media focus on racial milestone of Obama's election overshadowing the repudiation of the GOP?

[Bippity Boo]

I think the achievement of having an African-American President is incredibly momentous, but I am noticing a tendency of the mainstream media to focus on this aspect of the election (as it is seen as non-partisan) while the angle of the story which sees this as a repudiation of the destructive GOP tactics is seeming to get downplayed.

Where this really rubbed me the wrong way was watching the Oprah post-election special wherein she had the uber-phony, ultra-insincere bloviator Peggy Noonan on as part of her discussion panel for the hour, and Noonan was pretty much allowed to take ownership of and wax poetic regarding the racial victory of Obama as a great thing for America even though she admitted she had voted for McCain. The GOP was driving our country off a cliff, and Obama barely managed to pull their hands off the wheel and immediately they are allowed to pretend they were rooting for us all along? There was a strong fundamental racism to the GOP campaign. They need to apologize for that and atone for it before they resume their media punditry, as if they are honorable folk who know what the hell they are talking about.

I understand the desire for reconciliation and healing post-election, but to me there is a difference between that and pretending that one side wasn't actively cultivating race hate and calling Obama a traitor until LESS THAN 24 HOURS AGO!!!

[Jackpine Radical]

1. The election wasn't about race. It was about the repudiation of the monster that

conservatism had become. It was a repudiation of the war, of laissez-faire economics, of deregulation, of a jobless economy that made the people at the top rich at the expense of average Americans as production went up, profits went up, and the worker's share went down.

But they don't want you to think about what the election really means, so they turn it into a race story. That makes it all warm and fuzzy and non-threatening to the Corporate State.