Letters to the Editor
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Journalism Is Dead!!
This election season more than ever it is clear that the corporate ownership of America's print and electronic media has put a stake through the heart of journalism. Say Amen!!!
Whoever the Repugnicans want to push or pillory is what will be done. It famously started when the media and the right-wing bastards formed a tag team to effect a coup against the duly elected president of the USA, William Jefferson Clinton. Now they know no extreme rightwinger has a chance of winning the general election so they are pushing McCain and not asking the hard questions. They want Obama to be the candidate because they know how hard it will be to beat Hillary so they're treating Obama like he's the second coming. No vetting, no hard questions. Just vilify the Clintons 24/7 and hope Obama wins the general then ask him the hard questions then. With that strategy, the GOP will have the presidency again, even if it's John McCain.
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You're right, Joe. McCain is not going to get the same picking over that Hillary or Obama will get.
Hillary especially. I think there are about eight years' worth of lesbian stories smoldering away in some warehouse in northern Virgina.
And then there's Obama's record from his days hustling in Chicago.
So yeah, Joe, for once I agree with you. The Democrat nominee is going to be savaged. You, for one (but not many others) will try to do the same to McCain, or perhaps Romney.
But you won't have much success. That's a bitch, isn't it? It seems so unfair. It probably is unfair. I know I'll be losing sleep over it.
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Jeeze....
Hustling in Chicago? Journalists love Obama? Obama has never hustled Chicago and he gives journalists little access. The stupidity of the American public never ceases to amaze me.
Discuss the article; know what you're talking about before you start name calling and making huge statements.
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You Didn't Quite Explain...
what the Reform Institute does and/or why McCain would be influenced by donations to the Institute. I mean, can he take money from the Institute to use in his campaigns somehow, or does it all go towards issue advocacy? If the latter, I don't quite get why he'd be influenced by donations to the Institute.
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@drhadabath
So, if I follow you, the slander about hustling in Chicago outrages you but you don't object at all to the eight years of lesbian stories?? If one Repug lie is outrageous, why not the other even more horrible one? Or did you just forget to inclue the Hillary hit?
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I can't follow the political threads, too much gossip
I think people stopped reading at the turn of the century and now they just listen to the opinions of others who supposedly read.
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Gary Winnick
The best example of McCain's corruption is Gary Winnick. Winnick was a close associate of Michael Milken. Milken of course was tied to Keating, and hence McCain. Now McCain says he learned his lesson after that investigation, which brought down other Senators. Winnick reimerged as the head of Global Crossing during the dot com boom. For a short while he was the richest man in Los Angeles, but it ended just like before with the company crashing amid charges of fraud and greed. In truth both Milken and Winnick have the same type of mental illness as any career criminal. Well, who should cosy up with Winnick but John McCain. He got away with it because these LA mogels have lots of influence in the media. McCain was closely involved in the various legislation regarding communications over the last decade or so that can only be considered a fiasco on the scale of Standard Oil. For all his talk about corruption he's probably the most corrupt Senator today.
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The Mindless Press and Their Infatuation with Conserrvatives
Corporate press flunkies in love with McCain ?
No more, really, than they disdain Al Gore or admire Karl Rove. Not to speak if their blind fear of Dick Cheney and their sniveling obdience to their corporate owners, publishers, and editors whose primary goal it is to seek favors from the Bush administration.
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David Brooks Today
Today David Brooks writes another chapter in the novel St. McCain. He says McCain has been understandably irritable because of the burden of the dead boys in Iraq. In private conversation the Saint told Brooks that he was tired from the long flight to California and that is persumably why he made the stuff up about Romney and timetables for withdrawal.
But, he says that McCain will become the happy warrior of old, a mix of Reagan and FDR. And of course his basic goodness and HONESTY will prevail; he will as he has always done reach across the aisle and embrace the Democrats.
Even when he is making stuff up McCain, to the press, is being honest.
It will never change.
WHS
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@David Brooks Today
In that same column, Brooks also writes if McCain can just get young people to think of Wars in the Middle East as the New Frontier, he will be certain to win in November.
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A thought
The answer to your question is no.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/the-bogeyman_b_83480.html
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Sour grapes
Ok, so Joe writes an angry diatribe filled with self-righteous anger, frustration, and innuendo. I didn't read or see anything that was backed up by facts and figures demonstrating linkage between McCain and anything sleezy. They guy has been in office and been in important political positions for over 20 years. If guilt by association were the rule we should apply to everyone, even Obama, with no record on anything, might not even come away unscathed. He entered into an agreement with Rethko to purchase a home and a plot of land at vastly reduced prices because it was a sweet package deal. Does that mean Obama has been sucking at Rethko's teet? It's just more innuendo.
The only things I learned from this article was that
A) McCain has an institute.
B) People who have worked at that institute have gone on to work for McCain in other venues.
C) McCain engages in political maneuvering from time to time, like, well, everybody.
D) McCain doesn't always live up to his squeaky boy image. Who does? And more importantly, isn't that a goal and a tone he's trying to set for his future administration? The message of his current run is "We tell people the truth." What the hell is wrong with that? He tries to live up to that goal and is contrite when he doesn't. That's more human than the petulance and anger we see from Hillary when she can't answer a simple question as to whether her vote on Iraq was a mistake or not. As eloquent as she was in that exchange, it went on FOREVER.
E) McCain is embroiled in a tight race for the nomination and doesn't want to screw it up by answering complex questions just before super-Tuesday with pat answers to keep Joe happy. What is wrong with you? Does Salon spike your coolade or something?
Joe needs to get his head out of his very tight, very liberal @ss and stop the rhetorical chest thumping. All of these politicians attempt to invent myths to make themselves invincible to the slings and arrows of their opponents. It's the nature of the game. Just a few minutes of Obama turning his light, little resume into the stuff of great legend is the same schtick.
The only person who fought, shed blood, and dedicated most of his adult life to America in this election is Mr. McCain. I'm not saying he's the best candidate or will be the best choice for voters. But I do think more investigation and less innuendo is in order for our few, precious heroes.