation and needed to catch up. His summary is HERE. Ouch. Definitely read the whole thing.

* If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you’re a not-to-be trusted pointy-headed intellectual and don’t have any real leadership experience.

* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, you’re the “real” leader and qualified to become the country’s second highest ranking executive.