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Politics Before Country

McCain says knows how to capture bin Laden, but he's not going to tell anyone how to do it.

Republican candidate John McCain said on Wednesday that if elected president, he will capture al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

"President Clinton had opportunities to get Osama bin Laden. President Bush had opportunities to get Osama bin Laden. I know how to do it and I'll do it," he told ABC's "World News" in an interview

So, he's blackmailing us? Vote for me, or you'll never get bin Laden! Never!

No doubt, this is a man who loves his country more than anything else. No doubt.

Orchestration

MSNBC:

But the real excitement in the crowd in the Xcel Energy Center came as soon as Palin said of herself, “And I've learned quickly these past few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.”

Members of the Tennessee and Illinois delegations stood up and turned around to face the NBC booth a few feet behind them and started jeering and pointing their fingers at NBC’s Tom Brokaw, who genially smiled back.

A spontaneous expression of rage! Wow, that Sarah Palin is one magical pitbull.

The remarkable thing about this is that it exactly re-enacted what happened in 1964 (the year Palin was born) at the Republican convention in San Francisco. (Had some Republicans read the old newspaper clips?)

Exact replay of 1964 convention
At that 1964 convention, GOP nominee Barry Goldwater’s supporters burst into a spontaneous anti-news media demonstration on the convention floor when former President Dwight Eisenhower gave a speech urging them to “scorn the divisive efforts of those outside our family — including sensation-seeking columnists and commentators who couldn’t care less about the good of our party.” Goldwater delegates shook their fists in anger at the television anchormen up in the glassed-in booths above the convention floor.

“There was considerable amount of hostility from the media against Barry Goldwater,” recalled California delegate Dr. Tirso Del Junco, 83, who was at that 1964 convention (his first) and has attended every Republican convention since then.

Oh, I see.

Nevertheless, the media will dutifully bow and scrape.

Nuh Uh

John Cole's usually right on. But this time... not so much. About the contrast between the Democratic convention and the upcoming GOP convention, and how the media will treat it:

First, we know for a fact that the GOP, unlike the Democrats, will not be able to control themselves. They will launch attack after attack at Obama, and try to destroy him. It will fail, and they will get savaged in the media, who were all present at the DNC. The best thing about the babble all through the Democratic convention is that they will feel duty bound to do the same during the RNC, and they will be shocked and taken aback by the viciousness of the GOP. Bank on it.

Bank on this:

The media is going to be doing all their reporting with one hand, while the other tends to the giant boners they're going to have from listening to all the manly men tell their manly war stories. They're going to swoon at the manliness of McCain and his manly time in Hanoi 40 years ago; they'll gasp in ecstasy at the toughness of the GOP's drunken-rage approach to everything; they'll clutch their junk when Rudy tells his story of 9/11© again; they'll shudder and ache with anticipation when the manliest VP ever strides across the techno-fascist stage and promises to personally kill, skin, and eat each and every liberal who refuses to Support The Troops™. Those attacks on Obama aren't going to be called "vicious", they're going to be called "tough". The media will wonder how Obama can possibly even continue his campaign in the face of such a display of manly toughness.

It's gonna be a sad week, watching the media pleasure themselves while they mistake machismo for competence, but it won't be a surprise.