Obama Tells the Best Political Team on Television: You Guys Have a Choice...

OBAMA TELLS THE BEST POLITICAL TEAM ON TELEVISION: YOU GUYS HAVE A CHOICE...
[Commentary] This is the style of analysis--and the level of thought--we have become miserably utterly used to: everything is a move in the game of getting elected, and it's our job in political television to explain to you, the slightly clueless viewer at home, what the special tactics in this case are, then to estimate whether they will work. But Greg Sargent at Talking Points Memo said, "Obama's speech, throughout, asks its listeners to transcend themselves -- it asks them to choose nuance over cartoonish political controversy; it asks them to acknowledge stuff about race they don't want to acknowledge; it asks them to think big instead of small." In fact it was a speech aimed right at television's chattering class and all the makers of our election year spectacle.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jay-rosen/obama-tells-the-best-poli_b_9213...
* A Complex Speech, Boiled Down to Simple Politics (Howard Kurtz)
[Commentary] Sen Obama challenged the media to lift their level of discourse above the inflammatory rhetoric of his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. On the nightly newscasts and in the morning papers, many journalists did try to grapple with the complexity of Obama's Tuesday address about the roots of racial tension. But when the story hit the Cuisinart of talk-show debate, it got whipped into a single question: Did Obama adequately distance himself from the radioactive reverend? Not surprisingly, most liberals loved the speech and many conservatives -- though not all -- lambasted it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/19/AR200803...