LA Times: John McCain Has A "Nightmare" YouTube Problem

Los Angeles Times:

The Los Angeles Times reports on McCain's "YouTube gap":

The video lasts just more than three minutes. But that's long enough to raise some nasty doubts about John McCain's reputation as a straight talker.

There's the Arizona senator arguing both sides of President Bush's tax cuts. Here's the supposed foreign policy wizard flubbing the simple facts about which terrorists are being trained in Iran. He's even ducking his own admission that he needs to learn more about economics.

The newsreel of McCain lowlights has zoomed up the YouTube charts in the last week, with more than 1.5 million views. "John McCain's YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare" is the video's title, which might be dismissed as partisan hype but for one thing: It's true.

The presumed Republican presidential nominee is taking a serious drubbing on YouTube, the most popular video-sharing service on the Internet and the virtual town square for millions of new young voters. ...

Six of the top 10 videos returned by a "John McCain" YouTube search Thursday pegged the 71-year-old as inconsistent, extreme, wooden or a combination of the three. (The one clearly favorable piece came from the McCain campaign and focused on his Navy service.)

Here's the video from BraveNewFilms that's "raising nasty doubts" about McCain:

Read the whole story: Los Angeles Times

Comments

[AnnieinOR]

From Michael Ware, a CNN correspondent who has been Iraq:

"WARE: I"ll issue a word of caution, too. I mean Senator McCain has been here, what, more than half a dozen times. And we"ve seen him get assessments of Iraq terribly wrong. So I wouldn"t be hanging my hat on the fact that your opponent has only been here once."

[aigeanta]

Video of Michael Ware mocking McGrumpy's Iraq pronouncements:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/05/29/ware.blitzer.iraq.intv.cnn

[oogabooga]

I promised the American people it's night time, uh, day time, or somewhere in between. Whatever. It's the liberal media.

[Yonathan]

The video isnt shocking. Mccain is a monumental flip-flopper and everybody is going to find out about it during this election. What stunned me about it is how far off from the carefuylly crafted 'maverick' image that has been crafted for him that he really falls. He is no such thing. Some will say it is not fair to compare him to the Bush administration, but in watching him mumble and stumble in his lies it is easy to make that connection.

Imagine that it was Obama in this video....his campaign would be finished. But Mccain somehow gets a pass for lying so blatantly and nobody calls him on it.

[BEHM777]

I will move to Canada if McCain is elected POTUS.

[queotic]

Hey - they have universal health caer.

[Americanium]

Obama has a body man..Hillary has a body woman...McCain has a Geriatric nurse.

[Bluejay00234]

LOL

[Shaddup]

And a special pudding unit.

[Mdazes]

The straight talk express is a BIG LIAR or having a lot of Senior Moments.

[donaldw6]

Don't get overconfident just because he's an idiot. Look who's in there now.

[AnnieinOR]

I couldn't agree more - GWB didn't get there on his own... He HAD HELP from Hillary's base....which have sworn allegiance to McSame - so we better not get cocky. Never underestimate your opponent.

[MoVann]

Touche'

[LiberTLover]

Excellent point!

[Jaradan]

Good point, but Dubya wasn't elected. He STOLE both general elections.

[jsarets]

McCain flipped through all 13 channels and couldn't find YouTube.

[Devver]

OMG too funny Js!!!! Cable?? Is that connected somehow to electricity??

[ramblingjohnny]

Like lambs throw to the wolves! McBush does not even know what is about to hit him! Welcome to the 21TH century a$$hole!

[thinbluetorpedo]

How much easier of a Republican schlep do you want than McBush? Goodnight McEasy, say hello to your new commander and chief, Barack Obama.

[ssmit98]

Anybody who thinks Obama won't win the presidency is ____________.

Fill in the blank :D

[thinbluetorpedo]

delusional

[jsarets]

...dramatically underestimating the degree to which Americans are fed up with the Beltway Establishment?

[ssmit98]

Dang, that's deep! I totally agree :)

[SwingingFromCenter]

Still reminded on a daily basis that the idiots in this country voted for W.....twice!

[IndependentMynd]

And there are some who STILL believe him and support him...like John McCain (voted 95% of the time in favor of Bush's policies in 2007).

[dagnew]

My worst nightmare!

[Jaradan]

....crossing his or her fingers hoping "anything happens".

[nonconformist2]

What? He's having a senior moment or two or two thousand and just Forgot what stand he was taking at the moment to get the votes at the moment. It's hard to keep track. Poor grampy McCain!

[harriscrl3]

SO John McCain is a flip flopper now. Hmm I thought the media called it him being a maverick. We should all be so lucky to be given such an intriguing description for basically going back on our word. In my world they call that a Liar and hypocrite

Carol

[Chillinout]

Gramps there doesn't realize the power of the Internet. He is playing, "politics as usual" which means he is banking on Americans having short memories, which it seems we sometimes do. Now with YouTube and the Internet, we don't have to have memories at all.

[Antacid]

Very well put. Who'd have thought the internet would wind up compensating for basic human stupidity? And you can download porn off of it too!

[Jaradan]

Porn is what's taking up all of our brain's hard drive space.

[BlueberryJane]

Lol, so true.

[zippywpinhead]

maybe we can get Ted Stevens to explain it to him...

[RoSull]

Here's the funny thing. When McCain is approached about all of these inconsistencies he denies, denies, denies!!! He does know that there is such a thing as the internet out there and that people are keeping an everlasting video record of everything that he says.