Mccain Media

Vlogorrhea: Ana And I Take Your Questions

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

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Ana Marie Cox and I discuss: Is John McCain really bitching at the press? And is there anything truly important to Obama's overseas trip?

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McCain: Coverage Is "Fun To Watch"

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

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Yesterday, John McCain released a series of ads complaining about the media's fawning coverage of Barack Obama. His campaign mocked the huge group of ...

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McCain: Americans Are Tired Of The "Cable Monster"

CNN | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

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The man who once jokingly described the political press corps as "my base" has a few complaints about the state of American media. In a New York Time...

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McCain Doesn't Work On The Weekends

Poitico | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

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Since effectively capturing the Republican nomination when Mitt Romney dropped out of the race on February 7, John McCain has held just one public cam...

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John McCain: The Second Coming of Bob Dole

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics

We once again have a Republican nominee who is a war hero, personable and engaging, with a long Senate career, who is so out of sync with the times that his campaign feels stillborn. It's Doleja vu all over again.

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John McCain News Hunt Preliminary Results

NewsTrust | Posted 06.12.2008 | Home

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Preliminary analysis suggests readers still highly rate mainstream press coverage but that online and offline sources compete well. Broadcast outlets were rated significantly lower than online and print media.

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Join the John McCain News Hunt With NewsTrust and OffTheBus

Amanda Michel | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home

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We want to get the real story on the media and McCain, so OffTheBus is partnering with NewsTrust from June 2 - June 8.

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Join the John McCain News Hunt -- with NewsTrust and OffTheBus

Posted 05.29.2008 | Home

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We want to get the real story on the media and McCain, so OffTheBus is partnering with NewsTrust from June 2 - June 8. NewsTrust is a nonprofit social...

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McCain's Benign World-Invasion Plans

Natasha Chen | Posted 05.20.2008 | Home

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McCain said he wanted troops out of Iraq by 2013. There's no McCain plan to bring about a withdrawal and yet it was all reported as good news, without mention of his plans for Sudan, China and Iran.

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McCain Camp's Aggressive Pushback Against Criticism From 'His Base'

Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

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When Newsweek ran a story last week on how John McCain and his allies may attack Barack Obama in the fall, the Arizona senator's top adviser fired off...

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Jeremiah Wright, Star Newsmaker

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.06.2008 | Media

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Congratulations, Jeremiah Wright! This week you are once again the man in and/or behind the headlines, according to the Project for Excellence in Jour...

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What John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He's Fallen

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

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At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, John McCain admitted to me that he hadn't voted for George Bush.

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The Many Faces of John McCain

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

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With all this focus pocus on the excesses of one Democratic candidate's former Baptist preacher, John McCain is getting away with not not talking about any of the issues.

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A Chat With Dan Rather (Part II)

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.18.2008 | Media

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As promised, here is the second part of our wide-ranging and chatty interview with former CBS News anchorman and current HDNet investigative reporter ...

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Is John McCain A Muslim? A Conversation With The Real McCain Author Cliff Schecter

Bob Cesca | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics

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This week, I had the opportunity to chat with a friend, author and blogger Cliff Schecter, about his new book, The Real McCain.

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Love Affair (McCain and the Press) Disgusts the Liberal Blogosphere

Jay Rosen | Posted 04.01.2008 | Home

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If the left blogosphere is declaring some all-out war on the mainstream media, there's a few things I want to understand about it.

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Excerpt from Free Ride: John McCain and the Media

David Brock and Paul Waldman | Posted 03.27.2008 | Media

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The very idea that McCain might have deficiencies of character that relate to his fitness to be president is never contemplated. His fundamental virtue is never questioned.

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Free Ride: Inside The Media's Love Affair With McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics

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"The press loves McCain," MSNBC's Chris Matthews has declared. "We're his base." This tawdry media love affair with the presumptive GOP nominee is the...

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A McCain Moment: Do You Want Four More Years of This?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics

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It only makes sense that the media have focused non-stop on the looming threat of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago while paying scant attention to the fact that the presumptive Republican nominee for president apparently doesn't have a clue about what's going on in the Middle East. And with the U.S. death toll hitting 4,000, John McCain's tenuous grasp on what is happening in the region becomes all the more worthy of attention. READ MORE John McCain, Iraq, and the Eyewitness Fallacy: John McCain's glowing post-visit assessment of conditions in Iraq, and Hillary Clinton's hyperbolically harrowing recollections of her 1996 trip to Bosnia both stand as shining examples of what the British writer Malcolm Muggeridge dubbed "the eyewitness fallacy." In a brilliant essay, Muggeridge described public figures of strong conviction throughout history -- many of them greatly admired and well-meaning -- who, in eyewitness accounts, saw what they wanted to see, and became what they wanted to be. READ MORE

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