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Remainders: In the tank
Ben Smith's Blog — Obama in Green Bay. The market's down, oil is up. Ambinder may be in my tank! Drudge not in NYT tank. It's boxing jargon. Anchorage restaurant creates the McPalin Grilled Pig Sandwich -- served with a side of lipstick and fries. A New Yorker will shave his mustache if you donate $2,000 to Obama/Biden. Atlanta residents are already voting. Hillary raises money for Obama. She "gets a warm welcome in Pikeville." (How the mightly have fallen...) ...

Now They Target Ben Smith
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... The McCain campaign apparently believes that factual questions from reporters are inadmissable. In fact, asking factual questions is obviously bias. So that's why they won't answer my emails. Their job now is to prevent Americans from finding out things about their candidates and their records. That's the only way they think they can win. Ambers' grace note: ...

Note to Steve Schmidt
The Reality-Based Community — ... By BEN SMITH Sen. John McCain’s top campaign aides convened a conference call today to complain of being called “liars.” They pressed the media to scrutinize specific elements of Sen. Barack Obama’s record. But the call was so rife with simple, often inexplicable misstatements of fact that it may have had the opposite effect: to deepen the perception, dangerous to McCain, that he and his aides have little regard for factual accuracy. Footnote And try not accusing respected reporters of being "in the tank" for the other side . The Reporters' Guild is a fearsome enterprise. ...

John McCain Watch: Steve Schmidt Goes “Nuclear” on New York Times - The Light Bulb Goes On
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... The Epiphany for the McCain campaign: The New York Times is a left-wing RAG. Flap first mentioned the beginning of the light bulb going on this morning. Now, the epiphany spreads to the left-wing writer of the Politico, Ben Smith who is also “in the tank”. Maybe Team McCain will kick their LEFTY asses off their press plane and grant interviews to those media outlets who are fair and balanced. Cut off their exclusive press releases too. And, to Steve Schmidt: don’t answer Marc Ambinder’s, ...

McCain Campaign At War With Old Media New York Times And New Media The Politico
The Moderate Voice — ... about the media from time to time. Dealing with the press is sometimes a little like pitching in baseball – everyone once in a while you have to throw high and inside and hope it results in better coverage next time. Sometimes it does, most often, it does not.” –Andrew Sullivan: Their interaction with the press is in complete disarray. Steve Schmidt even lies when trying to point out others’ lies. –Marc Ambinder: A reporter asks the McCain campaign to back up some basic ...

In the tank
Political Animal — ... back against charges that the McCain campaign is lying, and during the call, the McCain campaign kept lying. When Smith asked about the conference call's errors, McCain campaign spokesperson told him, "You are in the tank." Perfect. The McCain campaign worldview summarized in just five words -- if you care about reality, you're necessarily biased. You are either with McCain or against him, and if you notice McCain's campaign straying from the truth, you're obviously the enemy. As Marc Ambinder put it , "As in -- no, we don't have to justify what we say, and the fact that you ...

MORNING READ
News — ... Kos [image] Economic Shock and Awe - A. Huffington, The Huffington Post [image] The Story Behind Biden's Landing - Tapper and Jaffe, Political Punch [image] Joe Biden's Big Adventure - Carol Platt Liebau, Townhall.com [image] Biden's Done It - Jennifer Rubin, Contentions [image] Facts Matter - Jon Henke, The Next Right [image] 150 Percent In The Tank - J. Rubin, Contentions [image] McCain Camp Accuses Reporter of Being in Tank - Marc Ambinder [image] In The ...

A McCain Sampler
Opinionator — ... and concludes that the call was “rife with simple, often inexplicable misstatements of fact” and that it may “deepen the perception, dangerous to McCain, that he and his aides have little regard for factual accuracy.” The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder takes offense on behalf of Smith when a McCain aide says The Politico blogger is “in the tank” for Barack Obama. Ambinder writes : A reporter asks the McCain campaign to back up some basic claims made by a senior strategist in a public conference call. The campaign refuses, with a prominent spokesperson accusing the reporter, Ben ...

Not enough coffee in the whole world
The Sideshow — ... her husband, who now thinks even he is entitled to ignore subpoenas. A Palin presidency is a quite serious threat, and the press are treating it as a side issue. They really, really shouldn't be. CBS did an outrageously misleading segment supposedly explaining how McCain's and Obama's tax plans would affect taxpayers. FAIR is on the case, and asks you to contact CBS to complain. Meanwhile, the McCain camp's whining about how the press is mean to them generates even more contempt from the press. Bush's approval rating is now so spectacularly low that ...

Dear Media, pull your reporters from the Straight Talk Express
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... took a good first step today, by pulling their reporters from a phony Palin photo opp. Now it's time to go for the Full monty. Pull your reporters from coverage of the McCain campaign until Palin and McCain start acting like big boys and girls, like potential future leaders of the free world. McCain's voters don't read your papers, they don't watch your news. Yet for some reason, you keep sucking up to them. Stop it. They're playing you for fools. ...