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Election 2008

The Real McCain That the Corporate Media Won't Show You

By Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films. Posted May 19, 2008.


Video: John McCain's record is something the public wants to discuss, and yet the corporate media is doing nothing to present the truth.
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There's no question John McCain is getting a free ride from the mainstream press. But with the power of YouTube and the blogosphere, we can provide an accurate portrayal of the so-called Maverick. We can put the brakes on his free ride!

Since we first released The Real McCain a year ago, Brave New Films' REAL McCain series has garnered close to two million views, with over 13,000 comments and tens of thousands more in petition signatures! Clearly, John McCain's record is something the public wants to discuss, and yet the corporate media is doing nothing to present the truth. We feel obliged to continue countering the mainstream media's love of McCain. And so we thought it was high time for a sequel: The Real McCain 2 (the video to the right).

We're doing everything to get the facts out there about McCain. Join us in making a concerted effort to tell the story that corporate media refuses to tell. E-mail this video to all of your friends and family members, news blogs and other local media outlets.

According to Cliff Schecter, author of The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him And Why Independents Shouldn't:

"It is dangerous for a democracy when a presidential candidate can lie with impunity, change positions on a whim, and physically and verbally threaten others and virtually none of it is reported by a besotted media eagerly awaiting the next moment when he might slap their backs in friendship."

The mainstream press may not do their job, but we can surely do ours. It is crucial that we alert the public to the REAL McCain, and it is crucial we act now, before it's too late.

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Robert Greenwald is the director/producer of "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism," as well as many other films. He is a board member of the Independent Media Institute, AlterNet's parent organization.

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McCain = same old same old
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Posted by: steveruff on May 19, 2008 4:02 AM   
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McCain has been given a free ticket while the talking heads keep putting Obama and Hillary against each other. It is long past time that people get educated on McCain and his irresponsible politics. McCain might well be about as dim as Bush, if that is even possible, but he is damn sure as bloodthirsty and dishonest.

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What to do?
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Posted by: tmwright on May 19, 2008 7:38 AM   
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It is too late for Michael Moore to roll out a new documentary besides, we saw how well that worked in 2004.

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Keating Five
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Posted by: Jeanne on May 19, 2008 10:08 AM   
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Say it loud and say it often. This scandal nearly took John McCain out of public life. He was deeply involved in covering up and trying to protect those responsible for the savings and loan collapses in the 1980s(?), which financially ruined many a retiree. That story needs to be revived and the American public reminded. John McCain is hardly the ethical, straight-talker his media image has portrayed him to be.

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Pathelogical Liar?
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Posted by: writerman on May 19, 2008 12:02 PM   
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is this guy for real? He seems incapable of telling the truth about anything! The villiage idiot is going to be followed the liar of the county, such progress, such progress!

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MCCAIN MYTH COMING UNGLUED
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Posted by: VZEQICVA on May 19, 2008 12:10 PM   
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Bush has already done damage to McCain and refuses to shut up. That will probably continue. Obama is not afraid of McCain or Bush. That's the best news. McCain has overplayed his war hero card. As soon as the Dems nominate, it will be open season on McCain. Obama can handle him and like or not, Clinton won't be too far away. I think that's the way Obama wants it. Anna

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McCain Defends 'Enron Loophole'
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Posted by: ThePublicRecord on May 19, 2008 12:33 PM   
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http://www.pubrecord.org

McCain Defends 'Enron Loophole'

The Public Record

May 19, 2008

Sen. John McCain says he opposes the $307 billion farm bill because it would dole out wasteful subsidies, but his chief economic adviser Phil Gramm also wants to stop its proposed regulation of energy futures trading, a market that was famously abused when Enron Corp. manipulated California’s electricity prices in 2001.

Clearing the way for that California price gouging, Gramm, as a powerful Texas senator in 2000, slipped an Enron-backed provision into the Commodities Futures Modernization Act that exempted from regulation energy trading on electronic platforms.

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Way Too Small
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Posted by: westomoon on May 19, 2008 1:45 PM   
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Yes, McCain is the granddaddy of all flip-floppers. But he is so much more!

His relationship with his current wife began while McCain was still married to his previous wife. There's the Keating 5, and the current story about the contributor who got a special earmark deal on a Federal land parcel. There's some interesting and creepy discussion about what his military service was actually like. And this guy actually meets the definition of "Manchurian candidate". And this video scarcely begins to tap the flipflop factor.

So, eh, I give it one thumbs up -- it's pretty good, as far as it goes. If the media only covers its subject matter, we will have been robbed again.

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Intelligence and Integrity
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Posted by: Philpott1950 on May 19, 2008 2:46 PM   
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I am a Brit and what strikes me about Mc Cain is that he does not come over very clever. Maybe he is not telling a consistent story because he cannot remember what he last said? Now Tony Blair was the epitome of a consistent politician, he always knew what he had said before. There seems an American obsession with wanting the tough guy to see off the enemy but not a guy who can think clearly and deliver policy and speeches in a coherent way. Media image is more important than actual content, so the public are sold deception in the name of truth.

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» Hit the nail right on the head. Posted by: Thetorganization
Alzheimers!
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Posted by: Jersey Devil on May 19, 2008 5:25 PM   
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Ok folks, lets see McCain's problem for what it is Alzheimers / Mad Cow / short/long term memory loss. Take you pick, he can barely remember the date, day, or his wife's bank account number.

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» RE: Alzheimers!sickofsleaze Posted by: ladybug1@carrollsweb.com
The More You See of Them, The Better Obama Looks
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Posted by: AlexLawyer on May 19, 2008 6:32 PM   
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I'm optimistic about Obama's prospects. The more you see of him, the more thoughtful, enlightened, intelligent and humane he appears. The more you see of McCain, the more ignorant, hypocritical and dangerous he appears. The policies he espouses have utterly failed. He shares not only Bush's neocon outlook, but his background as a dimwitted, opportunistic hedonist who rose to power on the strength of family connections posing as a patriot and a Christian.

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And The Wives!
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Posted by: AlexLawyer on May 19, 2008 6:35 PM   
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The Republicans have Michelle Obama, a Harvard educated lawyer and Vice President of the University of Chicago Hospitals, in their sights. Let's compare her with Cindy McCain, an adulterous beer heiress who looks like Tammy Faye Bakker's anorexic twin and has the intelligence of an FLDS member.

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My McCain..right or wrong.
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Posted by: BlueGorilla on May 19, 2008 7:43 PM   
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Whatever McCain does wrong, will be glossed over,ignored or minimised,by large sections of the media.Whatever Barack does right,will be glossed over,ignored or minimised,by large sections of the media.
Reagan's idiocy was reframed,as "folksiness"..Kerry's intelligence was reframed as "looking French"..only a rabid pack of rightwinger's ,could judge war hero Kerry unfavourably, against military action dodger Dubya.
The extreme right wing cheerleader's, will use any and all tricks,to ensure a Republican victory.
Our Western media,is not free,it is a tool to accumalate money and legitimate deregulated,corporate capitalism.
Even the Democrat's pathetic attempts at making US society a little fairer,must be crushed,according to the inexorable logic of the rightwing media militia's.
How I long for a free media.

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AHHH YESSSSS
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Posted by: aalif ba ta tha on May 19, 2008 9:54 PM   
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I cannot wait until Hillary is out of the picture and Barack can turn his sights on kicking McCain's ass. One of the most talented speakers in Congress vs. an old guy who can't tell the difference between Sunni and Shia and thinks Iran supports al Qaida. You do the math.

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it depends on the media
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Posted by: davidg on May 20, 2008 5:49 AM   
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Spin is everything. Bush for two terms, how did that happen? There are no guarantees. Read Chalmers Johnsons review of the "Inverted Totalitarianism" on Alternet. Pretty well sums it up.

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John McCain's Handler.
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Posted by: Makan on May 20, 2008 7:13 AM   
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When you watch the news, you generally see Joe Lieberman at Johnny's side. Lieberman is the Israeli's #1 man in the Congress. A true Zionist.
McCain can do little on his own. His memory is for shit. He's in the same league as Bush. A moron and a dangerous one.

The best thing McCain could have done for his country was to stayed in Vietnam and let the locals take care of him. Nature needed to take its course. Unfortunately another National Nightmare backed by the mainstream media and War(Wall) Street probably will be an option presented to the Amerikan sheep come November.

That is unless the Bush-Cheney Regime decide to create some "crisis" as to invoke Martial Law.
Wake up folks. Havent you had enough of these Amerikan Idiots?

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McCain Defends 'Enron Loophole'
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Posted by: ThePublicRecord on May 20, 2008 1:14 PM   
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http://www.pubrecord.org

McCain Defends ‘Enron Loophole’

The Public Record
May 19, 2008

Published in : Nation/World

Sen. John McCain says he opposes the $307 billion farm bill because it would dole out wasteful subsidies, but his chief economic adviser Phil Gramm also wants to stop its proposed regulation of energy futures trading, a market that was famously abused when Enron Corp. manipulated California’s electricity prices in 2001.

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This Guy's So Old
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Posted by: desidid on May 20, 2008 6:46 PM   
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he doesn't know what video-tape is. Or he needs Joe Lieberman to "remind" him what he believes.

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The Real McCain
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Posted by: mebadgett2 on May 23, 2008 6:28 PM   
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David Hackworth on Hero McCain:

http://tiny.cc/FGxox

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