From Politico –
The shower of indignation on Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos over the last few days is the clearest evidence yet that the Clintonites are fundamentally correct in their complaint that she has been flying throughout this campaign into a headwind of media favoritism for Obama.
Last fall, when NBC’s Tim Russert hazed Clinton with a bunch of similar questions – a mix of fair and impertinent – he got lots of gripes from Clinton supporters.
But there was nothing like the piling on from journalists rushing to validate the Obama criticisms and denouncing ABC’s performance as journalistically unsound.
I thought some of the questions were really, really bad.
The “Do you believe in the american flag?” question is a something you ask after someone is found guilty of treason, not when a presidential candidate won’t wear a pin. Was anyone expecting a different answer from Obama other than “I love my country?”.
Is there anyone who thinks this is a responsible journalistic question?