'Welcome to Obamaville' Sign At Homeless Tent City, Media Mum
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By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive)
December 12, 2009 - 16:31 ET
A sign reading "Welcome to Obamaville Colorado's Fastest Growing
Community" appeared at a homeless tent city in Colorado Springs this
week.
You probably didn't hear about it because outside of two Colorado
television stations nobody found this newsworthy.
By contrast, when word got out in March of a tent city in Sacramento,
California, news media couldn't get enough of the story.
Is it because that happened so soon after Inauguration Day that it
could easily be blamed on George W. Bush, and that given the name
given to this area that's no longer possible?
Before you answer, here's the report logged Thursday by ABC affiliate
KRDO-TV (video embedded below the fold, h/t Breitbart TV):
According to LexisNexis and Google news searches, only KRDO and KJCT
reported the appearance of this sign.
By contrast, Sacramento's tent city garnered much national coverage in
March. In fact, according to LexisNexis, television news outlets ABC,
CBS, CNN, and NBC all covered it.
So did the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Washington Post,
and Slate.
Yet not a peep about Obamaville.
Exit question: If the Colorado Springs tent city sign read "Welcome to
Bushville," do you think it would get more media attention?
Yes, that's a rhetorical question.
amatbus2002
> http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/12/12/welcome-obamavi...
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> By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive)
> December 12, 2009 - 16:31 ET
>
> A sign reading "Welcome to Obamaville Colorado's Fastest Growing
> Community" appeared at a homeless tent city in Colorado Springs this
> week.
This afternoon I saw two peoople riding Sedgeway scooters on Market
Street; they're probably tourists. And then I thought of Bush, a guy
who could have fallen out of a scooter??!! Come on, these things are
pretty easy to operate--lean forward to go straight; lean back to
stop. So, I'd guess the impression of a person's intelligence does
great number on his favorable rating, whether he's doing some or not.
But then, Bush's tendency to insulate and surround himself only with
sycophants surely doesn't help.
Anything that would draw direct attention to the problem helps. We
can only take care of the situation one problem at a time.
Here's what I can find on the net: 12-14, two days late.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/14/obamaville-springs-tent-c_n_391093.html
God First, Country Second, Party Last.
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