Agenda Passed Off As News

Unbiased reporting is great.

Hey folks.

I was going to pass on this one. I saw it Sunday morning after finishing the Big Sunday Edition, but I'm laughing too hard not to comment on this. I'm laughing because this is so sadly an attempt to pass of an agenda as news, that it is actually funny.

According to AOL News - McCain Draws Fire Over His Tactics, By Jonathan Martin, Politico.com

(Sept. 13) - It’s hard to imagine a more unlikely perch for John McCain to be shamed for his increasingly hard-edged and truth-stretching campaign than the middle seat on “The View.”

So right off the bat, Mr. Jonathan Martin tells you what HE thinks. McCain's "truth-stretching campaign." So he thinks that McCain is lying about something. I wonder what that could be. {Smile}

Yet on Friday morning, there sat the Republican nominee – a politician who has built an all but saintly reputation for “straight talk” over the years – caught in a vise between Joy Behar and Barbara Walters and getting a lecture from each on honesty.

Oh there are two impartial, objective, hard hitting journalists. {Laughing}

“They’re lies,” Behar said of two recent lines of attack from the McCain campaign
“By the way, you yourself said the same thing about putting lipstick on a pig,” interjected Walters as a defensive McCain struggled to respond.

No. Not really.

The two daytime talk show hosts are hardly alone.

McCain’s tactics are drawing the scorn of many in the media and organizations tasked with fact-checking the truthfulness of campaigns. In recent weeks, Team McCain has been described as dishonorable, disingenuous and downright cynical.

A series of ads – ranging from accusations that Barack Obama backed teaching sex education to Illinois kindergartners to charges that Obama called Sarah Palin a lipstick-wearing pig – have provoked a cascade of criticism of McCain’s tactics.

The furor presents a breathtaking contrast to McCain’s image as a kind of anti-politician who plays fair, disdains politics as usual and has never forgotten how his 2000 presidential campaign was incinerated by a series of loathsome dirty tricks in the South Carolina primary.

OK folks, this is too good. A series of ads – ranging from accusations that Barack Obama backed teaching sex education to Illinois kindergartners. HE DID! This is FACT. According to the ACTUAL Bill that Obama voted FOR:

Full Text of SB0099
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AN ACT concerning education.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections 27-9.1 and 27-9.2 as follows:

(105 ILCS 5/27-9.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 27-9.1) Sec. 27-9.1. Sex Education.

(a) No pupil shall be required to take or participate in any class or course in comprehensive sex education if the pupil’s his parent or guardian submits written objection thereto, and refusal to take or participate in such course or program shall not be reason for suspension or expulsion of such pupil. Each class or course in comprehensive sex education offered in any of grades K 6 through 12 shall include instruction on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including the prevention, transmission and spread of HIV AIDS. Nothing in this Section prohibits instruction in sanitation, hygiene or traditional courses in biology. (b) All public elementary, junior high, and senior high school classes that teach sex education and discuss sexual activity or behavior intercourse shall emphasize that abstinence is an effective method of preventing unintended is the expected norm in that abstinence from sexual intercourse is the only protection that is 100% effective against unwanted teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and HIV acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) when transmitted sexually.

Now you can CLEARLY see this Bill, that he voted FOR says, each class or course in comprehensive sex education offered in any of grades K through 12. The 6 is crossed out in the original text and the Bill was CHANGED to include Kindergarten. So guess what, McCain is RIGHT. Then this, to charges that Obama called Sarah Palin a lipstick-wearing pig. He did. He also called McCain a stinky dead fish. But let's not let the truth stand in your way of pushing the agenda. Getting the Messiah {Obama} elected.{Smile}

The defense from the candidate himself — heard only on “The View” because he hasn’t held a press conference in over a month — is to essentially claim he’s savaging Obama because the Illinois senator wouldn’t agree to the series of town hall meetings McCain proposed at the end of the Democratic primary season.

This is what is driving some in the Mainstream Media nuts. Why should he? Even Mr. Martin points out how the Media WAS treating McCain. More on that in a second. They HATE the fact that McCain and Palin DO NOT NEED them. They are going straight to the people. The people are responding. Look at ANY poll, and you see the Messiah's fall from the stratosphere.

“We recognize it’s not going to be 2000 again,” said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers, alluding to the media’s swooning coverage of McCain’s ill-fated crusade against then-Gov. George W. Bush and the GOP establishment. “But he lost then. We’re running a campaign to win. And we’re not too concerned about what the media filter tries to say about it.”

Rogers, who hung tough with McCain through the dark days of the primary and has lived through every high and low of this turbulent and unpredictable race, argues that they tried to run a high-ground campaign and sought to keep the candidate in front of the media in the fashion he enjoys. His point: No one paid any attention.

“We ran a different kind of campaign and nobody cared about us. They didn’t cover John McCain. So now you’ve got to be forward-leaning in everything.”

They were not paying him attention this time. It was all Obama, all the time. McCain could not BUY TV time. No problem now.

Rogers concedes that they were understandably overshadowed by the historic Democratic primary through June, but contends that even after the general election began they could only get attention when McCain committed a gaffe.

True. I love this one

“When he’s sitting in back of bus and getting questions about Viagra, I think we understand at that point you’ve got to make some tactical adjustments,” he said, recalling a particularly awkward gotcha-of-the-day moment on McCain’s bus in early July.

{Laughing} He is telling the truth though. The Mainstream Media LOVED, and still does, pointing out the fact the McCain is older, and Obama is young, energetic, and did they mention he is Black?

Talking about Race.

Similar affirmation came when Obama first suggested McCain would bring race into the campaign – and the Republican side smothered the tactic by countering that it was Obama who was playing the race card.

It was. It has ALWAYS been the Left that plays the Race card. ALWAYS. From some in the Mainstreme Media asking if he was Black ENOUGH, calling Obama the Magic Negro, to Obama saying that the Right was going to try to scare people, saying he doesn't look like the other Presidents on a dollar bill. He even said, "Oh did I mention he's Black." It has ALWAYS been the Media and Obama himself, that was and I'm sure will continue out of desperation, playing the Race card.

Martin gets this one right as well.

McCain strategists now have became even more sure of themselves following the picture-perfect reaction – in the GOP’s view – to the decision to put Sarah Palin on the ticket. The choice provoked derision from elites, jubilation among conservative voters long skeptical of McCain and uncertainty from Obama about how to respond. If you are a McCain staffer, it doesn’t get better than that – so who cares that the candidate had only met her once and her chief foreign policy credential seems to be living nearer Russia than other Americans.

{Sigh} This really is getting old and tired folks. She was a Mayor, Governor, brought about REAL Change, reform, and has a 80 percent Approval Rating in her State. How many Liberal Democrat Governors can say they have an 80 percent Approval Rating? Obama? What has he run? What has he done? Where is his qualifications? Truth is, she is actually BETTER qualified than McCain. This is what is driving them nuts folks. They REALLY do not have a clue how to deal with her.

With polls moving in their direction and a unanimous view in the political world that the fundamentals of the race have changed dramatically in the last few weeks, McCain aides aren’t about to drop a flood-the-zone approach that they believe has worked. “Most people would have been afraid to have called him out on race,” boasted an adviser. “And we’re not going to let sexism or denigration of her go unchecked now.”

ABSOLUTELY! As well they should not. They are DOING The right thing here.

On all three counts - their portrayal of Obama as a celebrity, outrage at his purported use of race and his flat-footedness and confusion on how to respond to Palin - McCain aides saw weakness and indecision.

It adds up to a campaign that is now unapologetically aggressive and aimed almost entirely at keeping Obama off-message, even if it means hitting him below the belt in the process.

“Clearly we intend to stay on offense,” said Rogers. “That’s what we need to do because the campaign is fundamentally about him. We feel comfortable about the ads we’re running and arguments we’re marking.”

And, given their surge in the polls and Obama’s uncertainty about how to respond to the Palin phenomenon, they’re going to keep it up.

Truth is, they are FINALLY running a campaign that can and as long as they keep it up, WILL win. They are telling the TRUTH about Obama. They have a PERFECT VP running mate, and they are NOT playing the Mainstream Media game. They KNOW that the Mainstream Media is in the camp FOR Obama. Why should they play with the media? They need to KEEP DOING what they are doing. Dealing directly with the American people. Even though they THINK they do, it is NOT the media that elects Presidents. It is the people. This is who McCain and Palin need to deal with.

It goes on a bit, but basically says the same thing. The Left and the Soros owned Media HATES Palin, they HATE McCain, and they HATE the fact that the passive, gentle, McCain who refused to fight back no matter what the attack was, is gone. Now they have to deal with the next President of the United States, and the FIRST Female Vice President. Then they have to watch as the Messiah falls. For Obama, thanks to the Media, that, is a mighty big fall.

Peter

Sources:
AOL News - McCain Draws Fire Over His Tactics
Sweetness and Light - Obama Voted For Sex Ed For Kindergarten