Milbank came to the WaPo, in 1999, from . . . TNR.

Don't get me going. I've predicted for a while, that there won't even BE an election this year.

And I have nothing to base that on except a vague awareness of just how far down the rabbit hole we've fallen.

I hope I'm wrong.

I just received this from the Obama campaign and no I will not donate any money until Obama takes a stronger stand on the constitution and tries to reverse his caving on FISA

rmp --

As we face the fundraising deadline at midnight tonight, I want you to know what we are up against.

Less than 24 hours ago, the McCain campaign launched the latest and lowest in a series of misleading attack ads.

This Karl Rove-style ploy misleads people about Barack's energy plan and even mocks his ability to inspire voters and bring Americans back into the political process.

Watchdogs in the media are calling McCain's accusations "bogus," "desperate," "wrong," "misleading," "ugly," "offensive," "reckless," and "a nasty turn into the gutter."

Some of McCain's own supporters agree. One senior Republican strategist quoted by the Washington Post called the latest ad a "wild swing at Obama" that reflects his campaign's "increasing bitterness" and the lack of "any coherent strategy to elect McCain."

Even John Weaver, a strategist who worked for McCain's presidential campaign in 2000 and on his current campaign last year, called the ad "childish," adding that this negative strategy "diminishes John McCain" and "needs to stop."

But we will not let any attack stand. Barack himself responded quickly and forcefully, and within hours our campaign created a response ad to take their smear tactics head-on.

Can you make a donation of $25 or more now to get our response on the air and show the McCain campaign that there is a cost to this kind of negative politics?

are you aware tnat Brian Williams is an admitted dittohead? .. Yes .. he admits to listening to OxyCotin man on a daily basis .. so much for the liberal bias

The only that thing will work against the TradMed is to attack them .. discredit them .. we know the Democrats in DC won't do it(look how many go on Faux Noise after all) .. so we'll have to do it ... call the SOB's out at any opportunity .. we know it can work ... just look at the might Joe Klein himself .. anyone see him lately? .. he's been going full bore after the wingnut neo-cons .. as the old saying goes .. you have to fight fire with fire

Glenn:

Has anyone tried calling KO and get is reaction to Milbank's piece of trash from yesterday(Since Milbank is such a frequent guest)?

That's plainly, screamingly, wishfully projected Freudian thinking on Rove's part. Only in your dreams Karl could you affect that level of smooth. Instead, Karl is the dumpy, balding, bespectacled, questionably-coordinated, waddling man with the nickname Turd-blossom. How stark could the contrast be?

So, you wouldn't vote for Rove as the Sexiest Man Alive? (I feel a Hurl Check coming on...)

do you ever comment over at Swampland? .. do you(or any of the other commenters here) know how easy it is to email Scherer or any of the other Time Magazine writers there? I know how .. and I'll email Glenn and ask Glenn if it is okay to post the secret here .. we can start flooding the Swamplanders with email(and other media figures who we can get email addresses for

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/16/AR2005061601570.html

Washington Sketch
Dana Milbank, Columnist

Democrats Play House To Rally Against the War
By Dana Milbank
Friday, June 17, 2005; Page A06

In the Capitol basement yesterday, long-suffering House Democrats took a trip to the land of make-believe. [...] The dress-up game looked realistic enough on C-SPAN, so two dozen more Democrats came downstairs to play along. [...]

- - Dana Milbank, Columnist

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http://www.bradblog.com/?p=1476

BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 6/17/2005 11:26AM

WaPo's Dana Milbank Plays 'Journalist', Gets Paid for It!

** Condesdending, Factually Incorrect Article on 'Downing Street' Hearings

** Conyers Replies with Letter

New York Times' Scott Shane wrote a serious article covering yesterday's Downing Street Hearings and the facts it examined concerning a President of the United States who may have committed Impeachable High Crimes by fixing intelligence and misleading the country into an unnecessary war leading to the death of thousands.

On the other hand, Washington Post's embarrasing Dana Milbank wrote an obnoxious and condescending little screed which begins, "In the Capitol basement yesterday, long-suffering House Democrats took a trip to the land of make-believe."

And, oh yeah, speaking of "the land of make-believe", Milbank gets one fact wrong after another as he plays "journalist" in the pages of one of the countries once-greatest newspapers. [...]

- - Brad Friedman

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http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2005/06/downing-street-documents-its-about.html

The Rude Pundit
Proudly lowering the level of political discourse

6/20/2005
Downing Street Documents: It's About the Lies:

To listen to the blather storm of media and right wing spin about the Downing Street Memos (or, since most of them are government minutes, briefs, etc., how about calling them "documents," which gives them the imprimatur of officialdom and not just something that gets into your inbox that you never look at?), the uproar is merely the dying "told-you-so" bleatings of crazed antiwar protesters.

[...]

Meanwhile, your liberal media jumped on the crazy train and sought to discredit Conyers' unofficial hearings, forced to be held in a tiny room by contemptuous House Republicans. Dana Milbank openly mocked the effort in the bleeding heart Washington Post. With bitchiness that would be more appropriate to Mr. Blackwell, Milbank called the minority party's event a "dress-up game" featuring "Conyers and his hearty band of playmates." [...]

- - Lee Papa (a.k.a. "The Rude Pundit")

I think the Obama campaign should look to what successful Democratic politicians like Pres. Roosevelt & Truman did when confronted by succrilous Republican lies.

They gave as good as they got. It was even more effective, because what they said about the Republicans was true (usually).

The McCain campaign is trying to define Sen. Obama. I think it is imperative that the Obama campaign perform its own defining of McCain. This should be done, however, by surrogates. Sen. Obama himself should never participate in the 'defining' process.