McCain Watch: McCain Love

Remember this web video from the McCain campaign whining about criticizing the media's love affair with Barack Obama?



Well, it seems that Senator Obama is not the only candidate with allies in the media. According to today's edition of McCain Watch, a major news network edited an interview with Senator McCain to omit a major foreign policy gaffe. Read more at McCain Watch.

FYI--This Clintonista agrees with the McCain campaign's criticism of biased media coverage, but this episode clearly demonstrates that the media bends the rules for both sides.

McCain Watch: Guess Who Failed Geography

A few weeks ago, I wrote about McCain Watch:

The Huffington Post and Moveon.org have launched a joint project called McCain Watch. To recieve presidential news about John McCain that you won't find anyplace else, sign up at McCain Watch.

Another addition of McCain Watch was posted yesterday, but I'm behind because of recent traveling.

Do you remember this attack ad released by the McCain campaign last week?



Senator McCain attacks Senator Obama for not having traveled to Iraq, yet it seems that Senator McCain is the one who is struggling with the details. Despite his half-century of experience, Senator McCain cannot come up with a roadmap for Iraq favored by the Iraqis, who have instead embraced Senator Obama's plan for a drawdown of American troops. Perhaps if Senator McCain spent less time pontificating on the principle of "no defeat, no surrender" and spent more time studying the details, he would have a better understanding of the Middle East.

Read this edition of McCain Watch to see Senator McCain struggling with the geography of Iraq.

McCain Watch: Ten Campaign Fiascos

Last week, I wrote about McCain Watch:

The Huffington Post and Moveon.org have launched a joint project called McCain Watch. To recieve presidential news about John McCain that you won't find anyplace else, sign up at McCain Watch.

Today's issue of McCain Watch is The Week That Should Have Ended McCain's Presidential Hopes. Max Bermann at the Huffington Post analyzes ten events and missteps by the McCain campaign that would have ended his campaign, had the media been paying attention.

1. McCain unambiguously called Social Security "an absolute disgrace."
2. McCain's top economic policy adviser calls Americans a bunch of "whiners" for being worried about the slumping economy.
3. Iraqi leaders call for a timetable for U.S. withdrawal, McCain gets caught in a bizarre denial and flip flop.
4. McCain's economic plan to cut the deficit has no details and is simply not believable.
5. McCain's deficit plan includes bringing the troops home represents a major Iraq flip-flop.
6. McCain campaign misled about economists support.
7. McCain makes a joke about killing Iranians.
8. McCain denies, flatly, that he ever said that he is not an expert in economics.
9. McCain distorts his record on veterans benefits in response to a question from Vietnam Veteran, who then proceeds to call McCain out on it.
10. McCain demonstrates he knows nothing about Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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