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Thursday, April 24, 2008

While we're on the subject of "I wonder...." and John McCain
Posted by Jill | 6:19 AM
Do YOU believe that John McCain is shocked...SHOCKED...and appalled -- at the new Leap of Horseshit ad being run in North Carolina by the guy who created the Willie Horton ad in 1988?

Doesn't this good cop/bad cop thing seem just a bit too contrived, given how much McCain stands to benefit by having Barack Obama painted as simultaneously this year's Willie Horton and this year's Michael Dukakis?

I'm surprised by the fact that even Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow seem to have been bamboozled by this attempt to spin Floyd Brown, the creator of the ad, as some kind of renegade doing this without Sen. Straight Talk's permission. It's just a bit too comvenient. I think McCain knows damn well what Brown is doing, he approved it, and this whole ballet is contrived to let surrogates do the attacking for him.

And when Olbermann and Maddow fall for this crap, what hope do we have?

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Blogger doc w said...
Well I don't know about Maddow but Olbermann? Look at it this way, he reports on Britany Spears and other trivial matters - he is not a professional just another piece of fluff.

He says the right things sometimes but can you really respect someone who thinks celebrities are important!
4/24/08, 10:19 AM  
Blogger Jayhawk said...
I didn't see them falling for it, Jill. One of them, I think it was Rachel, said that come Monday if the ad is running we will know whether McCain's "outrage" is for real. They even talked about how McCain "wins both the high road and the low road" because he gets to play the good guy and the ad still runs. It seemed to me that both of them are convinced that the ad is actually running with McCain's blessing and someone is going to have to convince them otherwise.
4/24/08, 11:21 AM  
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