As previously reported, Barack Obama made a scathing attack upon John McCain’s proposal for a $300 million prize for the development of a next-generation battery yesterday. In a delivered speech Obama stated, “In statements made today, Mr. Obama remarked, “I’ve been talking about this myself for the last few years. But I don’t think that a $300 million prize is the way to go. When John F. Kennedy decided that we were going to put a man on the moon, he didn’t put a bounty out for some rocket scientist to win – he put the full resources of the United States government behind the project and called on the ingenuity and innovation of the American people, not just in the private sector but also in the public sector.”
Obama’s gaffe claiming that “I don’t think that a $300 million prize is the way to go…” was a direct reflection of his inherent misunderstanding of American Ingenuity over the past 232 years, as reported in as reported at PDOP – Obama World: Government Not American Ingenuity Will Solve The Gas Crisis. More importantly however is the fact that news organizations across the country conveniently failed to publish this portion of Obama’s remarks. Both CNN Online and The New York Times published excerpts of the speech that omitted the gaffe.
Two reporters, however, took it upon themselves to alter the text of Obama’s speech in articles they published. In an ABC News article published last night, Jennifer Duck included the following quote from Obama’s speech, “I’ve been talking about this myself for the last few years. But I don’t think a $300 million prize is enough…”
The same quote was attributed to Obama in a Washington Post article written by Shailagh Murray. “He did give McCain credit for proposing a contest to produce a better car battery. ‘But I don’t think a $300 million prize is enough…’”
One can blame the alteration of Obama’s speech on poor reporting or even a lack of editorial oversight and fact-checking; or does this incident further highlight a lack of journalistic integrity in reporting the facts versus a the reporters view of what the story should be.
The video of Obama remarks are available at CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/24/campaign.wrap/index.html
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Gee, How much money was involved in the space program to get a man into space compared to the X-Prize civilian tourism competition? Even in today’s dollars, the X-Prize was far cheaper. The same goes with the AI competition vs SDI. SDI cost the U.S. billions of dollars and it still couldn’t tell the difference between balloons and real ICBM. The AI vehicle competion cost the army $10 million and the vehicals can tell you if it’s seeing grass or barbed wire and plot a course on their own. Obama doesn’t have a clue and don’t expect anything to be produced if he is president.
McCain makes a gaffe and it’s front page news. Obasma makes one and it gets hushed up…
Is anyone surprised?
Long ago when I was young, I remember all the coups that took place in South America. The First thing they did was take over the News Papers and radio Stations. The reason then is the same as now, to control the news. The MSM controls the news in two ways, report the news that is good for them and to suppress the news that wasn’t. Does anyone see any difference in most of our MSM today.
Not that I think it’s right, but it is likely that the published reports are based on the speech as written, not as delivered. I doubt 2 separate news agencies would change the wording (as opposed to just omitting any reference to it at all, THAT I believe they would do). Never attribute to malice that which can be explained adequately by the laziness and unprofessionalism of our journalistic class.
How can one interpret this any other way but to say Obama doesn’t believe in American Ingenuity? I know thyat this equates to a Rank-and-File democrat response to anything republican, but does anyone else see this statement oozing with an ideological nanny state?
Scientists believe overwhelmingly that we are on the verge of battery power on the scale of 40 times more powerful than we currently enjoy. Can you imagine what this would do to our oil dependency? This man of change won’t cross the aisle to save this country, ever. Literally.