The McCain campaign continues its descent into the kind of politics that is now surpassing in sleaziness what Karl Rove & Co. did to McCain in South Carolina in 2000. The Politico:
A harsh new robocall — at least the third in a series — attacks Obama for having “worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers” whose group “killed Americans.”
Robocalls are a relatively inexpensive way to deliver a negative message, and used to be seen as an under-the-radar way to do it, though that’s no longer really true. The ad comes just hours after McCain dismissed the issue: “I don’t care about an old, washed-up terrorist,” he said.
Click on the link and you can listen to the call. And a link to two more calls.
What more can be said?
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.