Comments on: Wash. Post’s Abramowitz: ‘I don’t think McCain is being cut a break by the press for verbal miscues.’ http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:30:39 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Max-1 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/comment-page-1/#comment-4948506 Max-1 Wed, 07 May 2008 05:42:53 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/#comment-4948506 . McSpeak never says what he means not to say... Because the next day becomes McFish... . .

McSpeak never says what he means not to say…
Because the next day becomes McFish…

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]]> By: Exit Stage Left http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/comment-page-1/#comment-4947918 Exit Stage Left Tue, 06 May 2008 23:33:34 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/#comment-4947918 <em>spencers mom Says: I can’t wait for the presidential debates! Can’t you just hear the “gaffes”??? Watch for the box on McCain’s back, or the soup cans and string running to Lieberman.</em> That is absolutely priceless mom :) spencers mom Says:
I can’t wait for the presidential debates!
Can’t you just hear the “gaffes”??? Watch for the box on McCain’s back, or the soup cans and string running to Lieberman.

That is absolutely priceless mom :)

]]> By: misshusseinmolly http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/comment-page-1/#comment-4947480 misshusseinmolly Tue, 06 May 2008 21:00:55 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/#comment-4947480 ABRAMOWITZ: I don’t think McCain is being cut a break by the press for verbal miscues: When he confused the Sunni and the Shia, the press was on it immediately. ________________________________________ Um...maybe that's because confusing the Sunni and the Shia is like confusing the Union with the Confederate Rebels? The Axis and the Allies? The IRA and the British Parliament? The Yankees and the Red Sox? This is something that someone who wants to be president should know. If McCain had done this once and had immediately corrected himself without Lieberman prompting him, that could be written off as a misspeak. But he did this several times -- which indicates that he was deliberately attempting to conflate a Sunni terrorist organization with Iran to ramp up support for bombing Iran OR he truly IS a senile, confused old man. Either way, it deserves media attention. ABRAMOWITZ: I don’t think McCain is being cut a break by the press for verbal miscues: When he confused the Sunni and the Shia, the press was on it immediately.
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Um…maybe that’s because confusing the Sunni and the Shia is like confusing the Union with the Confederate Rebels? The Axis and the Allies? The IRA and the British Parliament? The Yankees and the Red Sox? This is something that someone who wants to be president should know.

If McCain had done this once and had immediately corrected himself without Lieberman prompting him, that could be written off as a misspeak. But he did this several times — which indicates that he was deliberately attempting to conflate a Sunni terrorist organization with Iran to ramp up support for bombing Iran OR he truly IS a senile, confused old man. Either way, it deserves media attention.

]]> By: wldj http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/comment-page-1/#comment-4947462 wldj Tue, 06 May 2008 20:56:16 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/#comment-4947462 Nothing is going to change with the media thay are bought and paid for just like our politicians. Nothing is going to change with the media thay are bought and paid for just like our politicians.

]]> By: TheRadicalRightisRadicallyWrong http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/comment-page-1/#comment-4947450 TheRadicalRightisRadicallyWrong Tue, 06 May 2008 20:53:46 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/#comment-4947450 Dear Mr. Abramowitz: http://mediamattersaction.org/freeride/ Dear Mr. Abramowitz:
http://mediamattersaction.org/freeride/

]]> By: TheRadicalRightisRadicallyWrong http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/comment-page-1/#comment-4947414 TheRadicalRightisRadicallyWrong Tue, 06 May 2008 20:36:10 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/#comment-4947414 I would like to ask that everybody PLEASE go and send this putz the Media Matters FACTS on the lack of MCinsane coverage! Bombard this prick! http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/michael+abramowitz/ Thanks! I would like to ask that everybody PLEASE go and send this putz the Media Matters FACTS on the lack of MCinsane coverage!

Bombard this prick!
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/michael+abramowitz/

Thanks!

]]> By: GeeDubs http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/comment-page-1/#comment-4947386 GeeDubs Tue, 06 May 2008 20:27:30 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/#comment-4947386 Who is this Abramowitz putz-person anyway and why are we supposed to take his word for anything? Who is this Abramowitz putz-person anyway and why are we supposed to take his word for anything?

]]> By: Zimzone http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/comment-page-1/#comment-4947382 Zimzone Tue, 06 May 2008 20:26:19 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/#comment-4947382 If Cindy McCain ever comes down, I wonder if her eyes will focus... If Cindy McCain ever comes down, I wonder if her eyes will focus…

]]> By: GeeDubs http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/comment-page-1/#comment-4947380 GeeDubs Tue, 06 May 2008 20:26:17 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/#comment-4947380 I'm starting to have a 'McCain moment' about the whole press attitude. Are they so stupid as to keep this crap up? Can't they see that the trends are not in their favor and that it would behoove them to may, oh gosh, I don't know, DO THEIR JOBS and factually report on what McCain is misspeaking, misspoking, misapplying, mismanaging and mistaking? I’m starting to have a ‘McCain moment’ about the whole press attitude. Are they so stupid as to keep this crap up? Can’t they see that the trends are not in their favor and that it would behoove them to may, oh gosh, I don’t know, DO THEIR JOBS and factually report on what McCain is misspeaking, misspoking, misapplying, mismanaging and mistaking?

]]> By: Zimzone http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/comment-page-1/#comment-4947372 Zimzone Tue, 06 May 2008 20:24:32 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/#comment-4947372 Most Zionists support old men who like war. For example, take McCain...<em>please!</em> Most Zionists support old men who like war.

For example, take McCain…please!

]]> By: JEP http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/comment-page-1/#comment-4947368 JEP Tue, 06 May 2008 20:21:52 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/#comment-4947368 Heard a young fella recently, after watching his dad stumble on a memory, describe it as "A McCain moment." Not a senior moment, but "a McCain moment" "McCain moment" as a coined-phrase is very versatile. Along with a memory lapse moment, it also could be used in response to a temper tantrum, a flip-flop, or an awkward lie. Or a dumb statement like "100 years." The vernacular of street politics and it's ongoing evolution never ceases to amuse me. Heard a young fella recently, after watching his dad stumble on a memory, describe it as “A McCain moment.”

Not a senior moment, but “a McCain moment”

“McCain moment” as a coined-phrase is very versatile. Along with a memory lapse moment, it also could be used in response to a temper tantrum, a flip-flop, or an awkward lie.

Or a dumb statement like “100 years.”

The vernacular of street politics and it’s ongoing evolution never ceases to amuse me.

]]> By: GeeDubs http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/comment-page-1/#comment-4947366 GeeDubs Tue, 06 May 2008 20:20:49 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/#comment-4947366 McCain has NOT been sober about his pronouncements on Iraq. He was cheerleading along with the Mission Accomplished bullshit, echoing what Cheney and Bushstump were saying about 'dead enders' and 'in the last throes.' McCain has NOT been sober about his pronouncements on Iraq. He was cheerleading along with the Mission Accomplished bullshit, echoing what Cheney and Bushstump were saying about ‘dead enders’ and ‘in the last throes.’

]]> By: Peter C http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/comment-page-1/#comment-4947362 Peter C Tue, 06 May 2008 20:17:11 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/#comment-4947362 "More sober" than a dry drunk - what a recommendation! /snark off “More sober” than a dry drunk – what a recommendation!

/snark off

]]> By: gummitch http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/comment-page-1/#comment-4947360 gummitch Tue, 06 May 2008 20:15:46 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/#comment-4947360 <em>ABRAMOWITZ: I don’t think McCain is being cut a break by the press for verbal miscues: When he confused the Sunni and the Shia, the press was on it immediately.</em> Yes, my local paper had a banner headline and ran with the story on page one for a week. They did the same thing last year when McCain was claiming he <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/01/mccain-iraq-stroll/" rel="nofollow">strolled through a peaceful Baghad market</a>. They really roughed him up and didn't drop the story for weeks! That's the press, here in Opposite World. ABRAMOWITZ: I don’t think McCain is being cut a break by the press for verbal miscues: When he confused the Sunni and the Shia, the press was on it immediately.

Yes, my local paper had a banner headline and ran with the story on page one for a week. They did the same thing last year when McCain was claiming he strolled through a peaceful Baghad market. They really roughed him up and didn’t drop the story for weeks!

That’s the press, here in Opposite World.

]]> By: stormkrow http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/comment-page-1/#comment-4947356 stormkrow Tue, 06 May 2008 20:13:54 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/#comment-4947356 There's a war going on for your mind Media mavens mount surgical strikes from trapper keeper collages and online magazine racks Cover girl cutouts throw up pop-up ads Infecting victims with silicone shrapnel Worldwide passenger pigeons deploy paratroopers Now it's raining pornography Lovers take shelter Post-production debutantes pursue you in Nascar chariots They construct ransom letters from biblical passages and bleed mascara into holy water supplies There's a war going on for your mind Industry insiders slang test tube babies to corporate crackheads They flash logos and blast ghettos Their embroidered neckties say "stop snitchin'" Conscious rappers and whistleblowers get stitches made of acupuncture needles and marionette strings There is a war going on for your mind Professional wrestlers and vice presidents want you to believe them The desert sky is their bluescreen They superimpose explosions They shout at you "pay no attention to the men behind the barbed curtain Nor the craters beneath the draped flags Those hoods are there for your protection And meteors these days are the size of corpses There's a war going on for your mind We are the insurgents -Flobots There’s a war going on for your mind
Media mavens mount surgical strikes from trapper keeper collages and online magazine racks
Cover girl cutouts throw up pop-up ads
Infecting victims with silicone shrapnel
Worldwide passenger pigeons deploy paratroopers
Now it’s raining pornography
Lovers take shelter
Post-production debutantes pursue you in Nascar chariots
They construct ransom letters from biblical passages and bleed mascara into holy water supplies
There’s a war going on for your mind
Industry insiders slang test tube babies to corporate crackheads
They flash logos and blast ghettos
Their embroidered neckties say “stop snitchin’”
Conscious rappers and whistleblowers get stitches made of acupuncture needles and marionette strings
There is a war going on for your mind
Professional wrestlers and vice presidents want you to believe them
The desert sky is their bluescreen
They superimpose explosions
They shout at you
“pay no attention to the men behind the barbed curtain
Nor the craters beneath the draped flags
Those hoods are there for your protection
And meteors these days are the size of corpses
There’s a war going on for your mind
We are the insurgents

-Flobots

]]> By: milt5658 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/comment-page-1/#comment-4947354 milt5658 Tue, 06 May 2008 20:12:56 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/#comment-4947354 This is just unbelievable. They spend the better part of two months parsing every word that Reverend Wright said in the past, and attributing it to Obama, but on at least four separate occasions that we know of, McCain demonstrates an inability to distinguish between the two major groups trying to kill each other in Iraq, and the press apparently thinks it's cute or something. Until I see some analysis of this, then we have to assume that McCain is getting a free ride. Milt Shook http://www.pleasecutthecrap.com This is just unbelievable. They spend the better part of two months parsing every word that Reverend Wright said in the past, and attributing it to Obama, but on at least four separate occasions that we know of, McCain demonstrates an inability to distinguish between the two major groups trying to kill each other in Iraq, and the press apparently thinks it’s cute or something. Until I see some analysis of this, then we have to assume that McCain is getting a free ride.

Milt Shook
http://www.pleasecutthecrap.com

]]> By: BrianFL http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/comment-page-1/#comment-4947350 BrianFL Tue, 06 May 2008 20:11:47 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/#comment-4947350 Abramovitz also added, "John McCain is a maverick free-talker after all, who did 5 years in a tiger cage for his country. Have I mentioned what a maverick he is? I mean how can you possibly say we've been easy on such a tough SOB like Saint John the Hero?" Abramovitz also added,

“John McCain is a maverick free-talker after all, who did 5 years in a tiger cage for his country. Have I mentioned what a maverick he is? I mean how can you possibly say we’ve been easy on such a tough SOB like Saint John the Hero?”

]]> By: oldtree http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/comment-page-1/#comment-4947346 oldtree Tue, 06 May 2008 20:09:37 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/#comment-4947346 This is satire by the Abramowitz, right? Or is the author confirming membership in the: "I forgot, and I forget a lot of things" voting bloc in our nation? This is satire by the Abramowitz, right? Or is the author confirming membership in the: “I forgot, and I forget a lot of things” voting bloc in our nation?

]]> By: leftcoast http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/comment-page-1/#comment-4947342 leftcoast Tue, 06 May 2008 20:08:48 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/#comment-4947342 The main stream press isn't covering McCain's misstatements and his completely off the radar remarks. Michael Abramowitz is not a journalist. Just a shill. The main stream press isn’t covering McCain’s misstatements and his completely off the radar remarks.

Michael Abramowitz is not a journalist. Just a shill.

]]> By: nanlichi http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/comment-page-1/#comment-4947340 nanlichi Tue, 06 May 2008 20:07:22 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/06/wash-posts-abramowitz-i-dont-think-mccain-is-being-cut-a-break-by-the-press-for-verbal-miscues/#comment-4947340 The other day I called a Mormon a Catholic by mistake, boy was he pissed. I explained that I just misspoke, but he wouldn't let it drop, said the Catholic Church was the Church of Satan. Silly mistake, could have happened to anyone. Good thing I am just a peon and not a person of power whose confused mumblings might send a message. The other day I called a Mormon a Catholic by mistake, boy was he pissed. I explained that I just misspoke, but he wouldn’t let it drop, said the Catholic Church was the Church of Satan.

Silly mistake, could have happened to anyone. Good thing I am just a peon and not a person of power whose confused mumblings might send a message.

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