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Brock's Third-Party Group Launches "McCain Fact-Check" Site
Progressive Media U.S.A., the third-party pro-Dem group that has vowed to raise $40 million to target McCain in advance of the general election, is already feeling the influence of its new leader, Media Matters' David Brock.
The group has just launched a new McCain "fact check" site called McCainSource.com whose goal is to keep the press' coverage of McCain on the up and up.
Fact-check sites that are essentially appendages of campaigns have been all the rage in this election, but this one could prove a useful resource. Take a look.
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Comments (16)
You notice nobody is trying to fact check Hillary? I'm guessing the mental health risk of such an endeavour would make insurance impossible to obtain.
April 29, 2008 10:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
She has a fact check on her blog to see all Obama's lies.
April 29, 2008 10:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sure that uses a very small amount of hard drive space.
Oh, and in case you hadn't heard, lying does NOT equal fighting.
April 29, 2008 10:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Progressives are focused and ready this time. DLC Dems should not throw them under the bus.
April 29, 2008 10:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
"Hillary Rodham Clinton now leads John McCain by 9 points in a head-to-head presidential matchup, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll that bolsters her argument that she is more electable than Democratic rival Barack Obama. Obama and Republican McCain are running about even."
Can you hear me now?
April 29, 2008 10:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
No, I can't - maybe you could try yelling into the intertubes? :-)
April 29, 2008 10:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Whose freaking payroll is that douchebag on?
No matter what the topic is, it's the same old, same old.
No normal person spends all day on the same site responding with this crap unless:
a) someone is paying them
or
b) they're nuts
The voting will now commence!
April 29, 2008 10:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Getalife is a provocateur. Don't give them the satisfaction. It's like arguing with a 3 year old.
April 29, 2008 11:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
Don't insult three year olds!
April 29, 2008 11:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just after Pennsylvania before Clinton's $10M rake in from Republicans and less educated folk . . . gotNOlife disappeared. She got the cash then GotNOlife reappeared . . . You draw the appropriate conclusion.
April 29, 2008 12:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
This poll means squat until it's a two way race. McCain is doomed if he gets even 1/4 of the scrutiny Hillary and Barack have gotten so far.
April 29, 2008 11:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm assuming you missed last night's Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
He brought up the whole "Electability" argument that you seem to make OVER and OVER and OVER again.
It's the same tired argument that we Dems were making in 2004 and pushed Kerry instead of Dean.
How well did that Kerry Administration work out for you?
You won't believe it from me, but popularity polls taken in April don't mean sh*t for an election in November. We're in the midst of a Rev. Wright revival meeting (thanks in no small part to Ms. Clinton http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/29/clinton-booster-organized_n_99129.html), but if that's the best the GOP has to use against Obama, it's a WHOLE lot tamer than what they've got against Clinton (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/27/former-radical-tom-hayden_n_98848.html)
You have to think that being attached to ACTUAL terrorists and commies is a whole lot more guilt by association than Obama's tenuous connections to Ayers, don't ya think?
We need to just focus on democracy. Whoever wins the Democratic nominating process is who we need to put up against McCain. Focusing on electability is a recipe for disaster. It didn't work when 'electability' was used to push Kerry, and it won't work now. We need to elect someone that charges up the electorate, the poll numbers will follow...in November, when they count.
April 29, 2008 11:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
Greg,
Another related story on this topic is about how factcheck.org, a supposedly nonpartisan site, has not done a factcheck on John McCain in months despite offering dozens of articles on Obama and Clinton.
April 29, 2008 10:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
A useful resource indeed. I like Brock.
April 29, 2008 11:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you again Mr. Brock for turning from the dark-side.
April 29, 2008 12:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
A useful resource for whom? The media? Surely you jest, Greg.
If not The Media, then whom? Republicans? Right. Progressives? Democrats? Preaching to the choir (except, apparently, Hillary, who thinks she and McCain are qualified to be POTUS but her Democratic challenger is not.)
So how, exactly, is this site going to be a useful resource in anything but an academic fashion?
With the corporate media's continuing tongue-kissing love affair with Insane McCain, what does it matter?
April 30, 2008 12:49 AM | Reply | Permalink