Hook, Line & Sinker

It seems the AP has fallen for the McCain campaign's and the RNC's effort to prevent anyone from using McCain's own words against him during the 2008 presidential campaign. As noted earlier, what the McCain campaign is pushing for here is a standard in which any negative ad targeting McCain must be delivered with the McCain camp's own spin included in order to be within bounds -- a standard few politicians, to say the least, have ever been granted. And ... Full Story »

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3.9
by Francis Scalzi - Apr. 29, 2008

To say that the AP has "fallen for" the efforts by the McCain campaign and the RNC to prevent the media from examining and publicizing "his own words against him" is naive and very far off the mark. The AP and the rest of the corporate media DO NOT INTEND to use anything against McCain. He is THEIR CANDIDATE. They will work to distract and ultimately destroy the Obama campaign with such Swift Boating occasions as the National Press Club's invitation to Reverend Wright in order to revive the furor their colleagues had already created over the Reverend's commentaries and to stick it all onto Obama like glue by repeating the "connection" endlessly. The pretext that the Press Club innocently wanted to have the Reverend "explain himself" is so lame, it is embarrassing. The corporate media will SUPPORT McCain all the way, and give him endless passes no matter how stupidly his campaign proceeds, or whatever inanities he utters. Given their failing fortunes in the marketplace, they desperately need a Cheney/Bush style necon, corporate favoring administartion in the White House come next January. Next we may expect to see the MSM seek to finally destroy the Obama campaign, then attack the Clinton campaign in the general election with their tried and true Al Gore treatment, and meanwhile try their damnest to shoehorn McCain into the White House. So at present Obama has THREE opponents: the faltering Clinton campaign, McCain's loopy, flip-flopping, pandering, hapless campaign, and the sneaky, unscrupulous, perfidious corporate media. Obama will have his work cut out for him while being constantly harrassed by the likes of the AP, and McCian will float along willy-nilly without so much as a scratch from the MSM - - - - just like George W Bush did.

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