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Part of the Conventional Wisdom Starts To Shift?
The AP (criticized on the left which has claimed it is too pro-McCain) on Republican Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain — on the 2008 McCain versus the 2000 McCain and tactics that have begun to startle even seasoned journalists and political pros.
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9 Responses to “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 to anything McCain and or Palin say has become the white noise of cyberspace.
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…
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.