How Europe Sees the Candidates - Gerard Baker

Times of London U.S. Editor and Columnist Gerard Baker discusses how U.S. Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are viewed in the eyes of the European public, in a conversation with New Republic Editor Frank Foer.

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Gerard Baker is United States Editor and an Assistant Editor of The Times. He joined in 2004 from the Financial Times, where he had spent over ten years as Tokyo correspondent and Washington Bureau Chief.

Franklin Foer is an American political journalist and the editor of The New Republic. Foer graduated from Columbia in 1996. Before joining The New Republic, Foer was a frequent contributor to the online magazine Slate. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Spin, U.S. News and World Report, Lingua Franca, The Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, New York and Foreign Policy. In 2004 he published his first book, How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization.

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[stengevarsel]

Every time someone posts a comment in favor of Fox News, I think they are joking. It's that pathetic. Claiming free European media is biased while saying that Fox News is objective is even more pathetic.

[XrAiDeN]

So laughable. McCain has been looking at Europe the last decades, yeah right. That's why he's still refering to Czechoslovakia, multiple times! And he think the prime-minister of Germany is Putin. What a biased poof.

[caliguy92]

I agree with everyone else, FOX news gives balance to a very liberal mass media...

[russetmantle]

Disclosure: I'm a Scot living in London.

I notice there was no mention of Palin. Palin scares the living bejesus out of pretty much all Europeans. I can't help but feel that there must have been dozens of female politicians that McCain could have chosen as running mate who would have been appropriate and competent, if he were trying to get the female vote. Unfortunately, he didn't, and it's obvious that Palin embodies the absolute worst stereotypes of America, as foreigners like me see it.

[mackdan7]

Fox News is not objective but it's the only place where conservatives can get a fair shake.

[justine066]

You don't get anything like this in American b/c of the liberal bias and the media blackout. You have to watch Fox news thank god for Rupert Murdoch.

[GBS990]

Europe knows who will protect their interests.

[chopin65]

You just don't get this much in the American press. Very interesting.

[1samothrace77]

I guess that this guys british accent is supposed to make him more intelligent. tries to say mccain is knowledgeable about foreign policy and bush has been right about the war in his second term very deceptive if you are not listening closely