Claire Shipman's Bizarre Logic: 'Olympic Loss Actually a Boost for Obama': "According to ABC correspondent Claire Shipman, the botched Olympic bid by Barack Obama is actually a 'good' thing for the President. Writing an online column for True/Slant, Shipman (see file photo at right) bizarrely spun, 'It would have been great had he come home a winner. Great for all of us. But maybe not so much for him. Why? Because then he would have then [sic] really irked his critics.'
Continuing this theory that a loss by Obama will calm some sort of seething rage, the Good Morning America reporter added, 'They’re [critics] already secretly and not so secretly peeved that he’s been voted the world’s prom king. Another victory would have just started a wave of dangerous, uncontrollable seething.' [Emphasis added.]
Who voted him the world’s prom king? Could it be journalists such as Shipman who, in January of 2007, referred to Obama’s campaigning as 'fluid poetry?' So, it’s not surprising that she would try to find some silver lining for the President. Additionally, her husband is Jay Carney, the Communications Director to Vice President Joe Biden. Shipman raised this point in the column, even as she tried to see the upside to Obama’s embarrassing failure at Copenhagen:"
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