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The McCain campaign has gotten a lot of mileage lately from its not-so-subtle cries of media bias in favor of Sen. Barack Obama. Rubbish, says Media Matters for America, a liberal media watchdog group. ABC News reports that the organization — which published a book titled "F
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11 months ago
John McCain just blew off speaking with thousands of minority
journalists at the Unity '08 National Convention in Chicago all the while
complaining he's not getting nearly enough news coverage. With all these journalists losing out on a great opportunity to meet with and write about
the man, could it be they might be looking for something to report, a story
to investigate?
Feel free to forward the following "news tip" to them. We can kill
three birds with one stone - take mainstream media to task for not giving
voters coverage on the full McCain, bring attention to a health issue
affecting many veterans, and give Senator McCain the level of news coverage
he craves.
Now, some in mainstream media even have the gall to question whether
these minority journalists will pander to Obama because of race, while
disregarding their own consistent record of filling us full with stories of
McCain's war 'hero' trials and tribulations without giving us the full story.
Journalists within the old school mainstream media indulge themselves with
numerous articles on his status as a POW, inform us each and every time one
vet speaks out about the torture of John McCain, even going into great detail
about the types of torture and the number of years the man was tortured. Yet,
it never enters their minds to ever ask the obvious question - "Could the man
running for the highest office in the United States of America, a job with
incredible stress, possibly suffer from PTSD?"
Google the general web with the words 'mccain ptsd' and over one half
million hits will appear. Most are articles by veteran groups having to do
with McCain's lack of support for veterans and his actions to shut down the
MIA/POW investigations, while many others discuss the very real possibility
he suffers from PTSD. Now go to Google News section and enter 'mccain ptsd'.
To be fair, google the entire archive. Out of a grand total of
approximately 80 hits, you will be lucky to pull up one or two articles
addressing this issue.
Google the news for 'mccain mole' and you will find over 600 mainstream
media articles updating us on the hour about a simple mole removal.
As you can see, there is NO media coverage questioning whether John
McCain may suffer from PTSD or perhaps LOSS. They are more than willing to
write about the details of McCain's torture but not the probable result of said torture.
11 months ago
They keep giving this nincompoop a pass, when he commits gaffes and tells outrageous lies. It is obvious that a lot of people failed to learn the right lessons from 8 years of George W. Bush. I have always heard that insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. THAT IS WHAT WE WILL GET IF THIS MAN BECOMES PRESIDENT!!
11 months ago
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