VIDEO: Medina “I see him as an arab” woman gets corrected.
On Saturday, June 7, Cleveland’s CBS affiliate WOIO Channel 19 went to the Medina Farmer’s market to get reaction to Hillary Clinton’s concession, and ask folks about Barack Obama. The reporter, Myrt Price, gave an unnamed woman an unchallenged opportunity to repeat the false smears about Barack Obama.
That woman is Joy Atwood of Medina. I went to the Medina Farmer’s Market today to correct Joy, get her email address, and send her the truth via FightTheSmears.com. If you’d like to contact WOIO to complain about their coverage, as many Ohio bloggers have done, particularly the failure to correct recognized lies and non-facts, here is the contact info.
* Phone: (216) 367-7300
* Email:19tips@woio.com, mprice@woio.com (reporter), bapplegate@woio.com (president) dserino@woio.com (weekend anchor)
* Fax: (216) 436-5460
Here’s the video from today. Fight the smears – one voter at a time.
Tags: barack obama, bigots, cbs, joy atwood, smears, woio
June 14th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Was she selling little Obama sock monkeys at the farmer’s market?
June 14th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Good work Tim, you showed everyone how it’s done.
I’ll admit that when I first heard you were looking for this woman, I felt a little sorry for her.
June 14th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
“…well that’s what Christians do isn’t it?”. LOL.
Dude. That is awesome. I love me some Blogger Interrupted!
Tim Russo is going to be a reason why Obama wins in November. Very nice work Tim! Wish I coulda rode shotgun. I did, however, have two people in Carrolton, Kentucky come up to me in an Arby’s and compliment me on my Obama shirt.
One voter at a time indeed. Let’s do this!
June 14th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Shalom Tim,
This is feckin’ awesome.
You are what Blogging ought to be.
B’shalom,
Jeff
June 26th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
A Farmer’s Market, huh? Well, as a belly dancer I could be said to “have Arab tendencies,” and I do Farmer’s Markets. Maybe I should go dance for them and then ask that clueless twit if she thinks I’m a “white Arab.”
Would this genius then call the Department of Homeland Security on me for “terrorism,” or for the oft-believed charge that belly dancers are “strippers”? Maybe she’d have me arrested just for, shall we say, “jezebelly-ah.” Hmmm, better not risk it.