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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-28-08 05:48 PM
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All day today, MSNBC was DEBUNKING McCain's ad criticizing Obama for not meeting with injured troops
I was very happy to see everyone from Andrea Mitchell to David Shuster making it clear that the ad is FALSE. Especially how strong Andrea Mitchell was on "making it perfectly clear" that it is NOT true that Obama wanted to bring the cameras with him, that he visited injured troops more than once in Iraq AND Afghanistan with no cameras at all. A rare :thumbsup: for the media today.
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ErinBerin84 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-28-08 05:51 PM
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1. yeah, Andrea Mitchell was good today. I appreciated it..
she said "The ad is LITERALLY not true...I was there, and I know what happened."
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-28-08 05:52 PM
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5. I was waiting for her show to see if she repeated what she reported before...
and she DID.
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-28-08 05:51 PM
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2. Mitchell likes Obama
yes really
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-28-08 05:54 PM
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7. I agree that she does, but I think he won her over on the overseas trip.
Not only did she get to ask the first question(s), she was impressed with his trip to Israel.
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Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-28-08 05:52 PM
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3. They Only Showed The Ad
every fifteen minutes to make their point
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-28-08 05:53 PM
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6. Swiftboat 101..
I just posted the same thing. They only had to buy a fraction of the airtime it's getting.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-28-08 05:55 PM
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8. Yes, but they DID say very negative things about it both before and after each time...
saying it's flat-out false, he looks desperate, etc.
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Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-28-08 06:17 PM
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10. Words v. Images
Which do you think had a greater impact? To me it was like someone saying, "Well bless their heart..." before proceeding with a pithy negative comment.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-28-08 06:23 PM
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12. In this case, I really think this made McCain look dishonorable and low. n/t
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Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-28-08 06:41 PM
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13. What Will Do That
Is a really effective counter ad by Obama.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-28-08 06:59 PM
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14. I agree. But I doubt he WILL. And right now it looks like this ad is backfirining EVEN in the MSM.
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-28-08 05:52 PM
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4. They're playing it over and over again though..
just to make their point? That ad is going to be burned in the public's mind now, it's a classic swiftboating maneuver...
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-28-08 05:56 PM
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9. But the swiftboat ads weren't criticized that I remember. n/t
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-28-08 06:20 PM
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11. The coverage I've seen..
although I didn't see the specific segment you're speaking of, they had people who were both defensive and critical of it.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-28-08 07:01 PM
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15. Olbermann is covering it tonight. n/t
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ecstatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-28-08 07:14 PM
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16. The ad has been playing all day. Meanwhile, someone said
the actual ad has only aired 5 times around the entire country. So I'm not sure I'm happy with MSNBC right now.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-28-08 07:23 PM
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17. Olbermann just played it and slammed it before, during, and after, and is STILL slamming it with the
Edited on Mon Jul-28-08 07:24 PM by jenmito
help of Rachel Maddow. Keith also provided a record of McCain's votes of NOT supporting the troops.
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