The FACT is that the mainstream media are John McCain's allies:
Media coverage is biased in favor of John McCain by under-reporting problems with John McCain's campaign, but severely parsing everything they can find on Barak Obama's alleged improprieties. "Balanced" coverage to the corporate-owned, right-leaning press means hitting Obama on anything they can find, regardless of relevance, when once in a great while they are forced to print anything negative about John McCain.
Regardless of the relative importance of what occurs, McCain can't be criticized unless Obama is too. For example, after John McCain claimed that bringing troops the home from Iraq was "not too important"-an assertion that sent a terrible message to current soldiers and their families-the media "balanced" this with stories criticizing the background of one of the three Obama advisors "vetting" Vice-Presidential nominees. Although Obama's choice of vetters, unlike McCain's statement about Iraq, had no policy implications, it received much greater attention in the June 12 New York Times.
The Times also ran a prominent piece that day discussing the AFL-CIO's unhappiness with Obama's choice for chief economic advisor. As much as the media and Obama critics seek to "bring Obama down to earth," it is misdirected to focus on the political histories of his advisors, rather than on his own pronouncements and acts
Lie #5
John McCain presents himself as a mild mannered moderate. Yet many voters have no idea how extreme McCain's position is on a wide range of issues.The truth is, Mccain would stay the course in Iraq and expend cven more blood and treasure with no definition of what his claims of 'staying until victory' would entail. Obama is for ending an unnecessary and bankrupting war that is producing anti-Americanism all over the world. . McCain opposes universal health care. Obama is largely for it.McCain wants less regulation for insurance companies. Obama wants them held accountable. Obama is for rolling back the Bush tax cuts vs. McCain being for making them permanent.
And nowhere is the difference more profound than with reproductive rights.For anyone who cares about reproductive rights, family planning, and women's health issues, the choice is not even close. McCain has voted against a woman's right to choose consistently.
Lie # 6: Episcopalian John McCain has suddenly morphed into a 15 year veteran of the Baptist Church, to hear him tell it. McCain grew up Episcopalian. He went to an Episcopalian high school. For at least 15 years, he has been listed as an Episcopalian in authoritative directories such as the Almanac of American Politics and Congressional Quarterly's Politics in America 2008. He told a reporter from McClatchy News Service in June 2007 that he was an Episcopalian.
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