From NewsBusters, Tim Graham writes:
Out of the mouths of young, untrained reporters come the unspoken beliefs of the liberal media. Speaking to Matt Lauer as they tour Virginia for this morning's Today, NBC newbie Luke Russert reported from the University of Virginia. Just before the 8:30 break, Lauer asked him if that campus was representative of students statewide, and young Russert asserted:"You have to remember, the smartest kids in the state go there, so it's leaning a little bit towards Obama."
To Luke Russert's credit, he apologized for his remark.
Earlier this morning on the Today Show I misspoke and made what is without a doubt, quite simply a dumb comment.
Matt Lauer talked about UVA being a smart school and whether or not it could be considered a microcosm of Virginia at large. I said UVA had a lot of smart kids and so the school was leaning Obama.
I MEANT to say that many of the kids who go to UVA are from affluent, highly educated households who are leaning Obama and hence their kids lean Obama. Plenty of smart college kids will vote for John McCain from UVA, and plenty of smart kids go to Virginia Tech or George Mason and they, too, could end up being big Obama voters.
Today was one of my first lessons in the perils of live television...lesson learned.
If only the veteran journalists, especially those at NBC and MSNBC, had as much class as Luke Russert.
They can learn a lesson from Luke. At least he acknowledges that smart kids will be voting for McCain. It takes guts to say something like that when employed by NBC.
2 comments:
I taught myself basic calculus at age eleven and attended my first college courses at age twelve; I would not vote for Obama for a million dollars. Moreover, someone else I know who got a BA at age seventeen and a third person who is arguably smarter than both of us also are absolutely not voting for Obama. It is a liberal conceit to believe they are the smartest folks around.
Mary,
Not only are the statements I made true, I could have made additional statements of which you might be skeptical. However, saying more might compromise my privacy even more than my original post. In fact, anyone who actually knows me well would immediately be able to recognize me from just the earlier material.
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