The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

While You Wait for Mitt Romney, Say Hello to ‘The Scott Brown of Connecticut’

Posted on | August 30, 2012 | 2 Comments

TAMPA, Florida
Gotta run real quick, but not before I introduce you to a longtime reader of The Other McCain, John Henry Decker, now running for Congress in Connecticut’s First District:

 

JOHN HENRY DECKER for CONGRESS
Because He Reads the Right Blogs

Category: Congress, Connecticut, Election 2012, Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention

Pictures, or It Didn’t Happen

Posted on | August 30, 2012 | 20 Comments

TAMPA, Florida
In a dreadful hurry this afternoon, as I’m supposed to meet my Romney campaign source who is going to try to smuggle me into a luxury suite for tonight’s big speech. However, I first had to show you this photo which was taken in the lobby bar of a downtown hotel, where two of my biggest fans insisted on having their picture taken with me:

“Wow,” said the blonde chick. “I can’t believe I’m hanging out with The Other McCain! It’s amazing. Where are Smitty and Wombat?”

Category: Celebrities, Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention

Gee, Chris Matthews Hates Paul Ryan

Posted on | August 30, 2012 | 11 Comments

TAMPA, Florida
“Constrictive! Negative! Nasty!”

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Category: Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention, Paul Ryan

VIDEO: Paul Ryan’s Convention Speech That Inspired Democrat Media Panic

Posted on | August 30, 2012 | 10 Comments

Guy Benson says they’re in “meltdown” mode, and you can see why:

Category: Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention, Paul Ryan

When It Comes to ‘Brazen Lies,’
Nobody Excels Joan Walsh

Posted on | August 30, 2012 | 24 Comments

TAMPA, Florida
By now, you’re familiar with the pattern for Republican National Convention coverage: Democrats choose their themes, issue their talking points and their media henchpersons then repeat the partisan spin as if it were a matter of indisputable fact.

It was decided in advance that a major theme of media coverage would be “Republicans Are Racists,” and the liberal lapdogs in the press obligingly parroted the message. Chris Matthews declared it, and MSNBC contorted their coverage to conform to the Democrat talking points. (In case you didn’t realize it, “Chicago” is now a racist dog-whistle code — the “C-bomb,” as they call it at MSNBC.)

In advance of Paul Ryan’s speech — as demonstrated by the fundraising e-mail from DNC executive director Patrick Gaspard decrying “false attack after false attack” — it was decided to call Ryan a liar. This was the pre-determined theme, and when the DNC issued its message memo, their obliging stooges in the press corps repeated the contents without bothering to verify the facts for themselves.

Democrat drum majorette Joan Walsh rushed to the head of the parade to accuse Ryan of “brazen lies,” and the Washington Post ‘s Glenn Kessler took dictation from David Axelrod:

In his acceptance speech, GOP Vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan appeared to suggest that President Obama was responsible for the closing of a GM plant in Ryan’s hometown of Janesville, Wisc.
That’s not true. The plant was closed in December, 2008, before Obama was sworn in.

This was not independent reporting, but rather stenography for the Obama campaign, as demonstrated by Twitchy, which provides the Twitter talking points from both the DNC and Axelrod himself. And their supposed “facts” are flatly wrong, as Stephen Gutowski shows.

The plant in Janesville, which was GM’s oldest active factory, “was idled in 2009 after it completed production of medium-duty trucks,” according to Karl Rove the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. That is to say, five months into the Obama administration — three months after passage of the $800 billion “stimulus” bill, stuffed full of phony-baloney “green jobs” subsidies for politically connected firms like Solyndra — and not, as the “objective fact-checking journalists” claimed, during the Bush administration.

What is so profoundly offensive about the unethical and dishonest behavior of Chris Matthews, Joan Walsh and other such Democrat sockpuppets is that they won’t admit who they are and what they’re doing. They are not independent journalists, they’re partisan publicists, yet they expect to be taken seriously as reporters when they can’t even be bothered to do a Google search and find out when a factory closed.

They are a disgrace to the profession to which they claim to belong. Truth matters. Truth is precious and powerful. Liars are a dime a dozen.

UPDATE: Remember when CNN’s Soledad O’Brien was caught reciting liberal blog Talking Points Memo on air? This is even worse: People who are claim to be professional journalists accused Paul Ryan of lying, based on talking points issued directly from the Democratic National Committee and the Obama campaign, which the journalists themselves didn’t bother to verify, and which are provably false.

The combination of partisanship, dishonesty and sheer laziness — these worthless a–holes don’t even try to do their jobs — is as shocking as anything said by David Chalain, who got fired from Yahoo News, while a Democrat Party sockpuppet like Glenn Kessler keeps collecting a paycheck from the Washington Post.

Obviously, Chalain’s career-destroying mistake was not that he hates Republicans, nor that his accusation of racism was unsubstantiated, but that his particular lies had not be pre-approved by the DNC and David Axelrod. This saves the Democrats a lot of money, because the most valuable members of Obama’s re-election campaign are on the payrolls of the Washington Post, the New York Times, ABC, CBS, NBC . . .

UPDATE II: Remember that I predicted this — that the mainstream media coverage of the GOP convention would bear no resemblance to the actual convention — because they are professionally committed to reporting “The Exact Opposite of Truth.”

UPDATE III: Linked by Evil Blogger Lady, Rio Norte Line and William Hoge — thanks! — and by Professor Glenn Reynolds, who comments:

You know, the Democrats’ media base has served two functions. One, of course, has been to misinform the people who don’t pay much attention. It can still do that, though with reduced efficacy. But the other was to demoralize or intimidate the opposition. That part seems to have pretty much fallen by the wayside.

Now they’re trying to “hide the de-Klein,” so to speak.

 





 


Category: Democrats, Election 2012, Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention, Media Bias, MSNBC

‘No, Really. I Mean That.’

Posted on | August 30, 2012 | 12 Comments

“Send me your links and tips! No really, I mean that. If you’re in Tampa and reporting on the convention, I’d love to link your stuff. Tweet it to me @tabithahale, or shoot me an email at [email protected].”
— Tabitha Hale, “Convention Watch”

Category: Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention, Tabitha Hale

Pecksniff Matthews: “I don’t think Ryan spoke to the whole country tonight”

Posted on | August 30, 2012 | 16 Comments

by Smitty

What a ludicrous standard! Matthews, how is it possible to speak to the ‘whole’ country? With ‘whole’ for a quantifier, it only takes one to require another pass. Pass, ‘whole’.
Newsbusters:

Minutes after Paul Ryan finished his RNC speech on Wednesday, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews slammed the Republican vice presidential candidate for supposedly ignoring blacks during his “very constricted, very negative, very nasty speech,” and suggested that he was directing the address to racists: “It’s clear that Paul Ryan was talking to people who think about rights as something…produced by Thomas Jefferson, ignoring the people for whom the rights only came in the 1960s.”

For a nominal Roman Catholic, Matthews cleaves to an obtuse, secular weltanschauung. Or one that only looks a certain direction:
Probably, by the time 2020 rolls around, and Paul Ryan is running for POTUS, Matthews shall have departed the scene in the I-love-me jacket.

Category: Media Bias, NBC, Paul Ryan

DNC Executive Director Begs for $3 Donations to Fight GOP ‘False Attack’

Posted on | August 30, 2012 | 18 Comments

TAMPA, Florida
Years ago, I signed up for a Democrat e-mail list and this means I still get their fundraising e-mails — an endless source of amusement, getting a glimpse inside the rhetoric being spoonfed to the Democrat Party’s activist grassroots. We should not hate Patrick Gaspard, but rather pity him because, after all, he works for Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, the worst DNC chairman ever:

Friend —
Rep. Paul Ryan’s speech to the Republican Convention tonight wasn’t grounded in reality.
He leveled false attack after false attack against the President, while neglecting to give a single idea for how to move our country forward.
He also didn’t mention that the Romney-Ryan plan would turn Medicare into a voucher program to pay for tax cuts for millionaires, or that their promise to repeal Obamacare would take away access to health care for 32 million Americans. And don’t even get me started on how they want to end a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions.
If this extreme Republican vision for our country scares you as much as it does me, donate $3 or more now to help Democrats fight back before tomorrow’s fundraising deadline.
There are only 68 days left until Election Day — we’re in the home stretch, and every day between now and then is critically important.
What’s more — we have our most important fundraising deadline yet tomorrow at midnight. And how much we raise before then will determine whether or not Democrats have the resources to beat Romney, Ryan, and Republicans across the country.
It’s time for us to put our money where our mouths are and call Romney and Ryan out on their blatant lies and misrepresentations. But we need your help to do that.
Donate $3 or more today:
https://my.democrats.org/August-Deadline
Thanks,
Patrick
Patrick Gaspard
Executive Director
Democratic National Committee

P.S. — I’m serious — it’s game time. Donate now.

It’s pathetic, isn’t it? Maybe I should try this Democrat “just gimme $3 pretty please” fundraising gimmick. Or maybe not, because the expenses here in Tampa are outrageous: $10 for a cab ride here, a $10 sandwich there, and pretty soon it adds up to real money.

So go ahead and hit the tip jar for $20 or $50 or $100, just to piss off those poor idiot Democrats who — confused by their party’s fundraising rhetoric — are under the impression that all Republicans are greedy rich fat cats. Five or ten bucks would be appreciated if that’s all you can afford, but whatever you give, I promise in return to do all I can ” to end a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions,” because I’m just an evil woman-hating Republican that way.

 





Category: Democrats, Election 2012, Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention
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