McCain, Middle Schools, and Authenticity

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by: ClubTwitty

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

John Mc ~~Same~~ Cain wants you to believe he’s a Maverick. That’s why he pretends he’s against lobbyists (making a veiled reference to convicted GOP felon Jack Abramoff, for instance in his speech last night), even though they run his campaign, even working as foreign agents, or for huge mortgage companies and multi-national banks, while McCain packages their wish list as ‘policy.’ That’s also why he railed against Obama’s vote on the GOP-led Energy Policy and Conservation Act (as the crowd chanted ‘Drill, Baby, Drill). But the GOP does authentic about as well as they do compassion.

More sad facts after the fold…

Daily Kos is abuzz with the use of the Walter Reed Middle School as a prop last night, projected on the ‘green screen’ behind John Sidney during his speech in an apparent googlooper. Some GOP intern (maybe the one who does Schaffer’s ads?) apparently thought it was the other Walter Reed, you know, the one where wounded troops were sent to recover in squalid conditions as pallets of money went missing in Iraq.

Now the Kos has a diary posted about the photos on the screen of happy black folks apparently to add a bit of color to the pasty-skinned crowd. Turns out they are all stock photos.

I really can’t think of anything more to add, although perhaps a better moniker is John Sidney McFake.

13 thoughts on “McCain, Middle Schools, and Authenticity”

ModerateGal says:

September 6, 2008 at 4:30 pm

and similar to images in advertisements, etc. That’s embarrasing for the campaign because we know McCain has supporters of all races and ethnicites, ‘though in limited numbers, so why didn’t the campaign go to the effort to use real supporters in the images? Surely they could have been gathering pictures along the campaign trail.

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1. DavidThi808 says:
  
  September 6, 2008 at 5:11 pm
  
  of the McCain campaign view that facts are irrellevant and that framing is everything.
  
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  1. ModerateGal says:
    
    September 6, 2008 at 5:40 pm
    
    Who cares about the reality.
    
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    1. Jambalaya says:
      
      September 6, 2008 at 6:18 pm
      
      — Fernando Lamas (aka Billy Crystal)
      
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    2. BlueCat says:
      
      September 6, 2008 at 9:49 pm
      
      for adding diversity to their brochure pictures by repeating the same pictured black student or two several times throughout crowd scenes. There is even a Scrubs episode that refers to that with a brochure featuring repeated pictures of black character Turk.
      
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2. ModerateGal says:
  
  September 6, 2008 at 11:32 pm
  
  I know how to spell ethnicities. I really do.
  
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  1. Sir Robin says:
    
    September 7, 2008 at 2:12 am
    
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    1. Sir Robin says:
      
      September 7, 2008 at 2:13 am
      
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      1. parsingreality says:
        
        September 7, 2008 at 3:46 am
        
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Sir Robin says:

September 7, 2008 at 2:29 am

When asked, who…and to cite specific examples of who in the Obama organization has attacked palin’s family, they can’t come up with one instance.

There is THIS:

In 1998, McSame had this to say about then adolescent Chelsea Clinton..

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.”

– Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998.

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ardy39 says:

September 7, 2008 at 8:11 am

No diaries for a month … no posts the last week of August … Where’ve you been? Protesting at the DNC & RNC?

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1. ClubTwitty says:
  
  September 9, 2008 at 1:49 am
  
  (Which would be me, as I’m self-employed, but silly season is busy season…). Thanks for noticing though.
  
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  1. Sir Robin says:
    
    September 9, 2008 at 5:57 am
    
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