Archive for the ‘Mainstream Media’s McCain Mancrush’ Category
Dear Grey Lady? A Request…
...Please, oh please, do not let the Style section editor assign or publish anything to do with politics. Consider the latest atrocity. In it, a group profile of four out of the five Romney sons, we learn that: They stump for him across the country as surrogates; they offer a square-jawed, Christmas-card-ready backdrop for him [...]
January 8, 2012
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Tom Levenson · 
95 Comments
Posted in: I Smell a Pulitzer!, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush, Our Failed Media Experiment, Romney of the Uncanny Valley
Ross Douthat’s Holodeck Problem
Via Sully, we see Ross Douthat warming up the holodeck for a “What if President McCain…” simulation where all the Dems are wearing goatees. Overall, in a McCain presidency Democrats would have faced the same political incentives Republicans face now — where it’s easier to blame a terrible economy on the president than to find [...]
October 13, 2011
· Zandar · 112 Comments
Posted in: Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush, She Has The Electrolytes We Need, Tire Swinging is so 2008
Just Kill Me Now, I’m Begging
It never, ever fucking stops: Is the old John McCain back? The fiery, independent version of the Republican senator from Arizona took to the floor of the Senate Wednesday morning. Demanding “straight talk,” Mr. McCain accused conservatives of abandoning reason by opposing the House Republican leader’s plan to resolve the debt crisis. No matter what [...]
July 27, 2011
· John Cole · 167 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment, Overton Window
Crowd for Huntsman Candidacy Announcement Dwarfed by Announcement Crowd for … Herman Cain
So who’s a “serious” candidate? Politico this morning: Jon Huntsman formally launched his presidential campaign on Tuesday…. “I don’t think you need to run down anyone’s reputation to run for president,” Huntsman told the crowd of 100 gathered at a pavilion jutting out into the Hudson River…. AP, May 21, 2011: Herman Cain has run [...]
June 21, 2011
· SteveM · 74 Comments
Posted in: Clap Louder!, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush
And When They Were Done Starting Fires, They Raped Babies, Plowed the Earth With Salt, and Gave Everyone Bird Flu
Grampa Simpson at it again: In comments made over the weekend, Senator John McCain R-AZ., blamed illegal immigrants for the some wildfires that have raged across his state of Arizona. “There is substantial evidence that some of these fires have been caused by people who have crossed our border illegally,” McCain said Saturday at a [...]
June 20, 2011
· John Cole · 91 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush, Post-racial America
Shut Up, You Grumpy Old Man
You want torture? Watch this sober.*** Grandpa Simpson is apparently relieved that the election is over so he can sow his mavericky oats once again, and hopefully recover his base. The media: I asked CIA Director Leon Panetta for the facts, and he told me the following: The trail to bin Laden did not begin [...]
May 12, 2011
· John Cole · 73 Comments
Tags: Did You Know that John McCain Served in Viet Nam? It's True! · Posted in: Assholes, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush, Torture
Elections Have Consequences
Bush, five months after 9/11. “I just don’t spend that much time on him [bin Laden]”. McCain, in 2008: In July 2008, Larry King asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), “If you were president and knew that bin Laden was in Pakistan, you know where, would you have U.S. forces go in after him?”McCain said he [...]
May 2, 2011
· mistermix ... World Peace · 281 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush
When You Wish Upon A Star
I saw over the weekend Mistermix’s post on E. D. Kain’s love for Gary Johnson. I dutifully read the linked the referenced Kain posts and the adoring Friedersdorf profile to which Kain linked.* I’m with Mistermix—I too would love to see a president wave his magic wand and end wars, both foreign and domestic, but [...]
April 25, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 42 Comments
Posted in: Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush, Technically True but Collectively Nonsense
Two Losers
I wasn’t able to follow the lame duck session closely, because the weeks prior to the holidays in this office are ordinarily filled with crisis and drama and last-minute filings, plus, I had to decorate two Christmas trees and talk a lot about possibly baking cookies. I was catching up, and read this on START: [...]
December 24, 2010
· Kay · 53 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Assholes, Corrections, Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?, Domestic Affairs, Energy Policy, Foreign Affairs, General Stupidity, I Smell a Pulitzer!, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush
McMonster
McCain really can’t sink any lower, but he sure is trying: In April, Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) introduced legislation named after the late soldier meant to provide more resources for suicide prevention to Reserve members. The House in May incorporated it into the National Defense Authorization Act for 2011, but it was stripped from the [...]
December 21, 2010
· John Cole · 54 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush
A growing field of study
As the grumpy old man from Arizonia continues his ongoing campaign of incoherent rants, endless policy flip-flops, public tantrums over imagined slights and sputtering rage at just about everything and anyone—many in the media are wondering what happened to the “Maverick” they thought they knew and loved back in 1999. The cognitive dissonance that John [...]
December 18, 2010
· Dennis G. · 178 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush
The chronicler of dementia
It is a little known secret that David Broder lives in an assisted care facility in Washington DC and travels to the WP from time to time to share his political dementia with Fred Hiatt. And Fred always shares Broder’s dementia with the readers of the paper. This is how Broder’s dementia becomes conventional wisdom [...]
November 28, 2010
· Dennis G. · 52 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush, Our Failed Media Experiment
Mean Old Man McCain
Watch McCain in this clip, and tell me if you don’t just want to kick him in the junk: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The juvenile old prick might as well have stuck his fingers in his ears and said “LALALALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU” during the interview. [...]
September 22, 2010
· John Cole · 59 Comments
Posted in: Gay Rights are Human Rights, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush, Military
Beaten to the Punch
This morning, I wondered which beltway hack would be the first to embrace McCain’s penis mavericky credentials and give them the tongue bath they so desperately need, and little did I know that David Broder had already put a spit shine on things: Now that John McCain has taken care of his political business in [...]
August 25, 2010
· John Cole · 72 Comments
Posted in: DC Press Corpse, Did You Know John McCain Was A POW?, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush, Our Failed Media Experiment
Let the Fluffing Begin
So now that McCain has won his primary and no longer needs to cater to the wingnuts, how long before the beltway press begins to rehab his image? Who will be the first out of the gate with a “That’s the McCain I knew” piece? My money is on either Halperin or Milbank- “You could [...]
August 25, 2010
· John Cole · 61 Comments
Posted in: DC Press Corpse, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush
