Politics
McAuliffe says media ‘in the tank’ for Obama
Terry McAuliffe, campaign chairman for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), said Tuesday that the former first lady is hamstrung by a biased media. “Clearly it has been a biased media, no question about it,” McAuliffe said on Fox News. When asked how much of the mainstream media is “in the tank” for Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), who leads Clinton in the race for the Democratic nomination, McAuliffe estimated that about 90 percent of the media favor Obama. “It is what it is. We’re not complaining,” he stated. “We have to deal with the hand we’re dealt with.”McAuliffe added that “every independent study has said that this is the most biased coverage they’ve ever seen in a presidential campaign.” He also praised Fox News, which is often viewed as a conservative media outlet, as “one of the most responsible in this presidential campaign.”
Posted: 05/13/08 11:43 AM [ET]
