Link: http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=177060&title=obama-in-iraq

McCain has gotten quite a pass by the mainstream media. Even John Stewart seems to be apologize whenever he takes a shot at him.

And history will prove that Obama's race speech is indeed one of those seminal speeches in American history that school kids will have to read for ages to come. The media didn't create that. It was just a great speech. Period. McCain doesn't like it, he should learn how to talk in public without looking like a zombie.

based on principles, concepts, and ideas. Let's go for the fluff! The American people have shown themselves to be so shallow that they make decisions based on the fluff instead of the principles, concepts, and ideas.

McCain's old-timers express should take a B-12 shot and stop the whining. They have plenty of love over at Faux News.

I think this is the primary danger in having such an adoring media base. Whether it is back lash from the Bush admin's clear disdain for transparency or simple competition among the networks to provide the most up-to-date goings-on of the more energetic campaign doesn't really matter. In this situation, perceptions become reality. The average viewer in the US will SEE more coverage of one candidate and then all it takes is someone to shout BIAS on the other side for it to take root. The danger is, consequentially, that people might associate the apparent bias with the media choosing a candidate for them.

Isn't this the expected tactic to be used since Rove's surrogate, Schmidt, joined the campaign for McCain? This is just the same as used against Kerry's record with the Swift Boat attack, but this time we have to have Obama accused of getting a "love in" from the press after we, the reading public, have watched the press give McCain a pass on every idiotic, uninformed statement for the past six months!!

McCain has showed his incompetence and corporate connections since the S & L crisis and now he is using his press connections to drive this latest attack on change.

Bob Belichick

Or will it simply present to the masses more glowing examples of Obama's popularity? Hate to look like an elitist who is contemptuous of the electorate, but IMHO, it's entirely possible that many people will look at this ad with all its flattering pictures of prominent Obama admirers, and NOT understand that it is meant to be CRITICAL of this mentality...

Considering the media lapdance that grumpy old man has gotten every time he beamed at a camera, that is rich! I guess his campaign has given up presenting their vision, ideas, etc and have decided to become the "get off of my yard, you whippersnapper!!" party.

This is hilarious, it really must be the most inept campaign ever run in modern times. Chaplinesque hapless clown reference intentional.

Ignoring for a moment the countless clips one could run showing Matthews saying to McCain "you know you're in my heart, Senator" and saying that the media is "McCain's base", the fact is that this has the opposite effect, people WANT to be in on what's trendy and cool, including reporters.

The complaints in this ad aren't just that Obama is being favored, it's more specifically that he's being swooned over, like a rock star, that he's being treated as a legend in the making, a Kennedyesque once-in-a-generation political phenomenon.

Yeah, THAT'S really a narrative you want to reinforce about the opposing candidate. What reporter doesn't want in on that bandwagon, once it's been identified and saddled up?

Utterly lost, this McBush campaign.

Good.

If people admired Obama because of his principles, or because of his long and distinguished record, then his popularity among his base would be an advantage. As it is, a lot of people don't feel comfortable with having a Presidential candidate who is treated more like a celebrity than a politician. The "O-Ba-Ma" chant is too over the top for the liking of many. The first time I heard that I couldn't believe that a U.S. candidate was allowing this to happen at rallies. Haven't they studied history? Looked at videos of rallies under totalitarian regimes? Do they really want to run their rallies as if they are U-2 concerts? Popularity can backfire, when that popularity seems to be based on charisma instead of character.

Exactly right.

Viewers will basically see: OBAMA IS INCREDIBLE (mutter mutter) IMAGES OF OBAMA BEING SWOONED OVER (giggle sneer ) OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA ONCE IN A GENERATION PHENOM (grouse grumble grump not fair) IT'S HARD TO STAY OBJECTIVE HE'S SO INSPIRING (hey is that fair? hello? lookit me, someone?) WOW THIS GUY IS REALLY AMAZING.....

Breaks every tenet of campaigning.

Shh, don't tell them though.

It's *Jon* Stewart. Jon JON JON.

So what is the message here? Because the world and media loves this guy, you should vote the one they don't? Better a leader the world hates than admires?

I'm glad the Barack's tour of Europe is equated to the Stones. As a frequent traveler, I'll be happy not to explain to everyone one I meet that no, I don't like Bush either and then try explain how he got voted in twice.

I long to hear -- "Hey, that president of yours. He's all right!"

Methinks McCain's people are outsmarting themselves (which is apparently not very hard). Sarcasm is in the mind of the beholder after all.

The Hillary Clinton campaign did the same thing, with help from Saturday Night Live, and got a break (however brief) from the media. The McCainites are trying to do what she did to take Obama down. But somehow they're forgetting that she didn't win with that strategy.

Desparate measures for desparate times. Wait til they're standing side-by-side in a debate -- it's going to look like "Weekend at Bernie's" only McCain has less personality.

I don't accept this kind of nonsense from my kids, and they're not old enough to see PG-rated movies, let alone run for office.

Is that he is smart, tough, analytic, a person who reads both deeply and broadly, and one who is remarkably adept at translating his complex thoughts into actions through his formal and informal communications. This is the essence of a successful modern leader.

McCain continues to have a tough time convincing voters either by his words or his deeds that he is qualified to be president of the United States. Despite decades of soft-headed coverage afforded this intellectual light-weight by a fawning media which repeats the unearned label "Maverick" hundreds of times a day, McCain is still unable to convince the American public that he possesses the skills and knowledge necessary to be a modern president. He confuses Sunni and Shi'ia, thinks Czechoslovakia is still a country, stumbles over the location of Iraq and Pakistan on the map. He keeps the tainted likes of lobbyists Charles Black and Phil Gramm on his staff out of affinity with their worldview. His ignorance of economic and fiscal policy is both profound and dangerous.

His only remaining hope is to try to claim that the media somehow favors Obama, what a laugh.