Posts from — January 2008

My thinking on Time’s journalistic crimes has evolved. Time’s six-page spread on John McCain, in its Feb 4 issue, isn’t just an endorsement. It’s arguably a campaign contribution in the form of free political advertising designed to keep McCain’s under-funded campaign alive.

He can’t persuade enough Republicans to contribute, so McCain has to rely on his real base, the liberal media, to contribute under the table. Time’s duplicity, however, extends beyond under-the-table campaign contributions. Time deceives its subscribers, fobbing off McCain political advertisements disguised as “news”. Time’s latest unpaid McCain campaign spot is here. Judge for yourself. I think Time subscribers should sue.

Shame on Time. It’s Feb 4 cover story “The Phoenix: Can John McCain Keeping Rising”) fairly drools over Mr. McCain. On the heels of McCain’s endorsement by the New York Times, this is not news. It’s blatant advocacy plastered over six glossy pages. Tellingly, with Super Tuesday right around the corner, the current GOP delegate-count leader, Mitt Romney, gets not a single photo or heading in the entire issue. [Read more →]

Leading up to Minnesota’s caucus on Feb. 5, Ed Morrissey today announced that he will “enthusiatically caucus” for Mitt Romney. I’m with Ed. Romney for President in 2008!

After closely observing the candidates over the past couple of months, there’s no longer a question in my mind that Romney, despite some faults, stands head and shoulders above the field. On the basis of intellect, leadership ability, understanding of economic nuts and bolts, executive presence, November electability, personal goodness and, yes, integrity — to which John McCain so movingly testified in 2002 — Romney is undeniably the best candidate for the job. As James Fallows put it, responding to Romney’s most recent debate performance, “Romney by a mile!” [Read more →]

Now you tell us! With Obama projected to win South Carolina in a route:

Bill Clinton says he’s “not taking the bait[inhaling]” after Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts said in a radio interview Friday that the former president was abusing the truth in his quest to promote his wife’s presidential campaign.

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“I am not taking the bait today,” Clinton said when asked about Kerry’s remarks. “I did what I could [lied] to help Sen. Kerry every time he needed me and every time he asked me. … He can support whomever he wants for whatever reason he wants, but there is nothing for me to respond to . . . .”

Hat tip to Michelle Malkin for the McCain pic (left) and for this wonderful material on McCain’s connections to what amounts to the illegal immigrant underground:

Hispanic Republicans here in Nevada had a chance to speak by conference to Sen. John McCain and many of us were appalled to learn that his National Director of Hispanic Outreach is none other that Dr. Juan Hernandez, notorious for his open borders stance. How can McCain reconcile the fact that he says he “learnt his lesson w/the American people” with choosing as his Hispanic Ntl. Dir. someone whose views and interests are so clearly anti-security and not in the interest of the American people or for that matter us legal Hispanic immigrants. Can someone question him directly on this?” [Read more →]

Last night, I reported on Cuba’s coverage of John McCain, in Miami, shooting off his mouth about his bit role in the Cuban Missile Crisis about which Dana Perino (former CBS reporter, emphasis on BS) knew nothing until last December. It’s all worth a closer look, on multiple levels, for what it says about McCain and the press who want us to listen when they talk.

Here’s CBS reporter Andante Higgins (no, Silly, not the Cuban bs! The other bs) on McCain’s January 21 Missile Crisis brag: [Read more →]

Anxious to stir the global pot, this week John McCain has been among Miami’s Cuban diaspora touting his experience as a fighter pilot. In 1962, turns out he was assigned to the USS Enterprise which was sent to help respond to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Today’s headline in Cuba’s official newspaper propaganda organ appears below:

Brief translation:

Identifying himself as a hardliner against Cuba, Senator McCain broadcast on Miami radio that he was a pilot “during the Missile Crisis” where he found himself “on the bridge of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier,” adding that, therefore, “I understand Cuba.” [Read more →]

OK, this one’s from 2002, but just the same . . . In this clip, McCain makes a persuasive case for Romney’s integrity:

James Fallows wasn’t nearly as kind to Romney’s debate opponents as I was. On further consideration, Fallows is more right than I was. Here’s an excerpt:

This is the first debate among the Republicans that I’ve seen at full length and in real time.* So factoring in all the expectations I’d gathered from coverage (Romney too weaselly, McCain really the strongest one, Huckabee a charmer, etc), how did it look? [Read more →]

In the final round of last night’s debate, Rudy Giuliani laid a haymaker on John “Rambo” McCain in a way that seemed (almost) unintentional. Responding to a question about why the New York Times endorsed McCain and not local-boy Rudy, Rudy retorted that no conservative gets endorsed by the Times.  Same goes for the NEA’s endorsement of Mike Huckabee. Real conservatives just don’t get endorsed by the NYT or the NEA. Nuff said?

Not quite, it appears. Rambo is not amused:

I like McCain a lot,” Stallone said in an interview that aired Thursday. “Things may change along the way, but there’s something about matching the character with the script [Read more →]