A new campaign ad aimed at young voters

Add comment July 28th, 2008

This one is scheduled to run on Comedy Central and MTV:

Bob Novak diagnosed with brain tumor

1 comment July 28th, 2008

The veteran conservative journalist, better known for his aggressive reporting than his opinionizing, was RUSHED to a Boston hospital on Sunday.

What? McCain’s attack ad about Obama and the hospital is false? How can that be?

2 comments July 28th, 2008

John McCain would never tell a lie. THIS REFUTATION of his latest attack on Barack Obama must be some kind of unpatriotic scheme dreamed up by enemies of America.

I mean, everybody knows that Obama hates our troops and is not fit to lick McCain’s boots. Rush Limbaugh will back me up on that.

POSTSCRIPT: And then there’s THIS.

POSTSCRIPT II: FactCheck.org says McCain’s attack on Obama over the hospital issue is BOGUS.

UPDATE: Guess who else WON’T BE VISITING a certain group of wounded vets.

UPDATE II: Here’s another McCain attack that’s been PROVEN FALSE.

UPDATE III:

Your “liberal” media in action (part 486)

9 comments July 28th, 2008

It’s an article of faith among conservatives that the mainstream media give more favorable coverage to Barack Obama than to John McCain.

It’s also not true, as THIS STUDY shows.

I think the reason conservatives tend to be mistaken on this score is that they recognize, perhaps only subconsciously, that photos and video of Obama are more visually appealing than those of McCain and that Obama is a better speaker.

Those factors might seem unreasonable and irrelevant in terms of the relative qualifications of the two men. But they also may help explain why Obama has survived an almost relentless onslaught of attacks over his background, his middle name, his religion, his acquaintances, his patriotism, his wife, his shifts on certain issues, etc.,  when candidates of lesser charms would long ago have fallen by the wayside.

If you doubt my theory, consider this story the late Sen. Paul Simon once told me:

Simon was speaking at a luncheon meeting of some club, maybe it was Rotary, and he asked for shows of hands by the people there on whom they voted for in the 1984 presidential race, Ronald Reagan or Walter Mondale. Nearly everyone in the audience had voted for Reagan.

Then he asked for a show of hands on whether those who voted for Reagan would have voted differently if Reagan and Mondale had completely switched their positions on the issues — with Mondale backing the conservative agenda and Reagan pushing the liberal agenda.

None of the Reagan backers in the audience would have changed their votes.

In other words, fairly or unfairly, personality and charm count.