GMA Airs "John McCain in Three Minutes"
By Nicole Belle Saturday Aug 30, 2008 4:00pm
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Uh oh, the bloom is off the McCain Media rose. They are definitely not working overtime to give him positive coverage. Now, while this probably could have been more damaging, it's indisputably very dismissive of the man poised to accept the Republican nomination for President of the United States in just a few days. Combine this with Time Magazine's "prickly" interview (for what it's worth, he's always been prickly, but the national media has always given him the benefit of doubt in the past) and we have a media no longer blindly willing to carry McCain's water.
By the way, because I have long maintained that the Republican Party are the masters of message control, what does it say about their feelings on this convention when they schedule it to start on a national holiday (with guaranteed lower ratings, since Americans will be taking advantage of a three day weekend, even if they can't afford to go anywhere) and the night that McCain will officially accept the nomination is the same day that the NFL opens their season with a Giants-Redskins game?
Maybe they're counting on the drop in viewership to diffuse the inevitable comparison between McCain and Obama's acceptance speeches.
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i was watching CNN and crap i forgot his name said that a non convention would be a good thing.
it was some GOP shithead
Despite their reputation, most conservatives really are pretty stupid. They are just meaner, more duplicitous, and slimier than most people are willing to recognize, which gives them an advantage.
first!!!
You can just hear McGigolo thoughts......as he plays with his weding ring:
Drill, drill, DRILL! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RN5xbWtNSU
McCain used to court the press, now he's been giving them the stiff arm. That tends to lead bad coverage.
Also, Obama is seen as doing well and McCain's pick is seen as hapless. The worry for Huggy Bear is that the press will start piling on.
The back and forth shit they're pulling with the convention/Gustav has to be done with great care and humility in order to not be seen and reported as pure disgusting opportunism. I'm not sure they have that type of grace.
Hahaha I love that little smack down at the end of the piece.
I have no problem with a total neophyte in the White House, so long as their world view and plan for the country make sense to me. I do however have a problem with that total neophyte being dropped on the American people 2 months before the election, and that 1 man who met her 1 time picked her to be his VP - while 18,000,000 Americans picked Obama to be their president.
DrDick @ 3:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/index.htmleople and really don't give a shit about anyone
I have thought exactly this for years. They are also selfish and don't give a shit about anyone else except themselves.
McCain is now planning to give his acceptance speech via sattellite from the disaster area post hurricane. What a putz!
If a bear shits in the woods with no one around, does it still reek?
"Prickly" ? When it comes to McGerber , it's "pricky" .
They forgot to add...and November...McCain loses presidential election...Cindy cries and Palin breathes a sigh of relief and then returns to Russ-laska to hunt moose.
"Maybe they’re counting on the drop in viewership to diffuse the inevitable comparison between McCain and Obama’s acceptance speeches."
Not to mention how they must be jumping for joy that Gustav will (a) distract Americans from watching their convention, and (b) give McCain a backdrop to look presidential. People may be killed, but, hey, God's will!
HeyCaptain @ 8:
Yep.
dw @ 4:
not even close.
I'll have a salty old dog (who can't learn a new trick) please..
I think the whole GOP and McCain are just plain unorganized. It is that simple. They are like chickens running around with their heads cut off!
I don't know if this video can be seen as anything but an attempt at GMA to be slightly clever. The video is fairly tame, not at all dismissive, at least not in a substantive way. And it does omit the Keating 5 scandal, which is a big marker in McCain's career. I imagine a GMA video of Obama would skew even further toward the negative/petty/irrelevant.
Hey! Thanks for letting me know who is playing during the NFL's season opener. Now I won't have to look it up. Besides, it sure beats watching a group of so called "men" who mostly never served in uniform talk about issues they do not understand. I have more in common with the football players than I do the Republicans.
"Yeah, that's the ticket!"
Ruthless People @ 15:
i forgot to put it in my first post :(
YEAH!!! Excellent....I am so sick of the McManCrush...it was time for it to end..or atleast subside....
McCain sucks.
Which is why you should vote for Obama.
Remember this when you go to the polls in November.
Vote for the lesser evil.
Acting Patriotic @ 5:
Thank you , that shit is priceless!
Is there any chance that the MSM is beginning to get a firmer grasp on the obvious.....that if you back a losing, incompetent bunch of fools you won't look too good yourself? Except what will the boss say? And all the rich advertisers? Let's hope there is hope.
Gov. Sarah Palin gave birth to her fifth child at 6:30 this morning (April 18th) at Mat-Su Regional Medical Center, her spokeswoman said today.
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/380134.html
However, Mat-Su Regional Medical Center does not reflect the baby was born there:
http://www.matsuregional.com/nursery/nursery_calendar.php?month=05&year=...
April 18 births were:
Isaiah Travis
Kayden Lexus
There is no doubt who the best candidate in this election is. The media is starting to get it. The man is a thinker, articulate and truly compassionate. His organization is second to none. Barack Obama was brilliant in Denver. That is the kind of president we need.
A John McCain victory would be catastrophic for working people. 30% of the middle class will slide into poverty. More people will die young. More homeless. More hungry. More war. More hate. More corporate profits pouring into Dubai, Saudi etc. instead of America.
Americans must get out to vote. We must overcome the faulty voting machines that corporate republicans put out there. Our elections have been compromised. Our right to vote, our right to have our vote counted, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, our courts have been breached big time. If republicans win the middle class will be devastated.
Sarah Palin in gone in 30 seconds
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/121350/137
pd @ 28:
you beat me to it. seems believable to me.
You want someone who is really smart to be president.
Someone who gets it.
Someone who will tell you to rest easy. Everything is in the hands of the knowledgeable professionals.
Someone who will say, don't worry about your government. It's OK.
Yes, vote for this person.
And tune out.
charlie @ 29:
I'm working on her withdrawal speech, pro bono. I know she's busy right now, having to go down to MS with McSame to "check on" the folks evacuating in advance of Gustav.
How swiftboating 2.0 works.
http://mediamattersaction.org/swiftboating/
charlie @ 29:
However, Mat-Su Regional Medical Center does not reflect the baby was born there:
http://www.matsuregional.com/n.....;year=2008
April 18 births were:
Isaiah Travis
Kayden Lexus
McCain's planning on giving his acceptance speech from the disaster area? That's rich - "Hi, I'm John McCain, and if I'm President and you're really, really, really lucky, your town can look like this after four years of me."
Ought to be a real barn-burner of a speech and guaranteed to draw a crowd away from the Giants-Redskins ... aw, fuck, who am I kidding?
Go Giants! (although I will be switching back and forth to watch McCain dredge up the same old crap and offer it up as shiny new diamonds of wisdom)
Pretty lame. Left out his affair, claim of being Baptist, the Keating 5, reversal of positions, 5 aircraft lost in 4 years of flying (OK, four - one wasn't his fault).
You got Labor Day, the NFL starting its season opener and Hurricane Gustav that is suppose to make landfall tomorrow while the Republicans remain concerned about their Republican nomination. As usual, they say and do nothing when a crisis is eminent. McCain is doing little except to maybe use Gustav as a political photo op while Obama is lining up monetary donors to assist. Clearly, I think we all see who is the real leader in all of this and its not John McCain or the Republicans.
More than likely McCain will use his past POW status as an excuse for doing nothing after the damage is caused by Gustav. I can hear him now, "You think you have it bad after this hurricane, why when I was a POW......" Pathetic.
StirFry @ 11:
Not from what I've heard. He's joining the ranks of Bob Dole and the ED set. Are you kidding me calling him prick anything? Just look at Botox Cindy at Huffpo right now and you can see why. Frightening - downright frightening.
As for the media dissing him, what are they to think? The obvious is that they take him at face value and believe that he believes that he's selected the "best qualified veep candidate" which means that everyone running for re-election had better pack their bags now. That goes for anyone in the administration, congress, as well as each and every one of his presidential contenders - Romney, Guiliani, Huckleberry et al. It's clear that if we believe that McPrick has some semblance of honesty somewhere in his rather fraudulent disposition (maybe one pore of honesty?), he truly believes that a frustrated beauty queen from podunkville USA with just over a year of experience as a pathetic little Governor JUST HAPPENS TO BE MORE QUALIFIED THAN ANYONE ELSE IN HIS PARTY.
Now this is newsworthy.
Quote: Sarah Palin named two of her children after witches, once took drugs, and refused to sign a bill forbidding domestic benefits for gay couples. Any one of these--especially the first--would raise suspicion in the eyes of a traditional Southern Baptist.
http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/29/what-the-pal...
Republicans have been extremely good at controlling the message over the years, and I don't think this is a mistake in scheduling on their part. It is a small group of people who have always ran the show for the GOP with their minions keeping a watchful eye on any potential troublemakers within the party.
This group is booking ahead which does not include winning this election. It seems the potential VP candidates chose not to be on the McCain ticket rather McCain not choosing them. What the hell are they up to?
Shout it from the rooftops and echo McPrick's own words back at him and every Republican you know. In his own words: "I will select the individual whom I feel is the "most qualified" for the position." End of discussion. He did and now the entire gang of Republithugs can be put on notice that they are definitely NOT QUALIFIED to even shine the shoes of Miss Podunkville. Time for them to pack their bags in Washington, I'd say.
Lindsey Graham looked flummoxed as hell and, obviously, did not know what to say. Add to that the actual facts about Miss Priss's first "national lie" during her acceptance speech and it's over, no matter how you dice it. The congressional records and tapes will speak for themselves. She was there begging for money for the bridge to nowhere.
Instead she will guarantee that McCain's campaign will be known as "The Campaign to Nowhere".
Americans would rather watch the skins game on Thursday anyway than some old, ED'd PTSD'd grandpappy and his heffer in lipstick.
Chuck @ 39:
Why am I not surprised? I've heard rumors that she has been directly involved in witchcraft. Anyone else hear them? It was bad enough when this "Fairy Queen" named the kids with the ridiculous names of the enchanted forest - it also doesn't surprise me that she was into drugs. From the look of the McHooker photo two night ago circulating around the internet (complete with 5 inch platform shoes) I'm not at all shocked. You KNOW some of her high school cronies will be weighing in with pretty scandalous photos, etc. It's all coming like one of Alaska's infamous "avalanches" and will smother this poor naive ignoramus.
I also heard she played the flute. Would that be the skin flute by any chance? Just wondering....
You know, all of this is very amusing. Until you stop for a second and realize that the future of the PEOPLE of this nation is at risk. Your children or granchildren, or even you, if you're relatively young, face economic and/or ecological disaster or both, if we don't get serious.
Those of you who understand what has happened to our nation, and how our Republic has been co-opted by the neo-con = global financial cabal = CFR kinds, had better begin to work hard to wise up this electorate. I don't know if Obama can help us - he is aligned with too many CFR, Chicago-economics kinds of folks. I am pretty sure McCain cannot.
But we need to work to ensure that Obama and Biden will be working FOR US, and not in concert with those who are intent on establishing their New World Order - one in which most of us are expendable (by disease, starvation, natural disaster, or FEMA camp, etc.). I believe I quote Dennis Kucinich......"Wake UP!"
sophya @ 42:
Bristol and Willow are famous witches.
There are countless reasons to question McCain choosing Palin as his VP choice. It just seems the criticism should be wielded towards McCain and not so much on Palin. No matter who he picked for VP, I would think it would be a terrilbe choice. Just hope people don't go overboard to the extent the electorate starts having sympathy for Palin.
pd @ 28:
holy sh&t!
Bernie Bear @ 47:
I WISH WE WOULD STAY AWAY FROM THIS STORY. Seriously, it smells like a trick. First off it's none of our business. Second off, if it is true, most people will feel compassion for her. She will look like a perfect mother who protects her children at all costs, while the librul media outs their secret that they should be able to keep a secret.
If we don't go there, we look better for it. This woman is going to self destruct on her own, we don't need to push her.
moonsha @ 46:
BINGO. also, take a look at this:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/31/1469/85335/817/580901
I think that a lot of conservatives are going to rip her apart any ways. Believe it or not, there really are right wingers who believe a woman's place is in the home, that God wants it that way and that you can't be "pro-family" and be a mom vp at the same time.
''McCain: Older then the state of Alaska''
LOLOLOLOL
"Maybe they’re counting on the drop in viewership to diffuse the inevitable comparison between McCain and Obama’s acceptance speeches. "
Would that it were true, but I think it's a bit of a stretch. Seriously now, how would they have known back when they arranged the dates for their convention that Obama would garner such huge ratings?
She didn't actually name her children after witches, see here (yes, it's from the National Review, but they make a reasonable case).
Well, the cynic in me would love to agree with you about the choice of schedule, but the other cynic in me asks, "Wasn't this convention time period scheduled long before they knew the Dem convention would be a smash hit to which they'd want to avoid comparison?"
"(W)hat does it say," you ask, "about their feelings on this convention when they schedule it to start on a national holiday?" - Easy. It says they have absolutely no respect for the working peons of this country, Unions, families, nobody but their own narcissistic selves. Alternately, it could just say that they're too goddamn stupid to know how to read a calendar and understand what the little circle around the number means. Your choice.
damn mcshitstain is a total prick. wtf world is this senile piece of shit living in? he is the prime example of a wretched old geezer who will bend over and grab his ankles for anyone offering him a way to win the presidency. a million times worse than dumbya, mcinsane is a laughable simpleton douchebag.
Um I think GMA forgot about the Keating Five.
mention of all the flip-iddy-flops would have been telling as well. guess we'll have to tune in to TDS for jon to enlighten the masses on that one. nice to see them muscling in on his territory though. funny how abject contempt for their reporting my the unwashed masses is starting to affect their "journalism". If you can't beat em join em, i guess.
the whole incident of the old wise experienced, lifetime of middle east study, guru forgetting suni,shea, and who iran might be, and the complete disinterest by the msm on that one still perplexes me. it's like asking a seattle-ite, what's your biggest monument, and them saying the saint louis arch. MISTAKES LIKE THAT JUST DON'T HAPPEN--
I would like a "journalist" to explain, aka "report" on why this shouldn't send all kinds of red flags flying. Why am I so stupid to as to be alarmed by this episode? i think their quite, inaudible, original reporting explained it away as a senior moment of a man over taxed by running for president. AND I SHOULDN'T BE ALARMED!!!!!!!
WOW.
Maybe they’re counting on the drop in viewership to diffuse the inevitable comparison between McCain and Obama’s acceptance speeches
BINGO !
What does it say when they were all praying for "Rains of biblical proportions" to spoil Obama's acceptance speech and, instead, they get a hurricane that stops McCain from making HIS?
I'd be staying away from THAT party too. They all claim to BELIEVE in a "higher power" etc. etc. etc. If I were ANY of them I'd be running for the hills TOO.
Who is to say this is not a Godly judgement of the GOP. Clearly, most liberal/secular Americans find the thought pure pre-scientific era mysticism, but there are a hugh number of these Middle-Ages-Christian-Americans who see natural disasters as acts of GOD.
But I am sure few if any will draw a God hates the GOP message from The Man Himself from this. The Preachers of Apocalypse Now will be silent. They are aware the people are quite fed up with their "divide and conquer" Jesus.
Video of Amy Goodman being arrested: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ
sophya @ 42:
I like drugs, and I don't dress like a hooker.
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