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After NBC political director discredited it, MSNBC uncritically ran McCain campaign ad attacking Obama

Summary: After Alex Witt aired a new McCain campaign ad on MSNBC Live that suggests the Obama campaign is being "disrespectful" to Gov. Sarah Palin, neither Witt nor NBC News deputy political director Mark Murray gave any indication that the ad contains several distortions or that, an hour earlier, Chuck Todd had said that the ad "takes some words out of context."
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Posted by NiceguyEddie

I wonder how Karl Rove will like the weather in hell?

Posted by roundhouse

Disrespectful? Kiss my ass McCain. You're pick of the zealot, Palin, is an insult to your own honor.

Posted by Kyle_Broflovski

How dare Barack Obama call Sarah Palin a liar.  She is a woman!!! He is soooooo sexist!!!

Posted by wolf kotenberg in reply to Kyle_Broflovski

Ok, I will assume the role of a surrogate and call her a liar.

Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to Kyle_Broflovski

Obama's not going to get away with this blatant sexism. I'm getting as outraged as the Republicans at the insensitivity.

OT, and since I haven't had any posts scrubbed lately, is this George Takei on the left?

Vintage_mens_ad

Posted by neon desert in reply to Col. Harlan Sanders

AHA!  THIS is the offensive and off-topic material I've waited for so patiently.

Might as well open a new e-mail account and start picking your new handle now.  Revenge will be mine!

Posted by djasper2761 in reply to neon desert

What is that African American guy doing with my pants. How dare anyone call a repubelican a liar. They just use verisimilitudes. Just like creationism (cretinism).

Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to djasper2761

That's a young Michael Steele in your pants, DJ. In the middle are a young Chris Matthews and Brit Hume.

Back on topic, Sarah Palin once shot a polar bear wearing only her pants.

(That's Worrierking bait)

Posted by worrierking in reply to Col. Harlan Sanders

And why the bear was wearing the governor's pants, I'll never know.

(Apologies to Groucho and the writers of "Animal Crackers".)

I'm not sure who that is on the left. It looks like Mr. Sulu or maybe Michelle Malkin dressed as a guy?

Posted by wolf kotenberg

Sounds like picking Palin was a " smoke and mirrors ' karl " traitor " Rove campaign . the american voter must realise that Bush and Company are not going away if Mccain gets into the White House. McCain has not demonstrated he is really willing to "reform " by keep Rove on the payroll at the same time. No more than GW Bush willing to take out Washington out of washington by keeping Kissinger as an " advisor ".

Posted by neon desert in reply to wolf kotenberg

One bright summer day, while doing a snowshoe hare count from her bush plane over the vast tundra of Denali National Park, Sarah Palin noticed what looked like smoke and the flash of a signal mirror coming from a stand of pines.  Circling her plane and descending to get a closer look, she immediately recognized that a brownie scout troop had been treed by a polar bear and was desparately signaling for help.

Without concern for her aircraft or her own safety, she quickly donned a parachute and grabbed her knife, and bailed out of the plane.  20 feet before landing, she cut the cords of her parachute.  Just as she hit the ground, she tucked and rolled toward the bear, springing up in front of him and plunging the knife deep into the center of his heart, killing him instantly and humanely.

The plaque declaring her an honorary brownie is mounted on her study wall below the polar bear head.

Posted by proudconservative in reply to neon desert

Didn't snoopsevetyfivecent have a picture of that award scrubed from this site just a few days ago?

Posted by shaggles

What a lazy bunch.  Stop running ads as though they are news. 

Posted by wolf kotenberg in reply to shaggles

John McCain approved the ads. And John McCain said noone speaks for him ( remember the Phil Gramm fiasco  ?) Does that include Palin ??? 

Posted by dexteritas0071418

Whether or not the ad is accurate (and who cares what Chuck Todd thinks), MSNBC played the ad in the context of discussing it, not promoting what it said. MMfA does the same thing every time a newspaper or tv reporter mentions a claim by the GOP, because it was news that the claim was made, and the accuracy of it was not the subject matter nor the point of the article. You can't add 20 mins of research reporting/fact checking to every political ad and claim ever reported.

Posted by BottleBlonde in reply to dexteritas0071418

Dex, I don't think I've ever seen a post of yours that held water, and you don't break your record here.

You said that they showed the ad in the context of talking about the ad, but here's what Media Matters said. How moronic can you be that you can't even read the bolded paragraph?????

On the September 12 edition of MSNBC Live, anchor Alex Witt aired a new ad by Sen. John McCain's campaign that suggests that Sen. Barack Obama's campaign is being "disrespectful" to Gov. Sarah Palin. Neither Witt nor her guest, NBC News deputy political director Mark Murray, gave any indication that the ad contains several distortions or that, in the previous hour of the program, NBC News political director Chuck Todd said, "The ad that McCain's hitting Obama on takes some words out of context."

Posted by foghornleghorn

 takes some words out of context."

Can't the talking heads say just once that Gramps is lying?  No "out of context", no "innacurate" no "distortion".  I want them to say that Mr. P.O.W. is LYING!

Posted by doggone-ga in reply to foghornleghorn

Stricktly speaking this isn't the MSM - but it's close!  Not EVERYONE is afraide to use the word LIAR

http://projects.ajc.com/gallery/view/opinion/luckovichsept08/2.html

Posted by proudconservative in reply to foghornleghorn

Watch the 'ageism' and the 'anti-military service resulting in capture-ism'!  Be careful, we dare not further victimize a downtrodden group and potential voting block for explotation.

Posted by proudconservative

Speaking of the power of attack ads.....

Obama's attack ad mocking McCain's lack of use of the internet to his age, could be Barry's next Biden moment that demonstrates the lack of 'executive leadership' in his campaign.

http://www.slate.com/id/74812/

Maybe this is why he doesn't use email and belies the claim that he understandeth not the internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRV5Y1JCGRI

And Biden, well being Biden.

 

Posted by eweston8542983

Sounds like a passing enthusiasm for Yawnie, the article was from 2000.

What kind of emotional baggage are you trying to attach to the name Biden?

Posted by proudconservative in reply to eweston8542983

eastwester,

Read the article from Slate, no conservative hotbed.  It says how adroit McCain was at establishing a quality cyber-fundraising effort, making previous Clinton efforts look poor by comparison.  The article goes on to say that his war wounds make it difficult for him to use a keyboard!  It's not that he doesn't know how to email, he physically can't!

As far as Biden, do you think the left is having buyer's remorse for both he and Obama?  Even Biden says that Hillary would have been a better choice for VP.  Obama needs to shut him up before he tries to make another person rise up from a wheelchair.