"Obama campaigns for the dork vote" ...or... CNN & AP crop on Obama

[krkaufman]

So sayeth the staff of CNN's 'Anderson Cooper 360' program, on the Monday, June 9th show. The following is the winning caption submitted by "Dan", of the AC360 staff, for the day's "Beat 360" photo caption contest.

Should you care to do so, you can email *your* thoughts to AC360/CNN, here.

More on the Obama family bike ride, including why Obama's daughter riding the tandem attachment was cropped from all the AP photos, can be found here.

[babylonsister]

1. I heard this on m$nbc this a.m. They have some nerve considering

all the photo ops of the dim one biking, falling, bruising, in his spandex and ankle socks.
Give me Obama compared to that POS any day.

[boobooday]

5. They never captioned Bush as campaigning for the "drunk vote"

Or the "frat boy" vote.

[krkaufman]

10. Yep. And it's one thing to have this nonsense going on in Freeperville ...

... or its Murdoch media outlet, but for CNN and MSNBC to be *CREATING* the smears is a whole 'nother thing. (It's not even like they're reporting on someone else smearing Obama this time around, they're doing the dirty work themselves.)

It's a trivial issue, certainly, but a bad sign of the media coverage that is to come if it isn't slapped back.

[Cha]

17. Dorks Unite..Dorks vote too!

Obama can own these freakin' mediawhore manipulations. Make Lemonade outta all the lemons they'll be giving Obama from now until the election.

Can poor mccain ride a bike?

[krkaufman]

9. Oh, MSNBC! (I missed that earlier)

Was it on "Morning Joe", or some other program? (Want to direct my ire appropriately.)

[babylonsister]

11. Yes, Scaborough. Willie was showing the morning papers and that

showed up.

[krkaufman]

12. Did they just show the pic, or did they deride Obama in some way? n/t

(thanks for feedback)

[babylonsister]

14. I do believe there was some derision going on, but I pretty much

tuned them out. I do that a lot.

[krkaufman]

15. Healthy approach!! n/t

:)

[jakem]

2. was this over the line as a comment to AC?

"Yes, Obama sure is 'dorky'- going for a bike ride with his family on a tandem bike - which you conveniently cropped out of the picture.

It would be much 'cooler' if he just masturbated over the news like the 12 year olds at Anderson Cooper, rather than trying to make a difference in the world, or God forbid- spend time with his family."

[krkaufman]

3. Excellent comment! I wouldn't expect it to win the "viewer caption" submission any time soon.

(similar to what I emailed them)

[sarge43]

4. Ah Coop, clue phone

Votes are like money. They work no matter who's popping. There's a lot of dorks out here and if they identify with Obama, so much the better come 4 November.

[boobooday]

6. Here's what I sent them . . .

The "dork" caption on the Obama photo was not funny. "Dork?" Who even says that anymore? It is also interesting that your lame joke required cropping a picture that otherwise might have been captioned "Obama campaigns for the "dad" vote."

[DeepModem Mom]

7. You really called this, krkaufman. I notice the image popping up on YouTube now...

as I look over there. Thanks for the heads-up on the CNN stuff.

I would say that none of our candidates should ever be photographed on a bike -- but then that begs the question, how is Bush unaffected by those ridiculous photos of him? The old GOP/Dem double standard is still, unfortunately, in full effect.

[krkaufman]

8. Thanks for the reminder. I was wanting to check YouTube for video of the ride ..

... but hadn't gotten around to it.

Found! Here's a video of Obama riding tandem with his daughter, from Sunday... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obeHJmmhLkc


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And here's an ignorant (and exceedingly lame) mashup from some Internet twit, that now includes the cropped AP photo... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzR2eQSIvt8

[krkaufman]

13. VIDEO of the ride, on YouTube, here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obeHJmmhLkc

... plus a couple stills snapped from the vid:



(thanks, DeepModem Mom)

[DeepModem Mom]

16. How adorable is that! And the video is just great. Thanks so much --

I hope more folks will see this video.