getting a little ahead of ourselves???

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getting a little ahead of ourselves???
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Fri, 09-26-2008 - 3:45pm

Adding to the rocky perception was a McCain campaign web ad released this morning declaring "McCain Wins Debate!" -- put out even before the candidate had announced he was planning to debate.


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Fri, 09-26-2008 - 6:21pm

Truly, we are in the presence of a zen master who can accomplish the "camel-through-the-eye-of-a-needle" trick of arriving without travelling. Only, as applied to the political world, it's "win without debating." He doesn't even have to SHOW UP, and he's already won. That's some powerful debating there, folks, accomplished with a minimum of effort


OM MANI PADME HUM !


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Registered: 09-25-2008
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 6:25pm
You're kidding, right?

This is - in your mind - some nefarious plot by "the left" (that oh-so-organized group of political tree-spikers who're responsible for everything from the Wall Street collapse to your aunt's gout)? Seriously? You're actually suggesting that somehow, "the left" (this marvelous ad-hoc group) took the time to:

  1. Mock up such a thing in Photoshop,

  2. Send it to the Wall Street Journal, disguised as representatives of the McCain campaign,

  3. Hack the site, and upload the graphic into a convenient black space on the Journal's web site, and finally, after all that amazing, sophisticated trickery,

  4. Be lame enough to make errors on the graphic which are glaring enough that an inexpert Internet observer such as you or I can discern that it's a fake without even checking out the theory (thus foiling their dastardly plan??!! Curses!!)?


Oy. Well, whatever gets you through the night, snoopy. But thank you for providing me with a memory vivid enough not only to recall, but to induce fits of laughter, the next time someone starts bloviating about "conspiracy theorists on the left."


Seriously:


I Can't Stand It - I Know You Planned It

I'm-a Set It Straight, This Watergate

I Can't Stand Rocking When I'm In Here

Because Your Crystal Ball Ain't So Crystal Clear

So While You Sit Back and Wonder Why

I Got This F---ing Thorn In My Side

Oh My God, It's A Mirage

I'm Tellin' Y'all It's Sabotage

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Registered: 09-25-2008
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 6:28pm
No doubt.

But he doesn't email it to sympathetic Internet-news outlets who run it before the debate even happens.

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Fri, 09-26-2008 - 6:41pm

The picture was posted by mistake by the Wall Street Journal, not the McCain camp.

http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/09/26/mccain-to-attend-debate-web-ad-claims-victory-already/

Before Republican presidential hopeful John McCain announced he would attend the presidential debate on Friday night in Mississippi, apparently an Internet advertisement slipped out onto the Wall Street Journal’s opinion page with it declaring he won the contest.

Here’s a screenshot of the Web advertisement as posted by the Washington Post in which it claims “McCain Wins Debate,” with him in the foreground and an American flag in the background.

McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said the ad posting was a mistake by the Wall Street Journal. Oops.

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Registered: 09-25-2008
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 6:43pm
Heavens to Murgatroyd, snoops - and I say this only because I care - it really is a wise idea to engage brain before engaging mouth or keyboard.

Take a deep breath. Open a fresh browser window. Type John McCain's web site into the address bar (or, just click on this link). Scroll down to the bottom. No, below the treacly crap about how the McCain/Palin ticket "feels like you" (which, now that I come to think of it, is actually rather creepy). Keep going. Riiiiiiight......there. Got it? Do you see what I see?

OK, OK, if you don't wanna do that....I included a screenshot with this post. Were you prepared to argue that this, too - the very hacking of St. Senator Maverick "Bomb-Bomb" McBush-lite's web site was also perpetrated by "the left?"

Man, those lefties are good.

edited to add: Fish, meet barrel. ;o)


Edited 9/26/2008 6:46 pm ET by palin_in_comparison

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Fri, 09-26-2008 - 6:46pm

Thanks for the laugh!


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Fri, 09-26-2008 - 7:58pm

Imagine if he didn't show tonight.


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Registered: 01-18-2006
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 8:00pm
Ahhhh so the McCain campaign DIDNT make the mistake after all.

 

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Registered: 01-18-2006
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 8:01pm
It wasn't on the heads of his campaign...the Wall St Journal made the error.

 

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Registered: 09-26-2008
Fri, 09-26-2008 - 8:40pm
LOL - the only thing was the Wall street Journal posted it too early LOL...