Media obsesses about Obama's snoring -- how informational!

What is going on here?  Just about every news channel seems to be obsessed with the fact that Barack Obama snores during the night, yet each of them ignored the big endorsement that he got today from Bill Clinton's former Energy Secretary:

Federico Pena, a former mayor of Denver who also served as EnergySecretary in the Clinton administration, announced his endorsementtoday in the Democratic presidential campaign.

He took a pass on Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose husbandhired him, and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who succeeded him asenergy secretary. The party’s best candidate, he believes, is SenatorBarack Obama.

“I have come to conclude that Barack Obama has the depth of judgmentthat our country needs to usher in a new era of global leadership,” Mr.Pena told reporters this afternoon on a conference call arranged by theObama campaign. He added, “For me, judgment and wisdom are far moreimportant than experience. But frankly, I like the experience thatSenator Obama has.”

Pena is a guy that spent most of his tenure at war with the Republicans and oil companies over the issue of energy reform.  For a former Energy Secretary, who is passionate about energy independence, to endorse Obama, it certainly says a whole lot about the confidence he has in the freshman Senator from Illinois to lead our country and change the way we consume resources.

But this was too substantive for the media to cover.  People like Tucker Carlson were busy joking about Obama's snoring habits.  The MSNBC host even started a rumor that Barack and his wife Michelle do not sleep in the same bed.  This is what our political discourse has been reduced to.

Comments

[Jon]

Everyone hates a snorer and no one will ever admit to doing it unless tapes are produced. Now normally I'd say this information isn't relevant but this being the USA voters will do anything and everything avoid having to rub 2 important issues together to form an informed analysis.

I'm really getting disgusted with this country and its second grade behavior on a whole range of issues. It wont matter who's elected if the media and the nation itself feed off of this kind of crap. Its not like Obama doesn't have real issues he could be criticized for but no they want to take it to snoring and who sleeps where.

F'n idiots >:(

[Chief Editor: Todd]

Definitely!!! If they are going to criticize Obama on a substantive basis, then fine, let's have a discussion about it. But this garbage is what makes me really agree with you about US media. It's all about the entertainment value, nothing else. In a way, it's good because more people then pay attention to politics. But is it juvenile? Of course!