The Smear Gap

Someone get the author a breathalyizer! I think he's over the limit in all 57 states!

When Obama goes off telepromter he's more entertaining the Bush! Stupid and phony can be a good combination for 4 years of unintentional comedy. If it weren't for the fact that he'll weaken our defenses and turn over control of the military to the UN, destroy the economy by instituting prohibitive income tax rates on the RICH (i.e. EMPLOYERS), and appoint more liberal idiots to the bench I might vote for him just to laugh (if it's legal to do so once we live in Obamaland). On the upside, he's been friends with terrorists his whole life. Maybe he can ask one of his old buddies where Osama is?

McCain campaign doesn't dare tell the truth. The right wing prints up a bunch of mess about people Obama has known, going in depth into their backgrounds...and all the while it about a bunch of crap Obama had nothing to do with.
McCain was very involved with Keating Five - congressional hearings and all exist to prove it.
Phil Gramm - Mr. Deregulation is still active in the McCain campaign. Alot of you may also remember him from the S&L , Enron days. Kennyboy Lay was a big supporter. Look at what energy deregulation got US citizens. Was it good for you CA? Deregulation also brought you the mortgage crisis.
Randy S. - thought McCain learned about these lobbyist from the Keating Five scandal...guess not. He'll sell out America into more useless war for foreign dollars.

why doesn't john mccain talk of the tragedy on the USS Forrestal? do those brave men that died in the accident not rate a mention in the career of the senator?

The question I have is although I appreciate this article -- why isn't the main stream television media stepping up to do their jobs and call a lie a lie.

Part of the reason our country has gotten into the messes we have over the last decade is the media is accountable to no one and they continuously fail to provide the services they were meant to provide to the people of the United States.

Why doesn't the media tell the truth and be more fair and balanced? Yes Obama gets more media coverage, but does anyone in the media pay attention to the research stating that 74% of that coverage is negative while on 48% is so for McCain? That is a shame considering that McCain has messed up so often that we as a nation should be afriad to put yet another idiot in the highest seat in the nation.

Media please do your job and inform us of the thruth!

Wow, not surprising that Newsweek would take this stance. Care to mention Obama falsehoods or what factcheck.org really is or why the media will not dig into Obama's past? Obamalujah baby!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjelN50Bux4

Here's how McCain is working it. McCain will keep hammering his lies until its so far in that it looks reliable which will dissuade many people from voting because of his lies and their lack of knowledge. Hence, McCain is already practicing totalitarian propagandic apathy system. Suppress the votes, that's the only way to win.

Chevron and other american companies are the biggest criminals on earth.. Not only they pollute other nations, but they will kill people who want to defend their land from environmental disaster. Now they want to buy large parts of the amazon to drill... It is a environemental disaster waiting to happen.
Contact the ambassy of Peru and say no to american oil companies in the amazon.
http://www.businessvideonews.com/view_news_link.php?nlid=52214&p=1

Dear Mr. Alter:

The McCain/Rove/Schmidt falsehoods are nothing more than Mendacity of Despair. Thank you for highlighting the falsehoods from a person who claims to put the country first. Put truth first country will take care of itself.

President McCain. Get used to it!

"As usual, news organizations are deeply afraid to say that one side is more negative than the other. Doing so sounds "unfair." It's much easier, and less controversial, to say that "both candidates" are being negative. That would be "balanced", but also untrue..."

Right on!!

My guess is Sen. McCain is using the same technique that the Bush administration exercised to great success during its entire tenure: Tell a lie often enough and people believe it's true. Especially when the press is either so woefully uninformed or willfully non-confrontational (or both) that they allow such gaffes to pass unchallenged, while the citizenry is too busy watching "American Idol" to care.

Here...let me just help proliferate the right wing "opinion base" simulacrum:

The economy has made great progress. Obama supporters are welfare sponges. Democrats are traitors. Republicans are patriots. America is admired around the world. The constitution is for weaklings. Everyone to the left of Dick Cheney is a socialist. We now own Mexico and China. The Saudis beg us for more oil. The millions facing foreclosure are whiners. The largest income inequality since the Great Depression is meaningless. Al-Qaeda has been destroyed. Iran has been weakened. Federal spending over the last 8 years has reduced by a trillion dollars. Scientific facts are a liberal conspiracy. 82% who think the country is on the wrong track drink kool-aid. 66% who disapprove of Bush are communists. Upper-income tax cuts during war make sense. The dollar has never been stronger. NAFTA creates jobs. Only greedy poor people and the media bellyache about skyrocketing gas prices. After 8 years of the greatest president of all time, Obama will destroy America.

Remember:
The media is only as liberal as the giant corporations that own it.

Obama should just Debate Mccain till he just drops out. we all know that Obama can win in a debate between Mccain and Obama.

Alter's still staying on message

McCain has a crash course in failure. His plan for America is failure. He supports pork projects. He supports failed health care systems. McCain already has wealth so he has no idea what the average American goes through. GOP'ers insist on electing the out of touch politicians into office. Gluttons for punishment.