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Gee, ya think? The McLaughlin Group panel ponders the deep and abiding love the media has for Republican presidential candidate John McCain, affectionately known to him as “his base”.
True love. The press has found it. Smitten by the Republican nominee, John McCain, maverick, here’s a sampling of journalists saluting McCain in their own words in recent days:
Kind of like a Martin Luther [Chris Matthews - Hardball]
A man of unshakable character, willing to stand up for his convictions [R.W. Apple, NY Times]
An affable man of zealous, unbending beliefs [Richard Cohen, The Washington Post]
The hero who still does things his own way [Richard Cohen, The Washington Post]
Rises above the pack-eloquent, as only a prisoner of war can be [David Nyhan, The Boston Globe]
The perfect candidate to deal with what challenges we face as a country. [Mika Brzezinski, MSNBC]
Blunt, unyielding, deploying his principles, what he does do is what he’s always done, play it as straight as possible. [Terry Moran, Nightline]
Wordly-wise and witty, determined to follow the facts to the exclusion of ideology. [Michael Hirsh, Newsweek]
Willing to defy his own party and forge compromise. [Michael Hirsh, Newsweek]
Pragmatic in the service of the national interest, rises to passion when he believes that America’s best values are at stake. [Michael Hirsh, Newsweek]
The maverick candidate still. [Terry Moran, Nightline]
It’s enough to make you lose your dinner, I tell you. Michelle Bernard claims that they are just as exultant over Obama, and Pat Buchanan insists the McCain Media love affair is “over. Done. Gone.” I’m not sure I’m buying that just yet…
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This shit makes me want to vomit! All of these commentors have MONEY! They would vote for Caligula if he promised them less taxes! What a friggin joke!
Well I’m convinced! He really IS a great guy. **Barf**
These pathetic people actually went to “Journalism School” to write disgustingly simple stupid shit like that. I will never trust the MSM again.
It’s enough to make you lose your dinner…
Well. that is, if you were fortunate enough to have dinner tonight.
What kills me is that some American believe this crap! These aren’t journalists, they are elitist snobs who get Bush’s tax cuts and feed us tripe!
these assjackets make themselves out to be a bigger joke than ever.
then they lie.
it’s perfect to see buchanan on the panel; that gives it so much more credibility.
Another Martin Luther would actually be a very bad idea as a leader. Martin Luther was a nasty piece of work, and was the prototype for Hitler in terms of German treatment of Jews. He was also a religious fanatic with a messianic sense of duty to create his divine world, and who betrayed the peasants of Germany inspired by his works. Luther did far more harm than help in the long run, all these Fundies on TV are the bastard great-great grandchildren of his movement. Damn Luther and may his soul burn in the pits of Hell, for bringing the death and destruction the Protestants have brought in their wake, not just in Europe, but in North America and South Africa, and by inspiration, in China. Whenever someone praises Martin Luther, they’re either ignorant or stupid.
Fawning synchophants toss rose petals at his feet as he conives to ascend the throne in the abscence of all inspection.
I’m touched.
Anyone who says Obama is a media darling ask them this:
Name 5 negative stories about McCain in the mainstream media.
Now name 10 negative stories about Obama in the mainstream media.
Explain how a ‘media darling’ has 10 negative stories in the press and is still a media darling?
General_Rennenkampf @ 7:
Amen
Reverse psycology.
Ron @ 11:
Reverse FISA!
I’m waching CNN right now and it looks like Wesley Clark is going to PROVE that the Main Streem ME-dia loves McCain. His simple comment about how McCain’s military experience DOES NOT qualify him to be president… that’s going to bring people out of the woodwork to pour ADORATION on to McCain.
Of course… Clark is correct. McCain was a pilot who got shot down and was taken prisoner. What the hell dows THAT have to do with managing billion dollar budgets, ego-maniacs, and feisty world leaders? Nothing.
xoites defends Constituion @ 12:
Keep Tsarism in Russia! Vote American, Vote Obama in November!
Abusive and disrespectful to his wife… a true womanizer… dumped his first wife for a younger and richer model… (Cats r Flyfishn, http://pennsylvaniaforchange.wordpress.com)
CowBoy Bob in Austin @ 13:
Military service, I think, is seen by a lot of people as military people are honorable and can work with others. From what I’ve seen, a lot of military types are neither. Why killing someone works as a qualification for office works, I dunno. Weren’t we supposed to have abandoned that as a leadership qualification after that failure called Maximinius Thrax in the Third Century? After all, Thrax was about as well-qualified for Emperor of the Roman Empire as McPapen was for the Presidency…
Comrade Rou @ 10:
Well, Chris Matthews is just a Catholic - so he’s just jealous that the Lutherans have it a lot easier at church on Sunday….
I am convinced after the FISA debacle by Obama, that this is just a passion play. We the people are digging Obama’s BULLSHIT
and the media has to root for the born loser McCain. The final act in this theater of the absurd will be in November and we have
several different possible endings…
1. Obama wins in a landslide
2. Obama is killed by a “terrorist” right before the election, Clinton jumps in but McCain wins
3. Massive election fraud elects McCain a la 2000/2004
4. Bush nukes Iran, World War III starts and elections are suspended indefinately
5. Obama picks Clinton for VP, Obama wins election and is killed by a “terrorist” Clinton is president, appoints Feinstein as VP
6. Massive scandal with Obama having long love affair with Scarlet Johansen ends his chances to win
7. Dems say fuck the lying Obama and write in Kucinich, Repubs say fuck the idiot McCain and write in Ron Paul, RonPaul wins
and appoints Kucinich as his VP.
CowBoy Bob in Austin @ 13:
Has anyone ever done a psycological profile of McCain similiar to Dr. Franks on Bush?
General_Rennenkampf @ 16:
Grant was a military man. His Presidency was quite memorable.
Anybody recall it?
Eisenhower became President and warned us about the Military Industrial Complex as he was leaving office.
Both of those men, by the way achieved a slighly higher rank than McCain did. It didn’t seem to help much.
Amitola @ 17:
Catholics usually hate Luther and the Protestants. The Catholics didn’t like it when Luther left their church to start his own, creating a snowball effect that led to 28,000 denominations in 500 years. Luther is a prime example of unintended consequences and superstition. That Chris Matthews should use him as a positive example for a 300-million-strong, multi-ethnic, multi-religious empire is quite worrisome. First, that he’s that stupid, and second, that people actually think Luther accomplished much that was good.
xoites defends Constituion @ 20:
by far the finest administrator to ever be president was jefferson, an elitist intellectual scholar scientist pot grower atheist…
oh how far we have progressed…hmmmm
McCain has reversed almost all of his positions, so pick on and at one time he agreed with you.
xoites defends Constituion @ 20:
Ah, yes, Grant. The one President that made Harding and Dubya look like rank amateurs. Not a good example.
Eisenhower is very overrated. Put him up against a general the quality of Budenny, he’dve run off screaming with his tail between his legs. He fought the dregs of the Nazi army at a time the USSR was fighting and winning battles that make the entire Western Front seem puny.
Plain and simple, none of these media pundits would have risen to the top of the Corporate Media if they did not parrot what their bosses want of them and shill for the Republican party.
I’ve got another little two-cent’s worth about the new McCain Camp Talking Points Memo… regarding McCain’s “What’s good for the Country… not the Party” position on his FLIP-FLOPS.
Everybody is sucking this krap up… without considering the following:
The Republican has specialized on policy issues in recent years that have been TERRIBLE FOR THE COUNTRY. So McCain takes an opposing popsition, simply because he does not want to support his party line!
From a far RIGHT point of view, that makes he a “maverick.”
From a “CENTER” point of view, that’s just him covering his ass.
I could only believe that if I knew what his convictions were… he keeps changing his convictions more frequently than an obsessive-complusive washes their hands.
marko @ 22:
No, Jefferson was unrealistic. Hamilton had the right sense of how the US would develop. And Jefferson also owned slaves and only freed the ones he’d fathered…after he died. Jefferson was also an unapologetic racist. So, no, I don’t consider him to have been a good leader. Washington remains the only semi-decent leader of the US, and he has the stains of slavery and his actions in the Whiskey Rebellion and against the Indians against him.
CowBoy Bob in Austin @ 26:
And from my point of view it makes it difficult to sleep at night for fear he will win the election.
I need to read up on Mexico.
Tastes like chicken.
[Rachel Ray, 30-minute Meals]Presidential debates prediction:
We’ll finish watching, shaking our heads at how pathetic McCain’s rambling, simplistic, and contradictory responses were, how Obama creamed him on facts and logic and oratory capability.
And the MSM will subsequently gush forthwith ad nauseum over how McCain “won” the debate.
General_Rennenkampf @ 28:
washington ripped off the veterans in one of history’s least known mega scandals!!!!!
The MSM are just nasty whores. After eight years of Hell, the people can clearly see McVomit is simply an extension of President Homicide. The media knows this lopsided race is really all but over but they need to create the false premise that it’s “competitive”. Obama vs McBush is more about the MSM sluts desperately trying to squeeze out a few extra ratings numbers. The facts and truth don’t mean jack shit to these people.
I’m the first person to get on the media on their fawning of John McCain, but didn’t R.W. Apple die in 2006? That hardly makes his comment recent.
marko @ 32:
Yup. People look at the Founders like they were immune to the corruption of today, when all of them were involved in stuff that sometimes makes today’s scandals tame by comparison.
General_Rennenkampf @ 21:
I’ve only had one response for people like Matthews when they stary regaling Luther as a great man. Oliver Cromwell.
Left&Left @ 33:
Somehow i feel this quote should be saved for posterior. :)
the more they try to convince me the less i believe it
maybe if i trade my contrarian hat for my tin foil hat i’ll see it differently…….there’s a better chance this military
grandpa figure is going to set back the middle class even further……..the NEOCONS had their cycle it’s our turn…if
you think the constitution has been breached just wait
if mccain gets in office
General_Rennenkampf @ 28: