Anchorage Daily News endorses Barack Obama

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Wee.

Bwahahaha!

is it just me, or is the link broken?

EDIT

I found the story you're talking about, but the link doesn't seem to work. Maybe this one will work

It's just you. You provided the exact same link.

Priceless!

Yes, it's the exact same link. That was the point. I couldn't get his link to work, so I redid it and got it to work for me. It probably worked for everyone else, but in case it didn't I redid it.

Now, can we get back to the celebration?

Yeeeuh boooooii!

That was weird it came up as the homepage for the paper instead of the article. Thanks for fixing it. I'm an idiot for not checking to see if it worked.

The OP put /// in the address instead of //

Not just some lightweight, either.

Anyone leaving it this late to endorse Obama is a fucking coward. If they have left it this late it's just damn obvious they were waiting to see if Obama's polls held out before committing.

That also goes for General Colon Bowell, who could have backed Obysmal at any point but waited like a quivering blancmange until he thought it was safe to do so.

Jesus, you're pathetic.

Or it could be that, as they indicated in their endorsement - and Powell did as well - a huge part of it was about the difference in the two candidates' response to recent events. Events that are important enough that it makes sense to reserve judgment until their responses were apparent. That is now the case, so the endorsement came now.

Or maybe someone who has repeatedly demonstrated that he doesn't understand the first fucking thing about American politics suddenly received a lifetime's worth of insight. Along with the third-grade insults.

Nah, I'll go with the first one.

i'm so hap happy McHappy.

Are you angling for an AM talk-radio position? "Colon Bowell?" I thought you liked his war, matey.

If you had actually listened to what the man said when he made his endorsement, it would make more sense to you. But once again, you seem to have done the skimming both in comprehension and analysis.

I won't say I disagree entirely that there were probably papers that wanted to make the endorsement but waited for polls. I suppose you could easily link to a graph or table showing some correlation to that effect?

Maybe some people think before they speak or type. You should try it sometime.

Well that's just totally absurd. I know that idealogues (on both sides) have a hard time believing that some people aren't as strident in their beliefs as they are, but many people are/were legitimately undecided. Not everyone was "clearly" going to support either McCain or Obama from the start. Some people actually take time to get a feel for the candidates. This is doubly true for editorial boards that are made up of multiple people.

Additionally, I know this is hard to believe, but there are actual reasons to support Obama other than bandwagon-jumping. Crazily enough, it's true.

Like what this dude says:

Personally, I was undecided right up until the VP selection. That's when John McCain made it clear what kind of conservative he considers himself, and it's the exact opposite of the kind of conservative I consider myself.

For what it's worth, Obama is absolutely kicking the shit out of McCain in newspaper endorsements.

Here's an interactive map that shows the endorsements up through the weekend. The tally then was 139-52. Twenty-nine of those papers who endorsed Obama endorsed Bush in 2004. Among those pinko liberal bandwagon jumping rags are the Salt Lake Tribune, the Houston Chronicle, the Bryn/College Station Eagle and my hometown paper and former employer the Tri-Valley Herald in Pleasanton, CA.

McCain has had four (4) papers endorse him who endorsed Kerry in 2004. The final tally in 2004 was 208-189 in favor of Kerry.

Oh, hai, Wikipedia has the current spread at 178-55 and 33-5 on the switches.

how does nobody else feel that it's wrong for a media outlet, be it newspaper, magazine, or radio station, to publicly endorse a candidate? From this point on nothing that anybody at the Anchorage Daily News writes about the campaign or anything related to the running of this country can not be taken seriously.

So yeah, go ahead. Jounalistic integrity be damned, all aboard to Obamatrain!!! woo woo

It was in the opinion section. That's where editors express their opinions. The editor had an opinion. That opinion was expressed.

Journalism 101: The editorial board is a separate entity from the news room. Newspapers have long had a tradition of their editorial boards endorsing candidates, both Democrat and Republican.