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When Stephanopoulous asked McCain about his endorsement by Paster John Hagee, McCain denounced his anti-Catholic bigotry, then said:
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Damn, it was good to see John again. The longer this primary season goes on, the more I miss him.
Tom Shales speaks for me. Although really, we are all losers when these sorts of stupid trivialities are the only things the moderators care about.
When Barack Obama met Hillary Clinton for another televised Democratic candidates’ debate last night, it was more than a step forward in the 2008 presidential election. It was another step downward for network news — in particular ABC News, which hosted the debate from Philadelphia and whose usually dependable anchors, Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, turned in shoddy, despicable performances.
For the first 52 minutes of the two-hour, commercial-crammed show, Gibson and Stephanopoulos dwelled entirely on specious and gossipy trivia that already has been hashed and rehashed, in the hope of getting the candidates to claw at one another over disputes that are no longer news. Some were barely news to begin with.
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UPDATE: Greenwald analyzes the press responses and concludes:
Let the David Brooks, Roger Simons and Marc Ambinders band together and self-righteously defend this trash. As always, it’s vital to remember that they don’t actually speak for anyone other than the discredited journalist class of which they’re members.
“Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture are crimes under U.S. law, wherever they occur in the world.”
I’m swamped with no time to post, so here’s a cat playing a theramin. (Hey, at least it’s not about the stupid primary!)
But really, this primary season is making nearly everyone I know act like a crazy person.
I find the Petraeus/Crocker hearings so infuriating, so pointless, that I can only turn to Jon Stewart to make sense of it all.
Which is exactly what we were saying at the time. Now the FBI makes it official.
FBI probe: Lieberman campaign to blame for crashing own Web site
A federal investigation has concluded that U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s 2006 re-election campaign was to blame for the crash of its Web site the day before Connecticut’s heated Aug. 8 Democratic primary.
The FBI office in New Haven found no evidence supporting the Lieberman campaign’s allegations that supporters of primary challenger Ned Lamont of Greenwich were to blame for the Web site crash.
Lieberman, who was fighting for his political life against the anti-Iraq war candidate Lamont, implied that joe2006.com was hacked by Lamont supporters.
“The server that hosted the joe2006.com Web site failed because it was overutilized and misconfigured. There was no evidence of (an) attack,” according to the e-mail.
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