Part of the Conventional Wisdom Starts To Shift?

Seasoned journalists and seasoned pros... aka McCain's base :-)

Makes you wonder what would have happened if Jim Jeffords didn't get under his skin and he defected to the Democratic party...what Devils pact was signed that day, I wonder.

oh, and to add to the numerous abuse of civil rights for protestors- this video makes me wonder how many of those cops were ex-Abu Gharaib MP's. Poor kid got the Gitmo treatment for chanting for food. Would hate to see what they would do to someone for being "unruly". Tasered the lil' guy and beat him bloody, yah you betcha.


http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=_PWy-rCM_SQ

"Testing voters" as the title in the article notes; is that meant to say "How much voters are willing to put up with". Apparently, quite a bit if Gallup's new poll shows anything:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/110263/Battle-Congre...

"Battle for Congress Suddenly Looks Competitive
Democrats’ double-digit lead on the “generic ballot” slips to 3 points"

So much for that "conventional wisdom".

If the left now is voicing criticism of AP reporting, it is too little and too late to be perceived as any but fair weather/bad weather criticism.

There is about 5 years' worth of specific example criticism of AP already on file in the archives of the conservative blogs. For the left to try and co-opt the anti-AP stance now is another example of the left's intellectual dishonesty to win at any cost.

At this point, the daily automatic kneejerk that anything about or uttered by McCain and or Palin is untrue, negative, nieve, wrong, conniving, atrocious has become the white noise of cyberspace.

Go to Rasmussen today and read and weep.

Not only has McCain sold out the "Straight Talk Express", he's forgiven the smear campaign of SC 2000. He even hired the "slime ball" for his own campaign.
http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008/09/02/mcca...

Former officials of Sen. John McCain's 2000 campaign expressed shock and disbelief Monday to learn than the GOP presidential nominee had hired South Carolina political consultant Tucker Eskew.

Eskew, along with Warren Tompkins and Neal Rhodes, were key members of then-Gov. George W. Bush's South Carolina team during the 2000 primaries. McCain and his team long held Bush, Tompkins, Rhodes and Eskew responsible for the various smears against McCain and his family in the Palmetto state during that contentious contest

Casual,
What Democrats criticize about AP is Ron Fournier, who was actually offered a job on the McCain campaign last year.

And DURING Obama's acceptance speech at the DNC, Charles Babington actually released a story about a speech that Obama never gave.

That the same Charles Babington is now jumping all over McCain is news.

The AP may not be "right-wing," but its political team is clearly friendly to McCain. In fact, it's been friendly to McCain the same way the right wing hated McCain over the years.

But now the AP sees that the 2000 version that made a cameo at the RNC has gone back into hiding again.

Yes the AP is clearly more favorable to Keith Olbermann and Daily KOS.

The good news, casual, is of course that you aren't going to stand for McCain deliberately misleading the voters just to get a victory for your team, right? Right.

This is actually really sad to me. Honesty and realism are important virtues and to me, required to actually solve any problem. I never would have thought McCain would toss those out in his campaign. I can't buy the argument that dishonest tactics to win are justified to win in order to reform government that has been dishonest and unrealistic. It looks like a lot of my fellow citizens are buying it.