Wheels Coming Off
NBC News’ Mark Murray says the wheels are coming off the Straight Talk Express.
McCain spokesman Brian Rogers issues the following defense of lying as a campaign strategy: “We’re running a campaign to win. And we’re not too concerned about what the media filter tries to say about it.”
Jeffrey Goldberg explains that McCain needs to lie because McCain’s core crazy policy idea is unpopular:
The point is that McCain knows that preemption isn’t the easiest sell these days: “It’s very hard to run for president on this idea right now,” he told me. So, what do you do when one of your core ideas is out of sync with the predispositions of the American public? You spend your days talking about lipstick on pigs. This might win him the election, but I’d rather see him debate preemption.
Once again registering my rote objection to describing the Bush/McCain Doctrine of preventive war as “preemption” (the point of the doctrine is to eliminate the normal standard of preemption) this is why I think it’s important to go beyond mocking Sarah Palin for not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is to pointing out that John McCain is very much a believer in the Bush Doctrine and the Bush Doctrine is incredibly dangerous for the country.
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September 14th, 2008 at 10:05 am
The wheels are most definitely coming off of one of the campaigns…
As Minnesota goes, so goes the election?
If you want to understand the Palin pick, check out this song. Hockey moms, indeed.
September 14th, 2008 at 10:08 am
OK. So if it finally time to stop crying about how “the media” isn’t reporting on the lies? The new York Times. NBC News. The Washington Post. All going to great lengths to show the dishonesty. “Four Pinnochios.”
Or do you still need Ms., Couric to put on golf shoes and do a Mexican hat dance on McCain’s nuts while shouting “Liar! Liar! Liar!”
Seriously. This would seem to basically destroy the argument that the media are not reporting on these things, and that the average voter has no chance to see this larger “narrative.”
In other words, stop crying. Please!
September 14th, 2008 at 10:12 am
“this is why I think it’s important to go beyond mocking Sarah Palin for not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is”
Good luck getting that important priority accomplished.
They’re inside our OODA loop. We’re doing what they want, not what we want.
We’re too busy making losing points about Palin on culture, personality, and identity to talk policy about the top of the ticket.
Plouffe and Axelrod are actually worse than Shrum.
September 14th, 2008 at 10:15 am
… it’s important to go beyond mocking Sarah Palin for not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is to pointing out that John McCain is very much a believer in the Bush Doctrine and the Bush Doctrine is incredibly dangerous for the country.
Yes. Thank you.
September 14th, 2008 at 10:16 am
“OK. So if it finally time to stop crying about how “the media” isn’t reporting on the lies? The new York Times. NBC News. The Washington Post. All going to great lengths to show the dishonesty.”
Doesn’t matter.
The mismanagement of the Palin phenomenon by Team Chicago has had the not so minor side effect of disqualifying the media as an arbiter.
We’ve won the media and lost the election. Good for “professional liberals” and bad for Democrats.
September 14th, 2008 at 10:17 am
petey, your original point about palin was that she was a brilliant choice because she would emphasize obama’s lack of experience.
that’s turned out to not be the case.
now your opinion is that she’s leading the mccain ticket to a soaring victory: perhaps you should take a deep breath for a moment first.
sam m, as i said last night: when we’ve reached the precise level of media commentary that al gore faced about “exaggerating” (with, of course, much less basis), i’ll be satisfied. until then, stfu.
September 14th, 2008 at 10:19 am
“petey, your original point about palin was that she was a brilliant choice because she would emphasize obama’s lack of experience. that’s turned out to not be the case.”
Disagree as strongly as is possible.
September 14th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Sam,
I watched the morning news, I’ve watched Meet the Press and no a single comment has been made about the Palin/McCain lies.
All questions asked by Tom Brokaw concerning Palin/McCain were soft as feather pillow. He allowed Rudy Giuliani to say anything and never once challenged his assertions.
That is what the press does.
Honestly, I think the one of the reasons people like Brokaw behave this way is that they no knowledge of the facts. Giuliani claims the sex education ad is accurate, starts talking about elements of the bill that do not pertain to the ad and Brokaw lets it pass.
September 14th, 2008 at 10:47 am
In Debate I’s opening statement, Obama needs to call out McCain, the McCain Campaign, and the pushover, enabling SCLM.
Something to that effect. Call everyone out immediately. It would also be nice to call out McCain for announcing that he has a secret plan to end the war, but won’t share it with anyone unless he’s elected. Country First (or is that “America First”?) indeed.
September 14th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Sam, the fact that some major newspapers and an NBC blog are beginning to report the truth about a small portion of the Palin/McWhatsisname campaign’s daily avalanche of lies is certainly a welcome development, but it’s only a start. Most voters get most of their news from their televisions, where the lies are uncritically repeated 30 times for every one time they are debunked.
More fundamentally, the media and THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES OBAMA AND BIDEN need to start realizing and stating out loud that the constant lying is evidence of major character defects on the part of the Republican candidates, i.e., that these people are just dishonest and have no integrity. If that doesn’t happen, they’ll lie their way to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:04 am
“More fundamentally, the media and THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES OBAMA AND BIDEN need to start realizing and stating out loud that the constant lying is evidence of major character defects on the part of the Republican candidates”
Follow Josh Marshall and Andrew Sullivan and you’ll end up in a ditch.
They’re the problem, not the solution.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:06 am
If only Petey could run everything he’d be twenty points up and etc… Oddly, team Chicago kicked his ass as he ran from Edwards to Clinton trying to save everyone from their inferior political instincts.
Since that’s obviously not going to happen you have to live with his counterfactual alternative history.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Why would any of this be a problem?
I just watched George Stephanopolous smilingly accept a bald-faced lie from Carly Fiorina as she said “The fact is that Sarah Palin did not accept money from Congress for the Bridge to Nowhere.” No clarification, no follow up question of meaning. There is no truth, only two sides, and McCain Is An Honorable Man.
Yeah. Okay. Sure. Fiorina says it. Steffie’s just a moderator, silently listening. Except of course unless it’s time to grill every Democrat about how dare Wes Clark question the notion that POW = Preznit.
A**wipes.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:21 am
“If only Petey could run everything he’d be twenty points up and etc… Oddly, team Chicago kicked his ass as he ran from Edwards to Clinton trying to save everyone from their inferior political instincts.”
Well, at this point it seems I was correct, no?
Axelrod’s DNA is knowing how to win Democratic primaries. That’s what you get by operating in a one party town.
Once Harold Washington wins the primary, the general election is no problem.
Unfortunately, America ain’t Chicago.
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Seriously, if they can’t salvage this in the debates, this will be the single most botched Presidential general election campaign in at least 90 years.
(Dukakis and Dewey both screwed the pooch pretty badly too, but neither of them had the magnitude of advantages Obama had entering this campaign.)
September 14th, 2008 at 11:28 am
why can’t Obama simply press McCain (with photographic backup) on the following:
“Were you putting the country first when you encouraged American’s to vote for George Bush in 2004? If so, do you now believe that he was better qualified for president than former vietnam veteran John kerry? If not, what does that say about your judgement? If you don’t like the level of partisanship in Washington today, why did you support the candidate responsible for swiftboating your former veteran?”
I would show pictures of McCain travelling the country telling americans to vote for george bush over and over again, and never stop asking him where he stands on the question, as either answer is a loser (ie, mcsame must say either yes I believe GBW was the correct choice, a view now supported by 29% of the public, or no kerry was the better man, ooops there goes my credibility and judgment.)
September 14th, 2008 at 11:29 am
I don’t like the lying and McCain’s economic policies any more than anyone else, but I actually think there’s a more serious issue here:
Is McCain going bonkers?
I’m serious. His behavior has been so rash and so erratic that it suggests some sort of disorder.
He seems like he really thinks he is flying his fighter plane – blasting away at Obama.
Such flights are forgivable in a cranky old man; but as president he would be taking us along for the ride.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Well, at this point it seems I was correct, no?
No.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Well, at this point it seems I was correct, no?
Uh… no.
Dude, you are always wrong. You’re a permanent good luck charm for Obama.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:34 am
For general sanity’s sake, I wish I could take comfort in a Petey-style conclusion that if only Democrat X (Hillary, whoever) had been the candidate, the Democrats would be in a better position, but I cannot.
Republicans get to go from continually lying to flat-out bald-faced lies, and face nowhere near the hysteria faced by Democrats for any number of insignificant flaps of nonsense.
Reverend Wright round-the-clock for weeks on end like a national emergency? Are you kidding me?
And McPalin go out, day after day, and directly lie about simple, absolute facts, and all that happens is that journalists and newspapers politely mention that they have in fact lied? Really?
September 14th, 2008 at 11:37 am
I still think the Final Act will be the Return of the Prodigal Maverick, in which as late as possible, after lying and lying and lying and smearing and lying, McCain will angrily, fiercely, emotionally denounce how just awful the campaign has gotten, including his own, and will apologize, and vow to be the Saint Jesus H. Moderate Maverick that his BBQ Dry Rub Press Core loved, and they will welcome back with tears and shouts of joy that the Prodigal Maverick has returned.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:39 am
“No.”
Really?
We’ve lost pole position. We’re now in a situation where we need a clear win in the debates or we’re going to lose the election. And I don’t think it’s going to be easy to get a clear win in the debates.
We’re watching a campaign that has spent all summer bragging about the fact that they don’t care about winning news cycles. It’s really no wonder that we’re where we are.
I thought they were pretty damn stupid in July and August. But the level of stupidity over the past two weeks makes me wonder if I should worry about them looking up, opening their mouths, and drowning the next time it rains.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:41 am
“..just watched George Stephanopolous smilingly accept a bald-faced lie …”
Get a grip, pal. Nobody gives a rat’s a$$ what the press says anyway. They’re just a bunch of republicratic sock puppets, echo chambers for their respective political heroes. People hate the press just as much as they hate the pols. If I were running for office I’d do anything I could to earn press hatred. It’s a sure vote getter.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:42 am
What did you think was going to happen? McCain was going to get a bounce and he did, good for him. It’s not going to hold, and if it does it doesn’t have much to do with how Obama reacted to events, in my opinion anyway. I know you think you have this America simulator in your head, I don’t think it works as well as you think it does.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:43 am
“For general sanity’s sake, I wish I could take comfort in a Petey-style conclusion that if only Democrat X (Hillary, whoever) had been the candidate, the Democrats would be in a better position”
She didn’t even have to be at the top of the ticket, y’know…
Obama has never gotten validated for the broader audience. Merely sticking her and her brand on the undercard would have performed that function quite adequately.
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But it’s not just that. It’s really not just one thing. To lose this race requires Team Chicago to get basically every major decision wrong. And they’re seemingly up to the challenge.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:51 am
McCain traded the Straight Talk Express in for a Bullshit Mobile years ago.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:55 am
I’ll admit that the events of the last couple weeks concerned me a bit, but seeing Petey toss dirt on the Democrats’ grave has lifted my spirits. There’s no one who has been more wrong about everything so far, from Edwards to Clinton. If Petey thinks we’re done, then I’m pretty sure we’re going to win.
I’m just not looking forward to the stage where Petey realizes how wrong he’s been yet again. That’s when he can’t do anything but resort to the “trust fund scumbag” childish whining. It’s really quite pathetic and disturbing to see.
September 14th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
If only we’d run an Edwards/Hillary ticket and picked up the decisive Petey vote.
September 14th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
McCain campaign can’t feel good about where they are at if they are in holding up four fingers and telling the media “I’m holding up five fingers” mode. The last time I saw that was the of the Clinton campaign and it errr, didn’t end well for them.
September 14th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
If the wheels are coming off McCain’s campaign, why is the Obama campaign losing ground in the polls? Why is Florida turning Red, and why is Minnesota in play? These are not good signs for Obama.
September 14th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
James Robertson Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
If the wheels are coming off McCain’s campaign, why is the Obama campaign losing ground in the polls?
The claims isn’t that McCain’s campaign is falling apart, it’s that his integrity is.
September 14th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
“If the wheels are coming off McCain’s campaign, why is the Obama campaign losing ground in the polls? Why is Florida turning Red, and why is Minnesota in play?”
Because the process of one’s wheels coming off doesn’t immediately show up in polls taken during the Republican convention bounce? Christ, people like you apparently expect every single news cycle to produce a 5 point shift the next day, when most people aren’t even paying attention yet. Is this your first election or something?
Oh, and Petey: your presence here is not requested, desired, or enjoyed. Just thought I’d let you know that we want you to go away if that’s the kind of drivel you’re going to consistently bless us with.
September 14th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
“I’m just not looking forward to the stage where Petey realizes how wrong he’s been yet again.”
I’ll be quite happy to be proved wrong on this one.
And given that I think Intrade is in the right ballpark at the moment, there is a non-trivial chance that I will indeed be proved wrong. I think Obama has about a 40% shot at winning, and 40% shots come in almost half the time.
September 14th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I’ll admit that the events of the last couple weeks concerned me a bit, but seeing Petey toss dirt on the Democrats’ grave has lifted my spirits. There’s no one who has been more wrong about everything so far, from Edwards to Clinton. If Petey thinks we’re done, then I’m pretty sure we’re going to win.
Yes. I’ve literally never in my life seen someone make more incorrect predictions that were more wrong with more certainty.
September 14th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I’ll be quite happy to be proved wrong on this one.
You’re doing quite a good job of hiding said happiness, considering the content of basically every single post of yours is a giant preemptive “I TOLD YOU SO!!!!”. I can’t imagine you would be happier if Obama wins given how happy you seem to be at the state of the race right now.
Then again, maybe we should keep you around, since as others have said, you’ve been pretty spectacularly wrong about nearly every prediction you’ve ever made. In fact, I think we should lay down the gauntlet now: the bigger of a concern troll Petey gets, the more likely it is Obama’s going to win. I think that makes sense given history.
September 14th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
“the content of basically every single post of yours is a giant preemptive “I TOLD YOU SO!!!!”
Frankly, I didn’t know this was coming. I thought Obama was going to win and his lack of grasp of American politics was going to fuck up the next four years for Democrats.
Given the overwhelming Democratic advantages this year, I didn’t fully conceive that he could actually screw the pooch on the ‘08 campaign.
My model has always had him as Jimmy Carter, not Mike Dukakis. But I’m beginning to shift to the Dukakis scenario.
Seriously, Plouffe and Axelrod make Shrum look like a fucking genius. And that’s not easy to do.
“Then again, maybe we should keep you around, since as others have said, you’ve been pretty spectacularly wrong about nearly every prediction you’ve ever made.”
As long as I’m consistently beating the house on Intrade, I’ll continue to feel reasonably good about my crystal balling ability. I may not have a perfect America simulator in my head, but I’m better than the CW with clockwork regularity.
September 14th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
“There’s no one who has been more wrong about everything so far, from Edwards to Clinton.”
FWIW, I think if you are inclined to go back over old comment threads, you’ll find that I never thought Edwards was the favorite for the nomination, and after Tsunami Tuesday, I never thought Clinton was the favorite.
Don’t confuse what I wanted to see happen politically with what my analyst persona was forecasting.
For example, now I’d like to see Obama win, but I think he’s a path toward losing. (And of course, this is basically an un-losable election for Dems that Team Chicago has had to work quite hard to make losable.)
So, to follow your logic, you ought to be worried that I’m supporting the same candidate you are, given that Edwards and Clinton both lost.
September 14th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
FWIW, I think if you are inclined to go back over old comment threads, you’ll find that I never thought Edwards was the favorite for the nomination
Yes, I’m sure you “think” that’s true. Otherwise, whatever sense of shame you possess would prevent you from acting in your current manner.
September 14th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Petey writes:
“as i said last night: when we’ve reached the precise level of media commentary that al gore faced about “exaggerating” (with, of course, much less basis), i’ll be satisfied. until then, stfu.”
Uh… OK. Stick with the whole “poor me, the media is against me routine.” It has done real wonders for conservatives the past few years.
I would ask what you mean by “the precise level of media commentary” you are talking about, but I am terrified I might learn that you have actually established a metric in this regard, and for seome reason engaged in a project to discern precisely how many time the media asked Al Gore about inventing the Internet.
So keep counting. And let us know when and if the media ever gets to that level with McCain. Me? I am fully capable of reading things on my own and figuring out if I think he is lying. I think there are hundreds of people asking these questions and presenting me with the relative information. I wish the media had taken this position with regard to Al Gore. I think they went overboard. And I think they have it about right this time, with major media outlets, both elite and more pedestrian, taking the time to dig into the facts.
But you? By all means, don’t stfu. Keep crying. See where it gets you.
September 14th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
It has done real wonders for conservatives the past few years.
You haven’t spent much time here in our country, have you, Sam?
That’s okay — we’re a welcoming people, and I’m sure you’ll find many who’ll be willing to fill you in on the basics of politics here in your new home.
September 14th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
OK Petey. Team Chicago made every possible mistake.
1 mistake was not putting Hillary on the ticket
1 mistake was not making an effort to win media cycles, which does not stand absolutely because obvious effort was expended both in house-gate and in Obama’s convention speech to maximize what I think you’re calling winning media cycles.
What are the other mistakes, or are those two “every possible mistake”
September 14th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Axelrod’s DNA is knowing how to win Democratic primaries. That’s what you get by operating in a one party town.
I followed this blog (and Petey’s commenting) pretty closely during the primaries. This is the first time I’ve seen this explanation. While it has some merit, this timing also has the disadvantage of making it appear to be a just-so story.
Obviously thing can change between now and November, but regardless of who wins, it will surely be a very close election. If the only data point I had was 2004, I would think that maybe the Republicans just have some systematic advantages in the media coverage, the general public’s perception of the media, the typical means by which the general public gains information, and the general ideological nataure of the public. But Gore sort of won in 2000 in a similarly favorable environment (probably less favorable), and I don’t think the country has changed that much in the meanwhile (or did 9/11 really change everything???). So if Obama loses, I think you have to blame the relative quality of the campaigns.
September 14th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
OK Petey. Team Chicago made every possible mistake.
1 mistake was not putting Hillary on the ticket
1 mistake was not making an effort to win media cycles, which does not stand absolutely because obvious effort was expended both in house-gate and in Obama’s convention speech to maximize what I think you’re calling winning media cycles.
What are the other mistakes, or are those two “every possible mistake”
This is another good point. If Obama wasn’t trying to win news cycles over the summer, it didn’t seem to hurt him at the time, right? It was mostly just one really bad news cycle the Republican primary/Palin pick that produced this swing, right?
So does losing today’s news cycle lead to a downturn in your support 2 months down the road? Is that the theory we’re advancing here? I’m not saying it’s implausible, but I think it’s a new take on the point of competing to win news cycles.
September 14th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
So does losing today’s news cycle lead to a downturn in your support 2 months down the road? Is that the theory we’re advancing here?
Generally, it is said that what happens after labor day doesn’t really matter. Whomever wins the august-to-labor-day news cycles and ends up ahead in the polls by early september is almost invariably the winner of the national election.
Things may have shifted because the conventions are so late, compared to previous years, but putting your hopes in the 60 days before the election is generally not a good bet. You want to establish dominance BY labor day, not hope that you can establish it afterwards.
September 14th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Yeah, if the wheels keep coming off like this, McCain-Palin will be up by ten points by the end of the month. Even though he can’t use a computer keyboard because the North Vietnamese broke his fingers.
Hussein’s surrogate Claire McCaskill was on one of the talk shows this morning talking about McCain’s cancer and advanced age. Stay classy, Dems!
How you handle defeat is a mark of character. As Kipling wrote: If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same…
September 14th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
I was amazed at how bald facedly the failed HP exec Carly Fiorina was allowed to lie straight to George Stephanopolous. I guess Stephie likes McCain’s BBQ.
September 14th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
rtyui,
By all means, fill me in. Let me know exactly what all the bellyaching has accomplished for conservatives. Does they strike you as especially coherent and effective? Do you suspect scads of undecided voters flock to the Right because of incessant bitching being the underdog?
If so, then like I said, keep bitching. All I am saying is, I think that’s a stupid thing to do. particularly since the coverage Matt wants is… um… all over the place.
September 14th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Let me know exactly what all the bellyaching has accomplished for conservatives.
A presidential race that’s tied, under conditions where — if the parties were reversed — the Republican would be up by 70% with the incumbent Democrat about to go to jail for life, assuming he could avoid execution.
Another interesting fact: here on your new planet, all the life-forms you see around you are carbon-based! But we can get into that later.
September 14th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
In an election year with a weak economy and a very unpopular president, the Dems have chosen an extraordinarily weak candidate with an inexperienced campaign staff that knows how to appeal to liberals, blacks and the immature, but not to normal salt-of-the earth, patriotic, socially conservative Americans. Thank God!
September 14th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
So blacks and liberals aren’t salt-of-the-earth or patriotic?
I’m insulted, E.
September 14th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
E. O’Neal must use salt of the earth as a polite synonym for redneck.
September 14th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
“A presidential race that’s tied, under conditions where — if the parties were reversed — the Republican would be up by 70% with the incumbent Democrat about to go to jail for life, assuming he could avoid execution.”
Rubbish.
While you seem to have a very hard time admitting it, we live in a country that is pretty much split down the middle politically. This is nothing new. The last few presidential elections, going back through Clinton, have been extremely close. Similarly, Congressional elections have been extremely close. The Senate? Do they have a Senate in this new world of yours? Because in my world, that has been 51-49, or some such, for quite some time.
Are you contending that this is all somehow due to the media’s collective hard-on for John McCain?
Or maybe… get this now… A lot of people disagree with you. And, um… think your candidate sucks.
Man. What’s it take to actually sit around and think, “I am not only right, I am SO RIGHT that reasonable people simply cannot disagree. Cannot have priorities that lead them to think other things. So if they DO disagree, the only explanation is some nefarious plot to keep my man down.”
If that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s what the Right has been saying about the media and academia and Hollywood for the past 20 years.
And you know what? They make some good points. And so does Matt regarding the coverage of McCain. But you keep hammering on that… and hammering and hammering… even after it appears that the press is actually beginning to see things your way a little…
You start to look like kind of a twit. It happened to the Right. And it will happen to people who keep complaining about bias against Obama, and that nobody is reporting on McCain’s lies… except NBC, CBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, etc. Etc. Etc.
People are covering it. Get over it. Or accept that you are going to look like a preposterous windbag. One who assumes that anyone who disagrees is a jackass.
But what do I know. I must be new here. And a jackass. I guess.
September 14th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Flo, the two categories do overlap. I worded that poorly. I was trying to say that ordinary Americans who don’t fit into those three demographics don’t seem to be falling for Obama’s shtick.
When we talk about demographics, we always over-generalize, but we can’t understand politics without looking at groups. But we need to remember that these categories are predictive rather than determinative.
September 14th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Rubbish.
I know — it’s hard to believe for those like yourself who’ve just arrived from Planet Zarqon. But we earthlings have just lived through ten years of stuff like this:
• One president gets a blow job in the Oval Office
• One president gets a memo saying “Bin Laden Determined To Strike In US,” and then later tells his CIA briefer: “All right, you’ve covered your ass now.” Then America suffers the world terrorist attack in our planet’s history.
Regarding president #1, he was impeached with the enthusiastic support of the American media, which made sure 98% of Americans knew about it. Regarding president #2, the media’s coverage has been so relentless and thorough that perhaps 20% of Americans know what happened. Meanwhile, the media enthusiastically helped president #2 persuade 3-4 times as many Americans that the terrorist attacks had been planned by someone with no connection to them.
Again, I realize this seems insane. But as you’ll find if you spend more than one day on our planet, the media is a bunch of gigantic corporations that naturally want president #2’s party to flourish. So they’re willing to do just about anything for them.
Anyway, I hope you’ll enjoy your time here on Earth. There are some great things about it, despite the tendency of some of our residents to not see the screamingly obvious reality right in front of their face.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Maybe you should move to Zarqon. We have a famous newspaper there that seems to publish very critical things about John McCain. The kind of stuff that even you might like. Check it out:
“If, in this campaign, illusion triumphs over what we must believe is reality, we will fail as a nation. There is, after all, a point of no return. If McCain wins, history is here big time, scythe, sackcloth and all four horsemen.”
Oh, wait. That was today’s New York Times.
In the meantime, are you suggesting that, had a Republican president gotten a blowjob from an intern in the Oval Office, we wouldn’t have heard about it? You’re dreaming.
And the whole thing about the press… Do you actually know anyone in the press? I do. I have worked in it for years. About 95 percent of the supposedly Right Wing zealots you are talking about… vote for Democrats most of the time.
Does that mean they never give Republicans a fair shake and never take Democrats to task? Hell no. Only a goofy right wing turd would believe that in the face of the evidence. Just like only a goofy left wing turd would continue to insist that the press is refusing to cover the “McCain lies” meme.
But just keep crying. Go ahead. I am sure the folks at the Heritage Foundation will be happy to hear that their opponents are making themselves look as ridiculous as possible.
Listen: Reporters are reporting on the story. Go to your hometown paper. Do a search for “McCain” and “lie.”
Matt and other media types did the right thing by tweaking the establishment and taking reporters to task for notjumping on this story. They are reporting on it now. Get over it.
The Washington Post gave McCain “four Pinnochios.” Perhaps you would be satisfied had they given him nine? Write a letter to the editor about it. Call up and bitch at the reporter. But don’t continue to insist that they didn’t write the story. They wrote the story, and many others just like it.
Get over it.
September 15th, 2008 at 12:19 am
I would be worried if thought you were in any way supporting Obama. But seeing as you pretty clearly aren’t, I’m not particularly concerned.
September 15th, 2008 at 12:44 am
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