Has anyone seen the "biographies" on Obama and McCain on Faux? It was just as I expected...

[jenmito]

They claimed they were going to show documentaries on each of them which would reveal their characters and backgrounds. First night was Obama, where, of course, they stressed his "Muslim" father, showed a document that had his father's religion listed as "Islam," talked about his Muslim/Pakistani friends from his younger days, his "friends" Rezco and Rev. Wright, his "cut-throat" tactics in IL, etc.

But the next night when it came to McCain, it was almost all about his "heroism" in Vietnam, refusing to leave his captors when given the chance, the legacy of his father and grandfather as "war heroes," his near-death experiences during war-time, and glossed over his failed marriage, claiming he married Cindy after his divorce was final, how he took full responsibility of the failure of his marriage, but how he promised to pay her alimony and medical bills for the rest of her life, how his wife "only" blamed him for being a 40-year-old who wanted to be 25 again, how being involved with the Keating Five was more painful to him than being tortured because it went against "everything he believed in," and only touched on his temper, with his friends saying he was really straight-forward and that sometimes got him in trouble for it. Also, they claimed as soon as Bush claimed "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq, McCain was a critic of that claim and of the tactics. (We know he first he AGREED with Bush that the war was won. There's lots of video on that which Faux seems to have missed).

And CNN is going to do the same thing tonight, and my guess is it will be very similar-stressing Obama's "un-Americanism" and McCain's "heroism." No wonder McCain is supposedly rising in the polls.

[Pirate Smile]

1. I heard a clip from the bios on CNN yesterday where they did go into the cheating and pointed out

that it did happen while he was still with his first wife. They were promoting the premier of the shows tonight.

They played a McCain and Obama clip - both were about how they met their wives (#2 for McCain). The Obama one was cute. The McCain one had to focus on how he was married and cheating. It also pointed out the date on the marriage license being before his divorce was final.

That was the only thing I heard. I was listening on XM so I didn't see the video footage.

[jenmito]

2. Well, I HOPE CNN's is more fair than Faux's was. n/t

[jenmito]

3. I just saw a clip from McCain's bio. It showed how fun a guy he was, how tough his father was,

that he was a "party guy," they said they talk to Cindy, etc. An all-American guy who was shaped by his war experience. I think it'll be another fluff piece compared to what they'll show about Obama.