Get Ready -- The media is set to LIE their asses off tonight.

[WA98296]

The "media" wants the momentum changing. McCain will be said to have WON unless he has a complete meltdown. They will be glowing all over him, despite what you see during the debate, they will attempt to form the opinion that McCain won. Obama has had a really good week, because of McCain, the media can't let that go on unchecked, so they will intercede.

Arm yourselves with your internet connections, the best defense is a FAST offense BEFORE the debate is over.

[FrenchieCat]

1. I agree!

Jim Lehrer [e-mail]

Tom BrokeJaw http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6872152 /
Chris Matthews [e-mail]
Mark Halperin (no direct, but address him and use [e-mail] )
Chuck Todd [e-mail]
Everyone at CNN is listed individually on this page: http://www.cnn.com/feedback/cnntv /

Josh Marshall [e-mail]
Andrew Sullivan [e-mail]
Mark Ambinder [e-mail]
Keith Olberman [e-mail]
Rachel Maddow [e-mail]
Eugene Robinson [e-mail]
Frank Rich [e-mail]
E.J. Dionne [e-mail]
Ed Schultz [e-mail]
Randi Rhodes [e-mail]
Stephanie Miller [e-mail]
Thom Hartmann [e-mail]
Mike Malloy [e-mail]
Steve Clemons [e-mail]
Bbb Herbert [e-mail]
Joe Klein http://www.time.com/time/letters/email_letter.html
Howard Fineman [e-mail]
David Remnick (the New Yorker) [e-mail]
The New York Times Editors [e-mail]
The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com

[musicblind]

15. Again. There you are; always ready with useful information.

We all need to fight back to change the lies of the news.

[WA98296]

21. Hey thanks for the addys...anything current for Keith?

[butterfly77]

22. Damn! Always on the case...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[brooklynite]

2. Sorry, I've recycled my tinfoil hat...

Take a look at how many articles there are here about correspondents and pundits saying McCain miscalcuated and caused yesterday's mess, and that Sarah Palin came off like idiot in her Couric interview (which I think was shown on the "media"), and then tell me everyone's in the tank for McCain.

[madguy]

6. It's About The Narrative...

I don't think the point of this post is that the media is in the tank for McCain. Rather, they are in the tank for keeping a horserace going. Good Obama week, now McCain's turn. Then, when PorkLips climbs back in the polls, they're back on the Obama bandwagon.

[WA98296]

13. Exactly, Horserace = Ratings = Money

[keepCAblue]

19. Wall Street Journal is already running ads saying McSame won the debate...

well before the debate has even occurred ...posted earlier today on DU

[LanternWaste]

23. I think the I agree--MSM is salivating over the prospect of a McCain/Palin meltdown

This go around, I think the MSM is salivating over the prospect of a McCain/Palin meltdown. I mean really-- it's damn good copy, a lot better than another (this would be the third in row?) neck and neck race.

I think the MSM wants to see McCain lose his cool, and will magnify every bead of sweat on his face tonight to play that angle. I also think the MSM wants to see Palin flub the simplest lines and retorts when it's her go-around. Dramatically dumb makes just as good copy as does dramatic anger.

[AllentownJake]

3. Maybe I'm optimistic

but the circus McCain put on the past 3 days scared them...they have to live here too.

[leftynyc]

7. I also think keeping sarah the coward

all locked up behind glass is pissing them off. They feel they're being played and that's a stupid thing to do.

[phleshdef]

4. If what I've heard about the attitude toward McCain of the crowd that will be in attendence...

Its going to be hard to make that kind of spin. There are going to be some geniunely resentful people in that audience that are ticked off at McCain over his little "cancel the debate" stunt.

[justiceischeap]

5. I disagree and here's why

Hail Mary McShame has pissed off the media, I don't see them "lying their asses off" for the guy who has snubbed them and then blames them for his Palin debacle.

[WA98296]

14. I hope you are right, however, I fear, at the end of the day, it's about continuing ratings

[Joe the Revelator]

8. The sky is falling already!!!!!!!

Look for boogymen under your bed before you go to sleep tonight.

[HughMoran]

11. It's so fucking predictable and whiny

I can't stand stupid threads like this!

[lonestarnot]

9. Yes Norra has on her red suit. She's so hot in that red.

Not! :puke:

[HughMoran]

10. Fuck that - I'm not listening to their fucking crap

I hope no person with an ounce of integrity & intelligence is that stupid.

If they are, they aren't Dems anyway, so I'm not gonna start whining like a baby even before the debate starts!

[TheKentuckian]

12. I'm at least weasring a tinfoil beanie, at least

I still believe many are at least positioning to find some way to spin McCain as saving this bailout thing, despite saying its a stunt to your face. They admit he lies like a rug at almost every utterance but don't realy call that into much question.

Its an amazing disconnect that makes me uneasy.

Maybe, I'm just at the point where I expect McHoover/Failin to be scoffed at and no longer even taken remotely serious. I am furious at McCain's utter disregard for our country and our political process, he's a 72 year old child that believes this is all a game.

[TEXASYANKEE]

16. Not sure I agree this time.

While this was certainly the case in 2000 and 2004, when the media was definitely pro-Bush. This time our side has Keith and Rachel. It's no longer Fox and the "echo chamber" doing the narritive -- now our side has a voice. In fact, 2 very intelligent, articulate, attractive, and respected voices. The media will not simply be able to call it for McCain. It won't be that easy this time around.

[GoesTo11]

17. They may look awfully silly doing it.

Poor David Brooks.

[zbdent]

18. I expect the same media bj that the media gave Bush in 2004 ...

a la Kerry saying "My opponent said that he wasn't that concerned about (Osama bin Laden)." - Bush says "I don't believe I ever said that!"

White House web site pulls all access to the video of one of the very few "press conferences" that Bush actually had questions posed to him - 3/13/2002 - where he said "I am not that concerned about him."

Media doesn't bother to search its tapes of the rare press conference ... which, I would suspect would be a collector's item - a press conference where Bush actually was asked questions.

McCain could sit there in the debate, with Obama playing the tape of McCain saying that he was all for deregulation, and the one where he said "the fundamentals are sound", and McCain can say "uh-uh" ... and the media will let him off the hook ...

[xiamiam]

20. well one thing you can bet on..TOM BROKAW CALLS THE DEBATE FOR MCCAIN