It is approximately 12:00noon on 9/1/08. At this time there were 27 topics on page 1 of Election 2008 in this forum. Of them, 24 dealt with either McCain, Palin, the GOP, one, the other, two of three or all three. And this is a liberal board?

I don't think so. This is a mainstream media board and the obsession with McCain is confirmation. If you watch or otherwise engage with MSM, then you have little choice but to obsess on McCain because the audio, the visual and the subliminal messaging beamed at you by that medium is conditioning you to accept McCain, irrespective that most of you will vote against him. Keep in mind, the vote count is manipulated, so the only way to prevent you from protesting the outcome beyond anything but a few cursory outbursts from progressives like me is to prepare you to accept McCain.

People simply must turn off TV to survive the onslaught.

And, unless this board wises up, those of us who are progressive are going to have to abandon it. We do need 24/27 topics on a liberal board to involve a requirement to discuss McCain.

The GOP convention cannot possibly have competed with the D convention. Hence, it is very convenient that it is raining down south. Now the Rs have an excuse to 'curtail' their convention that was going to be sparsely attended in the first place. There was already going to be at least 1 MSM person there for every 2 Rs present.

It is obviously already too late to do anything much to preserve the US electoral system. The only hope is that enough people will simply turn off MSM such that they won't be influenced by the "accept McCain" messaging that is on tap throughout that media.

In any event, it is to be hoped that the number of McCain threads on this board will diminish somewhat. Afterall, 24 out of 27 is a bit much; or so one would have thought.

I can't speak for anyone else but I get almost none of my information of McCain from the TV.

TV?
"No self respectin Dem would use the teevee.."
<paraphrasing My Cuz Vinny>

I fail to understand your point. McStupid is the
guy we must target.

Prepared to accept McCain? Respectfully, I don't understand what you are getting at.

This does touch on a theory of mine that they thought the Palin nomination was a good idea because too many people are envisioning the unfolding of the plot to Geena Davis' "Commander in Chief" and not reality. I even heard some callers on AAR yesterday suggest that McCain is old and with Palin as VP their ticket could make history twice - potentially both in his first term. Some of them are actually counting on him dying and leaving her in charge.

I think you could go to most political blogs and find more attacks on the opponent, then praise of the candidate. That's the nature of politics.

The day the Republican Convention is suppose to start, all this juicy stuff about Nanook coming out, and we shouldn't be talking about McCain or the trollop?

The media would much rather report that McCain is a maverick and that Palin eats mooseburgers.

The reality is that much of the information that many now have of McCain and Palin was brought to light not by the MSM, but the netroots. It is the netroots who have pulled back the media narrative of McCain, exposing his actual voting record. YouTube is filled with daily gaffes, contradictions, and flip-flops from McCain, all of which the MSM never found important to report.

It is the netroots that is pushing the corruption stories surrounding Palin. And one could argue if the netroots had not been digging around, Palin and McCain might not have found it necessary to divulge that Palin's daughter is pregnant until after the election. One could also argue that if it were not for the netroots, we might be looking at Gov Allen of Virginia as the republican nominee for president.

Granted, not everything coming out of the netroots is pretty, and some have lower standards than others. But that's the price we pay today with a corporate media unwilling to do its job.

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I'm sorry, what was the question again?

Well...as a true progressive you MIGHT have heard of would say:

"Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya..."