*** I put this in the TRAVEL forum because it is something I noticed while I was traveling but if the other mods want to move it to the debate forum I don't have a problem with that.
While traveling around the UK it was very apparent that the Brits, or at least their press/media folks, are in LOVE with Barack Obama and apparently will stoop to creation of false history and gladly will omit factual information about this candidate. Basically anything they can do to help Obama, they will do!
To be fair, here in the USA we have a very biased press that has been shown to be strongly favoring Obama. That said, there is a far higher level of skepticism about Obama here than in the UK.
Just a couple of media examples from the UK, one from their BBC news service, the other from one of their TV series:
- Obama went to Berlin and while there he stopped off at a rock concert event that had about 200,000 young people attending the concert. Obama gave a speech and the crowd cheered. The press report from the BBC completely omitted the fact that the huge crowd was there for the bands. In fact they went so far as to claim that Obama is capable of drawing huge crowds . . . they then contrasted that with McCain in tiny towns and small groups of people. It was very misleading in many ways. First it gave Obama credit for something he did not do. Second it bitch slapped McCain as being inept at attracting popular support. It should also be noted that Obama has used the technique of showing up at other rock concerts and making speeches in the past, the BBC never reported that fact either, however they did report that he is able to "attract huge crowds of young people." Clear bias, little fact.
- On a TV show called BONECRUNCHERS (or something like that) which is a crime/history/drama show that features forensic investigators. On the episode of the show that I watched they featured a plot that involved a young, black, US Senator as the main character; he was running for President of the US. Hmm? Coincidence? Well if that is not enough coincidence for you, the plot suggested that he had no war record and people in the US were skeptical of his ability to lead an army. Hmmmmm. Well the show went on with the plot from that point . . . seems a "slave" ship was found with the bones of slaves and seems that the US Senator's Grandmother gave the Senator a brass button from a Revolutionary war uniform. Seems that the button belonged to a black freed slave who led a group of other freed slaves in battles against the British, seems that this black freed slave helped George Washington win a very critical battle. Seems that George then gave the freed slave his gold pocket watch but then abandoned him despite the claims in the TV show that this black freed slave should have been given a key role in forming the fledgling US government. Seems that this freed slave is the great great great grandfather of the US Senator.
One of the very last scenes/lines in the show had the young black US Senator standing on a podium, addressing a crowd, and words he spoke were "I am a warrior"
I would just be guessing, but I'd think that if you took a poll of the Brits who watched that episode of BONECRUSHERS you'd find that a large % of them probably now believe that Barack Obama's ancestors help overthrow the King and fought in the Revolutionary War.
