{"id":1154,"date":"2008-12-03T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2008-12-03T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T16:48:00","slug":"now-they-tell-us-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"Now They Tell Us, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN makes an astounding discovery.&#160; Many people are comparing Barack Obama to famous presidents of the past, but the news organization is <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/11\/27\/mann.ct.obama.hero\/\" target=\"_blank\">urging caution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But will Obama be a great one? Even a good one?<\/p>\n<p>The Americans who are comparing him to those remarkable predecessors are putting a lot of faith in a man they barely know.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the words of Warner Todd Hudson (to whom the <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/warner-todd-huston\/2008\/12\/01\/now-cnn-warns-we-barely-know-obama\" target=\"_blank\">hat tip<\/a> goes):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>And why do we &quot;barely know&quot; Barack Obama, CNN? Is it perhaps because the American media never took the time to vet this man? Is it because all we&#8217;ve gotten is hero worship from the media?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The man&#8217;s been campaigning for 2 years; the media should have made sure we had more than just bare knowledge of the candidate, but his background, his associates, and even his middle name were considered taboo topics.&#160; But <em>now<\/em> they tell us we don&#8217;t know enough about him.&#160; Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN makes an astounding discovery.&#160; Many people are comparing Barack Obama to famous presidents of the past, but the news organization is urging caution. But will Obama be a great one? Even a good one? The Americans who are comparing him to those remarkable predecessors are putting a lot of faith in a man they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-doug","category-media","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}