From almost the moment John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate, we’ve heard the media are out to get her. Because, you know, the media hate average people. How dare they expect the anointed one (Republican model) to make a case for herself or to prove she has the base of knowledge necessary [...]

As anybody knows who follows Ben Smith’s blog day in and day out, he has consistently reported the facts about everybody. In fact, he posted extensively on Obama’s connections to Reverend Wright.
In any event, Smith tried to clarify some facts with the McCain camp today, and they subsequently accused him of supporting Obama.
First, Joe Biden’s [...]

This weekend, Justin alerted us to lies Barack Obama is spreading about John McCain’s Social Security positions. Now, Ruth Marcos of the Washington Post, explores how widespread these lies are.
In addition to falsely claiming the recent stock market turmoil would have affected the benefits of current retirees under McCain’s plan, Obama is running an ad [...]

As I said from the beginning of this nonsense.
Ed Morrissey covers the story:
“Sarah Palin issued a response to the Troopergate investigation yesterday by releasing internal memoranda that show Walt Monegan got fired for insubordination on budget matters and not because of his refusal to fire Palin’s former brother-in-law. Monegan went behind Palin’s back [...]

We’re officially in bizarro world…
“[T]he portrait [on "SNL"] was very dismissive of the substance of Sarah Palin, and so, in that sense, they were defining Hillary Clinton as very substantive and Sarah Palin as totally superficial,” Fiorina argued. “I think that continues the line of argument that is disrespectful in the extreme and yes, I [...]

I guess there’s one more post to squeeze out of this silly controversy after all.
Earlier today a lot of folks had embedded the “Lipstick” ad, but then it went dead. And when you clicked through to YouTube it had said that CBS Interactive had asked for it to be removed.
Politco has more…
YouTube has removed a [...]

Is the McCain campaign risking looking as foolish now as the Democrats did during the primary? Oh yeah. But there is a political upside that the campaign would also be foolish to overlook. When there is a question about potentially racist, sexist, or ageist comments, the tie usually goes to the affronted party. Judging from this, this, this and this - there are plenty of Democratic women (and some Democratic men) who took exception to Obama’s statement - Liberal, Democratic, feminist women. You know, the kind of Clinton supporters that Obama would like to keep in his camp and McCain would like to take away.

Seen the commercial? Well, I’d embed it here, but it’s apparently been taken down.
Basically, it starts off with Palin’s pitbull/lipstick comment at the convention, then plays Obama’s lipstick joke yesterday and then plays a comment by Katie Couric saying that sexism clearly exists in this campaign.
Hopefully the ad will pop up somewhere, but that’s [...]

While Justin is keeping us abreast of the lies, misstatements and fudges coming from Republicans, I thought I’d take a moment for a little site balancing and remind everyone that obfuscation is congenital not to any particular party but to the entire species known as politicians. Unsurprisingly, a scan of PoliFact reveals some recent dodges, [...]

And the question is from Alan’s post: “Can the Left Make the AIP Story Stick?”
On Tuesday morning the New York Times printed a front page story asserting that Sarah Palin was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party. On Tuesday evening the New York Times printed a retraction, saying their source was wrong. [...]

REALLY?????
Okay, so apparently the media characterized Obama’s stage setting at Invesco field as a “greek temple”, so this gives McCain a chance to continue to push his pathetic “Obama as God” meme.
Here’s the stage…

That’s right. Now multiple columns equals a “Greek temple” and that means Obama is suggesting he’s God.
Well, does God live in this [...]

How can I not link to a blog post that starts out like this…
Do you ever walk into your local coffee shop and think, “You know what this place needs? More Ann Coulter.”
Check out Ablogistan for the whole story…

This should piss off anybody who runs a blog, be they left, right or center. Because while “astroturfing” is a pretty common practice in comments sections, giving people incentives to spam is not only dishonest, it smacks of desperation.
From Washington Post:
Spread John McCain’s official talking points around the Web — and you could win valuable [...]

The real story is the reaction to the cover by Obama, his campaign, his supporters, and the attitudes betrayed by the reaction. As always, the tone is set at the top, with staff and supporters taking their cues from the leadership.

From my hometown paper? Really?

Listen, I don’t like Limbaugh in the least, but this clumsy “it should have been Rush” suggestion is obviously beyond the pale.
Also, perhaps cartoonist Lee Judge doesn’t fully appreciate it, but using Russert’s death in this manner is diametrically opposed to what the man stood for his entire career. In other [...]

That’s been the consistent message out of the White House loyalists, and none were more revealing than Ari Fleischer’s appearance on CNN this evening with a panel of reporters.
He basically suggested that McClellan had not really written many of the strongly worded accusations, and even talked of a phone conversation he had with him earlier [...]

When you hear McCain talk about how he has no control over swift-boat like groups, he may be right, but you’d also do well to remember this story.
From TPM:
A few weeks ago, Media Matters’ David Brock announced to great fanfare that he was taking over Progressive Media USA, a third-party group that would, he vowed, [...]

Recently, McCain admonished North Carolina Republicans as being “out of touch” for wanting to run this ad…

Now, let’s make one thing clear. Obama was not at church during the “god damn America” sermon and he’s made that clear. The commercial purposefully tries to blur that line and suggest Obama agrees with Wright’s sentiment, and for [...]

Geoff Garin, Hillary’s latest chief campaign strategist, tries to set a new standard on what constitutes a personal attack and what doesn’t.
It’s a laugh riot…
What’s wrong with this picture? Our campaign runs a TV ad Monday saying that the presidency is the toughest job in the world and giving examples of challenges presidents have [...]

Did he actually take the Clinton camp’s bait yet again?
Why yes…he did…again.
“Undisputable” indeed!
UPDATE:
Also, looks like there’s a lot of love coming from the conservative blogosphere.
Nice.