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Planned Parenthood Defends Obama, Attacks McCain On Sex Ed (VIDEO)

Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics


Planned Parenthood defends Barack Obama's record on sex education after a nasty John McCain ad suggesting the Democrat supports teaching kindergartner...

Sam Stein

McCain May Have Opened Door For Charges That He Is A Sexist

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics


John McCain's presidential campaign put out a web ad on Wednesday morning that longtime political observers are describing as one of most sordid they ...

Nico Pitney and Sam Stein

McCain's Ad Cites Articles That Rip Him Worse Than Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney and Sam Stein | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics


John McCain's attack ad released Tuesday evening is perhaps the most outlandish yet this election cycle -- not simply because the spot claims that Oba...

Rachel Weiner

McCain Ad: Obama "Dangerously Unprepared" To Be President

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics


John McCain's new ad hits Barack Obama with a specific and harsh assault on Iran policy. Watch: The AP points out that the ad is incredibly mislea...

Reading The Pictures: Obama The Antichrist (Channelled By CNN)

Michael Shaw | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media


Michael Shaw

2008-08-18-cnnshawantichrist.jpgIt wasn't just that the piece kept replaying pieces of Team McCain's cheap and bizarre "The One" attack ad. It wasn't only the mainstream boost to the fringe fundamentalist paranoia surrounding the ad.

Sam Stein

Attack Ad Redux: McCain Hits Obama On Celebrity, Taxes

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics


Not dissuaded by Paris Hilton's humorous rebuke of his first attack ad, John McCain returned to the celebrity theme on Wednesday when he released a sp...

Sam Stein

McCain Defends Britney Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics


During a town hall meeting in Wisconsin on Thursday, Sen. McCain defended his campaign ad painting Barack Obama as a self-obsessed celebrity along the...

If We Don't Puncture Obama's Balloon, He Will Float Right Out of Our Hands --- McCain campaign

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics


Blake Fleetwood

The polls are going back and forth, but the political pros ---- and the betting odds -- are convinced that Obama is going to win. McCain is getting...

Sam Stein

Britney Spears-McCain Saga Continues: Pop Star And Candidate Share Talking Points?

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics


The surest sign yet that this presidential campaign -- not even in August -- has already gone on way too long: Britney Spears is the nexis of a politi...

Jason Linkins

McCain's Paris Hilton-Britney Spears Ad (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics


There's a fine line between smart and clever, and a similar border between clever and stupid, and John McCain's campaign ads keep on standing on all the wrong sides.

Sam Stein

McCain Ad Links Paris Hilton, Britney Spears To Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics


The McCain campaign is out with the latest in a string of sharply negative advertisements, this time mocking Barack Obama as a self-important celebrit...

Rachel Weiner

WaPo: McCain's Troop Attack Just Wrong

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics


UPDATE BELOW: McCain Camp Backs Off Charge The mainstream media has been reluctant to call McCain's "Troops" attack ad what it is -- false. But the W...

Big News Orgs Fail To Label McCain Attack Ad False

Talking Points Memo | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics


I've just done a lap through the coverage by the big news orgs of the ad John McCain put out this weekend attacking Barack Obama for canceling his vis...

Rachel Weiner

Hagel: McCain On "Thin Ground" With Recent Attacks

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics


On CBS' "Face The Nation," Chuck Hagel responded to John McCain's recent attacks on Barack Obama's trip abroad and withdrawal plan: "John is treading ...