New Media Fallout

Andrew Wilkow asked this today while guest hosting the Mark Levin show. I wish I got Sirius Radio where I live.

Newt has a great list of questions on newt.org.

Being the Media will never ask them, (Obama has told them it is not allowed, it will distract from him milking the economy issue which should put him in the tank not ahead, but this is supposed to be parenthetical) I suggest Newt change the title to:

Questions John McCain and Sarah Palin need to ask and John McCain and Sarah Palin need to answer when Obama doesn’t - all day, every day, until the election.

And they should start by asking them and answering them in the presence of the bitter clingers.

There are 19 of them about Resco, acorn, Fannie, Freddie, Ayers, and the like. You know, the issues that should be in the news throughout 2008 but haven’t been.

The list

Initial thoughts:

Tom Brokaw sucks and should never moderate another debate.

Did McCain really call Obama’s Freddie and Fannie friends as croneys?

If Obama is elected, he’ll have to answer for a lot of broken promises.

Malkin almost seems extra feisty tonight:

Obama is back to Bush-bashing. Drink. Now, we’re just rehashing last week’s debate.

Worthless.

McCain-Bush, McCain-Bush.

Sarah Palin was so much more effective at defusing this talking point in her debate.

McCain is doing…nothing.

Except: “My friends, my friends, my friends, my friends.”

FoxNews poll - big win for McCain - 86%

Some fancy CBS poll where they asked 516 “uncommitted” voters - 40% said Obama won.

Oh, ok - the rest of the truth is, the poll numbers said only 26% saw it as a win for McCain. The rest thought it was a draw.

If liberals can call Bush a cowboy, why do they not like McCain and Palin calling themselves mavericks?

It’s about time.  I wonder if this conventional wisdom that going negative is bad is all that conventional or wise?

The GOP presidential candidate told a campaign rally: “Sen. Obama has accused me of opposing regulation to avert this crisis. I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough it will be believed.”

In some of the harshest language yet, McCain said the campaign comes down to a simple question: Who is the real Barack Obama?

McCain drew the loudest cheers when he said the Democrat has written two memoirs but “he’s not exactly an open book.”

Obama is right - a lie will be believed if it is repeated enough. Obama is no fool. He’s observed how things work and his handlers have probably wrongly assured him he can get away with lies. That is about to change I hope.

Probably an unwise move. You can’t take jabs at your opponent about something that happened in the 80s, then whine about having to answer for your own associations during this century. And Obama will. Believe it.

Minnesota Independent:

Everyone wondered whether, and how, John McCain’s charter membership in the “Keating Five” — a group of congressmen implicated in trying to foil government inquiries into Savings & Loan baron Charles Keating’s corner of the 1980s S&L scandals — would find its way into the 2008 campaign.

Wall Street answered that question for us.

Americablog

McCain’s lawyer just said that the Keating Five investigation was “political” as it concerned John McCain. He shouldn’t even have been admonished by the Senate, his lawyer says.

Then McCain’s lawyer dropped the real bomb.

The Keating Five Investigation was “a political smear job on John [McCain].” WTF? He called Howell Heflin, who led the hearings, a “stooge” of the Democratic machine out to get poor, innocent John McCain.

This opens up the entire question of McCain’s supposed contrition. If McCain thinks he did nothing wrong, and that it was wrong for the Senate to scold him for his actions during the Keating Five Scandal, then he isn’t contrite at all, he isn’t sorry at all. He’s learned nothing. You can’t turn a new leaf when you don’t think you did anything wrong.

A lawyer pointing out correctly that the Senate did something wrong, doesn’t mean the client has no regrets. I’m pretty sure McCain has already paid the piper on this one, and the 13-minute Youtube-fodder documentry is preaching to the converted. Regular folks won’t care, but they will take note the gloves are off.

I’m glad the gloves are off.  Let the games begin. Start here.