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“Why is John McCain’s non affair front-page news while the appearance of Obama’s name on the hard drive of a dead Columbia warlord isn’t?”

Besides the obvious reason that Obama is a Democrat and McCain is a Republican, I do believe that even the MSM has taken some of Obama’s magic mushrooms. The pied piper is playing his song and they are dancing to his tune. Oblivious to anything else.

hussein obama could commit mass murder and it could be captured and shown on live TV and the majority of the media would first try to find some way to involve President Bush, then Karl Rove and lastly mccain.  Once these three attempts failed and having consumed months, the mindless media would simply ignore the fact that hussein obama committed the murders.

Scott,

You missed the chance to lead-off your post with this intro:

“Scott Johnson posted the following comment Saturday afternoon on the centrist weblog, Powerlineblog.com. The issue is a sensitive one for the New York Times (and other liberal news outlets) which repeatedly print articles slanted against conservatives like John McCain.”

As a Conservative Republican for 50 years, I join the small chorus of voices here who have begun to ask, “What is happening to Powerline?”

John writes, “To my knowledge, it [the Kerry veep offer] is water long over the dam; I haven’t heard a single conservative mention it during the current campaign.”

Within the last two months, off the top of my head, this issue has been raised by George Will, Anne Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity.

In 2000, after McCain lost the nomination to Bush, the Democratic Senate leadership openly discussed asking McCain to switch parties. The obvious question - why would some of the most skilled political minds in the world think McCain might be open to such an offer?

And, a second obvious question - why does McCain now make the bizarre claim that he can’t talk about Kerry’s 2004 offer because it was “private?” An offer like that was politically explosive. Shouldn’t McCain know that? Shouldn’t McCain get angry AT KERRY for creating the situation? Instead, McCain gets angry at a reporter who presses the issue. Instead, McCain gets angry at Conservatives who question his credentials.

John also writes in an earlier post, “If only the voters cared more about melanoma!”

McCain has had 4 melanomas in 15 years. That medical history, and his age, 71 years, place McCain in the highest possible risk group for future melanomas. Even when it is detected and excised within weeks of the first symptoms, melanoma can still be extremely aggressive. If it migrates to local lymph nodes, 5 year survival rates drop to as low 25%. If it migrates more distantly, survival drops to as low as 9%.

How could McCain supporters not anticipate that this would be an issue in the general campaign?

Update: Speaking of bizarre, there is currently a Spanish language website (terra.com) being advertised just to the left of my letter. This seems to be some kind of “aggregating” site that has links to other Spanish language sites that help people emigrate to the USA. I looked for Spanish language ads supporting McCain, but can’t find any.

TheEnigma - 08 March 2008 10:31 PM

hussein obama could commit mass murder and it could be captured and shown on live TV and the majority of the media would first try to find some way to involve President Bush, then Karl Rove and lastly mccain.  Once these three attempts failed and having consumed months, the mindless media would simply ignore the fact that hussein obama committed the murders.

You forgot Israel.

As Has ...

Been pointed out repeatedly, and written about extensively, by people Like Bernard Goldberg, Brent Bozell, etc., “journalists” have BECOME the story.

Of course whenever the idea is floated that reporter’s / journalist’s personal lives should be open for review and criticism since THEY are the story, the Left becomes apoplectic.

There are several reasons why BillyJeff Clinton broke with tradition and refused to release HIS medical records without the MSM raising Hell like they SHOULD have, and the primary reason begins with “S”, has the middle initial “T” ends with “Ds”.

And THEN ...

There were all those injuries inflicted by his wifey.

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#4 I also notice a complete silence at Powerline today about President Bush’s veto of the John McCain sponsored “Detainee Treatment Act.” McCain’s law would have prohibited waterboarding and other rough types of interrogation of terrorists.

Not sure what you’re referring to here. Bush yesterday vetoed the act that would have restricted the CIA to using interrogation methods from the Army Field Manual. McCain voted against this bill, and will support the Bush veto.

juliesa - I will check - Both Wikipedia and MSNBC.com identify McCain as the original sponsor of this bill.

Update:  You are correct - McCain did sponsor the original “DTA.” The Bush veto involved whether the CIA was also constrained by the military DTA.  Has McCain ever stated publicly that he supports waterboarding by the CIA, but not by the military?  I’d like to see that quote!  I checked McCain’s website before my original post, and I could find no reference to DTA, or to McCain’s vote on the just vetoed CIA issue.  Apparently, McCain is not anxious to advertise his DTA vote to Conservatives, and he is not anxious to advertise his CIA vote to moderates.

Thanks - I will pull the erroneous text from my first post.