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20080630
 John
McCain -  Barack
Obama - 2008
Election -  Military
-  Media
-  Politics
"“Attacking”
McCain’s Military Record: What [General] Wesley Clark
really said; how the press missed it." ... "So: The latest round of mock
outrage—in a presidential race that has turned the tactic into an art form—now
comes in response to comments made by General Wesley Clark. Appearing as
a surrogate for Barack Obama on CBS’s “Face the Nation”, Clark, in reference
to John McCain, said:"
"I
certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war…But he hasn’t held executive
responsibility. That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded—that
wasn’t a wartime squadron. He hasn’t been there and ordered the bombs to
fall." ... "When moderator Bob Schieffer interjected that “Barack Obama
has not had any of those experiences, either, nor has he ridden in a fighter
plane and gotten shot down”, Clark responded: “Well, I don’t think riding
in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.”"
"The
McCain camp, sensing an opportunity, complained that Clark had “attacked
John McCain’s military service record.” Of course, Clark had done nothing
of the kind. He had questioned the relevance of McCain’s combat experience
as a qualification to be president of the United States. This is a distinction
that you’d expect any reasonably intelligent nine-year old to be able to
grasp." ... "But many in the press have been unable to." -By
Zachary Roth -CJR.org
 WATCH:
General Wes Clark on John McCain on Face the Nation June 29, 2008
20080622
 US
-  Iraq
-  Afghanistan
- Military
-  Terrorism
- Media
- Politics
- McCain
- 2008
Election
"Now
That We’ve ‘Won,’ Let’s Come Home." ... "The Iraq
war’s defenders like to bash the press for pushing the bad news and ignoring
the good. Maybe they’ll be happy to hear that the bad news doesn’t rate
anymore. When a bomb killed at
least 51 Iraqis at a Baghdad market on Tuesday, ending an extended
run of relative calm, only one of the three network newscasts (NBC’s)
even bothered to mention it." ... "The only problem is that no news from
Iraq isn’t good news — it’s no news. The night of the Baghdad bombing the
CBS war correspondent Lara Logan appeared
as Jon Stewart’s guest on “The Daily Show” to lament the vanishing television
coverage and the even steeper falloff in viewer interest. “Tell me the
last time you saw the body of a dead American soldier,” she said. After
pointing out that more soldiers died in Afghanistan than Iraq last month,
she asked, “Who’s paying attention to that?”" ... "Should voters tune in,
they’ll also discover that the [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate
John] McCain policy is nonsensical on its face. If “we are winning” and
the surge is a “success,” then what is the rationale for keeping American
forces bogged down there while the Taliban regroups
ominously in Afghanistan? Why, if this is victory, does Mr. McCain
keep threatening that “chaos and genocide” will follow our departure? And
why should we take the word of a prophet who failed
to anticipate the chaos and ethnic cleansing that would greet our occupation?"
... "Vanished into the memory hole are such earlier
examples of the McCain Iraq wisdom as “the end is very much in sight”
(April 9, 2003) and “there’s not a history of clashes that are violent
between Sunnis and Shiites” (later that same month)." -By
Frank
Rich -NYTimes
[Note: there is a very long history
of violent clashes between the Sunnis and Shiites.]
20080615
John
McCain -  Hillary
Clinton -  Women
-  Health
- Abortion
-  Money
-  Law
"Angry
Clinton Women [HEART] McCain?" ... "Ten years ago
[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain had to apologize
for regaling a Republican audience with a crude
sexual joke about Hillary and Chelsea Clinton and Janet Reno. Last
year he had to explain why he didn’t so much as flinch when a
supporter asked him on camera, “How do we beat the bitch?” But these
days Mr. McCain just loves the women." ... "You’d never guess that Mr.
McCain is a fierce
foe of abortion rights or that he voted to terminate the federal family-planning
program that provides breast-cancer screenings. You’d never know that his
[McCain's] new campaign blogger, recruited from The Weekly Standard, had
shown his genuine affection for Mrs. Clinton earlier this year by portraying
her as a liar and whiner and by piling on with a locker-room jeer after
she’d been called a monster. “Tell us something we don’t know,” he wrote."
... "But while the McCain campaign apparently believes that women are easy
marks for its latent feminist cross-dressing, a reality check suggests
that most women can instantly identify any man who’s hitting on them for
selfish ends. New polls show Mr. Obama opening up a huge lead among female
voters — beating Mr. McCain by 13 percentage points in the Gallup and Rasmussen
polls and by 19 points in
the latest Wall Street Journal-NBC News survey." ... "... the notion
that all female Clinton supporters became “angry white women” once their
candidate lost — to the hysterical extreme where even lifelong Democrats
would desert their own party en masse — is itself a sexist stereotype.
That’s why some of the same talking heads and Republican operatives who
gleefully insulted Mrs. Clinton are now peddling this fable on such flimsy
anecdotal evidence." -By Frank
Rich -NYTimes
20080528
 Scott
McClellan -  Book- Noteworthy
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"Scott
McClellan on the "liberal media"." ... "In a minimally
rational world, this extraordinary passage, from the new book by Scott
McClellan, would forever slay the single most ludicrous myth in our political
culture: The "Liberal Media":"
"If
anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the
[Republican President Bush] White House and to the administration in
regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years
in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq."
"The
collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent
months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. .
. . In this case, the "liberal media" didn't live up to its reputation.
If it had, the country would have been better served."
"Just
consider how remarkable that is. [Republican President] George Bush's own
Press Secretary criticizes the American media for being "too deferential"
to the Government. He lays the blame for Bush's ability to propagandize
the nation on the media's uncritical dissemination of the Republican administration's
falsehoods. And most notably of all, McClellan actually uses cynical scare
quotes when invoking the phrase which, in conventional political discourse,
is deemed the most unassailable truth of all: The Liberal Media." ... "How
much longer can this preposterous myth be sustained when even the White
House Spokesman not only mocks the phrase but derides the media for being
"too deferential" to the right-wing Government "in regard to the most important
decision facing the nation during [his] years in Washington"? If one were
to set about with the goal of debunking the "Liberal Media" myth -- as
Eric
Alterman specifically did four years ago and other
media critics have more generally done before that -- one couldn't
dream up evidence more conclusive than McClellan's admissions." ... "Blindingly
conclusive evidence which would -- for any rational person -- forever negate
the "Liberal Media" myth has been piling up for years. The extraordinary
(though woefully incomplete) 2004 mea
culpa from The New York Times acknowledged that not just
Judy Miller, but the paper as a whole, re-printed pro-war government claims
that were "allowed to stand unchallenged." The Washington Post's
own media critic, Howard Kurtz, documented
that anti-war views were systematically buried at that paper. The NYTrecently
exposed that network and cable news shows for years continuously allowed
Pentagon-controlled operatives to masquerade as "independent analysts"
spouting the pro-government line with virtually no challenge. And the media's
pathological fixation on the Clinton sex scandals -- which led to his impeachment
-- stood in stark contrast to the widespread indifference among the citizenry."
... "Beyond all that, are there any reporters left who deny that the campaign-covering
media in 2000 was gushingly
enamored of [Republican] George Bush and oozing
with contempt for [Democratic] Al Gore? Identically, their intense
affection for [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain
is something they openly proclaim; as they
shamelessly acknowledge, they're his "base." And while some journalists
undoubtedly harbor admiration for [2008 Election Democratic Presidential
Candidate] Barack Obama, the non-stop coverage of one anti-Obama narrative
after the next -- Jeremiah Wright, lapel pins, patriotism "questions,"
"Bittergate," "problems" with Jewish and white voters -- simply has no
parallel in any coverage of McCain." ... "Beyond that objective evidence,
just look at the claims which "Liberal Media" complainers make to support
their grievance. As examples of "liberal" journalists, they'll cite people
like Chris Matthews -- who voted
for [Republican] George Bush, and did
more than anyone to prop up his image as our Great War Leader and demonize
Bush critics. One of the leading examples of a biased "liberal" journalist
is therefore someone who actually went on television in late 2005 and said
this:"
"I
like [Bush]. Everybody sort of likes the president, except for the real
whack-jobs, maybe on the left -- I mean -- like him personally."
"Or
they'll point to "liberal" Tim Russert -- Tim Russert -- about whom
[Republican Vice President] Cheney press aide Cathy Martin said:
"I suggested we put the vice president on 'Meet the Press,' which was a
tactic we often used. It's our best format, as it allows us to control
the message." That's the same "liberal" Tim Russert who confessed that
he operates by the defining
law of the Government propagandist: "When I talk to senior government
officials on the phone, it's my own policy -- our conversations are confidential.
If I want to use anything from that conversation, then I will ask permission.""
... "Or look at the recent "controversy" reported
by the Associated Press over whether NBC News' reputation as an objective
news outlet is being tainted by virtue of the "liberal" commentators MSNBC
features. Nobody questioned whether CNN's objectivity was imperiled by
featuring the likes of [right-wing commentators] Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs,
nor, for that matter, did anyone raise these questions about NBC when,
for years, MSNBC shows were hosted by the likes of Tucker Carlson, Joe
Scarborough and Michael Savage." ... "But a single unapologetic Bush critic
appears on the TV -- Keith Olbermann -- and this rarest of occurrence suddenly
leads to controversy over whether the "respectability" of television news
can survive while allowing a single "liberal" voice to be heard."
-By Glenn Greenwald -Salon
20080515
John
McCain - Terrorism
- Politics
-  Palestine
- US
- 2008
Election - Barack
Obama -  Illinois
-  Arizona
"Exclusive
Video: McCain Was For Talking To Hamas Before He Was Against It...."
... "Two years ago, in an interview with James Rubin for Sky News, [2008
Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator] Sen. John
McCain expressed a willingness to negotiate with the terrorist group Hamas
[Palestine] -- the very group that McCain has been relentlessly_using
to smear [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate and Illinois
Senator] Sen. Barack Obama over the last several weeks." ... "Rubin has
written an op-ed
in Friday's Washington Post about his exchange with McCain, and The Huffington
Post has obtained exclusive video. Here's the key excerpt:"
"RUBIN:
"Do you think that American diplomats should be operating the way they
have in the past, working with the Palestinian government if Hamas is now
in charge?""
"McCAIN:
"They're the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with
them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and
previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their
dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice,
so . . . but it's a new reality in the Middle East. I think the lesson
is people want security and a decent life and decent future, that they
want democracy. Fatah was not giving them that.""
"
-HuffingtonPost.com
WATCH
"McCain on Hamas in 2006: Going to Have to Deal With Them."
John McCain: "They're the government; and sooner or later we are going
to have to deal with them, in one way or another, and I understand why
this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards
Hamas is because of their dedication to violence and the the things that
they not only espouse but practice, so . . . but it's a new reality in
the Middle East. And I think the lesson is people want security and a decent
life and decent future, then they want democracy. Fatah was not giving
them that."
[John
McCain]
[YouTube
Video]
"McCain's
YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare." [2008 Election
Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain] ... "According to Cliff
Schecter, author of The
Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him And Why Independents Shouldn't:
"It is dangerous for a democracy when a presidential candidate can lie
with impunity, change positions on a whim, and physically and verbally
threaten others and virtually none of it is reported by a besotted media
eagerly awaiting the next moment when he might slap their backs in friendship."
-TheRealMcCain.com -BraveNewFilms.org
20080405
Noteworthy
- Media
-  John
Yoo -  Mike
Mukasey
- Torture
- Lawbreaking-  Surveillance
- Military
-  Intelligence
- Terrorism
-Political
-  Enforcement
- Barack
Obama -  Pennsylvania
- US
- Iraq
"The
U.S. establishment media in a nutshell." ... "In
the past two weeks, the following events transpired. A Department of Justice
memo, authored by John Yoo, was released which authorized torture and presidential
lawbreaking. It was revealed that the [Republican President Bush] Bush
administration declared the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights to be
inapplicable to "domestic military operations" within the U.S. [United
States] The U.S. Attorney General [Michael Mukasey] appears to have fabricated
a key event leading to the 9/11 attacks and made patently false statements
about surveillance laws and related lawsuits. Barack Obama went bowling
in Pennsylvania and had a low score." ... "Here are the number of times,
according to NEXIS, that various topics have been mentioned in the media
over the past thirty days:" ... ""Yoo and torture" - 102" ... ""Mukasey
and 9/11" -- 73" ... ""Yoo and Fourth Amendment" -- 16" ...
""Obama and bowling" -- 1,043" ... ""Obama and Wright" --
More than 3,000 (too many to be counted)" ... ""Obama and patriotism"
- 1,607" ... ""Clinton and Lewinsky" -- 1,079" ... "And as Eric
Boehlert
documents,
even Iraq -- that little five-year U.S. occupation with no end in sight
-- has been virtually written out of the media narrative in favor of mindless,
stupid, vapid chatter of the type referenced above." ... "Think about it
this way: if you were a high government official and watched as -- all
in a couple of weeks time -- it is revealed, right out in the open, that
you suspended the Fourth Amendment, authorized torture, proclaimed yourself
empowered to break the law, and sent the nation's top law enforcement officer
to lie blatantly about how and why the 9/11 attacks happened so that you
could acquire still more unchecked spying power and get rid of lawsuits
that would expose what you did, and the political press in this country
basically ignored all of that and blathered on about Obama's bowling score
and how he eats chocolate, wouldn't you also conclude that you could do
anything you want, without limits, and know there will be no consequences?
What would be the incentive to stop doing all of that?" -By
Glenn
Greenwald -Salon
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