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McCain’s Campaign Whines About Mean Ol’ Press Fact Checking His Lies
By: Nicole Belle: www.crooksandliars.com
McCain’s Media is shriveling up and they’re starting to point out inconsistencies…what’s a campaign spokesman to do? Be a WATB, naturally.
John McCain’s campaign got ticked off at the New York Times for reporting a kinda tenuous connection (Kinda tenuous? $30,000 a month to lobby on behalf of Fannie Mae is hardly tenuous) between McCain campaign manager Rick Davis and Fannie Mae. So strategist Steve Schmidt, who is increasingly insane and unhinged and so un-Rove-like in his Rovian tactics, held a conference call to attack the Times. “Whatever the New York Times once was, it is today, not by any standard, a journalistic organization. It is a pro-Obama advocacy organization that every day attacks the McCain Campaign, attacks Senator McCain, attacks Governor Palin, and excuses Senator Obama,” Schmidt sputtered. So, hah, if Politico’s Ben Smith’s writeup of the call is any indication, this media-attacking will backfire! “But the call was so rife with simple, often inexplicable misstatements of fact,” Smith writes, “that it may have had the opposite effect: to deepen the perception, dangerous to McCain, that he and his aides have little regard for factual accuracy”
Watch out, Ben, next thing you’ll know, The Politico will be on the McCain sh**list too. Glamour Magazine (really, Glamour? What are they doing interviewing McCain?) already is. As the Washington Independent puts it, if you point out their lies, you’re in the tank for Obama, as far at the McCain camp is concerned.
McCain Loses His Head
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202583.html
His final paragraph is going to be very controversial to others of his ilk:
"It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed?"
no, I didn't. I have been having problems posting replys here all day. I'll read it now, as Will has made some other interesting comments about McCain in recent days. Thanks for the link.
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Blind loyalty to bad leadership IS NOT patriotic!
conservatives will find little comfort in Will's editoral comments. Will always impressed as a thoughtful bobblehead. I have read a couple of his books and many of his columns over the years, tho I am not a regular Sunday morning TV zombie and don't see him often. His conservatism has not diminished my opinion of him as a well spoken thinker. I am pleased, and surprised, to read him wavering from the Republican "party first" beliefs that he has championed for so long. thanks again for the link.
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Blind loyalty to bad leadership IS NOT patriotic!
McCain campaign Squirms & whines
McCain’s Campaign Whines About Mean Ol’ Press Fact Checking His Lies
By: Nicole Belle: www.crooksandliars.com
McCain’s Media is shriveling up and they’re starting to point out inconsistencies…what’s a campaign spokesman to do? Be a WATB, naturally.
John McCain’s campaign got ticked off at the New York Times for reporting a kinda tenuous connection (Kinda tenuous? $30,000 a month to lobby on behalf of Fannie Mae is hardly tenuous) between McCain campaign manager Rick Davis and Fannie Mae. So strategist Steve Schmidt, who is increasingly insane and unhinged and so un-Rove-like in his Rovian tactics, held a conference call to attack the Times. “Whatever the New York Times once was, it is today, not by any standard, a journalistic organization. It is a pro-Obama advocacy organization that every day attacks the McCain Campaign, attacks Senator McCain, attacks Governor Palin, and excuses Senator Obama,” Schmidt sputtered. So, hah, if Politico’s Ben Smith’s writeup of the call is any indication, this media-attacking will backfire! “But the call was so rife with simple, often inexplicable misstatements of fact,” Smith writes, “that it may have had the opposite effect: to deepen the perception, dangerous to McCain, that he and his aides have little regard for factual accuracy”
Watch out, Ben, next thing you’ll know, The Politico will be on the McCain sh**list too. Glamour Magazine (really, Glamour? What are they doing interviewing McCain?) already is. As the Washington Independent puts it, if you point out their lies, you’re in the tank for Obama, as far at the McCain camp is concerned.
Poor little liars…
Akovia
Did you see George Will's column today?
McCain Loses His Head
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202583.html
His final paragraph is going to be very controversial to others of his ilk:
"It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed?"
brt929
no, I didn't. I have been having problems posting replys here all day. I'll read it now, as Will has made some other interesting comments about McCain in recent days. Thanks for the link.
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Blind loyalty to bad leadership IS NOT patriotic!
I agree brt929
conservatives will find little comfort in Will's editoral comments. Will always impressed as a thoughtful bobblehead. I have read a couple of his books and many of his columns over the years, tho I am not a regular Sunday morning TV zombie and don't see him often. His conservatism has not diminished my opinion of him as a well spoken thinker. I am pleased, and surprised, to read him wavering from the Republican "party first" beliefs that he has championed for so long. thanks again for the link.
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Blind loyalty to bad leadership IS NOT patriotic!