Countdown: Did The NY Times Give The Right Wing Noise Machine The Excuse They Needed To Back McCain?
By Nicole Belle Thursday Feb 21, 2008 6:04pm
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Keith Olbermann looks at the silver lining of the John McCain lobbyist scandal...for John McCain. After months of excoriation by the right wing talkers, having a negative story by the "librul" New York Times (psst...wingnuts--Judy Miller, William Kristol, David Bobo Brooks, I'm just sayin') gives the opportunity for the Limbaughs and Ingrahams to rise up in indignation and defend McCain from the mean liberals pointing out that Mr. Straight Talk may not be such a straight talker.
LIMBAUGH: The important question for John McCain today is is he going to learn the right lesson from this and what is the lesson? The lesson is liberals are to be defeated. You cannot walk across the aisle with them; you cannot reach across the aisle. You cannot welcome their media members on your bus and get all cozy with them and expect eternal love from them. You are a Republican. Whether you are a conservative Republican or not, you are a Republican. And at some point the people you cozy up to, either to do legislation or to get cozy media stories are going to turn on you. They are snakes. And if the right lesson is not learned from this, uh then it will have proved to be of no value. It’s a great opportunity her for Sen. McCain to learn the right lesson, understand who his friends are and who his enemies are. And he’s had that backwards, for way too long.
Understand who his friends are? It's been said before, Republicans are not so big on facts.
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It's a good excuse for Rush, Ann, Beck and the rest to come to the rescue. McCain then, will get his priorities straight.
Is crusading against McCain't Limball's way of staying relevant?
Rush still said if McCain is elected it will be the end of the Republican party.
Also, he looks like he's wearing a bib in that photo. Must be time to chow down on some Vicodin.
If McCain gets the nomination, Rush and the rest will vote for him.
That is one well and truly disturbed individual.
I hope this fat decrepit turd get's what's looking to be a scandal riddled candidate to back. Have at it fat boy.
Seriously, this guy get's wood when he get's to "hate liberals"....This has nothing to do with St. John who he'd piss on in a heart beat...It's that he has gotten a reason to "hate liberals" again.....Hallelujah !! Praise Hate !!!
'Hating liberals" is as addictive to him as the crap he was swallowing into his bloated body to get stoned.
It would truly be a good thing if the far right, and people like Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter etc, along with most of the republican party, would only talk among themselves. Then the rest of us (the other 75%) can just get on with our lives, run the country, and we wouldn't have to listen to them any more.
Yeah, Rush, Hannity etc. can use this opportunity to pretend their opinions matter again, but the damage is done. Their inability to control the GOP masses has been exposed.
The rank-and-file repukes called their bluff and now the fat guy and his ilk are desperately trying to look like they are still leading the parade.
atllibera' @ 8:
If I was running things and I hope our nominee feels the same way, they wouldn't be able to use the airways for their propaganda.
When McCain gets the nomination I'm going to enjoy quoting every single nasty thing that Conservatives said about McCain.
CD @ 11:
Forget the "Asshat Radio Pack".... St John has enough "Voting" and senatorial baggage to fill a 100 car freight train. If the wing nuts go gutter politics this time they will lose big time....
My prediction is St John won't even be the nominee. I think we will see the Baseball Glove come back around opening day.
What a terrible piece of filth. McCain is a nominee I can respect, Limbaugh is fucking Sloth that has no worth
I wish we stop feeding the trolls. If you keep feeding the trolls, they'll all look mutated and fat like Rush LimBarf.
Egad, but Limbaugh is one seriously repugnant hypocrite. LIBERALS are the snakes. Riiiight.
poor limbaugh is a decent respected man! leave him alone, you librul vultures!
St. McCain was just a father figure to that woman. What he did was what he would do for any fawning blonde bimbo with a wad of special interest cash. Rush has to know St. John is as dishonest a Republican as any now up on charges or in the slammer.
Right Wingers always get a free pass.
"Oh I'm so sorry I suggested Lynching Michelle Osama, er' I mean Obama. This is entertainment!"
the message on the tablet was valium.
My offering to the name list:
McPerpetualWar
McLobbyistLover
McCorruptCriminalCampaigner
McQuidProQuo
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of course the times did this to help Mc[please pick a name from above list].
This is the same paper that hired KKKristol for the election cycle.
This is the same paper that helped set the stage for the Iraq war-of-choice.
This is the same paper that sat on the wiretapping story through the 2004 election cycle.
Absolutely. They're now rallying behind the man they most hated and villifying the NYT. It's been all over Fox. Maybe the right wingers planned it that way. Anyone watch nbc nightly news? What was with the story about Barack Obama and the soldier in Afghanistan who told him they lacked equipment that was referenced in the debate? It wasn't even clear why that was newsworthy, other than I suspect that well connected right wingers watchdogs brought it to nbc's attention and insisted they make hay out of it, even though it was much ado about nothing. I'm tellin ya, these rethugs are already going after Obama in very sneaky sophisticated ways. We all know GE owns nbc. The Dems better wise up and figure out how to fight back.
Oh come on. They were going to back McCain anyway. They would have used the Hildabeast or Osama the Socialist rallying cry. They like to act like they are independent thinkers but they're all butt-boys for the nutball right, knuckle-draggers all.
Why is this guy fat? Seriously, with all that money, all that free time, he could hire cooks, trainers, go to "health spas" , colonics, stomach stapling....there's no excuse to be that unhealthy. Most working folks don't have time to exercise and can only afford cheap over processed food. What a lazy piece of gristle.
the reichers are again setting the stage for paralyzing the government for the incoming Democratic President.
Limpball spews more shit out of his mouth than at the other end. He is one fat
sicko who needs to be institutonalized.
Strawberrybitch @ 23:
Limpballs is just as corrupt in appearance as he is to the ears.
No Surprise.
BTW, you just insulted fat people by lumping in Limpballs.
Ah yes, in the true spirit of bipartisanship!!! Why do these so called "experts" never ever take that trip down the political lane? I mean, they are famous left and right, but never venture into the ring. Why? Perhaps they truly don't believe half the crap they spew. Unless of course you are Michelle Malkin. That woman is just right batshit crazy.
CoIntelPro @ 20:
Thanks, all keepers! I'll honor your offer...
She offered her honor;
He honored her offer;
And all night long
He was on her and off her!
#'s 237-210I
;-)
I am beginning to smell a rat in all this. Wouldn't the right wingnuts have benefitted the most from this story? It was in the Times hands in December, just about the time that McCain began his rally. The reicht-wingers hate McCain. At the time (December) it could have been used to destroy his campaign. Now that it has been published (after he has all but secured the nomination), it can be used as a rallying point for the jerks (mAnn, Limpball, Rannity, et al) who said they'd vote Democratic to rejoin the Repukelicans. Just a thought.
this fat, limp dicked, doctor shopping, oxy addict just proved what everyone chapped on bill clinton about last week.... when he said.... "dont think that just because everyone talks nice and stuff... that we will all get along suddenly... dont kid yourself... the republicans are not going to stopfighting..."
well.... this fat fuck just proved what we have to do and how we have to view them. we cant let these regressive assholes have one goddamn inch. not one. look what they have done to our country.
The NYT backed St.McBush'08™ already. Why isn't anyone catching on that this whole charade was self-inflicted...to ramp up fund-raising and support from the kicking & screaming base.
a) critical reporting of Republicans = Republicans rally and are strengthened
b) no critical reporting of Republicans for fear it will strengthen them = Republicans are immune and strengthened
Yeah, Democrats better keep wringing those hands and second guessing themselves. The end result is the same, but it's at least sadly amusing to watch as they overanalyze defeat out of the jaws of victory once again. WAKE UP!
Rush and Cindy both dig that hillbilly heroin.
The entire (211) current (as of Friday 12:01am pst) McName List:
I think this will be good in a double-doublecross sort of way. Lush and Mann Coulter and the like were acting like they were furious about McCrazy so the casual observer would think that he wasn't a wingnut. The only way Grampa McCain has a chance is if independents think he's actually a "Maverick," and that wouldn't work with Greater Wingnuttia backing him up. I think they jumped the gun on this one and will now be forced to line up behind their man prematurely, throwing independents like myself (albeit one who will probably never vote republican because I hate evil fuckups) to Obama.
Booyah?
White House Defends McCain, Blames NY Times
The correlation is clear and obvious to all but the dim witted.
Scy @ 22:
yes, but the point remains: they now have an excuse because, right on cue, the librul NYT handed them the opportunity on a platter. and by throwing in an unprovable sexual allegation, NYT destroyed their own credibility.
My favorite part of Rush's morning rant was "the librul NYT decided who the republican candidate will be, picked our candidate for us!!!" no mowroon, the republican voters did that. The NYT endorsement was recent and no self respecting GOPee'r would base his opinion on a left wing rag.
Proud2bHumble @ 28:
*laughing until tears blur the vision*
Proud2bHumble @ 34:
I posted some more on another thread. McHomer? McMrBurns? McUlcers?
Romney's team said today that it's a shame what the NYT did...and that they should have done it in December when it would have been most advantageous for Romney. See, it's not THAT you smear, it's all in the timing.
L.A. Confidential @ 36:
But there are soooooooooooo many dimwits! :lol:
Eric Almighty @ 35:
So what you are saying is Republicans prematurely ejaculated??
Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain Friday said he hoped Fidel Castro's resignation would be followed by his speedy demise, and rapped Democrat Barack Obama for offering talks with Cuba's next leader.
When are mental examinations going to be required of all Republicans running for office? A possible President wishing death to a weaker opponent who's not only no threat the the United Sates but has been attempting for years to open friendly trade and commerce?
BillT @ 38:
The New York Times endorsement impacted the friggin "state"....this pudgy drug addict doesn't have an ounce of brains to share with the world. I long for the day when he and all the other hate radio bobble heads become an afterthought.
The fact this "moran" is given so much attention and credibility speaks volume of why we are so politically foulked up.
I've supported, and absolutely agreed with, the views of those on C&L and the few progressives that are left in your country - up until now that is. Now, I hope John MCcain becomes your president.
The reason is that the US must fall.
I believe, rhetoric aside, that democrats will fight to the death to preserve the status quo. The US has become the biggest rogue nation in the world - raping resources, impoverishing millions and forcing their economic influence on others in order to maintain it's unsustainable life style.
John MCcain will do more than any Democratic candidate to ensure that the demise of the US will happen the quickest. The sooner the better for the rest of the world.
ConcernedCanuck @ 27:
Now if I were batshit crazy, I'd feel insulted. ;-)
Hell yes, the revelations of the past couple of days have shown (if you are willing to believe them) that McNut is in bed with lobbyist, he doing favors for them for contributions and is boinking one of them - and she is the correct sex!
McNut is denying right and left, spinning and dancing. He is acting like the epitome of a Republican.
Deep in their cold little hearts the cons can't help but warm up to McNut.
CoIntelPro @ 26:
I tried not to, but if you look at stats, the poor tend to suffer from obesity more often, because of a lack of healthy food(too expensive), no access to exercise (no walking trails and gyms in poor neighborhoods) and lack of good preventative medicine. So when I see folks like Limpy, I get annoyed. PS Don't get me started on the poorer schools cutting back on PE and recess....grrrrrrrrr.
L.A. Confidential @ 44:
"Fidel Castro announced that he would not remain as president -- whatever that means," McCain said in Indianapolis.
"And I hope that he has the opportunity to meet Karl Marx very soon."
Wow, what an inspiration.
Well at least the ones who thought he was a dirty, commie-pinko, hippie that is
Canuknotusa @ 46:
But what if Obama actually fixes things? Hhhhmmmmm? What then?
CoIntelPro @ 39:
"....don't encourage him..." - 2b's mom
Tancz! 8-D
CoIntelPro @ 47:
If you were batshit crazy, you wouldn't be on this blog. You poor Americans may not have the bestest candidates, but you sure do get the full blown Hollywood effects out of elections. The entire world is watching. Scary that the batshit crazy media personalities take the spotlight.
Whats next fire hosing and sicking attack dogs on Liberals in the streets? Separate drinking fountains and bathrooms?
CoIntelPro @ 52:
You might have missed my point that the Dems will only defend the status quo? So will Obama, being a Dem - Hhmmmm?
"They are snakes!"
I actually agree with the SCAT MUNCHER on this one...
Dem's are pieces of stinky shit!
Giving Telcoms immunity and passing that POS FISA bill .. amongst EVERYTHING ELSE they have done over the last 8 years... proves that beyond a shadow of a doubt..
However.. IF Dems are snakes and shit.. what are the REPIGS>???...
Exactly
Canuknotusa @ 46:
what a mental midget. things are about to change pinhead.... either get on board or get the fuck out of the way... but, shit is about to be very different and it isnt going to be mccain.
what a piece of crap you are.
L.A. Confidential @ 44:
Poor McHogansHero probably still thinks he is fighting that there evil communism over there, so he doesn't have to fight it over here.
Strawberrybitch @ 49:
I know what you mean and since raygun, ketchup is a vegetable. BTW did you catch my last post on the debate thread?
rduke @ 57:
The house has not passed a bill!
kevin @ 58:
Things ARE about to change. Hollywood has come to the WhiteHouse. It'll either be a woman, a half black man, or a nursing home patient! We now return to American Idol.................
OK, its time to set the record straight.
The "right wing" was being hard on Mccain to put pressure on him, and essentially force him into the bowels of the neo-cons. They wanted to make him a yes-man, who would carry out the neocon agenda, and in return he would inherit the same noise machine that was challenging him.
When it came down to election time they would back him ANYWAY, however this game was essential to make sure he was a yes-man for neocon-extremism before the convention and general election.
This story has SHORT-CIRCUITED that strategy by forcing the noise-machine to do some very serious damage control. They now have no choice but to back him full-force or else risk his candidacy being completely & inevitably unwinnable even before the convention.
This means the neocons can no longer publicly pressure, taunt, or blackmail Mccain for their support because doing so would risk crippling Mccain beyond repair and makethe Democratic nominee publicly perceived as the INEVITABLE winner for the general election.
This means Mccain is almost off scott-free kissing off to the neocons (almost), which also means hardcore republicans who were turned off by him before will have absolutely no reason to vote for him come general election time. Any anger they manage to draw around this issue will have worn off by then, while the stain of the charges will not - meaning Mccain's already lost the independents due perceptions of corruptions and immorality.
With no independents and now guaranteed weak support from the Republican base he is pretty much toast at this point. It now appears a Democrat is the inevitable winner of the general election.
Republicans enjoy domination and killing.
Isn't it obvious?
kevin @ 58:
Shit is about to be different?
Let me know how that works out for you, but don't use too many 3 syllable words - I might not understand!!
ConcernedCanuck @ 40:
Sorry, I missed 'em. Kinda stickin' ta the most current McCainunable threads. Thanks for droppin' 'em again!
#'s 241-3 :)
Canuknotusa @ 65:
Unless one of these Hollywood Candidates has some quick fixer uppers for the economy, there will be change........lots of change.......only bills will be from the ol' bankers knockin on the doors.....lots of change.....nothing but change for the fortunate
Proud2bHumble @ 66:
McPoppaPump?
McSoreAss?
McGiveAndTake?
McRectalThermometer?
Dr Cauis @ 63:
ConcernedCanuck @ 67:
Yes - change happens. Mostly nickels and dimes...
ConcernedCanuck @ 68:
McCousinIT
McTrophyWifeLover
McDaddyWarBucks
McBoDiddlySquat
You know what they say: with a friend like Rush Limbaugh you need to check your medicine cabinet after he visits. Oh and disinfect the toilet seat.
Wow, didn't he just say that he felt 'liberated' from not having to carry water for the Republicans anymore? Didn't take him long to get loaded up again, did it?
Rush, FoxNews, and Ann Coulter are all having money problems. They need McCain more than he needs them. Whores have to stick together.
But Rush said it best in his own words.
http://www.bushflash.com/nazi.html
What a pathetic election we have coming up.
Last night, Clinton and Obama were as far right as you could get with respect to Cuba.
The best Obama could do was say that he thinks relatives should be able to visit Cuba. The rest of us...
well...we don't deserve the same travel rights as the Canadians, the French, and the rest of intelligent humanity. Clinton is full of shit as well. They both are afraid to counter cold war talking points.
Liberals, my aunt Fanny.
Health care - Obama's plan for health care for children is to force parents to BUY it. If they don't have the money... well... Clinton's is better but not by much. Both are talking about making people pay for insurance. Neither of these bozos have bothered to see "Sicko" or learn anything about functioning universal health care systems that abound in most civilized countries. Pathetic. I could hardly believe my ears. And they say Obama is "brilliant". God. Clinton - intelligence deadened by timid adherence to safe agendas. The insurance industry has nothing to fear from either of these two.
And against these two freaks, we have a truly nutty McCain.
He bristles with suppressed rage.
He says stupid and uninformed things.
I fear, however, that he could stream-roll over either of the two chumps that the media has chosen for us on the democratic side.
Really depressing.
It seemed like it was going to be a good year for liberals, progressives, and people who desperately want the war in Iraq to end. But we, the people, are screwed again. Different faces, same shit.
It's interesting that the right uses the same manipulations as terrorists in order to destabilize/thwart any attempt at working together.
Group A: Even though we have differences of opinion, we believe in peace and that we should work together to find suitable, reasonable solutions to some of our mutual problems.
Group B: Anyone who disagrees with us should be forced out of our society, or killed - whichever is more efficient and practical.
Both groups must now be mutually antagonistic. Furthermore and counterintuitively, in order to survive, Group A must now force Group B's capitulation, or in the alternative, must destroy them.
When your enemy’s stated intention is to destroy you and yours, there is no need to negotiate. The enemy must be defeated on its own terms.
Dr Cauis @ 63:
I think that's a very good analysis. But I still am not sure who is pulling the strings on this. Rove? RNC? Someone pulled in some favor(s) at the NYT!
j swift @ 48:
#244, thanks! :)
...followed by 'McNuttsalot' and 'McNuttsinthelobby(ist)'
eeewww!
PeteSez @ 75:
I was kinda counting ol' McNavalBlockade down for the count, but I can see him putting up a good fight. Especially after George executes those people in Gitmo and their friends and family come knockin for revenge.
ConcernedCanuck @ 59:
LOL!
There's a fire up north, and its name is ConcernedCanuck, haha...
#247, thanks!
;-)
When will Conservatives make up their minds what they stand for? It seems like their opinions shift with the direction of the prevailing winds. Sometimes adultery is bad. Other times, it's simply uncouth to point out a man's adultery.
This makes sense to me, because someone like Ass Limbo doesn't want his listeners to think he's going back on his word about McCrazy, so putting McCrazy in a sympathetic light against the "big bad liberals" would be unifying for the Crazy Base for McCrazy and would make it okay for Ass Limbo to start supporting him. Killing two birds with one stone.
Proud2bHumble @ 78:
Hey Proud2bHumble where are you storing the list. I want to check it for McCant.
Proud2bHumble @ 80:
Why thank you. I am almost Johnny McStupendousMan'd out I think. Although I might get a McIdeaChallenged thought in my McPumpkinHead.
slippytoad @ 81:
Do we really know what conservatives stand for? I don't even think Rush Limbaugh knows. He thinks he knows, but then again, he does have a hard time with McCain (who reaches across the aisles like conservatives USED TO DO) which tells me Limbaugh is far removed from conservatism at this point.
Proud2bHumble @ 80:
Whoa....just caught a glimpse of John McPatriotMissile on television.....man, that dude looks like he needs carried around!!! Not sure why at his age he doesn't just McRetireAlready.
ConcernedCanuck @ 68:
McAnalfixated? lol
#'s 248-51, thanks, eh!
(8-:})
Yes, the Times didn't really have a story and was trying to help McCain - successfully.
KayInMaine @ 85:
I'm starting to think the only true "conservative" and "liberals" in the world, are media personalities. I think the rest of the world is really more moderate. I hate the term progressive. We've had a Progressive Conservative Party up here and it basically stood for tax, tax, tax, spend, spend, spend, oh and invite US Prez up for a good ol' asskissing.
Sure you have your way left and way right, but most people I think are in the middle. A little of each philosophy. Only time there are major probs is when one of the way lefts or rights is elected. We went way left once voting in the NDP (New Democratic Party) and they almost bankrupt us with reckless spending.
leo @ 88:
Or, on the other hand...it's possible the NYT was embarrassed that they backed him, so by coming out with this now, McCrazy would publicly state that he's done nothing wrong and then at some point....the NYT will divulge their evidence to make him look like an ass.
The conclusion is...no matter which way it turns out, McCrazy is going to lose in the end. See?
Proud2bHumble @ 87:
Of course McAnalfixated.....it is the Rush McPimpleOnAss thread!!!!!!!
ConcernedCanuck @ 71:
You are now in the lead for the coveted(not so much) McProlific Golden McProphylactic! lol
#'s 252-5, thanks! :)
ConcernedCanuck @ 89:
It should also be noted the "liberal party" or the "Democratic party" has different philosophies and ideals around the planet. I agree however that most of us feel comfortable in the middle. Personally, I don't. To me the center means undecided and licking ones finger to find out which way the wind is blowing.
ConcernedCanuck @ 79:
#256, thanks!
:)
Peter G @ 83:
The entire (211) current (as of Friday 12:01am pst) McName List:
Does not include today's McPetNames, but McCan't came in at #16. Sorry! I look forward to what you come up with. Your comments make me lol and LOL! quite often, thanks!
KayInMaine @ 93:
Actually those parties in other nations don't have that big a diff in philosophies Kay, at least not here in Canada. To me the center is trying to do what is best for everyone and it is possible. My country is supposed to be an evil socialist nation according to all experts, and yet the taxation and corporate asskissing still favours business. So we have some liberal ideologies, and some conservative. When it sways too far in either direction, the ruling party usually ends up out on their asses come election time.
Rush Limbaugh is a stem cell experiment gone wrong.
ConcernedCanuck @ 84:
LOLOL! Yer McKillin' me!
#'s 257-9, tanky danky! :)
ConcernedCanuck @ 96:
Being in Maine, I have no problem with our Canadian friends. ;-)
The parties may be similar but not exact across the planet. That said, I don't think the neocons in America would have gotten away with as much as they have had they had had the Democrats in charge from 2000 on. If the leader is far right or far right, it's good to have some type of balance and oversight. Some will argue the Democrats since 2006 haven't provided much oversight either. Well, I agree to a point, but at the same time, the Bush Regime has been on edge everyday for over a year now. They're getting very scary if you ask me. LOL
ConcernedCanuck @ 86:
McFatigue setting in, but you keep going. I will come back later and mop up. Thanks!
#'s 260-62
enemies?
this ............(you fill in the blanks) is so self centered,and full of hate that he just can't stand it anymore.
ENEMIES???
what are we al queda?
But on a more serious note; Am I the only one that thinks Rush speech sounds like he's got mush in his mouth? Am I the only one that thinks he talks like FUCKING DAFFY DUCK?
KayInMaine @ 93:
The center is not a waving finger in the air crowd. That is only for politicians who look at polls to make decisions.
Does undecided mean flip flopping? You mean it is bad to change your mind if you get new data?
Speaking as someone who considers himself in the center, the center tends to think critically about the issues and does not drink the kool aid of either extreme. The center thinks for itself and can change its mind if a solid is argument is presented and it is grounded in common sense. The center can also compromise and see issues from either sides' viewpoint. I may lean left on one issue like healthcare but I may lean right on immigration, for example; however, I may not want a single payer system but I want to make sure that those without healthcare insurance have it and I also see the stupidity of deporting millions of people but I want tighter borders and enforcement of the laws before we address the millions here illegally.
All too often the left and right frame the debate and the center is pulling out its hair because we get so frustrated by the stupidity of it all; the inefficiency of partisanship.
ConcernedCanuck @ 89:
Well said.
Just like you can't have pure socialism or pure capitalism. You need to find the middle; you need to find a balance.
CD @ 11:
You and a lot more people. It is going to be fun!!!
is rush wearing a bib in that picture?
Kabuki Theatre Anyone? Are The New York Times "attacking" McCain so his detractors in the GOP will rally 'round him? I mean The Times luvs dem some Repubs (wink, wink Judy, Kristol et al.) Are the Crooks and Liars at NYT trying to pull a fast one for the Crook and Liar McCain?
Proud2bHumble @ 95:
A subtle difference. Cant as in Republican cant . You may have to alphabetize this if we keep this up. And I hope so.
Peter G @ 108:
Sorry to to miss your cant cant. Yes We Can Cant!
#265, thanks! =(;-}
P.S. Try copying the entire list into a word or other table and alpha sorting...
Proud2bHumble @ 109:
Good idea. And McSpin and McTalkingpoint. As the great Dorothy Parker once said : If you haven't got something nice to say about someone then come sit by me.
Peter G @ 110:
lol, She was great.
Did a bear shit in the woods?
"You cannot welcome their media members on your bus and get all cozy with them and expect eternal love from them."
I think the dope fiend has just given up the ghost...
So, the wingnut media types were pissed at McCaine because he had an end run around them. McCain didn't need them to get his message out, he had his own media bitches.
Shorter Rush: "I love you LOOOOOOOg time flyboy, better than them other bitches"
Who even wants to live in a country where an uneducated pile of blubber like Pugsley Limbaugh has a voice? That mommy's boy is an absolute embarrassment.
Hittin' the road, Jack, "and I ain't comin' back no more no more no more no more."
Migrating upblog to lay some more eggs.
"Last word, freak." - Melvin Udall
out
Wow, I think this video clip of Limpbaugh should be studied as being the quintessential example of projection.
Everything he accuses the "liberal media" of doing, is actually Limphbaugh's very own MO.
Astounding... Sometimes, you just can't make this shit up.
ConcernedCanuck @ 96:
It is called "normality"
Canada has a working democracy, which understands the cyclic nature of power between the right and the left.
The US no longer has anything resembling the left on the viable political choices presented to its citizenry. It is down to a cycle of extreme right wing and moderate right wing. Therefore it is pretty much dead as far as democratic nature is concerned.
Haha. I predicted this one, as I'm sure many folks did...
They wingnuts may hate McCain, but they view negative NYT coverage as a conservative endorsement. This way, they also have an excuse for backing McCain without admitting that they've sold out.
McIwishIcouldtoolthathornybeeotchagainbutIcan'tbecauseI'vebeenbusted.
I have to be honest here, I do feel sympathy for his wife.
I'd luv to be a fly on the wall in his house right now.
I wonder what his campaign advisors are saying right now.
"WTF . Turn this around,Go on the Attack!
Is Rove behind this? Absolutely.
C'mon, *all* the rightwing nutjobs virtually in unison start attacking McCain? There's little doubt that by Monday morning these same nutjobs will be totally on board the straight dick express, courtesy their undying hatred of the NY Times. Aren't these the usual suspects who used to get invited to the WH just prior to new spin campaigns? Be interesting to see a name for name analysis.
As noted, the 30%ers will not be enough to get a close election that can then be stolen. The chimp and "Dick" show have seen to that, they've even taken out some of the faithful. If they don't get swing Independents they're finished. Hard. Gotta make McCain seem like a centrist instead of crazier than our beloved Commander in Chimp. No better way to do this than what they just did.
Yup, Rove is all over this.
And does every thread about McCain have to have this stupid name shit? Older than "frist" way faster...
Damn. Limpnuts said verbatim what I have been saying about the Rethuglicans since the Clinton Inquistion.
where it counts ... with the voters ... it hit the target. they get that this guy is tainted and is not the clean, honorable guy they once thought he was.
limbawl flipflopping looks suspicious too to the regular folk.
voters get that this is a story about judgment and impropriety. who is on the staff. who gives advice. who listens. what happens?
keating and lobbyland.
Based on the timing there is no way this is a liberal/Democrat attack on McCain. If it were, this story would have been released during the primaries, to get McCain out of the race, or more likely during the general election, when democrats are vying for the general vote in a head to head competition.
This is the best timing for McCain to have this story come up (no accident). He has locked up the nomination, and is months away from starting his general campaign. By the time the McCain starts his general campaign this story will be history.
Story is released to NYT so they can be used as a punching bag.
Is Rove behind this? Absolutely.
My thoughts exactly..........the source of the NYT story is most likely people on the far right. Realizing they can't win the election the way things are currently going, they want to do one of two things:
1. bring down McCain so they can get a candidate that all conservatives can rally around, or
2. create sympathy for McCain (look what liberals are trying to do to him) and rally conservatives behind him
Either way the attempt is to manipulate public opinion so as to favor the Republican.
Liberals are to be defeated?
Him and his ilk are to be annihilated.
20 points in the general the spread will be for Obama.
I wonder what pill poppin Rushin Limbaugh has learned fro all his bad acts?
Rush says this as all but the most avid conservatives still listen to his vile... his world is getting smaller and smaller and pretty much he won't even fit in it anymore.
Maybe what's missing from McCain's press coverage is crowds of protesters yelling "SLEAZE BALL" at him wherever he shows up.
Boom-Boom McCain is up to his bloodshot eyeballs in the lobbyist corruption that makes Americans disgusted with their government.
Reformer? Who's dumb enough to believe that now?
"If the drive-by media interpret my denunciation of the NY Tines as an endorsement of John McCain; I have done a poor job of expressing my convictions." _rush limbaugh
L.A. Confidential @ 44:
Don't you love it when a tyrant like McCain gets irrational about Castro because, for over 40 years, the Cuban dictator thumbed his nose at the US? Imperialists like McCain have always wanted to make an example out of Castro and grind him into the dirt. It didn't work. Now that McCain wants an old and frail man, only a few years older than McCain himself, to die off already, it gives McCain a chance to show his hatred. McCain likes to hate. He thinks that hatred is manly. He also likes to pander. And both are intertwined when he panders for the Cuban-American-Right Wing vote.
And the Cuban Americans? They don't get it. They're being played like a violin. Republicans don't give a rat's ass about the Cuban Americans' anti-Castro hate-affair. They just want the votes, and they want to keep the issue alive, so they WON'T spoil a cash cow like the Cuban American voting bloc by actually DOING anything about Cuba.
Republicans are pissed because, with the trade embargo, they can't work up much of a "Cuban- American" cash flow, especially in the entertainment sector
It's been over 40 years, folks.
Isn't it about time to look at Cuba differently?
When it says Limbaugh - I turn it off. He's in a class with Coulture and Bill O. and I don't listen because they have no credibility. McMilitary is just about as bad on foreign policy.
That is exactly what happened and thank God we are all in sink with this slick trick. They are all behind this crap and they know it.
Just ten more months of putting up with this sleaze
limbaugh is clearly advocating a national divide. gosh this is blantant example of how right wing media is causing people divide. if nobody in gop opposes this, then they are clearly haters of people with liberal philosophy and definitely cannot be uniters.
Captain Kangaroo @ 105:
They given us not jus enough ammo to defeate McCain but to end the GOP.
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