Daily Howler: Challenge media script NOW or it's McCain in the WH in 2008.

[Karmadillo]

The Howler is dead on. We need to be prepared to effectively fight back against the corporate media or we will lose again and again and again. They smeared Gore in 2000, they smeared Kerry in 2004, and they'll smear whomever we put up in 2008.

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh052306.shtml

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In our view, Arianna judged extremely unwisely during Campaign 2000—but of course, that sometimes happens. Sadly, she was worse than unwise when she savaged Gore as a serial liar—when she typed the phony scripts which plainly sent Bush to the White House. (By the way: Gore always was pro-choice.) This is precisely the “horrific” conduct which Heilemann knows he must never report. And Arianna refuses to mention it too—though she practiced it, back in real time. Today, she says it’s Gore who has changed—and, without mentioning how she has changed, she once again sits down to judge him.

By the way: Why does Arianna endorse someone whose “entire career has been laden with untruths—all demonstrating a pattern of serial abuse of language, truth and reality?” We’re puzzled when we see such a reversal. Is it because he seemed funny last week?

Heilemann will never tell you the truth—and neither, it sometimes seems, will Arianna, at least when it comes to this matter. And here’s the problem—the crucial problem—with bad-faith posts by various people who criticize Gore for Campaign 2K and fail to mention the “horrific” conduct which made that campaign so astounding. Even as we speak, the press corps is scripting our next White House race—and their script will send McCain to the White House. But guess what? As Arianna (and others) keep misdirecting young liberals, young liberals fail to understand how our elections are getting decided. Like Heilemann, Arianna disappears what happened in Campaign 2K—and that encourages us to overlook the ongoing scripting of Campaign 08. And make no mistake—John McCain will be elected unless we challenge the press corps’ script now. They invented a demon in Campaign 2K. They’re inventing a brilliant saint now.

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[RobertSeattle]

1. McCain would just be a 3rd Term of the Bush Regime

Maverick my arse.

[redqueen]

2. et tu, Arianna?

Daily Howler is a GREAT resource. :)

[Vinnie From Indy]

5. Sometimes it is worth reading and sometimes it is just Sommerby ranting.

I agree with his call for action and I agree that he is correct about the corporate media being entirely corrupt.

[redqueen]

10. True...

but his documentation is excellent... I often refer people not yet aware of the media's clowning to his site. It gets the ball rolling. :)

[magellan]

3. My dad admired McCain not too long ago

So did I. Let's just say that's no longer the case...and my dad is a Korean War vet who's a moderate independent!

[NJ_Lib]

4. Yeah but Repukes despise him too... They call him a...

... dirty, lying liberal. Teehee... That's what happens sometimes John, when you play both sides against the middle. You lose it all and it couldn't happen to a more deserving guy...

[AX10]

7. Don't take that for granted. Repubs are known to rally around...

whom ever the party endorses. McCain will be a nightmare for America just as Bush has been and any Republican will be.

Wes Clark 08'!

[bryant69]

11. That's the tricky part

He has to get the base on his side, and many of them aren't keen on him at all. Rush has been particularly scathing in his critique of McCain - basically hates him.

If he gets the nomination, he should be pretty well bloodied at that point. Hopefully our candidate will take advantage of that.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[NJ_Lib]

12. Exactly... They've spent years stoning him and now...

... they're gonna rally around him? Oh, we can only hope...

[AX10]

13. Democrats better not take the "let's play nice" routine again.

If they do that, McCain will win over any Democrat.

[redwitch]

6. billboard suggestion for 2008

two photos side by side EVERYWHERE in America:
photo #1 John McCain hugging the Chimp
photo#2 The Chimp holding hands with the Saudi prince.

The caption?: Two reasons to vote Dem this year

[NJ_Lib]

8. Excellent, I love it... n/t

[central scrutinizer]

9. "I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live."

Keep replaying his own words

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/hongop.shtml

On his campaign bus recently, Sen. John McCain told reporters, "I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live." Although McCain said he was referring only to his prison guards, there are many reasons why his use of the word "gook" is offensive and alarming.

It is offensive because by using a racial epithet that has historically been used to demean all Asians to describe his captors, McCain failed to make a distinction between his torturers and an entire racial group.

It is alarming because a major candidate for president publicly used a racial epithet, refused to apologize for doing so and remains a legitimate contender.