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I do not understand why the MSM keep repeating McCain's lies, knowing they are lies, without challenging them. They keep running segments of McCain saying Obama's "going to raise your taxes" - (all you great unwashed in my crowds who are making more than 250,000.)
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Can't the media just ignore the lies, if they're not going to challenge them? Seem to think it's their job to disseminate them.

Well said, Joe!

sgwhiteinfla, isn't it ironic that Sanchez -- one of the very worst purveyors of schlock, sleaze, and hype here when he was at WSVN -- has turned into a fairly decent reporter, at least by MSM standards?

@sgwhite - I didn't see it, but I bet you are right. Watching CNN is still tricky, because they fancy themselves as a one-network Fairness Doctrine. They still model the traditional "airing of both sides of the issue" style -- and that can be problematic for a new generation of news consumers who want to race headlong to (their version) of "the truth."

Well Joe, everyone- what would you expect from Goldfarb as a neoconservative, former staff member of the PNAC and one who believes that the president should enjoy "near dictatorial powers" (presumably if he or she is interested in enforcing a unipolar world through military aggression, intimidation and regime-change). More scary black muslim cr@p.

Sgwhite - I can't watch Rick because he's so melodramatic and full of himself. Everything's a crisis, and he's in charge of bringing it to you. He thinks he knows more than he does, and just exasperates me. But he may not be terribly biased, I'll grant you that.
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Cafferty has grown on me. He's willing to call them as he sees them, and he sees them pretty accurately.

toddincharge,
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Yeah it is ironic and it took a while for him to grow on me but he does a good job now IMHO. He will challenge people on either side and I like that

pourme,
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I agree but they are getting better with Campbell Brown and Sanchez and you just gotta love Jack Cafferty. That guy doesnt play!

sgwhite - actually, stipulating that someone is an anti-semite is just the sort of thing that drives me crazy. If you stipulate a lie there's no good outcome to the interview.

Again, the focus should be on words and deeds. Is Jesse Jackson an anti-semite? He has said "hymietown" and more. That was an anti-semitic statement. Jesse Jackson is ... Jesse Jackson.

Well I won't be satisfied until somebody ask one of these so called christian conservatives what would Jesus say about the ends justified the means attitude they apply to sleazy campaigning.

Kathy, I agree with your assessment of Sanchez's style. It's like watching a muppet. On the other hand, he was one of the only reporters who dared cover Palin's connection to the AIP.

Oh, man. I used the word a$$e$$ment and I'm getting moderated.

Kathy, I agree with your a$$e$$ment of Sanchez's style. It's like watching a muppet. On the other hand, he was one of the only reporters who dared cover Palin's connection to the AIP.

"In my pocket I have a list... a list of fifty names..."

Kathy-

Regarding your insightful 4:17 post -- how are they supposed to get any clips of McCain telling the truth?

Kathy,
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If he didnt stipulate that point then he would have had to argue something that he couldn't win. By giving on that issue he was able to demonstrably show that Goldfarb was talking out of his azz. Early on in the interview Sanchez had already refuted Goldfarb's assesment of who Khalidi was but it was important at THAT part of the interview to pin Goldfarb down and expose him for lying which he did unequivocally. I know we would rather he not say the guy was anti semetic but I think it was more important to expose the lie that he could expose instead of fighting a battle he couldnt win

stuck in mods but Kathy all I would say is that it was worth it for Sanchez to agree to the stipulation in order to crush Goldfarb. The fact that he exposed him like that discredited everything Goldfarb said.

OT but I just realized that McCain's picture at the top of Swampland looks kind of panicky.
Anyone else seeing that?

Atrios has a the clip up. I'll give Sanchez a B, and that's grade inflation. He also should have slapped down this childish, Palinesque (forgive the rudundancy) nonsense about Obama "pallin' around" with Bill Ayers.
And Goldfarb's "you-know-who" game about Jeremiah Wright was both pathetic and nauseating. Ultimately, McCain is responsible for all this lowest common denominator sleaze: Goldfarb, Palin, Pfotenauer, Joe "the Plumber", the mindless twenty minute hates conducted by Sarah Palin, the thuggish incoherent, half-understood grunting about 'terrorists' from his supporters. None of it would be possible without John McCain's curious version of "Country First". What a contemptible old fool he has become. He should be remembered with Rove, Nixon and Agnew in the annals of poisonous campaigning.

He looks like a pumpkin.

Cliff, both pictures are exceptionally unflattering. Not sure why they chose them...

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Joe,

You make a good point about Goldfarb's disgusting effort to tar Obama as someone who hangs around with antisemites. But please don't use that old wheeze of "Arabs are semites too." The term antisemitism was invented (by an antisemite) to refer specifically to prejudice against or hatred of Jews. Unfortunately many people have tried to confuse the matter since then by claiming that-- because they are Arabs or they don't hate Arabs-- they can't possibly be antisemitic. So please don't play into their hands.

Now it's perfectly reasonable to make a case that Khalidi is not antisemtic (i.e., biased against Jews). But the mere fact of his being a Palestinian Arab doesn't get him off the hook.

Goldfarb's "you-know-who" game about Jeremiah Wright was both pathetic and nauseating.
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I honestly couldn't figure out what he was talking about. Also, that's not a fair charge against Wright, is it?

You know. McCain and Palin have been going around saying all kind of stuff and don't feel they are required to provide evidence of or even demonstate they have the slightest understanding of what they are talking about.

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