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While The Dems Fight, David Brock Starting Up Multi-Million Dollar Campaign To Go After McCain
David Brock, the one-time conservative media man and now the liberal founder of Media Matters, is starting up a proposed multi-million effort to go after John McCain — specifically seeing a need to be filled as the Democratic race goes on longer than expected.
"A void that might be filled, while the Democrats fight it out, by the press is not going to be filled, because the press is in love with John McCain," Brock said. "It's what McCain is allowed to say without being challenged by facts that will show him to have said something different in the past."
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Good. Problem solved. Now can people please quit bitching about the bitching?
Please?
I keep feeling like the only thing that will make half the people happy is if Obama supporters surrender.
And I ain't going to do it.
April 10, 2008 9:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is getting a free ride from the media.
Kudos to Brock.
April 10, 2008 9:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Good, but we still need to finish this thing up and present a unified front against the Republicans, and the sooner we can officially declare Obama the nominee the sooner we can get on with healing our divisions and going after the real enemies.
April 10, 2008 9:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is the reason Brock put Mediamatters together. This is his mission and that of Atrios - to try to get the press to get honest again.
More than who is who and who is doing what in DC, Brock and Atrios are about the press.
So this is great and their whole raison d'etre. Who better?
April 10, 2008 9:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Good on Brock.
April 10, 2008 9:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
Milo:
Ever hear of Neil deGrasse Tyson? Probably the best known astrophysicist in America and a leading critic on the limitations of string theory.
Oh yeah, he's an African-American.
Oh yeah, you're an idiot.
April 10, 2008 10:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Not to mention Jim Gates, Director of the Center of String and Particle Theory at the University of Maryland.
And yeah, Milo B is a racist moron.
April 10, 2008 10:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Milo,
You should be ashamed of yourself for such worthless racist ranting. I hope you get banned from TPM.
Have you ever asked yourself why you feel a need to hate black people? Find the answer to that question. It will be the first step toward your recovery and with any luck you might be able to redeem yourself before you die.
April 10, 2008 10:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Asshole.
April 10, 2008 10:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
Milo wins the Potato Penis award. Here Ya Go.
April 10, 2008 10:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Milo B just wants to poke a stick and see what he can stir up.
April 10, 2008 10:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Milo, kindly eat a bag of Hell and die.
April 10, 2008 10:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Milo B
Google works wonders for racist type comments. I was in graduate school at Texas with Neil Tyson the [black] physicist (before he transferred to finish his PhD elsewhere). I guess you would say all of the links below about black physicists (notice the plural)and string theory are left-winger liberal tree hugging n----- loving frauds.
Try goggling James Gates Jr.PhD, University of Maryland.
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/2730/the_theory_of_everything/(parent)/158
April 10, 2008 10:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
TPM, is it possible to ban Milo B? He adds nothing but pure, unadulterated racism and bile, and this hijacking of threads is a huge distraction.
April 10, 2008 10:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
And to contribute to putting the thread back on track after taking the Milo bait (but sometimes you have to say something)---Thanks to Media Matters and David Brock for preparing to shine the light on the Honorable Senator McCains words. These guys (the repubs) have been getting away with murder. Hagee love fest OK. Wright affiliation (that video snippet was TOTALLY out of context for the message at the end of the video) NOT. Lou Dobs flubbing "I'm tired of those cotton [we all know picking was following] uh, people telling me what to say," (paraphrased actually). And the "You can take Tiger Woods, I have John McCain" faux pas yesterday by a repub introducing McCain is just the tip of the iceberg. And that isn't even getting to the policy flip flops. Kudos to Brock.
April 10, 2008 11:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
Please Do NOT Feed The Trolls.
April 10, 2008 11:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
You people just love your righteous indignation, don't you? Tell me, did you fail to recognize "Milo B." as a troll, or did you realize his intent and decide to get outraged anyway? Put simply: are you stupid, or are you a stupid liberal?
Grow some fucking self-awareness, Code Pinker. This is why everyone hates you people.
April 10, 2008 11:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. A triple Salchow of contradiction. Righteous indignation about righteous indignation.
Nice short program, Dorothy.
P.S. In the future, please continue to begin your posts with "You people..." As a member the You People, I'm sure I speak for everyone else in the collective when I say that it makes me nostalgic for Ross Perot.
April 10, 2008 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
I add my thanks and support to Brock. That's $40M closer to neutalizing Freedom Swatch's $250M.
As for the Milodious one, I suggest not directly responding directly to it. It brought its friend, Monocausal Fallacy, and if you address it, then it will be encouraged to bring its other friends from the Asylum for Logical Fallacies such as Straw Man, Red Herring, and Post Hoc.
It's best if it is ignored as if it were
"but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
April 10, 2008 11:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
Tell us where to sign up and contribute to this campaign. Count me in. McCain will maintain the status quo and we just can't afford 4 more years of the Republican Party
April 10, 2008 2:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Way to go, TPM. Thanks for ridding us of that racist post.
April 10, 2008 3:26 PM | Reply | Permalink