McCain Complains About the Media

In every conflict there are winners and losers. The winners make money from the spoils of war and never have to face the loss of a child in the fight. Their children are kept to safer locations away from the front lines to build their resume. The profits of war provide protection for their elite lifestyle. Meanwhile, the losers are the families not rich enough to keep their children from the front lines. The winners will do anything and say anything to keep the fight going and the revenue flowing. Obama jeopardizes the flow of revenue. Thus he is being portrayed by McCain and his fellow Republicans as "the worst thing that could happen to America." I am always baffled by politicians. They cannot do anything in Washington to resolve our problems at home, but they always have the "solutions" for others. McCain has had thirty years in congress to accomplish something. He is still talking and not resolving anything.

Gaffes Happen has become the official teeshirt of the McCain campaign and they may come to regret 'whining' for more news coverage.

Politicians put their foot in their mouth on a regular basis. Sometimes it may be the result of long hours on the campaign trail, sometimes because they simply can't keep their facts straight and sometimes because they can't keep their lies straight. Sometimes it's simply because they do not understand the facts.

Per President Bush and Col. MacFarland, the Anbar awakening was already well under way through organized efforts by the tribal leaders well before the surge began. These events took place months before the surge was even announced. Per McCain, the surge 'began' the Anbar awakening.

McCain also neglects the fact that although the surge helped to support an awakening already in progress, the new troops headed for Baghdad, not Anbar. He also gives little credit to the ongoing Sadr truce.

The Couric interview gets even more interesting as McCain tries to distance himself from the numerous failed Iraq policies under the Bush administration:

“McCain: The fact is we had four years of failed policy. We were losing. We were losing the war in Iraq. The consequences of failure and defeat of the United States of America in the first major conflict since 9/11 would have had devastating impacts throughout the region and the world.”

Why would McCain support a president responsible for four years of failure?

“no one has supported President Bush on Iraq more than I have.” [John McCain, 03/28/08)

“The fact is that I have agreed with President Bush far more than I have disagreed. And on the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day, I’ve been totally in agreement and support of President Bush.” [John McCain, 06/19/05]

“I am proud of this president’s strategy in Iraq.” [John McCain, upon receiving endorsement from President Bush, 02/13/08]

Gaffes and old quotes are a living history of our thought processes, how well we think, what we think and when we think it. Even Carly can't change that fact:

“To say that John McCain was aligned with President Bush on the prosecution of the war in Iraq is to change history.” [Carly Fiorina, McCain Campaign Advisor, 07/13/08]

The McCain campaign should be thankful the media has let them slide on many major issues, such as his voting record on veteran health issues and successful effort to shut down all investigation into remaining POW/MIA over the protests of their families and veteran groups in order to open up trade with Vietnam (his father-in-law immediately opened up a multi-billion dollar beer industry there).

McCain has been given no media coverage on the very real probability he suffers from PTSD.

“Among U.S. servicemen taken captive during the Korean War, as many as nine out of 10 survivors may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental disorders more than 35 years after their release, psychologist Patricia B. Sutker of the New Orleans Veterans Administration Medical Center and her colleagues report in the January AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY.”

Perhaps McCain should quit whining about media coverage and not look a gift horse in the mouth.

He should not be complaining. Ha made a big campaign issue out of overseas travel, so of courseit is being covered. He taunted Obama for weeks on this. Furthermore, he should be thanking his friends at CBS for cutting his mistake about the progress in Anbar from the interview with Couric. McCain gets a pretty big pass from the media. They let him get away with claiming that it's offensive to even question his authority (as when he lost it over Clark's comments) even as he makes repeatedly makes basic factual errors.

Jane---you still online? Let's start some good conversation.

McCain need to stop with the crocodile tears already. Also, he should get himself a new crop of baseball caps; the ones he has are worn and can barely cover that bald spot on the back of his noggin.

McCain needs to dry up his tears and stop making so many gaffes. They get him plenty of media attention. What does he want for nothing, his money back?

McCain should be happy the media is ignoring his gaffes and flip flops.

cncyr:

MCCain wasn't whining...... he was
justifiably COMPLAINING about his competition receiving "fawning media coverage ". and then being denied fair and equal time!!!!!

If you were running for office and you were treated equally unfairly AS WAS HILLARY CLINTON, needless to say, you would be equally perturbed!

As would I!

Or as Steve Benen of the Carpetbagger Report put it:

"Honestly, hearing the McCain campaign whine about someone getting fawning media coverage is a bit like hearing Barry Bonds accuse someone getting an unfair advantage by abusing steroids."

The fourth estate is D E A D!

When I was growing up, the FREE Press was revered AND DEPENDED ON for fair, untarnished news.

Views were separated from fact by
by-lines and editorials and columns..... but 95 percent of the news itself was unvarnished and un-opinionated.

The New York Times used to be one of the beacons of free press....

Now it is a political parody of it's former self.... and handmaiden to the political pot previously known as the Democratic party.... (which is no longer democratic)!

Instead of enlightening us, the press is strong-arming us by selecting and providing us with only the news it WANTS us to have.

It's goal is the continued force-feeding of Obama as the candidate of choice.... and it has already succeeding in it's press (or lack of same) in the defeat of Hillary .

In denying our unalienable right to information, I feel the Fourth Estate has left our country in a deep hole from which it will take many years to climb out.... if ever.

This is a change we can ill afford.

Even if the NEWS is not what we might want to hear.... it should be available to us.

It reminds me too much of the thirties.....

For once, I am in complete agreement with Senator McCain. The media should pay more attention to him.

It should prominently report, for instance, that the candidate who poses as an expert on foreign and military affairs: 1) can't tell a Shia from a Sunni, 2) doesn't know that Iraq and Pakistan do not share a border, and 3) thinks that a country that hasn't been a country for fifteen years is still a country.

I think that everything he says should be reported diligently and directly...if reporters are able to make sense out of it.

Those complaining about McCain saying something are wrong and socialists them selves.

What is wrong about complaining about the media? Why they are doing is borderline illegal, the NYT's refusal was illegal, equal time they are to give to candidates,

But then again the main stream media is collapsing.

Comeon NBC is owned by moveon.org, the parent company GE trades with Iran who is attracking our troops, MSNBC get feelings up their legs when Obama speaks.

Obama no substance !!

Debra,

You delusions of granduer are amazing. There are just NOT that many stupid people in this Nation.

18 Million? Really? I'll spot you one million and that is being generous.

Maybe Debra can explain to us why America, which according to HER is sooooo "conservative" doesn't seem to interested in Republicans this year?

Could it be that Americans are savvy enough to not be fooled by the same con-artists twice?

I REALLY hope the MSM take heed and cover McCain night and day.

Careful what you wish for....

McGrumpa is getting McSourGrape!!

Debra wrote:
I haven't heard McCain complain....
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The ad was produced for him and by him. His campaign spent an hour on a conference call this morning with reporters to call attention to it. SO if they aren't doing this with his knowledge....it shows just how out of touch he is!

I haven't heard McCain complain....this is the campaign and all the country who knows the liberal media is trying to coronate this questionable newbie. Pretty sad though, that Fox is the only fair and balanced news out there. I guess that explains their ratings tripling their competitors. Most of America IS right of center....NOT LIBERAL. Why don't Dems get that....they only win elections with centrist candidates....McCain '08/Hillary '12

McCain should thank the media every day for the fact that every daily newscast on every channel doesn't start and end with, "4,125 American troops have been killed in the Iraq War, a war that John McCain voted to authorize, and for some inexplicable reason his campaign for the presidency continues."

If McCain wants more attention from the media, then WHY does he agree to the AARP tour this past weekend? His campaign had him eating a corndog, going to a baseball game and going to a picnic. Who makes up his schedule? David Letterman?