Column for 27 July, 2008
by The Local Crank, July 27, 2008
“Be strong and be courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their forefathers to give them.”
--Joshua 1:6
It
is rapidly becoming evident that John McCain is the albatross leading
the GOP to what may well be a historic electoral whooping, in spite of
the obsequious fawning of the Mainstream Media, which grants him a pass
on every misstatement or flat-out lie. When McCain confused Sunnis and
Shiites (several times), when he falsely stated that Hurricane Katrina
spilled “not one drop” of oil, when he claimed the so-called “Anbar
Awakening” was the result of the Surge (it actually began half a year
before the Surge), when he forgot that the “Iraq-Pakistan border” is
called Iran; in every instance, the supposedly liberal media scurried
to cover McCain’s back. CBS even edited its own footage of McCain to
cover his Anbar gaffe. To some extent, this media boot-licking is a
function of the “man bites dog” meme; to the media, an election isn’t
newsworthy unless it’s a horse race. Recent state-by-state polls have
given Obama 300+ electoral votes, but the coverage is all about “voter
doubts” over Obama. >>Read More
