John McCain released a new video today detailing the media’s so-called “Obama Love,” complete with a soundtrack: “Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You.”
The footage, we assume, is meant to strike at Obama by convincing voters they’ve been brainwashed into the loving the presumptive Democratic candidate, who’s ahead in many polls.
Attacking the media’s a tradition among trailing politicians. Remember when Bill and Hillary Clinton took swipes as the Senator’s primary numbers dropped? It seems to us McCain’s simply trying to place the blame on his stumbling campaign.
Kid A
I guess McCain’s in the tank for shitty video editing software.
Kevin
The thing is, I think the reverse is happening. During the primaries, the media got bashed for not challenging Obama. I think now they’re bending over backwards. McCain’s gaffs go unnoticed while every little Obama thing gets scrutinized. If Obama is still getting more media play and less criticism, perhaps it’s because he’s better at getting media attention (like his visit to the Middle East, which was guaranteed attention after McCain tried to make him NOT going there an issue), and because he’s making fewer mistakes.
COL.[retd] A.M.Khajawal
Dear American Citizens and the Press
As a concerned citizen, I consider it is my duty to bring following message to you all.
“We the citizens of the United States of America have the ultimate responsibility to elect the ” Right Candidate” to lead our nation, out of our huge present and future internal and external challenges as well as opportunities. This is to prevent depression and isolation in-spite of being the only superpower in the world morally, democratically, economically, and militarily.
We need to consider the “critical qualities and characteristics” of our presumptive presidential nominees at the time we vote.
In my personal and professional opinion the critical considerations are as under:
1. Calm, cool, and collected ” temper ” [ Presidential Temperament ].
2. Sound and sustained “Judgment and Caliber”.
3. “Thought-fullness and togetherness” of purpose and positions.
4. Minimum “ex-poser and exploitation” around “Washington and Washington insiders”.
5. Renewed ” Vigor and Vision ” for our Greatgrand Nation.
6. Foreign policy based on ” American Values, Virtuous, Vastness”.
Stay informed, stay involved, and stay engaged. Do not allow some partisan media, pundits, pollsters, and perpetual political opinion makers effect your vote in the wrong direction.
Don’t be effected and duped by “Psychological Terrorism” that is afflicted upon you all the time.
Long live U.S.A and its diverse but democratic people.
Col. A.M. Khajawall [Ret] MD., ABFM., ABDA.
Chief Consultant: World Wide Porfessional Consultants[WWPC]
Colonel, USAR/MC Combat Stress Control[Ret], Disabled American Veteran and Freedom team.
Consultant Psychiatrist: CA State, Medical Board of California, and Los Angeles Mental Health Department
Address: 7642 Eaglehelm Court Las Vegas NV 89123
mark
If that’s all McSame has he’s going down in flames. Like Scarborough who’s a repig ex-congressman they found his secretary dead in his office, and laughable Tucker (the big “manly” fag basher) Carlson are objective about McSame.
McSame should have got real repig muscles like Ann Coulter, oh yeah she hates his guts…nevermind.
anonymouse
The media likes Obama over McCain because Obama has a pulse. Please, someone, anyone, put a stake through McCain’s undead heart. Put him out of his crapulent undead miser, please!
MsSwin
McCain just blew off speaking with thousands of reporters at the upcoming Unity national convention for journalists all the while complaining he’s not getting nearly enough news coverage.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/backtalk/2008/07/mccain-ignores-5000-journalist.html
At last count, it looks to be over 10,000 reporters who were snubbed by Mr. McCain. With all those news reporters losing out on a great opportunity to meet with and write about the man, could it be that mainstream media might be looking for something to report, a story to investigate?
Feel free to forward the following “news tip” to them. We can kill three birds with one stone – take the media to task for not giving us coverage on the full McCain, bring attention to an issue affecting many veterans, and give Senator McCain the level of news coverage he craves.
The media fills us full with stories of McCain’s war ‘hero’ history, writes numerous articles on his status as a POW, informs us each and every time one vet speaks out for him, reminds us endlessly about the torture, even going into great detail about the types of torture and the number of years the man was tortured, yet it never enters the minds of mainstream media to ever ask the obvious question “Could the man running for the highest office in the United States of America, a job with incredible stress, possibly suffer from PTSD”?
Google the general web with the words ‘mccain ptsd’ and approximately one half million hits will appear. Many of these are articles by veteran groups, most having to do with McCain’s lack of support for veterans and others having to do with the very real possibility he suffers from PTSD.
Now go to Google news section and enter ‘mccain ptsd’. You might pull up one or two articles if you are lucky.
As you can see, there is no real mainstream media coverage on this issue. The press is more than willing to talk about the details of McCain’s torture but not the probable result of the torture.
“Among U.S. servicemen taken captive during the Korean War, as many as nine out of 10 survivors may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental disorders more than 35 years after their release, psychologist Patricia B. Sutker of the New Orleans Veterans Administration Medical Center and her colleagues report in the January AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY.â€
McCain has a nine out of ten chance of having PTSD, displays many of the symptoms, yet no one in the mainstream press will question him, a candidate for Commander in Chief who has a history of an out of control temper and refuses to release his military medical records to the general press.
Nine out of ten – Anyone willing to take book on the possibility he does not suffer from ptsd? Call me, I need gas money.
‘Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, can result from wartime trauma such as suffering wounds or witnessing others being hurt. Symptoms include irritability or outbursts of anger, sleep difficulties, trouble concentrating, extreme vigilance and an exaggerated startle response.’
http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSN17282413
http://ptsd.about.com/od/symptomsanddiagnosis/a/PTSDsymptoms.htm
Before the Iraq war many of us begged the media to fully report on the wmd in Iraq, how it got there, who helped to supply Saddam with it and to report on previous administrations’ dealings with Iraq. We were told it was ancient history. The media ‘apologized’ years later for their failure to fully report the war.
Today, we ask the media to help us answer the question ‘Is John McCain emotionally fit for the most stressful job in our country, the President of the United States, our Commander in Chief.”
Surely, the press owes it to the voters to report on the full McCain prior to the fall election.
(Suggested news tip recipients include ethics societies for journalists, cub reporters and college newspapers)
Dilroy
Talk about stating the obvious.