{"id":2169,"date":"2008-02-23T13:18:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T18:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2008-02-23T13:18:26","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T18:18:26","slug":"un-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2169","title":{"rendered":"Un-Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Why the hell <\/em>won’t Republicans or conservatives mix it up <\/em>with the media?\u00a0 Why do Republicans always let the Tics and the media (pardon the redundancy) get away with gang-raping Republicans – see Rod Grams and Alan Fine and the 2000 ambush and the 2004 60 Minutes attacks on Bush?\u00a0 Why do Republicans take the proverbial “high road” and hope that the media that is the active player in the smear, every friggin’ time<\/em>, will somehow turn around and get the actual truth out in the end?”<\/p>\n

Well, merry friggin’ Chrismas; Mac fought back<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The piece about McCain\u2019s friendly relations with a telecommunications lobbyist \u2014 long-discussed in political circles and planned for weeks by McCain operatives \u2014 was the first test of his ability to confront a public-relations crisis since becoming the GOP\u2019s presumptive nominee.<\/p>\n

But the reaction may have said as much about the mindset of the conservative movement on the brink of the general election as it did about McCain and his team.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the dead-tree media are whining like shower-room nancyboys<\/a> about it:<\/p>\n

By Thursday morning, when the article appeared in the print editions of The Times, the McCain campaign had begun an aggressive attack against the newspaper, calling the article a smear campaign worthy of The National Enquirer. It was a symphony to the ears of Mr. McCain\u2019s conservative critics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ed groin-kicks the Times’<\/em> whinging:<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

She managed to make the New York Times the victim of “an aggressive attack” by McCain over a smear — without explaining what the smear actually was! The Times piece originally led with an accusation of a sexual affair for which they offered exactly zero evidence<\/strong>. Calling it a smear worthy of the National Enquirer isn’t an aggressive attack, it’s a factual description.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I’m happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Why the hell won’t Republicans or conservatives mix it up with the media?\u00a0 Why do Republicans always let the Tics and the media (pardon the redundancy) get away with gang-raping Republicans – see Rod Grams and Alan Fine and the 2000 ambush and the 2004 60 Minutes attacks on Bush?\u00a0 Why do Republicans take the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}