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November 6, 2008
3:05 PM

The Double Standard Continues; New Report Reveals Further Disparate Coverage in McCain's Favor

WASHINGTON - November 6 - Media Matters for America today released a study revealing that while the media frequently covered the McCain campaign's claims about Sen. Barack Obama's ties to Chicago developer Antoin Rezko and former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers, they almost completely ignored Sen. John McCain's involvement in land deals and his relationship with convicted Watergate felon G. Gordon Liddy. In April, Media Matters released a separate study showing an enormous disparity between coverage of Obama and Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.

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Posted in election 2008, mccain, Media

Obama Wins and Redefines Real America

So who's a real American now?

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The New Know-Nothings

It was Jesus Christ, if Matthew is to be believed, who said, "Love thine enemy." It is in that spirit that I write this belated valentine to Sarah Palin.

Sarah, I love you for having revealed unto the media the snarling heart of the beast that is the base (and the soul) of the Republican Party. Yes, you have the lipstick and the heels, not to mention the calves and bosoms, that send Republican men into swoons, but you have more; the pit-bull snarl that rouses your supporters to cry out, "Traitor!" against Obama, and "Kill him!"

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Thirty Years Too Late: The Implosion of John McCain and the Demise of the Regressive Right

There are lots of good explanations for why John McCain is rapidly swirling down the toilet bowl into the sewer of political ignominy, but my all-time favorite was just published in the New York Times Magazine this week.

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The Ugly America

"You really do hate America!" This was the parting shot from a man I had just debated on a television show shortly before the invasion of Iraq. Because he's a notorious right-wing blowhard, I laughed it off as the ravings of a crackpot in extremis.

Little did I know...

Posted in Activism, election 2008, mccain, palin, Politics

Blame game: GOP Forms Circular Firing Squad

With despair rising even among many of John McCain's own advisers, influential Republicans inside and outside his campaign are engaged in an intense round of blame-casting and rear-covering - much of it virtually conceding that an Election Day rout is likely.

A McCain interview published Thursday in The Washington Times sparked the latest and most nasty round of finger-pointing, with senior GOP hands close to President Bush and top congressional aides denouncing the candidate for what they said was an unfocused message and poorly executed campaign.

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McCain Campaign Paid Republican Operative Accused of Voter Fraud

John McCain paid $175,000 of campaign money to a Republican operative accused of massive voter registration fraud in several states, it has emerged.

As the McCain camp attempts to tie Barack Obama to claims of registration irregularities by the activist group ACORN, campaign finance records detailing the payment to the firm of Nathan Sproul, investigated several times for fraud, threatens to derail that argument.

Posted in election 2008, mccain, voting

McCain Evolved From Reluctant Warrior to Interventionist

WASHINGTON - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain fixed his sights on Saddam Hussein long before President Bush sent the U.S. military to oust the Iraqi dictator in March 2003.

Four years earlier, the Arizona senator told a Kansas State University audience that Saddam was amassing illicit weapons, and that the U.S. should arm opposition groups to overthrow him, along with North Korea's leaders and other "odious regimes."

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