Its actually gotten worse lately, as the press shamelessly went to private retreat of McCain's where he fed them BBQ.  Just unreal.

I'm going to buy this book, but I was wondering if there was any plan to try to push it to the top of Amazon's ordering (as was done with Greenwald's "How Would a Patriot Act?").  

I diaried this Book on Sunday. There was zero interest in it here.

Important New Book - Free Ride: John McCain and the Media

We know this, but WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT?

Seriously - it is URGENT that the damned media be forced to be HONEST about things, or none of it matters.  It doesn't matter that McCain is a joke of  a candidate.  The press creates perception.  If the entire propaganda machine spends the next 9 months combing Obama's speeches looking for words to take out of context and beat him with; while IGNORING the genuinely horrible stuff coming out of McCain's mouth, we're doomed.

The TOP PRIORITY of progressives MUST be to change the media narrative.  If that doesn't change, nothing else matters.

The current president is the emperor of free ride.

Obama and McCain make HUGE mistakes but ca do no wrong.

Edward has dropped out and Hillary is about to.

interesting

Most of blogsphere is too busy ripping itself apart.

Obama is twofaced says a prominent diarist here. Hillary is a liar screams the rec list on DKos.

Democrats are far too busy forming a circular firing squad to worry about our real opponent.

What is pathetic is to express when we see the effects.  

Has anyone said these things in the MSM?  Have there been ads?  Debates?  Anything other than posts on progressive blogs about the '100 years' thing?

McCain has received virtually no real coverage in months because of the protracted Dem primary and the total collapse of the rest of the republican campaigns early on.  Things will change.

Sorry, I was busy watching the MSM carrying Obama on their shoulders that I forgot to notice. [Hint, hint, maybe the MSM has an agenda - bait and switch].

The press will cannonize John McCain. They hate Hillary and love McCain...

No one else has ever had a greater free ride than Barack Hussein Obama.  No one else, certainly not John McCain, who at least has been vetted through a previous presidential contest.

The Clintons have been savaged by the MSM for sixteen years and counting.  The MSM is savaging them today, as they did yesterday, and the day before, and--well, it has been so long one forgets the kind words for the Clintons from any news outlet inasmuch as they are rarely heard.  But then again, getting rid of the Clintons has been the MSM's #1 objective, since Bill was "the one that got away" from their wrath as early as 1992.

I believe that in the end Hillary Clinton will astonish her many critics, and like her husband before her prevail, either by winning the Democratic nomination or by bolting the party and running independently.  Her epitaph has been proclaimed some dozen times by the MSM just in the past three months alone.

Barack Obama's candidacy was never more serious than his conspicuous and well-funded proponents would have wanted the rest of us to believe.

So despite his very free ride, a fawning press, thousands of newspaper endorsements, and the Howard Dean machine behind him, he is at best polling tied with Senator Clinton and about to lose yet another key major state, Pennsylvania.

If the contest becomes McCain versus Obama, this lifelong Democrat, and his family of lifelong Democrats, will gladly be in the McCain column come the fall.  This would all be our first time voting for a GOP candidate; my mother in sixty years, for myself in thirty-seven years, and for the rest of our family also representing many years.

John McCain, and even George Walker Bush before him, never savaged the Clintons the way Barack Obama's group has.  This is the first time in the history of American politics that a sizebable chunk of one major party has savaged its own past President and First Lady.  Before this year, that was an absolute no-no.

Contrast this savage treatment of the Clintons from the Howard Dean Democratic machine with the GOP contests, not any of which savaged George Walker Bush, although he had the lowest approval record of any recent president.  The Republicans, bless them after all, still understand propriety and have a measure of loyalty to their own.

If one is a Clinton supporter, believing the Clintons were mostly superb--presiding for the longest peacetime expansion in United States history, in their eight years in the White House--one has no reason whatsoever to vote for Barack Obama.

When I regard Obama, I see an unseasoned pol who wants the brass ring, at any cost, and long before he's ready for it.  His affiliations with all manner of poisonous anti-Clinton forces terrifies me, and his Pastor Wright affiliation terrifies me even more.

Many a non-African American will be equally terrified come the fall.  If it's McCain versus Obama, expect a landslide defeat for the Democrats that will make McGovern, Mondale, and Dukakis losses pale by comparison.

Sadly, the Barack Obama supporters must learn the hard way what we Greek-American supporters also had to learn the hard way about Mike Dukakis.  

Some candidates just can't be sold in a presidential election--whatever the passion of their own crowd.

I very recently cancelled my subscrip. to Sunday NYT. Why? The " free ride" Sunday Times magazine featured an interview with the Rev.Hagee. He says "nope" nothing to all that anti-semitic rapture stuff. And the anti gay stuff? Nope, he says not worth your time to even talk about. Sickening  

MYDD is ridiculous. I'm done.

I saw a McCain post and though that since there were only like 12 comments I would goof around and post some Obama-bad, HRC-great BS that I see all over MYDD. As a joke. Because that's what all the other threads here become; Obama-hating, blind Hillary love.

But alas, my joke can not be.  Because from comment 1, the commenters turned this into an Obama-hate-fest.

McCain thread!?! Screw that!  What about Rezko? Obama's not ready! Obama has skeletons!

You people are pathetic.

http://www.johnmccain.com/.....
No government program is a substitute for a good job, and fast job growth requires easing employers' burdens. The most obvious cost is taxes; McCain would oppose Democrats' plans to impose damaging tax increases. He would improve our international competitiveness with a tax credit for research and development, investment incentives and a lower corporate tax rate. He would propose comprehensive health-care reforms that would change the practice of medicine to reward quality, high-value care, as well as tax credits and insurance market reforms to stop the erosion of health insurance. Such a combination would attack spiraling costs, ease pressure on family budgets, permit firms to pay better wages and reduce the number of the uninsured. His commitment to low taxes, controlling government spending and honoring international agreements would reassure investors and strengthen the dollar, helping to ease inflation and oil prices that are hurting American families."

But hey...
The words Clinton or Obama are not here...
so please ignore..go directly to GO BS and collect
200 comments...

Oh yeah lambros
"Barack Hussein Obama."
This site has at least finished H.S.
Even if there are passionate disagreements
over our candidates should not be misconstrued as
we are as dumb as Bush...
...go visit your usual watering holes, where they are impressed that at times you construct a sentence with subject/verb agreement.

Oh dan f...
maybe you have not noticed this is a DEM place..
McCain is our opponent.
McCain sold YOU out with his immigration stance.
...as you probably told your Republican friends and posted after 2000...get over it..
McCain is YOUR candidate...(too bad about Fred eh?)
WE know that each day...every day...
McCain will be mentioned here in
a derogatory manner....
Do not believe the give and take here means
that YOUR candidate will be held accountable...