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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
Posted Friday September 12, 2008 3:55:31 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by roundhouse
Posted Friday September 12, 2008 3:56:59 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Kyle_Broflovski
Posted Friday September 12, 2008 4:14:54 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by wolf kotenberg in reply to Kyle_Broflovski
Posted Friday September 12, 2008 4:25:07 PM EDT / Flag this comment
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?
Posted Friday September 12, 2008 4:33:23 PM EDT / Flag this comment
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 Friday September 12, 2008 5:21:34 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by djasper2761 in reply to neon desert
Posted Friday September 12, 2008 7:07:25 PM EDT / Flag this comment
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 Saturday September 13, 2008 2:09:47 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by worrierking in reply to Col. Harlan Sanders
(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 Saturday September 13, 2008 12:16:42 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by wolf kotenberg
Posted Friday September 12, 2008 4:23:26 PM EDT / Flag this comment
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 Friday September 12, 2008 5:44:57 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by proudconservative in reply to neon desert
Posted Saturday September 13, 2008 12:34:39 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by shaggles
Posted Friday September 12, 2008 4:27:21 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by wolf kotenberg in reply to shaggles
Posted Friday September 12, 2008 4:35:54 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by dexteritas0071418
Posted Friday September 12, 2008 5:13:09 PM EDT / Flag this comment
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 Friday September 12, 2008 5:19:12 PM EDT / Flag this comment
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 Friday September 12, 2008 5:46:40 PM EDT / Flag this comment
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 Friday September 12, 2008 8:22:27 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by proudconservative in reply to foghornleghorn
Posted Saturday September 13, 2008 11:03:51 AM EDT / Flag this comment
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 Saturday September 13, 2008 11:22:34 AM EDT / Flag this comment
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 Saturday September 13, 2008 2:34:01 PM EDT / Flag this comment
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.
Posted Saturday September 13, 2008 10:28:30 PM EDT / Flag this comment