The Short List — Mon., July 28
July 28, 2008 at 8:47 am by Joe BardiSure, it seems like the McCain campaign is already desperate and fading. But remember, sometimes it’s better to be lucky than smart.
- T-minus 100 days and counting.
- Gallup puts Obama up nine.
- Study shows Obama treated more harshly than McCain in the press. (Press = McCain’s base.)
- McCain mucks up This Week; Obama takes on David Brooks on Meet The Press.
- Businesses see the cash-saving light. Soon, you will too.
- Boneing up: Cosmo’s top 20 sex tips of all time.
- Shia LaBeouf wrecks his truck, gets arrested for DUI.
- The Dark Knight keeps up the record-setting pace.
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July 28th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Wow Joe. You’ve never posted a Cosmo link before. What’s the occasion?
July 28th, 2008 at 10:44 am
What about the bias of those tracking the bias?!
On any note, McCain has had more than his fair share of media exposure. Were it not for their coverage of him in the GOP primary (and their exposing of Mitt the Flip), we’d be talking about nominee Romney right now - Huckabee only hurt himself by showing his jackass side to an all too willing media, though he can be crafty with the PR when he wants to.
McCain needs to be careful not to appear too whiny over the issue and move on. He made some crack about Obama’s Europe visit and the media, then let out a realllly creepy old man laugh - that can never be good.
There is still plenty of time to shape the debate - have the debates - and let the general public endure 4 more months of God awful ads…it’s anyone’s game
July 28th, 2008 at 10:54 am
My bad Czech. I forgot that The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University was a founding member of Move On.
Or, perhaps — just perhaps — part of the McCain camp’s strategy is to work the refs just like Hillary did to great effect after Super Tuesday? That seems more likely to me, anyway.
Just to sum up: When you put your candidate in the cheese aisle of a supermarket on the same day your opponent is buzzing Iraqi sand dunes in a helicopter also carrying the allied commander, the lackluster coverage you get is not evidence of media bias. It’s evidence your running an exceedingly bad campaign.
July 28th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Oh, and Kyle, I’m just appealing to a wider demo this morning. It’s a big tent here on the Short List.
July 28th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
My first remark was intended to be tongue-in-cheek. Oh well…
So what if McCain is in the cheese aisle while Obama was in Baghdad. Do I really need to post the cache of photos of McCain’s visits to the middle east?
Now, how many electoral votes does the state of Baden-Württemberg put on the table for Obama again?
July 28th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Sorry about that Czech. I missed the sarcasm and feel like a bit of a self-important ass-face over it.
My point was not that McCain can produce similar photos of his time overseas. My point was that the McCain camp did not provide effective counter-programming to Obama’s world tour. If McCain fails to give the media something compelling to talk about, they shouldn’t get pissed off and call bias when Obama trumps them.
And while I’m sure the Baden-Wurttemberg vote will not swing the election, Independents who think the way America is viewed by the rest of the world is important might be tempted to get on the O-train.
July 28th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I consider myself an Indie and I could not care less about the adulation throngs of Germans show for Obama as he declares himself a citizen of the world and makes another well-honed but platitudinous speech that really signifies nothing. Ask yourself: they cheer an African American politician, but would an Afro-German or any mixed race German pol, one of Kurdish or Turkish immigrant descent, ever achieve any kind of success in that culture and its politics? They cheer what they would never tolerate in their own politics.
July 28th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Are you referring to the Germany of WWII, or today’s version?
Also, they’re currently led by a woman, Angela Merkel, so they’re already a step ahead of us, minority-wise.
July 29th, 2008 at 12:17 am
Czech, go ahead and publish all the pictures you want of McCain touring a market surrounded by soldiers and guarded by a helicopter or two, then post YouTube video of him saying “it’s really safe over there. I walked around a market for hours and nobody attacked us.”
July 29th, 2008 at 9:28 am
(not to be confused with Captain Obvious)
Florida has the highest per capita military and ex-military populations. We also have quite a few electoral votes.
Despite Donny Rumsfield’s effort to move all of our troops out of europe so they could ’secure’ the middle east, we still have massive military operations there. Germany is the economic engine that drives the EU economy.
To have lived through such a close 2000 election and to think that getting press in a country that has both an extremely large US military and a large US business contingency and then to assume that they do not impact our elections is a very ignorant perspective.
July 29th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
My inlaws were stationed at Stuttgart in the 1990’s, and actually met in Kaiserslautern in the 70’s. He retired from the Air Force last spring after 30 years.
If there’s any American electoral impact in Germany, it’ll be the servicemen and women in Stuttgart, Kaiser, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, etc…advantage McCain.
My only point is that this election is far from over.