A refresher on the lack of intellectual rigor and honesty that permeates the mainstream right. What I’ve never understood about the right is: They claim to be so sure, so steadfast, so honest in their beliefs, why is there this consistent multi-decade practice of making stuff up?
Did McCain invite the entire AP staff over for barbecue? Can someone please ask the crew over there how Sen. McCain’s ass tastes? Thanks.
The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don’t Trust Him and Why Independents Shouldn’t
Or is he just a clever trick of the light? Questions swirl.
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5 months to go.
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Seriously, more of a medical oddity than anything titilating. So to speak.
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I am sorry, but this movie reads AWESOME. It’s not fashionable to say, but I love Bay’s movies like The Rock, Transformers, for what they are: Summer Movie Go Boom Awesome.
There’s an amazing whitewash of his record in the official obits making the rounds.
Remember, America, it’s hot out there. Be careful.
Regular people who buy $3,000 designer dresses like they were candy.
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Want. Want. Want. Want. PS3 only? OK, I may have to buy a PS3 now.
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Buying this too
Leaking this kind of thing to the New York Times before the campaign has even ramped up is not a good sign for John McCain, almost as bad as the campaign reorganization that prompted the story in the first place.
The shift was approved by Mr. McCain after several of his aides, including Mr. Schmidt, went to him about 10 days ago and warned him that he was in danger of losing the presidential election to Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, unless he revamped his campaign operation, two officials close to the campaign said.
McCain is seeking to apparently “relaunch” his campaign. The man has had the nomination for months now, and for a good stretch of that time his eventual opponent paid him little to no attention as he was engaged in a close primary fight.
AND McCain is already buying up air time in Virginia, a state President Bush won pretty handidly. Defense, so soon?
Just a bunch of dummies without a clue. History’s coming, and they still want to sit in the back of the bus.
Conservative news web site Newsmax is using the following ad to push one of their hucksterish “Wellness Report” email newsletters. Nice.
Hey, MSM, if you’re going to try and swing this race for John McCain, try not to be so blatant with it.
Bret Favre giving up on that retirement thing? Come on.
John McCain has again shifted around who is in charge of his campaign. Anyone notice that through the Clinton and McCain shakeups the Obama camp has kept its head down and is being run smooth as silk?
UPDATE: Josh Marshall has more detail on why this is a bad sign for McCain. They’re scrapping everything and giving up whatever advantage they had during the extended Democratic primary.
This is a good time to remind people that the Democratic party has operations in all 50 states, and that the Obama campaign has been able to build on that with their volunteers and infusion of enthusiasm.
It’s like a national party or something.
The Washington Post ignores so much about John McCain (the Post, for instance, has been silent on the McCains evading taxes on their condo) but they rush a big nothing story about Sen. Obama’s mortgage on to page one. The “liberal media strikes” again! I worked at a mortgage company for a little while, and the idea that the lender gives a few fractions of a percent to a borrower of a jumbo loan is about as common as breathing air. That’s kind of how they do business, especially in 2005 when the mortgage business was locking loans at such a good clip.
I know the mainstream media desperately wants John McCain to win so they can get some more of his sweet barbecue, but this is pretty ridiculous - even for them.
Free Ride: John Mccain and the MediaIn CNN’s new poll Obama is ahead 50%-45%. CNN calls it a “dead heat”. The margin of error is 3.5%. It’s close, but when you’re outside the margin of error, I don’t think that’s a “dead heat”.
Last night, every single broadcast outlet distorted General Clark’s remarks. Every single one. Apparently the “liberal media” forgot the talking points Howard Dean supposedly sends out every morning.
Again.
As Kos and Ezra note, watching conservatives bitch and moan about investment in infrastructure and losing the information war is funny. You would think these guys have been asleep from the early ’90s to now when the right was dominating this game.
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Rarely have I seen such an out of touch political ad.
Even if you are a free trade absolutist, this is just a bad idea politically. Americans simply do not like the idea of free trade agreements that have the effect of shipping jobs south of the border for cheap labor. In many ways its something conservatives (real conservatives, not the gilded age set that make up the punditry) hate with a passion.
If I could be assured that this ad will run in places like Ohio and Michigan I would donate to John McCain.
In this op-ed being promoted by Instapundit and others, the author sketches out the effect of Sen. Obama’s plan to secure social security and allow the Bush tax cuts for the top 1% to expire will have on folks like Tiger Woods and the New York Yankees. I guess the effect is supposed to elicit sympathy or outrage, but that’s the kind of out of touch thing we’ve come to expect from the right.
People (like me) may like Tiger Woods or the Yankees (not me) but we don’t give a crap about their finances. We all know that these guys make way more than the rest of us could hope to make, and we know that there’s little to no social value in a guy making 7 to 8 figures for hitting a ball. If they have to pay slightly more in taxes so that the social security system stays solvent for another decade or more? NOBODY CARES.
In the last couple decades when the sports leagues have gone on strike or had lockouts the fans have rarely sided with the athletes. In general, fandom is envious of their salaries and normal people think a work stoppage when you’re being paid a $10 million signing bonus is pretty ridiculous. The conservative argument is that raising the social security caps and allowing the Bush tax cuts for the top 1% to expire will really piss off millionaires and billionaires.
But besides conservatives and Republicans, nobody in the real world cares if millionaires and billionaires are perturbed. We know they have their money to comfort them.
