Campaign shocks The Outrage Machine is on a roll

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Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Oh, the outrage.

John McCain's campaign people are said to be suffering hurt feelings over Barack Obama's comment that McCain's policies are like lipstick on a pig. (And they are asking you to give money to make it better.)

Don't cry for them. And don't believe Obama was upset on behalf of the middle class when McCain joked that a rich person is one who makes $5 million.

These are hardened pols. Their sensibilities are not so meltingly tender.

When a candidate or his war room issues a huffy demand for an apology from the other side, you know they are having a good day. This is the Outrage Machine in motion, keeping the conflict going, spitting out a campaign ad and leveraging the whole sorry mess into a fundraising opportunity.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080911/ap_on_el_pr/the_outrage_machine

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Recommend this story; it's getting more exposure than this this other, more imflammatory one:


Lipstick comments color presidential campaign

Palin, a little-known Alaska governor before she became McCain's running mate, had told the Republican nominating convention this month that she was a "hockey mom" and joked that the only difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull was lipstick.

McCain's advertisement juxtaposes the lipstick remarks by Obama and Palin, then cuts to footage of CBS News anchor Katie Couric observing that one lesson of the campaign was the "continued and accepted role of sexism in American life."

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MCCAIN AD PULLED

CBS News said the video-sharing website YouTube.com had agreed at CBS' request to pull the ad on grounds that the Couric clip -- taken without permission from a 3-month-old online commentary about Democrat Hillary Clinton's primary campaign -- was a copyright infringement.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080911/pl_nm/usa_politics_dc_8

[kevinmc]

1. I am outraged at the outrage, which I find outrageous n/t

[kevinmc]

2. I am outraged at the outrage, which I find outrageous n/t

[Ioo]

3. why are they raising money? They took Public Money?

[FrenchieCat]

4. 527s, I'm sure.