We need to call the media on this double standard. John McCain has done a 180 on every single major issue there is; taxes, Oil Drilling, 100 years vs. 2013 out of Iraq, even Public financing......and McCain has yet to be termed a Flip Flopper.
Obama determines that Public Financing isn't the even Playing field that it should be in order for him to accept it, and the media labels it a Flip Flop.
We must jam them up for this type of coverage. They are McCain's base afterall. If we don't jam them up, who will?
Contessa Brewer has been doing "a job" on Obama all morning.
Contact:
Contessa Brewer -- MSNBC
Title: Anchor
Department: MSNBC Live
E-mail: world@msnbc.com
Phone: (201) 583-5000
Fax: (201) 583-5584
I have not watched other channels, but I'm sure that this is a coordinated attack against Obama by McCain's "base".
I'm sure that the media will make up for McCain's funding shortfall by providing him with billions in "Free Media". That's what they always do.
Until we have a Fairness doctrine in place, public financing doesn't means jack-shit!
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My letter to MSNBC:
Dear Contessa Brewer and David Shuster:
Amazing how MSNBC, including the two of you are so willing to term Obama's reasoned change of mind on accepting Public Financing as a Flip Flop, but fails to discuss John McCain's own change of mind when he went from opting out, to opting back in, to opting out again, and no discussion occured, nor it is being reference today.
The Media has amnesia about McCain's flip flop on campaign financing....among his many other flip flops.
McCain was out for the primaries, then he was in for the primaries, then he was out for the primaries, not he's in for the General.
But somehow, Obama is the man who doesn't keep his word?
Also note that Obama is taking charge over his objection of 527s on the Democratic side, and those 527s are complying. McCain has not shown leadership on this, as he has professed that he doesn't have any control over 527s on the GOP side. Who wants a leader who can't control the party that he represents? That is the real issue in this whole slant.
Until we have reform on Media and force them to provide equal time (i.e. the Fairness Doctrine) in elections, public financing doesn't work, because the media tends to provide the Republicans with billions in free media. That's what happened in 2004 with the swiftboaters, and that is what is going on today with Obama being branded as a flip flopper, although John McCain is the greatest flip flopper of them all. Amazingly or not so much, the media does not provide the balance required to equal fair analysis.
But what is evident is that it is Obama who appears much more of a leader in this public financing issue, even if he is being portrayed as the flipflopper. Read here:
Exclusive: MoveOn To Close Its 527 In Response To Obama's Candidacy
By Greg Sargent - June 20, 2008, 12:05PM
MoveOn, the advocacy group supporting Barack Obama, has decided to permanently shutter its 527 operation, partly in response to the Illinois Senator's insistence that such groups should not spend on his behalf during the general election, I've learned from the group's spokesperson.
MoveOn's decision, which will dramatically impact the way it raises money on Obama's behalf, is yet another sign of how rapidly Obama is taking control of the apparatus that's gearing up on his behalf
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/moveon_to_close_its_527.php McCain's Flip Flop Evidence here:
March. 2, 2007
McCain may opt out of public financing systemDecision depends on winning nomination and Democratic nominee's plans
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17417007 /
Feb 18, 2008
McCain found a way to use the public funds as an insurance policy: If he did poorly, he would use public funds to pay off his loans. If he did well, he would have the advantage of unlimited spending. There's a reason no one's ever done anything like this. It makes a travesty of the choice inherent in voluntary public financing, between public funds and unlimited spending. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Legal or not, it should bring to an end whatever tiny thread of credibility John McCain still has as a straight-talker or reformer of the political process.
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=02&year=2008&base_name=the_pete_rose_of_politicsApril 4, 2008
McCain returns $3m in checks as he considers public fundinghttp://www.blogrunner.com/snapshot/D/7/3/mccain_returns_3m_in_checks_as_he_considers_public_funding/Democrats to ask for investigation of McCain's campaign financing By The Associated Press
04.14.08
WASHINGTON — Democratic Party officials want a federal judge to order an investigation into whether Sen. John McCain violated election laws by withdrawing from public financing, saying federal regulators are too weak to act on their own.
A lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission, to be filed today in U.S. District Court, questions the agency's ability to enforce the law and review McCain's decision to opt out of the system. The Republican presidential candidate, who had been entitled to $5.8 million in federal funds for the primary campaign, decided earlier this year to give up that money so he could avoid strict spending limits between now and the GOP's national convention in September.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/Speech/campaignfinance/%5Cnews.aspx?id=19920In other words, MSNBC is not doing its job, but I am not surprised.
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