Fuck you, who the hell are you to accuse me of being a cultist?  You don't know me or any of the rest of us, so take your pompous prejudicial crap and stuff it where your so-called tolerant liberalism does not shine, you hypocritical piece of shit.

Second - it might just be that McCain is a sad sight for a television crew and Obama makes for better media.

Third - it could be that the media like the rest of the nation (short of perhaps yourself and the eight people at the PUMA rally) have already decided that this frickin' race is over and are only going through the motions covering McCain.

Fourth - as many in the media have said, McCain has always gotten the soft treatment from the media in general, and the more they show of him the worse he looks so they are having mercy on his soon-to-be-still-a-Senator hide.

-chris

is that someone getting more media exposure is not necessarily getting better coverage.

McCain made a major gaffe today regarding the mythical Iraq-Pakistan border; that gaffe probably should have been run on every news network given that he has presented himself as a foreign policy expert but I don't recall it getting any play except on Countdown.

The coverage between HRC and Obama was unquestionably in Obama's favor; but between Obama and McCain, I think it has been pretty fair in the sense that when Obama gets positive news coverage, he gets really positive coverage and when he gets negative coverage, the coverage is really negative.

So, it's 65 degrees and very pleasant here in north central Minnesota. It's been a fairly cool and wet July so far. How is the weather wherevern you are. Just curious, why are republicans allowed to post here?

but you are.

The damn liberal media is responsible for the moral decline in America.  They, along with the liberal academic elite, cause us to have liberal activist judges that legislate from the bench and function to destroy America's moral fiber and wage an all out War on Christmas.

Did that cover the rest of O'Reilly's talking points well enough, or should I write an entire diary about how the vast left wing conspiracy is unfair to McCain?

"First of all, Barack Obama received immensely better coverage than Hillary Clinton, just as he is receiving immensely better coverage than John McCain this time around."

McSame has gotten a free pass from the corporate media on at least 90% of his daily gaffes and lies.

As for the nonsense about Clinton....it's over. Get a life.

"If you want to continue the primary fighting-mode, bring it on. I will gladly debunk your BS, my cultist friends."

I think, "Fuck off, loser," is the appropriate response, my McPuma friend.

pure bullshit of the highest quality- you sir/madame are full of it.

If you want to continue the primary fighting-mode, bring it on. I will gladly debunk your BS, my cultist friends.

in my dream site moderation update i hope to have the ability to rate diaries and questions simply as WTF?  sometimes its the only appropriate response to the trash posted here.

even better would be quoi? for extra elitist points...

this diary=fail.

that they don't is to his great benefit.

When you joke about killing Iranians with cigarettes, and the AP turns it into fluff about your wife poking you, that's awesome non-coverage.

on ABC News to the hypothetical surge questions?  This question has nothing to do with the thread but it will deteriorate quickly anyway.

I thought his answer would be that the surge took away our ability to send more troops into Afghanistan for the last year and a half, which was a mistake because Afghanistan has always remained the central front on the War on terrorism.  He didn't answer that way and I don't think gave a very convincing answer, which is surprising considering that he should have expected the question.

That would survive in the current media environment with the same number of substantial flip flops on major issues that McCain has had. That is a fact. The only reason McCain isn't making such a big deal out of the Obama coverage is b/c he realizes that his entire political existence is a case of media welfare.

Yet another time when I feel like I just wandered into an argument between a crazy person and a fire hydrant.

Actually, all the Obama stories are intentional.

Republican strategist, back in March, came to the consensus that they couldn't win the election if it became about John McCain.  Instead, they felt their best chances were to shape the narrative around a "referendum on Barack Obama" -- The idea being voters would find it easier to say "no" to Obama than would be for them to say "yes" to McCain.  And overall I agree this is the best way to fight Obama.  They can take potshots at him from the sidelines and then run onto the field when they see a chance to steal the ball.

Besides, McCain would be screwed if the media showed him the same attention as Obama.  Do you really think covering McCain's speeches and having pundits pick apart his policies would help John McCain?  If the spotlight spends too much time on him they'll have to dredge up Keating 5, his first wife, rape jokes, calling his wife a C**t, etc.  It would be a mess.

With that said, McCain does need to shore up his image now that a major pillar of his candidacy is gone.  Right now it looks like his entire political platform is a pile of complaints against Barack Obama, and that's not enough to win the election.

Hillary, as had to be pointed out to me after the fact, never really had ANY truly positive coverage from some sources and constantly had some negative coverage. Certainly up till she spoke up she was continuing to be barraged on all sides.

McCain is not there. The Republicans are the ones that the media always paints as in the de facto right position. And the Democrats are the ones that always have to prove themselves.

He does not complain, because he knows at the end of the day, what he got is as good as he's gonna get, and if he starts pissing them off, then he is going to be in even more trouble.

Of course, to suggest that having surrogates mention it means he is not trying to raise it is specious at best.