Politics | 07/23/2008 9:45 am

New McCain Video Calls Out Media For Obama 'Love'

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

John McCain’s campaign wants people to know that the media is in love. Just not with him.

Yesterday, they released these videos on YouTube and sent out e-mails to supporters asking them to visit his site and vote on which song best articulates the press’s love for Barack Obama.

The campaign yesterday sent an e-mail out to supporters saying:

"It’s pretty obvious that the media has a bizarre fascination with Barack Obama. Some may even say it’s a love affair. We want you to be the judge. We’ve compiled two videos of the more outrageous moments of this not-so-secret love affair. Follow this link to watch the two videos and vote on which one you think is better. Your vote will determine which video we put on the air.

"The media is in love with Barack Obama. If it wasn’t so serious, it would be funny."

The first video is played to the tune of Frankie Valli’s "Can’t Take My Eyes Off You," the second to Vallie’s "My Eyes Adored You." Both montages include snippets of various newscasters and other media types just exuding praise for the Democratic presidential hopeful. One example is Chris Matthews saying Obama caused a "thrill" to go up his leg. As of 9:30 this morning, video and song #1 has the lead, 86 percent to 14 percent. There has been no official response from the Obama camp.

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Dona…..OMG ANYBODY but Congress~!!! The only new laws they know how to write are for their benefit. We pay for everything they do! Transportation, Hair Cuts, Lunch, Enormous Retirement Pensions, Pork Barrel Spending,etc,etc,etc! Out the Wahzoo!!! You are so right — our system is out of touch with reality. I still vote for term limits on them. Peace

By Lady Gator on 07/28/2008 1:34 pm

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Lady Gator: You are right: Presumably, any trips by the President for fund-raising are paid for by political funds — either by the candidate in question, the RNC, or another political fund, but not by the taxpayers. This is a campaign finance issue, and all of us — Dems, Republicans or Independants — should be looking at it and contacting the RNC or the DNC as appropriate, to express our views. Let’s face it, Wowowow is a great way to vent, but as women, we should be exercising political power by contacting our representatives directly. Or throw them out and elect more responsive officials!

By Linda Mason on 07/30/2008 12:31 am

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Star: I’ve forgotten what McCain looks like, but I’ll remember his name in November.

By Marjorie C. on 07/23/2008 1:03 pm

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Star, Lady Gator and Marjorie, Whatever anyone thinks about these two candidates and all the partisan stuff aside, the reason for all the fuss about Obama is because many, many of the people are starved for intelligent, effective and truly compassionate leadership. I am not commenting about whether Obama is the answer to this problem. But the fact is there is a problem in the quality of leadership in this country.

By Elisabeth S on 07/23/2008 2:21 pm

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Very good insight Elisabeth.

By DeBúrca obj on 07/23/2008 2:56 pm

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I can’t argue that the American people have not deserved better than we have had under Bush. I just don’t think someone who tells me he is this or that, a change, compassionate, and so on, is necesssarily, as you say, all of those things. I have read disturbing things about Sen Obama’s data mining—how much info he has amassed on each of us. I think the presidency is too topheavy in fluence now in comparison with the other branches. When he didn’t want to hold the telecom companies who would help in more data mining accountable—that was one more uh-oh for me. I think we need someone who can wield the levers of power, appoint bureaucrats and people who can run govt, not academics, and govern this country.. A leader is the term people use, but I wonder if that isn’t a separate category…lead to what, lead who, lead why…

By Star Lawrence on 07/23/2008 5:15 pm

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Star: “… lead to what, lead who, lead why…” I’ve become a little tired of this thread, but I didn’t want to leave it without saying thank you for this post. You are the voice for all of us who shiver at the thought of what could be. Obama is like an ominous cold wind from the North. Scares the sh*t out of me if I think about it too much.

By Marjorie C. on 07/24/2008 9:39 am

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Thanks—I am tired of this, too—feel like I am whaling on the dead equine. Can’t seem to leave it alone, tho.

By Star Lawrence on 07/24/2008 10:20 am

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Star, I have not seen anything about Obama collecting information on people – where did you hear that from?
I do know that the Republicans brought micro-campaigning to politics and the Democrats are playing catch-up, but that is about all I know of political data mining. There are, of course, a number of other Republican-initiated government projects mining personal data.

By Zera Lee on 07/24/2008 4:19 pm

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zera, i am at your same state of information. all the data mining i know about is republican or republican government initiated and perpetrated. we need to jail the crooks who violated fisa.

By mary lou s on 07/25/2008 1:41 pm

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The rumor mill Zera… all a person has to do is suggest something and it becomes “true”. A lot of that going around. Remember when Obama’s passport had been looked into? That story just sort of dropped out of sight. I think Obama is the one whose information is being collected… and probably any of us who are Democrats, against the war, supporters of the ACLU, subscribers to “The Nation”, people who have gone to peace marches, hell, I’ve even heard the Vegans are being spied on! … that is where the information is being collected.

By DeBúrca obj on 07/25/2008 5:59 pm

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Hi De Hi ;-D Unfortunately, The Big Lie still works. Human nature being what it is. I remember the passport incident. As I recall, it was just some voyeuristic staffer. Clinton, McCain, some celebrities, and even Rice also had their personals perused. She was not amused. Apologies all around. The twist is that, for the most part, the information itself is not all that interesting. It is more of a data tampering/identity theft type risk than a skeleton-in-the-closet type problem.

Being in the computer industry, I hear about most of this stuff from the technical side months or even years before it hits the evening news. I first heard about the NSA warrantless spying from the people who watched the equipment being installed behind a door only the NSA could unlock. Power supplies, disk capacities, bandwidth degradation, capture techniques, you get the idea.

ECHELON was a multinational cold war spying venture that has been re-tasked. Guess where. Omnivore/Carnivore was an FBI spyware program that went over budget and past schedule. Possibly more disturbing is that it was replaced with commercially available software. The TSA collected a “test” database of European personal information to test their TIA software, then failed to destroy it as required. The higher level of protection the EU gives to personal information was at the center of that problem as well as the “Safe Haven” program.

So when I say that someone who lacks the computer skills of a 5th-grader cannot possibly make an informed decision on security in the computer age, you might have a shadow of a hint of just how much information and experience is behind that assessment. I doubt he could come up with a decent password for his laptop, let alone understand the significance and associated problems of the VA information that escaped on unencrypted laptops. In England, a laptop with top secret threat assessments of known terrorist groups was left on the subway (or was it a bus). Someone found it and turned it over to a reporter, who looked at the information then turned it in to the government. Our nuclear secrets leaking out on thumb drives and missing computers. Social security and salary information leaking out because nobody scrubbed the hard drives on the computers they junked. Does he understand how little security is behind the documentation required for RealID, and how dangerous it would be to put blind trust in it? I could go on and on, but I already have.

To be honest, I have been more focused on principles, processes, and trends than specific victims. So I’m not up to scratch there. I’m glad someone I can trust is keeping an eye out. I do know that the CIA and FBI were separated for a reason. They operated under different laws and rules. The FBI was domesticated, following warrants and rules of evidence, with the goal of prosecutions. The CIA was for foreign surveillance. Less restrictions. Political and military objectives instead of law enforcement. Throwing them together is a recipe for civil rights violations.

By Zera Lee on 07/26/2008 3:07 am

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Well, With Clinton they traced it to a trainee who used her name inappropriately during a training session. With Obama it appeared to be more than that, then the story just disappeared. What you say about knowing about the NSA antics is very interesting. The warrantless spying, along with several other questionable things going on during the Bush Administration prompted me to start sending donations to the ACLU for the first time in my life. I always believed it was an invaluable organization, but I guess before Bush I pretty much took it for granted.

By DeBúrca obj on 07/26/2008 9:55 am

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Agreed. I am also in search of reactions to such news as seen these last two days. One; McCain’s claiming to have seen Al-Maliki eight times, I believe it was, and thereby “knowing ” him.. How many total hours would it have been to understand another complex human beeing who has a totally different heritage and orientation toward religion and I am sure political tactics as informed by background and necessity. Five years in Turkey made me aware of the nuances, the face-saving, the approaches to creating change, etc. that I could only begin to comprehend. (By the way, my; years abroad made me feel enormously appreciative of Obama’s speech in Germany. His “Disney” appearance was magnificent, his message subtle, yet compelling, addressing many issues that the US and EU and the world indeed face and must deal with in our demanding times. What other potential leader could have drawn, compelled and stirred such a multitude in that venue. We have been crying for renewed acceptance by the peoples of the world. For those calling for more specicfics, look at his words and behind the words. Specific changes in policy were indicated.) News item two: Artists were painting on the concrete barriers in Baghdad, but now are ceasing in areas because of demands for paintings projecting specific images aligned with Sunni or Shiite viewpoints. Does anyone else shudder or have tears come to their eyes to think that we occasioned a “surge” in order to bring about a reduction of violence in Baghdad? and that part of that surge created over a hundred concrete barriers … in neighborhoods? Can you begin to imagine what it would be like to live in a neighborhood with those barriers?? or losing your house to someone in the other group with whom you had shared that neighborhood, or trying to come back, erasing the threats and the losses? I ache to hear the surge proudly touted. I mourn that our young men and women had to experience the wrenching sights of a country torn and suffering. LJ

By LJ on 07/26/2008 12:24 pm

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Star — Aren’t presidential candidates supposed to clue the voters in as to what they would do if they are elected? Then what is objectionable to Obama saying “..if I get elected….???” Or “As President [if so elected].” We know you aren’t voting for him, but such weak attacks don’t seem worthy of you. As for this site being pro-Obama — This spring it was ALL HILLARY, ALL THE TIME. Lately, we’ve heard about the perfect First Lady, Mrs. McCain (not Michelle Obama), and an apology for the New Yorker’s “cartoon,” and now the “media’s” love affair with Obama! Does that include Fox? Did that apply to the Primary debate between Hillary and Obama hosted by former Billary staffer George S. on ABC??? Star, if you don’t like the slant of the news, you can turn to another channel—there are lots of anti-Obama outlets out there. And instead of Wowowow, go to the RNC web site.

By Linda Mason on 07/30/2008 12:14 am