Fox media bias?

I asked someone about the results of the primaries, and he said, “Obama is bitter”, followed by “that’s what the commentator said”. So I looked up the transcript of the Clinton and Obama speeches, provided by the Wall Street Journal.

It didn’t read very bitter to me, so I looked up the video:

I noticed that when Obama congratulated Clinton and the audience started boo-ing, he interrupted them and said, “no, no, she ran a terrific race”.

Maybe that person is making a pun on Obama’s “bitter” comment a while ago, I don’t know.

Even if he was trying to be funny, I don’t know how the Fox commentator was able to get that from the speech — if he was bitter, he wouldn’t have bothered to congratulate her, or at least, he would have let the audience boo.

Clinton’s not bitter when she’s losing?

In contrast, I noticed in one of her concession speeches that Clinton didn’t bother to congratulate her rivals. I wonder why Fox didn’t call her bitter at the time.

That’s one of the things about her that really annoy me. That, and her saying in New Hampshire that she’d fight for the illegal votes in Michigan and Florida if she had to (so she knows she shouldn’t but that doesn’t matter if she’s losing?).

Thoughts on bitterness

I really really hate sore losers — it’s probably my biggest pet peeve when it comes to competitive situations. It’s the reason I developed a negative opinion of Gore and later, Kerry (and in Taiwan, Lien and his riot parade).

To me, exhibiting traits of a sore loser tells me they’re only in it to win and to boost their ego. That’s why losing is such a big deal for them — it tells them they’re not as good as they think they are.

Or maybe they need to live the good life, having all the power and living in luxury with Air Force One at their command. Either way, it does not leave a good impression.

Digression into Taiwan politics

Which is why I have so much respect for Hsieh — not only was he not a sore loser, he also told all his followers to calm down and not make a scene and just accept it.

There was none of the irresponsible “We do not have control over our followers/people” bull we keep hearing from KMT and CCP members.

Now that’s a sign of a good leader.