(Watching my TIVO'd Daily Show now). . "Hamas endorsed Obama"

[annabanana]

MCLame just restated to Jon Stewart that Hamas did, in fact, endorse Obama and "I guarantee you they won't be endorsing me!"

Well. . It turns out that McLame has is OWN "terrorist endorsement" problem!

Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri has declared that he is actually on McCain's side in wanting to destroy Iran. Al-Zawahiri is hurt that McCain keeps confusing hyper-Sunni al-Qaeda with radical Shiism: "Ayman al-Zawahiri said al-Qaeda wants to see the destruction of Iran - a Shiite nation battling the terrorists . . . "The dispute between America and Iran is a genuine struggle, and the possibility of the US striking Iran is real," al-Zawahiri said. . ." Al-Zawahiri hopes that the US struggle with Iran will destroy the latter and weaken the former, putting al-Qaeda in a position to administer the coup de grace.

In essence, al-Zawahiri is endorsing McCain's plan to "bomb, bomb, bomb/ bomb, bomb Iran."
http://www.juancole.com/2008/05/zawahiri-endorses-mccain-plan-to-bomb.html

[Uzybone]

1. Forget about looking for comparisons

we need to point out how; again and again; McCain says one thing and then does another. He says with a straight face that he is going to run an "honrable" campaign, and he starts it by saying Obama is endorsed by Hamas. How phoney is McCain? Will the media continue to give him a pass?

[annabanana]

3. Yes.. Unless the internets can bubble a real story up to corpomedia

now and then.

Here's how it works. We know something here online and corpomedia is studiously ignoring it.. (because it looks bad for corpo-favorites). The blogosphere passes the info around and around until KO or Stewart or colbert knows it has sufficient circulation to get a laugh from their audiences.

At that point, corpomedia knows that they look STUPID because everybody is acknowledging it but them. They then either try to slip it into discourse as the new "conventional wisdom" or they do the tiniest little mea culpa and then slip it in as the new "conventional wisdom" and try to work around it as best they can.

[Pirate Smile]

2. Obama responds - says McCain is "losing his bearings".

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5887580