Hiding
For the second week in a row, the McCain campaign has lobbed a negative ad on Friday, and then John McCain had "no public events scheduled" on Saturday.
I guess that's one way to use the "weekends off."
I guess that's one way to use the "weekends off."
posted by mikevotes at
1:02 PM
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Are the media essentially a stool pigeon surrogates for the McCain campaign. What I mean by that is McCain lobs out a shocking ad and then the media, in their twisted view of "balance", feel they have to argue "both sides" of the vulgar ad. They force themselves to gin up an argument as to why the ad is legitimate or has some merit.
Meanwhile, McCain is cillin' out, flippin' burgers at his Arizona retreat.
As long as the media treat this sort of campaigning as legitimate, it will continue... and continue to push the envelop. Dear God.... won't someone call this for what it is: the vulgar acts of political thugs.
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-epm, at 3:50 PM
That's part of this game.
You issue that bad ad and then the Obama camp has to answer questions for two days.
I often call it covering the controversy. It's generating a faux debate where both sides are treated as if they're on equal footing. It's bad news journalism, but ratings grabbing TV. (So you know where they go.)
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mikevotes, at 4:34 PM
"It's generating a faux debate where both sides are treated as if they're on equal footing"
As opposed to the CNN, CBS was of doing things where they are strongly biased toward Democrats?
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realist, at 9:20 AM
No, they're just not Fox.
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mikevotes, at 10:44 AM
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