Joe McCain Does Not Like Traffic

An irate Joe McCain, brother of John was very very annoyed about Traffic.
So annoyed he called 9-1-1.

Media Self-Censorship at McCain Rally

Politico's The Crypt Blog is following up on Rep. Robin Hayes (R-N.C.) remarks at a McCain rally in Concord, N.C., this past weekend:

Liberals hate real Americans that work and accomplish and achieve and believe in God.

The quote was published in the New York Observer in an article by Jason Horowitz, who said he stands firmly behind his reporting, after reports from the Hayes camp said these words were never uttered.
Well, it turns out local reporters did not reference Hayes remarks nor did the MSM, who Horowitz said arrived at the event after the Hayes statement was made.
Well, after some good ol' reporting on behalf of Politico it turns out the remarks were in fact made:

"I can guarantee that he said that," local reporter Josh Lanier, who was at the event, tells The Crypt. "I didn’t get the 100 percent exact quote but it was something along the lines of 'liberals hate America — people who work hard, achieve, love God.' That’s pretty much exactly what he said, but I didn’t get it exactly, which is why I didn’t use it."

Christopher Schuler, who also said he attended the event, sent this e-mail into the The Crypt: "I was at the arena Saturday morning in Concord and heard Rep. Hayes say it. It was around 10:30 a.m. Taken back by it at first, but the entire crowd was loving it."

We suppose that means Sara Gregory of the Daily Tar Heel gets the scoop, though she ended up not mentioning it in her write-up of the event.

Is Drudge's Influence Waning?

Earlier this year, an article from Politico announced "What nobody who follows the daily cut and thrust of American politics questions is Drudge's continuing power to drive the stories and shape the narratives that define presidential politics," Ecohing these sentiments was WashingtonPost.com's Chris Cillizza who labeled him the "single most influential source for how the presidential campaign is covered in the country."

Someone who thinks differently is Media Matter's Eric Boehlert who says Drudge has undeniably lost his influence in this part of the election cycle:

...it's obvious that since Wall Street's meltdown commenced five weeks ago, and since America's economic crisis became a tsunami of a news story that's not only dominated the media landscape, but also irrevocably altered the course of the campaign, the Drudge Report has become largely irrelevant in terms of the setting the news agenda for the White House run.

That's because a story like the unfolding credit crisis -- sober and complicated -- knocks Drudge completely out of his element of frivolous, partisan gotcha links.

Bohlert's commentary that Drudge is losing his influence is mimicking voters, who are now more concerned about issues, especially those that effect their wallet, then sex, lies and scandal. Drudge is failing to drive the dialogue because his stories now seem irrelevant to the issues facing the nation. But how long will this last?

Green Party Candidate Talks to Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera's Riz Khan talks to Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney about third parties, race and capitalism.

McKinney, an African American female herself, speaks about the racial disparity, discriminatory practices and the social injustice gap that exists today. McKinney says "this is a story played out in city after city and no one really knows about it accept those that are living it." She goes on to say that not only has the mainstream media not addressed the issue, but neither has the democratic party.

This interview is quite insightful, its so telling that Al Jazeera picked this up, when was the last time you saw McKinney interviewed my the MSM?

Late Night Gets It Right

Maybe its not such a bad thing that many people get there news from comic shows and late night shows. According to Media Matters, a recent example shows, "that might be a good thing."
With Obama being hounded by the Media and McCain over his ties to Bill Ayers, for the first time this year McCain was asked about his questionable and close relationship to G. Gordon Liddy, someone you rarely hear about in the media.

So who asked question no one else dared to ask....David Letterman.
According to Media Matters:

The lack of media attention to the Liddy-McCain relationship is one of the clearest double standards in recent political history....... until last night, McCain hadn't been asked a single question* about his ties to Liddy, a convicted felon who has instructed his listeners on how best to shoot law-enforcement agents. Liddy has held a fundraiser for McCain at his home and describes the Arizona senator as an "old friend"; McCain has said he is "proud" of Liddy.

Network Scramble

An article by Politico's Mike Allen highlights what media executives will do in the event that election night is an Obama blowout. People, this is serious. If there is no horserace to call, what will the media do? Actually talk about the issues, instead of pandering back and forth over who will win, who is inching ahead in what swing state, and all the other trivial things they talk about.

According to the Article:

But executives are already mulling how clearly they would want their anchors and analysts to state the obvious, since networks have been criticized for depressing turnout by calling elections while polls are still open for several more hours. But they must also decide how they are going to fill air time, since networks are planning to be on the air until 2 a.m. on the East Coast.

Very Interesting.....Rating's wise networks benefit from 2000-like voting catastrophe. They usually need the boost from election night because after the election is over what will they get viewers to turn in for? Car chases, Hurricanes or Paris Hilton?

More on ACORN

The media, including the AP are continuing to mismanage and get the facts wrong on the ACORN story. Either they do not get it, or they are choosing to ignore the facts. A new report put out by MediaMatters found that of 54 reports on ACORN ran by CNN between October 6 and 15th, they left out vital information about states where there had been voter-fraud in registration applications. Only three of these reports included details of one or the other, but never both important facts.
They failed to mention that:

1) that the statutes of most of those states require third parties registering prospective voters to submit all registration forms they receive; and 2) that actual instances of illegal votes being cast as a result of registration fraud are extremely rare.

Bad reporting by the MSM on an important topic, help propagate the lies told by politicans, allowing McCain to get the facts wrong about alleged voter-registration fraud at ACORN.