What is it with these misleading MSM titles: "Steal Virginia"

[No Passaran]

Obama in position to steal Virginia from GOP

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/09/virginia.battleground/index.html

[SoonerPride]

1. They planted a little Acorn and now it is growing into a tree.

har de har har

[PBS Poll-435]

11. Very witty!

:thumbsup:

[TornadoTN]

2. It's the latest GOP meme - it's their version of a RickRoll

Look for these buzzwords to show you who in the media is taking the marching orders from the GOP.

[nc4bo]

3. Isn't that what those knuckledragging hatemongers accuse black men of doing? Despicable. nt

[grantcart]

4. It simply means stealing one from the red column - a state that has been red since the flood

now voting blue

[No Passaran]

7. And they couldn't say "in position to turn VA blue" why?

[grantcart]

17. its a common expression that goes back to play offs when you steal a game from the

home team. In baseball when the visiting team wins one on the road it is frequently referred to as "stealing one" from the home team - it means that you have overcome a homefield advantage and taken one that was not expected.



By trivializing the charge and using it when it has absolutely no connection and represents a situation where it is commonly used and understood it undermines our credability when we make the charge under more serious situations.


Push it now and people will think we are nuts and not listen to us when we have something substantive to say, like the boy who cried wolf.

[SoonerPride]

9. The choice of words is, in my opinion, not a mistake.

Why not "turning blue" or "flipping Democratic" or "rejecting Republicans"??

But "steal" fits the meme of Acorn and election fraud that they want to frame this discussion in.

It is not a mistake. That word was used deliberately IMO.

[No Passaran]

12. on their Plitics page "Virginia demographic shifts favor Obama" pointing to same article

what do you mean "demographic"?

[RaleighNCDUer]

13. Well, you see, all those illegal aliens who moved into the state

have changed the demographic, and they're all going to vote for Obama.

At least, that's what they're saying on FR.

[grantcart]

18. It is not a mistake it is a very common sports saying when a visiting team takes

an unexpected win on the road. Get hysterical now over nothing and people are not going to listen to you the next time.

[goclark]

5. So the MSM thinks that the Rethugs owned it

The MSM is buying into this crap.

All I see if Sarah and Casper on my TV and then their Ayers stuff.

i refuse to listen to these lies with no one strongly bashing them but Joe Biden.

[Sebastian Doyle]

6. Well, my cynical side says the answer is obvious

Whore media trying to stir up the same lowest common denominator that McCrazy and Moosealini have been doing this week. Associate the word "steal" with a black man, especially in Southern states (no offense to you or other Southern Democrats intended)

[Schulzz]

8. Rasmussen always writes McCain "earns" support, Obama "attracts" it. nt

[RaleighNCDUer]

14. That's only because it is so much easier for an inexperienced

mixed race guy to get support than for a white guy who's been in Washington for 35 years.

[Quantess]

10. So the Virginia voters are stealing it from themselves, then.

[MadBadger]

15. Its been red for over 40 years, It would be a steal for Obama to get it....

Dont make this into something it isnt.

[Overseas]

16. Obama in position to win Virginia from GOP

sounds quite different.

Winning a hard fought battle for their hearts & minds.

VS

Stealing-- unauthorized, dishonest, piracy

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Sure, these "subconscious, unintentional" slurs can't always be caught in advance, but I wish CNN would try harder.