Well, at least you know where MSNBC and NBC stand on this whole DNC "civil war" going on between the regular folks and the crazed Hillary fans — the stations are firmly planted on the side of sensationalist journalism. While Republicans and Democrats are expected to snipe at each other during election time, the media at this convention locked eyes with a contingent of Dems who believe Hillary Clinton should have won the nomination and are threatening to vote for McCain come election time. Even NBC's political director Chuck Todd spoke out against the station spending all its hard-earned Denver drinking money covering the PUMAs (that's Party Unity My Ass), the particular anti-Obama group composed mainly of middle-aged white women, who receive a disproportionate amount of coverage based on their small numbers.
This is the political equivalent of Elisabeth Hasselbeck making those statements about Jeffrey Dahmer and bologna sandwiches; not everyone who likes processed meats is also a serial killer, and only a small, small percentage of people who voted for Hillary Clinton are running around the convention like Star Wars fans at Comic-Con. But since PUMAs are the most, uh, colorful turnouts of the event so far, and since nothing actually happens at the national conventions except network in-fighting, you can bet there is going to be a disproportionate amount of coverage on the crazy cat ladies. CONTINUED »
PUMAs (Party Unity My Ass) are the Hillary supporters who have been turning the DNC into a circus with their vocal protests against Barack Obama. PUMAs are like the ugly step-sisters of cougars: Both groups are composed mainly of white older women and both want to tie up the gender divide, even as cougar antics are much more appealing/nonthreatening to the general public — but PUMAs are much less harmful to the liberal platform. Even Hillary Clinton has called for a cease-fire from her supporters, who are now such a monstrous a juggernaut of such capacity they can no longer be controlled by their creator.
That implies, however, that Clinton is at the root of this PUMA spectacle. She's not. CONTINUED »
