ROFL Waaaaaaaaaaaa! Gee, do you think the candidates know illegal immigration support is toxic to a campaign?

By: Gebe Martinez
June 27, 2008

The burst of anger on the Barack Obama campaign’s recent news media call was unexpected, but it should not have been a surprise.

For weeks, members of the Spanish-language media had been blogging, writing and outright complaining that the presidential campaigns have not been paying attention to them.

First, they expressed frustration about Republican John McCain’s campaign. About the same time, McCain brought on a media specialist to deal with the Hispanic press.

Then last week, they went after Obama’s communications director, Robert Gibbs, who had gotten on the telephone with reporters to highlight McCain’s “flip-flopsâ€