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This Is Excellent News For John McCain
Eschaton —
It always is.
‘One Of The Worst Moments’ Of The Campaign
Comments from Left Field —
... This morning on ABC’s This Week guest panelist Mark Halperin tried to play the “don’t mess with me or I’ll get really mad” bluff for the McCain campaign. I almost missed it but luckily the intrepid reporters at Think Progress managed to snag a video of the ridiculousness. ...
Halperin, Brooks, McCain
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Two very weird comments from two very smart and informed men. David Brooks essentially argued last week that John McCain had no choice but to go Rove, and launch the first wave of seriously negative advertizing because of the nature of the media and campaigning. And now Mark Halperin seems to think that McCain's gaffe about how many houses he owns will rebound against Obama ... because it "opened the door" for McCain to go negative on Rezko, etc. ...
Mark Halperin: McCain Forgetting How Many Houses He Owns Is Bad For Obama
Firedoglake —
... If there's a bigger asshole in the corporate media than Mark Halperin, I want to know who it is. In case you missed it, he went on Snuffleupagus this morning and said that McSame's housing gaffe is incredibly damaging...to Obama. ...
Hullabaloo — ... against Obama, that he'd rather lose a war than an election, but Halperin brushes it off. In his world, the macho, aggressive Obama campaign started all this, and it will be their fault when the McCain campaign continues decides to go negative – with great reluctance, I'm sure. Halperin's always been about the perception game versus the merits of a claim (or heaven forbid, a policy), but it's a pretty bizarre stance nonetheless. Even Cokie Roberts isn't buying it. Think Progress points out that Halperin claimed the Russia-Georgia conflict helped McCain, too. ...
Into the gutter: McCain, the media, and the campaign to smear Obama
The Reaction —
... You may have heard about this already, but let me address is quickly: Yesterday on ABC's This Week, Beltway insider Mark Halperin of Time commented that the whole flap over McCain's not knowing how many houses he owns "is going to end up being one of the worst moments in the entire campaign" -- for Obama. Why? Because it now allows McCain and the Republicans to target Obama on Rezko, Wright, and Ayers. "I think it would have been hard for John McCain, given the way he says he's going to run his campaign, to do all this stuff without the door being ...
8/25: Reactions To Biden
Blogometer —
... urging its members to email the AP and "tell them that the public's faith in the 160-year-old AP will be gone if Ron Fournier is allowed to continue his slanted articles against Democrats and for McCain." MEDIA CRITICISM II: McCain's House Gaffe Is Bad For... Obama? Liberal bloggers are harshly criticizing Time 's Mark Halperin for arguing that ...
Does anyone take Mark Halperin seriously? (Besides the other pundits)
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... Think Progress posted a video of Halperin on "This Week" where he makes such a fool of himself that even George Stephanopolous couldn't follow his logic. Halperin takes himself so seriously, but didn't really think he'd have to back up what he was saying. It's almost like someone put the idea in his head and while Halperin remembered the line, he couldn't really quite remember why he was saying it. ...
The Halperin Imperative: The Art of the Truth Pretzel
Firedoglake —
... Time's Mark Halperin—apparently acting on behalf of his fellow Villagers eager to do to Barack Obama what they did to Bill Clinton and didn't do to George W. Bush (that is, savage him)— has been pushing the myth that the media was oh-so-nice to Obama (months-long tail-chasing press obsessions with Obama's alleged ties to Bill Ayres, Jeremiah Wright, and even Louis Farrakhan notwithstanding) and viciously mean to John Sidney McCain III.
One of McCain's own spokescritters, campaign lawyer Trevor Potter, shot this down rather neatly last week, ...
Set Phasers to "Ignore" (or "Point and Laugh Hysterically")
Rising Hegemon —
... This was my favorite bit of Halperin Campaign 2008 analysis. It was so utterly incomprehensible that even Wee George Stephanapolous couldn't make sense of it. (The setup was that McCain's 2,217 houses was definitely bad news ... for Obama.) ...
