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WyldRogue Donating Member (312 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 09:25 AM
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Why am I seeing....
...the McCain campaign getting more and more TV time to propagate their BS??

I don't know if anyone else is paying attention but it seems like ABC, CNN, of course Fox news, and a couple of others have turned into the McCain Watch as of late, giving high exposure of them into the living rooms across the US...

I call it BS that once again, the MSM is giving the campaign that did not run on issues for months plenty of free air time. Looks like they're helping the McCain campaign have the ability to keep broadcasting the same fear and smear rhetoric while We the EDUCATED People must put up with the partisan BS coming from the Right.

This is sickening to see the MSM drifting behind the coat-tails of the right STILL after 8 years of biased, propagandist media control...

Time to be sure that WE save our Democracy from being put aside once again for the advantage of the powers that be in Government.

Obama/Biden '08
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UnrepentantUnitarian Donating Member (887 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 09:28 AM
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1. Operation Horserace!
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 09:29 AM
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3. Hmmmmm. Let's think why they might be doing that. Hmmmmm.
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 09:28 AM
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2. same reason the tv people..
lied us into war, and doesn't report the 'news'.
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Marrah_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 09:29 AM
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4. because crazy people draw viewers.
Example: Reality TV shows.
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Terran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 09:30 AM
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5. Been going on for weeks now. CNN
has had McCain on live interviews three times this month, to zero for Obama. I believe Obama's finally getting some air time tonight.
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bluedawg12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 09:42 AM
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11. CNN has been particularly nasty
Obama gave a stirring, brilliant speech Monday at the end they cut to some CNNturd from the "truth squad" and dissed Obama. It was unreal.

You could make a living for the next ten years ferreting out the mclame/pukin lies!
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mtnsnake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 09:31 AM
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6. The McCain camp has been crying foul & greatly pressuring the networks to be more positive to McCain
Last week CNN was reporting how the McCain camp was whining how the networks were giving Obama most of the positive coverage and McCain most of the negative. Well, duh, when all you've got to show for your efforts is negative campaigning, then what on earth should the McCain crybabies expect the networks to show?

This is just the result of McCain's camp whining and complaining that they're being treated unfairly by the press, and the press is rolling over and giving in to them. It's their way of "evening up" things, even though McCain's camp deserves no such thing.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 09:33 AM
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7. McCain is getting free airtime and Obama has to pay for his.
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iceman66 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 09:34 AM
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8. An increasingly obvious effort
to swing the election to McCain!

McCain/Palin get much, much more airtime than Obama/Biden - and even when they are not showing their entire speeches they make sure to air the oft-repeated attack lines of 'socialism' and 'spread the wealth'.

They are trying to convince undecided voters that Obama will raise their taxes.
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 09:35 AM
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9. Based on the constant barrage of McCain & Palin talking points on DU
I was wondering that myself - why is the media cheating for McCain?
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iceman66 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 09:39 AM
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10. Because the corporations that own the MSM
and support the MSM through their advertising would continue to make out like bandits under a McCain administration while the rest of us get the short end of the stick.

The media is not our friend!
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