balloon-juice.com - 10/31/2008
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Michael Goldfarb, lead McCain Report blogger on loan from the Weekly Standard:
Joe Klein is not impressed :
Here we have the McCain campaign’s execrable Michael Goldfarb slinging around accusations of anti-semitism—a favorite pastime, as we’ve seen this year, ...
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Um, Wow
Obsidian Wings —
... Via John Cole, I've honestly never seen someone (at that level) act like such a complete d*** on TV before. He's attained some Platonic ideal of d***ness. I'm no PR coach, but I suspect the goal is to make something less than 100% of your audience detest you. ...
Hey John McCain, Joe "the Original Right Wing Blogger" McCarthy called
Rising Hegemon —
... John McCain is not a man very comfortable in his own skin. His self-proclaimed "honorableness" has been exposed as an epic fail on the grandest of scales. He has become a joke, letting the worst of right-wing bloggers steer a course from ...
Dear John McCain, Joe McCarthy called and wants his act back
Firedoglake —
... John McCain is not a man very comfortable in his own skin. His self-proclaimed "honorableness" has been exposed as an epic fail on the grandest of scales. He has become a joke, letting the worst of right-wing bloggers steer a course from ...
The GOP Race to the Bottom
The Mahablog —
... us Number Six, or whatever number Patrick Mcgoohan was?
But Number One isn’t anti-semitic either, according to Joe Klein:
I’ve never met Rashid Khalidi, but he is (a) Palestinian and therefore (b) a semite, so the charge of anti-semitism is fatuous. Khalidi is also a respected academic, the sort of person who is involved in foundation work that John McCain, for one, was willing to support financially.
See also “Profiles In Douchebaggery” by John Cole.
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