"The mainstream media overwhelmingly gave him a total pass when he changed the subject from Reverend Wright.. to the reace of America" The speech was watched by millions of people on YouTube, which meant that for the moment, at least, the campaign had succeeded in circumventing the filter of the press.
Ari Fliescher, the former press secretary to George W. Bush said this about Obama. Hillary Clinton and John McCain were both against all the campaigning through Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. The article also talked about how in the Clinton era, campaigns weren't done on networking sites such as Twitter and so on, which all go around the filter of the press. During the Clinton era, the only way of campaigning was to actually go out in the world and do it by imagination such as interviews to the press. What I got out of this passage was that there was some tension with the other candidates because they didn't use Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites. Clinton and McCain also backed off the campaign for "charges of race-baiting" because Reverend Wright was taking sides with Obama-- and so did the press. This is important because the fact that Obama was getting more attention than other candidates were pushing the candidates away and making them mad. Obama is black, has a family and a beautiful wife; everyone was attracted to him and his life style. But many political leaders didn't like the favoriteism.
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