McCain Media's Collective Yawn At McCain's Big "News"
Oh noes, McCrankypants! Your "base" is tuning you out, just like the rest of America. That's gotta hurt.
Last night, the McCain campaign issued an announcement, dutifully reported upon by Jonathan Martin of the Politico and elsewhere, that McCain would have "big news" in the morning.
The blogosphere was a-twitter. Would it be that Sarah Palin is stepping down? Or that McCain was finally making public his medical records? Or maybe that he would be REALLY maverick-y and declare with his mortgage bailout plan his official independence from the Republican Party? Oh, the possibilities were endless!
But sadly, the reality was far more humdrum. Jonathan Martin, this morning:
That "news" in the morning
Sure enough, it's Bill Ayers.
The McCain campaign is launching a web ad accusing Obama of trying to hide his ties to the 60s-era radical.
I'm loving the use of quotes around news. Another lame-ass attempt, debunked everywhere already, to tie Obama to Ayers. The McCain camp spent God knows how much money to produce a one and a half minute ad that no one cares about (including rightwingers like Michael Smerconish), that makes them look desperate and flailing and the best part, Martin and Mark Halperin over at Time didn't even bother to link up in their coverage.
My friends, that's not the work of a winning campaign. Steve Benen shows how the McCain camp really doesn't want to go there:
The web ad comes about 24 hours after top McCain campaign aides seemingly took the Ayers "issue" (I use the word loosely) off the table.
But as long as we're on the subject, McCain's associations continue to be increasingly interesting as well. We've known for a while that McCain has befriended a convicted felon who advised his supporters on how best to shoot federal officials, used the money of a convicted criminal to help buy a house, befriended a radical anti-Catholic televangelist, befriended a radical anti-American televangelist, was a long-time associate of Charles Keating, and hired for his campaign the publisher of a Confederate nostalgia magazine who has described Nelson Mandela as a "terrorist." This week, we also learned about McCain serving on the board of the extremist U.S. Council for World Freedom, where he worked alongside Iran-Contra figures, and a eugenics researcher studying "white superiority."
Add the name of Frank Keating to your personal bigot's list of totally "unpatriotic americans". There's no fool like an old fool and this man is certainly one. His KKK roots are showing. The people of this country have no time for bullshit like this when we're losing our jobs and homes.
But maybe those rich whackos with their 17 cars and 7 houses simply don't "get it"?
Frank Keating - The Bigoted Keating!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/09/mcca...
check out the sleaze of this old, broken down dude.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/09/mcca...
Time to laugh Frank Keating right out of town.
McCain is a gutless, ballless, old eunich and he doesn't have the guts to say things to Obama's face so he sends our smarmy old men, hookers in inch thick make-up, and sheriffs hopped up on steroids to do his bidding.
Come one, McPappy - be a man or is that so inconceivable at this point that you've forgotten you are one chromosomally?
Ladies and Gentlemen...the Republican base.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Most Americans HATE losers. (Not the folks in the picture.)
The more desperate and mean and shrill Pain and McPain get, the more they will lose their followers.
People want to identify with winners. Like in... where did all the Dodger fans come from?
So, keep up the nasty ads and speeches, Sen., you will just look like a needy, creepy ex-boyfriend.
during his next debate if he thougt it would get him significant votes that he doesn't already have.
He's done.
And the Ambien isn't helping you, big showboatin John.
Maybe Cindy or Sarah should wear little more than pasties on the campaing trail. That might help. Would certainly clog the news cycle as the world teeters into a global recession.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
Paliban's white flag of surrender was actually waved by McDepends during the town hall debate - and on more than one occasion. My score card had him losing pathetically on every question or issue which was raised.
But when it came to being a blowhard egomaniac and feeling the need to remind all of us about how "he knows all about that" or "I know how to fix it", I almost barfed several times. Is he that clueless that he doesn't realize what he is intimating by these "know hows"??
If he already "knows how to fix it" and "knows all about it" why has he sat in the Senate for 26 years and not accomplished anything? The only clear thing he accomplished was the criminal deregulation of our financial market which is now tanking the economies of the entire world. He knew plenty about that, didn't he?
And he "fixed that one" - by gaming the system with Phil Gramm.
'teeters'. Is it warm in here? yawn.....zzzzzzzz
Notice how we aren't hearing much about Rev Wright. McCain really doesn't want to go there considering Palin's minister, not to mention some he himself has sucked up to since the campaign began.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Besides, McCain might want to be careful with his Ayers accusation. Someone could easily point out that the very people supporting McCain's campaign (I.E. Neocons) were students and supporters of the Leon Trotsky movement in the 60s.
I meant a great big honking DEPRESSION.
You know, like the one John went through in his teen years.
This can't be the most imagination mcCain't has left. how can we best put this vast creative power to use? send him home.
Maybe Cindy or Sarah should wear little more than pasties on the campaing trail. That might help. Would certainly clog the news cycle as the world teeters into a global recession.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
Maybe some good old surburban Republican wife swapping would jazz up the campaign.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Now come on - the last thing I want to see is Palin's cellulite abdomen and baby fat or Cindy's shriveled, wrinkled, anorexic torso. You've just given me nightmares for the next week with those visuals. Thanks a lot! :)
big contribution to the ecomomy is face bondo.
What a JERK!
Obama has a black child.
He and his wife have TWO black children
me-oww!
Is Frank Keating related to Charles Keating? Anybody know?
wouldn't it be priceless to nail another Keating if this is so?
I'll check on it and "get back toya"....doggone it and say it ain't so!
Let's give that base what they really want.
Maybe McCain can shoot someone in the face.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
any bids?
...himself?
(My friends.)
We are drowning in campaign ads down here in florida. My husband and I were talking about these ads and neither of us could remember seeing a single positive McCain ad. They are all dark and trying to frighten people to dealth of Obama. Obama's ads are just about all positive and telling the viewer about who he is, what he believes and what he sees in the future for our country. Obama is selling himself to the voters. McCain has nothing to sell so he is flinging shit.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Stands to reason - he has all of Chimpy's best advisors!
winners usally keep to the basics. Any goes when it's 4th and 20 with 27 seconds left. Hey is this a bridge to nowhere??
Poor old McCoward is to feeble to acuse Obama of "hanging out with terrorists" TO HIS FACE !!
how is manly man McCoward going to stand up to Osama if he cannot even stand up to spindly Barack???
I think we all see the reality of John McCoward. the GOP PR campaign only makes us feel sorry for him.
I hope those sleeping morons understand that under McCain's total free market healthcare plan...those obese bastards wouldn't be covered.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Gutless, ball-less eunich - that's precisely what americans think of John McCain.
his low-brow sleazy tactics are working against him. The only thing he's revving up is his base - those pathetic 27 percenters. Ho-hum - he's got nothing left in his arsenal at this point to bring to the american people so he has to resort to sleaze and slurs.
Everyone associated with this level of sleaze and inappropriate behavior at his rallies will also lose their reputations and potentially their careers.
Too bad. I thought Sen. McCain would maybe, just maybe, go down with a little honor and dignity. But again he's chosen the path of a coward.
The reputation of this man has turned from one of an american war hero to a sleazebag overnight.
John McCain will join George Bush soon as the most dishonorable, disgusting men ever in the history of this country.
Then again, McCain's so senile that he won't remember tomorrow what he said or did today, my fellow prisoners.
I give credit to McCain that he actually flew a plane into battle unlike the man that was a coward his entire life. Hell, he volunteered for it, so there is a good honorable man in McCain, it's just lost. I could not say the same thing about you know who and his buddies.
McCain has nothing to sell so he is flinging shit.
He's mimicking his Chimp puppet master.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
monkey see, monkey do
Spero...do you think Palin goes down with honor?
I think she goes down with honor, pride, prejudice, hope, charity, bob, carol, ted, alice...and two at a time if you pump enough beer in her.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Is that Karl Rove in the picture sleeping in the chair at the top of this subject?
There's a really big sympathy vote you're missing. Just crash plane #6, walk away from it, and count the votes, my friend.
I mean, Christ, you flame five navy planes because you weren't a good pilot but Dad got you what you wanted, and you want more than a fabuluosly pimped out ride through the Congressional walls of money raining down on you like confetti?
No preznitcy for you.
That's the news you can use.
sadly we've discovered the real truth about POW John McCain which dishonors him totally.
This information about how he worked to cover up the POW's left behind in Vietnam has not gone unnoticed. His reputation as a war hero is in serious conflict right now due to his actions running the Foreign Affairs Committee and how they covered up the fact that many americans were left behind in Nam.
This will haunt the next three weeks of his campaign as this information comes front and center....have no fear.....it shall be front and center by next week.
Oh thank God someone brought this up....I have been reminding everyone that McCain DEMANDED that the information NOT be declassified regarding the vets that were still in Nam....US had positive information and he would NOT declassify....if I had been a family member of one of them, I would have raised "you know what" and this country needs to be reminded of that. Talk to the VeteransforObama group-they'll set it straight.
on the Ayers thing, but it seems like the next big thing they're going to try and talk about will be Obama's ties to ACORN, especially with the raid in Nevada today.
I haven't been able to find any information on this that isn't heavily covered with Right-wing ooze. I would love to know exactly what this is all about without having to sort through the crap.
I hate to sound like the Great White Moosehunter, but can I use a lifeline?
It's gonna take an awful lot of personal mobility devices to cart that crew to the polls. They'll have to line up behind Homer for the double wide voting booth.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Sarah's rabid fans are going to have to crawl back under the trailer after the election. And take the dog, the gun, the bible and the moonshine with them. At least I hope they do. Otherwise it's going to get nasty.
Here's the primer on what a sleazy operator McCain actually is.
Send this to every media outlet in the country - make copies and put it out in your communities.
Force the media to print it and force McCain to answer to the people about what he did and how unpatriotic his actions were.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081006/schanberg
some sharp journalist who wants to be instantly successful needs to take this story and run with it - forcing every media outlet to cover it - or look complicit.
This POW story will be the end of John McCain's campaign.
McCain, the reason you are losing is that you have no clue how to be in touch with the American people.
Your "news" today should have had something to do with the economy and how you were going to prevent the Dow from falling another 700 points today. Instead, we hear more BS gossip that was debunked months ago and how you are dishonoring yourself with this smear campaign.
A question from the debate: 'What don't you know, and how will you learn it?" http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-bro...
. . . What McCain doesn't seem to know -- yet -- is that he's a dead man walking. He'll learn it definitively on Nov. 4, when he's going to lose the election -- and the polls increasingly suggest that he'll lose big. The GOP as a whole will also lose big. We're in the middle of an epochal shift in U.S. politics. A global economic crisis, two wars and an ongoing nuclear and terrorist threat have left most Americans disgusted by the recklessness of free marketeers and by unilateralist, militarist approaches to foreign policy.
The era of GOP dominance of U.S. politics is over. McCain, the son and grandson of Navy admirals, wanted to be the Republican Party's "steady hand at the tiller." Now he's going down with the ship. . . .
Just ask physicians in this country what Stage 3B Invasive Melanoma actually means and it gives new insight to the descriptive phrase "dead man walking".
McCain's prognosis doesn't go beyond 2010, folks. This means that he will expire in office according to medical oncologists as well as actuarials.
WHY DO YOU THINK HE'S REFUSING TO SUBMIT HIS FULL MEDICAL REPORT - THE FACT THAT IT'S OVER 1,000 PAGES SHOULD TELL US SOMETHING. HIS INVASIVE MELANOMA RETURNED 4 TIMES ALREADY. THE ONCOLOGY COMMUNITY BELIEVES THAT HIS LAST HORRIBLE BOUT IN 2000 WHERE THEY REMOVED PART OF HIS FACE AND THE ATTENDANT LYMPH NODES WAS NOT A "NEW CARCINOMA" BUT, IN FACT, A SATELLITE FROM HIS ORIGINAL CARCINOMA. THIS IS A DEATH SENTENCE IF THIS IS THE CASE.
If that is true, and he realizes and accept it, then he must have a dream of a presidential funeral, like the one for JFK. Very sick and very selfish, especially considering who he's leaving us with as his successor.
Did Satan save McChicken's ass from the Grim Reaper all those times so that he could install him in the most powerful office in the world? I'll be he's kicking his own ass right now.
They were waiting for the Straight Talk Express to arrive. They seem to have forgotten though that the McCain Straight Talk Express never travels in a straight line. In fact, its just as likely to flip 180 degrees and go the other way if the political winds are blowing that direction.
I can't believe this guy is running for president. Maybe I should run. McCain is running the kind of campaign you might see Beavis and Butthead run.
Sadly, this is true. I didn't think there could be anyone in the GOP more stupid than Bush but then again, I didn't know John McCain at the time.
It still remains a scientific unknown. No scientist that I know of has even scratched the surface of just how deep the stupidity goes in the GOP.
We'll know they have hit bottom when we see an ad of Palin gutting a moose and nursing her baby at the same time.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Now THAT's pornographic.
It is?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
sense of the term. Good one POP!
I was thinking to myself, hey I could get into a new career. I'm a porn writer and don't even know it.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
the field is wide open. So to speak.
Soon the voters will send Palin back to the great country of Alaska where she can birth another 5 babies because God knows she won't stop till her vagina is big enough to drive a semi into it.
She will nurse the moose and gut the baby instead and will call it a righteous achievement.
Does he have a hard on?
He hasn't seen his junk in 30 years. And hopefully not his wife.
I bet with all the economic problems we are having now, the McCain campaign regrets every day that they chose Moose Muffin instead of Mittens. Had McCain chose Mittens, that ticket would be much more of a threat than it is now.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
And McCain had the audacity to criticize Obama for not selecting Clinton.
Is there anything Obama has done in his entire life that McCain hasn't criticized?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Check out some of the rightest blogs, lots of fun! They are eating their young, or their old in this case. Telling Sarah to start "telling the elderly gentleman you travel with to grow some, like you". Many said she was the only reason they were voting. This is GREAT! Because thee are so many who will not!
THEY ARE TOAST.
Okay...I was feeling rather masochistic yesterday and watched Brit Hume's show (I don't think I've ever fully watched any Fox News show). On his show with his wonderful "fair and balanced" panel from The Washington Times, the Heritage Foundation, and some other extremely conservative organization, everyone was dismissing the Bill Ayers story. No one thought it was a good idea; however, everyone did agree that McCain can only win if he goes negative. Since Ayers is such a non-story even to the conservative base where will they go next? Whoever said ACORN is right! But, really that's a non-story too. McCain's campaign is just grasping at straws now. Any day now we'll hear about the new Six Degrees of Obama game and how any person or group can be connected to him. Seriously, that's McCain's strategy now.
The United States is falling apart. What does McCain offer as a solution to the problems? Gossip about Obama.
There's one criticism McCain has missed when he talks about Obama. Three of the candidates now have sons serving in Iraq. Obama has no children serving in Iraq. When is he going to make his two little girls stop being slackers and get them down to the recruiter to join up? If Obama really loved America his kids would be serving just like McCain's, Palin's and Biden's.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I think McCain will need all the luck he can get. All he has left are attack ads and accusations. Maybe he should try something different. Maybe he should try rubbing one of those fat guys stomachs. Hey, it works for Bhudda.
Wasn't there a post here some time back saying that McCain is very superstitious? The story was about all these things he carries around for luck. Too bad Obama couldn't get just one of them and at the next debate just casually take it from his pocket and let McCain see that he had it. McCain would explode.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
My pressssious! Musssst haffff ittt!
Is this a Jabba-the-Hut look-a-like competition? Googee chumgawa Obama, hahahahahahaha.......
I guess this is the Joe Six Pack base we've been hearing so much about. Whadda team of go-getters! Just imagine these a*holes hitting the streets to get out the vote.
Did anyone get their mail in ballots yet? I got mine today and mailed in it in. I didn't even look at McCain/Palin on the ballot. I went right to Obama and Biden, filled it in and didn't even think twice about it.
He truly can't believe that Obama is associating with known terrorists - if he did he would have taken steps to remove him from the senate. He would also have taken steps to remove that 'known terrorist' from the Illinois college where he teaches. Right?
If you follow the line that 'sitting in a room with a guy means you adopt his views and ideas' which is really how they're trying to push the Obama / Ayers link, then every person who has sat in Ayers classroom has also now had 'associations with a terrorist'. If this stops Obama somehow getting security clearance for being President (as that fool spouted this morning) then we're also crushing the dreams of all these college students, one of who might well be a future president. Right?
Similarly if Obama truly is 'associating with terrorists' then by McCain sitting in the Senate with him over the past few years, McCain has been associating with a terrorist sympathizer. Trip to Guantanamo for Mr McCain perhaps for some questioning on his links? ;)
McCain has been vocal in the past (and has even brought up in campaign interviews as testimony to his foreign policy experience) about his support for the Northern Ireland peace process. The same NI peace process that has already installed CONVICTED terrorists into government.
I certainly do not condone Ayers views or ideas, BUT he was cleared in court. Yet McCain continues to bring this up. However, bring up Keating and McCain's camp are quick to scream that 'John McCain was cleared of any wrongdoing'. Funny how that hypocrisy stuff works, isn't it?
stop muddying the debate with logic and facts. Did you not view the 'Mob' video? Now back to our Cross and book burning event.(snark)
Re: Why following the Ayers line of attack is bad for McCain
Thu, 10/09/2008 - 14:58 — atothel (not verified)
I agree completely. One thing these mud slingers fail to mention is what Obama should have done when working on the charity board with Ayers. Should have he left the board of an important charity organization simply because there was a person on the board that he a) possibly disaggreed with on current or past issues, b)disagreed with his long past actions, c) was deemed a "domestic" "terrorist" and could have hurt his career? What kind of man would we be talking about that said "I quit working for this charity that works on education issues for underpriveledged kids because another man on the board did some things in the past that i dont agree with, and hasn't said "sorry" yet (i.e. repent)" That wouldn't have been very productive of him.
Shit if the right likes those reason, maybe I should leave my job now cause that lady a few cubicles away got a DUI recently, or cause that guy in shipping is a self proclaimed socialist, or cause the bean counter upstairs hasn't paid his taxes in 20 years. You know, I probably shouldn't associate with these people if I ever want a government job.
The right's hypocricy is unfathomable.
Let's not forget McCain's party produced one of the world's greatest terrorist who is still at large an unrepentant. A terrorist who is responsible for the deaths of over 4000 American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of civilians. Dick Cheney.
I believe it was Ronald Reagan and his administration that armed and funded (essentially created) Bin Laden.
Thee ya on the theethaw Thindy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7trIpspUILg
Am I seeing this right?
Darn... I thought they were going to announce Ms. Palin was pregnant with McCain's love-child, or something fun like that.
And it could have been something really newsworthy... like McCain finally sharing his secret surefire plan for capturing Osama bin Laden with the proper authorities.
Did you see at Raw Story where a reporter finally asked Perino about this?
Quote:
Q John McCain said recently that he knows how to get Osama bin Laden. And a couple of months ago he said that he knows how to improve our capabilities so that we would capture bin Laden. Has Senator McCain shared his knowledge with the president?
MS. PERINO: Maybe you haven't been here. I've been very astute at not getting involved in the 2008 election, and I'm not going to start now.
Q It has nothing to do with the elections.
MS. PERINO: Yeah, it does. It has everything to do with the election. That's exactly why you're asking the question. And I'm not going to answer it.
bwahahahahaha.... i looooove that photo... it looks kinda mavericky... 8-D
Get Sarah out there to work the
polecrowdExcept that that photo is actually a scene from the movie "Wally."
Looks like those guys in the picture have been into Cindy McCains's medicine chest.
WilyTrax.com
Is it just me or does it look like the guy in the front row wet his pasnts?
There are at least 3 McCain supporters that won't make it to the polls!
Also, there's Kissinger, who is wanted for war crimes in Europe. Read or view "The Trial of Henry Kissinger". Kissinger is one of McCain's advisers.
Am I the only one who thinks that the disconnect between flogging the Ayers story at the very moment the economy, the stock markets and the credits markets are crashing, absolutely crashing, could not be bigger? I have to wonder: do even the Republican red meat eaters want to hear about this rather than McCain's specific plans to help them from sinking into the abyss of poverty and bankruptcy? Somehow, I don't think so. I can't imagine a better example of being out of touch with the American people.
i love this picture the real things that happen at mccain campi would fall a sleep to. he opens his mouth and says nothing....
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"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
I guess the third member of their triumvirate decided to sleep in.
So, what did they expect when the GOP forced liberal McCain down our conservative throats? At the GOP convention, delegates who went to support Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee or Ron Paul were met at the entrance by the Secret Service and stripped of their campaign literature, buttons and signs. They were told they were entering McCain territory and had better behave accordingly. Even with no one else in the running McCain couldn't take the nomination on the first ballot. Still, what should have become a brokered convention did not. The truth was swept under the rug. No one else was allowed to be placed in nomination. Delegate votes were counted for McCain that were not cast for him. The whole thing was corrupt and rigged. Do they really think we will support him after that?? I will vote for Baldwin and laugh when McCain gets thrown under the bus by the voters. No, McCain, we are not the stupid sheep you believe us to be! You are not a leader but a bully and you will never get our support. If you want, try winning it honestly with ideas and morals that win.
Fox news needs to be stopped. This network is bad for America. They are the leading cause of this hatred and confusion surrounding the republican party. They need to be dragged out into the light and exposed for what they really are.
“Children Gassed” at Dayton Mosque After "Obsession" DVD Hits Ohio
http://shadowsbearsoutlook.blogspot.com/2008/...
Republicans 'exploit mortgage crisis to disqualify Voters
http://shadowsbearsoutlook.blogspot.com/2008/...
They play dirty and are for the most part Bigots.
Exploiting the Mortgage Crisis hit only those who need help the most and certainly want to vote. Of course stopping people from Voting is a Republican trait and has been for decades.
When will they grow up and just be honest about the Concerns of Americans.
They spend most of their time attacking anyone and every one who is against them instead of addressing "the real issues" like, the Economy,the Growing Poverty and the Wars. They care nothing for the people only power.
Dear God, Lizzy! You watched a whole episode on Fox Noise?!! Here, sit down and let me get you a cup of tea. You're much braver than I am; I get nauseous even thinking of that sewer of a 'network'. Please don't do that again, we can't afford to lose another good mind and heart to the Fox sickos. Thank goodness you lived to see another day ;-)
To totally change the subject, did anyone catch Oliver Stone on Colbert last night? I sat there listening to him with my mouth hanging open. I honestly thought he was joking when he kept talking about what a GREAT president Bush was/is!! He thinks he's one of the greatest presidents ever!! I won't ever spend a penny to see one of his films again now that I know he's INSANE! I'll wait till it comes on tv, but that's it. Is half the country nuts or what? This all seems like a long, bad dream...November 4th can't come quickly enough for me...
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