Why does McCain get a pass regarding G. Gordon Liddy?

[maxrandb]

I just can't understand this, except for the fact that the MSM is in the tank, but with all the "heavy breathing" about a guy named Ayers who gave Obama $200 and served on the board of a charity with him, I'd like to know when someone is going to start applying that same "guilt by association" tactic to McCain.

A convicted felon, who used criminal activity to subvert our Constitution and our Laws has given over $5000 to McCain over the past few years. A treasonous bastard who put a political party over the law of our country has hosted fundraisers at his house for McCain. A domestic terrorist who advocated the kidnapping of America citizens for political expedience is warmly greeted and "friendly" with the Republican nominee for President.

So McCain is freindly, takes money from, and holds fundraisers in the home of a man who:

- Committed felonies to subvert our Democratic Process
- Advocated kidnapping American citizens to protect the Republican Party Convention
- Advocated the murder of a journalist for pure political purposes
- Has said his "regret" is that he "didn't execute John Dean when he had the chance"
- Recently instructed his listeners to "shoot at the face and heads of Federal Law Enforcement officals to 'ensure they get a kill shot', and not just hit the bullet-proof vest"

Why no 24/7 coverage of this?

It would be so easy for the MSM. Instead of getting their questions from Sean Insanity, they could just quote from the transcript of Liddy's federal felony conviction.

[MercutioATC]

1. You missed one of the horrible transgressions of Liddy...

This:



Sorry, shoulda warned ya first, maybe...

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. All that picture needs is a big pair of nuts in place of the feet.

He is such a jerk.

[alfredo]

2. Liddy was raised by a Nazi, and was greatly influenced by Hitler.

From Media Matters:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200411230004

Hitler as an early political hero

The Fuhrer was G Gordon Liddy's first political hero. Liddy was a sickly, asthmatic child when he grew up in Hoboken, New Jersey, in the 1930s. The town was full of ethnic Germans who idolized Hitler. Liddy was made to salute the Stars and Stripes Nazi-style by the nuns at his school; even now, he admits, "at assemblies where the national anthem is played, I must suppress the urge to snap out my right arm." His beloved German nanny taught him that Hitler had -- through sheer will-power -- "dragged Germany from weakness to strength."

This gave Liddy hope "for the first time in my life" that he too could overcome weakness. When he listened to Hitler on the radio, it "made me feel a strength inside I had never known before," he explains. "Hitler's sheer animal confidence and power of will . He sent an electric current through my body." He describes seeing the Nazis' doomed technological marvel the Hindenberg flying over New Jersey as an almost religious experience. "Ecstatic, I drank in its colossal power and felt myself grow. Fear evaporated and in its place came a sense of personal might and power."

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Read John Dean's "Conservatives Without Conscience" to understand the authoritarian mind such as Liddy's. You will also see why bush's support hasn't gone much lower than the twenties.

[lonestarnot]

5. mmmm mmmm mmm Nazi's in the morning.

[alfredo]

8. Its seems like a re occurring theme in the Republican ranks.

Remember the Nazis in GHW Bush's campaign.

[lonestarnot]

12. Remember them? Exposed daily! Bushitler bastards!

[alfredo]

14. We have been reminded to never forget.

[lonestarnot]

15. And I never shall! NEVER!

[alfredo]

16. Any connection with the Third Reich, even if a generation removed, is

reason to deny public office.

[liberal N proud]

4. It is the media deciding for you and me what we get to debate

They decide who the candidates are, they decide what issues will get discussed and they decide what scandals to break and what scandals will be kept in the headlines for weeks, which ones get buried.


We don't have any say in the matter.

[maxrandb]

7. You know, I hate to get in the Mud with these bastards

but like Tom Hagen and Michael Corleone when they were discussing killing the corrupt New York police captain in the Godfather.

Mike asked Tom, "We have newspaper people on the payroll, maybe they'd like a story about a corrupt cop who got what was coming to him"

Don't Democrats have anyway to respond? You'd think, what with the "liberal" media and all that, we might be able to drive a story or two. :sarcasm:

[Richard Steele]

6. Because he's a repub, he gets a pass on EVERYTHING.

[Neshanic]

9. What do you think. Republicans get passes on everything.

[seasat]

10. The media is giving him a pass on everything...Lobbyist, campaign finance, radical right policies.

These things are obvious contradictions to his "moderate maverick" image and don't fit the media narrative. We're so busy locked in a contentious primary battle that we're not doing enough to define him and promote these contradictions. The DNC under Dean is doing their best such as promoting his "100 years in Iraq" statement but we need a candidate that will spend the entire news cycle hammering McSame on these points instead of hammering each other.

[csziggy]

11. To the Nixon apologists guys like Liddy are their heroes

who were wrongfully convicted. If we could get the association between McCain and Liddy publicized it would likely give McCain more credence among the right wing nut crowd.

[noonwitch]

13. Liddy is funny, in an obnoxious way, so...

I loved the way he played himself in the "Miami Vice" episodes he guested on.

But that's probably why no one calls McCain on it. Liddy did his time, and unlike most of his Watergate cohorts, he did actual hard time in a real penitentiary. Sure, he's a right-wing blowhard, but he's smarter than Sean Hannity, although you can probably say that of about half the population.

[blondeatlast]

17. I tried to find photos of McCain and Liddy, no luck. But we need to make

it very clear that Liddy has hosted fundraisers AT HIS OWN HOME for "Huggy Bear" McSame.

How, indeed, to give this story "legs"? Liddy is a dangerous, dangerous, man who has frequently advocated deadly violence to Federal LAW ENFORCEMENT. That alone should be enough to make this story hit the news.

Well, once upon a time, anyway...

[The Gunslinger]

18. McCain seems to get a pass for everything...

I never want to hear the term "left wing media" again.

[maxrandb]

19. But you always will

Without the "myth" of a "left-wing-media" to hide behind, conservatives know they couldn't get elected dogcatcher in this country.