Topic: Political Advertising
McCain Sex Scandle sells but is it real? Are you going to buy MSM hype?by Logical Premise
(Statist)
Friday, February 22, 2008
I don't like John McCain. I think he's a deluded old psychopath lost in some kind of neo-con, empire building dream, expanding government in all the wrong directions with no idea of how to manage anything. At best, the man is a war-hawk without restraint, and at worst, he's using his party to shield his liberalistic tendencies.
So be it. But the recent "sex scandal" story about him in the NYT struck me as very, very faint proof of anything at all.
Vague, wandering article that raises all sorts of "questions" and backs them up with anon sources? Check.
Linking him to disreputible figures in Keating Five without bothering to mention how thoroughly he was investigated in the fallout? Check.
A piece so fluffy that several newspapers refused to touch it, and within hours both principles in the story and several people who would know all claimed it was false? Check.
And yet even now, people are using this ... fluff attack piece ... to bash the guy.
People, newspapers write stories to sell papers. Period. The article is vague enough that it will probably never come down to a lawsuit, since the burden to prove damage is so high. But the reality is, the MSM is not going to play fair.
The same MSM that ignored Ron Paul and allowed Ghouliani to use the phrase 9/11 over ten thousand times is hardly going to be neutral in the battle between conservatives and liberals. McCain isn't a very strong conservative. His primary supporters are those who want someone a bit more fiscally minded than Bush, the neo-cons, the war hawks, and the people who have straight ticket loyalties. He won't get the evangelicals and the social conservatives en masse, but if he wins the convention and is faced with Hillary or Obama, at least SOME might vote for him.
Unless, of course, he's smeared as not only corrupt but selling his influence for SEX! *gasp*
Wake up. This makes about as much sense as Obama being a secret Muslim, or Ghouliani having planned 9/11, or Ron Paul being a Klan member.
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I agree, its just another obviuos smear. Now that the MSM has made him front runner its time to weaken and wear him out so he doesn't gain any traction while Obama and Clinton work out who gets to be boss.
I do think that this lobbyist did probably get more influence because she had a pretty face than would otherwise had been warranted. One just needs to look at the issues surrounding McCains walking away from his first wife to see that he has a weak chink in any moral armor right there.
"People, newspapers write stories to sell papers. Period."
Just got around to reading. I would add to influence public opinion to your statement above. And, it just may be that since McCain seems to have it locked up, it is now time to start tearing him down. Typical.
To address the Times article as a "sex scandal" is a mistake.
Yes, they baited readers into the article with the scandal, and lost validity to the real story of McCain's lobbyist connections. That was the real story. Unfortunately, people are more interested in hearing about who's petting who, and not how much influence lobbyists have on our elected officials.
I'm still waiting for the Times to save face and backup their claims. McCain has plenty of dirt, everyone's just afraid to put it out there.
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