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#1

Is McCain getting a free pass from the press?

Interesting how the media jumps on everything hillary / barack, ripping clinton to shreds or going on and on about obama's pastor... but no one talks about how McCain has the worst senate attendance record.

is he getting a free pass right now due to the obama / clinton feud?

Updated On: 3/27/08 at 12:10 PM

#2

re: Is McCain getting a free pass from the press?

I think he is. When he misspoke and Lieberman whispered in his ear to correct him, it was about as unpresidential as it could get. Yet, it got very little attention.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson
#4

re: Is McCain getting a free pass from the press?

Hardly a free pass. I'm sure it is a very well-paid-for pass.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
#5

re: Is McCain getting a free pass from the press?

McCain already thinks he's president. No joke.
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#6

johnny mac wil rip out your eyeballs and skullf*ck you if you keep this up

the media is much more interested in the democratic race because it is a race. plus - since most of them are democrats - it's outcome is much more important to them than johnny mac's little fox pauses. there is an element that thinks that keeping both democrats in the news 24/7 is better for them than putting them on the back pages for mccain.

rest assured, some 527 is working that moment into an ad right now. i would assume that they will wait and use it very late in the race so johnny mac will have little time to counter-punch.
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#8

johnny mac wil rip out your eyeballs and skullf*ck you if you keep this up

Still no reportage of McCain's heroin habit. What a world what a world.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
#10

johnny mac wil rip out your eyeballs and skullf*ck you if you keep this up

nope, no one has seen it. it didn't happen. bammy's daughter is pregnant with rev. kill whitey's baby.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#11

re: Is McCain getting a free pass from the press?

I think they probably are giving him a free pass right now because the Dem race makes for much better TV.

But remember that in the general election, video of these instances will still be available for use, just as much as the Wright sermons and the Bosnia clips will be. I think things will change once the drama of the Dem primary ends. The good thing is that the Dem nominee will have already tested the waters and will hopefully have learned what responses work and don't work with their issues. That may be an advantage.

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Updated On: 3/27/08 at 12:44 PM

#13

johnny mac wil rip out your eyeballs and skullf*ck you if you keep this up

It will also require a Dem candidate willing to sling as much mud as the Republicans will. And until Obama and Glinda decide to go Rove on McCain's ass, we won't be getting media coverage of McCain's necrophilic relationship with the corpse of John F. Kennedy.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
#16

johnny mac wil rip out your eyeballs and skullf*ck you if you keep this up

lol. ok.

catholics? minority. muslims? minority. homosexuals? minority.

white people? majority. 77% in the last presidential election.

a black guy in a dashiki screaming god damn america? a game changer.

a white preacher railing about minorities? why that's never happened in an election year.

there is also tidbit that one is just a guy who endorsed a candidate and the other is practically a family member of the candidate. yep, exactly the same.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#17

ABSOLUTELY THE MOST FRIGHTENING COLLECTION OF PREACHERS

Ummm...yeah. McCain has a couple of scary "spiritual advisers" to choose from. I don't agree with you about the family member status, but whatever. Spin spin spin. Those youtube videos won't go away.
#19

ABSOLUTELY THE MOST FRIGHTENING COLLECTION OF PREACHERS

He's getting a big fat pass for now. When it's one on one, I think both will be under a big fat microscope.
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#20

ABSOLUTELY THE MOST FRIGHTENING COLLECTION OF PREACHERS

Policies and qualifications aside, McCain has one of the WORST speaking voices I have ever heard. I was listening to a speech of his the other night and thinking, "Do we ever get a break? Are we going to have to listen to THAT for the next four-to-eight years, after suffering through a near-decade of 'Amurca'?"

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