Comments on: Media Gives McCain Another Free Ride on Georgia

By: twolf1

twolf1 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:03:53 +0000

Carpet Ride!

By: brendanx

brendanx — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:40:57 +0000

There’s nothing he can do or say at the moment to help himself.

I agree with this, and until he opened his mouth I thought his course of inaction was just as good as any other action.

Obama got blind-sided by the conflict, but so did the Bush administration.

The administration didn’t get blind-sided by anything other than the scale of the response, if even that. They provoked this, “greenlighted” it, as they say. Saakashvili is reading from a script prepared in advance. Take a look at emptywheel’s post on Rove/Saakashvili from yesterday.

By: bigbrother

bigbrother — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:40:33 +0000

This is corporate expansion as in the 70’s in Russia. Takeover and privatise expunging socialist welfare states and replacing it with “Free Market” Corporations. Visualize the Baltic Beaches with our Hotel Chains. It’s always about using American tax dollars to fund military ops as point to Clobal Development. To bad the worlds resources are insufficient we just will have to live with inflation.

By: Knut

Knut — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:32:50 +0000

I’m not so sure. Obama got blind-sided by the conflict, but so did the Bush administration. I think it would have been better had he not opened his mouth with respect to the expansion of NATO, but since then he’s played the story correctly. There is just too much uncertainty out there to go shooting off your mouth like McStain, whose mouth could, as it has on other occasions, come back to bite him. What Obama should be doing is preparing to lay the blame on Bush/McCain if and when (as is almost certain) things go terribly wrong over there. There’s nothing he can do or say at the moment to help himself. People are too fired up. Give it another five days, and he can make a measured statement, one people can understand, unlike Kerry’s efforts.

By: McKinless

McKinless — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:20:24 +0000

Jane, it’s no longer, in my humble opinion, a matter of the media being asleep at the wheel. Their attitude at this point is probably intentionally obtuse and deliberately biased, or at the very least lazy and reckless. Saying they’re sleep at the wheel suggests they might wake up and realize the errors of their ways. Not likely.

By: brendanx

brendanx — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:04:35 +0000

At times it this it’s actually useful to read Charles Krauthammer. He’s awfully brave with other people’s blood:

The most crucial and unconditional measure, however, is this: Reaffirm support for the Saakashvili government and declare that its removal by the Russians would lead to recognition of a government-in-exile. This would instantly be understood as providing us the legal basis for supplying and supporting a Georgian resistance to any Russian-installed regime.

President Bush could cash in on his close personal relationship with Putin by sending him a copy of the highly entertaining (and highly fictionalized) film “Charlie Wilson’s War” to remind Vlad of our capacity to make Russia bleed. Putin would need no reminders of the Georgians’ capacity and long history of doing likewise to invaders.

This is truly maniacally evil.

By: bg108

bg108 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:38:16 +0000

If it doesn’t fit the McCain/Bush/MSM spin, CNN just changes it:

http://snipurl.com/3g1e4 [www_prisonplanet_com]

By: bg108

bg108 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:33:11 +0000

Where ~is~ Obama?

By: Albatross

Albatross — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:30:50 +0000

The “Media” will never hold McCain to account, because the Media is part of the Corporate Right just as he is, and the Corporate Right wants McCain as president. Stop expecting fairness or professional impartiality from the media.

By: Adie

Adie — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:00:17 +0000

Hey Jane!!!

OT but worthy material: mini-headline at NBC olympics coverage

Slide show: Where’s Kobe? He’s everywhere!

http://www.nbcolympics.com/bas.....08882.html