Thu
Feb 7 2008
06:31 pm
MSNBC: McCain will play nice?
By: R. Neal

MSNBC political director Chuck Todd just now said that a McCain nomination nullifies Hillary Clinton's argument that she's tested and ready against the GOP attacks, because McCain won't run that kind of negative campaign against her. Seriously? That's the talking point against Clinton now? That the Republicans are going to play nice?

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Andy Axel's picture

If you believe the

Submitted by Andy Axel on Thu, 2008/02/07 - 8:39pm.

If you believe the Republicans, Bush didn't run the Swift Boat smear on Kerry, either. Right. They just let surrogates to the job.

Negative campaigning is oxygen to those half-wits. I wouldn't trust this for a second.

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Factchecker's picture

At least they're against him until they're for him

Submitted by Factchecker on Fri, 2008/02/08 - 12:00am.

How many times has Fox Noise done this shit? (h/t C&L):

KC's picture

Negative campaigning is

Submitted by KC on Fri, 2008/02/08 - 8:50am.

Negative campaigning is oxygen to those half-wits. I wouldn't trust this for a second.

After Obama's questions yesterday about Clinton's loan to herself, I don't think that Republicans have the monopoly on negative campaigning during this primary season.

Both sides have had their fair share of practice.

Andy Axel's picture

Both sides have had their

Submitted by Andy Axel on Fri, 2008/02/08 - 10:31am.

Both sides have had their fair share of practice.

Johnny Ringo, is that you?

Scope & tenor, Gary. Scope & tenor. The Democrats have had nothing on the scale of the Swift Boat smear campaign, or of the "John McCain has a *igger baby" or "Mandingo Ford Jr." or "Michael Dukakis wants Willie Horton to sleep wit' yo momma."

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With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

Johnny Ringo's picture

Johnny Ringo, is that

Submitted by Johnny Ringo on Sat, 2008/02/09 - 9:31am.

Johnny Ringo, is that you?

No, actually, but since I don't want to disappoint you, I'll mention this:

The Democratic National Committee proposes to spend unlimited amounts of money to "tell the real story" about John McCain before Republicans can "start smearing" the eventual Democratic nominee. But the line of attack the Democrats outline to their potential donors in an e-mail contains some claims that are false or misleading.

I guess one man's "telling the truth" is another man's "smear."

KC's picture

on negative campaigning

Submitted by KC on Fri, 2008/02/08 - 11:41am.

on negative campaigning during this primary season.

At least not yet.

Mykhailo's picture

At least not yet.They're

Submitted by Mykhailo on Fri, 2008/02/08 - 1:00pm.

At least not yet.

They're not actually the same, but they're going to be the same, so really, they actually are the same.

Brian A.'s picture

Playing nice

Submitted by Brian A. on Fri, 2008/02/08 - 12:38pm.

That being the case, let's just wave the white flag of surrender and be done with it.

Brian A.
I'd rather be cycling.

Andy Axel's picture

It's funny conservative

Submitted by Andy Axel on Sat, 2008/02/09 - 12:31pm.

It's funny conservative intellectuals (as much as they exist) often cite the cultural and spatial turn in social sciences and the arts (mislabeled as 'post-modernism') as being relativistic, not beholden to truth telling and lacking rigor.

The first time I heard about this line of thought in the agitprop, it was coming from Allan Bloom - and considering how his life turned out, I find it deeply ironic and sad that his novella-length screed on "The Closing of the American Mind" was a condemnation of relativist libruls.

That guy had issues.

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With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

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