Comments on: Is It A GOP Press Release Or A Washington Post Story?

By: j mccann

j mccann — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:35:47 +0000

This pretty much sums it up.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503100.html?sub=AR

Case. Closed.

This delusion some of you have that most of the media is for McCain is exactly that…….a delusion.

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Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:17:05 +0000

[...] Brad DeLong and Oliver Willis, The Washington Post’s Alec MacGillis explains that one important contrast between John [...]

By: Peter Principle

Peter Principle — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:55:09 +0000

It’s interesting how the Post can take the fact that there are a lot of racists among the 65 population (which isn’t too surprising, considering racism was still practically the official state ideology in their younger years) and turn it into “Obama’s age problem.”

But then for our McCain worshipping media, I guess everything is Obama’s problem.

By: merl

merl — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:58:40 +0000

I could never answer that question, either. I usually say “nowhere, I’m an Army brat”. Or just “none of your fucking business”.

By: Zython

Zython — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:29:04 +0000

Or maybe you just expect more from a liberal blogger than you do the GOP’s candidate for the most powerful office in the country.

I know I do.

By: White Whale

White Whale — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:12:43 +0000

Count me in with the “exotic” crowd. I am an Army brat and I normally say I am from Heidelberg,Germany but that is only because i there the longest. I don’t know if anyone saw the recent Simpsons episode, but there is a scene where Nelson gives his “haha” line and basically lays waste to why print journalism is dying.

By: Sisi

Sisi — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:30:53 +0000

McCain himself in 1982, answering charges of carpetbagging
From Iqra’i: http://snipurl.com/3fhn0 [www_counterpunch_org]

Money quote:
“Listen, pal. I spent 22 years in the Navy. My father was in the Navy. My grandfather was in the Navy. We in the military service tend to move a lot. We have to live in all parts of the country, all parts of the world. I wish I could have had the luxury, like you, of growing up and living and spending my entire life in a nice place like the First District of Arizona, but I was doing other things.”

“An effective response, to be sure, but note the subsurface contempt for those who stay in one place” (italics mine)

By: palerobber

palerobber — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:24:24 +0000

but it’s even dumber than that…

relocating one time as a child and one time when you take for first adult job doesn’t even qualify one as having “moved around a lot.” that’s exactly the number of moves i’d made in my life and i’m pretty sure it’s less than the average person my age.

but it’s even dumber than *that*…

john mccain is part panama, part virginia, part florida, and part arizona! and that’s not even counting all the places he lived while his father was still moving for military assignments.

By: MLB

MLB — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:09:05 +0000

Oh noes! I guess as the daughter of a USAF career officer, my moves across 3 states as a kid (no choice–thanks, US government) and then my choice as an adult to live in 3 more make me a furriner!

This has to be one of the stupidest Post article topics ever. But I’m sure I’ll repeat that sentence many times during this election season.

In addition, Obama had a grandfather who served in WWII as well for the US. Guess that counts for nothing in the eyes of the Post writer.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:42:21 +0000

I truly want to discontinue our subscription to this once proud and independent newspaper, but my wife wants to keep it for its other coverage. I stopped reading the Op Ed pages, w/ the likes of Will, Novak, Krauthammer, Ignatious, Hiatt, Broder, et al, and now Gerson, years ago. Its transformation into a center right neocon rag will be complete should it endorse McCain.

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:33:25 +0000

As a Navy brat, I also lack a ready answer to the age-old question. When people ask me where I’m from I reply “all over”, or “no where really.” I may not have a hometown, but I have never considered myself a woman without a country! Since there are millions like me… people who serve and their spouses and children (like, um, McCain), are we really that exotic? I will now answer, when asked the question, “America.”

Count another hometown girl for Obama!

By: megamoze

megamoze — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:23:43 +0000

“Oliver, you seem to have a lot of trouble with context don’t you?”

Care to say that with a straight face while explaining McCain’s accusation that Obama has pledged to raise taxes on those making $42K a year.

Or maybe you just expect more from a liberal blogger than you do the GOP’s candidate for the most powerful office in the country.

By: megamoze

megamoze — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:21:15 +0000

Can you even begin to image the shit storm from the right if Obama had been born in PANAMA, the way a certain GOP candidate was? They can barely contain themselves over the fact that Obama actually lived in a foreign country at one time, which obviously makes him a closeted Islamofascist spy.

By: Robb

Robb — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:16:49 +0000

And John McCain wasn’t born in Panama, and didn’t move all around the Pacific with his family growing up, I suppose? No, apparently he’s been living in Arizona all this time, or something.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:50:06 +0000

Spider beat me to it. I was gonna say those VC are pretty hard core for imprisoning McCain’s whole family.

By: SpiderJ

SpiderJ — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:32:30 +0000

Also, you know who else has a hard time telling people where they’re “from”? Children of military men and women, who often moved from base to base.

By: SpiderJ

SpiderJ — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:30:34 +0000

Let’s discuss basic sentence structure:

McCain hails from an America that exalted service to country, and he is the scion of a military family who endured five years in enemy captivity and who preaches a mantra of personal honor and of the nation over the individual — “Country First,” as his campaign slogan declares.

Besides the clumsy run-on sentence, which includes two uses of the word “and,” are we being asked to read that his entire military family spent five years in captivity?

How do these people get jobs as writers if they don’t know how to write?

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:25:28 +0000

Oliver, you seem to have a lot of trouble with context don’t you?