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If he keeps this up, we will have to change his nickname to McLame.

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Oh wait, Johnson is still the head of EPA, nevermind; He’d just want a bribe to forget he ever saw it.

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On the McNeil News Hour the other night, the guy from Fact Check was on and said the McCain ads are not actually lying if you parse them out: Obama is a celebrity, he did go to the gym instead of the troop hospital, etc. You have to have a small level of sophistication, though, to understand how a ruthless and sociopathic campaign manager can twist things around. That shows where John ‘I approved this ad’ McCain has decided to go down the low road.

Best wishes for Obama in keeping to the high road, but if he has to get down in the sewer and slug it out, McCain has plenty of barndoor-sized targets.

This has all been calculated by McCain’s new ‘Dream Team’ of strategists. The really despicable part is how the “moderate” pundits are echoing the message for McCain. At least the talking heads at Fox are semi-honest in their bias. Halperin and Co. are scummy assholes who are living in so rarefied a state that they think middle class is making $200,000 a year. I agree with Glenn Greenwald about them; They’ve really dragged us to the right, all the better for the taxes on their vacation homes.

trog69s last blog post..Havin’ A Party!

I disagree that we’re seeing the bottom of the barrell being scraped, though. This is the cream of the “splooge”(LOL!) barrell. The bottom will be mined, under the scrapings, later until it’s razor-thin by November.

My point was that as McCain shows his lack of leadership qualities, less people will watch the news for campaign info; Why bother if it’s gonna be a blowout? I haven’t seen any info about it, but perhaps when Clinton was so comfortably ahead of Dole in ‘96, the News viewer numbers were down, due to lack of interest in the campaign?

Hypothetical of course; We’d need a Dem losing overwhelmingly to a Republic to test this!

trog69s last blog post..Havin’ A Party!

While the data concerning the MSM’s lean, rightward, is certainly applicable here, I agree with other sources who point out that, as McCain stumbles over his eye-talian loafers daily, the News honchos know that if this gets too lopsided, nobody’s gonna watch their version of Tucson weather forecasts. (”Sunny and warm all week; Back to you, Toots!”) So, whatever they can dredge up to boost McCain’s image, and thus a pretend horserace, that’s the new news meme.

Regardless of the veracity of this line of thought, you are definitely right on about where their loyalties lie. And lie. And still more loyalty.

Hey, I wonder if McCain’s campaign director has made sure that their ads featuring McCain will under no circumstances be shown within 6 hours of a Depends commercial? Inquiring minds…are sick bastidges.