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The Real McCain: Senator Gets Millions from Lobbyist "Friends" [VIDEO]
Since the traditional media has obsessively focused on McCain's alleged liaison with Vicki Iseman and smearing The NY Times, Brave New Films felt compelled to take action. Jason, Phillip, and Dallas raced to the editing room, turned off the phones, locked the door, and focused on the real issue about McCain's lobbyist ties.
It's not a pretty picture. But here's our chance to get the truth out there for everyone to see.
With inspiration from the insightful blogs of FireDogLake's Jane Hamsher, Christy Hardin Smith, and Marcy Wheeler, we found footage and music to show the story not being told.
We use humor, we use pop culture, we use McCain's insistent use of the word "friends!" We hope you will send it along to your friends, foes, and media outlets.
John McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, and yet he said "I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to."
Sign the petition demanding McCain return the millions of dollars raised by lobbyists.
Robert Greenwald sits on the board of the Independent Media Institute, AlterNet's parent company
Tagged as: conservatives, mccain, republican party, lobbying, republican hypocrisy, iseman
Robert Greenwald is the director/producer of "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" and "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism."
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