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A story from Michael Kinsley about John McCain at the craps table seems to me a perfect allegory for John McCain’s current campaign:
“McCain immediately turned to the woman and said between clenched teeth: ‘DON’T TOUCH ME.’ The woman started to explain…McCain interrupted her: ‘DON’T TOUCH ME,’ he repeated viciously. The woman again tried to explain. [...]

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Quoted from the Anonymous Liberal blog:
I’m serious. The more I look at what happened today, the more I think it was all an elaborate attempt to stem the fallout from the truly disastrous interview Sarah Palin taped this morning with Katie Couric. In that interview, Palin did two things that hurt the McCain [...]

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There is a huge change in the coverage of the Palin story from the perspective of the corporate media on various main stream cable news channels. It seems various reporters are actually growing a backbone and questioning the Repubtard talking points and now letting them pass by at face value unquestioned.
The first sign things were [...]

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Washington Post reporters Dana Milbank and Jonathan Weisman gave the McCain campaign a nipple-stiffening moment today after they picked up a statement by Barack Obama, and used it, apparently, entirely out of context, presenting it for the consumption of Post readers in a way that made it look like Obama was being arrogant.
For Milbank’s part, [...]

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Reposted from DailyKOS.
There were many problems with the latest Gallup Poll, which has McCain up +4 vs Obama. But now with more information (buried deep into the 9th paragraph of USA Today’s own write up), it only gets worse. It’s potentially “startlingly” worse
It seems that Gallup according to writer Seth Colter Walls, “committed polling malpractice”, [...]

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McCain camps unveils new strategy of aggressive whining about coverage of Obama’s foreign trip. From the NYT …
The extraordinary coverage of Obama’s trip reflects how the candidate remains an object of fascination in the news media, a built-in feature of being the first African-American presidential nominee for a major political party and a relative [...]

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The Associated Press has promised to meet with some organization I’ve never heard of called “The Media Bloggers Association” to work out the details of its frankly insane proposal to sell licenses to quote five or more words from AP stories.
Who are the Media Bloggers Association? Turns out it’s mostly one guy, some right-wing attack-blogger [...]

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Edit: This post was previously two posts but to make it easier to follow the whole story, I’ve edited them into a single post that was better formatted. I apologize for my long winded, and probably, poor written explanation. I’m a Web Designer/Content Manager - not an English Major (and I never liked Shakespeare anyway).
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The media narrative isn’t always right, but it’s always fascinating to watch. Because political reporters tend to be pack animals, once a narrative gets out there, it’s tough to change. Yesterday, there was only one narrative: the Democratic race is over.
The consensus was swift and brutal. The tabloids had their own way of saying it [...]

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