OMG!!! Obama’s half-aunt may be in America illegally! This irrelevant bit of material brought to you via a leak from the Bush administration and blared across the world by the Ron Fournier led AP. Or something.
Media For McCain News
So funny. If this is a prelude to the future, I’m going to love seeing the Obama folks smack Fox in the nose. Megyn Kelly: cute but crazy.
Reader S.M. caught this one.
NY Post has to remove story attacking Obamas because it was made up. Keith Olbermann is familiar with the NY Post’s tactics on this.
Rupert Murdoch & Co. are doing their damndest to win back this election for John McCain. But I don’t think it will work. This isn’t 2002 or 2004.
Goes to Ben Smith of The Politico (who, God knows, I have regularly given a hard time):
“McCain camp attacks Times, doesn’t deny report”
Of course, for the McCain campaign that is a feature, not a bug.
Just wondering. More here.
UPDATE: The AP uses “fumbled” as a nice way of saying “lied”.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Friday defended two debunked television ads attacking Democrat Barack Obama and claimed erroneously that running mate Sarah Palin never sought money for lawmakers’ pet projects as Alaska governor.
Palin sought $197 million in so-called “earmarks” for 2009. In the previous budget year, she asked for earmarks worth $256 million.
McCain made the comments during a feisty grilling on ABC’s “The View,” where the panel of female hosts pressed him on Palin’s religious views, his position on abortion rights and whether he had traded in his maverick ways to placate conservatives.
Today there is a story in the Washington Post, discussing the McCain campaign’s fundamental tactic of just lying. Lying about McCain, lying about Palin. If their lips are moving, they are lying. But while the fault does largely lie with McCain and the Republican party for making outright lies one of the legs of the conservative stool, they have an accomplice in this act.
The Washington Post.
And all the other media outlets who write thumbsuckers like this where the dominant theme is “what to do?” The press has what amounts to a simple enough job: Evaluate claims, research them, and provide the readers and viewers with the results of the investigation. Instead, if the mainstream press were a detective it would say “Well, a lot of people commit crimes” as John McCain walked past with his hands covered in blood.
The mainstream press in this country has decided for a long time now to abdicate their role as a watchdog of democracy. I think that this is just basic laziness, but as others have noted it may be out and out malfeasance or bias. Whatever it is, if outlets like the Post devoted half the resources they do to thumbsucking pieces like this one that throw their arms up in confusion, there wouldn’t be the need for these pieces in the first place.
John McCain is a liar. Sarah Palin is a liar. And the Post should say so. If they find that the Democratic candidates are lying they should say so too. But don’t just sit there with your thumb jammed up your rear wondering where truth went when you helped to do the crime.
MORE: God, these people hate our democracy.
Yes, lack.
“One of the things Wallace credits with FNC’s success is separation. ‘We’ve been very careful to keep our opinion separate. Our news division takes care of that,’ he says. ‘That’s done us well and I think that’s why you see these numbers. See, when Brit or Shepard Smith are on, that’s our news division talking. That’s the way we’ve always done it.’”
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Oh, Really?
Brit Hume Dismisses McCain’s Iran/al Qaeda Confusion As A “Senior Moment”
Hume falsely claimed Obama “contradicted what he wrote in his book” about town hall meetings
Brit Hume attacks Democrats on terrorism issue: “They do not treat it particularly seriously”
Hume: Democrats “often” seem “invested in our losing” in Iraq
On Fox News Sunday, Hume falsely asserted that Al Qaeda in Iraq “was there before we got there”
Hume cherry-picked Constitution to attack Murtha’s view of congressional role in war debate
Hume said Democrats investigating U.S. attorney firings are like “a dog with a new bone”
Hume also wrote for the very right-wing American Spectator during one of it’s kookiest periods.
The article linked above was about Fox News getting great ratings for the RNC convention. It isn’t surprising. Here in the DC area a lot of people tune in to Sonny Jurgenson and Sam Huff on the radio when they’re doing Redskins games. Why? Because you like to hear the announcers who are in the tank for the home team.
Same thing.
Because people like Mark Halperin aren’t just grabbing coffee for people, they’re “senior” level correspondents. According to Halperin, the McCain has 7 houses gaffe is bad… for Obama.
You know that “this is good for John McCain” thing we Democrats have been joking about?
It’s not a joke.
I swear, I would go mad if the blogosphere had never come to life because The Villagers will never call out Mark Halperin for being dumber than a sack of rocks.
UPDATE: Mark Halperin wins an award!
As if it weren’t bad enough that the McCain campaign was poised to hire him, the AP’s Ron Fournier may very well be getting payments from the very same organizations he covers.
And more to come. Don’t wait for the MSM to cover their favorite son’s Jello-like positions.
Hey, the Democratic convention is coming up… let’s show footage of the 1968 convention, and let’s put on some protesters too (never mind they ignored and ridiculed anti-war protesters in the past). Fair and balanced!
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