Big News Orgs Start Declaring McCain's Troop Visit Attack False (a good sign?)

[ProSense]

Big News Orgs Start Declaring McCain's Troop Visit Attack False


So they finally get it right, four days after falling down on their jobs and just in time for the next talking point:

OBAMA: THE HUBRIS FACTOR

Daily Kos Diary: Obama Needs to Know His Role (and shut his mouth)-- Updated 2x


Good grief!

[NYC_SKP]

1. Good sign? No, I don't think they've become "enlightened".

And, sad to say, reporting a smear as a smear sometimes just perpetuates the smear.

Low attention span listeners just hear the smear, not the truth being explained.

sigh

[dkf]

2. The Republican attack machine is still potent and way more focused than we are.

The Repubs know how to take a positive and turn it into a negative and they don't care if they need to lie to do it.

Obama better figure out a way to fix this. His "new politics" have been taken over by the old Atwater tactics.

[ProSense]

3. By "Republican attack machine"

are you referring to the media?

[dkf]

6. If you can call Joe Scarborough and his ilk the media.

[ErinBerin84]

4. I guess that Obama should be doing more "important" things than talking to leaders

Like visiting Fudge Hause.

[zbdent]

5. "Is this ad by McCain false? We'll find out ... after showing it 12 times

after we come back from these commercials by our sponsors, the pharmaceutical industry and the oil companies ..."