Kass: Media guilt works for candidates

How's this for Irony?

"If I go into politics, it should grow out of work I've done on the local level, not because I'm some media creation."

-- Barak Obama (as newly elected pres. of the harvard Law Review) in an interview in Vanity Fair, 1990

John Kass and RNC Bruce can be the charter members of the Media Whiners of America.

Kass conveniently omits that The New York Times endorsed McSame in the New York state Republican primary. Kass also neglects to note that his own newspaper has never endorsed a Democrat in the general election.

How is this media bias? This is the reality of the situation. Obama is younger, healthier, more intelligent, more likable. McSurge is older, sicker, dumber, less likable, tends to get angry, has dementia, can't form an intelligible sentence, forgets the names of the countries, and is losing the election. The media is giving him lots of slack, like his interview with Katie Couric two nights ago, when they edited out his timeline mistakes on the events in Iraq. Oh, my mistake, he now claims that the surge began before the surge began, so there was no mistake.

Here a few McBush quotes MJ.

"Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that's a disgrace. It's an absolute disgrace and it's got to be fixed." --on Social Security, Denver, Colorado, July 7, 2008

"That's not too important. What's important is the casualties." --on when U.S. troops will return from Iraq, "Today," NBC, June 11, 2008

"I will veto every single beer, um, bill with earmarks." --speaking at the National Small Business Summit, Washington, D.C., June 10, 2008

"Well, basically, it's a Google." --on how he's conducting his VP search, Richmond, Virginia, June 9, 2008

"We should be able to deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies." --Kenner, Louisiana, June 3, 2008

Speaking of forming intelligible sentences, lyra, did you happen to catch Obama talking to the Israeli fellow on the WGN news last night? Halting speech, long pauses while he groped for the next word, and by the time he got to the end of the sentence I'd suspect that the Israeli had forgotten what the beginning was. To those of us used to listening to him, it was he same old generalities and platitudes, though. When he hasn't got his TelePrompTer, he can barely talk.

"Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that's a disgrace. It's an absolute disgrace and it's got to be fixed." --on Social Security, Denver, Colorado, July 7, 2008
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John McCain may be old, and not the celebritee kind of guy that a modern day president apparently has to be, but the first part of that statement is true. Your paid-in Social Security is not stashed in some safe place with your name on it, just waiting for you as a special 66th birthday present.

If today's workers were to stop working, they would have to print money to make the next SS payment. It still is a Ponzi scheme. I think McCain is saying that there is a need for a more financially secure Ponzi scheme in the 2nd part of his statement, - the disgrace part. Not sure what part of this statement would otherwise be disputable. Is this another Economic reality that democrats do not seem to recognize?

I think McCain is saying that there is a need for a more financially secure Ponzi scheme in the 2nd part of his statement,
Posted by: Django S. - Houston Tx | July 24, 2008 9:46 AM

I assume you feel it is better to invest your own money for retirement. You could put it in...say...Real Estate..er...the stock market...er...your mattress.

I assume you feel it is better to invest your own money for retirement. You could put it in...say...Real Estate..er...the stock market...er...your mattress.

Posted by: bill "Hussein" r. | July 24, 2008 10:29 AM

In a narrow window of time, ANY investment can do badly. There have been times when I felt that I controlled the entire frickin' NY stock market simply by buying 100 shares of one thing or the other (stock suddenly discovers a new reason to shed value). DIVERSIFY - That is what anyone without any special financial genuis or selective information should always favor to do.

I am not anti-Social Security. It's a done deal and I know that it has helped some people who would otherwise have nothing. But do recognize that it is a legalized Ponzi Scheme that returns, on average, something less than 2%. Over the course of a working life-time, there are clearly better investments / annuities that a person could put money into. I HAVE successfully done that one, with minimal risk ~ GE Financial. What part of McCain's statement is false or in error?

Bill Hussein, if the return on my Social Security taxes were as good as that on my 401(k) has been over my career, which encompasses the October 1987 crash and the free-fall after the 9/11 attacks, I'd be on easy street. My 401(k) is allocated over a range of investments, including a guaranteed income contract (about 20%) and domestic and foreign stocks, mostly through mutual funds. When people talk about privatizing a portion of Social Security, my only quibble is that they want to allow it only for people younger than 55, which cuts me out!

John Kass: you lost me at "The Drudge report."

In reply to DaveB,oh, please, spare me! Obama is very thoughtful in his responses. I have never heard him be unintelligible. He often halts, and you can see he is considering his response. There is no comparison to McSurge. Obama is a brilliant speaker. McSurge is barely able to compose a sentence. McSurge on Barack's Iraqi visit: "And I hope that, when he goes, he will learn, that we will succeed, and when we succeed, we will succeed and with dignity...blah,blah."

lyra, perhaps you've noticed that Obama generally speaks from behind a lectern. He does the "lighthouse;" he holds his head up, and swivels from left to right, right to left, left to right, looking out over the audience, not at it. That's because he's reading his speech off the TelePrompTer. McCain takes the mike in his right hand, comes out from behind the lectern, and talks to people man-to-man. You can expect Obama to be more fluent, because he's reading something that has been written and polished over days. McCain is just talking.

You obviously didn't see Obama groping for words on the news last night!

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. McCain should THANK the media for not covering him as much as they are covering Obama. The only ones who are truly hearing about all his mistakes -- and some pretty major ones at that -- are the "political junkies" who regularly tune in to the various political shows and read the blogs. The average citizen is not getting the complete story. And again, McCain should be saying "thank you," not calling them the JV squad.

Has anyone else noticed how thin-skinned, touchy, dishonest, and hypocritical John Kass really is? He doesn't even cite the letter in Daily Kos that has him all in a lather. It's here:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/20/21442/3962/866/554410

I wrote it (although I did not write the personal insult that Kass cites; that was a commenter). Kass is too much of a propagandist to reference the letter in any way. Read it and you'll see why.

Yeah Kass, I too wish the "liberal media" would cover McCain more and stop ignoring his many stumbles. Including on his Mideast trip when Liebermann had to correct him several times on issues Mr. Experience should be an expert on like knowing the difference between Shiites & Sunnis. Give equal press to the Evangelical pastors who are his supporters that spew anti-American and hate speech; rip apart his wife like they are doing to Michelle, his Czechoslovakia and surge gaffes; hold him accountable for every stupid remark a supporter/surrogate has made, and many more stumbles and gaffes that the “liberal media” could catch if they paid any attention or cared. You are right Kass, if Obama had made these types of mistakes/gaffes you, every newspaper, and 24 hours news network would cover it non-stop.

"Yet has anyone noticed McCain's complaining? No."

what are you talking about? complaining is mccain's entire schtick!