AMERICAblog: TIME: "How many more times are the McCain campaign and the Republicans going to repeat what is a thoroughly baseless charge?"
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
good gawd...Time magazine? what is happening!?!?!
i love it
1970cs
· 1 year ago
Blaming yourself is not a Republican value. It's in instances like this where it's almost amusing to try and guess what kind of off the wall, lame excuse he will try to put forth. The logic will be so twisted that it cannot be concieved from a rational perspective.
JMOHR
· 1 year ago
It is a start, but only a start. The ad ran only about 12 times on the media. Just as with the Swiftboat smear, it was the MSM that picked up the ads and ran them hundreds of times. It smeared Kerry and that smear could not be overcome. This second instance of Republican smear (with MSM turbo charging) can be overcome through equal time to the evidence that the charges were false and that the tactics were inappropriate. It is our duty to contact every news source that amplified the smear to warn them that there will be consequences in the market place should they fail to do the right thing.
GrMtGirl
· 1 year ago
Falling to this level as a method of campaigning only proves how desperate McCain has become. Other than "War Hero"/"POW"/ "The surge, the surge, the surge' ....what exactly does he have to offer?
ron071
· 1 year ago
How slick can the tv networks and cable channels be to give free play to McCain's false ads? Is this a new underhanded method of providing McCain with free coverage of false ads? This is a new low! This must be curbed by the FCC. Surely if its news they can talk about but not show it for free. Yes, this is a new low in the politization of the media.
ChicagoKid
· 1 year ago
ROve/McCain are promoting the Obama's arrogant story. Hoping to remind rascist white people that Obama's an "uppity N-----." It's racism, pure and simple. And I wish the MSM would call them on it.
blackwolf
· 1 year ago
It's about time the media jumped in to yank McCain's chain. I can see the trend...slowly....but I can see it gaining momentum.
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
I hope you are right.
blackwolf
· 1 year ago
The press has to get involved at some point, or they'll lost credibility amonst themselves. McCain has the press on the ropes. I've never seen anything like this in my life.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Funny coming from Karen Tumulty...Guess she smells the turned tide (all those dead fish-eyed Rethugs mixed with the seaweed on the beach)... I can just see Swami Blitzer lighting a cone of incense and chanting the news pyramid...
1970cs
· 1 year ago
OT:
Brownback is complaining that the Chinese will monitor visitors use of the internet and communications during the Olympics.
Jim Olson
· 1 year ago
What, is Sam worried he won't be able to get his daily porn fix while he's in Beijing?
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
i wish he'd start complaining about that happening here.
It is starting to look like the big poobahs of the GOP have been embarrassed enough by McCain, and have now greenlighted the MSM to take him down. Now what??....Romney? Guiliani? Concede now?
Milli
· 1 year ago
John McCain and the Rove Republicans: the boys who cried wolf. No one is listening to them anymore.
They are using this because IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!! Nothing further to discuss on it. America is full of ignorant white trash and this will work.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
Yes, but the useful idiot vote will not be enough this year.
The swing voters don't like having their intelligence insulted.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Dave I truly pray you are right on that one.
ndtovent
· 1 year ago
me too (see my comment below)..
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
i think the House Judiciary Committee just voted to hold Rove in contempt.... gonna go check...
ndtovent
· 1 year ago
Even with all these blunders and flip-flopping by mcsame, obama is still not doing well in the polls in many swing states he needs to win. Very troubling.
osage
· 1 year ago
Today’s Republican Party is a freak show of hate-filled sociopaths, immoral religious and social extremists, insecure, overcompensating, irresponsible, dangerously incompetent, war-mongering imperialists and greedy, exploitive corporate anarchists. Just look at the odious and inadequate carnival barkers and snake oil salesmen the Republican Party had competing to be their presidential candidate. Republicans tacitly welcome homophobes, misogynists, racists, anti-Semites and messianic fundamentalist nut jobs into their party and inherently incorporate their values into their moral fabric and political objectives. Being a child of poverty raised with four younger siblings by a single mom, I’ve never agreed with social conservatives, but compared to Bush’s Republican Party, Eisenhower’s Republican Party was a liberal bastion of social and economic enlightenment and pluralism. Defending the actions of today’s Republican Party is advocating ignorance and evil over common sense and common decency. It would be hard to imagine that any presidential administration, Republican or Democrat, could have been as malicious, polarizing, undemocratic, corrupt or destructively pernicious to the founding causes and defining principles of our republic than George W. Bush’s. I am surprised that I am ashamed for the “good” Republicans, only because I could not have possibly imagined how “bad” some Americans were capable of being.
jcgraham77
· 1 year ago
Wow...I don't think I have ever heard it worded so to the point. DITTO!!!!!!
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
Comparisons to Germany in the 1930s would be entirely apt.
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
Purist right wingers have destroyed the Republican Party in California. Eisenhower Republicans are Independents now. We must pay attention so that purist progressives don't do the same to the Democratic Party.
Good news. Gives me a smug little smirk, even though I know nothing will come of it... He's still not in jail, nor is Helen Myers, et al. They'll never do time for any of their crimes.
ndtovent
· 1 year ago
OOPS!... meant 'Harriet Miers'
tjlabs
· 1 year ago
You mean kinda sorta like the Swiftboat ads from 2004?....Forever.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
sociopaths, immoral religious and social extremists, insecure, overcompensating, irresponsible, dangerously incompetent, war-mongering imperialists and greedy, exploitive corporate anarchistsour comment here.
Don't forget over-weight emotional retards...
(Oops...responding to Osage's terrific comment above)
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Oh that would be Mike Huckabees two boys?
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
KKKarl, Steve Schmidt, most GOP talking head fodder and quite of few deep cover "journalist/pundits"...
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
I just hope Dave of the Jungle is right about Indy voters this year. I just don't have total hope right now. There is so much latent racism still running rampant. A brilliant candidate is being judged by the color of HALF of his skin. The abject ignorance is just appalling. Obama isn't even black. His mother was white. And it doesn't fucking matter what color he is anyway. God help us.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
The real question no one is asking is why Obama, color and all, is filling the American power vacuum in hearts around the globe? But to ask is to admit a presidential vacuum (what Frank Rich called "abdication" in a widely unnoticed Sunday column) exists outside the Decider's exercise bubble. The corp press is sooo complicit, so bloody-handed Lady Macbethish over spots on their bleached lace ruffles...Hysterical how the others have jumped on FOX for Scotty's 'talking point' claim on last Friday's Hardball...round up the usual suspects, indeed!!!
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
its all about corporate taxes...the MSM cannot fathom another liberal run Washington....its all about taxes....fox ceo plays golf with exxon ceo who plays golf with GM ceo who plays golf with Senator Cornhole who plays golf with ....and so on.
EmGD
· 1 year ago
They'll never stop yelling it out loud. Because the new media will just keep repeating the charges over and over without any real discussion of their validity. For every Tumulty or Mitchell that goes to the trouble of debunking it, there are about 50 talking heads and newspapers who'll just repeat the charges with a "some say this is all bullshit" tag at the end. meanwhile they keep repeating the ad and repeating McCain's claims. For free. Which is exactly what McCain wants.
I'd like some 'reportage' detailing the paid broadcasts of that ulra-cheap McCain attack spot that accused Senator Obama of avoiding troops while showing DOD video of him visiting troops. I bet paid broadcasts (if any) didn't come close to freebie "let's take a look" pundit broadcasts...Like the polls, 99.9999% of most of this shit is driven to hype toob ratings aside from the cumulative effect on the quasi-literate.
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
McCain won't have any problem saying he disagrees with the ad and never supported it. He flip-flops daily and the MSM and cable big mouths let him get away with it.
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
It seems that the printed media is finally coming around to impartiality re McCain: Newsweek, the NYT and WaPo have challenged this lying ad. So has MSNBC (Abrams, Mitchell), but the rest of tv land has run the add thousands of times already with no disclaimers.
jr
· 1 year ago
"we should attack Wes Clark again"-cable news
jgcarter56
· 1 year ago
The MSM is finally discovering what most of us have known all along: Republican lie. That is what they do. Remember the following quote from early 2000?
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to study what we do.”
Substitute the word "lie" for "act" and it becomes clear what has been going on for the last 7 years.
nothingasitseems
· 1 year ago
McCain is desperate, and the media is calling him on it. I'm happy to have seen numerous articles calling McCain out not only on this one, but also the "Senator Obama would rather lose a war to win an election" bullshit.
On another note, I'll ask it again... WHY IS THIS SITE RUNNING AN AD FROM THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL-COMPLEX?!?!? Shame on you, AmericaBlog.
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i love it
the press on the ropes. I've never seen anything like this in my life.
I can just see Swami Blitzer lighting a cone of incense and chanting the news pyramid...
Brownback is complaining that the Chinese will monitor visitors use of the internet and communications during the Olympics.
http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives...
http://bloggerinterrupted.com/2008/07/uppity-ne...
Nothing further to discuss on it.
America is full of ignorant white trash and this will work.
The swing voters don't like having their intelligence insulted.
gonna go check...
House votes to hold Rove in contempt.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/...
Don't forget over-weight emotional retards...
(Oops...responding to Osage's terrific comment above)
don't have total hope right now. There is so much latent racism still
running rampant. A brilliant candidate is being judged by the color of HALF
of his skin. The abject ignorance is just appalling. Obama isn't even black.
His mother was white. And it doesn't fucking matter what color he is anyway.
God help us.
But to ask is to admit a presidential vacuum (what Frank Rich called "abdication" in a widely unnoticed Sunday column) exists outside the Decider's exercise bubble.
The corp press is sooo complicit, so bloody-handed Lady Macbethish over spots on their bleached lace ruffles...Hysterical how the others have jumped on FOX for Scotty's 'talking point' claim on last Friday's Hardball...round up the usual suspects, indeed!!!
run Washington....its all about taxes....fox ceo plays golf with exxon
ceo who plays golf with GM ceo who plays golf with Senator Cornhole
who plays golf with ....and so on.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
I bet paid broadcasts (if any) didn't come close to freebie "let's take a look" pundit broadcasts...Like the polls, 99.9999% of most of this shit is driven to hype toob ratings aside from the cumulative effect on the quasi-literate.
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to study what we do.”
Substitute the word "lie" for "act" and it becomes clear what has been going on for the last 7 years.
On another note, I'll ask it again... WHY IS THIS SITE RUNNING AN AD FROM THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL-COMPLEX?!?!? Shame on you, AmericaBlog.