Rcade, your character counter isn't counting very well. This sentence is not 323 characters:

"McCain's Campaign Funding Hypocrisy: Why Are the Media Looking the Other Way?"

Wow! Good article, Null. Must read for all Dems and Independents. I had forgotten about McCain's reversal: opting into public funding to keep himself afloat and in the race and then opting out of it when it no longer suited him, saying "Big deal." So, why aren't the media mentioning this when they are bashing Obama for opting out of a system he only said he would participate in? Looks like Obama will have to bring this up in the debates.

"The "Media Myths of McCain" detail the truths hiding benneth the surface of the media's coverage of John McCain. From his supposed status as a "maverick" and "straight talker" to his supposed independence from lobbyists, this site details the real John McCain seldomly portrayed in the media landscape. Taken together, these myths show just how big of a Free Ride the Arizona Senator has received from the media over the years."

Perhaps the media ia only looking at the true facts. You might try it, wonderland should be a temporary drugged experience, not a way of life.

"Perhaps the media ia only looking at the true facts. "

Perhaps. Or perhaps, as Chris Matthews said, "the media loves McCain. We're his base."

FTA: Yet few in the Swift Boat Media saw fit to point out this glaring contradiction in McCain's cries about broken commitments made to the American people. Indeed, as Media Matters points out, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the CBS Evening News, NBC's Nightly News, Fox News' Special Report, and CNN all dutifully reported McCain's "Big deal" claim without mentioning McCain's campaign finance chicanery.

Again we're back to how the media manipulate news in order to lead public opinion around by the nose. Obama essentially does wot is most advantageous to his campaign and which also recognises meaning of the 1.5 million small donations his campaign has recieved to date. This does not violate the spirit of campaign finance reform and public financing which is to prevent BigMoney interests from overly influencing the outcome.

The media try to turn it into a "big deal"

Meanwhile, back at the McAncient ranch...

McCain opts into public financing in order to secure a loan when his campaign was broke and then tries to opt out and then when threatened with legal action reluctantly opts back in (knowing full well of the corporate 527s waiting in the wings) and then criticises Obama fer choosing to opt out.

And nobody in the corporate MSM sez "Boo!"

Okay, maybe one...

One notable exception was CNN's John Roberts

Good on ya JD!

Weird thing fer Spud about John Roberts is the fact that he got his start up here in Canada as one of the original hosts of MuchMusic (aka Canada's MTV).

Time for the Drudge Hit Parade No. 1 single:

Rcade, your character counter isn't counting very well. This sentence is not 323 characters:

"McCain's Campaign Funding Hypocrisy: Why Are the Media Looking the Other Way?"

Posted by nullifidian

Pretty sure its a decreasing count so you know how many you have left... judging that the above is 77 chars long and you can only post 400 chars...

Not sure about that, Rob. The character counter goes up in the headline section as characters are entered.

Kinda like Kevin Loves free ride at UCLA?

And 4 more McDonalds all americans coming in?

Life for the rest of the Pac-10 isn't fair.

I feel your pain, Rex. I remember the Lavin days. Gotta another great looking class coming in the following year as well, after the recent pickup of Brendan Lane.

At least Brandon Jennings is going oversea instead of Arizona....

"At least Brandon Jennings is going oversea instead of Arizona...."

Has that been settled? Last I heard he was considering it.

Let's just say I don't think there is much chance of him passing the SAT's with someone watching over his shoulder.

I bet Thursday he announces he is going to play in Italy and make a 1 million Euros'.

Not sure about that, Rob. The character counter goes up in the headline section as characters are entered.

Posted by nullifidian

They both descend.

Null,

"The Media Myths of McCain" linK you posted is another must read for Democrats and Independents:

Perhaps the media ia only looking at the true facts. You might try it, wonderland should be a temporary drugged experience, not a way of life.

You mean like Jesus being dead and never coming back?

You're right, not a way of life.

I just saw John McCain very gravely lamenting Barack Obama's decision not to accept public financing for the general election campaign and opining about what it says about Obama's ethics and trustworthiness. And I must confess that I'm a little confused why more Democrats are not hitting this preening peacock with the fact that he is as we speak breaking the campaign finance laws and specifically breaking the law on accepting public financing. Having opted into the system and gotten the advantage of it he's now spending freely in defiance of the caps he agreed not to spend over. Not a commitment to Common Cause to try to come to deal, but a legally binding commitment to stay within the public system for the primaries (which, by FEC rules, continues through the nominating conventions).

It's almost surreal that McCain is being allowed to get on his high horse on anything remotely connected to the public financing system.

You can say the press should be hitting him on this. But the truth is that this will only become an issue, if Democrats and Obama-surrogates make it an issue. The guy is not only 'breaking his word' he's breaking the law.

From the article:

"But that kind of pushback was rare, even as McCain adviser Sen. Lindsey Graham painted Obama's decision as a dark day for America: "This is just really sad for the country. For somebody with this much ability, this much talent, to fall this far, this soon... This guy wants to win, he'll do anything to win."

Talk about dramatics! ....all while the man you advise is doing the SAME EXACT THING!

What say you, repubs?

Are you going to drop the 'Obama flip flopped on campaign financing' or is it just easier to ignore what McCain is doing and keep attacking Obama because he isn't your candidate?

Talk about dramatics! ....all while the man you advise is doing the SAME EXACT THING!

Actually McCain is currently breaking the law.

Not the same.

Worse.

Obama broke a promise to utilise public financing in the general but that promise was made conditional on John McCain and him cutting a deal whereby they both agree to abide by the same rules. McCain outright flouting of the sed rules made it impossible fer Obama to trust or believe McCain if any such promise was made and thus he wisely decided not to tie his hands before wot promises to be one of the dirtiest campaigns in history.

Meanwhile the MSM continue to make it look like Obama is the bad guy here.

And some sheeple are moronic enuff to buy into the hype.

Idjits!

G08ama.

Be Well.

So the reason this is a big deal is that they made a big deal out of Obama lying but not McCain...

But we're all in agreement Obama lied to the American people right?

Damn, I'm really annoyed Obama doesn't wanna use 80 million in taxpayer dollars.

Evil bastard.

And some sheeple are moronic enuff to buy into the hype.

Idjits!

G08ama.

Be Well.

Posted by dethspud at 2008

yep thats right....spudbucket.....we bought into the idea that when a man SIGNS HIS NAME telling us he will do something....THAT HE ACTUALLY WILL....
and that when he is asked in a debate if he will take this if the nominee and he RAISES HIS hand afirming that.....YES WE BUY INTO thAT.....a
and we also were hooked on him telling AMERICA that he supports the idea and will use it because of spending in campaigns and basically LECTURING us on it......well you are correct.....we buy into that honesty and a MAN KEEPING HIS WORD thing......so we are guilty as charged.....of course, he is a democrat and all that doesnt matter....looking into a camera and lying to the american public is a democrat legacy.....AT LEAST he didnt wag his finger in my face while lying.......

rob i think its clear with the number of donations
that 1.5 million people said

hey obama we're your donating base
opt out of public financing

he's just listening to his base
not lying.

The funding controversy doesn't seem to be hurting Barrack Obama in the polls in spite of the fact that most of the media has been giving McBush a pass on his opt-in/opt-out snafu and many other topics. Leads me to believe that much of America is getting wise to the fact that the corporate media is now and has been for a long time slanting the news to a point of view the stock holders of the major corporate media owners are comfortable with.
Soon I have a feeling that we will be informed that the internet is too dangerous of a tool for terrorists and that it will have to be controlled much tighter. Can't have all that freedom of information because it undermines the corporate propaganda.

this is all besides the fact
that mccain has flipped and flopped and lied about truly import ideals of the united states

such as torture
tax cuts for wealthy
borrowing money from china

and countless other flippities

he's just listening to his base
not lying.

Posted by klifferd

So if McCain completly reverses himself on any issue now, even if its a direct contradiction of something he said on camera, he can say he's just listening to his base, not lying?

come on man... he lied... that's why this thread exists...

BLT commenting on Obama's change of mind about public funding sounds so pathetic considering his name sake lied us into a war. On the whole I think I can handle the change about campaign funding a whole hell of a lot easier than that war thing.

"So if McCain completly reverses himself on any issue now, even if its a direct contradiction of something he said on camera"

mccain has already done this on several occations now and thats what he claims

no one (important, cause i'm not important) has called mccain a liar

also
again
mccain has reversed on issues a little more dramatic then campaign financing

from public financing from taxes to donations
which is way better
then the reversal on torture, taxes and china

On the whole I think I can handle the change about campaign funding a whole hell of a lot easier than that war thing.

Posted by danni

I apologize in advance for how I'm about to word this.... but you understand that when you argue that one is less wrong than another, that you essentially legitimize the wrong behavior, right?

Not necessarily. If You say having one wrong problem on a math paper is better than a wholy wrong paper of another. It's better to have 1 wrong than all of them wrong.

Larry Mohr

i think its actually worse to borrow money from the public financing fund and then try to get out of it after the fact

then to realize that wow, true public financing via donations is happening and to change your mind about using the tax payers money

i think the right should be happy, they don't have to pay for obama.

mccain calling obama a liar on this by the way makes mccain look like a cry baby sore loser

mccrybaby
add that to his already huge alias list

true, but if you're only willing to grade as incorrect when there are a multitude of mistakes, who is learning anything from their bad behavior?

11:10 post in response to Larry at 11:03

I thought that corporations are legal persons in the eyes of the law... don't they count as the public in terms of financing? I mean, their rights are equal to anybody elses, right?