Jesse Lee is the Online Rapid Response Manager for the DNC, this is the first daily update on the day's happenings which will continue through the election.
Yesterday Mark Halperin, no liberal community organizer, called it "a low point in the day ... and one of the low days of our collective coverage of this campaign."
First we had the farce surrounding the putting of lipstick on pigs. Mike Huckabee ruined Sean Hannity's day by dismissing it, and ABC News has a virtual encyclopedia of debunking and mockery on the Republican "crocodile tears."
Senator Obama responded today, saying "I don't care what they say about me, but I love this country too much to let them take over another election with lies and phony outrage and swiftboat politics."
Then there was the too-despicable-to-link-to ad which McClatchy flatly called "a deliberately misleading accusation." Joe Klein went further: "I just can't wait for the moment when John McCain--contrite and suddenly honorable again in victory or defeat--talks about how things got a little out of control in the passion of the moment. Talk about putting lipstick on a pig."
Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton responded this time:
"It is shameful and downright perverse for the McCain campaign to use a bill that was written to protect young children from sexual predators as a recycled and discredited political attack against a father of two young girls - a position that his friend Mitt Romney also holds. Last week, John McCain told Time magazine he couldn't define what honor was. Now we know why."
So what's this all about? Let's go back to Mark Halperin, who explains the McCain strategy on flooding the zone with deceptive charges:
Speaking of which, we're watching today's McCain-Palin rally right now here at the DNC and she just gave the "thanks, but no thanks" line again. Ding!
The media and Obama carried that sad topic on and on.
Where was the outrage?????
Obama should have chosen Hillary!
He cries racist so often yet cannot respect women.
Now, let's see which of the above words triggers a Huffington Post pre-censorship review of my comment.
Perhaps her "thanks, but no thanks" comment is her way of saying "I was for it before I was against it."
Thanks, Mark. Now continue to do your job and report on all the McCain low blows and distortions, as well as his manipulation of the press. It will keep you busy for quite some time.
Source: RTNDA
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